The Glory of Noxus

Boom!

The deep purple thundercloud roared like thousands of horned dragons, firmly suppressing the billowing black mist.

Following the movements of the war masons, a huge and complex rune array slowly took shape conforming to the wall of the well.

The appearance of the rune array is round, like a stone disk, with a diameter of nearly twenty meters.

The material is a mixture of black stone from [Noxtra] and special metals, which also gives the rune circle the stability and durability.

Many small runes are engraved on the concave edge.

These runes are arranged in an orderly manner, shining like swimming seaweed, outlining a mottled halo, bridging the space passage.

Overall, the design of the rune array is exquisite and complex, as eye-catching as a work of art.

And Hecarim, who was waiting silently in the black mist, seemed to feel that the space passage was gradually shrinking, and heard the wail coming from the black mist.

He couldn't help it any longer, and the broad-bladed halberd in his hand lit up with a green will-o'-the-wisp, like a beacon in the underworld, reflecting the faces of the surrounding Iron Regiment members.

The dark mist rose one after another, and Hecarim led the Iron Legion to take advantage of the momentum, rushing towards the land where thunder was raging like a torrent of steel.

At the same time, the black mist conveyed hazy will and orders, driving the slaves to take action.

There is only one goal, destroy the rune circle that is being completed.

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

The sound of iron hoofs that resounded through the sky struck the space passage, and the sharp blades glowing with green will-o'-the-wisps reflected the faces of skeletons wearing armor.

Under the protection of the black mist of the Shadow Island, the Dread Knights of the Iron Order were fearless and entered a state of charge against the thunderstorm.

"War is eternal!"

Hecarim roared loudly, and the broad-bladed halberd in his hand slashed through the air, leaving traces of faint green and chopping up the falling thunder and lightning.

Using him as an arrow, the iron ball rushed into the thunder storm like an arrow off the string.

Their brave figures shuttled through the thunder in the sky, crushing the violent thunder into countless tiny arcs of electricity.

Even if the Dread Knights were seriously injured, as long as they did not fall immediately under the thunder, the gloomy black mist would heal them instantly.

Just a moment.

Hecarim and his Iron Legion were already approaching the exit of the space passage, and could see the rune array outside at close range.

The war masons also saw the ghostly scene in front of them, but they remained unmoved and continued to complete the rune array in an orderly manner according to their own rhythm.

within the space channel.

Huo Jixing ignored the black mist around him and laughed softly when he saw Hecarim and the Iron Legion entering the trap he had set.

He reached out and touched the spiritual wind in front of him, blowing the cloud patterns on the surface of the sword blade.

Buzz!

The spiritual wind seemed to be alive, feeling Huo Jixing's will, and whistled softly, directly into the thunderclouds in the sky.

Then, Huo Jixing's expression straightened and he looked at Hecarim, who was wielding a broad-bladed halberd.

Put your index and middle fingers together, aim at the target and the group of iron behind you, and let out a light drink.

"Destroy!"

All of a sudden!

The thundercloud storm in the space channel was instantly awakened and surged wildly.

Many thunder and lightning have their own blade forms, turning into deep purple sword light and falling from the sky.

Within the scope of this thunderstorm, Hecarim, who was charging, was the first to notice the changing thunder and lightning, and realized something was wrong.

But before he could react, those thunderous sword lights arrived in an instant, covering the torrent of steel like a heavy rain.

The green ghost fire was directly annihilated when it was in front of the brilliant Tianwei.

Along with the solid armor and strong body, it was also directly broken into pieces.

Then the skeletal war horses stepped down, and together they were annihilated in the light of the thunder sword.

Even if the black mist surges in, trying to stop the raging thunder sword light and trying to heal the Dread Knight's injuries, it will be of no avail.

They were in the center of the thunder storm, and the falling thunder sword light was like a pouring torrent washing the steel torrent.

Facing the seal of the rune circle, Hecarim and the Iron Legion had no choice.

The gloomy black mist drove them into the trap set by Huo Jixing.

Then, thunderous sword light raging all over the sky came, and the Iron Group instantly suffered heavy casualties.

These fear knights who followed Hecarim to trample the living fell in droves and remained in the thunderstorm forever.

【Rampage】!

Hecarim watched helplessly as the Dread Knight under his command fell, his expression furious.

He waved the broad-bladed halberd boldly, and the green will-o'-the-wisp made a whimpering sound, shattering the thunderous sword light falling around him.

