Chapter 500 Flame Demon Tibok
Inside the house, Annie was sitting in front of the fireplace with her little bear doll in her arms, staring at the crackling fire in a daze.
Li Lin and Amorin sat at the table, both silent.
Through "data-based thinking", he has seen through that the flame demon is attached to Annie's stuffed bear "Tibbers", and its name is Tibbock.
Just some time ago, Anne and her father fell seriously ill. Their bodies were so hot that even Amorin couldn't touch them.
However, even so, she still got up early the next day unharmed, holding the stuffed bear in her arms and sitting blankly in front of the burned out fire with still warm embers.
When Amorine and herself were naming the bear, Amorine and her husband, who was a little shaken and had not fully recovered from the illness, wondered why she had recovered as before in just one night and even named her toy bear. A strange name.
Looking back now, all this is no coincidence.
The wind blew faster outside the window, and each snowflake falling from the sky was much larger than when Li Lin first arrived.
The drone he sent has found Gregory who is hunting outside and rebelling against his family. He will be back in about half an hour.
Amorin anxiously took a sip of the tea soaked with herbs on the table in front of her. Her absent-minded eyes quickly regained their melancholy brilliance and looked at Li Lin.
"To be honest, I've seen it more than once...if it's what you call a demon."
She paused for a moment, looked at her daughter who was still in a daze, and took a deep breath.
"I don't know what its name is, but I saw its true form in the flames - the monster was huge, with countless thick arms all over its body, each of which was spurting out flames.
"It guided me to escape from Ravenbloom College, far away from the Immortal Fortress, and led me to meet Gregory..."
It seemed like she was recalling unpleasant past events, and Amorin didn't want to get too involved in this matter.
"Before I was pregnant with Annie, I was lured into the fire more than once by the guy who existed in the flames, but at that time, the flames could not hurt me, and even Gregory was extremely surprised.
"It wasn't until Annie was born that I realized that the closeness between me and the flame had suddenly disappeared, and even my own magic power had faded a lot."
As she spoke, Amorin's eyes returned to Anne. The depths of her pupils exuded the doting light of maternal love, but they were soon covered by worry.
"I beg you, you must help Annie, no matter what the cost..."
The more she spoke, the less confident she became. In the end, even though Li Lin's voice was as thin as a mosquito's, even though Li Lin had good hearing, he couldn't understand what she was saying.
But based on the previous context, he could make a rough guess.
"I don't need your reward. To be precise, I actually want to ask for your help."
Amorin: "...?"
Noticing the flash of confusion on her face, Li Lin didn't explain much.
If their family of three were not disturbed by demons, they would be just ordinary people. The world crisis should not be a problem for them to consider.
But this flame demon is likely to be the product of the Black Rose, and may even be related to Ramo and Mordekaiser. This is something Li Lin must figure out.
"Let's talk about your past first." Li Lin said.
Amorin's eyes were a little evasive, as if she was reluctant to recall the past, "You won't be interested, but if you can save my daughter..."
She took a breath, drank the cold tea in one gulp, and remained silent for a long time, reorganizing the memories in her mind.
She was once just a child in a remote village, living with her elderly grandmother.
A few years ago, her old and frail grandmother failed to survive the last winter. After her death, the villagers in her village chose to banish her because she was a "witch" who knew magic.
Noxus generally recognizes the value of mages, but most remote villages or towns still cling to pedantic suspicions and dare not agree with mages.
A few weeks later, a man who claimed to be the chief scout of Ravenbloom College, named Fann Litrick, came to Amoryn's cabin and brought her hope——
He dedicated himself to finding talented individuals like her to join Noxus and give them a home.
At that time, Amorin had already had enough of enduring loneliness and being excluded, so she followed Finn to the academy without any hesitation. It was a choice that she would regret for the rest of her life.
One day, Tersi, the principal of the college, stood at the door of her dormitory, accompanied by an arbiter wearing thorns.
They dropped a drop of liquid like fire onto Amorin's forehead, muttering "You are the chosen one", "The empire needs weapons like you", "You will be crowned queen" and so on.
