Cyberzaun, Machinarium

"Great! The prince must rest at the border, the rangers and dragonbirds must defend Ulverde against the Freljord raiders, and the fearless vanguard must defend Greenfang Peak against the old Noxians..." Garen sighed, "So we can only arrange for Jarvan's newly formed guards to participate in the defense? Those people are newly recruited soldiers with little combat experience."

"They are not ready yet. Putting them directly on the front line of the conflict is tantamount to murder." Putting down the cup in his hand dully, Garen could only ask his aunt for help, "Can we recruit the noble knights?"

"It's better not to." Tiana shook her head. "The prince led the frontline troops to advance recklessly. After being ambushed, the entire army was wiped out and the commander was seriously injured... This will become an excuse for the nobles to attack. We must keep a low profile and deal with the matter first. Only mistakes can be turned into achievements."

"Damn the opposition, I don't understand why they don't support Jarvan IV, he is the only heir to the throne"

"However, the heir has not yet married, and His Majesty the King is not too old to walk." Tiana sighed. Her nephew was too much of a knight. If he could learn to be a little more noble, she wouldn't have to worry about him.

"The enemy this time is unusual," Tiana gently stroked the jewel ring on her hand. "It should have been dealt with by the Dragon Knight. The prince's guards may suffer heavy losses if they want to capture it. Jarvan would not want to see that..."

Tiana stared at the wine swaying on the table and pondered for a while. Finally, she made up her mind and looked up at Garen and ordered: "Contact the prince's supporters at home. We need to handle this matter quietly... Regarding the issue of soldiers, I heard that the Zaun kid has a mercenary organization under his command? Is it called the Giant God Army?"

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"We are the Atlas Security Department." Enoch gave the female leader in front of him a standard business smile. "By the way, we are not a small-time mercenary group. We are a private military contractor."

"We can provide transportation, logistics support, medical and pharmaceutical services, and local combat support for a region." Enoch spread out the parchment scroll handed to him by Tiana on the table.

Jinx put down her graffiti work and squeezed a few steps to Enoch's side. Looking at the contract sent by the lady, she was very curious about what problems this xenophobic kingdom had encountered.

Tiana tapped the document lightly and reminded Littlefinger, "I need you to complete the defense mission. Do not interact with other Demacia troops. Evacuate immediately after completing the mission. Do not make too much noise."

"No problem. Let me see...Lenwall Fortress, it looks like it's a border defense. Are our enemies Noxian troops?"

"No, according to intelligence, our opponent this time is the notorious dragon."

Before she finished speaking, Jinx looked up excitedly to confirm that the Demacia woman in front of her was not joking. Facing Tiana's serious expression, Jinx couldn't help but get excited, "That's so cool, did you hear that, Littlefinger? We are going to be dragon slayers."

Enoch was also very curious about this never-before-seen target. This kind of thing only appeared in storybooks in the Twin Cities, and there was no eyewitness record at all. Should we say that it is worthy of being a country close to Mount Targon? All kinds of new things can be found.

Steel and gunpowder versus mythical dragons. This is probably a setting that science fiction novels would not easily adopt. Enoch also became interested in it.

"Atlas Security will take over this defense mission. We will complete the deployment within half a month... Tell me about your budget."

"Three days," Tiana said firmly, "Budget is not a problem. The Crown Guard will cover all expenses for this operation as long as you meet my requirements."

Enoch tapped his fingers on the table and thought for a while. It was not so easy to deploy across the ocean within 3 days, but... that was a giant dragon. Enoch really didn't want to let go of such precious target material.

The sound of finger tapping suddenly stopped, and Enoch glanced at the leader of the Fearless Vanguard. "I guess the final credit for this matter will go to the prince?"

Tiana nodded slightly. If Enoch hadn't been staring at her face, this tiny movement would have been almost unnoticed.

"It seems that I can't collect the skeleton of this dragon." Enoch teased with a smile and stretched out his right hand. "I need your permission to enter Demacia's airspace."

"Enter from Needle Creek County." Tiana held Enoch's right hand and emphasized again, "My only requirement is that the dragon cannot cross the Demacia outpost."

"Atlas Security will meet all legitimate needs of its clients."

Watching the lady leave without hesitation, Enoch hugged Jinx who was looking up and down at the contract and said, "Business is here. Notify the technicians at Losrien that it's time to let our 'big bird' fly out for a while."