Immediately afterwards, he looked coldly at Huo Jixing, who was driving the thunder, and at the rune array, with his four hooves tapping the ground quickly.

"I am above death!"

[Destructive Charge]!

Hecarim roared, holding the broad-bladed halberd upside down, his hideous body facing the thunderous sword light, and moved forward quickly, leaving behind a trail of shadows.

"die!"

He rushed to Huo Jixing, his right arm seemed to be holding a mountain, and he slowly swung the broad-bladed halberd in his hand and slashed at the target.

It looks very slow, but it looks like a green meteor streaking across the sky.

Sonorous!

Huo Jixing stretched out his sword fingers and resisted the falling broad-bladed halberd with unusual ease.

The green ghost fire that followed the broad blade quickly collapsed under the power of thunder.

"Hecarim, your power is still there!"

Huo Jixing looked at Hecarim, who was wearing a demon helmet, and shook his head slightly.

Compared with Bilgewater, Hecarim's power has increased, but it still remains in the realm of legend.

And he is in a state of breaking through the boundaries of legend.

"Go!"

Huo Jixing's eyes were slightly cold, and a purple sword light burst out from his sword finger. He instantly flicked the broad-bladed halberd and shot it towards Hecarim's body.

Click!

The seemingly slender purple sword light hit Hecarim accurately, easily shattering the dark green armor he was wearing, revealing the bones inside.

Unable to withstand the power of the thunder, Hecarim continued to retreat and reunited with the approaching Iron Legion.

He looked down at the broken armor and the electric light swimming on the skeletal body, and his soul trembled slightly.

It's just that he no longer has the right to choose.

Hecarim used the shadow power in his body to erase the light of the lightning sword, and looked back at his subordinates who had followed him for thousands of years. A look of struggle disappeared in his eyes.

They are slaves of the black mist, attached to the Shadow Island, and will inhabit this nightmarish land forever.

"Shadow is coming!"

[Shadow Impact]!

Hecarim commanded his Iron Legion and charged towards the Horde.

Boom!

In an instant, the billowing black mist merged into the bodies of Hecarim and the members of the Iron Legion, and the sound of iron hooves trampling faintly overwhelmed the thunder in the sky.

Hecarim, holding a broad-bladed halberd, took the lead and charged towards Huojixing again.

The Dread Knights behind him were like ghosts, following Hecarim closely, as if they were one with each other.

"It's still the same!"

Huo Jixing looked at the very familiar scene in front of him and shrugged his shoulders.

He remained motionless, silently looking at Hecarim and the Iron Legion rushing over.

As he approached, terrifying shadow shockwaves shot out from Hecarim's broad-bladed halberd.

It seemed that he wanted to smash Huo Jixing and the rune circle behind him into pieces.

Seeing this, Huo Jixing let out a breath. The West Pole White Tiger behind him lowered his eyes, and the aura of war fell from his platinum pupils.

"break!"

The sword finger rose, and the power of Xiji Gengjin instantly covered the area in front of him.

Whether it was Hecarim with his front hooves raised and wielding a broad-bladed halberd, or the Dread Knight with a cold expression.

Under the wash of the fighting spirit, weapons and armors scattered like gravel.

Then the exposed bones and the black mist hidden in the body melted.

The space passage trembles, and the black mist wails.

The originally raging black mist, like waves at ebbing tide, quickly retreated to the edge of Shadow Island, leaving a large blank space.

Huo Jixing stared at Hecarim, who was slowly dissipating in the aura of war, and noticed his malicious eyes.

"Do you remember me?"

He didn't care. With a thought, the aura of war overwhelmed Hecarim's last persistence and took away all life in the space channel.

Just like it used to be in Bilgewater.

The Dread Knights who followed Hecarim were experiencing complete death.

It was not only their bodies that perished, but also their imprisoned souls.

"Um?"

Huo Jixing's eyes flickered, as if he noticed something, and looked into the space passage.

In the white-gold aura of war, he could faintly see hazy figures, cheering for joy.

"Is it the soul of the Dread Knight?"

This was a scene he had never seen before in Bilgewater.

"Xuanwu Star!"

Huo Jixing whispered softly, realizing the key point.

Immediately, he saw these hazy souls bowing to thank him, and then they performed ancient military salutes to the black mist in the Shadow Island.

Hecarim, who was supposed to die, re-condensed his body in the black mist of the Shadow Isles, a ghostly hybrid of man and beast.

