[0816] Karya Returns

[0816] Karya Returns

Irelia's revelation had gotten the attention of New Demacia's officials.

Or rather, even she, a failure, hadn't expected to receive so much attention.

But no matter how much attention she got, she still couldn't meet Lux right away—not because the attention was superficial, but because Lux had more important matters to attend to.

Karya had returned.

And not only had Karya come back, he'd brought along a heavyweight: Renekton.

That's right. Once Karya realized he simply couldn't get Renekton up to speed on the theory in such a short time, he'd decided to bring him back to Demacia.

Lissandra's attempt to connect to Karya's dreams through a dream anchor had put him on the highest alert.

Karya was highly sensitive to many things.

The dream connection was one thing that particularly concerned him. This kind of unrestricted communication on the level of thought—and unrestricted in only one direction, at that—made him deeply uneasy. Even though Mordekaiser had said he'd taken a bite out of the visitor's will, but hadn't gotten enough to eat, Karya still wasn't at ease.

So he'd simply brought Renekton with him and hurried back to Demacia.

As soon as he returned, he heard that Lux had been the target of an assassination attempt.

Karya seemed even more nervous than Lux, the target herself. But after hearing the full story—that Lux had kept her magical warning system active the whole time and that the assassins had been decidedly unprofessional—he finally let out a long breath of relief. Only then did he turn his attention to what Lux planned to do next.

Well, it was clear that Lux, who had once been kind and naive, and uneasy about using political maneuvering, had become an old hand. She had all the basic skills of a politician