Hearing Faen's words, Caitlyn frowned slightly, quickly realizing the meaning Faen wanted to express through his words—they might not leave so easily today.
And obviously, Caitlyn wasn't the only one who sensed Faen's meaning. Immediately after, Vi on the side looked sharply at Faen, saying with a face full of disbelief: "You guy! What exactly do you want to do!!"
While speaking, Vi subconsciously blocked Caitlyn behind her and pointed her hand at Faen. But just in the next moment, Faen reached out and grabbed Vi's arm equipped with the Atlas Gauntlet.
Initially prepared for miners in the pits, the diameter of the Atlas Gauntlet was even as thick as an adult's waist. The reason it could be used easily was entirely relying on a large amount of energy provided by Hextech Crystals allowing the user not to bear this weight personally. And its powerful destructive power, splitting mountains and cracking rocks was a piece of cake. In Vi's feeling, this gauntlet seemed to have been waiting for her. Wearing this pair of gauntlets, Vi felt the world was big, but there was nowhere she couldn't go.
Unfortunately, this feeling was just Vi's own feeling.
Looking at Vi whose eyes were full of hostility in front of him, Faen put his hand on Vi. Immediately after, Vi clearly felt a strong emotion impacting her nerves. Following that, Vi only felt the Atlas Gauntlet in her hand begin to heat up violently. Her original arm felt like being in a sea of fire. Subconsciously opening her palm, Vi flung her arm violently. The Atlas Gauntlet mechanism originally on her right arm lost control, thrown far away directly accompanied by a high-temperature airflow.
"Ugh!"
Vi knelt on the ground halfway in pain holding her right arm. The skin on that strong and slender right arm wrinkled, flesh showing an unnatural reddish-brown. The surface skin membrane fell off entirely like a plastic tiger skin, steaming in Zaun's humid environment.
"Vi!!" Seeing Vi hurt, a flash of panic passed through Caitlyn's eyes. In contrast, although Jinx on the side didn't speak, a throb also flashed in her eyes. It was just that Jinx knew her identity, so she didn't shout out directly like Caitlyn, just glanced coldly at Vi, then continued to stand behind Faen without saying a word.
Faen's face didn't show even half a bit of emotion because of the injury on Vi's hand. After all, compared to Vi's physical fitness, this level of scald would probably recover in a day or two.
With a face full of calm, Faen said peacefully: "Your weapon is indeed very good, but unfortunately, you only know how to use it, but don't understand it."
Hearing this, Vi didn't speak, just stood up holding her arm after a moment of silence and said: "You can't do this. Caitlyn's identity is special; doing this will intensify the conflict between the two cities. The current Zaun can no longer afford a new round of riots!"
To this, Faen didn't speak, just stood quietly on the spot. After a moment of silence, Vi took a deep breath and said: "I stay here, you let Caitlyn go back. At least you have to let Piltover know that Zaun has no idea of breaking with them completely!"
"Vi!" Hearing Vi's words, Caitlyn couldn't help frowning beside her—because Caitlyn knew she would at most receive some verbal ridicule here. Born in House Kiramman, and a star Enforcer of the Piltover Wardens, unless fish die and the net breaks, Zaun would absolutely not do anything to her.
But if it were Vi, then anything extreme could happen to Vi! And highly likely!
Not just Caitlyn, hearing Vi's words, Jinx also looked up. A moment later she chuckled sarcastically, not knowing whether finding Vi laughable or finding herself laughable.
To this, Faen just shook his head and said calmly: "For Piltover, your life or death is not important, but Caitlyn is different."
Saying this, Faen looked at Caitlyn and waved intimately, saying: "What are you still standing there for? Come over, saving creating useless casualties."
Hearing Faen's words, Caitlyn's expression changed constantly. Behind Caitlyn, many Enforcers looked at each other. Then one of them seemed to remember something like Piltover's glory or whatever, subconsciously taking a step forward. Although just a simple movement, it attracted everyone's attention in an instant in this occasion.
Feeling everyone's gaze, that Enforcer swallowed his saliva, then mustered up courage saying somewhat reluctantly: "We are Piltover—"
Before the Enforcer could finish, Jinx on the side sneered attracting everyone's attention. Then in everyone's sight, she went straight to that person. Her seemingly thin body burst out with amazing speed and strength in this instant. Just one punch sent that Enforcer flying directly—Jinx's body shape looked small, but actually calculating strength, she was even above Zeri.
