The Glory of Noxus

Move forward a little bit in time.

Lux drove Spark to leave the town of Forsbarrow, crossed the business road, and moved quickly through the dark forest.

The scattered trees and shrubs disappeared on both sides like a horse watching a lantern.

Lux leaned over the horse's back, and the golden cane in her hand shone with pure white light.

Warm and blazing light illuminates the rugged road ahead.

But in the current bad environment.

Even if there is light to guide the way, it is still very dangerous to run through the dark forest with Starfire's fast pace.

The nightmare brought about by the thick black mist is like a tidal wave, coming endlessly, just like the demon army faced by Galen and Huo Jixing.

The endless source of nightmares is human imagination.

Fear of death, fear of weakness, or fear of losing a loved one quickly becomes the stuff of nightmares.

Ta-ta! Ta-ta! Ta-ta!

Starfire's pace became more rapid, and Lux ​​poured her refraction power into Starfire's body.

This white horse vaguely transformed into a unicorn from a mythical story, with its mane dotted with white light and its extraordinary eyesight that allowed it to overcome all obstacles.

Lux and Starfire ran through the endless black mist, and finally came to a familiar intersection.

This time she did not choose to go west or east, but without hesitation stepped on the northbound path covered with ferns——

The road to the grave of great-grandfather Fossian!

The white light flashed, and the spark that received Lux's magic power moved extremely steadily.

But after entering the trail, the terrain of the mountain road begins to become steeper.

There are rocks everywhere, bushes and grass can be seen everywhere, and occasionally weird whistling sounds can be heard.

As Lux goes deeper, we get closer and closer to Fosian's Tomb.

The surrounding environment slowly changed. The dry trees were covered with black tree oil, and the twisted branches were extremely ugly, as if they had grown into the shape of a demon.

As Lux moved forward, she could feel them tugging on her hair and cloak.

"These things."

Lux's eyes were solemn. The tree trunks in her field of vision were like bloody mouths of sharp teeth, and poisonous spiders weaved dense webs on their highest branches.

At the same time, the grass-covered land became soft and muddy, like a stagnant swamp.

Lux and Starfire came to the entrance of a clearing surrounded by shadows and wanted to continue moving forward.

But Xinghuo seemed to notice something and shook his head back, refusing to move forward. He sniffed in fear and his strong body trembled.

"Relax." Lux stroked Starfire's mane soothingly.

"Great-grandfather Fossian's tomb is right in front, just a few steps further."

But this time, no matter how Lux comforted her, Starfire was unwilling to take another step forward.

Even under the wave of nightmares, his limbs were crossed on the ground and his head was buried in the grass.

"Okay." Lux looked helpless when she saw this, and she understood why Starfire was afraid.

As a last resort, Lux slid off the horse, clutched the golden cane, and walked towards the shadowy clearing in the cemetery.

On the top of the cane, the white light shines brighter and brighter, like a lighthouse in the waves and storms, but the surroundings are too dark, and the white light can only barely see a foot away.

The grave of Forthian Crownguard is a hill covered with weeds.

Under the thick black mist, the grass has long been dyed black, and streams of different black smoke like demon warriors are hovering over the cemetery.

It seems that if the time is right, it will invade the world where mortals live.

Lux ignored the black smoke in the sky and saw a somewhat decayed and mottled stone slab on the road in front of the cemetery, which recorded the heroic deeds of her great-grandfather Fosian.

The time imprinted on it is completely unclear, but some small characters below can be distinguished.

Forsian Crownguard used a Demacian steel sword to pierce the demon's black heart and slew the demon in the wild forest of Forsbarrow.

But it wasn't the stone slab that caught Lux's attention.

But the boy sitting on the stone slab.

A little boy, no more than twelve or thirteen years old, sitting on the stone slab with his legs crossed.

His withered and thin body was swinging back and forth like a willow, and the black smoke pouring out of the cemetery was wrapped around his neck like a branch.

"Luka?"

Lux spoke softly, her tone hesitant.

She had seen a portrait of Judge Giselle's missing child, which looked very similar to the boy in front of her.

Hearing Lux's voice, the boy's swaying body suddenly stopped, and his dim eyes looked at Lux.

In an instant!

Lux seemed to see an ancient evil coming to the world, and her body trembled involuntarily.

The boy's completely dark eyes reflected Lux's flawless face, and then he grinned a cruel smile.

"Not anymore!"

'Luka' looked at Lux who was waiting in front of him and laughed softly.

His voice sounded a little hoarse, not at all like a teenager's.

"uh-huh!"

Lux endured the demon's pressure and groaned, her flawless face turning pale.

Although her heart was urging her to leave the smoky cemetery, Lux walked towards the boy.

Within her field of vision, she saw darkness rippling outward from Luca's eyes, and the nightmare inside was waiting to be nourished by human weakness, ready to break out.

Lux's heart sank, and she felt a pair of cold and cunning dark eyes with the power of refraction. He is looking at himself, looking for nutrients.

