The weather in Ionia is very good today, at least in the area where the mountains are located.

The wind above the sky is light and blue......

Sunlight shone in through the branches of the towering trees, bringing the essential light to the dense forest of shady and dim magical spirits that flew with all sorts of glowing spirits, and the shrubs and vegetation that hid and thrived with countless wild animals and lowlands.

However, at this time,

In this wood, which is full of magic, flowers, wild creatures, forest vegetation, and towering ancient trees, a bald old man with a blue complexion and a long beard is leading a little girl who looks a little listless, groping slowly along this forest path that I don't know if it is trampled out by human traders or other Vastayas nearby.

The one who has been leading the way in front and stopping from time to time to sense or confirm the direction is the blue-skinned bald wandering ** Shi Ruiz! And following him, who was carrying a stuffed toy bear, with that reluctant and impatient look on his face, and pouting, stopping from time to time to kick all kinds of wild flowers and weeds on the side of the road, or suddenly intimidating a wild animal who came out of the bushes to observe her out of curiosity, it was obviously the little Annie who was pulled by a bald ** master!

“……”

(～｀； )

Obviously,

Anne didn't want to follow some bare-headed bad old man on a hurried and purposeful journey on this beautiful Ionian island...... She Queen Anne just wants to go crazy and have fun, to wander around, or to make trouble for others?

Of course, you can also go and eat all kinds of cute little animals on this large island full of that kind of primitive magic?

Anyway, she just doesn't want to be controlled, especially a bare-headed bad old man who fools her with that kind of big truths such as 'for the world', 'for the sake of countless living beings', etc., in order to let her help for nothing The kind of nonsense that deceives children!

“……”

(′°°)

"Hey! Grandpa Ruiz...... What a big world, how troublesome it is to find someone...... Can you find it? Why don't we just look for it? Anyway, I think that young lady Ahri is also quite fine, maybe, after ten days and half a month, she will return to normal. ”

(^^)

That's right, now Anne is a little bored, so much so that she doesn't want to save up at all to follow this bad old man of Ryze to find the little fox with nine long fluffy tails who had escaped before the opportunity and had long since disappeared!

Of course, if she really wanted to find it herself, then she could be sure that there was a way to easily find the runaway Miss Ahri! But she didn't want to do that, because ah...... The old man had said, 'For the safety of this world, all the runestones that have been found must be sealed!' 'If it can't be sealed, then it (her) must be destroyed'?

Although, under normal circumstances, runestones must not be easily destroyed......

Because, they contain some mysterious rules and extremely powerful power in this rune world, if you rashly forcibly destroy them, at that time, the power they burst out will definitely cause great damage to this world, and that situation is almost equivalent to starting a rune war that almost destroyed the world thousands of years ago!!

But

Now it is clearly not the case that way.

"Hmm......"

Ruiz, who was leading the way in front, answered noncommittally and casually, and continued to lead the way in front.

The reason why the situation is different now......

That's because the rune stone has been destroyed by itself, and it doesn't know what reason it carved into the body of a nine-tailed demon fox called Ahri, and gave her extremely powerful power....... of course, the other party's brain must be a little abnormal...... Maybe it's crazy, maybe it's controlled by power, or maybe it's some kind of emotion that is extremely amplified?

Anyway, after hearing that kind of thing, it made Ruiz always feel that that kind of situation seemed a little familiar?

Remember the past,

He Ruiz had a disciple who had sworn to work with him to find and protect the stones, and to protect this beautiful world of Runeterra......

However, it is a pity that although they started out on the same path, in the end, they went in opposite directions?

At that time, that person had been a very ordinary, simple inhabitant of the Freljord barbarians, but at that time, after being seduced by the powerful power of the world runes, he quickly transformed into another terrible creature!

It was a kind of fire monster controlled by the runes of the world......

Therefore, after learning of another tragedy, Ruiz had to act immediately, planning to deal with the nine-tailed demon fox who was said to have been frightened away by a certain little girl, and still does not know where it will appear!

"Anne ......"

"You know, I've seen it before, and I know it better than anyone else...... Thousands of years ago, the reason why that war started was nothing more than because of the great power brought by those world rune stones...... Because the human heart is greedy, and after they get a part, they will always want to get more ......"

