Chapter 859 [0856] Volibear in Hiding

If it were an ordinary person, when hearing Volibear's soul-shaking roar, the defense of will would probably be broken in an instant, and he would completely lose the ability to think.

But Lux is obviously not an ordinary person. After facing the bright skylight, Volibear's roar did make her feel excited, but she was just startled - in addition to being scared, she was even able to carefully guess and study this roar that seemed to act directly on the soul.

Then Lux was "surprised" to find that Volibear's roar did not seem to act directly on the soul as the first impression.

On the contrary, it only gave people the first impression that it acted directly on the soul, but if you can think and feel carefully after being roared, you will soon find that the source of this sound is actually a "plane that looks like the soul".

This is very interesting.

What exactly is this "plane that looks like the soul"?

Although teacher Kalya has a rare talent in plane space magic, Lux's own talent is concentrated in light magic and elemental magic. It's just that after more contact with Kalya and frequent training in Kalya's small world, Lux gradually has some understanding of things like plane rules.

In Runeland, in addition to the main plane, there are many secondary planes. Some of these planes are special elemental fields, some are soul planes, and there are also spiritual spaces, etc., which are reflections of Runeland in different directions.

These planes are all closely related to Runeland and influence each other with Runeland.

Lux has personally been to the Shadow Realm. This shadow world was once the plane where Morteng was entrenched. This is the shadow plane of Runeland. There are thick and insoluble shadow elements in the plane.

There are two main ways to enter the Shadow Realm. One is to go through the main gate, that is, to travel through the spatial connection between the Shadow Realm and Runeland. For example, the Shadow Realm exit of Fosbyro is such a "main gate". Fosbyro has special guardians to go to the Shadow Realm to use the negative energy in it for composting, and usually maintain the Shadow Realm exit to prevent negative energy leakage.

Another way to enter the Shadow Realm is to use the Shadow Realm's tolerance and absorption of shadow elements, and to travel within a short distance by shadowing oneself, and to achieve space shuttle with the help of the unequal distance between the planes - that is, simply shadowing and escaping into the Shadow Plane, relying on the difference in the unit length ratio between the Shadow Realm and Runeland to achieve an effect similar to flashing.

The elemental plane is mostly like this, except that the spatial distance between different elemental planes and Runeland is different.

The biggest difference from the elemental plane is the soul plane and the spiritual space - the former has another name, called the spirit world; and the latter also has a more well-known name, Bandle City.

The connection point between the spirit world and Runeland is in Ionia, and unlike the shadow world, the energy flowing out of the spirit world is relatively pure magic, so Ionia is called the land of the first birth and the place with the most magic.

As for Bandle City, the hometown of the Yodel people is more closely connected with Runeland, and the exits of Bandle City are all over Runeland, but they are not opened at the same time, but according to a certain rule, some are open and some are closed.

But whether it is the spirit world or Bandle City, in terms of plane relationship, they are "closer" to Runeland than the shadow world and any elemental plane, and the creatures living in the spirit world and Bandle City are also closer to humans in the real world than those twisted shadows in the shadow world.

The Yodel people in Bandle City are a group of furry little cuties.

The native creatures in the spirit world are called Vastaya Shari - now Vastaya Shari are almost nowhere to be seen, because a long time ago, even before Kalya came to Runeland, they chose to combine with humans, and their descendants are now called... Vastaya.

The above is the main content of the brief history of the planes in Runeland that Kalya told Lux. This part of the content was verified by many Shurima scholars at a great price. Some people even went deep into the spirit world and Bandle City. Among them, those who went to the spirit world experienced very confusing experiences that they could not remember, but they finally returned successfully; but those who entered Bandle City, even if they hired Yodel guides in advance, were completely lost in the end and never came back.

According to Kalya, "The main reason that prevented the Shurima Empire mages from exploring the mysteries of the planes is that the entrance to the planes is difficult to find and the loss after entering the planes. Only a few ascenders with extremely high spatial attainments can travel through the planes through means such as space anchors."

At that time, Lux was curious and asked Kalja what plane he had been to.

Kalja's answer was "The plane of fire element is just a short trip without much to say".

In addition to these basic plane knowledge, Kalja also taught Lux how to try to distinguish plane visitors and analyze plane magic.

According to Kalja, plane magic often does not conform to the magic rules of Runeland. If you treat it with general ideas, it will often go wrong. Considering that the plane is difficult to enter and study directly, the Shurima Empire used a research method called "phase difference method" when studying plane magic.

This plane theory based on the general theory of advanced elements abstracts the laws of magic, and then uses the laws of Runeland as the benchmark value to add a set of "phase differences" for plane magic. By modifying the phase difference rules and values, the plane laws are studied.

Theoretically, as long as it is a plane attached to Runeland, there is always a stable phase difference determined by the distance of the plane space. By adding phase difference to the spell model, these plane magics can be studied in the same way as general magic.

To be honest, this theory is a bit off-the-beaten track, and the content is quite boring. In addition to letting Lux learn to slightly perceive the situation in the Shadow Realm near the entrance to the Shadow Realm without entering the Shadow Realm, there is no application space so far.

Even the application of the entire phase difference method, the biggest achievement so far, is to confirm that the Void is not a sub-plane of Runeland, but a dangerous other plane through phase difference calculation - for such a set of laws, Lux finally just memorized some common plane phase difference parameters.

But what she never expected was that this unpopular theory, which couldn't be more unpopular, actually found a place to apply today.

After coming back to her senses from Volibear's roar, Lux quickly countered the roar.

