LOL: The dark goddess covets me!

Chapter 121 Gwen: I'm not young anymore!
The dark and gloomy clouds condensed, and the curtain of late spring came to an end. With a drizzle of rain, Runeterra completely kicked off the prelude to midsummer.

A week passed in the blink of an eye, Josh's body had completely recovered, and even during the "rehabilitation training", he found that his magic was stronger than before.

That was the boost effect brought by transcendence. In order to open up the magic power circuit, all the arcane runes imprinted in Josh's body had been replaced with the imprint style of world runes.

So far, Josh has not noticed any abnormality in his body, and it is probably certain that this change is a benign change.

It's just that he also decided to reduce his reliance on world runes as much as possible in the future, so as not to become like Ryze in time.

During this period of time, Josh started melee training under Lunicia's guidance.

Ever since Lunicia took over control of her body to fight against the Ruined King last time, Josh has truly experienced what is called "four or two" fighting skills.

When the overall strength is similar, or even at a disadvantage, rely on exquisite martial arts to suppress powerful enemies.

If it wasn't for Lunicia's rescue, even if Josh was able to use blood magic to control the absorbed power of the Spider God, he might not be able to suppress or even defeat the Ruined King within 10 minutes.

Although the age has passed the best stage of martial arts, but in Runeterra, to develop the strength of the physical body, such as increasing the speed of nerve response, strengthening strength, etc., actually does not need years of exercise.

After all, Josh is a talented rune mage, and the physical enhancement effect brought by magic can also be achieved, even far surpassing those ordinary warriors who don't know magic.

Even if they have trained their martial arts to the peak.

This is also the main reason why Lunicia said that melee mages who are skilled in both strength and law are basically the most powerful humans in Runeterra.

Training is a tedious process and requires applying learned skills to practice.

Since most of the Sentinel Sanctuary are still ordinary people, and Ahri and Ryze are not good at close combat, Gwen took the initiative to take on the role of sparring partner.

Because most of the time before the confrontation was run-down undead, although Gwen made a move, most of the time he directly used the haze magic to completely purify them.

When Gwen really showed his martial arts, Josh, who only used rune magic to strengthen his body, suddenly discovered that this little girl's melee ability was far superior to his own.

Without Lunicia's assistance, Josh's "triangle cat" kung fu would not last a few rounds in Gwen's hands.

Only by blessing himself with the power of arcane magic can he barely rely on his reaction to fight Gwen.

A week of training time would not have much effect, but the actual battle with Gwen has benefited Josh a lot.

As for Syndra...

Josh didn't know what the woman had been doing recently, maybe it was the embarrassment caused by the last "seduction" that made her at a loss.

During these days, she has been deliberately avoiding Josh. Even if she shares a room with Josh, Ari and Gwen, and they don't look up and look down, Syndra always pretends not to see Josh.

Josh thought he had offended her somewhere.

But when she asked Ahri a few times, she would always return a mysterious smile, and even her attitude towards Gwen was ambiguous, neither affirming nor objecting, and she did not answer Josh's question directly at all.

This made Josh even more puzzled. Even his daily relationship with Gwen began to be cautious, not daring to overstep too much, and because of this, he was laughed at by Lunicia again, only lustful but not courageous.

Josh didn't bother to refute. Anyway, this guy is a pure "fun person", and he will be ridiculed no matter what he says.

"Ha...Josh be careful!"

There was a burst of sword light and sword shadow, the sharp edge pierced the air, and a wound had been cut on Josh's face, but the phantom blade disappeared out of thin air.

"Josh, are you okay?!"

Josh suddenly came back to his senses, only to find that the blue-haired girl in front of him had worried eyes and an eager expression, standing on tiptoe to check the scar on his face just left.

[On the battlefield, your head is now separated from your body. 】Lunishia reprimanded in a cold voice like a stern mentor.

"I'm fine, it's just a wound, nothing serious."

Gwen reached out to stroke Josh's face, but he avoided it pretending to be nonchalant, and converted the magic power to promote the healing of the wound.

again...

Could it be that I have done something wrong recently to make Josh hate me?

Or, is it because of Syndra?

