The final battle did not break out after all. Under the guidance of Edgar, Lester and Turs successfully arrived at the library in the east from the temple. The dark wizard Austin and the undead army of ghost assassin Bennett had already left for a long time.
With the blessing of the Dark Fog Beacon, the black fog covering the sky also began to recede, which made Turs, who was holding the disk of light and preparing to cast a spell to dispel the black fog, a little embarrassed.
"They have already left, and they also took away the things that created the black mist."
The dozen or so books that were taken away, the slightly opened wooden chairs, the open windows, and the environment that was kept holy and clean were completely different from the Nascote Village that had been reduced to hell.
After collecting enough intelligence elements, Lester sat down on the wooden chair in front of the bookcase, closed his eyes, empathized with Austin who had left, and simulated Austin's emotions and thoughts in his brain:
"The location of Nascote Village is towards the southwest. If there is really something to control the black fog, choosing this place as a base can more efficiently spread the black fog to Wollaston Village and Gardner Village. Here,
During the invasion, they not only prepared to harvest human flesh and blood to make puppet bodies, but also took away a large number of souls through the black mist...
Doing things like robbing souls in Kindred's temple is full of blasphemy and contempt. It can be seen that the guys in the temple have a lot of grudges with Kindred, and this is some kind of limited revenge.
The reason why there is a limit is probably because the manipulator behind the scenes likes to read. This is also the reason why there are many books with traces of reading in the library, and there are many missing books.
This guy who likes to read is unwilling to mess up the temple and library containing books by those butchers. Therefore, it can be inferred that in addition to the assassin who is watching the battle, there is also a scholar or mage controlling the black mist here. In this kind of situation,
In front of existence, even the powerful Hateful Butcher is just some kind of consumable.
These intelligent and emotional behind-the-scenes manipulators act decisively, come and go like the wind, and have a military style of doing things. I have reason to believe that they are loyal to the tyrants of the underworld, and these souls taken away by the black mist will be taken to the underworld.
The outcome will definitely not be good,
The only thing I don’t quite understand is, there are obviously many opportunities to take action against us, why did the assassin and the mage never take direct action against us except throwing a magic item to prevent us from directly killing the hateful butcher..."
Turs and Edgar looked at each other, and at the same time looked blankly at Leicester, who was sitting on a chair and talking to himself. Things he had never seen before were described as if he had seen them with his own eyes. Could it be that this big man wielding a big sword couldn't do it?
Is the elementalist still a prophet who predicts the future?
"Lord Leicester, you have been working with me and Lord Tours all this time. How do you know these things?"
After all, Edgar couldn't control his patient curiosity and asked.
"It's just an inference drawn from the environment. It's still unclear what the situation is and it cannot be taken to be true..."
Lester looked at the sky outside the window. It was afternoon. After the black fog receded, the world was no longer a strange and depressing black and green. The dazzling array of 'torture instruments' made Nascote Village look even more cruel.
"Edgar, go and see what books are missing from the library. Mr. Tours, please use the disc of light to confirm whether the black mist has completely receded. I will go back to Qian Jue Temple to have a look."
Watching Lester leave, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other, wondering what kind of medicine Lester's gourd was going to sell.
Coming out of the library is a bluestone corridor built under camphor trees. At the end of the corridor is the Qianjue Temple, which is not too big. It is said to be a temple, but in fact it is just a small temple. It is just that this small temple combines the library and practice.
The rooms are also included and become a palace.
The incense in the hall has been extinguished for a long time, but fortunately it has not been damaged. A sheep spirit mask made of quartzite jade is enshrined on the white marble platform. Qian Jue's long bow is also placed on the eucalyptus platform under the mask.
He picked it up and looked at it, and after confirming that the longbow was just an elm bow made of ordinary material, Lester put it back. Obviously, the role of the longbow was more symbolic, meaning that Qianjue could take away the soul and return to the underworld with absolute force.
Obviously, Ixtar is also the hunting territory of Qianjue. Speaking of his contact with Qianjue, he only uses Qianjue most of the time, and does not really understand what the death messengers who travel to and from the underworld do every day.
Re-lighting a few sticks of incense from the tinder pot on the eucalyptus table, Lester sat cross-legged on the futon, staring at the masked statue of Kindred without saying a word.
Looking through the fragrant smoke, Lester's complexion gradually softened.
"It has been almost four hundred years since the last time we met. I don't know how you are doing in the underworld or whether you have been bullied by Uzul. However, judging from what happened in Nascote Village, Uzul seems to have taken over.
You have the upper hand? Otherwise, you can invade the material realm at will, right?"
"Fortunately, those monsters have not tarnished this place. It seems that they have retained the most basic respect for you. Obviously you are also a respectable opponent in the eyes of the enemy."
After a pause, Leicester whispered again.
"You didn't come to me. It seems that Xiyue has not been reincarnated yet. I heard that the Mother of Masks marked many outstanding souls as a means to fight against Uzul. Has it been effective so far? Uzul is very scary.
He is an enemy who will never stop his journey until he achieves his goal, unless he is completely defeated. You must be careful and protect yourself when you are hostile to him.
