Ships in the distance.

Island of Fae'Lor, a port owned by Noxus.

Dozens of ships were arriving in the makeshift port in Fae'Lor where the Noxians reinforcements would rest before parting to the mainland of Navori and the isle of Bahrl.

Noxian architecture is present on the island belonging to the archipelago of Ionia.

Among the medium walls that protected the fort and served as the command center for the invasion of Ionia, several figures could be seen gathered around a detailed map of Navori and Bahrl.

General Emystan, Commander Cyrus and Commander Obron, Admiral Duqal, and in a corner the figure of a man without an arm, the defeated General Swain who recently arrived on Fae'Lor alongside his Commander Encurion, who was the last surviving officer from his army.

In the room, there were also in a position further away than the rest, several other captains and war leaders from Noxus who made up the reinforcements sent.

Without a doubt, the one that stood out the most was the Hand of Noxus itself, Darius, who was sitting respectfully on the sides while letting the highest-ranking officers in the army decide the outcome.

Looking with clear disdain and disgust, Commander Cyrus exclaimed aloud as he searched for an explanation "General Emystan, I would like to know why you have allowed two dishonorable figures who brought humiliation to the empire to be at this table next to us." He spat out with contempt, anger, and despise while looking at the two figures in the corner.

The man's voice revealed his distinct dislike of Swain and Encurion. They could only accept the words with their heads down.

The general with arrogance and security replied "Because they have valuable information for our plans, do not let anger cloud your judgment, Swain is an intelligent man despite such a disastrous defeat, I am sure he will provide valuable information for us." Turning her face and looking towards Swain she asked "Isn't that so, General Swain?"

The latter nodded his head as he replied briefly "Indeed, I'll provide with any information I know, for the sake of Noxus and our victory."

Pleased with his words, the general continued "You have already heard, now to the important thing, our presence in Navori is nil, with the withdrawal of troops from Commander Encurion, only small forces were scattered in the west and south, while our presence in the southern islands is being firmly contested but not as dire as in Navori. " The general explained, making her two commanders, Cyrus and Obron nod in understanding.

She then continued, "We have already received reports of the possible location where the Yellow Lightning village, the Wuju village, would be, we will move the weapons I requested to it and erase them from the map, we cannot allow these people to continue affecting the course of the war." She pointed as her finger pointed to a point on the Bahrl map.

Commander Encurion, who was the man who faced Yi during the battle of Navori Placidium added "That man's arts are terrible, my men had no chance as that man took their lives in a matter of the blink of an eye, there was no way to face him, his speed and his mastery of the sword surpassed anything you can imagine, and that was a single man, I don't want to imagine what a whole village of them would do. " Hearing the stricken and disturbed tone of the veteran commander, most of the officers were concerned and serious about his words.

The general added "Commander Encurion lost half of his men before he could retreat to safety. And if the rumors are true, this Yellow Lightning named 'Yi' was destroying dozens of battalions and warbands prior to the battle of the Placidium, by himself. "

Hearing the puzzling words, everyone began to assess the danger that this village represented.

Others wondered if it was really necessary to annex Ionia with so many of such powerful subjects hanging around and creating resistance.

The general's voice did not let them think further, as she added "But it's not just that, as far as we know this 'Yi' is now the figure of the resistance that defeated General Swain and General Bertha, and that together with him he has already added several other individuals from his village. " As the general's words echoed in the main room, many took turns looking at each other and questioning whether it was wise to disembark at Navori.

Seeing this, the general smiled and said her new information "But don't worry, just as the Yellow Lightning has gained more powerful allies, he also lost others. The Fist of Ionia, the man who so bitterly defeated our troops and the bulk of the army of General Swain, has created his faction together with the Blade Dancer and a few others, I have not received much information but these first two are figures that took on a lot of significance and power in Ionia, and luckily they are now separated from 'Yi' and the resistance led by him."

Swain was not very affected by this news, however, on his face you could see the bitter and sad memory that was burned into his memory.

He knows that he will never be able to forget that scene of that masked man destroying his entire army with a simple act of his fists, and how in front of such irrefutable and mountain strength his body didn't respond to him and he watched with bitterness and helplessness the man crippling him without too many efforts.

