LOL: The dark goddess covets me!

Chapter 66 The Guardian of Time

This is a tower similar to an old-fashioned bell tower. It is about tens of meters high. Although it is not as tall as the Shuoguang Tower, its width and footprint are far from comparable to the core tower of Hailiya.

It is built out of countless carefully polished marble bricks as a whole, with exquisite carvings on the outside, like the pattern of time passing and cycle, and it gives people a sense of tranquility and far-reaching comfort.

Not only that, but many parts of the tower show the exquisite traces of the clockwork mechanism, a few dark green moss dotted the exterior, and the whole body shows the slight traces of the years, making the whole tower full of an indescribable sense of age.

【This is impossible! ] Lunicia blurted out, her tone full of disbelief, 【In the gap between time, how could there be an Icacia building? ! 】

"There is nothing impossible or impossible." Josh's long-silent mood suddenly fluctuated, "This world is full of miracles, miracles from magic, aren't they?"

With that said, Josh slowly approached the main entrance at the bottom of the tower.

Before he stretched out his hand to push it away, as if he had known their arrival in advance, he only heard the sound of gears and chains running, and the heavy double stone door with a width of several meters and a height in front of him slowly opened with novel patterns.

And an old man dressed in a traditional brown-red and gray-and-white robe, with gray facial hair, was standing a few steps away from the main entrance.

He was thin, with a beard that was longer than his hair hanging down in front of him, and a pair of eyes covered by thick and long white eyebrows revealed emerald light.

The golden time disk in the style of ancient Shurima floated behind the old man, held up by the elemental magic of the breath of time, emitting an emerald green light that matched the color of his eyes.

Josh recognized at a glance that the old man in front of him was Kieran.

He is the great guardian of Icacia's time. He devoted his whole life to studying time and exploring countless parallel world lines, just to prevent the end of Icacia's destruction and the future that Runeterra must be destroyed.

"I knew you would come." Kieran whispered slowly, his voice was low, and there was a kind of desolation in the sunset, "Come in, Josh Russell."

He saluted with Icacia's etiquette, making a gesture of invitation.

[This guy actually knows you? ! 】Lunicia shouted in astonishment, 【Don't go in!Could this be time magic creating... er, time undead? 】

But Josh didn't pay attention to Lunicia's reminder, and went directly into the tower, standing about four or five steps away from Kieran.

The rumbling door closed behind him, and Josh faced Kieran squarely, imitating his action just now, and returning the greeting with Icacia etiquette.

"Master Zilan." Josh said in Icathian, his tone implying excitement.

He hadn't communicated with anyone other than Lunicia for too long.

"You don't need to be too polite, just call me Kieran." Kieran sighed, not surprised that Josh knew him at all, "Josh, can I call you by your name directly?"

"Of course, Master Zilan."

"Well, you can call me Kieran too." Kieran beckoned, turned and walked inside the tower, "Come with me."

He's not alone inside Zilean's tower.

Unfortunately, Zilean wanted to escape from the capital at that time, but Icacia's ruling council of elders had blindly and stupidly released the void.

The ground cracked, and the tentacles of void corruption and evil protruded from the ground, devouring most of the city-state and tens of thousands of innocent people almost instantly.

And some desperate but very lucky people poured into his tower under the guidance of Kieran.

When the gathering life attracted the attention of the Void Monster, and its corrupted maw intended to devour the tower, Zilean did what he could not have done—

He removed his tower from the timeline.

Together with him, except for Zilan, those Icathians who have fallen into a frozen time.

At this very moment, these refugees were filling the huge hall, men, women and children.

Their horrified eyes stared at the windows of the tower, as if they had seen something indescribably terrifying, and they subconsciously took actions to protect themselves.

[Icacia... Icacia! ] Seeing this scene, Lunisia immediately accumulated countless grief and anger.

As Josh had expected, Lunisia roared out of control:

[Damn Icacia!Damn scum!A bunch of stupid beasts and maggots!I want to kill them, chop them into pieces one by one, feed them to pigs and dogs, death is not a pity! ! 】

"Shut up, my lord goddess!" Josh felt his head was about to be blown by Lunicia's roar, "We made an appointment at the beginning, don't shout in my head Shout!"

Lunicia stabbed Josh's arm with magic, and even her voice trembled: [Josh, kill them, kill all these Icacia maggots!You know, they almost dragged this world into the abyss...]

Josh endured the pain he was used to, and frowned, "That is the decision made by the elders in charge of Icacia, what does it have to do with innocent civilians?"

【Heh...】 Lunicia sneered disdainfully, 【Do you know why Icacia betrayed Shurima? 】

Josh was silent for a moment, "Because Icacia has a large number of talents, but Shurima didn't give them a place to ascend, and always suppressed them cruelly?"

