LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Riven felt a terror.

This kind of horror is different from Noxus' outrageous and unreasonable law of the jungle.

It is a social model that is quietly hidden under the glamorous appearance, with strict logic, mature theory, and good operation, and systematically oppresses the "low caste" untouchables.

Noxus beats you and tells you to beat you back if you can.

Ionia, however, tramples people under their feet, and then uses objective facts to help you analyze why you should be beaten and why you should not fight back.

Riven found the latter to be scarier.

She was born as a serf, and she even knew how to join the army to save herself.

And these Ionian untouchables have lived in the "Xanadu" controlled by the sect masters and clan elders since their birth, and have been indoctrinated with the religious theory of "balance of all things" since childhood.

If you make sacrifices to maintain the balance of all things in life, you can enjoy "ghost life" in the spiritual realm after death; if you are reincarnated, you can also join a good family.

Under the control of this religious theory, they don't even want to rebel at all.

"Wait..." Riven couldn't understand. She asked these sailors: "You have been learning Janna's thoughts from me these days, so what do you think of our pursuit of 'everyone is equal'?"

The sailors looked at each other.

They thought for a while and replied: "Everyone is equal, it should be under the premise of maintaining the balance of all things."

The implication is that...

"You exclude yourself from the 'people'?" Riven's eyes widened in disbelief.

How could someone understand Janna's theory in this way?

But these Ionian pariahs thought so.

They studied Janna's theory, and they only admired Janna's power, and only hoped to drive away the Noxus invaders by relying on the power of the goddess.

As for themselves...

"We are superfluous." Said the sailors, "Our existence will only cause an unbearable consumption of nature."

"Only by dying unencumbered can the balance of all things in Ionia be maintained."

"Bad balance!" Riven said angrily.

She is very angry. She didn't know why she was so angry.

Maybe that booklet, and all the experiences of these days, had really changed her.

Under anger, Riven seemed to really regard herself as the leader, she scolded:

"If you just want to save Ionia, then you don't need to follow the goddess Janna at all—"

"You just need to shout out 'Ionia is immortal', and then go to the battlefield with a knife and fight yourselves!"

"You're not even afraid of death anyway, are you?"

"But let me ask you... What kind of Ionia are you trying to save, an Ionia that treats you as pariahs, or an Ionia where everyone is equal?"

The sailors fell silent.

Miss Fei Ya on the side also drooped her cat ears, thinking deeply as if feeling something.

But in the end, the sailors told Riven: "Miss Orianna, you are a foreigner after all. We in Ionia have our own rules..."

"..." Riven was speechless.

Because the most terrifying thing about this matter is that the rules of Ionia, the set of "balance first" religious thoughts that the untouchables have been instilled since childhood——

These are not fanciful stories for foolish people, but objective facts that really exist in this extraordinary world.

Sacrifice during life, can go to "heaven" after death?

it is true. Because of the abundance of magic in Ionia, this is the place where the physical realm and the spiritual realm are most closely connected and where the barrier is the weakest.

When people here die, they will really turn into undead and go to the spiritual realm.

And the Ionian people can even talk to the ghosts of their relatives in the spiritual realm by drinking spirit tea on the annual Spirit Blossom Festival.

Disrupting the balance will lead to disaster?

It's still true.

Everything in Ionia is alive. Over-exploitation and deforestation of the forest, even if the sect masters and clan elders do not come to stop it, the spirit of the forest will take revenge on humans.

The balance pursued by Ionia is not only the balance between man and nature, but also the balance between the material realm and the spiritual realm.

If too many living flowers and trees are eliminated in the material realm and too many spirits are produced, the balance between the material realm and the spiritual realm will be broken, and evil spirits will be born to punish human beings and even cause more terrible disasters.

Riven felt that it was the master elders who oppressed the untouchables.

But the masters and elders also have something to say. They are obviously trying to maintain the balance of all things and protect the human civilization of Ionia from a real catastrophe.

As for these pariahs, they are just victims necessary to maintain the balance.

"If you don't sacrifice us, it will only bring greater disasters to this material world. By then, the whole of Ionia may be destroyed. Don't we still have to die? So..."

"We accept our fate in order to protect all of Ionia," said the sailors reverently.

Riven was completely speechless.

After all, she is just an expert on parallel imports. She couldn't figure out how to solve this problem.

It seems that according to the natural law of Ionia, some people are superfluous and should disappear by nature.

