Legends of Runeterra

"Protect the Palace..."

"quiet!!"

Qiyana shouted, and the surrounding earth elemental power suddenly restricted the movements of the road guards, forcing them to stay where they were.

Nodding slightly to Li En, Qiyana looked at the panicked Ixtal elite elemental mages.

"How can you be so flustered? What you see before you is the ancient holy relic of Ishtar!"

"...Yes, Your Highness, please forgive me."

Although he couldn't move, Kazas, with a slightly pale face, still apologized respectfully.

"Hmph! Don't be rude again, just wait patiently!!"

"I...I understand!"

Although she knew that it was normal for Kazas and the others to panic, and that they loyally wanted to protect her at the first opportunity, Qiyana always felt a little embarrassed to behave like this in front of Li En and Ezreal who had just woken up, so she couldn't help feeling a little angry.

"I'm sorry, Li En, I made you laugh."

“It doesn’t matter. They don’t know about Malphite’s situation. Even if that’s the case, their first reaction is to protect you.

Ixtal's road guard is very good!"

"Is...Is that so? It's...not bad."

As she spoke modestly, the corners of Qiyana's mouth involuntarily rose slightly.

“BOOM~~!!”

With a mighty roar, the ground trembled slightly, and after absorbing the giant controlled by the 'Void', Malphite slowly bent down and squatted.

Due to the difference in body size and the removal of some unusable "impurities", Moffitt's height was not nearly a thousand meters, but only more than six hundred meters.

With its even wider and heavier body, the behemoth, which was as high as a two-hundred-story building, leaned down. Even though the road guards knew that this brown stone giant had no ill intentions, they were still oppressed by the huge body and their faces were all tense.

"Om~!"

"Lord Li En, Malphite has restored some of the functions of the Monolith Fortress. How about we take it to Ixoken now?"

Nazuk's figure did not appear in front of everyone, but his voice echoed.

"of course can."

"Yeah, Malphite."

"Yes, father."

A deep and vast sound, like the collision and crushing of huge rocks, was heard, and the next moment.

"Buzz~~!!"

A dark brown light lit up, completely covering Malphite's figure.

Under the astonished gaze of the crowd, the shape of this stone giant quickly changed in the light.

After just a few dozen breaths, a streamlined structure resembling an aerospace mothership hovered above everyone's heads.

The color is still brown, but the surface of this aerospace carrier is no longer as rough and scratched as the previous Moffitt.

Instead, it was like sand being burned into glass. Dense brown opaque crystals covered the surface of the aerospace mothership, and just looking at it with the naked eye gave people a feeling of absolute solidity that could not be broken.

"This...this is..."

"To be able to do this after only partially recovering some of his abilities, the ancient Ixtal is truly amazing."

"Haha~! Master Li En, thank you for your praise. Please come up."

"Om~!"

A brown light fell from the aerospace mothership and turned into a translucent staircase, the end of which landed right in front of Li En and the others.

"Well, let's go."

“Wuhu~! Personally riding on a creation from the ancient times, my Ezreal’s adventures have put him a step ahead of the top adventurers in Piltover!”

Excited, Ezreal led Milio up the stairs, which automatically led them forward.

"Brother Ezreal, this... this ladder is moving!?"

"Keep calm, Milio. Keep calm. If you want to be the best adventurer, you must always keep a calm mind."

"Yeah, I remember!"

Looking at Ezreal, who was obviously more excited than Milio, and was fooling this naive jungle mage, Li En smiled and turned to look at Qiyana.

"Let's go, Qiyana, and take Kazas and the others with us."

"Okay, Lee En."

Qiana nodded obediently, then looked at the road guards who were gradually recovering from their shock.

"Follow!"

After saying this, Qiana went up the stairs with Li En.

"Yes, thank you, Your Highness, and thank you, Lord Li En!"

Kazas and his subordinates bowed with their hands crossed. To the commander, what was no less shocking than the creation before his eyes was that Yun'ale, the most gifted, arrogant and overbearing man in Ixutal in hundreds of years, was so...gentle to the person before him.

'To be able to subdue the most arrogant Yun Alai, this Lord Li En...'

Looking at the backs of the two, Kazas vaguely realized that in the future, the 'Yuntar throne' might not be inherited according to age and seniority.

"Let's go, let's follow!"

"Yes, Lord Commander!"

Riding the energy elevator, Li En and others reached the bow of the helical carrier deck, and saw Ezreal taking Milio to observe and explore everywhere.

"Lord Li En, please wait for a moment. I will ask Malphite to repair the ground in this area."

"Ok."

Li En just finished speaking.

"Buzz~~!!"

A huge amount of earth elemental power fell from the bottom of the aerospace mothership, penetrating into the rugged ground below that was shattered and cracked due to the battle.

“BOOM~~!!”

The earth was surging, and the giant pit formed by the void insect swarm and the charred giant breaking out of the ground, as well as the cracks and potholes around it, were all repaired at this moment by the massive elemental power.

Soon, this scene of moving mountains and creating land was completed, and the ground returned to its original natural state. However, the jungle covering the surface was not something Malphite could do at the moment, and could only grow naturally over time.

"Sorry for the long wait, Lord Li En. Our next target is Ixuokun. Shall we set off?"

"Out... huh?"

Li En suddenly turned his head and looked towards the jungle in the south.

"What's wrong, Lee En?"

"Qiana, you guys should go back to Ixoken first."

Milio looked towards the jungle to the south and immediately remembered that was the direction the two Vastaya had left.

"Brother Li End, is something wrong with Neeko and Nidalee? Then I also..."

"Don't worry, Milio, they are just trapped by a certain existence. You can go back to Ixoken first."

"Leen!"

"Ok?"

"Be careful!"

"I will."

He nodded to Qiyana, and the next moment, Li En's figure disappeared from everyone's sight.

Qiana took a deep breath and looked away to the south.

"Ancestor, please take me back to Ixooken."

"OK, all right."

"Buzz~~!!"

A light brown wall of light covered the deck, and the aerospace mothership that Malphite had transformed into began to slowly accelerate.