'In the future, it will never be like this again.' He told himself as he clenched his fist tightly under the black cloak.

"What is this 'Fist of Ionia' capable of compared to 'Yi'?" Suddenly Commander Cyrus's voice interrupted everyone's voices and thoughts.

The general simply looked at Swain and said "Go ahead General Swain, tell 'em" She grinned at him.

Seeing the clear mockery and disdain on the general's face, Swain did not give it importance and narrated his facts "I can only speak about what I saw, from what I understand this man was in charge of destroying, until the last man without leaving anyone alive, my right flank. When he appeared, my army was being strongly countered by the Ionian forces and I was preparing to enter together with my commanders, officers, and captains, however, he appeared from a flank where I had previously left units in case of enemy reinforcements, but that was of no use when he crushed them with his fists, he ... he just struck the air in front of him and my units were exterminated. " Swain's face was clearly affected by the memory in his mind, everyone in the room could see his fury and frustration on his face.

"Then, he just slapped the rest of my units in the same way, it was all in a matter of seconds to minutes, I didn't even have a chance to counter him when he appeared in front of me and killed everyone, only leaving me alive. I thought he was going to kill me too and free me of the humiliation, but he just ripped my arm off and left me lying there. The last thing I remember seeing, was him exterminating what was left of my troops. " When Swain finished recounting his experience, most of the room felt a shiver down their spines as everyone wondered the same thing.

Is it really possible to defeat these guys?

Clearly Yi and the Fist of Ionia were figures that can determine the war and victory of Noxus in these lands.

"Thank you, General Swain, although I would have preferred you not to tell us about your defeat but rather the information on this subject." She said with a hint of dislike in her voice.

The general after observing the disturbing atmosphere in the room cleared her voice and got everyone's attention again.

"Then we have a little girl known as 'Blade Dancer'. If I remember correctly it was the cause that Swain was

facing troubles before The Fist of Ionia intervention, we do not have much information about her, only that she is an excellent warrior, enough to be elevated next to the two other figures. " Looking at each of the officers in the room she said in a loud and clear voice.

She then proceed and changed her expression to a dark look on her face as she said, "I don't give a damn about these figures, we need to win, and only win. If any of you come back defeated once you disembark in your positions, then rest assured that you will not have the same luck as General Swain." As she finished her words, the room shuddered at the venom and icy tone in her voice.

The meeting continued for two more hours, where they began to plan the different tactics and fronts they would take upon disembarking, as well as other things.

When the lesser officers were released from duty and exited the room, only General Emystan remained along with Admiral Duqal and Swain.

The first looked coldly at Swain and said "I don't have to say what awaits you, Swain, I can only tell you that your previous actions are the reason why I did not cut your head off right here in front of our troops, making an example of you."

Swain simply looked at her with a blank face knowing she was referring to his loyalty towards Boram Darkwill.

The general looked at Admiral Duqal and said "Make sure a ship takes him back together with the wounded first thing in the morning along with their commander, we don't need them in our ranks anymore." She said coldly while the Admiral smiled and nodded.

After this, Swain and Duqal left the general alone in the room while she looked at the map and plans. Lost in her thoughts.

Meanwhile, in the port several officers were embarking the boats to board their ships, with the orders already given, all they needed to do was go to their respective ships and leave for the front that touched them.

The Hand of Noxus, Darius was walking alongside three figures, one of them his brother, a man that was a little bit shorter than the burly man, he had a long mustache alongside some beard on his face, and a long hair upwards, he was called Draven.

Another figure was one of a tall blonde woman who had a frown on her face. She was called Quilleta and was in the unit under Darius' command.

Behind all of them was a tall figure of a man clad in heavy armor that covered his entire body. He was called Farron and was also under Darius' command.

"Well, this isn't looking that promising, isn't it?" Said Draven to Darius and Quilleta, with both hands raised behind his head.

"And that's why we here, we're going to gain terrain further in our position so the rest of the army can advance forward without impeding." Answered Darius without any doubt on his voice.

Draven just smiled at his brother word's, while not minding the content behind them.

