LOL: The dark goddess covets me!

Chapter 124 World Runes
"I've told you before, it's definitely not wise to put world runes in the Forbidden Stone Forest."

Ahri didn't stop, and walked past Ryze to the depths of the stone forest.

[World runes are the origin of the arcane magic in Runeterra. Scholars in Shurima have also put forward arguments, saying that the ecological environment of this planet is created by world runes, but it has not been verified. 】

[The magic storage stone forest, which is a tiny place, you actually think it can absorb the magical energy comparable to the world... Pfft——I don't know how to describe this stupid behavior anymore. 】

Lunicia sneered and teased.

Josh frowned, but didn't answer.

In the short term, Blessed Light Island is ruined and can store world runes to ensure that its aura will not be discovered. Forbidden Stone Forest is the best choice.

But in the long run, because the real attribute of the Forbidden Stone Forest is not "forbidden magic", but "stores magic power".

If the World Rune is compared to a fully automatic blower, then the Forbidden Stone Forest is a balloon that is continuously blown up, and one day it will explode due to the constantly expanding air.

It can be seen from the fossilized stone forest that Ryze said that the power of the world runes of the resolute system has begun to recover.

"World runes have the ability to confuse people's hearts and erode human nature. If we don't seal them here, where can we store them?" Ruiz asked rhetorically.

"That's why I reminded you many times that we need to use the power of world runes to recover Blessed Island and then transfer it."

"People who are eager for power can't be trusted!" Ruiz said coldly, "How is your thinking different from the group of Blessed Island mages whose hearts and souls were eroded hundreds of years ago?!"

"Heh, it's not that I haven't come into contact with world runes! Our 1000-year friendship, you don't even trust your companions?!"

Ari turned back and glanced coldly at Ryze, "Don't think I forgot, you seem to have given a world rune shard to your Freljord friend for use, and it's been 30 years For many years."

"You sent someone to follow and monitor me?!"

"Please, although we don't have a sanctuary in the Freljord, do we have good relations with the Avarosa tribe? A small tribe with a population of dozens can repel trolls, do you think the Freljord Is there no rumor in Germany?"

Being choked by Ahri, Ryze immediately lacked confidence: "Yagu promised me...he will move his family out of the troll's territory!"

"Oh? Really? Then why are there still rumors of human mages repelling the invasion of trolls alone in the troll territory at the end of winter this year?"

Hearing that Ahri and Ryze started arguing again, Josh's head grew dizzy.

Fortunately, Ryze was speechless for a while, fell silent, and stopped arguing, otherwise Josh would have to mediate between the two.

The rest of the journey was spent in silence.

It was not until the group of three arrived at a ruined wall that seemed to have been built under the guidance of Ryze and Ahri that they resumed communication.

"We're here." Ahri glanced at Josh and Ryze, "The hall where the world runes are sealed is underground, and there is no passage here... So, which one of you two will come?"

"Let me come, Josh doesn't know what's going on below."

Ryze beckoned the two of them to get closer to him, the hot arcane surged in his blood, and as his eyes suddenly flashed with blue-purple light, runes of different styles emerged on his skin.

The turbulent magic rolled up the fallen leaves, and a circle of light that quickly changed from white to blue-purple appeared under the feet of the three of them.

Although a considerable part of the released magical energy is absorbed by the surrounding forbidden magic stone trees, under the control of Ryze, even with such strong restrictions, he can still perform the taboos in rune magic.

In an instant, the environment in front of him suddenly changed.

In less than a heartbeat, the three of them came to their senses again, and they were already in a closed underground space without a sky.

A hall standing on the edge of the cliff is entirely made of pure forbidden magic stone trees. The starting point of the three people is connected by a dangerous sky bridge. If you look aside, you will see a bottomless black abyss.

Seven or eight huge stone pillars stand here, exuding a faint silver light, which is the only lighting in this small but extremely spacious place.

Staring at those stone pillars, Ryze's eyes showed a trace of tiredness, and he took a deep breath of the cold underground air that was not warmed by sunlight all year round.

Ari's fox ears twitched slightly, as if touching a long-ago memory, and after a moment's absence, she took the initiative to walk to the front.