Seeing the girl's uncontrollable smile, Enoch was also very excited. "I hope that Captain Tiana is as she said, and budget is not a problem."

Chapter 181: The Dragon Attacks (Part 1)

The Warren Outpost is located on a mountain peak on the southeastern border of Demacia. It monitors the movements near the Mourngate of Noxus. It is backed by the village of Tobysia for supplies and has easy access to water. From a geographical point of view, it is a perfect outpost.

The lofty city walls and ancient castles built on the mountains are very suitable for the cooperation of longbowmen and soldiers. If Noxus does not have several times the number of troops to attack the mountain pass, there is no way it can take it down. But today they are facing a new challenge.

This time the opponent is not a charge from the ground, but the Grim Reaper from the sky.

This outpost was not designed with dragon attacks in mind. It is neither like Urwendale in the north, which has many wyvern nests, nor as rich as Viscasia in the south. The castle in the mountains does not have enough space to arrange longbowmen to defend against visitors from the sky - originally these people only needed to stay behind the arrow slits on the city wall and draw their bows.

The first thing Enoch did when he brought Jinx here was to find where to build anti-aircraft weapons. If there was a slightly wide plain, they only needed to arrange a dense anti-aircraft formation to solve the problem.

Unfortunately, except for the relatively spacious square in the castle, it was basically impossible to deploy equipment elsewhere. Enoch could only settle for the second best and arrange as many firepower points as possible on the city walls and bridges.

The deserted outpost suddenly became lively. A large amount of supplies sent from the Hexgate were transported to the outpost by heavy helicopters. This cycle repeated over and over again, and a basic line of defense was established in less than a day.

It was then that Enoch saw His Highness Jarvan IV of Demacia. The brave warrior had recovered his complexion after a few days of rest, but the bandages under his armor still showed what kind of crisis the prince had just encountered.

"Greetings, Your Highness." Enoch performed the awkward etiquette like a noble, and Jinx also performed the skirt-lifting salute behind him. It was obvious that the girl did not take the prince seriously, she just thought it was fun, otherwise she should not have looked up and looked at him curiously while performing the salute.

"Don't worry about it." Jarvan IV didn't care about these courtesies and patted Enoch's shoulder. "I have to thank you for the supplies and medicines you brought. I hope they can reduce the casualties when the dragon attacks."

"Regarding this point," Enoch pointed to the anti-aircraft guns that were surrounded by sandbags, "Atlas Defense has contracted this battle... You don't have to worry about the archers for the time being."

Enoch hesitated for a moment and said, "I mean, according to the previous files, bows and arrows can cause damage to dragons, right?"

Jia Wen nodded seriously. This was related to the battle, so this kind of information must be notified clearly in advance. "Yes, the mountain guerrillas have the effect of reporting bows and arrows. The best effect is on the wings of pterosaurs, followed by the lower jaw and neck. The chest and stomach have the highest protection."

"Very good, then I will continue to arrange the protection... By the way, may I ask when exactly will the dragon arrive?"

Jarvan IV was inevitably silent for a moment, but the sound of armor came from the shadows on the side, and a purple-skinned woman wearing heavy armor walked out.

"Just these past two days, I sensed darkness in the wind. Ivar is coming soon."

"Wow!" Jinx exclaimed in surprise before anyone could say anything. She looked up and down at the tall lady's purple skin and dark gold eyes. "Can a Yodel grow this big?"

"I'm not a Yordle, my name is Shyvana." The woman was unmoved. She had experienced even deeper suspicions before. What's more, the girl's words were mostly filled with surprise, but no malice.

In order to avoid things being too awkward, Enoch pressed down Jinx, who was still a little curious, and asked the insider, "So this Ivar... I guess he is the dragon we are going to face? Does he have any creepy stories or legends?"

"I advise you to prepare early and don't take it lightly. Dragons cannot be dealt with under ordinary circumstances." As soon as the voice fell, Shyvana turned back to the shadow behind Jarvan IV. She didn't want to introduce too much about the legend of dragons. Compared with the curious eyes of others, she preferred to be alone.

"Thank you for your sincere advice, ma'am." Enoch dragged out his voice, a little helplessly holding back Jinx who wanted to rush to the back to take a look, "I'll go and make some handovers with the defense personnel first."