[Yes. 】Lunicia did not deny Josh's statement at all, 【The Shurima Empire is ambitious, and the goal of conquering is the whole world, but...】

She suddenly changed the subject and raised her voice: [We have always been kind to the kingdoms and city-states that merged into the empire, and treated every citizen of Shurima equally, and never hesitated to ascend the quota, as long as the Sun Priests approve it. 】

[Josh Russell, do you ever know why we treat so many city-states with courtesy, but we just target one Icacia? 】

Josh fell silent again.

This point, Rao knew the background, he really didn't know about it.

Because in the backstory of Zilean and Jax, the people of Icathia have completely opposite attitudes towards Shurima.

The previous Josh didn't expect this situation, and he didn't read the relevant records of Hailiya, so he didn't know the reality of the situation.

However, the actual situation cannot be completely substituted into the known text descriptions. What kind of grievances and grievances there are between Shurima and Icacia has to be told by Lunisia, who has experienced it.

Of course, it was a hostile position after all, and it was impossible for Josh to only listen to her side of the story.

[Once upon a time, the mage king of Icacia rejected our proposal to persuade us to surrender. Our army of ascenders entered the capital of Icacia and killed the mage king. The Koali guards who escorted them also committed suicide. 】

[I admit that the Queen of the Sun of that generation was indeed more violent and acted inappropriately. She ordered the bones of the Mage King beloved by the Icacias to be nailed to the city wall and left to rot, while those Koalis exposed their dead bodies on the streets, No one is allowed to collect the corpse. 】

[But even after hundreds of years, those long-lived sand trolls still harbor hatred for Shurima, and continue this hatred to every generation of their children and grandchildren! 】

【Even after accepting Shurima's favor, these damned maggots who buried the root of the rebellion in their bones didn't say a word about it, they still refused to agree with our culture, and even repeatedly insulted the royal blood and the Ascension Group! 】

Lunisia laughed angrily, 【The contempt for the suzerain country has reached an undisguised level, but they still shamelessly applied to the City of the Sun for an ascension quota, and were rejected by us, but they resented us even more. 】

【They treat us as fools, thinking that we don't know the despicable betrayal in their hearts...】

【If it were you, Josh, what would you do? 】

Kieran seemed to have noticed the fluctuation of the corrupt magic behind him, and said without turning his head: "It seems that the darkborn on your body should hate us very much, right?"

Walking up the stairs to the second floor where the hall can be seen almost in full view, Kieran found an open place and stopped, leaning on the railing and looking down.

Kieran's tightly furrowed brows revealed deep sadness, and the tiredness and burnout in his eyes were beyond the reach of those who had only lived one lifetime.

Subconsciously, in Josh's mind, Ryze, who has been running around the world for thousands of years in order to collect and seal world runes, has never stopped.

The silent Josh walked up to Kieran, stood side by side with him, and looked down at the people imprisoned by time.

"These are the refugees I saved in despair. I've been looking for a way to unfreeze them in time...Forget it, don't worry about it."

Kieran blows his beard and shakes his head, "That darkborn, should be called... Lunisia, right? The holder of the Dance of Death, and the goddess of death who studied under Grand Maester Nasus, if I remember correctly."

【Oh, it's really rare that this maggot still knows me. ] Lunisia’s words were full of teasing, 【In order to know ourselves and our enemies to seek rebellion, did you secretly study every god warrior in our Ascension Group? 】

Kieran couldn't hear Lunicia's cynicism, but from Josh's slightly furrowed brows, he could still guess a little of what was going on at the age of ten years beyond the expected lifespan of a normal person.

"She should have told you why Icacia betrayed Shurima?"

Kieran sighed, his whole body suddenly showed a feeling of loneliness and decadence.

"She's right, the Icathians do hate Shurima in their bones, it's the propaganda of their parents, and the sand trolls who have survived since the conquest of Icathia to this day Even the original me made mistakes.”

Kieran was silent for a moment, then continued to signal Josh to follow him, and walked deep into the corridor, while saying:
"This is a very complicated grievance. It involves family and country hatred. It is indeed reasonable to remember the last mage king loved by everyone, but when he hates Shurima, he publicly insults the emperor and the Ascended, violates the law, and is ruled by the Empire Repression is also justifiable.

"But a group of sand trolls united with radical civilians, portrayed these disobedients who were publicly executed by the empire as victims of oppression, and further promoted the sentiment of hatred, and even intended to apply for a promotion quota to gain resistance to Shuri. Mar's power..."

Kieran sighed again, and looked back at the amber vertical eyes of the dance of death tied to the sling on Josh's chest.

"But...Lunicia, not every Icacia is a radical."

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Because of the background descriptions of Kieran and Jax, there is a conflict with the setting of the Icathians, and everything is based on the setting of this book.

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