However, the counterattack had no effect. Lux could not trace the source of the roar, nor could she stop the roar. The thunderous roar seemed to be a divine punishment. No matter what Lux tried, it continued to roll and explode in her ears, as if to drive her crazy.

Something seemed to be wrong?

Puzzled, Lux couldn't help but think of the "unusual magic" that Karya had told her. After a simple attempt, she was surprised to find that these roars seemed to be quite consistent with the plane magic that Karya had said!

Since the theoretical research on the phase method was not in-depth, Lux directly chose to substitute the existing phase difference and tried to locate and counter the roar - the phase difference of the fire element was invalid, the phase difference of the thunder element was invalid, the phase difference of Bandle City was invalid, and the phase difference of the spirit world... It worked!

As Lux added phase difference to her spell counter, the roar of Volibear that was roaring in her ears gradually faded, gradually changing from deafening to faint mosquitoes and flies.

Although Volibear was not actually countered and the roar did not stop completely, the reduction of the sound also explained a lot of problems, that is, this sound did not come directly from the soul plane and act on the soul itself, but came from a sub-plane very close to the soul plane.

In other words, Volibear's body is now in a place similar to the spirit world, but not the spirit world.

This is very interesting!

Many old gods like Volibear in Ionia have given up their bodies in Runeterra and simply entered the spirit world for a long time - the more famous one is the Dragon Spirit, the one on Lee Sin.

But as far as Lux knows, Volibear, the old god, is not a guy who is willing to give up his body. Although he does not appear much in the Freljord legend, and often serves as a background for Ornn or Anivia, it is at least certain that this immortal thunderbolt is not the kind of guy who will give up his body.

On the contrary, Volibear's followers - those lost and bear people - still worship strong flesh and blood. As the faith of these lost, Volibear may not completely abandon his body like the spirit of the dragon.

Moreover, if he really completely abandoned his body... why didn't he go directly to the spirit world, but went to a sub-plane that is similar to the spirit world but not the spirit world?

What's the matter, is he afraid of being excluded by the Ionian gods?

Although Lux didn't know what Volibear was like for a while, she could at least be sure that the state of this old god was probably not very good.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to hide in the sub-plane, dare not be in the present world, and not enter the spirit world.

Thinking of this, Lux, who was not worried at first, became even more calm. She even smiled at Ashe and helped her lower the "volume" of Volibear's roar.

"It's not possible to completely isolate the roar of this bear." Lux explained with a smile, "but at least it won't be too noisy."

Ashe was already a little numb.

Along the way, she thought Lux was another me in the world, but today's events were completely beyond her understanding.

Yes, she knew that Lux had defeated Sejuani in the Battle of Mithril City, but she didn't expect Lux to easily face hundreds of Lost Ones and solve them all with just an ordinary sword.

Then, when she thought that being able to easily defeat hundreds of Lost Ones was Lux's limit, Lux "waved her hand" and gave Volibear a set of silent packages - not completely silent, but not much different.

This level of power is beyond the description of ordinary mortals. Even when her ears were quiet, Ashe couldn't help but think of the legendary Lissandra.

Even Lissandra didn't win after challenging Volibear, which only proved that the old gods were not invincible.

And from Lux's current performance... she seems to be very close to the legendary Lissandra!

Thinking of this, Ashe couldn't help but shake her head.

No, it's impossible.

This idea is completely unreasonable!

Ashe couldn't accept this result for a while. She stared at Lux in a daze until Lux stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, and she came back to her senses.

"What's wrong with you?" Lux had no idea what Ashe was thinking. "Are you still feeling dizzy?"

"It was too loud before." Ashe naturally wouldn't say what she thought. "Now I feel my ears are still vibrating... Is this the power of the old gods?"

"Part of the power." Lux, who didn't know that Ashe had thought so much, smiled and shook her head. There was a bit of gloating in her tone that Ashe couldn't understand for a while. "Of course, this is a good thing, which means that this bastard giant bear is having a hard time now."

Hearing what Lux said, Ashe was a little confused again.

She had never been in contact with Kalya, so she naturally couldn't understand where Lux's gloating came from. Lux didn't tell her about his judgment based on the phase method, because it was really hard to explain and involved too many things.

So to Ashe, it seemed that Lux meant that she was able to lower the volume of Volibear mainly because the old god was not in a good state?

Well, in this case, everything makes sense!

Although Lux is still very powerful, she should not be as powerful as the three sisters, otherwise why doesn't she cultivate her own ice bloodline?

Ashe, who felt a little relieved, smiled again. After the annoying thunder disappeared, she and Lux ​​turned around and left the Ancient Frost Mouth and got on the sled again.

During this period, Lux wanted to bury the bodies in the Ancient Frost Mouth, but Ashe stopped her.

"This is their destination." Ashe said this with a serious expression, "Come from the wilderness and return to the wilderness."

As she said this, she raised her hand and pointed to the ice eagles gathered under the dark clouds - these scavengers will make good use of these flesh and blood. The cycle of life and death is part of the cruel natural law of Freljord.

After hearing what Ashe said, Lux nodded, although she felt a little awkward, and finally did not bury the bodies.

In this way, the two took turns driving the carriage, and finally passed the Ancient Frost Pass and entered the old road.

Karya's small class · Plane knowledge:

The Shurima Empire also tried to expand its living space through plane knowledge, but unfortunately, the space talent in Runeland is too rare, and people without this talent can only simply apply it even if they study plane knowledge through the phase difference method, and finally this road failed.