I told her what had just happened and what was about to come up.

"Okay then." She took out a large box and handed it to me. "This is what you need."

The gloves came back to life and let out a grunt of satisfaction. I clenched my fists, the pain in my finger bones was a memory, and I waited for the brawl to come. The poisonous mist rolled and crawled closer, and immediately stinged the eyes and gnawed at the lungs. Several family members began vomiting.

Xiao Kai's face was pale, and she raised the rifle high so fast that my eyes couldn't keep up. I heard gunshots, and then residual tinnitus. I could feel the bullets tearing through the air and shattering the tempered glass dome.

Cracks quickly diverged around the holes left by the bullets, extending along the surface like lightning. The dome was shattered. Fragments of stained glass fell all around us. The change in air pressure creates an air current, which whipped the poisonous gas and drifted to the outside of the tower.

We fought for a second of breath, but that's about it. Poisonous mist filled the entrance, shadows flashed, and the occultists emerged. They slowly shifted their positions, fiddling with the weapons in their hands, but all restrained and waited.

The doorway darkened again, and this time the shadow blocked it all. The shadow finally coalesced into the massive silhouette of Urgat, and he came, rushing into the idyllic landscape of the dome, his followers making way for him.

Ergart laughed when he saw the gas being blown away, making the sound of rubble and grit and tooth removal of gears. "You think you've rejected the trials of these people? Rejected your own test? No. I will test you myself, and when you are destroyed, I will test them. ”

Kai gripped his rifle tightly, the hex crystal in the chamber glowing rosy. She looked back at the people behind her. "Hurry up. Go up the bridge to the dance hallway. Leave it to us here. ”

I clash my fists, energy pulsing between my gloves. "Look!" Urgart stared at me and yelled. "Such a precious weapon. Your master has given you strength, but beneath the outward lies you are broken. Weak. ”

"I don't need this thing to be as strong." I let out a short sneer. "I don't need this thing to beat you up. Wear it just for fun. ”

"I saw you with that kid." Ergart nodded slowly. "You hold on to two worlds, son of Zuan. Sooner or later, you have to make a choice. ”

"Stop talking about it." My anger is still coming out. "Don't waste time, let me beat you to death to avenge your hatred."

I don't know if the battle lasted a few seconds or hours. I only remember a few flashes of light. Metal collisions. The feeling of the ribs wrapping around the knuckles. The thunder of the artillery in the Ergarth's arm, the stinging explosion. Blood bubbled and dried on my gloves.

Together with Kai and I, we annihilated Urgat's followers in one fell swoop, and in the end he was left undefeated, a steel monster made of flames, bullets, and chains. I don't know who will be the last person to leave this dome alive, until Xiao Kai finds the flaw in the launch rope net, and the winner is decided.

Ergarte roared as he was trapped in the net, his arms wrapped tightly at his sides, and he didn't pay attention for enough time for me to rush through. I poured everything into the punch, causing him to stumble and tumble over the edge of the dome. But I'm not going to let him fall so easily.

I tucked in the end of the net, dragging him to a staggering weight, my boot slipping and stopping at the edge. I'm going to look him in the eye again and throw him down.

"Let's see how fast a spider can fly."

"Wait!" I heard Kai shouting behind me.

"That's it, Kai." I hissed.

Little Kai stopped beside me, an iron rod in his hand. "The real power lies in choice. If you kill him now, we'll be no different from him. ”

She used an iron rod to weave between the rope nets and nailed Urgart to the tower. I don't want to hear her. I just want justice. But I know that justice cannot be exchanged for what has been taken from me.

I took a sip and smashed the irons into the floor.

I don't know how generous a person is, but these rocks not far from the isthmus are called islands. There was only salt on the barren stones, and no one would want to settle on them. But it seems that a few generations ago, one of Piltover's rulers had a man with a unique view who built a prison here.

After returning to the police force and reinstating to work, I told Xiao Kai that I was confident that she would escort Urgat to the tightest place to ensure that nothing went wrong. I'm going to the ditch, I'm going to see the House of Hope, and I'm going to help rebuild with these heavy hands, not destroy it. But I think she knows what this means to me, and she wants me to see the justice he faces.

"I know it's hard for you to accept," Kai said, "but I want you to see the end result of your choice." I want you to know that this matter is different because of you. ”

Different. The word stuck in my throat, and my mind was filled with the figures of those who were suffocating in the poison left behind by progress.

"Lock him up, and we'll save a lot of chaos for Picheng and Zaun."

"Do you think there's something better coming out of that chaos?"

She looked at me and sighed softly. "Maybe, or maybe worse. If someone had to try, a lot would die, and I wouldn't allow that to happen. That's why we fight, we do our duty, and we don't let this world collapse. That's what the law does, it's what we do. We maintain order. ”

Law. Order. Can the two exist apart from each other? Do they have anything to do with justice? If you ask that naïve me, she might have an answer. Now, I'm not so sure.

"Ergarth's influence will fade," said Kai, "and ambitious people will shatter his legends and seek power." They will be busy with infighting and will not give us much trouble. ”

"You're not here, Kai." I shook my head, "You didn't see what I saw with your own eyes. You don't see the numbers, and their steadfastness. We haven't dealt with them yet, and we have to think long-term. ”

We stood on the crane and looked down on the cell block. We were flanked by cells, the cages were emptied, and the guards and guards escorted Urgart down the middle road to his new home—a huge reinforced steel pipe, which circled from top to bottom, like putting him in a giant piston.

Urgat was bound in chains. Without resistance, he followed the group to his cell.

"How much can we tear him down and not let him die?" Kai asked me, loud enough for the dreadnought to hear. "I said I could tear most of it down."

"Then come up and try it." Urgat's eyes lit up. "Or do you just dare to scare?"

"I'll tell you straight." Kai picked up his rifle. "You are only alive now because we allow it. We let you eat before you can eat, we let you sleep so you can sleep, we let you pant so you can gasp. A little more won't work, a little less won't work. As long as there is any form of resistance, I will destroy you. Do you understand? ”

Urgart laughed and said, "You think you can kill me? You're wrong. You'll never be able to do it. That door will never be open to you. ”

"Oh, then I'll have to settle down and close this door first." Xiao Kai nodded to the technician. He flipped the switch with all his might, and the massive pipe snapped off the top of Urgat's head and locked tightly onto the ground.

We could still hear him laughing through the wall as we left. I paused in front of the cell block door and looked back, a lingering fear creeping up my spine.

It seems to me that Urgarte is not a prisoner.

He is like a spider, waiting patiently in his web.