Decision to Break

Perhaps if someone else were in Lux's position, she would have been willing to accept Jarvan IV's terms.

What did nobles ultimately want?

Nothing more than power and status, honor and profit.

From the perspective of Demacian Nobles, accepting Jarvan IV's terms would allow Lux to establish a new cultural center in the North, in Freljord.

The Art Support Association in Demacia City had long since been filled with impoverished noble offspring. Its atmosphere had grown increasingly conservative, and all its vitality had disappeared. Lux could easily create an entirely new era of prosperity.

That flourishing place, standing in the North, would pass down the image of its founder as an artist through the generations.

Then, hundreds or even thousands of years later, her name would become a source of pride for a family and a place, revered and celebrated by all. The Crownguard family's rule over the Empire's northern lands would endure for generations.

By then, Luxanna would be a glory of the olden days in the mouths of bards. Her life would be carved into stone and recorded in books, and she would truly earn fame both in life and after death.

With such generous terms from Jarvan IV, any normal noble would have been willing to give up their military power. The terms he offered were, in truth, the pinnacle of what a Demacian subject could attain.

Considering that, at present, only a Lightshield could bear the surname of the King of Demacia, this was theoretically the highest position Luxanna Crown Guard could reach.

But unfortunately, it wasn't what Lux wanted.

From the age of nine, when Lux awakened her magic, her fate had been firmly bound to an evil stick.

Under Karya's considerate tutelage, Lux took on responsibilities no one her age should have had to