Meanwhile, Quilleta gulped down and said "With just two figures they destroyed one army, while we don't know what happened with the second one, how are they still believing we can achieve something?" The orders and words said back in the command room were clearly not of her liking and didn't calm her concerns.

"You have already received your orders, we did too, that is how, if that doesn't work, then we will come up with something better and that time we will defeat them," Darius said to her with a serene tone on his voice, he seemed to be unfazed by what was concerning Quilleta.

The latter just give up trying to reason with him, as she knew him well. Then she started thinking of ways for them to survive and continue being useful in Ionia.

"But she has a point, how are we supposed to kill someone that it's faster than lightning? I mean I am pretty strong but the rest of the troops? Yeah, they don't have a chance." Suddenly said Draven while thinking further in the matter.

Just as Darius was about to open his mouth again, Draven continue "I mean, the men under your command brother are clearly better than the rest, but the kids in one of those ships? Yeah, they're just going to throw those kids' lives instead of making good use of them." As Draven pointed out something that they previously saw when embarking, Quilleta has to agree with him.

"If they know how to kill, then they can serve as soldiers, we all know that. Now stop complaining and get up in the boat, we still have a journey before we disembark in Ionia." Darius pointed to a boat and they took it.

The atmosphere around the various officers was grim. The usual confidence Noxians showed nowhere to be found.

Under the clear sky and rays of the sun in the afternoon, they ride their ships and started moving after one hour, dozens of ships heading towards the east where on the horizon many could see the land of Navori.

While another group headed through the south, between Fae'Lor and Navori in direction of Bahrl.

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When we woke up was already the afternoon, I woke up Karya as I headed outside.

Since a good amount of days have passed I was planning to add more difficulty into the training, while at the same time I wanted to try something with myself.

Since I ate a devil fruit, I was wondering if the same curse befalls upon me when I ate it.

Thus, I was heading towards the shore after calling out everyone in the group alongside Sett towards the beach.

Every one of us was wearing simple robs since I told them that we would be soaking ourselves in the ocean.

"So what's exactly what you wished to try first?" Asked Hyuna with curiosity after hearing Karya talking about it.

"Yeah, let's just train before you do something dumb." Complained Ymir while her eyes looked carefully at my actions, clearly interested in what I wanted to do.

"If I'm weak against water!" I simply said while I felt the sand on my feet, putting a smile on my face.

Almost everyone looked at me strangely for my answer, they must be wondering how I was weak against water.

Not minding them, I breathed deeply while I close the distance with the incoming wave.

10 meters.

9 meters

8 meters

..

4 meters

3 meters

2 meters

1 meter and in just a moment, the ocean water touched my feet.

As I headed deeper due to the wave I started feeling something, it was an uncomfortable feeling, but nothing like it was shown in the show.

'IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FREAKING FACE! NO OCEAN WATER WEAKNESS BABY!' I was exhilarating and laughing loudly while realizing such a thing.

However, I had to stop laughing 'Oh shit.' As I was starting to sunk in the water, 'I forgot that I don't know how to swim.' As I jumped from the seafloor, I tried to move again in direction of the beach, however, it proved to be hard while drowning myself.

Luckily, I felt someone grabbing me from my neck and pulling me back in the beach direction.

After reaching a reasonable deep, I was finally able to walk inland, my eyes stinging in pain from the seawater entering them while I breathed deeply for air.

"Are you an idiot!? Why the hell do you let yourself be carried by the waves if the water is your weakness, you dumb ass idiot!" The sweet and caring voice of Hyuna reached my ears as she dragged me back.

I however just smiled as I answered "Water is not my weakness, I don't know how to swim." I laughed loudly while not minding the 'bruh' looks that everyone was giving me.

"Why is him our leader? He's clearly stupid." Ymir said with a frown on her face. Everyone nodded their head in agreement while Sett looked at me with an understanding look.

Noticing this I asked Sett while finally exiting the sea "You too brat?" When everyone heard my words, they followed my gaze and looked at Sett, who smiled nervously and said loudly "N-no! Of course that I know how to swim, how can I not?"

However everyone could see that he was clearly in the same boat as I am, I just laughed while I looked over the rest and said in Piltovian "Tell these guys that were about to train next step further, not only would they need to the exercises, but also doing while being underwater. DOUBLING THE EFFORT!" I roared while smiling at the poor souls in front of me.