You once said that before you became [Qian Jue], you were always alone. No one cared about you, no one loved you, and no one cared about you. After you put on the mask and became Qian Jue, you realized that only you can love in this world.
I also want you to know that besides yourself, there may be someone who will miss you from time to time, pray for you, and want you to be safe.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Xiaoyang, I look forward to the day when we meet again."
Standing up, Lester closed the door and exited the temple, leaving only the incense still burning quietly in the darkness and silence.
Lester, who had lost his power, didn't know that when he was missing Qian Jue, Qian Jue, who had sensed his call, was returning from the battlefield in the underworld, hiding behind the masked stone statue and silently listening to his confession.
"Lester...you seem to have changed, but you seem to have stayed the same..."
Holding the soul-capturing bow tightly, the sheep spirit muttered to himself and sighed, curling up his scarred body behind his statue. The sheep spirit looked a little tired.
This time, Mordekaiser fought on two fronts. While actively launching an attack with the Underworld Legion, he also arranged for his servants to use the Underworld Mist to invade the material realm and harvest a large number of souls. If Lester and the people of the Illuminati hadn't prevented this disaster,
, I am afraid that more souls will be taken captive to the underworld.
Although the ghost warriors and mask spirits of the Mother of Masks are not worthy of Mordekaiser's huge army of the underworld, as the maintainer of order in the soul realm and the material realm, the Mother of Masks is destined to be unable to transform souls through massive harvesting like Mordekaiser.
As one's own warriors, there are not many soul warriors suitable for battle, especially compared with Mordekaiser's thousands of elite troops [Undead Legion].
Still a mask spirit.
It is not easy to truly defeat Mordekaiser and destroy the army of the Lord of the Underworld.
Standing up, Qian Jue walked in the dark to the incense eucalyptus, held a few sticks of incense lit by Lester in his hands, and Yang Ling said softly.
"Continue to grow until the day you become truly strong, I will come to you again and join forces with you to fight against our enemies. Before that, I will protect myself, for me and for you...
Lester, I have always believed that the reason why you came to Runeterra is to prevent the disaster that is about to befall this world. Mother cannot save this world that is riddled with holes, and the foreign gods above will not care whether the world is destroyed. Only
You, Lester, you are the only one who can do it..."
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After pouring out his thoughts in Qianjue Temple, Lester's mood suddenly improved a lot.
"Lord Lester, I have seen it. Most of the books lost in the library are books on speculation, life and death, and philosophy compiled by Yunthal like you in recent years."
"I know, I did a good job."
With no place to stay, Lester and Edgar returned to the library and found Tours, who was looking sad.
"Sir Tours, what happened? Why do you look so sad?"
"Alas, our enemies are becoming more and more terrifying, while the Illuminati Sect is constantly declining. How can we pass on this responsibility and hope...
Mr. Leicester, I'm sorry, I lost my temper a little bit..."
After hearing Turs' words, Edgar, who was a little excited, also became quite depressed.
Although he followed the two men to expel the black mist and defeated so many terrible monsters, he could not find a reason to be happy at all. People who died in the disaster could never be resurrected, and the broken family could never be restored, let alone
According to Lester and Tours' analysis, these lost souls are likely to become their enemies in the future, turning into hateful butchers or foggy ghosts, as well as monster assassins and monster mages that they have never seen before.
These enemies are simply not a threat that they can deal with.
"Anyway, at least we tried hard. Without you, me, and Edgar, Gardner Village would not have been able to escape the erosion of the black mist. We saved more than 2,000 people in Gardner Village. This is
Good thing."
"...You are right, the current results are already very good."
Sitting opposite Turs, Lester leaned Aatrox against the table: "Instead of sighing here, Lord Turs, we should exchange information and our own ideas. Maybe we can find a way
Ways to fight against the Black Mist and Shadow Island monsters."
"Thank you, Lord Lester, your ideas are indeed much more useful than my sighing here."
After regaining his composure, Tours, who already regarded Lester as one of his own, spoke.
"Let me first talk about the current situation of our Illuminati Sect,
There are currently fifty-three people in the sect, of whom twenty-seven are stationed in the Holy Stone Mine on Shadow Island all year round to maintain the Holy Light Barrier. Through the Holy Light Barrier, they resist the erosion of the Black Mist on Shadow Island and monitor the movements of the Black Mist.
Waiting for the opportunity, most of the other twenty-six people, including me, are on the road, and their activities cover the continent of Valoran, Shurima and the First Land... To be honest, compared with the vast world, we
The manpower can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.
Our duty is to use the light disk to determine where the black mist may appear. After the black mist appears, try to use holy stone weapons and light disks to disperse the black mist and repel the monsters. At the same time, we find suitable companions to increase the reserve power of the Light Sect.
,
This time I happened to discover the breath of black mist on the Amaranxin Coast, so I came here along the sea channel of the Amalanxin Coast. I met Edgar who happened to be attacked by a monster, and then met Mr. Lester.
, I thought this was an ordinary black mist invasion, but I didn’t expect such a terrifying monster hidden in the black mist.
