Chapter 368 Keep Your Hands Away From the Runes!

Zoe hated the Forbidden Stone Forest, but now she suddenly became interested again and said she had discovered something.

Li Lin knew what she was talking about without even thinking.

Because several relatively complete world runes were sealed here by the rune mage Ryze.

About a thousand years ago, an ancient society dedicated to protecting the most dangerous relics in the world and founded on the Blessed Isles luckily escaped the Curse of Destruction, crossed the boundless Sea of ​​Watchers, and fled to Noxus, which did not yet exist at that time. Nokhi territory of this country.

Soon after, Tyrus, an important member of Hylia from Blessed Island, who mainly studies arcane magic, and his companions discovered a magical item that could threaten the entire world - the World Rune.

At that time, Ryze, who came from the Immortal Fortress, east of the Noxi Mountains, was just a young apprentice, and his mentor was Tyrus.

After many secret discussions, the members of the association decided to use all their strength to prevent the news of the world rune...

But they didn't succeed.

The existence of the world runes was quickly learned by various countries in the Noxy Plain, and they were frantically looking for traces of them, hoping to take them as their own.

Especially the two most powerful countries at that time, because the world runes were tit for tat, conflicts and border frictions became increasingly severe.

Tyrus took young Ryze to lobby and dissuade between the two countries, telling the king about the dangers of the world's runes, hoping that they would negotiate peace, and trying his best to recover the rune fragments from their hands and keep them properly.

But the struggle between the two nations was far beyond Tyrus' ability to mediate.

With a loud noise that shook the earth and shattered the sky, Tyrus and Ryze, who hurriedly fled to the Noxi hills, witnessed the destructive power of the world runes with their own eyes...

The earth shattered in an instant, the bedrock deep underground collapsed, and hot magma surged out from the ground, forming a pillar of fire thousands of meters high.

Between the illusions, even the space has a faint tendency to fragment.

Everything in the eastern part of the Noxi Mountains was annihilated by the power of the World Runes.

Trees, houses, mountains, earth...

A hole appeared on the ground, and the ocean from the sky surged in. A small piece of the continent fell completely into the depths of the Watcher's Sea just because of a rune fragment.

However, this is only the beginning of the Rune War.

In the following decades, the rune wars that broke out completely were not only limited to Runeterra, but also affected Shurima and even parts of Ionia, almost pushing human civilization to the end.

Fortunately, those civilizations that possessed the world's runes were quickly wiped out by the power of the runes, and the war ended quickly.

Ryze personally killed his master Tyrus, whose mind was also eroded by the World Runes. He deeply realized the dangers of the World Runes and vowed never to use the World Runes.

He used the inheritance left by Tyrus, a scroll that could locate the fragments of the world's runes, to find the world's runes, and sealed them in an unknown underground space in the Forbidden Stone Forest. It was unknown who built the Forbidden Stone Pillar. .

Li Lin understands that period of history. Not only does he know most of the world lines, but the library in Piltover also has clear records of it.

It’s just that there is no Ryze, the great arcane mage who silently collects runes and seals them to protect mankind.

Zoe excitedly tried to open a portal.

Perhaps her magic was affected to a certain extent because she had gone deep into the Forbidden Stone Forest, or she was unable to fully utilize the strength she inherited from the Twilight Stars.

Although the golden halo was open, the place it led to was not what she expected.

Li Lin hesitated.

Zoe has said before that as the favored one of the world, he is a very special existence, and his soul will not be affected by the runes of the world.

Although at that time he had the urge to come directly to Demacia to search for the world runes.

But after thinking about it again, he gave up this idea and realized his immaturity.

It is a terrible thing when a person has the power of a god. It will be like a magnifying glass, infinitely magnifying the desires and hidden malice in a person's heart.

No one is perfect, and there can be no perfect human beings in the world.

Even the kindest people can have evil in their hearts.

And when the evil thoughts in their hearts are amplified, there are too few people who can suppress them with kindness.

Even if the runes of the world would not corrode Li Lin, he thought that he could not have the personal power to rival the gods and still maintain his original intention.

Moreover, the person who guards the world runes is the old mage Ryze, whom Li Lin admires more. He does not want to be an enemy of this guardian of mankind.

Without thinking too much, Li Lin stepped forward and put his hand on Zoe's shoulder, "Wait, Zoe..."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine soon!"

She ignored Li Lin at all, focusing entirely on her portal.

In the blink of an eye, she tried to open the aperture leading to the underground more than ten times.

"Hell, this forest can't communicate with the spiritual world! I hate it here!"

"we can not……"

"Wait a minute! Now! I want to give you a big gift!"

Li Lin felt quite helpless, so he had to go around in front of her, clamp her shoulders with his strong hands, and shouted in her face: "Zoe!"