The platform with hollow stone pillars in the center has no complicated decorations, only the "trunk" that spirals upwards like branches penetrates the rock at the top, like the roots of stone trees sticking out of the ground.

As the three of them stepped onto the central platform, as if they sensed the approach of a source of magic power, four of the stone pillars lit up in different colors of orange, black, red, blue-purple, and gray-green.

These four colors correspond to the four world rune systems: precision, mastery, witchcraft and determination.

Among them, the flashing blue light is the most abundant, followed by green and yellow, and the red is the darkest, not at all brighter than other stone pillars.

The styles of these world runes are basically the same as those in Josh's long-lost memory picture. The only regret is that they are not in complete form, and each has its incompleteness.

Josh could clearly see that the world runes of the witchcraft department are the most complete at present, with irregular "stones" forming a rhombus shape guided by a cloud of blue light in the center.

Although there are still many places missing, compared to the other several world runes, it is considered complete.

In addition to the witchcraft system, the resolute system that looks like a stone tablet, the handle and a raised ring, and the precision system that is completely symmetrical in shape all have many gaps.

Needless to say, the domination system, which only has two symmetrical spikes, is missing a large main part.

Josh could even feel that the two runes of Transcendence and Perseverance that he carried in his satchel were being attracted by the almost complete cornerstone runes, and there was a faint feeling of breaking through the magic box on his own, and each flew to his own place.

【what?Isn't the world rune here not sealed at all? 】Lunicia couldn't help questioning, 【Don't tell me, just put these extremely dangerous magic items that are enough to threaten the entire world in the center of the magic stone, so it is considered as sealing them? 】

"The function of the forbidden magic stone is not to seal the world rune, but to prevent its breath from leaking out."

There was no need for Ahri or Ryze to answer, Josh knew the answer to Lunicia's question himself.

"Just like in Hylia, even though Thresh Prison is buried deep in the ground, and there are many dangerous auras in the middle, you can still feel the source of life.

"But if it was changed to the time when we hadn't come down just now, there was a forbidden magic stone tree to cover up its breath, wouldn't you feel the breath of the world rune?"

【Cut, I just didn't feel it seriously. ] Lunisia said stubbornly, [The little apprentices can sense the breath of world runes from the forbidden magic stone tree, do you think I can't? 】

"Cut, bragging." Josh replied in the same tone as Lunicia, "If you could feel it, you would have said it from the beginning."

Almost at the same time, Ryze said: "Not long after the Curse of Ruin happened, this world was involved in the crisis of Rune Wars."

His voice was old and deep, with a hint of hoarseness like grief.

"This war lasted for nearly 300 years, and less than 700 years have passed.

"For so many years, except for the world runes whose coordinates were determined by you at the beginning, I have only found so many through scrolls."

Ari then added: "The sorcery department has basically been collected, the only thing missing is your transcendence, precision and determination department's cornerstone runes are here, only a few fragments are left.

"The Dominion Department is still missing a whole cornerstone rune. As for the last vacancy..."

Ari looked at Ryze and raised his eyebrows, "I remember that the scholars of Helia mentioned its name, 'Enlightenment'? But so far, we haven't found any related world runes."

Josh couldn't help but recall the scene when he observed the timeline in the cracks of time. After the Noxus-Ionia war broke out in the main world, the cornerstone runes of the Enlightenment Department were transferred by the astral wandering god Bard.

Second, there is the scene where future Ezreal explores future Ionia and finds another cornerstone through the Path of Enlightenment.

The location of these two runes is the most clear, basically in the same location in each timeline.

One of the paths of enlightenment in the mountains of Presidio, the holy city of Navoli in Ionia, belongs to the "Unsealed Books".

The other one is in Lalin Province. It is currently guarded by the local astral wandering believers as a sacred object, and it is called the "Almighty Stone".

The runes of the Enlightenment system have the rarest fragments, but just like its role of "distorting the rules".

Even through the timeline observation, Josh can only determine the location of the two cornerstone runes.

As for other enlightenment runes, in different timelines, their positions are unpredictable, and they may appear anywhere.

"It should be in Ionia, Navoli Province and Lalin Province, with two keystone runes."

As soon as Josh opened his mouth, Ahri and Ruiz cast surprised looks.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I observed it in the crack of time."

