Thoughts and preparations.

When Renzo returned, he was a little bit surprised by the amount of people around Kaeri and Ymir. They seemed to be explaining who was Janna and how she helped them through these days.

Don't letting his presence distract them, he made his way towards his tent, were Yi still remained sitting while speaking with Tahru.

Taking at glance at Renzo approaching, they watch him sitting and close his eyes while sighing.

Seeing the man lost in thoughts the didn't bother him and keep speaking.

'I really need to think about what to do after this whole thing pass, I don't know how much time it would take but it won't be that much, right?' Renzo questioned to himself.

'Oh great, I just raised a flag, quick, i have to slap some ginger' He said while opening his eyes searching for a ginger. Luckily for him there was a red head girl talking with Kirae.

Not minding anything, he simply slapped her head as he retreated once again into his previous position.

"Agh! W-what the hell was that!?" The girl couldn't help but ask and glared at the retreating figure of Renzo, fuming with anger she raised from the her position and went towards Renzo position asking for a reason why he slapped her.

Renzo just keep his eyes shut, while Kirae has to approach the raging red head to calm her anger.

Promising to slap the young man face for her grievances later on.

Not minding the noise Renzo continue thinking 'If I want to leave this place, I need to have someone like Karya who could understand me so I can comunicate, at the same time I need to see where I can go to learn talk the various languages here.' When he thought at this point he remembered that learning new languages wasn't that easy unless he was a genius, something that was clear he was not.

'Shit, it would take a few months or even years until I can learn enough, but still, it could be a good time to learn other things and get more information regarding the various champs.' He quickly thought, he then took a glance at Yi as something came to his head.

'Now that I think about, I could ask Yi to taught me Wuju, if I could complement it with the Gura Gura I would be deadly.' He remembered that white beard was able to use his power with his weapon, somethinf that he eas eager to try once he could properly wield a weapon.

'Theres also the matter of the fruits, I dont know what would happen to my body if eat another one, still I can't assume it would work like in the show, as I clearly remember Black Beard not having a problem using it afterwards.' He remembered.

' There's the matter of knowing what hell happened to me to appear here, as I'm still on my body with my same clothes.' When he thought until this point he quickly glanced at his tattered clothes. 'Yeah, better of start asking for some clothes and boots, I can't keep walking around the air barefooted' He chuckled to himself. If he was honest he didn't mind walking barefoot, after all he was accustomed.

Still, he was somewhat cheating, as he didnt really touch the ground, he learned his lesson when he was walking with Zan back then, as various torns and peebles made him understand the importance of covering his feet.

Stil, he has been walking around all this time using his fruit. At this point it was like breathing to him.

' I could also give them to someone, but who?' He also think about the other possibility regarding the fruit.

' Let's rationalize this, I'm in the world of League of Legends with the power of a devil fruit from One Piece, in my bag I have another seven potential fruits. The place I appeared seemed to have weird trees that have these fruits, and once one of their fruits was eaten, they would turn white and the fruits too.... yeah there's no way this was some random Isekai thing, someone clearly put me here alongside those fruits, but why?' He thought to himself.

His situation was a extremely abnormal.

'Does a ROB was really that bored that have to put me in such situation?' He couldn't help but think of this possibility.

'And what if the rest of the fruits are for other people? Why there have to be exactly eight of them? Does another random guy would appear too?... I hope not, that would be pretty shitty.' Renzo furrowed his brow at this point.

'If I really want to take advantage of my knowledge in this world, I should help Yasuo and then move towards either Demacia or Noxus. Here in Ionia I would only keep myself in the dark.' He sighed deeply 'But this place is really nice, and the people in those places are really awful, hell, in Demacia they might just murder me if they saw me using my powers thinking that it should be some kind of magic.'

Renzo then lay on his back and looked at the sky 'If only there was a way to reach Ryze and talk with that guy. Or try to reasoning with Aurelion.' As he said the latter part he remembered something.

'It doesn't matter if I use my knowledge, they would all go to waste once the void creatures attack, and if they are as fearsome as they appeared to be in Ryze cinematic, then we're clearly screw up.' He sighed.

He remembered the voice line from Aurelion regarding how unprepared this world was when the void creatures attack once again. Aurelion was supposed to be the weapon Targon would use to keep them at bay, but even his crown was slowly losing power. And he didn't wanted to think about what the celestial dragon would do to this place once he's freed.