The painful burning sensation swallowed it up almost instantly, and that was the memory she least wanted to recall.
After that, the training in the academy became even more rigorous, reaching the point where Amorin could no longer bear it.
Coupled with the temptation of the voices that sounded in her head from time to time, it didn't take long for her to steal enough food from the kitchen to support her in escaping from the danger range, hide in the dark, and sneak out from a corner of the campus while the instructors and guards were not paying attention. Escape from a gap found.
The next day, before meeting Gregory who happened to be passing by and preparing to settle in the north of the Iron Thorn Mountains, Amorin avoided many crises under the guidance of the voice in her head, and finally died in a bonfire. I saw its true form for the first time - Fire Demon Tibok.
The flames flickered and it showed her images of past history.
At the entrance of a tall and majestic stone palace, a steel giant holding a hammer was fighting with a group of mortals.
It was followed by two ferocious beasts, one was a black shadow as black as ink, and the other was burning with angry flames.
Then the scene changed, and the steel giant fell to the ground, shattered into pieces, with a pale-skinned woman smiling next to him.
As the human mage group cast some indescribable language spell, the power of the two beasts of the Iron Giant was extracted, the soul was compressed, and finally turned into two droplets of pitch black and red.
After listening to Amorin's story, Li Lin couldn't help but raise his brows and fell into deep thought.
First of all, as he expected, the flame demon Tybok has a close relationship with Mordekaiser.
But unlike Ramo, who is imprisoned deep in the Immortal Fortress, it seems to be loyal to the iron-armored wraith who once ravaged the continent of Valoran.
Or maybe Ramo was actually loyal to Mordekaiser, so he said that Swain's power was borrowed.
Of course, this is just Li Lin's personal speculation at present, and there is no conclusive evidence.
Moreover, if Ramo is really loyal to Mordekaiser, there is no need for it to proactively seek out Swain and show him the disaster that the Iron Armored Wraith will bring to Runeterra in the future when the Iron Armored Wraith returns to the Immortal Fortress.
This undoubtedly provided Swain with great help.
In addition, what surprised Li Lin the most was that the Immortal Fortress actually imprisoned another shadow demon that was completely different from Nocturne.
According to the description given by Amorin, the flame demon Tibok is mainly difficult to control, so Telsi, who is connected to the black rose, will find a host for it to imprison and add shackles to it.
But none of them expected that Tibok would use her to escape from Ravenbloom College.
But that's not necessarily the case for the shadow demon.
It is likely to be controlled by the Black Rose, which means that LeBlanc and Vladimir also have a Shadow Demon trump card that is no less powerful than the Fire Demon.
According to Zhinao's assessment of Tibok's energy index, this demon was even stronger than Nocturne that Li Lin had faced.
But to him now, demons of this level are no longer a threat at all.
Fortunately, through Anne and Amorin, I learned that Black Rose actually still had this hand, otherwise it might cause a lot of trouble when we liquidate them in the future.
Li Lin glanced out the window. According to his perception of the magnetic field, Gregory would be at his door in less than three minutes.
He stood up from the chair, and Amorin, who was very nervous from beginning to end, also stood up hurriedly, "Master Li Lin..."
"You don't have to call me your lord, just call me by my name, Lady Amoline."
He pointed out the window, "Your husband has come back. You can talk to him about Anne. If possible, I hope you can come back to Piltover with me."
"That city of progress?" Amorin asked in surprise.
She still knew the name of Piltover. When she was in college, one of her classmates told everyone about this technological city.
But soon, worry filled her face again, and she was very worried that Li Lin would be like Finn Litrick in the past, and deceived their family into a situation of "endlessness".
"Let's put it this way, I am an enemy of the Black Rose organization that founded Ravenbloom College. Besides, you can know my reputation just by asking about it. I will not lie to you about this kind of thing."
Then, Li Lin took out a communicator-style device with the Gila Mann emblem from his pocket and pointed to the only button on it for Amorin.
"You can talk to your husband about this first, and then find a town with a Hex Flying Gate and ask for the name Li Lin.
"If you make up your mind and press the button above, I will come to pick up your family of three."