Affected by his interference, the portal that Zoe had just gathered suddenly turned into golden particles, dissipated in the air, and was quickly absorbed by the surrounding forbidden magic stone trees.

She stamped her little foot angrily, "What are you doing! I almost succeeded!"

"It's time to change your unwillingness to listen to what others say."

"Is this why you stopped me?"

"I……"

The next second, before Li Lin could start to explain, Zoe snapped her fingers again and once again activated her magic power to condense a portal.

This time, a breath that made him feel palpitating came from the other end of the portal, and even his soul was trembling.

Li Lin subconsciously held his breath and looked at the golden aperture like a one-way mirror.

It was a huge underground ruin, and most of the collapsed area had turned into bottomless ravines. Only a short section of precarious overpass connected a central hall made of forbidden magic stone.

Seven or eight huge stone pillars stand here, emitting weak magical white light, illuminating this dim space without the sun and moon.

Seemingly affected by Zoe's astral magic, three rays of yellow, blue, and green light flashed in the Forbidden Demon Stone Pillar, attracting Li Lin's attention.

"Finally it worked!"

Zoe jumped into the portal at once, tapped her dexterous toes on the ground, landed smoothly, and then turned back to wave to Li Lin who was still in a daze on the other side.

"Come on!"

Seeing that he had not recovered from the shock, Zoe raised her eyebrows and curled her lips, then flew back, grabbed him and returned to this space, and flew straight to the only central hall that was not turned into ruins.

Although the Magic Stone has the ability to absorb and store magic, giving the impression that it has the ability to suppress magic, there is an upper limit to the amount of magic stored inside it.

Some magic energy that is too large or pure cannot even be absorbed by the Forbidden Magic Stone.

For example, Ryze can freely cast the arcane teleportation magic "Warp Realm" here, and Zoe can also condense more advanced portals, but the performance is not very stable.

And the energy possessed by the world runes is enough to destroy a continent...

This is just the power of a small fragment of the cornerstone.

With these thick forbidden magic stone pillars that seem to be imprinted with some special magic, it is already good to just hide the breath of these world runes and put them into a dormant state.

Completely seal the world's runes?

Unless the giant gods and stars in the sky personally take action, there is simply no way for humans or local gods such as demigods, ancient gods, or even celestial warriors to do this.

These three world runes can be disturbed by magic and flash brightly, which is enough to prove that they are not completely sealed.

But……

Li Lin carefully counted the number of runes on site and found that there were only three categories: precision, witchcraft, and firmness.

Among them, the witch's witchcraft still has several pieces missing. It is obviously missing the cornerstone of precision and firmness, which is still complete compared to the other two.

The domination runes shown in the CG do not even have a cornerstone, only a few scattered fragments that cannot be combined together, and even the red color is not visible.

Is this the extent of Ryze's collection of world runes?

While Li Lin was frowning and thinking, Zoe shook his arm excitedly, "How is it? Do you recognize what this is?"

"I don't think we should be here."

"Why?" Zoe pouted her lips, looking puzzled, "This is a world rune! It's more complete than the one I found in Ionia before, and I said I wanted to give it to you as a gift. You don't even care. Are you interested?"

I don't want to know the consequences of angering that old mage...

Li Lin sighed, "It's true that I'm interested, but I feel that I'm not qualified to use them now."

"Are you worried about being eroded?" Zoe looked at Li Lin with a look that looked like an idiot, "I've said it before, you are special and will not be eroded."

"I don't mean..."

"Oh, why are you more mother-in-law than me? You act like a little girl."

Zoe flew directly to the forbidden demon stone pillar where the domination world rune fragments were suspended.

Looking at these beautiful stones that can produce "fireworks", a smile appeared on her face again, "Although I have no interest in these things, I know they are still very useful to you!"

Zoe looked back at Li Lin, "Didn't you say that you would have to deal with those disgusting and twisted bugs in the future? With these stones, I don't have to worry about your life and safety!"

Hearing what she said, Li Lin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Have I reduced myself to the point where I need a "little girl" to worry about my life?

"I thought about helping you find world runes before, but I didn't expect that someone has already found so many for us!"

Zoe chuckled, "Although I don't know who collects these 'beautiful stone lovers', but since we have discovered them, they are ours!"

The little robber Zoe gives Li Lin a headache.

He couldn't help but imagine that Ryze, who had collected runes from other worlds, returned home and found that his home had been stolen. He was so angry that he "fainted on the spot."

When Zoe took steps to touch the world runes, Li Lin thought quickly and came up with a way to temporarily make her give up the world runes.

But before he could speak, an overloaded arcane sphere shot out from a distance and hit the floor at Zoe's feet at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, interrupting her continued sneaking.

At the same time, a middle-aged man's roar, which sounded hoarse and deep, with deep anger, echoed in the underground space:

"Keep your hands off the runes!"