"No!" As if awakened from a nightmare, Ruiz's eyes widened suddenly, and he breathed in the air as if he were suffocating, and when he looked down, the magic surging in his hands had long since disappeared due to the loss of consciousness.

He looked up at Jeno, who was still standing motionless, not taking advantage of his slack to shoot him, which made him let his guard down a little.

"Ruiz, I know you better than you do. You're afraid of the World Rune because you can't master it. The most terrible thing is not the power itself, but the human heart that is seduced by the power. But the situation is different with me, you can trust me, I may be your enemy, but everything I do is for the land of runeterra. ”

Jano smiled again, apparently forgetting his vow not to talk again, but with one thing to say, it was much easier for Rze to sway than Kyle.

"Let me tell you this, my will is so strong that neither the runes nor the void can erode my mind or dominate my will. Instead of sealing the World Rune and letting it develop into a disaster, take this opportunity to put it to good use, counter violence with violence, and bring all the ghosts from the Void back to their lair! ”

Jeno rubbed his temples with a calm expression, as if he was very confident in what he was saying.

"You don't have to look for runes anymore, the last rune cornerstone is here, and the rest of the scattered fragments won't cause any trouble. I have come to cooperate with you in the fight against the Void, which is our common enemy. ”

Ruiz began to wonder if there really were people in this world who could resist the spiritual erosion of runes and voids.

Voids and runes are both potential threats that cannot be ignored. When Reze first thought seriously about the dangers of the Void, he realized that he couldn't sit idly by. The same is true of runes, which are world-changing creativity, and the growing power of magic has caused the transformation of land and sea, the movement of tectonic plates. If left unchecked, sooner or later, it will suddenly release a large amount of energy like a balloon that has reached its inflation limit, causing natural disasters.

But if you follow Jeno's idea and use the world runes to deal with the void, you can solve the threat of the void while channeling the power of the runes, killing two birds with one stone. But if it is not handled well, it will cause a terrible man-made disaster, which makes Ruiz prefer to seal the rune rather than try it.

With more and more frequent contact with runes, he had almost been unknowingly robbed of his mind by Qi several times.

Even if you are distorted by magic, you will eventually have to lose in front of the reality of aging. The more he couldn't do it, the more he wanted to collect the remaining runes as soon as possible, end the mission, and completely wipe it out.

Intense thinking amplifies the invisible spiritual power, and at a certain moment, Jeno suddenly saw the trajectory of Ruiz's life. Although it was just a line of nothingness, for some reason Jeno just understood its meaning.

Although the life trajectory of this old man is very long, there is not much left, and he can only live for a dozen more cycles at most, and then he will have to return his spirit.

At the same time, he sensed Ryze's strong and twisted possessiveness, and wanted to snatch the rune cornerstone from him and keep it in a place he thought was safe.

Why can I see the lifespan of others? Is this the power to enlighten the cornerstones? Jeno couldn't help but wonder if the power of the runes stimulated his brain, so he could see something that he couldn't see beyond common sense?

However, it was a good feeling and helped him to decipher Ryze's psychology.

Ryze never seemed to think about finding a successor to replace him, he had become disillusioned with humanity, so he took everything on his shoulders. But the deadline was approaching, and his mentality began to change, becoming more and more urgent.

Jeno thought he might be able to take advantage of that.

"For the sake of your conscientious guardianship of the runes, I can promise you a condition in exchange for your trust."

The sudden promise interrupted Ryze's thoughts, and he looked at Jeno in a daze, then his eyes squirmed with blackened lips.

"Many people say that I control too much power, and some people say that I can't be trusted, maybe they are not wrong, but there is only one power that I really control......" His voice is like a sound full of historical weight, just a pause, it makes Jeno feel that it has gone through a hundred years of vicissitudes. Finally, he continued, "It's about being able to let go." ”

"If you can let go and give me the runes, I will trust you."

The near-request made Jano laugh out loud, and what Ruiz would say was exactly what he thought.

Sure enough, I want him to let go, it's so easy to guess.

"As you wish." After laughing enough, Jeno pushed the rune cornerstone in his palm in front of Ruiz, which simply made him a little stunned.

Fake? Or is there another conspiracy? Ruiz became suspicious, and the hand reaching for the rune cornerstone began to tremble.

But Jeno didn't do anything, so he couldn't see that he wasn't sick, right?

After a moment of hesitation, Ryze chose to trust experience and follow judgment, making sure that this was the last rune cornerstone he had been looking for.

The rune didn't seem to be hot anymore, and he snatched it from Jeno and grabbed it, as if he had grasped the most important thing in his life, so that life was complete at this moment.

The rune cornerstone was really in his hands, and his mood was almost the same as when Jeno took the rune from Zoe - he didn't expect it to come so easily, it was dreamlike and unbelievable.

Ruiz looked at the rune cornerstone in his hand that kept overflowing physical energy, crooked the corners of his shriveled mouth, and smiled rarely, smiling like a child.

But at some point in the smile, his purple pupils suddenly froze, his smile gradually stiffened, and his mouth opened slightly, as if his thoughts had drifted out of his body.

Rhy was motionless, his time seemed to stand still at this moment.

Jeno nudged Ryze, but the other party didn't react at all.

"Sure enough, you'll fall before this last step." He sighed, he had expected this scene.

He wouldn't hand over the rune cornerstone without certainty, and before that, he had used the arcane power of the rune cornerstone, and he had a premonition that Ruiz's current mental state could no longer withstand the impact of a cornerstone.

Once he gets his hands on the last cornerstone, something out of his control is bound to happen.

The runes are eroding Ryze's will, and Jeno can't let it continue, otherwise when the runes completely dominate Ryze's will, there will be one more terrible monster in the world.

He snatched back the rune cornerstone from Ryze's hand, and after some kind of connection was broken, Ryze suddenly came back to his senses, looking at Jeno and the rune in his hand in shock.

He was terrified of what he was thinking at the moment, because the first thing he thought about was to kill Jeno and grab the rune. Although this thought was not unheard of before, it had never been as strong as it was now, as if it had become the whole meaning of his life!

The erosion of the world runes was too terrifying, and Rao was mentally prepared, but he was still unconsciously dominated by his will.

"I think it's time for you to retire, Ryze." Jeno still placed the rune flat on the palm of his hand, unguarded, and looked like he was taking what he wanted.

But Ruiz didn't have any intention of taking it this time.

Reason told him that he was no longer suitable.