Legends of Runeterra

"Leen... Isolde she... she..."

“I’m sorry Gwen, the number of resentful souls accumulated over the past thousand years is really too much, and I’m not sure if Isolde can handle it.

but..."

Li En said this and sensed it carefully again.

"But what?"

"Although the Blade of the Ruined King has been damaged by me, Viego is still the source of the curse of ruin. If he can maintain a certain belief under the bite and torture of the resentful spirits and not completely collapse in the torture, then the two of them may be able to survive."

"Leon, are you saying that as long as Viego can hold on, Isolde can survive!?"

"Well, that's probably what it means."

Facing Gwen's heterochromatic eyes full of hope, Li En nodded seriously.

"Li En, that Viego..."

"Don't worry, Lucian. Even if Viego survives, he will probably be too weak to withstand your Holy Flame Bullet. He won't be able to cause any trouble."

"Well, okay, I understand."

Although Lucian just nodded calmly, everyone, including him, breathed a sigh of relief.

They had witnessed part of the previous battle with their own eyes. With the power possessed by the Ruined King, if it were not for the help of Li En and the god Nagakabouros, even if each of them had ten times more, they would still not be a match for Viego and his undead lords.

"Mr. Li En, thank you very much for personally dealing with Viego. If it weren't for you, I might not have seen this curse broken until the day I turned into a dead tree!"

"Lord Li En, thank you for allowing everyone on Shadow Island to rest in peace!"

"Boom~!"

Maokai moved his body and bowed to Li En together with Yorick.

"You are too polite, Mr. Maokai and Mr. Yorick. If you are not in a hurry, please wait here for a while.

After the curse is completely resolved, I would like to ask you two for advice on how to restore the Blessed Islands to their former appearance."

"Of course... no problem, thank you very much, Mr. Li En!"

"Swish, swish, swish~!"

Yorick was so excited that he stuttered a little. Due to his huge size, Maokai, who was standing farther away, also nodded and shook the treetops.

Everyone rested there, waiting silently to see whether Viego would be torn to pieces by the vengeful spirits or bear the sin with his broken body.

...

"Ouch~~!"

Endless and terrible nightmares tormented Viego, and even though the resentful spirits were left with only instinct, they still bit his body mercilessly.

"Carissa!!!"

"ENDOK!!!"

"Thorne!!!"

Viego transformed himself into one resentful soul after another, and personally experienced the most painful memories that they could not forget even after death.

“Crack! Crack!”

The body is disintegrating, the soul is sinking, and the sanity that belongs to Viego is gradually fading into nothingness amidst the painful memories that come violently.

In the dark space with dots of faint green light flashing, countless large and small, broken lenses are floating in it.

Viego's extremely illusory soul was floating in it.

Suddenly, Viego opened his eyes.

"No... No... I... I'm not... They..."

"me..."

He opened his eyes blankly, but when Viego's gaze subconsciously fell on the lenses, the images reflected in each lens were all different.

Men, women, old and young, all kinds of different faces appeared in the lenses; sadness, anger, hatred, fear...all kinds of emotions poured into Viego's heart.

At the same time, countless chaotic, broken and painful memories flooded into Viego's mind.

“Ugh…Aaaaaaah!!!”

An inhuman wail of pain was heard.

One minute, one hour, one day, ten days...

I don’t know how long it took, but in this space there was only a dim shadow left.

"Hehehe~! Carissa, Endok, Thorn...

Hehehe~! One, two, three, four..."

The dim shadow lost all reaction, and like a puppet, it responded simply and numbly to the malice gushing out of the lens.

"Buddha..."

"Buddha..."

"Viego..."

A gentle and ethereal voice sounded faintly in this space, and the dim shadow twitched inexplicably.

"Viego...my husband...my king..."

"I...Is...Isold!!!"

"Isolde!!!"

"Shua~!"

Viego tried hard to open his eyes, but an unprecedented pain and weakness surged up, almost causing him to go black again.

"Om~!"

The blue light drove away the darkness and slightly relieved Viego's pain.

Enduring the excruciating pain of his soul being torn apart, Viego struggled to open his only remaining eye.

When the person in front of him came into view, the face that had once been crazy, cruel and tyrannical now showed only endless tenderness.

"Isuld...

Is it really you? Am I dreaming? "

"It's... it's me, Viego, I'm sorry, it's all..."

"No! That's not the case!"

Viego wanted to raise his hand to touch his lover's face, but he found that his right arm had completely disintegrated and disappeared from the elbow.

"Viego~!"

Whispering her lover's name, Isolde leaned over and gently pressed her face against his arm.

Gazing into the eyes of his lover who was so close to him, at this moment, Viego finally saw the sadness and heartbreak in Isolde's eyes that were difficult to conceal and could not be erased.

"Isold... I'm sorry, sorry, sorry..."

Tears streamed down Viego's face as he kept saying "I'm sorry".

The mad king who turned love into obsession finally realized his sin at this moment.

"It turns out... my love is the greatest sin!"

"Viego~!"

Isolde used her remaining left hand to gently hold up her lover's broken face.

"Love is never a sin!"

"Isolde..."

...

"Wow~!"

The curse, which was a kilometer in diameter and as thick as "black mud", suddenly became agitated.

"Shua~!"

Gwen, who had been watching intently, stood up suddenly.

"Leen!"

“Well, I saw Gwen.

Everyone, wait here. Now it is my turn to put an end to this 'Curse of Ruin' that has plagued the world for thousands of years!"

Facing everyone's gaze, Li En's figure suddenly disappeared from their sight.

“Hula~!”

Li En was at the top of the "black mud", with the corners of his clothes swaying in the wind.

Looking down at the restless curse beneath his feet, Li En slowly raised his hand.

"Buzz~~!"

A strange mark emitting a bright white light suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Ouch~~!"

The long and excited wolf howls echoed throughout the entire island.