The hateful butcher who was supposed to appear on Shadow Island instead appeared in Nascote Village. Without the help of Mr. Lester, I am afraid that both Edgar and I would die here this time..."
The atmosphere of the conversation between the three people was very heavy. Both Edgar and Turs were very enthusiastic about this adventure. The Hateful Butcher after the mutation was no match for him, let alone hiding it.
The assassin who didn't show up and the mage Lester deduced was behind the scenes.
In Tours' self-report, Lester caught the key point.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You mean, you have a Holy Light Barrier on Shadow Island to resist the black mist? Didn't the monsters living on Shadow Island attack you?"
"It's not what Lord Lester imagined. Our location is in an underground mine. The Hylia sealing circle can allow us to avoid the prying eyes of the evil creatures on Shadow Island. Even if we want to leave Shadow Island, we have to go through the mine.
If you leave the remote coast together, you won't be discovered by those monsters.
It's not that the monsters in Shadow Island don't attack us, they just can't find the location of the sect. In fact, there has always been a seductive skeleton living in Hylia Prison who is looking for the true location of the sect and wants to kill us all.
"
"The soul-enchanting skeleton...is it a guy with three twisted bone horns on his head who likes to carry a soul lamp and a hook sickle?"
Frowning, Lester tried to briefly describe the appearance of Thresh in the game, but Turs was shocked when he heard this.
"Does it mean that Mr. Lester knows about the soul-enchanting skeleton on Shadow Island?"
Lester's face was unusually gloomy.
"It's not that I know him well. I just heard some stories about that skeleton by chance. That guy is definitely not an easy character to deal with. If you are not 100% sure, I suggest you not to attack that skeleton.
If the magic circle that seals the tyrant's skull fails, then the seductive skeleton must have contacted the tyrant in the underworld through the skull. Maybe the skeleton is easy to deal with, but the tyrant is definitely not an enemy we can fight now. We can't even tell him.
Our true name in the underworld, otherwise the tyrant may sense our location."
"Yeah, how can we be his opponent..."
"If we want to fight against him and against the gradually expanding black mist of Shadow Island, we can only use an organized army. Only the army can fight against the army, and only the country can fight against the country. It is very difficult for the Illuminati Sect to continue its inheritance with its current strength alone.
, there is no way it can work.”
"Then what should we do? We are trapped in the Shadow Island and cannot contact many living people. We can't play a big role just by relying on dozens of sect members traveling to other continents. Judging from the stupidity of those in power,
Even if we don't consider the issue of confidentiality, they won't believe us if we reveal all the information about the Light Sect and Shadow Island, and they will just sneer at it. It's really difficult to strengthen the sect's power."
"Lord Tours, how much of your holy stone reserve do you still have? How many holy stone weapons can you make? What exactly is the holy stone? Why does it have a restraining effect on monsters in the black mist?"
Facing Lester, who suddenly became serious and had an aura of being in power, Tours straightened his back subconsciously, and only looked at Lester in surprise when he came back to his senses.
"I would like to ask Mr. Ste not to tell anyone about the next words. As for Edgar, since you have agreed to join the Illuminati Sect, there is no need to hide this secret."
"Please rest assured that I will never spread the secret information about the Illuminati Sect."
After getting Lester's promise, Tours spoke.
"Holy stones are actually underground rocks that have been alienated by the spring of life. In the long history of Fuguang Island, the endless spring of life has penetrated deep into the earth's veins, forming many large holy stone veins. Although there are several holy stone veins
It has been contaminated by the corrupt spring water, but the remaining holy stones are enough to make weapons. According to the speculation of Saint Blacksmith Adam, if all the remaining holy stones are mined, it will be enough to arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
In fact, in the weapons secret warehouse of the Holy Stone Mine, Holy Blacksmith Adam has been constantly forging Holy Stone weapons, just so that after his death one day, the Illuminati can directly produce enough weapons to fight against evil.
Adam's ancestor is the Furnace family of Freljord. He is the most skilled blacksmith in the Illuminati Religion. Unfortunately, he is already quite old and has not found a suitable successor until now...
Mr. Lester, the only thing that has restrained the Illuminati Sect has been its population, and weapons have never been a problem."
Having said this, Turs found Lester laughing silently and couldn't help but ask.
"Do you think you have a way to solve this problem?"
"If we talk about the relationship with today's major forces, I think I can still speak. Demacia on the west coast of Valoran and the Rakkor people under Targon on Shurima are not sure. In Ixu
I should be able to find a lot of people from Tar and Noxus, but we still need to discuss carefully how to cooperate.
It is unrealistic for dozens of people from your Light Sect to command tens of thousands of people, and the situation on Shadow Island is destined to not be suitable for stationing too many people.
Therefore, we should establish a new organization that is independent of the Illuminati Sect. As the leader and founder of the new organization, I will coordinate the relationship between the Illuminati Sect and the major forces, so that we can mass-produce warriors who master holy stone weapons, and also
It can bring more people into contact with the Light Sect, give your sect the opportunity to expand, and better compete with the Black Mist...