When Gwen first got to know Syndra through Ahri, the two chatted very happily. Syndra's attitude was gentle and friendly, and her true inner feelings did not match her cold appearance at all.

But for some reason in the past week, Gwen was still able to communicate with Syndra normally, but she always felt that she was showing inexplicable hostility towards him...

When did it start?

Gwen was troubled in her heart, with a fleeting loss on her face, and immediately regained her spirits, and said worriedly: "Josh, why do I think you have been out of shape these two days? It's obviously good at the beginning."

[I'm afraid it's squeezing juice every day, it's too intemperate. 】Lunicia sneered.

"I should have thrown you into the little black box every night!"

Josh replied to Lunicia, and said to Gwen, "I... have it?"

"Of course!" Gwen put her hands behind her back, lowered her eyes and pursed her mouth, "The attack I just had, would have been easily blocked by you three days ago."

Josh was silent for a moment, and found a random reason to cover up his wild thoughts; "It may be that he is about to set off to conquer the black mist. There are too many things to consider, so it's okay not to rest."

"yes……"

The two people who had their own thoughts didn't speak any more, the air suddenly fell into silence, and the atmosphere seemed a little unnatural.

After more than ten seconds, as the door of the training ground was pushed open, Ahri's crisp voice came: "Today's training is over...?"

Her voice became smaller and smaller, and at the end there was a hint of uncertainty.

At the same time, Josh and Gwen both looked in the direction of the gate.

Ari raised her willow eyebrows, and walked slowly in front of the two, with a smile on her cherry red lips, "You two get along pretty well."

Gwen faintly felt that Ahri had other intentions in what he said, and quickly explained: "Josh was injured just now, I just wanted to check his wound."

Ari didn't pay much attention to Gwen's explanation, but just glanced at Josh, "Why have you regressed after a week?"

"..."

"Okay~~ I won't tease you anymore, it's partly my fault after all."

"Huh?" Gwen didn't know why, "Why... Josh's poor condition has something to do with you?"

[Children, please don't ask random questions. 】

If Gwen couldn't hear Lunicia's words, based on Josh's understanding of Gwen, she would have blushed and refuted that she was a thousand years old.

Sure enough, Ahri and Gwen's next words confirmed Josh's point of view.

"You're still young, don't ask if you shouldn't." Ari smiled and rubbed Gwen's dissatisfied little face.

"I'm not young anymore! I just slept for 1000 years... that's all." Gwen didn't have much confidence, but she still puffed out her chest.

Compared to Ari, she is not inferior at all.

In this regard, Gwen is very confident.

Ari narrowed his eyes into crescent moons, covered his mouth and let out a chuckle, and stopped continuing the topic: "Okay, let's not digress... I have something important to see you today."

"Are you going to Xiongdu?" Josh directly hit Ahri's mind.

In fact, it wasn't really a guess, as early as the night before yesterday, the two had whispered and were still discussing the idea of ​​marching into the Shadow Isles.

Now that his body has recovered, Ryze is still urging Shurima to find the world rune trip, and the matter of Shadow Island cannot be delayed for too long.

"Yes."

Ari nodded slightly, and said in a serious tone: "I have already contacted the heads of the sentinel sanctuaries in various regions, and at the Fortune Workshop, the holy stone weapons have also been produced in a hurry.

"Although the time is short and not a lot, it is enough to replace weapons for a group of experienced veterans.

"When we go to discuss with King Jarvan III, try to get as many fearless vanguards as possible. It will not be a problem to deal with the black mist that has lost one of the sources of the Curse of Ruin."

Josh nodded in agreement, "Combined with the power of the world runes, we will try our best to eradicate the influence of the black mist once and for all."

"But before that, we still have an urgent task."

Hearing what Ari said, Josh was stunned, and subconsciously asked, "Is there anything else to deal with?"

Ariqiong's nose shrugged slightly, her brows slightly frowned, with a disgusted expression on her face: "I'm sweating so badly... You don't want to just go and meet the King of Demacia, do you?"

……

……

Josh and Gwen each occupied a bathroom, cleaned and tidied themselves well, and then went to the square in front of the Shining Light Tower to meet Ahri.

