Legends of Runeterra

Mei and Mu, who were tightly entangled by six shadow warriors, began to breathe faster and their movements became slower.

When he sensed that a certain little guy was getting closer and closer being driven by the shadow beast, a sneer appeared on Jie's face.

"Tattoo!"

Clear footsteps were heard.

"Father! Mother!"

Before anyone arrived, Akali shouted loudly to identify herself.

"Huh!?"

As soon as she stepped into the meditation room, Akali was slightly stunned by the strange scene.

However, when Akali saw that something was wrong with the ring, she quickly moved away from him.

Seeing the last character appear, Jie controlled the Shadow Warrior to stop the attack, but still separated Meimu and Akali.

The two of them got a chance to catch their breath, and while on guard, they looked at their daughter who suddenly appeared.

Mei Mu's sweaty face was filled with anger.

"Akali, why are you here? Didn't I tell you to stay in the hall and look after them?"

"The formation of the hall has been polluted, and a dark shadow beast has come in. I can't deal with it, so I can only lead it away!"

At this moment, Akali was not frightened by her mother's appearance, and explained the situation clearly in one breath.

After hearing the story, the two thought for a moment and subconsciously looked at the ring on the seat.

"Haha, yes, I did it!"

"Run away!"

"late!"

As soon as Jie raised his hand, a circle of hideous black spikes exploded under Akali's feet.

"Akali!!"

Mei and Mu cried out in surprise and tried to move forward but were stopped by the shadow warrior.

"I'm fine!"

Akali shouted back.

Although it avoided her body perfectly, the spikes that stopped at her vital points trapped her in place and made her dare not move at all.

"Don't worry, she'll be fine!"

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Facing Meimu's questioning, Jie slowly stood up and walked step by step between Akali and Meimu.

"It's simple. As the 'Fist of Shadow', you must submit to me!"

Jie waved his hand gently, and two shadow warriors walked out of the black fog, one holding a box and the other holding a dark, wriggling heart.

"Spirit Vein Box!"

"Yes, the sect's underground spiritual vein is sealed. In an emergency, only two sect leaders need to infuse spiritual power to open the 'Spiritual Vein Box' and use the token to unlock the seal!"

"The spiritual vein contains immeasurable attributeless spiritual power. Do you want to open the seal and use the spiritual power inside to spread the black fog to the entire Ionia!?"

"That's right. This way, Noxus won't have to worry about anything. I'm doing this for Ionia!"

Jie looked at Mei Mu, and a look of compassion appeared on his cold face.

"That's a lot of nonsense, Meimu, don't agree to her!"

Before Meimu could answer, Tano on the side shouted at Jie.

"Hehe, Tano, I just showed mercy, which made you have an inappropriate illusion, right?"

Jie moved, and his shadow and he appeared behind Tano in an instant.

"don't want!!"

"Pfft!"

As Meimu shouted, an arm wrapped in pitch-black spikes emerged from Tano's chest unhindered.

"Tano!!"

"Father!!!"

The mother and daughter let out heart-wrenching cries.

"Uh! Ahem!"

Tano moved his mouth, blood choked in his throat, and he coughed weakly a few times.

After taking a lingering look at the two of them, Tano lowered his head weakly.

"Oh!"

The floor exploded, Meimu jumped up, and swung the sickle in his hand towards Jie.

However, just like before, Jie's body turned into black mist and dissipated.

Meimu caught the fallen Tano, took out the bottle of medicine from his arms, and poured it all into his mouth.

The secret medicine of the Order of the Balance barely kept Tano alive.

But without being able to treat the wound on his chest, it was only a matter of time before Tano lost his life.

"Meime, can you feel my determination now?"

Jie's figure appeared beside Akali and looked at Meimu with a smile.

"My patience is limited. Make your choice. Submit to me and I will let her go!

Otherwise, I hope you have another secret medicine!"

The cold voice awakened Meimu from her grief. While giving emergency treatment to Tano, she raised her head and stared at him with red eyes.

Looking at Akali who was surrounded by pitch-black spikes beside Ring.

Even though I know that Jie's words are not very credible, the pressure of making the choice myself is still enormous.

Between the responsibility of the 'Shadow Fist' and the life of his own daughter, Meimu fell into silence.

Akali suddenly found that she couldn't even move a finger and looked at the scene in despair.

From the brief confrontation just now, she could see the huge gap between her parents and Jie.

And Akali didn't believe in Jie's so-called promise at all.

The moment he achieves his goal, it will probably be the death of their whole family.

"Kennen! Shen! No matter who it is, please come and save my father!"

...

After speeding all the way, under Shen's guidance, Li En and his companions finally arrived at the Sect of Balance.

Looking down from the sky, the huge ancient building complex stretches among the mountains and forests, appearing quiet and harmonious under the clear sunshine.

"Your Excellency, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this, right?"

When Shen took a closer look, he found that the mountain gate was no different from before, and a sense of luck arose in his heart.

Li En grabbed Shen's shoulders and recovered from the exhaustion of the journey.

"Really? Then take another look!"

He waved his hand in front of Shen's eyes, and a thin layer of 'dragon power' remained in front of his eyes.

Through this layer of power, look carefully.

Endless black fog enveloped the mountain gate, and all kinds of negative auras emanated from the black fog, including weirdness, distortion, tyranny...

What is most surprising is that the place where the black fog is thickest is exactly the stargazing meditation room where Master Ku Shuo is.

After seeing this scene with his own eyes, Shen's hope of getting lucky completely disappeared.

Thinking of what Li En had said before, an unstoppable sadness welled up in my heart.

"this…"

"As you can see, this is the situation. It seems that Ku Shuo's inner demon has already taken action!"

"Sir, my father..."

"Shen, you know this better than me!"

Sensing that the 'power of the dragon' in his body had been mostly restored, Li En interrupted Shen's wild thoughts.

"I understand your feelings. You are not in good condition now. Why don't you stay outside the mountain gate and be ready to pick me up at any time!"

“No, Your Excellency, please take me with you! The sect is in such a mess now, and as a disciple of the sect, I should share life and death with you!”

"Okay, let's go then!"

Looking at the powerful black fog, Li En activated the "Power of the Dragon" at full power.

Suddenly, dark clouds gathered and pressed down towards the gate of the Sect of Balance from top to bottom.

"Boom~!"

Li En's whole body was flashing with lightning, instantly tearing a clear mark in the black fog.

Towards the source of the black fog, the Stargazing Meditation Room fell.