Looking at Enoch who almost dragged the girl away, Prince Jarvan chuckled a few times, but because of the injury on his chest, his mouth was very tight. What he wanted now was to get better as soon as possible. He looked forward to fighting with Shyvana. In this way, the people of Demacia would accept her as soon as possible.

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"Aren't you curious? Let me go get some information, and I'll come back and tell you about it, okay?" Jinx struggled to break free from the little finger that was tightly grasping her wrist. She was extremely curious about the woman's life experience. She didn't believe that in a xenophobic place like Demacia, the skin color of this woman would be normal.

"It's better not to do this." Little Finger took advantage of the fact that no one was around and picked up the girl and carried her on his shoulders, holding the girl's kicking feet. "Didn't you see that person came out of the house?"

The girl suddenly became alert, trying her best to look straight and even looked at the room she was leaving. "You mean that golden guy and the elf... are about the same relationship as us two?"

"Don't move." Enoch hugged the girl who almost slipped a little tighter, and patted her. Jinx muttered a few words, and then calmed down a little. "I think I have never concealed our relationship."

Jinx's mouth twitched, and she broke into a big smile. "Ha, so you're a coward. Oh, poor little girl, you can only hug your doll every night, worried that the ruthless guy will abandon you..."

"No, no, no, wait, what you said is getting weird. Just in case, let me ask you, this is just your metaphor, right?" Enoch had to lift the girl from his shoulders and stare into Jinx's beautiful blue eyes for a while.

"I didn't cry." Jinx was so familiar with Little Finger that she immediately reacted and pouted in dissatisfaction, "I'm not talking about it metaphorically. There was a time when I really was like that. Wasn't it because of you, a bad guy?"

"Now you know how annoying you are, why don't you come and please me?" Jinx clamped her legs around Littlefinger's waist. "Don't say I didn't warn you, if those two are really like us, then that elf will definitely do something unexpected, you have to be careful."

"Thanks for the advice." Enoch took advantage of the girl's dodge and gently held the soft honey in his mouth. "I'll keep an eye on it."

Chapter 182: The Dragon Attacks (Part 2)

"Boring... Really boring." Jinx lay restlessly on the chair. She stepped lightly on the ground with her toes out of boredom, turning the chair into a dangerous angle, and it swayed in the air.

"Can I go outside and fly the helicopter? I don't want to stay here, it's too boring." Jinx hooked her toes and lifted herself up from the chair, letting the unbalanced chair fall to the ground. She happily jumped into Enoch's arms and pulled Littlefinger's eyes from the monitor to herself. "I beg you, let's take a breath together."

"No," Enoch objected firmly, "We are dealing with giant dragons. The sky is their home turf. Those guys have been hunting in the sky since they were born. How is a helicopter's speed any different from a living target?"

"Then can I fly a fighter jet? That thing is fast." The girl smiled. She just didn't want to stay in this small room. As for whether she could get on the fighter jet that Enoch had never dared to let the girl get on, she didn't mind at all.

"It's too dangerous up there... I want you to stay here with me." Enoch could only whisper in the girl's ear to comfort her. He understood why the girl was making a fuss. The bunker of the outpost in front of him had been temporarily converted into an information command center. The newly installed screen displayed feedback from surrounding drones.

Before the dragon appeared, there was only the unchanging mountain scenery on the screen, which did get a bit boring after watching it for a long time.

"Being bored is a good thing. Our primary goal is to ensure the safety of His Royal Highness. If he is willing to leave, I am too lazy to stay here and waste time." Enoch hugged the girl's slender body and gently sniffed the scent of chamomile between her hair. "Even if we kill all the dragons in the world, but Jarvan IV dies, it will be a complete failure. We have to consider the gains and losses."

"You're always right," Jinx snorted sullenly, twisting her body to find a comfortable position in Enoch's arms, "Call me if you have any trouble."

The area around Warren Outpost was unusually quiet, and the slightly hot weather made people even more tired. Jinx had fallen asleep in Littlefinger's arms, and the other staff members were also trying hard to search for any feedback.

The sun rose to its highest point and then began to slowly slant. Enoch slightly moved his arm which was being pressed uncomfortably by the girl, and was about to call for a cup of coffee when the red dynamic indicator light suddenly lit up and flashed.