“……”

"I have also seen the terrible scene of those terrible forces, those flames of greed, burning entire cities and people......"

"The annihilation of a majestic city and its people, the destruction of countless living beings, is only ...... in the blink of an eye"

The former disciple of Ruiz was so greedy for runestones that he became such a terrible cursed monster...... The other party's soul has long been completely burned out, and the originally strong body has also been reduced to a container of ** flames, leaving only a twisted body to walk on the earth.

And now, the same thing happened again in the peaceful land of Ionia, to a woman of the Vastaya fox tribe? Therefore, he Ruiz must find the other party and fight to seal them before they become familiar with that terrible power and use them to cause greater trouble!

Or, if you can't do it, you can just destroy it completely?!

"Oh......"

(lllw)

Little Anne also responded casually and listlessly,

Because, rune wars or something, she had actually heard Ruiz talk about the babbling bad old man man, many times back in the cold world of Freljord...... Almost every time, it's the same content, and then it comes out blindly, and her ears are almost calloused when she hears it!

So

If she could, she just wanted to stay away from this bad old man now, and never play that boring game of saving the world with the other party again! After all, there are so many powerful guys in this world, and there are many people who are stronger than the other party, can he be guilty of having nothing to do all day long, so he is going to wander around and take care of those inconsequential idle things?

Anyway, Anne thinks, there are so many powerful guys in this world, just with those rune stones or something, if you want to destroy the world, I'm afraid it's a little bit worse? Besides, this rune world is the home of her all-powerful Queen Anne, and she won't let anyone destroy it!

It's just that she won't be like the bad old man Ruiz in front of her, staring at it all the time, working hard all day long, and she herself will only help at most a moment before destruction comes, and knock all the bad guys down?

"That's it......"

(*^^*)

Little Anne dealt with it casually, and she didn't listen much at all, because ah, she was now thinking about whether she should sneak away quietly while the bare-headed nasty guy in front of her was not looking? If you put a real magic mirror image to follow the other party, I'm afraid that by the time that Ruiz finds out, I'm afraid that time has already passed for several days or more, right?

Of course, she wasn't in a hurry to do that now, and she was going to put up with it...... When she really can't bear it anymore, she will definitely do what she just thought, and she promises not to be easily discovered by the other party!!

"Ahem......"

"Annie, those World Rune Stones, they're something that shouldn't be in this world......"

Ruiz, who was walking in front, probably didn't notice the impatient face of a little girl behind him, and still babbled......

Or did he already know what he knew, but he didn't show it at all, and he didn't care too much?

Because, Ruiz himself doesn't seem to be sure whether he will be the opponent of the nine-tailed demon fox after absorbing the power of the world rune, and if he wants to destroy or seal the other party at that time, he will probably have to use the power of the little girl behind him, and he must get the help of the other party!

And this is exactly what he used to try his best to squeeze the other party with words, asking the other party to follow him, help him, and go together to hunt down the fox creature with nine tails that is said to have escaped before he teleported.

Now the reason why he is so babbling and just talking to himself is nothing more than planning to forcibly instill some of his ideas and the concept of maintaining the world into the powerful and special little girl behind him...... As for whether the other party accepts it or not, he doesn't really mind much, he just needs the other party to hear it.

When necessary, he believes that those ideas will always unconsciously affect the behavior of the other party.

"Actually......"

"We're all fools...... Before, we thought we could control the runestones ourselves, and use their power for the better of us and our world? ”

"But ......"

"It has long been proven that the power of mortals is always beyond their control......"

"Even the mightiest warriors among us, the most knowledgeable scholars, the most determined mages, cannot resist their temptations...... As a result, those arrogant, greedy human inferiority almost pushed the world to the brink of destruction......."

As he spoke, Ruiz couldn't help but mention the terrible rune war back then......

He also knew that he had indeed mentioned it many times...... However, he felt that it was not something to be ridiculed about the terrible catastrophe many times, because there were some things that you would only know how tragic it was if you had experienced it yourself......

Even the most determined ones may not be able to bear what he has seen in his eyes.

"I'm not going to allow that to happen again......"