No other reason. Although Zeri absorbed sufficient nutrition during this period, Jinx had ingested a large amount of Shimmer almost every day for the past ten-plus years.
The wild side of this life magic was almost harmless when facing individuals with strong and firm spirits—it would only increase mental pressure.
And Jinx's mental stress resistance undoubtedly reached an appalling level. This also allowed Jinx to almost completely absorb the strengthening from Shimmer—and because her spirit could bear this pressure, Jinx got strengthened not like ordinary people getting fattened instantly like hormones, then losing muscles and covered in acne with blood viscous like frozen oil once the drug effect passed.
On the contrary, the strengthening effect after Jinx took Shimmer was very limited, but every time, what improved was her own upper limit. There was no such thing as strength decay after stopping the drug—it was just that Shimmer potions were still too elementary, and the refining method was somewhat crude, so she had reached a bottleneck period now.
But even so, just from Jinx being able to carry a rocket launcher and a heavy machine gun, while holding the trigger dead shooting and running wildly as if not feeling recoil, one could glimpse the terrible muscle strength in her small body.
Case solved, it's Smith Jinx.
Glancing at the Enforcer who flew far away bleeding from mouth and nose and passed out on the spot, Caitlyn's eyes were about to crack, and Vi on the side couldn't help shouting directly: "Jinx!!"
Seeing their colleague blasted away directly, the Enforcers on the side also raised the weapons in their hands subconsciously. Unfortunately, just slightly raising their hands, immediately accompanied by Faen clapping peacefully, the crystal chambers of standard Hextech rifles in their hands overheated and exploded directly. Accompanied by a series of screams, the damage caused by the chamber explosion immediately filled the scene with wailing.
As a prototype made with the best materials and technology, the Atlas Gauntlet itself was affected by Faen mostly because Vi's own operation method was too crude. Only knowing crude usage, but not understanding the principle of the weapon in hand. But even so, relying on its own quality, without preparation, Faen could at most make it overload and overheat to detach forcibly.
But this structure with technical barriers for Zaunites, but not much technical content in magic... whether water or wind, as long as operated properly, could create large-scale overload and sympathetic detonation.
Actually, this wasn't a secret—since mass-produced, this meant Piltover knew more or less about this. After all, the money they earned wouldn't be buried underground to mold, but was indeed constantly exploring broader possibilities.
The reason why it was still like this was just because this weapon was adaptable enough for most situations, and cheap enough—other better ones with lower overload risk would also be more expensive, while power wouldn't improve significantly. And dealing with ordinary people, compared to power, people cared more about accuracy.
Seeing the comrades behind her, Caitlyn's face turned pale. Then she quickly stopped Vi who was somewhat out of control and couldn't help it beside her, signaling with her eyes for the other party to endure. Then Caitlyn took a deep breath, looked at Faen, lowered her head and said in a deep voice: "I am willing to stay here, as a hostage..."
"Not a hostage, but accepting investigation, for Zaun's judicial fairness." Faen corrected.
To this, the corner of Caitlyn's mouth twitched imperceptibly, then she took a deep breath, nodded and said: "I will cooperate with your investigation..."
Hearing this, Vi lowered her head somewhat despairingly, but she knew Caitlyn doing this was right. But then, Vi looked up at Faen despairingly and begged: "Then... then at least let me see her anytime, also convenient to let Piltovians know news of Caitlyn!"
"No problem." Faen nodded.
Jinx just stood aside, looking at Vi with a cold face. To this, Faen looked at Takeda Saito who had collapsed on the ground beside.
Noticing Faen's gaze, Takeda Saito's body shivered suddenly, but didn't run away. Instead, after swallowing saliva, he scrambled to crawl in front of Faen and prostrated himself: "My Lord, I come from Ionia like you! I can help you! I'll say anything! I will definitely be your most capable subordinate! I will tell you everything I know!"
Hearing this, Faen shook his head, then waved to Caitlyn signaling her to follow, and walked away slowly.
Seeing Faen didn't kill him, Takeda Saito froze first, then a look of ecstasy quickly appeared on his face. Scrambling to get up from the ground, but before following Faen's steps to show loyalty, just raising his head, he saw Jinx aiming the dark muzzle at him.
"Wait! You can't do this! Isn't it for judicial fairness?!" Takeda Saito wailed.
Jinx curled her lips:
"Fair or not, isn't it up to that guy Faen?"
A gunshot.