Looking at Lux walking over, Luka nodded slightly and stood up from the stone.

Countless whispering shadows gathered over the cemetery, demons and fears hid at the edge of vision, slowly surrounding Lux.

"You are full of nightmares." Luca seemed to have seen through Lux's mind and smelled delicious food.

"I need to peel off your head and scoop them out carefully."

"Luca, this is not you." Lux's tone was solemn.

"Not me?. Then who am I?"

Luca walked towards Lux step by step, and the lingering black smoke turned into clouds and mist, surrounding him.

"The demon of the cemetery!" Lux said with a fixed gaze.

"I don't think it died with Fosian, not like people think."

"Haha! Haha!"

A hoarse laugh sounded, Luca stopped with his belly in his hands, his mouth wide open, the skin at the corner of his mouth was broken, and two black bloodstains flowed down his chin.

"Not dead at all." Luca whispered.

"I'm just sleeping, healing, recovering, preparing"

"Preparing for what?" Lux couldn't help it and forced himself to take a step forward.

The boy tilted his head, smacked his lips, and pointed his finger contemptuously. Then Lux stopped and could no longer take the next step.

"Slow down, slow down!"

He said, while bending down and taking out the black blade with a strange luster from the black mist.

"I smell delicious food, let me peel off an interesting nightmare first!"

"Luca!" The diffuse black mist oppressed Lux ​​and prevented her from moving forward, but she could still speak.

"You must resist it, I know you can do it."

"You have magic in your body, you can defeat the demon in your body like Fosian!"

The thing attached to the boy's body laughed, and the grass around him withered and decayed in the laughter.

"His tears are like sweet springs in the desert."

'Luca' lowered his eyes and circled around Lux, as if looking for a suitable place to open the skull.

"The sweet spring awakened me and nourished me. I have been sleeping for too long, and even forgot how sweet the suffering of mortals is."

"I made him sleep, and there are already many mature fears in his dreams that can immediately become entities."

'Luka' seemed to be unable to resist his inner desires. The black blade in his hand brought a strong wind and blew Lux's long golden hair.

"His magic power is insignificant. Compared with his embers, your flesh and blood are like a blazing furnace, illuminating the darkness."

"Although he does not have much practical convenience, the fear of a child is already a hospitality for me who is hungry."

"Demacia is his fear, and it is your fear."

Lux felt that her refraction power was defeated in front of this creature.

The darkness in the cemetery suppressed her light to only a few sparks.

But even if it was a little spark, she did not want to give up, because a spark can eventually start a prairie fire.

Lux tightly grasped the golden cane and bent her fingers hard, and the tingling sensation spread to her mind.

She gritted her teeth and used the pain to ignite the sparks in her body, isolating it from her fear and letting the flames slowly return to her body.

"Luka, please." She said word by word with difficulty.

"You must resist, don't be used by it."

"Haha!" Luka laughed again. "He can't hear you, and even if he does, what's the use?"

"Mage, you should understand this feeling better than anyone else."

"In Demacia, magic is what everyone hates the most."

"No, magic will not be the most hated thing!" Lux seemed to recall the nightmares of the past days and nights.

She called up the boiling refraction power in her body, waved the golden cane, and greeted Luka.

'Luka's eyes were surprised, and he felt the boiling of magic power, and subconsciously dodged, but he was still slow.

The golden cane rubbed his face.

Boom!

The white light radiated, like a flame, burning away the black mist condensed around.

A burst of light burst out from the sky above the cemetery, breaking through the layers of black fog.

The existence in Luca's body made waves of angry sounds, and its corrosive power on this body was shaking.

The white-hot light surrounded it, and then melted the demonic power.

Lux raised her golden cane, and the darkness retreated in front of her. The blazing light dispelled most of the shadows in the cemetery.

But there were still residual demonic power and black fog, surging.

"Now, no one can help you!"

'Luca' endured the purification brought by the power of light and stared at Lux in front of him. The remaining demonic power attacked her raised hands, trying to cut off the connection between her and the light.

Clang!

The red-gold flames, like lightning, came from far to near, slashing the demonic power that pounced on Lux.

Huo Jixing put away his wings of dancing in the sky, and his body fell from top to bottom.

[Suzaku·Random Dance]!

The red fire blade stirred the black mist, and the blazing flames were like scattered snowflakes, swaying and falling, burning the remaining demonic power and black mist in the cemetery.

"The timing is just right!"

Huo Jixing listened to the essence of the prompt in his ear, and his eyes fell on Lux and the weak boy in front of her.

The two seemed to be in a stalemate, with light and darkness on each side.

[Suzaku·Red Eyes and Fire Pupils]!

In the red vision, Huo Jixing saw the surging black clouds rising, intending to cover the sky.

"Is this guy's power really a demon?"

"Quickly, kill all the remaining demonic power in the cemetery." When Lux saw Huo Jixing's arrival, a look of eagerness appeared on her pale face.

