"Ah————h

The first screams came from the houses on the west side of the village.

"It's Hughes!" Sadek exclaimed.

Silas grabbed Sadek, who wanted to go and check, and commanded without refuting it:

"Gather everyone and stay together!"

"That Hughes..."

"This is the !! of the order" Silas couldn't hold back and roared, "Go!! ”

His voice had never been more urgent.

Sadek was stunned, did not dare to slack off, and immediately shouted to organize the others.

They were on the expedition with a team of 10 mages, led by Silas and him.

After a while, everyone was gathered in the middle of the village.

Sadek stood in front of the line, counting the number of people next to each other.

One... Two... Three...... Eight... Nine... Ten...

Ten???

"Hughes?"

Sadek stared at the tall and thin man who had come to meet him with wide eyes, with surprise on his face:

"Hughes! What just happened, are you okay? ”

"All, leave him!"

Silas frowned, burst into a shout, and threw out the chain of the forbidden magic stone in his hand without hesitation.

Light magic borrowed from Laxana dyed the chains white-gold, emitting a dazzling, divine light.

Phew-

The chains burst through the air and struck Hughes straight in the chest.

But the sound of the blow on the flesh did not come out, and the chains did not collide with Hughes in any way, but passed straight through his chest under the horrified gaze of the rest of the people.

"Heh..."

A low sneer came from Hughes's throat.

His neck was crooked at an eerie angle, his eyes and sockets were as black as ink, and his gaze was fixed on Silas, the corners of his mouth slowly splitting to the sides until behind his ears.

The rift is extremely exaggerated, like a crack opened by an abyss, and there is darkness that swallows everything.

"Damn it!"

With anger in his eyes, Silas didn't hesitate to detonate the light magic in his chains.

In an instant, a bright light enveloped Hughes from head to toe, and a bullet-shaped yellow light enveloped his body, slowly becoming translucent until it was illusory.

Iron, Iron, >Iron, Iron

In the last second before he completely disappeared, Hughes's shadow eyes had a touch of bewitching red, and the red light seemed to be the focus of aiming at Silas.

Although Hughes had completely dissipated in just a second, the last look he left behind made everyone present feel a piercing chill.

Those eyes, those eyes, don't look like human eyes at all...

Although Hughes disappeared completely, fear began to spread and bloom in everyone's hearts.

"Retreat! Fall back! Damn, it's the devil. Silas spoke very quickly, "Everyone follow me and rush out of the village!" ”

Although he couldn't stop trembling in the face of demons, he knew that his people were the only "temporary survivors" who knew the truth, and some of them had to return to Xiongdu alive to bring the news of the demonic invasion to Laxana.

This is his mission!

Hearing Silas's words, the fear in everyone's hearts was even greater.

Demon...

Fear from the Ancients.

It's a terrifying legend lost in time, so old that everyone thinks it's just a bluffing story.

However, when the word awakens again, everyone, whether they understand it or not, instantly recalls the fear of being dominated.

Sadek was the first to recover from his stunned stupor as he spread his legs as fast as he could, barely keeping up with Silas, looking at the other man's broad back to keep his legs from shaking too much.

"Follow me! Rush! ”

Silas looked in the direction to the east and led the group to break out.

In that direction, he sensed no small magical force.

He didn't know who was approaching at this time, but any magic-related forces were their allies.

"Running !!"

"It's important to save your life!"

"Get out of here!!"

Several mages looked at the darkening sky, did not dare to hesitate any longer, yelled and cheered each other, and followed Silas to break through to the periphery.

Quack - quack quack -

Hundreds of crows chased after them, their carrion-like cries echoing over the gloomy village, like the ghosts of hell singing an elegy.

Those solid eaves, those tender green leaves... Little by little, it was swallowed alive by the darkness.

A mage who was not in good physical strength and was soon left at the back of the line, he looked at the figures of his companions running farther and farther away, and could no longer restrain the panic in his heart, and subconsciously glanced back.

It was an unimaginable purgatory scenario.

There was not a trace of superfluous color behind him, everything was plunged into the netherworld, it was darkness without a single light, a darkness so deep and solemn that it made people despair, as if they were in the center of a storm, deprived of all emotions, only numbness, pain, and despair.

The pitch-black and deep behemoth rolled towards him, and inside it was an innumerable number of scarlet eyes, all of which were open at this time, staring at him and examining him, with the urge of freezing and piercing the soul.

