Legends of Runeterra

The moment when Qian Jue and Li En’s souls established a connection.

"Buzz~~!"

With the help of Li En's soul to share the pressure, the magic circle running in the sky shone brightly.

In an instant, it seemed as if a purple-white sun rose over the Shadow Isles.

The people who were originally looking up lowered their heads to avoid this dazzling scene.

"Wow~!"

The 'black mud' rolled and tumbled, struggling to resist, but it still melted in the purple-white light, just like spring snow encountering the sun.

...

In a world full of flying spiritual petals, Li En slowly opened his eyes.

"Is this... Kindred's soul space?"

Looking around the world, Li En lowered his head and looked into his arms.

A girl with long indigo hair, a petite figure, and a delicate face that exuded a bit of cuteness was leaning quietly in his arms.

If you ignore the slightly trembling eyelashes, the girl looks like she is asleep.

Looking at Qian Jue's little face quietly, a smile appeared on Li En's face.

Now the souls have linked the two, and each can clearly perceive the other's state.

Li En also understood that although Kindred seemed to be divided into 'lamb spirit' and 'wolf spirit', the two were just twins of the same body and essentially represented 'Kindred'.

Therefore, the 'Sheep Spirit' that seemed to be deliberately keeping a distance before was just using the identity of 'Wolf Spirit' to get closer to Li En.

Thinking back on the sharp contrast between the two behaviors, Li En found this "childish" behavior more and more funny.

It seemed that Li En's gaze was too scorching. The girl's long eyelashes trembled, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

When he met Li En's eyes, his indigo-purple eyes, which were the same color as his hair, moved slightly, and then Qian Jue suppressed the emotions surging in his heart.

Although he was instinctively reluctant, he still left Li En's arms.

"Thank...thank you Li En!"

"Haha~! Why are you being so polite? Didn't you already say we are friends?"

"Hmm~!"

A blush appeared on her pretty little face, and after Li En tactfully pointed it out, an indescribable feeling of shame spread in Qian Jue's heart.

Seeing this, Li En did not make things difficult for Qian Jue anymore because business was more important.

"Speaking of which, Qian Jue, is there anything else you need me to do now?"

"Without Li En, you just need to maintain the soul connection. Leave everything to me."

"Ok."

Li En nodded, then opened his arms and hugged Qian Jue again, closed his eyes, and let their foreheads touch lightly.

"Woo~!"

Qian Jue pursed her rosy lips, although she wanted to say that this was her spiritual world and there was no need to be as close to it as the outside world.

But I could feel Li En's incredible soul, which was as dazzling as a diamond with countless facets under the sunlight.

Qian Jue closed his eyes silently, and his pair of fair little hands gently and quietly embraced Li En.

...

outside world.

Under the shining purple-white light of the ancient magic circle, which was as dazzling as the sun, the "black mud" and the resentful souls that were almost cursed and assimilated were slowly purified and melted away.

Finally, only Viego, the source of the curse, was left, allowing the light to purify himself.

The dark green soul gradually turned into a pure white soul.

All that remained was the spider-web-like black lines on the chest of Viego's broken body, where the Blade of the Ruined King had pierced.

That is the source of the curse of ruin.

"Buzz~~!"

A purple-white light surged, and the figures of Li En and Qian Jue emerged from it.

The two stood side by side, Qian Jue stared at Viego, and the next moment, she stretched out her hand and a longbow formed by entangled green branches fell into her hand.

Then Qian Jue raised his hand and pulled, and the bowstring and arrow appeared quietly.

"Shua~!"

"Pfft~!"

As the arrow pierced through Viego's chest, the curse of ruin that had plagued him for thousands of years finally came to an end.

"Buzz~~!"

The souls of Viego and Isolde instantly turned into a pure and normal white color.

"Master Qian Jue, Li En, thank you!"

The two of them bowed to Li En and Qian Jue, then turned into two white light spots, intertwined and rose, flying towards the magic circle.

"Phew! Okay, now..."

"Om~!"

A very tiny spot of light suddenly split from the spot of light that Viego transformed into.

Looking at the light flying towards him, Li En reached out and caught it.

"Li En, there are still two Undead Lords that have not been dealt with. I'm counting on you!"

As the light spot merged into Li En's hand, the two people who still maintained their soul connection gained access to a strange vision.

...

The Secret Vault is a treasure house carefully built by the Helia Mage Council. It is composed of large and small, intricate real and fake treasure houses, and various mechanisms, traps and passages.

The treasury contains treasures they collected from all over the world from their founding to their destruction.

Even after the outbreak of the Curse of Ruin, this treasure house buried deep in the city of Helia still remains in operation.

In a secret room of the treasure house, a dusty, unremarkable black iron lantern was casually placed in a corner.

"Hoo~!"

A faint green flame suddenly lit up, and wisps of black mist leaked out from the lantern.

“Ding-dong~!”

With the sound of iron chains colliding, the Soul Chain Warden, Thresh, emerged from the black fog.

"Hecarim, you idiot! Fortunately, I left behind a small part of my soul and escaped early!"

After taunting Hecarim who was no longer able to hear, Thresh raised the dark green soul lamp with his thin, sharp hand.

"Well... the power has indeed declined a lot, but...

Finally, I am free from this annoying curse of ruin. Now, no one can control me!"

“Hehehehahahaha~!!!”

The sharp and piercing laughter echoed in the secret room for a long time.

When Thresh was still Erok, he had previously experimented with dripping "Water of Life" into dead rats, and then watching the rats' souls shatter in agony while screaming.

Thresh brought Viego to the Well of Ages. Out of curiosity, he did not backstab the other party for the time being. Instead, he watched him put Isolde's body into the "Water of Life".

The result was that the painful and mad Isolde killed Viego, and the Curse of Ruin broke out.

Although Thresh had enjoyed endless sadistic pleasures over the past millennia, he could never bear the fact that he was essentially enslaved by the Curse of Ruin.

Now, even though everything did not go as he expected, the final result was not much different.

It's just that he lost some power. Now that he is free, Thresh only needs to keep reaping souls and he will recover quickly.

"Next, let's leave this island."

With hope for a 'bright' future, Thresh, the former warden of the Soul Chain Jail, secretly violated the rules and toured the forbidden area. He opened the mechanisms one by one with ease, just like he was at home.

...

"Boom~!"

The heavy stone door, still enchanted, slowly rose up. Just as Thresh was about to walk out, a figure appeared.

"Shua~!"

The soul-stealing sickle was raised, but then put down again.

Not far away, an illusory soul wearing a gorgeous robe was kneeling on the ground with his back to him, praying devoutly.

"Heh~! It turns out to be you, Karsus. It seems you are not as honest as you appear~!"