'I don't know if he could understand reasoning behind the hate and contempt he have towards us. I think only Zoe could somewhat make him retreat, but even that is left to doubt.' When he thought about the aspect of twilight. He remembered how unreasonable she sounded in her voice lines when playing.

'If she's that ... immature, we're screwed. Better off I we never cross pass to be honest.'

Not letting his mind wander further, he sat again and searched for Karya, who was finishing eating he bowl of food.

Approaching near to her, he rested his head on her back as he said to her "Once you finish I want to talk with Yi about something, is that okay with you?"

Hearing his words, she simply nodded and said a "uh-hum" with her mouth filled with food.

Not moving from his current place he simply closed his eyes. Until he felt a weight above his stomach. Opening his eyes he saw the dark blue eyes and mocked expression on Hyuna face while sitting above him.

Seeing the dirt ash haired female that owe him one, Renzo put a wicked smile on his face as he raised his hand towards her waist. "If you gift yourself like that towards me, then don't mind me doing this" as he finished his words he started to tickle her.

Hyuna tried to hold her laugh while glaring directly to his eyes.

Seeing her be able to resist his attack, Renzo decided to retreat for now. "Heh, you're weak." She simply mocked him.

Renzo just smiled at her and asked "What is it?" Karya gulped down the food and translated his words.

Hearing his words, she moved his hands and started playing with his hair as she answered him nonchalantly "Oh nothing much, I just wanted to ask and see if the current preacher of Janna could spare me a few words and a little of his time." As she finished she looked at his eyes and smiled at him.

Seeing this, Renzo smiled as he said "Of course I can, I'm glad you walked into the right path and decided to entrust yourself to her, I was in need also of some nuns that could help me with some issues too."

When Karya finished saying his words she asked him alongside Hyuna "What's a nun?"

"Shhhh, dear Karya, you can be a nun, I won't let you throw your future like that okay? Don't say to her what I'm currently saying to you." Said Renzo while pointing at Hyuna.

"Now you can, ehem, Hyuna, a nun is a female that devout herself to the goddess, in exchange they would be blessed by her. They also need to fulfill certain duties that the preacher shoukd give to her as to help him carry his burden, are you willing to do that?" Once Renzo finished saying this, he cup his hand around Hyuna face while doing a benevolent look on his face.

Karya coughed a bit as she said his words.

"W-what are you talking about you rascal!? I just wanted to hear a few things! You didn't have to went full zealous over it!" Getting herself out of his clutches Hyuna decided to walk away.

She wasn't fool enough fall into his honey trap.

Renzo just feigned a defeated sigh as he shook his head.

Meanwhile Karya already finished eating and said to the shameless preacher resting on her back "Let's go and talk to him."

Renzo simply said okay as they moved towards his tent.

There Yi was still speaking amiably with Tahru, and now with Kaaz sitting nearby hearing their words.

When Renzo walked over he said "Can I ask for a minute of your time?"

Yi simply nodded and excused himself while they walked a little bit further.

After reaching a place without many people passing close, Renzo opened his mouth "Master Yi, am I worthy enough to learn the Wuju Arts?"

"No." Yi simply said, Renzo just closed his eyes in pain.

"Can I ask why not?" He asked.

Yi nodded and answered without much thinking "I might left my village in hopes to protect this land, however I will still respect their decision regarding protecting our arts." Renzo understood his words, it was reasonable.

"And I am also an apprentice, there's still a long way for me to keep learning, I can't simply take someone else so recklessly as my disciple without even being a true Master myself." He added, surprising a bit to Renzo.

"Well, if you can't teach me the Wuju, can you at least teach me some techniques so I don't shame myself while using a weapon?" Renzo asked, finally revealing his target.

'Hehe, you need to aim for the big price first before going for you option.' He muttered stupidly in his head.

"That can be do." Yi nodded.

He also didn't knew how to use weapons, as the Wuju and his spirit was his weapon.

Still, it wouldn't be bad to teach the lying brat in front of him a lesson in the meantime.

When Renzo heard his response he beamed into a smile as he hugged Karya in excitement, who only patted his shoulder.

"So when can we start?" Asked Renzo after calming down a little bit, eagerness could be seen on his face.

Seeing him, Yi just smiled and answered him "Take it easy, well begin tomorrow, I'll impart you for one hour the basics and you'll see fit how much you train it."