"So Annie, please help me find that Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, and then help seal or destroy her as much as you can! Otherwise, if 'a moving world rune' is allowed to roam the land of Ionia, no one can predict what will happen at that time. ”

At this point, Ruiz paused again and began to observe and sense......

It's a pity that two days have passed, and from yesterday until now, they have searched in the surrounding forest for a long time, except for the faint power fluctuations that he has intermittently sensed when the power of the 'active rune stone' fluctuates, he has not found anything, and he has never been able to successfully capture the exact location of the other party...... Anyway, every time, when he rushed to the place where the other party had been, he was always one step too late?

"Grandpa Ryze......"

(_)

"Don't worry, Miss Ahri, she's not the kind of bad person, she's just not in a stable state now, I guess, she will recover herself after a while...... Because I've already scared her once, and if you keep chasing her like this, it won't be fun if you scare her again! ”

Anne has been in contact with that young lady for a long time, and she knows that this young lady is not the same as ordinary Vastayas, so she firmly believes that the other party will eventually be able to get rid of the control of that rune, recover and become very powerful!

Of course

She didn't know exactly when she would recover...... Maybe a few days, maybe a decade, maybe a hundred or a thousand years?

Anyway, it was useless to rush that kind of thing, and she didn't want to take this bad old man named Ruiz to trouble that chaotic Miss Ahri right now...... And if it weren't for some things, or some worries that this old man Ruiz would really find that young lady and fight each other, I'm afraid she would have run away by now, so that she wouldn't have followed a bad old man around like a headless fly in this deep mountain and old forest!

"Recovery ......?"

"No...... She's never going to recover......"

"Those who have touched that kind of power and want to get rid of its control can only do so if they are determined to get rid of that powerful force at the same time!"

"That kind of thing ......"

"I've seen it many times over the years, and once someone has gained that kind of power, there is almost no one who can take the initiative and willingly give it up!!"

Of course

It's not really that there is no one......

In addition to the fact that he was free from the temptation of those runes and was able to successfully resist the temptation of their whispers and power, there was also the little girl Anne who was following him slowly! He was very sure that the other party had held that piece of world rune for at least half a day, and until she handed it over to the nine-tailed demon fox named Ahri, she had not been corrupted by that rune stone in any way.

Because of this, Ruiz dared to conclude that the little girl Annie who followed him must have a strong and pure heart!

Maybe.......

That little girl's pure heart and soul can really help him Ruiz shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving and protecting this rune world? If he could, he really hoped that one day in the future, he would solemnly hand over the custody of those rune stones that he had properly preserved to that little guy?

Of course, that kind of thing certainly won't be now......

Because he is still alive, alive and well, and can continue his own tasks and responsibilities, he can't just put this heavy responsibility on the other party's immature shoulders, because that is not realistic!

In any case, before he falls, he will continue to follow his 'path' all the way to the end of the road......

Or, to the light,

Or, go straight to the dark abyss of destruction......

"Humph!"

o(^｀)o

"It's not uncommon for people to have that little bit of power in the broken stone!!"

(lllw)

It wasn't like Anne was bragging, because she really didn't have any interest in those runestones!

Not to mention the original Infinity Stones that she had obtained from the first universe she had gone to, but the large number of replica six-colored gems she had made using the rules of the Reality Gems, which one was not better than those tattered World Rune Stones?

The Infinity Stones that they have copied not only contain the basic rules of the universe that have a strong reference significance in any world, but also possess great power, and more importantly, they are very safe and efficient to use, as long as the holder does not take the initiative to die, they will generally not die!

Although, their stones are only one-off, and they will be destroyed when their power is used up, but even then, they are countless times better than the tattered magic runes that can bewitch people's hearts!

（…… ）

(●￣￣●)

“……”

Ruiz didn't continue to speak, just continued to walk forward silently.

Actually, this is the real reason why he is optimistic about this little girl mage from the gray order named Annie!

Not only does the other party have a terrifying magic power that is stronger than him, but he can also always uphold his heart in the face of the temptation of powerful power, these two points alone are enough to make him treat him differently!

It's a pity......