"That's right... Let me tell you, how do you even know this?" Ruiz raised his eyebrows, "Are those two runes safe? What about the other enlightenment runes?"

"I can only determine the coordinates of these two." Josh said, "One of them is very safe, hidden in the spiritual realm, and almost no one can touch it... The other one, I think it's a bit hanging."

"Is it because of Noxus?" Ahri guessed what Josh was thinking.

"That's right." Josh nodded, "If Noxus really wants to invade Ionia, a god from the heavens will transfer that keystone rune, and no one will know what it hides. The location."

Due to its own uniqueness and the butterfly effect brought about, the world Josh lives in has been stripped from the timeline of the main world, extending a brand new branch of time that is obscured by the shadow of time in the future.

The current timeline has changed drastically, and Josh killed Vladimir, one of the founders of the Black Rose Society, and Elise, a core member, on Shadow Island.

He is also not sure whether the current Noxus will invade Ionia.

If not, Bard's follower will not die, and he will not transfer Enlightenment Omnipotence Stone.

"As for the other enlightenment runes, I'm not sure." Josh continued.

"It seems that we have to move faster."

Ryze, who was still hesitant at first, completely shook off his distracting thoughts, walked straight to the stone pillar that was shining with green light, and took out the resolute runes floating in the hollow stone pillar, which were about the size of two palms and very inconspicuous in shape. .

Among them, the source of life is connected by pure astral magic, and even though it is not in contact with other fragments, it is still attracted to the central cornerstone like a strong magnet.

"It's best not to bring out the whole world rune." Ruiz said very seriously, "The power of a single cornerstone is far beyond your imagination, let alone the complete cornerstone, plus several fragments."

"I understand." Josh reached out and took the Resolute Rune from the reluctant Ryze.

The moment he first came into contact with him, Lunisia couldn't help but gasped and exclaimed: 【—Hiss!Endless magic power!This piece of world rune is enough to influence the Darkborn war back then! 】

"You mean, is it stronger than the Ascender?"

【Are you talking nonsense?We claim to be gods, but this is the power of the world!Even those primordial demigods incarnated in the spiritual realm, who can compete with the whole world? 】

As Lunisia said, the figure of Marvel Thanos appeared in Josh's mind.

Although the world runes are most likely far from possessing the ability of the six infinite gems to affect the entire universe, but if the complete five series of world runes are collected, Josh can't imagine what kind of wonderful magical reactions they can produce.

At least, on the premise that there is no resistance from the gods and the human body can withstand it, the energy of a complete world rune is enough to easily destroy the entire world.

"Josh, are you okay?" Seeing that Josh looked a little dull after taking the world rune, Ryze asked hurriedly.

Even Ahri showed a little nervousness, even though Josh said that he would not be affected by world runes.

Josh's thoughts were brought back to reality by Ryze, "Sorry, I was distracted."

"Be careful, this is not a joke," Ryze warned.

Josh's eyes focused on the palm of his hand, he held his breath, and at the same time urged his own arcane energy that had been assimilated by the transcendence.

Lunicia said in his mind: "Are you really planning to separate this stone?"I feel a little suspended...]

As soon as her words fell, with the sound of "click" as if the rock was smashed by a pickaxe, Josh easily separated the piece with the strange green symbol, which represented the source of life.

[Uh... pretend I didn't say it. 】

"Isn't this very easy?" Ahri glanced at Ryze, and said speechlessly, "Why do you tell me that this is more difficult than collecting them?"

"I'm just saying that, to separate the world runes is to touch its original power. I have already sworn that I will not use them."

Ruiz said without blushing.

But as far as his purple skin was affected by the world rune, he couldn't see blushing or embarrassment.

"What's more, Josh is my senior brother, and his talent is much better than mine."

"I'm sorry for what you said." Josh humbly admitted, "I only had the honor of a good mentor of an Ascendant to achieve such an achievement."

[You still have a little conscience. ] Lunicia was very helpful to Josh's words.

"Okay, okay, you brothers, stop complimenting each other."

Ari said with a little distaste, waved his hand, turned around and walked towards the periphery of the forbidden magic stone pillar.

"Take the fountain of life and wait until tomorrow, when we should set off for Shadow Island."

(End of this chapter)