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"They hated him. Baidu search literature network, more good free reading. Lukka knows. You mortals are always willing to fear what you cannot understand. Too willing to fan the flames and make three tigers create lifelike fears. ”

Lux flexed her fingers hard, and the movement was accompanied by a tingling. But the pain meant she was in control. She used the pain to make the spark in her body burn, isolating it from her fear, and allowing the light of the fire to slowly return to her body.

"Luca, please," she said word by word. "You have to resist. Don't be taken advantage of by it. ”

The boy laughed again. "He can't hear you. Even if you can hear it, you know that his fear is not without reason, that he is afraid that his fellow citizens will reveal the truth. He's the thing people hate the most. Mage. You should know this feeling better than anyone else. ”

The pain spread from Lux's arms to her chest. The boy's dark eyes revealed suspicion, and he felt the gathering of mana.

"I know too well," she said. "But I'm not going to let fear do the talk."

Lux screamed in pain and swung her cane at the boy. Her limbs were burning, and her hand holding the staff was not listening. The boy jumped out of the way, but slowed down, and the golden crown of his cane rubbed lightly against the boy's face.

The moment of connection was very short, but sufficient.

The fearless vanguard warriors are ruthless, straight to the point, slashing with swords and striking with shields, but they can't fight forever.

Eventually, the Shadow will drag them down.

A group of squirming creatures stretched out their arms to attack the left flank, and they ate Diadoru's slash with their bodies. A sweep grazed his shield and struck his shoulder pads. With a low roar, he sent the sword into the belly of a black beast with the head of a demon dragon.

"Fight" Sebato advised. "Hold them off"

Galen struck the surging darkness with a slash, disemboweling it with a return blow, and then stabbed forward through the chest. The white blade is submerged, and the heart is cut out. A moment of restlessness. There was movement on the right flank, and a monster with an insect-like head and dagger-like fangs howled and pounced. He aimed his eyes at the eye and slashed at the sword, and the monster screamed and shattered into smoke.

Two more monsters pounced. Too close to slash. Baidu search literature network, more good free reading. The hilt of the sword chiseled through the chest of the first, pierced the stomach of the other, and drew the sword. The monster retreated temporarily. Galen took a step back and re-formed a line with Valya and Rodion. Everyone was plastered from helmets to shins.

"We're going to hold the line," Galen said.

"How long," Diadoru asked.

Galen looked to the north, and a faint light shone in the forest in the distance.

"Wait until Lux returns." Galen watched warily.

Then the shadow pounced again.

Lux poured her own light into Lukka, and a dazzling glow erupted in the middle of the empty field. The monster inside the little boy let out a roar of rage and despair, and it loosened its grip on the flesh. White-hot flames enveloped her, replacing everything around them. The darkness receded under the light of Lux, and the blazing light dispelled all shadows. The white light grew brighter and brighter, until finally, the forest and the tomb were no longer visible, and only the endless whiteness of the pure emptiness remained. In front of her, a little boy sat on the ground with his knees clutched. He looked up, his eyes filled with childish innocence and fear.

"Can you help me," he said.

"I can," Lux said, walking over to him and sitting down together. "But you have to go back with me."

He shook his head. "I can't go back. I'm scared. There are nightmares there. ”

"Yes, he's there, but together the two of us can beat him," she said. "I'll help you."

"Really"

"If you're willing to let me help you," Lux smiled. "I know your difficulties, and I know you're afraid that people will know what you're capable of. Trust me, I've been through this too. But you don't have to be afraid. The power within you is not evil, it is not darkness, but light. I can help you control the light. ”

She held out a hand.

"You promise," he said.

"I promise," replied Lux. "You're not alone, Luca."

The boy held her hand like a drowning man grasping at a life-saving straw.

The light around them expanded again, brighter than expected, and then faded, and Lux saw the empty space in her memory, the same as it had been seven years ago. The grass, the hills, the mounds, and the stone slabs still record the deeds of Foss Ian. The power of darkness is gone, and the twisted forest is back to normal. The branches that resembled the hands of ghosts were nothing more than ordinary bushes, and the night sky was a midnight blue, sprinkled with stars. The canopy of the forest reverberates with the chirping of nocturnal birds.

Lukka was still holding her hand and looked up and smiled at her.

"Is he gone, the nightmare man"

"I think so," she said, sensing a bitter taste in her mouth, a sign that the dark was dissipating. "At least it's gone now. I guess it's no longer hiding in the grave, but it's not here anymore. This is the most important thing. ”

"Can we go home?" asked Luca.

"Yes," Lux said. "We can go home."

A numbness and cold sensation invaded Galen's body. His hands and feet and limbs were filled with lead, all pierced by the claws of the shadows. His veins seemed to freeze, cold to his heart and soul, and he felt his vision begin to darken.

Saibato and Diadoru had collapsed, their skin turning gray. Rodion knelt on the ground, a claw pinching his neck. Valya continued to fight, her shield-wielding hand hanging limply to one side, but her sword-wielding hand still strong.

Galen tasted defeat and despair. A taste he'd never tasted. Such a fiasco. Even when he thought Gawain had passed away, he was still able to find the will to continue fighting. And now, every breath consumes the power of his life.

A burly figure jumped in front of him, a horned demon with a dark battle axe in his hand. It looked like a savage warrior he had killed years ago. Galen raised his sword, ready to use Demacia's battle cry as his last words.

A hot summer breeze blew, and the northern sky was suddenly lit up, like a new sun.

The shadow creatures dissipated, like fire-burned grass and trees blown away by a hurricane. The gust of wind and the strange light swept through the town square, like the dawn in the middle of the night, and then all the shadows fled.

Galen exhaled, unable to believe he could still breathe. Rodion gasped and puffed into his chest, and Sebato and Diadoru staggered to their feet. They looked around and were amazed, and the last remaining shadows were driven away, and the inhabitants began to slowly wake up.

"What's going on," Valya exclaimed.

"Lux." Galen said.

Lukka returns to his mother's arms, Sister Pernilla of the Church of the Lightbringers will take charge of his future education in accordance with detailed instructions, and Lux and Galen ride with the intrepid vanguard warriors to the South Gate of Fossbayro. They were depressed, and every townsfolk they met along the way were visibly guilty. None of the inhabitants of Fosbello remembered what happened after the execution, but they knew they had a part in guillotining a man.

"May the Daughter of the Veil embrace you." Lux whispered a prayer as she passed by Ordojan's funeral.

"Do you really think he deserves such mercy," Galen asked. "He killed innocents."

"Yes, indeed," said Lux. "But do you understand the reason behind it"

"Does it make a difference that he sinned, so he paid the price."

"Of course there is a difference. Aldoyan is their friend and neighbor," Lux said. "They drank beer together in taverns and talked and laughed together in the streets. Their sons and daughters played with his children. In such a hurry to seek a verdict, they lost every opportunity to find out what had caused such a murder. ”

Galen's eyes were fixed on the road ahead.

"They don't want to understand," he concluded. "They don't need to understand."

"How can you say that"

"We live in a world that doesn't care about the minutiae, Lux. Demacia was attacked on the back of the abdomen; The hordes of savages in the north, the greedy empires in the east, and the power of the black mages shake every inch of our territory. We must be right and evil, black and white. If we allow skepticism to thwart our judgment, it will make us weak. I can't forgive myself for being weak. ”

"Even if the price is like this"

"Even at that price," Galen said. "This is the foundation of how I am a person and how I do things."

"For Demacia"

"For Demacia." Galen said.