"Its strength hasn't fully returned yet, and we can defeat it."

Hearing this, Huo Jixing looked at the many demon warriors transformed into black mist in the cemetery, held his long knife upside down, and walked over.

No wonder these demon warriors can be regarded as the essence. They turn out to be extensions of the demon's power.

In the continent of Valoran, in addition to the stars and gods, there are also demons.

No one knows the origin of the demon.

But their power is unquestionable and can rival the stars and gods. It is natural magic.

Huo Jixing licked his lips and was just about to kill these demon warriors when he saw the power of refraction lingering around Lux's body from the corner of his eye, and he looked slightly hesitant.

"Do you really want to help Lux now?"

To be honest, the intersection between him and Lux ​​only lasted one day.

It was more the influence of his past life memories that made him naturally fond of Lux and Galen, otherwise he would not have accepted Lux's recruitment.

Huo Jixing looked at the shriveled and thin boy again, and happened to meet those dark eyes that seemed like a calm lake, reflecting his figure.

"Get away!"

Huo Jixing raised his eyebrows lightly, sensing a strange force, ignoring Nanli's fire, intending to invade the depths of his soul.

"Nightmare, nightmare path?"

"Is it really an eternal nightmare? Or is it the remaining demonic power after the nightmare rages?"

Huo Jixing thought quickly in his mind, and when he saw the strange power approaching, he activated [Star Spirit Suzaku Stance] decisively and went all out.

Demonic power, even if it is incomplete, cannot be treated with ordinary extraordinary concepts.

Sonorous!

A high-pitched cry sounded.

The red-gold Suzaku phantom appeared behind him, his eyes like flame gems lowered, facing the boy's dark eyes.

"ah!"

As they looked at each other, the sharp and hoarse sounds of pain echoed throughout the cemetery.

'Luka' staggered, covering his eyes with his hands engraved with black marks, and black blood stains flowed along his fingers.

"The power of the stars?!"

Before he had time to think, he noticed the light power in front of him and took the opportunity to gain the upper hand, washing his body like a pouring rain.

"Luka, wake up, you and I can expel the devil!"

Lux seized the opportunity in front of her and released the power of refraction in her body, suppressing the demonic power that enveloped Luka.

The pure white light became brighter and brighter, until finally, only the pure and empty endless light remained in the field of vision.

Dimly, Lux saw a little boy sitting on the ground hugging his knees tightly, his timid eyes full of childlike innocence and fear.

"Luka, come here!" Lux's eyes flashed and she stretched out her hands to the little boy.

"I can't go over, I'm scared, the nightmare is still there."

Luka shook his head and looked at the Crown Guard lady in front of him, as if he was afraid of something and did not dare to walk over.

"I know your difficulty. You are afraid of people knowing what you are capable of. Trust me."

"I have experienced this too. The power in your body is not evil or darkness, but light. I can help you control the light."

Lux tried her best to move forward and stretched out her hands, trying to hold Luka's hand.

"I!"

Luka hesitated, but he saw the power of light blooming like a flower, driving away the black mist around him.

Finally he moved forward and gently took Lux's hands.

Buzz! Buzz!

The moment the hand came into contact, Lux's power of refraction expanded again, becoming brighter than imagined.

Looking down from the sky, it looks like a white sun rising slowly, driving away all darkness.

Waiting for the light to dim, Lux held Luca's hand and saw the grave of her great-grandfather Fosian Crownguard in her memory.

Just like when I was a child, there are green grass, hills, stone cairns, and stone slabs, but there is no trace of the dark power.

The dark forest shrubs have returned to normal, and the canopy echoes with the calls of nocturnal birds.

The dark night sky appeared midnight blue, studded with stars.

"Is it gone?" Huo Jixing put away the blade and walked towards Lux and the boy who woke up.

The black mist and demon warriors surrounding the cemetery had completely disappeared under his killing force.

"Huhu, I feel like I'm leaving."

Lux gasped, a bitter taste emerging from her mouth, which was a sign that the dark power had dissipated.

"At least it's gone now. I don't think its remaining demonic power is enough for it to fully recover."

"So, it shouldn't be here anymore, that's the most important thing."

Lux's eyes fell on the long knife on Huo Ji's waist. In the confrontation just now, she noticed a cold killing intent.

It's to yourself!

Huo Jixing was surprised when he saw Lux looking over.

The power of refraction, such a keen perception?

"The chaos in the town of Forsbarrow has ended, and Galen and his fearless Vanguard soldiers are protecting the townspeople."

Huo Jixing turned around and walked away quickly.

Now that you have given up, don't continue to struggle.

And in this accident, although no rune items were obtained, the amount of essence was quite large.

Lux looked at Huo Jixing's leaving figure and wanted to say something, but didn't know how to say it.

"Miss Crownguard, can we go home?" Luka held Lux's left hand tightly and spoke softly.

"Yes." Lux looked down at the little boy, a bright smile on her face.

"We can go home now!"