The Glory of Noxus

Lucian looked meaningfully at Huo Jixing, who was always smiling, with a complicated look in his eyes.

In the previous battle, he had been secretly observing this guy's strength.

He originally thought that although Huo Jixing was extraordinary in skill, he might be in dire straits facing the legendary Shadow of War Hecarim.

But the reality was beyond his imagination.

Huojixing not only went head-to-head with Hecarim, but also showed no signs of falling behind.

This shocked Lucian. It can be said that Huo Jixing is one of the most powerful humans he has encountered since he embarked on the road of revenge.

Later, Lucian couldn't help but recall his recent experience in the reef waters of Slaughter Pier.

When he was dealing with the dark energy left by Pike, he realized that there was a supernatural being hiding in the dark.

It's very similar to Huo Jixing's current aura.

Only he can avoid his own keen sense.

"May good luck follow you. I have other things to do, so I won't be with you."

Lucian took back the sacred pistol he took out and prepared to step into the black mist again.

"Wait a minute, Black Mist is very unsafe now, come with us."

Miss Fortune made a plea to stay, her eyes falling on the two relic pistols on Lucian's waist.

Curiosity and inquiry arose within her.

Because she had never seen a similar weapon on her mother's workbench, but it had the power to repel the black mist.

"No need, I do still have things to do." Lucian shook his head slightly and subconsciously refused.

He seems to have forgotten how to get along with others and has long been accustomed to being alone.

"There is a ghost waiting for me in the black fog, Soullock Warden Thresh. I want to send him to death."

Thinking of Thresh who had just left, the corners of Lucian's eyes wrinkled slightly.

Miss Fortune's eyes narrowed, recognizing the expression on Lucian's face.

That was the expression she had been wearing since her mother's death.

"He killed the person you missed, right?"

Lucian nodded slowly without saying a word, his eyes falling on the silver jewelry box hanging around his neck.

And his silence spoke more clearly than any words.

Seeing this, Miss Fortune looked at Gangplank beside her and resisted the urge to draw her gun and shoot.

"If you were on your own, I can guarantee you wouldn't survive tonight."

Huo Jixing walked slowly to Lucian, looked into the rippling sad eyes, and pointed at the undulating black mist.

"You just saw that there is not only Thresh in the black mist, but also Hecarim."

"Even some ancient beings on the Shadow Island may join in this soul-eating night carnival."

Lucian's eyes lowered slightly, his expression hesitant.

"Let's go together and find a safe place with Miss Fortune first."

Huo Jixing noticed Lucian's mood changes and struck while the iron was hot.

"They will definitely launch a final attack before the Soul Eating Night ends."

"At that time, it will be a real life and death crisis that we need to face."

The reason why Huo Jixing retained Lucian was for his own consideration.

Just as he said, two terrifying entities, Soullock Warden Thresh and Shadow of War Hecarim, have appeared in this Soul-eating Night.

And with the strength Hecarim showed just now.

If a similar being comes to Bilgewater in the second half of the night of Soul Haunting, he may really have to stay in the black mist.

"Well, I'm with you."

After Lu Xian pondered for a while, he nodded slowly to Huo Jixing.

Perhaps with his help, Senna can be rescued from Thresh.

Miss Fortune's expression changed and she looked at Huo Jixing, waiting for a reply.

Among all the people present, Huo Jixing was the most powerful.

At the same time, he maintains a good relationship with Feder and Sock and can win them over to his side.

"Please wait a moment."

Huo Jixing looked slightly apologetic and called Miss Fortune and Raven.

"I have some friends on the way."

As soon as Huo Jixing finished speaking, there were rapid footsteps from the far end of Pirate Street.

It's Drizzt and Graves.

They led Yosip and the soldiers of the Reser garrison over quickly, adding some strength to the temporary team.

The two groups of people met together and quickly introduced themselves and got to know each other.

People from the Noxus Empire!

When Gangplank heard Josip's words and saw his appraising eyes, his heart sank.

He would never forget his plunder of the Noxian Imperial fleet.

There is also the existence of Huo Jixing.

Gangplank's movements became cautious, hoping to reach the temple of the Bearded Lady quickly and see Illaoi.