Renzo couldn't hide his disappointed when he heard Yi's words. Still he understood that it might be late so he just simply nodded at watched how Yi retreat towards the campment.

"Hold on, where the hell does that guy would sleep?" He asked to himself and shared a glance with Karya, who also seemed to think the same he did.

"Quickly let's go back and move your tent next to me, that guy might take it for himself if we left him!" As he finished, they both passed Yi as they moved their tents closer.

The group were giving them weird looks while Ymir approached them and started to pest them regarding her tent, since she was at his right side.

Once they finished, Renzo was now sitting in front of his tent, while chatting alongside Karya and Ymir who were sitting in front of Karya's tent.

Once the minutes passed by, the tiredness started to engulf the entire group as they retreated to sleep, Renzo say his goodnight to Karya and Ymir as he entered his tent, only to find Zan already sleeping inside.

Not minding his companion, he also closed his eyes after having a last thought.

'Its has been a while since I last fapped' And with that, he fell sleep deeply.

---

The next morning Renzo was wake up by Karya.

After a difficult time getting out of the warm blanket, he lazily exited the tent and greet whoever was around.

After being brought a bowl of the usual soup, he went to procrastinate between Hyuna tights while they were waiting to be deployed.

Yi was nowhere to be found as later Shun Ti told them that the man decided to showcase a few of his abilities to the leaders and then he went out of the village until now.

They didn't knew where he went, but none doubted that the man would left the place.

Then Shun Ti informed that they would depart in three hours, just a couple hours before the noon.

Thus, with nothing else to do, and with Yi not partaking his part of the deal, Renzo just lazed and chatted with the rest of the team.

"So after the battle I also want to get a tattoo, I can't let that little brat keep a few and while I don't." Said Renzo to Kaeri and Tahru.

"Hey! Its not like I asked for them! They appear after using my powers!" Said Kaaz with a pout.

"Well, I can do a few tattoos for you, however you have to search for the material for yourself or barter with someone who happen to have it." Said lazily Kaeri to Renzo while hugging the little Kaaz.

"You can see around the village or the Placidum If you want, it'll only be a little bit troublesome and time consuming." Added the crow vastayan.

"What do you have in mind?" Asked Ymir after hearing their talk and finishing dismounting her tent and grabbing her things.

When Renzo heard her words, his mind stopped working.

Seeing the lad lost in thought Ymir chuckled and said "First think about it and then open your mouth to rant." With that she walked away as she put her things in a cart.

"Well, she's right, think first of the design and then start looking for the things, you don't want to have something in your body to regret later on." With that said, Kaeri let go Kaaz as she also started preparing for the road.

Tahru and Kaaz also did the same, only leaving behind a sleeping Hyuna and a bored Karya.

"I guess I'll have something in my head once the battle is finished... I guess." Renzo muttered while looking at the sky.

There were various designs and ideas going through his head.

He knew what he wanted, something that tell someons about his life, his greatest achievements and how he was.

He knew how frustrating was to be unable to communicate with others, so I he happen to die in the world, with some parts of his body intact, he would at least want to those who saw him, see some parts of his story through his body, as he wouldn't be able to tell them.

'I guess something regarding how I appeared here, the Gura Gura, and how I... become a killing machine...' When Renzo reaches there with his thoughts, he decided to think about another thing.

' My achievements once I finish this invasion, maybe something related to a nickname if I ever have one, and then what?' Renzo asked himself.

Then what? That's his current situation. He didn't know what else he's supposed to do, live? Would he be able to stop himself from trying to reach the different champions around this world?

He wasn't sure, they were interesting characters that he played with thousands of hours.

Just his first main, Lux, or Luxanna Crownguard make him feel so interested in her that he couldn't help but look after her lore and story.

The same could be said from various other characters, and even then, there were others that were interesting for him but he didn't took the time to look further information about them.

This curiosity would inevitable lead him to search for them, when there was nothing else to do for him.

He was seriously questioning himself what to do until he felt a warm hand patting his hair.

When he look up Hyuna was looking at him with a slight smile and said "Aren't you enjoying yourself too much?"

Hearing her words and seeing her smile, he couldn't help but smile her back at said "How I can not? These are the best pillow I could ask." When saying the last he caressed her thighs, making Hyuna open her eyes wide and blush.

Karya just stayed silent and shook her head while saying his words, adding a little bit of venom against the brat.

Hyuna just slightly slapped to his forehead as she forced him to move. Then she stretched her body as she asked if they were about to move.