The room was silent for two seconds before the person in charge of monitoring hurriedly switched the screen. "A signal came from the sensor in the southwest direction, but there was no image feedback on the monitor."

"Check the information immediately. Whether it's hidden, or it's another animal, or it's a device failure, I need to confirm the specific situation within half an hour."

The technicians were processing the data fed back by the drone in a hurry. Jinx was also interrupted. She rubbed her eyes and stretched lazily on Enoch. "Is it here?"

"Not sure, we didn't see him." Enoch stood up with the girl in his arms, not caring about the noise in the passage. "What's the reason we haven't found it yet?"

"Found it. Discovered the dragon's tracks. She attacked from the direction of the sun... My god, this thing is really big."

The huge body fell with a roar of wind, and the vibrating wings shook the trees in the deep forest. Several tall and thick trees were easily crushed by the power of the dragon's wings. The dragon slowly approached the sentry tower along the treetops.

"This guy looks really tough..." Enoch sighed from the bottom of her heart. The flapping of her wings created an airflow that swept the small reconnaissance drone into the storm and tore it into pieces. The screens in front of her lost the signal one after another as she moved.

"A moving scourge, the greedy mother of dragons..." Enoch smacked his lips. "Do you think she would look more ferocious if she flew with some fire? She would burn everything as she flew, and then she would grab the sentry tower with one claw, and then breathe out dragon breath, and introduce herself in a domineering way, with a title like 'The Destined Destroyer'..."

Jinx looked up in surprise at Enoch who suddenly became excited, her eyes flickering slightly, "Wow, I never knew you would be so interested in this thing..."

"Are you kidding me? That's a real living dragon. Can you imagine how cool that is?"

Jinx pursed her lips delicately. She suddenly understood the feeling of the little finger who had spoiled her before. It seemed that most people's view that Enoch spoiled her a little too much had a certain theoretical basis. Looking at the man's current appearance, who would dare to believe that his decision would be reliable?

"Okay, okay, I'll prepare some candy for you, and I'll take you to the amusement park when Mommy comes back from work." Jinx perfunctorily comforted the overly excited Enoch, picked up the walkie-talkie on the control desk, and helped Enoch complete his work.

"The anti-aircraft gun crew is on full alert. Let's welcome the big guy from the sky."

This weapon, which had almost no presence as the Twin Cities had huge air superiority, had a huge advantage over bows and arrows. The position installed on the top floor of the sentry tower opened fire first, and the bullets formed a bright line of fire and instantly hit the flying dragon, causing the giant beast in the air to roar in pain.

The giant dragon named Iva seemed to have been punched head-on. It swayed in the air and fell into the sea of trees. A large number of branches and leaves were blown into the air, causing the Demacian soldiers on guard at the outpost to whisper.

"What's the situation?" Prince Jarvan put on the golden armor that represented glory and tried to find useful information on the numerous screens in the command room.

"Nothing, I just said hello," Enoch answered absentmindedly, "That's a dragon, the villain in bedtime stories. I'd be disappointed if I could just kill it with a machine gun."

Seeing Jarvan IV's stiff expression, the usually unreliable Jinx immediately stepped out to smooth things over. "This guy is much bigger than a wyvern, and he can use some magic. The machine gun ammunition may cause her harm and trouble, but the damage to her body may not be so optimistic. We have to use a big guy to fight a big guy."

After laughing a few times, Jinx poked Littlefinger's ribs in dissatisfaction and whispered a reminder, "Don't be stupid."

God knows what Jinx was thinking after she said this, but she is usually the one who laughs the loudest.

The roar of the giant dragon interrupted the awkward atmosphere in the intelligence room. The giant dragon Iva spun its huge body and rushed into the sky. Its high-speed spinning body suddenly rushed out of the air defense network of its subordinates. It stared at the pain of the ammunition chain and quickly changed direction in the air.

Hearing the huge roar, Enoch rubbed his ribs, still unable to help but sigh, "It seems we pissed her off."

Chapter 183: The Dragon Attacks (Part 3)

As a giant dragon, Iva was very angry. Unlike other bipedal pterosaurs that followed their instincts like wild beasts, she had the same wisdom as humans. Even in hunting, even the most skilled hunters could not compare with her.

So when a foolish wizard stole his egg, Iva rarely flew out of his treasure cave and turned everything into ashes along the wizard's escape route.