Immediately, everyone followed Miss Fortune and Raven to the Butcher's Bridge.

Although the team was vaguely divided into three different camps as they moved forward, at this moment they were closely united because of the arrival of Soul Eating Night.

Under the dark night, the red-gold brilliance drove back the surging black mist.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Graves approached Huojixing, looked at Fedel and Sok who were following closely, couldn't help his curiosity, and asked.

His eyes wandered between Sarah and Gangplank, full of gossip.

"Who would have thought that Miss Fortune Sarah and Bandit King Gangplank would be on the same team and be fine with each other?"

As a person who experienced the Tide of Fire, Graves remembered it very clearly.

In the bloody operation to depose Gangplank, Miss Fortune Sarah really wanted to kill Gangplank.

Although the two of them looked a little embarrassed now, they worked together and walked in the black fog.

"In the face of life and death, personal grudges can be temporarily put aside."

Huo Jixing thought of the blood feud between Sarah and Gangplank, and had to admire Sarah.

But he was not a generous person, and would not forget Gangplank's looting of the Noxus Empire's ships.

"What does fate indicate now?"

Huo Jixing's eyes fell on Drizzt, and saw that the cards in his hand kept dancing.

"Fate. Twisted."

Drizzt's face was gloomy, and he answered in a concentrated voice.

"All I see is black fog."

Huo Jixing left the tavern in the lower city partly because of Drizzt.

Between cutting and shuffling the cards, he saw part of the direction of fate and smelled the deadly danger that was about to come.

Then, under the leadership of Drizzt, everyone followed the direction guided by fate and came to this luxurious dock in the upper city.

Huo Jixing noticed the abnormal energy fluctuations near the dock from a distance.

In the black fog with steel waves, he saw Thok and Fidell.

He didn't worry about Thok before because he had a backup plan for Thok.

And Thok's mother, Aretha, was a believer of Nagakabouros and should be protected by Nagakabouros.

But they didn't expect to meet the Shadow of War, Hecarim, and the Soul Warden, Thresh.

Finally, before death came, Huo Jixing took action in time, confronted Hecarim, and saved Miss Fortune, Thok and others.

"Black Fog. Soul-Erosion Night"

Hearing Drizzt's words, Huo Jixing looked at the endless black fog in front of him, and a layer of haze covered his heart.

Fate has been completely twisted!

Even if Drizzt used the power of fate, he couldn't see the way forward clearly.

Above Bilgewater.

The black fog was slowly surging, and between each rise and fall, a faint green flame could be seen.

The resentful laugh was like a rusty blade scraping on a grindstone, echoing between the buildings.

On the dome of the dilapidated building, rows of Stygian surveillance owls gathered together, cawing and screaming, hoping to have another full meal in the second half of the night.

In the deep alleys near the street, some faint lights can be seen occasionally, like ghosts that deceive people in the swamp.

"Don't look at them."

Lucian walked in front of the team and noticed the red eyes of the Stygian surveillance owls looking at him, and spoke in a serious voice.

"They are rotten birds on the Shadow Island, and they like cold corpses and lonely souls."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately avoided the red eyes of the Stygian surveillance owls and walked slowly forward.

Huo Jixing didn't care at all. His red-gold eyes met the Stygian surveillance owls, which frightened these black birds similar to crows and flew away.

Sok heard the sound of wings flapping, and noticed the Stygian surveillance owls leaving in a hurry from the corner of his eyes. He was surprised at Huo Jixing's strength again.

Or rather, his surprise has never stopped since the two met.

Even though he had some expectations of Huo Jixing's strength.

But the strength shown by Huo Jixing far exceeded Sok's imagination.

And because of Huo Jixing's protection, he was in the center of the team.

The team moved forward slowly and finally reached the Butcher's Bridge.

Along the way, Huo Jixing, Lucian and others guarded the team, and the number of people did not decrease much.

Miss Fortune walked quickly to the end of the bridge, looked back at the almost invisible upper city, and the subordinates who followed, and sighed.

In fact, if they just wanted to live a stable life on the Soul-Eating Night, they could hide in a house with closed doors and windows, or hide behind strange reliefs, holding the amulet of the Bearded Lady and all the things that bless peace of mind and pray wantonly.