This scene will be an unforgettable scene in his life, and it will also be the last scene he will see in his life.

In just a moment, his heart was completely filled with fear.

"Ah!!h

With a terrible scream, his entire body was swept in by the black and red wind like a tide, and disappeared without a trace.

"Don't look back, keep moving forward!" Silas roared.

The chains of the forbidden magic stones in his hands suddenly lit up, and a beam of light with the intent of slashing and breaking shot forward.

Although the beam of light is slowly being swallowed up by darkness, it is still the hope of all who are alive.

At least it illuminates the way for them to live.

At least let them see a glimmer of light in the boundless fear, like a drowning man grasping the last straw.

The power of demons comes from emotions, and as long as some kind of negative emotions corresponding to demons are allowed to diffuse, they will be completely devoured.

Although Sadek and the others didn't know what kind of purgatory scene was behind them, they heard the terrible screams coming from behind, and they probably knew the fate of looking back and running slowly.

They know they are in a race against the devil and stealing their lives from death.

Sadek bit his lower lip desperately, the tearing sensation at the base of his thigh had made him almost faint, it was the pain caused by the exaggerated stretching of the ligament, but what was such pain compared to it?

For most people, however, leaving their backs to the enemy grows more and more fearful.

Quack - quack quack -

The crow's cries of tears were endless.

There were still about 100 meters from the entrance of the village, and three people had already been swallowed into the darkness.

Seeing that the companions next to him were running less and less, the remaining fear in the team intensified.

"Hold on!!" Silas looked anxious.

It was only a hundred meters away from the exit of the village, but no matter how hard they tried to run and escape, it seemed that they would never be able to complete this last part of the road.

Maybe this is indeed the last paragraph...

"Devil's ——!"

Silas shouted angrily, and the complex emotions of fear, pain, unwillingness, and resentment in his eyes suddenly disappeared, and were replaced by a resolute one.

Without hesitation, he bit his finger and quickly wrote the word "demon" in blood on the back of the paper he had been clutching in his hand, and threw it far away.

Just as he ran and wrote, another companion was consumed by fear.

And they are still at least 50 meters away from the entrance of the village.

And all of them, even Silas himself, were filled with horror despite their emotions.

They all know that this final journey may never be completed.

Quack Quack –

The voice of the crow behind him was like a note urging life, and it seemed to be three points faster.

The shadows around them grew darker, expanding unbridled, eating away at the ground beneath their feet.

"Is this the end of it?"

There was a hint of desperation in Silas' eyes.

When confronted with creatures that he couldn't describe in words, he realized how weak he really was.

He took a deep breath, and with a crisp sound, the two forbidden magic stone chains on his wrists flicked forward fiercely.

Silas no longer retained, and all the light magic stored in the chains of the Forbidden Stone was released in an instant.

A beam of light broke everything in the pitch darkness, opening up another 10 meters of the way for them.

The only four people who remained had the last desire to survive embarked on this road, which was only 10 meters long.

Just as their path was completely swallowed up by the light, and another companion was killed...

A melodious song suddenly pierced through the darkness and reached the ears of the three Silas.

At that moment...

The fear in their hearts seemed to be slowly dissipating.

The memories that were about to consume them, that frightened them, were slowly being erased from their minds.

As the song became more graceful, the flower of fear that was about to bloom in Silas's heart trembled greatly, and the petals fell and the stamens withered.

In their minds, many beautiful episodes suddenly flashed, from birth to the present...

"Glimmer..."

There seemed to be an extra light in Silas's eyes, which seemed to reflect the figure of a blonde girl.

Behind him, Sadek and another mage, too, recalled the fond memories, changing their frightened expressions from before, and the corners of their mouths rose into happy smiles.

It was also at that moment that the wind in the world slowly began to flow.

At the same moment, the brilliance of the sky seemed to slowly break through the haze.

Click, click!

The sound of a glass mirror shattering.

Around the three of Silas, the boundless darkness began to crumble, cracks appearing.

Immediately afterward, large expanses of darkness fell off like tree bark, revealing the brilliant sky outside.

Light... I shone in from the outside.

It seems that they have won this impossible race.

"Whew... Whew..."

Sadek and the other mage's chests heaved violently, gasping for breath.

The moment they saw the light appear, the two of them couldn't support it anymore, and fell to the ground with a "plop", they had indeed reached the limit.