He raised his eyes and looked at the space passage, and could feel that the auras of the fearful knights under his command had completely disappeared.

I don't know why, but a hazy joy suddenly surged deep in his heart.

Although it disappeared in an instant, it gave Hecarim a little more humanity.

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

Iron hooves beat on the ground, Hecarim wandered on the forbidden shores of the Shadow Isles, and the black mist slowly crawled behind him.

New Dread Knights are being born, following in Hecarim's footsteps and marching around the passages of space.

This time, they no longer entered the space channel rashly, but looked at Huo Jixing and the almost completed rune array.

Time passes slowly.

With the efforts of the war masons, the formation of the rune array is gradually coming to an end.

"Lord Huo Jixing, we have reached the last step, you can come out."

Hearing the voice of the war mason, Huo Jixing looked behind him, noticed the huge and exquisite rune array, and nodded slightly.

He looked at the thundercloud storm covering the space passage, his eyes fell on the spiritual wind swimming inside, and he stretched out his hand.

The spirit wind leaped lightly and came to Huo Jixing with thunderous sword light.

Sonorous!

The spiritual wind is sheathed, and the thunder is extinguished.

Before Huo Jixing left, he took a deep look at the dark mist outside the space passage and sensed that there was a lot of terrifying aura lingering nearby.

Perhaps due to the shock caused by repelling Hecarim and the Iron Legion, Black Mist did not see any movement in the following time.

"I hope I can truly seal this space access." He thought to himself.

Huo Jixing left the space channel and returned to the soul shaft.

The war masons immediately stepped forward to perform the final installation of the rune array.

The core of the rune array in front of him is a complex magic array, consisting of nearly ten small rune arrays.

These small rune arrays are connected to each other in a subtle way in the hands of the war stonemason, forming a huge and complex network.

When the array enters the activated state, these small rune arrays flash rapidly, and many magical energies surge, slowly driving the rune array.

Waiting, Swain stepped forward at the right time, reached out to touch the array, and injected the power of the [Reverence Fragment] embedded in his body into the rune array.

Boom!

The majestic magic fluctuations suddenly appeared, sweeping across the soul shaft, causing the wall to tremble.

In the eyes of Huo Jixing and others, the rune array gradually stabilized after the initial shaking.

Finally, a hazy and illusory energy field was gathered to cover the space channel and block the black fog of Shadow Island.

"Is it done?"

Huo Jixing stared at the complicated rune array in front of him, with a strange glow in his eyes.

When he was in the space channel, he could not see the shock brought by the rune array.

Now, looking at the rune array flashing with magical light, he felt the foundation of the Noxus Empire for the first time.

"Well, it's almost done." Darius said side by side.

"But later, His Majesty Swain will need to fill the rune array with the power of world runes every once in a while."

Huo Jixing looked at Swain who left the rune array and nodded gently.

Now that the time bomb buried under the capital has been dealt with, the next step is to clean up the rose that pierced the blood of the empire.

Deep in the dark island.

The top of the lifeless hill.

The shovel man looked at the space channel that appeared on the forbidden coast and whispered softly, with a hint of expectation and curiosity in his eyes.

"A place outside the Shadow Isles?"

"Maybe I can ask them for help?"

He did not act immediately, but looked at Hecarim who was wandering on the forbidden coast and refused to leave.

The shovel man recalled the thunderstorms that filled the space channel, and realized that the place connected to the other side was very complicated.

He had dealt with Hecarim before, and knew how difficult and tyrannical this guy was.

He liked to trample on the souls of the living, and spread the curse of the black fog along the coastline to expand the territory of Shadow Island.

"But the space channel seems to have been sealed by the other side."

The shovel man looked down at the glass bottle around his neck, sighed lightly, and decided to temporarily put aside his curiosity about the outside world.

When he was in despair, the glass bottle seemed to be a beacon in the darkness, giving him a glimmer of hope.

In order to save the dead of Shadow Island, the shovel man has been using his advantages and strength.

He is active in Shadow Island, freeing the souls of the dead one by one.

He even had to use the curse to end the curse.

His self-contradictory approach filled his heart with struggle and pain.

Even so, the shovel man still felt powerless in the face of the black fog and curse of Shadow Island.

"Hmm?"

At this moment, the shovel man's expression changed, and he turned his head to look at the core area of ​​the island with a serious look in his eyes.