Several well-decorated carriages with the Sentinel of Light logo were parked aside. The majestic horses were panting and breathing, and their muscular muscles were far from those of the horses Josh had seen in modern society.

There were quite a few people present, and most of them were familiar to Josh, such as Ahri's parents, Syndra, Urias and his son and apprentice, as well as veterans who had met recently but could not be named. .

Ryze was wearing a gray hooded robe, which was somewhat similar to the costumes of Helia's explorers. He stood silently on the edge of the crowd, a few steps away from the nearest people.

In addition to these, there are young men and women who are both strange and familiar to Josh standing beside Ahri.

They don't look very old, but they are far more mature than their peers. They are somewhat similar in appearance, not like a couple, but more like brothers and sisters.

But Josh couldn't remember where he had seen them at all.

Seeing Josh and Gwen approaching, the crowd automatically made way for them.

Ari didn't let go at all when getting along with them in private, his expression was tense and serious.

But she is not as cold as Syndra's daily life, and she is full of the serious temperament of a leader.

"You are here." Ahri said lightly, and then pointed to the young man and woman beside him, "Let me introduce to you, they are the descendants of Kalista and Ledros."

Upon hearing these two names, Gwen immediately widened her eyes, showing shock, covered her mouth and exclaimed, "I said, why do you two look so familiar!"

The man with a strong and burly figure, over two meters tall, and the leaner woman with extremely muscular arms that were exposed looked at Gwen at the same time.

"You're Gwen, right?" The woman spoke first, with a gentle smile on her face, "My name is Kara Hegayari's Kaloya, I've heard Ari mention you, but I haven't had time to talk to you Meet."

Immediately afterwards, Kaloya elbowed the man next to her, and the expressionless man had no choice but to speak: "Kara Hegayari's Leslie."

"Forgive my brother's faux pas, he has been like this since our parents died in the night of the soul eater five years ago, and he didn't mean to."

As if dissatisfied with his sister's mention of his parents to outsiders, Leslie exhaled heavily from his nasal cavity.

Compared with the bad-tempered Leslie, the young Kaloya, who has just grown up, is obviously more approachable.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Gwen."

Gwen lifted the hem of her skirt, bent her knees slightly, and saluted the two with Kamavia's court aristocratic salute.

However, she was not as cheerful as she was when she met strangers. Instead, Gwen felt a little lonely and melancholy in front of Kaloya and Leslie.

The descendants of the royal family of Kamavia, their ancestor Kalista is the same sister as the master...

Gwen sighed secretly, and turned to suppress this sad emotion in her heart.

"I am a doll sewn by my master Isolde, and I got free due to various chances and coincidences... I have inherited the will of my master, and for those who have been hurt by the black mist, I will do my best to fight against evil! "

"Nice to meet you too...and curious about your history! Can you tell me?"

Kaloya was very excited and walked towards Gwen.

At this time, Ari suddenly interjected: "Okay Kaloya, are you going to make everyone wait for you?"

The excitement dissipated in an instant because of Ahri's words, and Kaloya bowed her head and retreated to Leslie's side, apologizing at the same time: "Uh...sorry, I was too excited."

Ari looked away and looked around, "Is everyone ready?"

Seeing that no one raised any objections, she directly pointed to Josh, Gwen and Syndra with her eyes, "In that case, let's set off for Xiongdu."

Afterwards, Ari's eyes focused on his parents who looked sad, "Mom and Dad, during the time I'm away, I'll leave Hewenhaiya to you to take care of."

"Don't worry, little raccoon, we will always be your and Josh's solid backing." Yarrow nodded in response.

As parents, the thoughts and ideas of father and mother are not necessarily the same, which is vividly shown in Yarrow and Lin.

Lin, on the other hand, was full of worry. Before Ahri got into the carriage, she held her hand and told her to be careful.

"Don't worry mom, Josh will protect me."

Ahri talked about Josh, but it aroused Sindra's dissatisfaction: "Huh, if you have a man, you forget your good sister, right?"

　Ari’s episode can probably be finished in two days, at least 1 words
　　
　
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