The other party is just a little girl, undecided, playful and delicious, and impatient and reckless in doing things (e.g., beating the demigod ice crystal phoenix Anivia, snatching her rune stone out of curiosity, and then giving it to a Vastaya woman indiscriminately?). Can't listen to people, etc...... These problems can be said to have made him have always had some love and hate for Ryze.

He also thought about training the other party well, and he also said some big truths to the other party intentionally or unintentionally, ready to let him lead him in the right direction...... But in the end, it is often in vain...... Moreover, the other party refutes his words from time to time, and always makes him always cry and laugh, or even speechless?

"Hey!"

(o)o☆

"Grandpa Ruiz, it's getting dark, it's time for us to prepare lunch, I still want to eat the big colorful bird from yesterday!"

oo

The big bird roasted last night was delicious, and although I had already eaten it once, Anne still wants to continue to eat their delicious big 'chicken legs' with very fat and tender meat!!

Of course, wings are also possible!

"Anne ......"

"There are no more colorful crows around here, you took the initiative to attack them, and in the future, a whole group of them in this forest will not come here again......"

The corners of Reze's mouth twitched, and he directly rejected the little girl's proposal, he didn't want to remember the terrible scene last night.

"Their intelligence is high...... In fact, everything in the whole of Ionia has a high level of spirituality, even the ancient trees around us? ”

Then......

There was a flock of Ionian crows, a large flock, who happened to be perched on the branches of the trees in their campsite and singing...... The sound was nice and pleasant, and it gave Ryze, who was sitting by the campfire, a special sense of peace when he was in a peaceful sea of flowers....... because that animal was a magical little animal known as the 'choir of Ionia', and in his opinion, it was a rare spiritual pleasure to be able to hear them sing?

He believed that Anne, the little girl, she must have felt that way.

however

When the birds finished singing and were about to leave, something unexpected happened to him......

A certain naughty little girl actually threw a small fireball directly at the largest of the group of colorful crows on the top of the big tree, and instantly knocked down the largest colored crow?

And then ......

The other party even swore that "cute animals are just for people to eat" and "because it is called so good, I want to see if its meat is also delicious"?

"That's how it is......"

(`)？

If you don't come, you won't come, it's a big deal, in the future, Queen Anne, can she go to other woods to eat them? Anyway, as long as she wants to eat, it's useless wherever they go! At most, she can eat the ones that don't sound good next time?

（…… ）

"Or ......"

"Old man Narez...... Shall we eat those big turtles with the house on their backs? I seem to have seen a lot of big turtles in the grassy plains that flow with the magic tides, they walk so slowly, they look clumsy, and now I must have no problem eating them!! ”

o(*^^*)o

Since the flying in the sky was scared away and couldn't eat it for the time being, then it's better to eat the ground crawler now! Such a simple matter must not be difficult for her great Queen Anne! Although, those turtles are very big and look fierce, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to deal with them, but that definitely does not include her!

As long as this Uncle Ruiz is willing, she will immediately teleport to the strange flowing red grassland, kill those big turtles, and then use magic to cut off a piece of relatively tender meat and bring it back, so that this old man who is about eighty points above the cooking skill of Ruiz will cook it for herself?

"Ah......h

"Ann, Anne...... The tortoises with the big houses on their backs, they are the most important livestock and companions of the 'dryland fishermen', and they will not let you kill their tortoises......"

"I remember that those turtles on the red grassland, they actually have owners, whether they are carrying the house or not, I advise you not to think about it......"

Shaking his head, Ruiz sighed and continued to lead the way.

It's still early, he plans to look for a certain nine-tailed demon fox that has appeared in this forest again, and wait until sunset, if they really can't find it, they will find another place to rest, and then continue to look for it tomorrow......

As for lunch or something, you can pick some wild fruits or those wild vegetables with plump branches and leaves on the roadside later! Anyway, in this magic-soaked Ionia, here in this newborn land, they must not have to worry about not having anything to eat.

"Huh?!"

Anne never thought that those big turtles that didn't carry a house on their backs were also raised by people?

Just now, she really thought that they were all wild, and then those peasant uncles built their houses on the backs of the big turtles that also moved with the magic tides and the red grasslands in order to save trouble, and then they got a set of free large RVs that didn't need to be refueled, fed, paid, or charged!