This foolish mage kept fleeing from the ancient ruins of Shurima and luckily crossed the ocean. Iva was worried about the other precious dragon eggs in the nest, so he had to give up and temporarily returned to his own nest.

But this was just the beginning. The stolen dragon egg hatched in the last bright moon of autumn. What came out was not a baby dragon, but a baby girl with an ominous purple-red color in her pale skin. The wizard could not abandon this poor little thing, so he raised this little meatball and named it 'Syvana' to pay tribute to the dark legend of her biological mother.

The growing baby girl reveals the mystery in her blood. She has been able to transform into a half-human, half-dragon creature like in myths and legends since she was a child. However, the troubles do not end there. When the baby girl learns to flap her wings and fly for the first time, Iva leaves the other young dragons who are already able to hunt, and follows the subtle sensation, looking for the whereabouts of the lost dragon egg.

After burying the body of her adopted wizard father that was destroyed by dragon flames, Shyvana finally realized the reality that the dragon was coming for her. She left the remote village and wandered inland until she met a handsome wounded warrior deep in the jungle.

Shyvana stayed for a rare while, and her biological mother Iva was ecstatic and immediately came to this inconspicuous outpost with a howling wind.

She originally wanted to tease this group of humans who didn't know their own limitations. She was looking forward to these iron cans becoming ineffective on her proud skin with their poor arrows, shaking off the arrows stuck in the gaps in the face of the other party's despair, and destroying the stone cans with a breath of dragon's breath.

Iva admitted that she had underestimated the opponent. The attack just now was like being whipped hard. She almost forgot how long it had been since she had received such damage.

Whatever the other party was using, it was much more damaging than a bow and arrow, so she had to be careful, because it would not be fun to get hit on the wings by this thing.

There was no need for the dragon to gamble on the opponent's mistakes. According to her experience, all she had to do was fly up and then breathe down from the sky from a distance. Even a mage could solve the problem this way.

The giant dragon broke through the dense air defense network, showing its huge body in the air, flapping its huge wings and hovering in the air. While the dazzling ammunition chain was still chasing behind it, Iva took a deep breath.

A huge fireball smashed toward the position on the watchtower. Iva's dark crystal pupils showed great pleasure without any concealment. She expected the little bugs under her feet to waile and roll off the watchtower, then burn up in the air while wailing.

The scorching fireball hit the dark blue spherical cover with a loud roar, and the splashing flames ignited this section of the city wall.

"Mage!" Iva roared, she remembered the time when she was fooled. She immediately began to climb in anger. She wanted to make a powerful dive and give the bugs below a hard blow.

"Oh, she looks very angry. It seems someone has offended her severely before." Enoch adjusted the angle of the observation drone and watched the wonderful reaction between the dragon's breath and the Hextech shield. The attacked air defense soldiers immediately left through the secret passage next to them at the moment the attack came. Judging from the results, the dragon Iva was indeed successful - she used a breath to make an air defense point cease fire.

"When will our troops be able to continue charging under fire like Noxus?"

Enoch marveled at his employees' excellent risk avoidance ability, turned around and saw the slightly dissatisfied eyes of the soldiers around him. His Highness Jarvan on the side seemed to have heard nothing and continued to stare at the screen in front of him.

Enoch coughed lightly, realizing that he seemed a little too excited. He quickly changed the subject, "The mobile shield generator is working, but it won't last long. It needs to be adjusted. Record the data and let the researchers in Loslien continue to adjust it."

The second half of the sentence was directed to the girl. Jinx nodded with a subtle smile and operated the screen in her hand. Since Little Finger was a little crazy now, she had to be the rational one.

"That's not a wizard, it's a device, understand? ... We call it science, that dragon doesn't know what it is, it's just talking nonsense." Enoch listened to the roar of the dragon in the sky, and explained awkwardly to the increasingly awkward atmosphere. These damn tin cans, their brains never work, and they instantly became alert when they heard the dragon shouting the wizard's name, as if they had encountered some criminal prisoners.

However, looking at the dragon flying higher and higher, Enoch nodded to his technicians and said, "The time has come. Let's arrange for the entry to end."

The order was given, and the two rocket launchers in the center of the square rotated to the appropriate angle, and the rockets immediately flew out from the launch pads.