Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 368 Don't touch the rune!
Zoe hated the Forbidden Stone Forest, but now she suddenly became interested and said that she found something.

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

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

About 1000 years ago, an ancient society dedicated to protecting the most dangerous sacred objects in the world, founded on the Blessed Island, escaped the curse of ruin, crossed the boundless Sea of ​​Watchers, and fled to a place where there was no such thing as Noxus at that time. The territory of the country of Nokhi.

Not long after, Tyrus, an important member from Hylia on Blessed Island, who mainly studies arcane magic, and his companions discovered a magic item that could threaten the entire world—the World Rune.

At that time, Ruiz from the Immortal Fortress, that is, the eastern part of the Noxie Mountains, was just a young apprentice, and his mentor was Tyrus.

After many discussions in secret, the members of the association decided to do their best to prevent the news of the world rune...

But they didn't succeed.

The existence of world runes was quickly known by various countries in the Noxi Plain, and they frantically searched for their traces, wanting to take them as their own.

Especially at that time, the two most powerful countries faced each other tit for tat, and the contradictions and border frictions became increasingly serious.

Tyrus took the young Ryze to lobby and persuade the two countries, told the king about the dangers of the world's runes, hoped that they would negotiate peace, and tried his best to recover the rune fragments from them 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 pierced the sky, Tyrus and Ryze, who fled to the hills of Noxie in a hurry, witnessed the destructive power of the world runes...

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

Among the illusions, even the space has a tendency to be faintly broken.

In the eastern part of the Noxi Mountains, everything was annihilated by the power of the world runes.

Trees, houses, mountains, land...

There was a hole in the ground, and the ocean in the sky rushed in, and a small continent was completely sunk in the depths of the Watcher's Sea because of a rune fragment.

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

In the following decades, the rune war broke out not only in Runeterra, but also in Shurima and even parts of Ionia, almost bringing human civilization to an end.

Fortunately, those civilizations with world runes were quickly destroyed by the backlash of the power of runes, and the war ended soon.

Ryze personally killed his master Tyrus, who was also eroded by the world rune, and was deeply aware of the dangers of the world rune, and vowed never to use the world rune.

He used the legacy left by Tyrus, a scroll capable of locating world rune fragments to find the world rune, and sealed it in an unknown underground space in the forbidden stone forest. .

Li Lin understood that period of history, not only knowing most of the world lines, but also the relevant clear records in the library of Piltover.

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

Zoe excitedly tried to open a portal.

Maybe it was because she went deep into the forbidden stone forest, or she couldn't fully display her own strength inherited from the Twilight Protoss, which affected her magic to a certain extent.

Although the golden halo was turned on, the place it led to was not what she thought.

Li Lin hesitated.

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

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

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

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

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

No matter how good a person is, there will be evil in his heart.

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

Even if the world runes don't erode Li Lin, he still thinks that he can't have the individual mighty power to rival the gods, and he can still keep his original intention.

What's more, the old mage Ryze, whom Li Lin admired, was the guardian of the world runes. He didn't want to be an enemy of this human guardian.

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

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

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

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

"Hell, this forest can't communicate with the spirit world! I hate this place!"

"we can not……"

"Wait a little longer! Immediately! I want to give you a big gift!"

Li Lin felt quite helpless, so he walked around her, clamped her shoulders with his strong hands, and shouted in her face: "Zoe!"

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

She stomped her little feet angrily, "What are you doing! I'm almost done!"

"It's time to change your character of not listening to others."

"You stopped me just to say this?"

"I……"

The next second, before Li Lin could begin to explain, Zoe snapped her fingers again, urging the magic power to condense a portal again.

This time, a breath that made his heart palpitate rushed to the other end of the portal, and even his soul trembled.

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

It was a huge underground ruin, and most of the collapsed area had turned into bottomless vertical and horizontal ravines. Only a small section of dangerous sky bridge connected to a hall made of forbidden magic stone in the center.

Seven or eight huge stone pillars stand here, exuding a faint magical white light, illuminating this dark space where the sun and the moon are not visible.

As if influenced by Zoe's astral magic, three yellow, blue, and green rays of light flashed in the forbidden stone pillar, attracting Li Lin's attention.

"Finally successful!"

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

"Come on!"

Seeing that he hadn't recovered from the shock, Zooey 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 effect of absorbing and storing magic, giving people the false impression that it has the ability to prohibit magic, but there is an upper limit to the magic stored in it.

Some too large or pure magic energy, the magic stone can't even absorb it.

For example, Ryze can cast the arcane teleportation magic "Curved Realm Leap" here at will, and Zoe can also condense a more advanced portal, but the performance is not stable.

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

This is just the power of a small cornerstone fragment.

With these thick anti-magic stone pillars that seem to be imprinted with some special magic, just hiding the breath of these world runes and letting them fall into a dormant state is already very good.

Completely seal the world rune?

Unless the giant gods and protoss in the sky take action in person, there is simply no way to do this with human beings or demigods, ancient gods, or even local gods such as god warriors.

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

but……

Li Lin carefully counted the number of runes on the scene, and there were only three types of runes: precision, witchcraft and firmness.

Among them, the sorcery of the witch is still missing several parts, obviously compared with the other two parts, the precision and firmness that is relatively complete lacks the cornerstone part.

And the domination system runes shown in the CG don't even have a single cornerstone, only a few sporadic fragments that can't be combined together, and even the crimson color is barely visible.

Is Ryze's collection of world runes only up to this point?

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

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

"Why?" Zoe Sakura pursed her lips, looking puzzled, "This is a world rune! It's even more complete than the one I found in Ionia and said to give you as a gift. You don't even think about it." Interested?"

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

Li Lin sighed, "It's true that you're interested, but I don't think I'm qualified to use them now."

"Are you worried about being eroded?" Zooey looked at Li Lin with a foolish look. "I've said it before, you are special and won't be eroded."

"I don't mean..."

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

Zoe flew directly to the Forbidden Stone Pillar where the rune shards of the domination world were suspended.

Looking at these beautiful stones that can produce "fireworks", a smile appeared on her face again, "Although I am not interested in these things, I know they are still very useful to you!"

Zooey looked back at Li Lin again, "Didn't you say that you will have to deal with those disgusting and twisted bugs in the future? With these stones, I don't have to worry about your safety!
Hearing what she said, Li Lin could not help but smile bitterly.

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

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

Zoe giggled, "Although I don't know who is collecting these 'beautiful stone lovers', but since we discovered them, they belong to us!"

The little robber Zoe gave Li Lin quite a headache.

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

When Zoe stepped forward and was about to touch the world rune, Li Lin thought quickly and thought of a set of arguments that would temporarily make her give up the world rune.

But before he could open his mouth, an overloaded arcane ball shot from a distance, and hit the floor at Zoe's feet at a speed that was hard to catch with the naked eye, interrupting her continued stealth.

At the same time, a hoarse, low-pitched roar of a middle-aged man filled with anger echoed in this underground space:

"Keep your hands off the runes!"

(End of this chapter)