Legends of Runeterra

"This is..."

Suddenly, Alune, who was looking at the sky, turned her head and looked outside the gate of the holy temple.

"Ouch~~!!"

"Hoo~~!!"

“Hiss~Ahhhh~!!!”

A strange and bizarre howling sound suddenly sounded from outside the holy temple, causing Alune to frown slightly.

Looking beyond the gate, La Lune could clearly see the vast black fog converging towards the holy temple.

An evil, weird, and crazy aura emanated from the black fog.

After just staring for a while, all kinds of distracting thoughts kept emerging in La Lune's mind.

Without any hesitation, Alune quickly walked to the mat not far away and knelt down facing the ancient moon sculpture on the main seat of the temple.

With her hands clasped in front of her chest, La Lune closed her eyes and began to pray devoutly.

As Alune prayed, the moonlight from the sky seemed to converge towards the holy temple.

Under the moonlight, the glowing bricks and stones of the holy temple shone even brighter.

The black fog that had originally gathered around the holy temple was now driven away by the bright light and retreated a distance.

The light and the black fog started a tug-of-war.

"Brother, no matter where you are, don't come over..."

While praying for the "power of the bright moon", Alune sighed silently in her heart.

Ever since Alune entered the Guihai Maru Temple and returned to the spiritual realm with the holy temple, she has been using the power here to transform into a "moonstone weapon" and transmit it to her brother Aphelios who fights in the material realm through a ritual passed down within the Lunari.

However, after hunting down evil spirits for so long, the beings behind these evil forces have also realized the key to the problem.

Now that Guihai Maru Temple has suddenly descended upon the material world, these evil spirits will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity.

The unprecedented number of evil spirits hidden in the black fog was beyond the ability of Aphelios and Alune to face.

At this moment, Alune only hoped that Aphelios would not come over. With the power of the temple itself, at least... she might be able to hold on until the "moon conjunction" phenomenon ended, and Guihai Maru Temple would return to the spiritual realm again.

As for contacting Aphelios and warning him not to come over, the black fog covering the outside of the temple has interfered with the communication between the two.

...

"Huhuhu~"

Keeping his breath hidden, Aphelios ran at high speed between the mountains.

Fortunately, he was not far from the place where the Guihai Maru Temple descended. In addition, the inheritance ceremony from the Bright Moon Sect greatly strengthened the connection between the two brothers and sisters, allowing Aphelios to sense it at the first time and rush to the place where the holy temple descended.

At this moment, Aphelios was not far away.

"Just turn over again... huh!?"

Before he climbed over the hill in front of him, Aphelios' expression suddenly changed.

Then Aphelios quickly climbed over the mountain, and just as he had perceived, the sky was filled with pitch-black fog that enveloped everything in sight.

In the center of the black fog, a ray of bright moonlight descended from the sky, dispelling the ever-changing dark fog.

However, in just a short moment, Aphelios's insight, which was far superior to that of an ordinary person, enabled him to discover that the range of the moonlight protection was shrinking.

The next moment, without any hesitation, Aphelios grabbed several two-finger-sized glass bottles from his waist.

"Bang~!"

“Gurgle~Gurgle~Gurgle~!”

Made with the Night Blooming Flower as the raw material, the bone-chilling, highly poisonous potion slid down the throat and fell into the stomach.

This essence of the night instantly plunged Aphelios into the same excruciating pain as always, which he still found difficult to adapt to even after drinking it countless times.

"Huhuhu~!"

After taking a brief breath and feeling the abundant magic power and severe pain surging from his body, Aphelios closed his eyes and mobilized his magic power to activate the ritual, trying to contact his sister Alune.

A moment later, Aphelios suddenly opened his eyes, raised his trembling right hand, pulled out another bottle of potion, and poured it into his mouth without any hesitation.

“Gurgle~Gurgle~!”

"Crack~!"

The empty glass bottle shattered on the ground, and Aphelios picked up another one and poured it into his mouth.

This cycle repeated itself until the last bottle of Essence of Night was drunk, and Aphelios could sense nothing but pain.

At the same time, unprecedented magical power roared and surged in his body, making a sound like a tsunami.

Aphelios's body, which was gifted with strength as strong as lunar rock, felt like it was about to shatter.

However, at this moment, Aphelios, who had already lost his ability to speak due to the poison, could not make any sound.

"Huh~~!!"

Aphelios let out a long breath that felt like countless steel knives cutting through his trachea. Amidst endless pain, he mobilized the violent magic power in his body and performed the ritual of inheritance.

"Laluen, Laluen, Laluen..."

'elder brother!!'

An ethereal voice, filled with joy but also with panic and worry, suddenly sounded in Aphelios' mind.

My heart suddenly relaxed, and even the endless pain subsided at this moment.

'Are you alright, Alune?'

"I'm fine, brother. Please don't come over. I can take over the power of the moon and hold on until the end of the 'moon conjunction' phenomenon. Then I can return to the spiritual realm with Guihai Maru Temple!"

'Can you hold on till then!? '

"Of course, I...Ah!! "

There was a brief cry of surprise, and then Aphelios realized that his connection with Alune had been cut off.

I suddenly opened my eyes and saw that the moonlight shrouded in black fog in the distance was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Ouch~!!"

"Roar~!!"

A ferocious and bloodthirsty howl sounded from the black fog. Aphelios did not hesitate at all and rushed directly towards Guihai Maru Temple.

As he took a big step, he reached from his waist and back with his hands, and the two "moonstone weapons" - the emerald-like "Tongbi" and the scarlet strange short blade "Duanpo" - appeared in his hands.

With the siblings no longer connected, Aphelios can only use the weapons that Alune had given him.

"'Duanpo' is quite useful, but 'Tongbi'... it would be better if I had 'Yingyan' or 'Zhejing'..."

Thinking of the upcoming close combat, this thought suddenly popped up in Aphelios' mind.

Although the weapon was not perfectly matched, Aphelios did not slow down at all and rushed into the black fog.

“Hiss~Ahhhh~!!!”

A sharp and shrill wailing sounded in his ears, but to Aphelios, whose body was on the verge of collapse due to the poison of the "Essence of Night", it was just like a gentle call.

next moment.

"Shua~!"

The scarlet blade light cut through the black fog, and along with the smelly blood spilling all over the ground, Aphelios' figure rushed into the black fog at an even faster speed.

Rushing towards that weak but blood-thicker-than-water connection.