"But...... If I buy it with gold, won't that work?! ”

o？

“……”

"Grains and fruits can be bought, but the partner home turtle they don't sell ......"

As he was talking, the wandering ** master Ruiz, who was going to continue walking, suddenly stopped, and then began to carefully perceive some kind of strong energy fluctuation that seemed to be remnants of the surroundings.

Because, he felt, here, it really seemed that this was really the direction where the nine-tailed demon fox they were chasing had come?

"Are they really not selling?"

What a pity......

There were so many, so big turtles walking slowly over there, and they didn't seem to have much resistance or any ability to escape, but they were somebody else's......

That kind of thing is really too big, even if she wants to 'quietly' get rid of it and eat it, it doesn't seem to be easy to handle!

（…… ）

(●￣￣●)

“！！”

"Wait, there's a situation! On the left?! ”

Finally, the hesitant Ruiz perked up, and then stopped caring about a complaining little girl, and ran straight forward!

Because, he was sure, ahead of them, there must be some clues they needed!!

"Hey! Wait for me first!! ”

e≡==(〃-w)ノ

Thinking that it was something funny, Anne didn't care about the idea of fighting some big turtles again, and hurriedly chased after the back of the big bald head in front of her, and quickly chased after the fork in front of her.

“……”

After reaching the relatively wide fork in the road as fast as he could, a figure lying crooked on the edge of the root of a large tree caught Ryze's attention.

"It's ......"

For the first time, Ruiz saw this kind of corpse that made him feel faintly uneasy......

In fact, for a well-informed wandering ** master who has seen countless terrible things and disasters, even if the corpses of thousands of dead are listed in front of his eyes, even if a certain city is slaughtered and so on, it can't make too many waves in his weather-beaten heart...... But now, he had to be amazed by the strange corpse of a stranger who had been killed!

Because

The flesh and blood of this whole body had become shriveled, and only a person who looked like a dried corpse mummy remained, her shriveled face, there was no pain on it, but a strange smile? This person...... She seems to have died peacefully in some state of extreme pleasure?

"Oooh!"

\(“□)/

Just the first time she saw the corpse, Anne knew that it must have been the hand of that Ahri lady!

Because, ah, the other party's vitality and soul spirit have all been absorbed, and there really is no one else who will do that, except for the vixen in that chaotic state.

Besides, she also felt the breath of that young lady near here, but the time was already yesterday, and now the other party was obviously not here.

“……”

o((⊙⊙))o

Anne suddenly felt that she should have really accidentally gotten away with it before...... Perhaps, tonight, or tomorrow, she must find a way to help that old man Ruiz find that little sister Ahri, and then find a way to restore the other party to normal, or seal it up temporarily?

"Hmm......"

Surprised, Ruiz, who had never seen such a situation, after muttering for a while, crouched down next to the corpse, and then began to run his magic power in his hand, covering the top of the corpse, intending to take a good look at it to see what kind of power this corpse-like corpse was formed under what kind of power.

soon

Ruiz was surprised to find that there seemed to be no complete soul fluctuations in this corpse? The soul of the other party seems to have been brutally torn apart and sucked out of the shell, just like some necromancer does?

But......

Now, apart from the slight remnants of the power of the world rune that he could feel, he didn't seem to feel any traces of the evil necromancy being used...... This kind of thing made him hesitate a little, and he didn't know what kind of situation this thing was like...... So, he was going to do some more research and explore this strange dried corpse.

"Yikes!!"

!!! ∑(Дノ)ノ

“！！”

suddenly

At this time, the wandering ** master also seemed to sense something, and also heard the exclamation of the little girl behind him, however, he didn't have time to react at all, and found that a remnant of someone dragged a long sword towards his head and slashed at him!

“！！”

It's over......

The wandering ** master Ruiz, who had his back to the enemy, didn't have time to stand up or cast other defensive or evasive spells, and the precise and extremely fast, instantaneous white sword had already reached the neck behind him......

'Evil! ’

This will be a hard lesson for you!!' ’

At the moment when the sword was about to touch the skin on the back of his neck, a cold and angry voice reached Ruiz's ears.

However, now that it is heard, it is too late......

Swish!!

The mighty sword swept directly through!! 2k reading web