The ancient city of Shurima represents the glory of Shurima's past, but Zaan Piltover is the future of the kingdom.

In order to gain more support from the Shurima people, the pilot zone of Antahir became very important, and Rhodes needed to prove to all Shurima that Zaan Piltover's model could be replicated and extended to the whole of Shurima!

There is no future by relying on the giant gods, and the fate of the Shurima people should be in the hands of the Shurima people themselves.

Rhodes has put a lot of thought into the development of Antahir - he even invited Ike, Camille and Sarah to have a four-way meeting on Antahir, focusing on how to develop Antahir.

This important meeting, later known as the Four-Headed Council, was finally set in a neutral location, Mud Town.

During the meeting, Rhodes served as the moderator and set the overall tone of the meeting through a review of Shurima's history.

In this session, Rhodes explains to Ike, Camille, and Sarah the importance of Shurima, who is not influenced by the Emperor, to Zaan, Piltover, and Bilgewater through historical restoration and logical analysis.

Because of Shurima's history of conquering foreign countries and the experience of Noxus attacking everywhere after becoming powerful, the three finally agree with Rhodes - if Azir becomes Shurima's true emperor, then Shurima is likely to go back to the same path as before.

At that time, whether it is Zaun and Piltover, who were once part of Shurima, or Bilgewater, who is overseas and highly dependent on trade, I am afraid that everyone's life will not be easy.

Once Shurima is unified and returns to that era of external conquest, who will be their first target?

It won't be Demacia, it can't be Noxus—it's always the small forces closest to Shurima who will suffer first!

On the premise that a consensus was reached, Rhodes made his point that in this turbulent time, Zaun, Piltover, and Bilgewater should join forces to gain some influence over Shurima.

And this was also affirmed by the other three, after all, gaining influence against Shurima is on the one hand a rainy day, and on the other hand, it is indeed profitable.

Next, the four of them began to discuss the specific policy guidelines.

In this way, after a long four-party consultation, at the end of the meeting, everyone finally reached a certain degree of cooperation.

Funds invested by the richest Piltover ; Overpopulated Zaun offers skilled immigrants; Birgewater, which has a strong transport capacity, was hired to take on the transport and together they were able to create a special area in Antahir.

The three parties work together to transfer excess production and processing, exerting influence and saving costs.

In this way, on the one hand, this can solve the contradictions within the three parties, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as giving full play to the strengths and taking what each needs from its needs.

During this time, Rhodes was tasked with finding a stable condition for Antahir's development.

In this way, after the pirates of Bilgewater announced the occupation of Antahir, it quickly became the Antahir Complex Special Zone.

The shrewd and capable Governor of the Port became the first leader of the Antasil Special District.

In just three days, a new order had been established in Antahir – supplies from the sea had brought the ancient city back to life.

Then, after the environment stabilized, the civil society forces of Zaun, Piltover, and Bilgewater were also attracted by the policy, and started a wave of investment in Antahir.

The Twin Cities Investment Group came to Antahir to explore the city's potential and invest in exchange for tax incentives and subsidies, while the captains of Bilgewater took over Antaseir's long-defunct shipyard.

Even some privateer captains have the idea of sand thieves in the mountains north of Antahir - these guys often can't even swim, but they always have a different kind of blood, and being the leader of the stormtroop is nothing less.

Although Zaun, Piltover, and Bilgewater were not first-class forces in Valoran, the three parties worked together to develop Antahir, and the city quickly showed a vitality and vitality that was completely inconsistent with its history.

An aging population and a lack of young and middle-aged labor?

Never mind.

After the Zaun immigrants provided basic services to the city, there was a very obvious agglomeration effect on the entire southern coast of Shurima, because the cities and villages on the southern coast of Shurima had been facing a similar dilemma because of the cross-cutting of the Holy Mountain Range in the north, and now that Antahir had suddenly become wider, the young and middle-aged labor force in the vicinity who could not cross the area of the sand pirate blockade naturally began to gather in Antahir.

In the process, the sand pirates also tried to stop and take advantage of the opportunity to loot, but unfortunately, with the security groups of Piltover and the Bilgewater Navy as their escort, the sand pirates often did not please them, although they had a geographical advantage.

Considering that most of the people who were willing to move to Antarhir were people with few families, the sand pirates had to lose money almost once they made a move—and over time, they stopped asking for trouble.

If you can't rob the money, and you have suffered a lot of losses, then why not let them go to Antahir.

If they make money in Antasehir...... Wouldn't it be nice to do it again?

In this way, the last trouble that constrained Antahir was swept away.

While Shurima was still fighting for control within Shurima, and while Zelas was trying to assemble a real force, Antahir relied on the Holy Mountain Mountains as a barrier and began to develop rapidly.

With the joint efforts of the Quartet, a seed of development has been planted, and all Rhodes has to do now is to watch it take root in the ancient land of Shurima......

And while waiting for the seed to take root, Rhodes needed to leave for a moment—he needed to make a trip to Kohalise, and this time he was no longer in a hurry.

Rhodes was going to meet the weaver tribe of Kohalise, and then he would head north to visit the Great River Nomads.

Rhodes believed that no one, whether it was a weaver who believed in the Mother Weaver or a river nomad who admired nature and wildness, would want to see Shurima re-emerge as the ancient empire full of aggression.

That would mean everyone trembling in the shadow of Shurima.

Interestingly, whether it's a weaver tribe or a river nomad, Rhodes has locals as guides.