Karya looked back at me with a pale face while asking "What about Tahru and I? We can't meditate underwater don't we?" She said, but seeing my smiling face she already knew the answer.

Sighing in defeat she conveyed my words while the group looked at me with a disbelief expression on their faces, they knew they could quite well drown after finishing the exercises.

I pointed at Sett while I said to Karya "Tell the little half Vastaya that he will go under the normal training, at such he would be the last I would take care off." She nodded my head and understood that most likely, Sett would be the only one able to save them in case of danger.

Which was grim, to say the least, the lad clearly didn't know how to swim. Just like me.

The first to start, like always was Hyuna, who was eager to train it, even if she was in danger of dying.

Resting my palm on her back, she began doing the push-up, squats and sits up.

All underwater.

Before she could complete the rest of the sit-ups, I had to retrieve her while her face looked red.

She had clearly strained herself while doing such exercises, and looking over her ragging breath and huffs everyone could tell it was quite the tiring job.

It wasn't only a matter of feeling your muscle fibers breaking apart, but also controlling the breathing alongside fighting the feeling while being underwater.

Many things too look at the same time.

The next one was Irelia, she won Ymir on eagerness and we both headed to a meter or so within the ocean and she began doing her exercises.

I have to move a little bit near the beach since she was unable to breathe while doing the push-ups, then we continue while I focused on not breaking anything beyond her muscles.

To be honest, doing such a thing requires great lengths in control, and I was basically scanning her body first with the tremors and then breaking the fibers I pointed out as muscles. All of this all over and over again.

Luckily since I've been doing this for a few days by now, I was starting to gain much more speed and be able to create more fissures on the muscles.

Irelia was able to finish them all, even after the sit-ups took her various minutes to complete, where her abdominal muscles keep suffering more than was necessary.

'She will have crazy abs later on.' I thought to myself while trying to not look at the figure underneath the soaking robes.

After she finished, I continue for the next thirty minutes doing the same with Ymir and Tahru.

"Okay, Kar, your turn now, let's get ready before it gets dark," I said to her while looking over the orange sky and the sun setting on the horizon.

However, just as I was about to look back at her from looking at the scenery, my brows furrowed as I saw a dark figure far in the ocean.

It was the figure of a ship, one I haven't seen yet roaming the waters.

"Karya! Look over there, is that a ship, right?" I pointed towards the direction while approached into my position, her eyes half-closed trying to discern something.

"I... I think it is a ship, but that figure.." She mumbled as she then looked over me with a serious face and said "Thrown me in the air towards the ocean, I would be able to see with more clarity up in the air." As I heard her, I first looked at her with a weird look.

Falling from a high altitude would surely injure her badly, after all, even if it's was water, it would still hit hard.

Nonetheless, that's was also the reason she was training right? Thus, trying to not use too much strength, I took her in princess carry while I moved sideway, balancing her body towards the direction I gained momentum while adjusting my strength, with her hands on her chest, she nodded her head and I send her in the air.

She didn't scream but looked over with haste and detail.

'It has to be at least twenty meters' I thought to myself.

However, Karya screamed with alarm in her voice "NOXIANS SHIPS! THOSE ARE NOXIAN SHIPS!"

As we heard her, the guys laying on the floor looked alarmed while Sett looked towards me with a frown on his face.

Meanwhile, I sighed while I looked over where Karya fell and shouted at her "Are you okay!?"

She took a moment to answer back, but she said "Yeah, I think I broke my leg or something." But just as I was about to get worried about her safety she screamed again "Just joking, I'm going to the shore."

Sighing in relief I looked back at the rest and said "Wait here, I'll be back." And channeled tremors under my legs, jumping over the air and start running towards the ship direction.

As I passed over Karya, I saw briefly her looking towards me with a concerned expression. However, I couldn't stop my steps as I continue striding forwards the ship, clearly, the figure taking more clarity, and with it, I was able to see at least five other ships behind it, going in formation.

Breathing deeply at the sight I said to my self 'Ooooh boy, this going to be funny.' While a grin spread through my face.

It was time to test my powers in the water. Time to see waves engulfing some ships.

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