After Rell and Mordekaiser's brief first exchange ended, the Commander Guards under Rell's command finally arrived, albeit late.
With the arrival of these guards, all of them Spellcasters, Rell's confidence soared. She had been worried before, but now she felt much more sure of herself.
In Noxus, the Commander Guards had always been a Grand Commander's most capable subordinates. During Brawn Darkwill's tenure, most of them had been promising young members of the Darkwill family and other blood-related families. During Swain's tenure, a considerable portion of the Commander Guards came from the War Builders. And during Darius's tenure, his brother Draven had personally taken charge of them.
Now, although Rell was only Grand Commander in theory, Darius had still entrusted her with the authority to form the Commander Guards without reservation.
With few connections of her own, Rell had thought it over and decided to invite her former classmates to serve as her Commander Guards.
They were the people closest to her.
At first, Rell's classmates had been nothing more than expendable subjects for the Black Rose. The Black Rose had gathered them to extract their magical talents and use them to strengthen Rell.
Once Rell finally understood what was happening, she had wanted to put an end to the cruel experiments and refused to receive her classmates' talents through blood magic.
She couldn't ignore one classmate after another being reduced to idiots once their magical talents had been extracted. When her refusal proved futile, she finally chose to destroy the dreadful building that was called a school but was actually a human experimentation laboratory, and escape from that hellhole with her classmates.
After that, as Rell and her classmates hid in one place after another to evade the Black Rose's pursuit, they formed a deep friendship. They were classmates,