"No..." Riven couldn't think of a solution, but she still felt that there was something wrong with this theory: "Even if someone needs to be sacrificed, why must it be you, instead of those masters, elders, landlords and local tyrants?"

"Who decides who is a pariah and who is not?"

"Eh..." The sailors fell silent again.

Who is a pariah does not depend on blood, but is determined by real material conditions.

If a poor peasant cannot afford to raise a child and has no land to give to the child after death, then the child is a pariah and a superfluous person.

The kid will be kicked out of the village as a bastard, and left to fend for himself outside.

Just like Master Jie of the Shadow Stream Sect—he was abandoned in the wilderness by his poor peasant father when he was 4 years old, and he managed to survive by relying on the kind adoption of the Balance Sect.

"So..." Riven understood: "What about the way of balance, isn't this the law of the jungle respected by Noxus?"

Because the untouchables are weak, they need to be sacrificed to protect limited natural resources from being swallowed by an infinitely expanding population.

However, the masters, elders, landlords and wealthy merchants occupy a very large amount of resources with a very small number of people, but they do not need to be regarded as the enemy of the balance.

Because they are strong.

Ionia, it turns out, is no different from Noxus.

In other words, all countries in this world are similar. Everyone is secretly following the natural law of survival of the fittest.

Only the leaders are more naive, imagining that one day the world will be unified and everyone is equal.

But the situation in Ionia is different from other places.

Simply overthrowing the master elder does not seem to be able to completely solve the problem.

"What should we do?" Riven was angry and confused.

She still couldn't see where the road ahead was.

At this time, Fiya interrupted her contemplation in a low voice with a complex expression: "Olianna, I..."

She struggled and asked: "In the eyes of you leaders, am I a bad person?"

"This..." Riven was in a delicate mood.

Fei Ya's family raised a large number of untouchables, strictly speaking, they were all big slave owners.

But these untouchables are "free" - no one will stop them if they really want to leave.

Just leaving the jobs provided by the Fia's family, they are likely to have nowhere to go, wandering in the wilderness, and then starving to death in the fruit-filled forest.

So in the social environment of Ionia, if the Feiya family did this, it would be regarded as helping the untouchables.

"I'm sorry..." Fiya felt guilty: "When I was studying Janna's theory before, I also subconsciously counted them as superfluous people and didn't take them into consideration."

Riven thought she was teaching Janna to think.

But Fei Ya and those sailors have always learned the improved version of "Equilibrium-Janna Thought" combined with Ionian religious thought.

In this version of Janna's thinking, it is necessary to exclude the untouchables in order to say that everyone is equal.

Now that Fei Ya realized how wrong she was in the past, she began to struggle with guilt.

"Alas..." Riven sighed lightly, and she had no choice but to say to Fei Ya: "No, you are not considered a bad person."

She recalled the text in the pamphlet, and used it flexibly: "Just as a person's good or bad has nothing to do with the progress of the class, the progress of the class does not necessarily determine the quality of the individual."

"Then I, can I also become the leader?" Fei Ya asked nervously.

"Yes, we leaders only look at beliefs, not background. Do you know? Director Mel of our Leaders Association is a military nobleman from Noxus..."

Riven answered inexplicably smoothly, and then closed her mouth with a subtle expression while talking.

What is she talking about?

Compared with Fei Ya, she is the real villain... Is she qualified to say these things if she only looks at her beliefs but not her background?

It's just acting, do you really think of yourself as the leader?

"Great!" Fear was only happy with Riven's answer.

She grabbed Riven's hand and said, "Orianna, please take me to join the leader!"

"You want to join the leader?" Riven was slightly taken aback: "But you also know that there is a conflict between our leader's theory and Ionia's current balance."

"I understand." Fiya's attitude was very serious: "I have also studied Janna's thoughts for two weeks, and I think what you said is correct."

"Untouchables..." She looked at these sailors, these people who were born and died for themselves: "Untouchables should also be human beings."

"But I can't think of an answer to that question either..." Riven said.

But Fei Ya replied superstitiously: "Goddess Janna is so powerful, she must have a way!"

"But..." Riven still hesitated.

"The road always requires people to walk out." Fei Ya clenched her fists: "If you don't try to solve it, then there is really no way, right?"

"..." Riven was moved by her earnestness.

So she unknowingly assumed the identity of the special commissioner, and replied in a mysterious way: "Okay, I would like to recommend you to join the leader."