But this Soul-Eating Night is different.

The way that was safer in the past is no longer feasible.

They saw countless broken houses along the way.

The window panes were shattered, and the door was hanging precariously on the leather rope, leaving behind a cold body that was bitten.

Miss Fortune stared ahead, trying not to notice the cold corpses' hateful eyes and the remaining fear.

When they passed a house, they saw only the cold bodies of the whole family.

The cozy cottage has now become an ossuary.

"The Black Mist will be punished," Gangplank said in a low voice, his eyes gloomy.

This is his city.

After this Soul-haunting Night, I don't know how many people survived.

Miss Fortune turned to look at Gangplank. The previous Soul-haunting Nights had been safely passed under his leadership.

Only this time, because he was deposed, the Soul-haunting Night became complicated.

She looked at these submissive dead and felt inexplicably angry.

Just like her mother.

But what's the point of saying this now? In the final analysis, their strength is too weak.

"You can't wear the crown unless the king dies, little girl."

Gangplank noticed the dark light in Miss Fortune's eyes and grinned.

"Crown? Your crown has already fallen to the bottom of the sea." Miss Fortune did not tolerate Gangplank at all, and said sarcastically.

"You are just a poor captain now."

"Haha!"

Gangplank did not care about what Miss Fortune Sarah said, grinned, and walked forward.

Huo Jixing heard the two people's mocking words and shook his head slightly.

These two former and current rulers of Bilgewater rarely cooperated because of a black fog.

Crossing the Butcher's Bridge, a long queue slowly moved forward, and the red-gold flames purified a safe area.

Huo Jixing looked at the cliff opposite the bridge, and the outline of a building caught his attention.

The building sits in a crater-shaped pit on the cliff, looking as if a giant sea beast has chewed a chunk off the top of the mountain.

Like most houses in Bilgewater, the materials used in the construction were sourced from the ocean.

The walls are made of boards drifted from distant continents, and the window frames are made of sunken ship wood salvaged from the seabed.

There is no straight line from top to bottom in the whole building, which looks very strange.

Those weird arcs make it seem to be in motion all the time, as if one day it will uproot itself and run to another place to settle.

The curved spire stretches into the air, like a narwhal's tusks.

There is a spiral sign at the top, surrounded by a circle of light. The black mist recedes to one side wherever it shines, and people dare not step forward.

"Where is that place?" Huo Jixing asked.

"The temple of the Bearded Lady, the palace of Nagakapoulos." Suok replied.

"This is also what Miss Fortune calls a safe place."

"It's safe?"

"Better than staying outside." Suoke said without thinking.

Drizzt walked over slowly, looked at Nagakapoulos' palace, pulled out three cards of different colors, and opened them directly.

"Destiny gives guidance, it's relatively safe here."

Huo Jixing nodded and followed Miss Fortune, walking along the ancient road.

The road is flat, and there are fences woven with wire ropes on both sides, like waves pushing forward.

Huo Jixing stopped in front of the fence and saw the cold underground river rushing forward.

Looking along the river, he saw that most of Bilgewater had been completely submerged in the black fog, and several docks that were usually bustling were no longer alive.

Tentacles of mist seeped into the heart of the city, and Bilgewater was suffocating.

Screams came intermittently, and every sound meant the end of a life, and also meant that there was a new member in the army of the dead in the black fog.

"Perhaps if we come again a few more times, Bilgewater will all be lost to the black mist." Drizzt sighed softly.

As a river wanderer, he had visited Bilgewater in his youth.

This port city is unlike other places.

Everywhere his tribe went, the local people only cared about the exotic goods they brought.

But they stay away from them because of their special living customs.

So wherever they moored, their colorful sailboats received only a very brief courtesy.

The elders always shrugged helplessly and said that this is the way of the world.

Only Bilgewater is different, accepting visitors from all directions, as well as river nomads.

It turns out Drizzt screwed everything up.

He stayed alone in Bilgewater, and under the guidance of fate, he met Graves.

"Sarah, take everyone there immediately!"

Huo Jixing seemed to have noticed something, turned around, looked at the surging black fog, and spoke in a deep voice.

Lucian also drew out the sacred pistol from his waist at about the same time and turned to look at the black mist.