Hearing the negative response from everyone around she decided to also prepared her stuff while leaving behind the duo.

"Oh the misery..." Muttered Renzo while laying on the previous spot that Hyuna was sleeping.

"Won't you prepared your things too?" Asked Karya, thinking in following everyone's action.

"Later, I just have my bag to prepare only, I'll leave the tent for Zan." He said.

*Sigh* Karya simply stand up and went to her tent.

Renzo keep staying on the same spot, with many things going through his head for his liking.

---

A while later, when everyone have already prepared their stuff and Renzo was carrying the bag on his back nonchalantly, Yi finally returning with his large yellow-green sword on his back, but with two wooden swords in each hand.

He passed by everyone and put one of the swords in Renzo's hand, he then said to him "On the path I'll impart you the first class, then you'll do how you see fit."

After saying that he just walked away.

Everyone around looked at Renzo with curious expression, it was the first time that he seemed to shown an interest to learn some kind of technique.

"If you wanted to learn to defend yourself you could have ask me you dummy, I taught the basic stuff to everyone in our team" Said Kirae while smiling wryly at him.

The rest agreeing with her words.

Renzo just keep silent until Shun Ti finally appeared alongside various mounts and other two individuals.

"We'll be leaving now, get up into these and let's go." Once he said that he was the first to head towards the Northeast gate. Quickly followed by the other two individuals and a while later, at least thirty people more.

Meanwhile the second squadron got up into the mounts while Renzo shamelessly mounting behind Karya, reasoning that he must always be around his dear translator.

Not wanting his companion to know that he didn't know how to mount a horse.

'My grand father would have killed me here if he got a wind of this' Renzo thought to himself, as since he was a kid their parents used to visit his grand parent stance where he was supposed to be taught various things from the farms.

He, however couldn't remember a thing that wasn't how to cut a cow neck and hang the body to a tree to conserve the meat and let the blood escape from the cut.

So yeah, he could be considered a failure as a gaucho.

When they followed Shun Ti and the two groups footsteps, Master Yi appeared alongside them. This time the swordsman was sitting on a cart were their stuff was being carried.

As the hours passed and the conversations diminished, the various scouts started to reach the group periphery and start looking after possible enemies.

Meanwhile Karya tried to force the entire team to reduce their speed, so their mount could not be forced to keep up with them.

Still, they made quite the travel as when the sun was setting, they passed away the large rift where thousands of Noxians find their demise.

When Yi got a wind of how the rift was created, he looked carefully at Renzo as he couldn't believe that the seemingly harmless guy from all the people around him was the most dangerous.

He also frowned a bit due to the imbalance in the area, as the spirit realm around the place was heavily affected by the dark energy left behind due to the violent deaths that these soldiers have.

There was also that this rift could also be seen in this realm, where it destroyed the balance around the place.

Still, he didn't voice out any complaint nor said anything. After all Renzo seemed to acted for the sake of Ionia. With no intention of creating the chaos followed.

When dusk came, the team finally stopped to eat something and rest for a bit, the people around was grateful and didn't waste more time.

Those in charge of cooking started to prepare the fire and the bowls, while the rest chatted among themselves.

Meanwhile Yi, alongside Renzo and Karya were standing on a separate spot, where Yi and Renzo were facing each other while Karya sit on the ground.

In the distance the rest of the second squadron were watching with amusing expression.

"First, what do you know about swordsmanship?" Asked Yi as he moved the wooden sword in such speed that Renzo couldn't keep up with the speed.

"Ehm, it's a way that you must follow diligently." Renzo responded after thinking a bit, he tried to remember the crap that was sprouted in the various books he read previously while also remember one than other video he saw regarding kendo.

Yi moved his head by side as he said "Somewhat lacking your answer but you are right in something, swordsmanship is a way, some cultivated it within them, making themselves the sword. While other look for a certain path."

Renzo just nodded.

"The basics would build a base for you, a base enough so you can approach any path you like. Some may tell you that some paths are only for a few, but the truth is that the diligence put behind your work is what makes you able to understand said paths easier. I won't deny that some extend of talent is required to grasp these faster, but if you live long enough, you could reach the place that a talented person reach first." When Yi reached this point, he stopped moving the sword while looking at Renzo.

'Well it's not necessary to say me that it would require me dozens of year to reach your point man.' Renzo thought to himself meanwhile.