If it weren't for the soft singing that still echoed in their ears now, I'm afraid the two of them would have fainted.

Silas was better than them, but his face was flushed, sweaty, and his heart was beating like a drum.

Silas gasped a few times, raised his head slightly, and looked in the direction of the song.

In that direction, he could see a sizable team parked there.

And at the head of the line, at this time, there is a striking pink-haired girl, the song is coming from her mouth, and it seems to be equipped with a floating luminous stage?

Is... Peculiar.

The thought crossed Silas's mind.

He breathed a few sighs of relief, and then immediately asked the other party with sincere thanks:

"Silas, thank you for your help! Dare to ask your name? ”

The song stopped with the girl's smile, and she bowed slightly, revealing a smile brighter than light:

"My name is Seraphine and I'm from Noxus!"

After some exchange, Silas gulped down the water handed by the yodelers and recounted what had happened in the town of Jinpo.

The water entered his throat, and Silas completely eased up, and took two breaths of relief:

"You're a Noxus exchange group, right?"

He had heard the news of the visit of the Noxus exchange group, and Laxana had also been tasked with welcoming the exchange group this time.

"Yes." Seraphine nodded, looking curiously at the interior of Jinpo Town, "Demon... It's been a long time since I've seen it. ”

She knew in her heart that the target that LeBlanc and the Empire wanted her to find was probably this demon lurking in the territory of Demacia.

She is no stranger to demons.

There are a lot of records of demons in the Floating Castle, and even the source of the power of the Great Commander of Svein is the demons.

It's just that she heard from her teacher that the Grand Commander of Svein is not a demon himself, but devours the demon as a whole and has all the power and authority of the demon.

"There should be no mistake, there are no traces of magic at the scene, and it can pull people into the darkness and devour, there is only one possibility, demons." Silas said in a hoarse voice.

The legends of demons are spread throughout the Rune Continent, from the weakest ordinary demons to the ten demons who wield power, their legends are widely spread.

"Listening to your description, it should be 'fear', if you are not one of the ten demons, you should not be powerless to resist." Seraphine speculated.

She could hear Silas's heart, a poor man who had been redeemed.

From this, she could deduce that Silas's strength was not as good as Zhao Xin's, but it was also stronger than ordinary demons.

Of all the demons, ten stand at the apex. They each hold a kind of authority, or law, in the Rune Continent.

Fear, secrets are one of them.

According to his teacher, the demon does not come from an alien plane like the void, nor does it come from the stars of the heavenly realm.

The power of the demons comes from the replenishment of the laws by the Runeterra.

This is a very complex theoretical system, what Seraphine has learned so far, only understands that this kind of authority is far stronger than ordinary energy, and the level is equivalent to the world rune, but because the demon does not have human consciousness, it is weaker than the human control world rune.

She remembered what Ms. Sindra had said when she was teaching this passage:

The demon's weakness lies in their absolute quest for self-authority, which is more difficult than humans who know how to give up.

Absolutely pursuing... The nature of demonic behavior is also their greatest weakness.

Seraphine shifted her gaze to Silas, and could tell that he was in much better shape, at least the fear in his heart had subsided.

"I don't know much about them, and I only know scattered legends, such as the predecessor of the crown guard family who killed a demon." Silas said.

Seraphine smiled and said, "That's a legend that happened in Fosbayro, and the hero of the story was Miss Laxanne's grandfather. But alas... Demons can't be killed by ordinary people. ”

Faced with Silas' frozen countenance, Seraphine continued:

"Miss Laxana probably didn't tell you that not long ago, when she and her brother went to the town of Fosbello to worship their ancestors, they encountered the demon again and defeated it."

"Yes, you Noxus are so pervasive." Silas snapped back to his senses and scoffed.

Seraphine was nothing more than a messenger, and in appearance younger than Laxana.

Such people know so many secrets of Demacia, which shows what Demacia has been infiltrated.

"Most places in the Land of Runeterra have demonic legends, but only Noxus does not, and Ionia has very few, do you know why?"

Seraphine didn't pay attention to Silas's tone, but asked instead.

The man in front of him cared too much about Miss Crown, but now, that Miss Crownguard was about to deal with the demon.

In this case, if he can get more information about the demon, the man in front of him is willing to make any concessions.

As Seraphine had expected, Silas's face changed, and finally asked sincerely:

"Messenger of Seraphine, I hope you can answer it." chaptere

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