"The technique is an important aspect when learning the basics, however what a teacher or a swordsman would look for is the intent behind each slash, trust and other forms of attack." Said Yi while starting making a few attacks in a slow speed.

"What are you looking with each movement? Attack? Defend? Kill? Surpass? Dominate? Those are the question you must ask yourself with each slash. The technique, different from what many could believe, is the easiest thing to learn, however, knowing the intention behind your attacks is what makes you a real swordsman. Once you grasped an intention, you could finally said that you became a swordsman. Before that, you will remain as a sword without a man wielding it." Yi finished, and with a simply slash Renzo saw the gras around them being cut clean with a simple swap of his hand.

"Well, that was indeed awesome and I thank you for saying that, however I need to first now how to properly use a sword since I don't have any idea to properly use it." Answered Renzo somewhat ashamed

He didn't wanted to sound like an idiot, although he was, but he first needed the most basic knowledge first.

"Oh, I forgot about that and get carried away." Simply said Yi as he started showing Renzo the basic movements.

They stayed like that for almost half an hour, when they have to call for a break to eat.

While they were eating Renzo started asking Hyuna and Shun Ti about the stuff Yi talked about.

He was surprised to hear that Shun Ti followed the intention of fire, while Hyuna was still unable to understand one.

Although surprised by Hyuna situation, she explained that technically she was a skillful sword user, but since her attacks didn't have any intention, she was a step behind Shun Ti who was still an apprentice in his school.

It was then that he also learnt that the difference between being taught by families or battles and the teachings from a school could greatly variety. Since the majority of the apprentices in a school were secured to have some kind of intention even if they were stuck for the rest of their life's as apprentices.

That it's why many tried to enter the various schools around Ionia.

After resting a bit for the food to digest, Yi continue imparting the basics while correcting his postures and attacks.

'Average' That's how Yi would rate Renzo's performance, he wasn't bad but neither good.

In the sword, he would be another one from the bunch.

But both knew that the sword aspect would be a bonus, since his power was the real thing.

"That's it for today, tomorrow we could keep with the lessons, you can continue practicing if you want." Yi said and head back towards the cart, where he sat and started meditating.

Renzo, who was sweating like a pig was regaining his breath.

'These little crappy attacks are so energy consuming, holy crap man!' He couldn't help but exclaim to himself.

He was really surprised by the amount of strain that controlling a basic slash would require.

Now he knew it why Hyuna have those powerful arms and core.

Quickly heading to a stream a few hundred meters away, he quickly washed his body as for the first time he didn't wear back his clothes.

Earlier today he asked for clothes that he could wear, after bartering with a few people, the squad gifted him a bunch of clothes with relieved expression on their faces.

Renzo decided to not think further as to why they were making such expression and just accepted, now he finally wear his new clothes.

'They really comfortable.' He muttered to himself, as he was expecting a rough and annoying clothes after seeing them.

Putting the various clothes, and then wearing the leather tabard, he adjusted the buckle and wear the leather boots.

If he had to say, he was quite glad they didn't gave him the common Ionian clothes, is no that they were ugly, but they weren't from his cup of tea.

Seeing Renzo approaching with his long hair slightly wet and wearing the clothes brought by them, the squad couldn't help but praise him.

"You finally look like a normal person and not a beggar!" Said Ymir while cracking a laugh.

"It suit you well." Ye raised hi thumb.

"You almost look like someone I would invite to eat something, almost." Said Hyuna while inspecting him from head to toes.

Shun Ti however frowned as he said "Wait there a minute, there's something missing from your clothes." As he said this, he went towards a cart and brought with him a piece of chest and shoulder armor.

He then went in front of Renzo and said "Put it in, this one would fit you."

Grabbing the heavy armor piece, he asked for help and wear it.

Once Tahru and Ye made sure it was correctly fitting. They walked away and nodded to Shun Ti while praying his eyes "You were bad, that's quite the improvement there."

"Not bad at all"

The rest also couldn't help but agree with their words, as Renzo now really seemed to look like a proper soldier.

It was then that Kaeri appeared from our of nowhere and throw a mask towards to Renzo.

"A gift, we can't let your face get injured, right?" She simply smiled as she gift him an Ionian mask.

Looking at his hands that were wearing a pair of leather gloves, he looked over the skull looking mask with two red lines going horizontally.

Opening the mask, he slowly wear it and then adjusted, breathing loudly, he asked.

"Well, I look nice, right?"