No, where does this portal come from?

In exchange, I will help you remove the seal of the cage."

"How about it?"

Lin Yan looked at Fiddlesticks with bright eyes.

Upon hearing this, Fedtik glanced at this insidious human with disdain, then the black mist in the cage gathered into a ball and ignored Lin Yan.

Seeing that Fiddlesticks refused to communicate, Lin Yan clicked his tongue and snapped his fingers.

Since the soft one is not enough, then use the hard one.

For an instant.

The repressive force enveloped Fiddlesticks.

At this moment, Fiddlesticks felt that he had lost the perception and control of his limbs.

Not only that, he also lost the most basic senses such as language and vision, and he also lost his perception of himself.

Even the original fear was suppressed at this moment.

This all-round suppression made him experience the feeling of an ordinary person suddenly becoming a vegetable.

No, not even as good as a vegetable.

He lost everything at this moment.

Only the 'thinking', 'hearing' and 'perception of time' that Lin Yan had deliberately left for him had not been suppressed.

"Since you refuse to communicate, then you might as well be a real scarecrow."

After saying that, Lin Yan suppressed his hearing as well, leaving him with only the ability to think and perceive time.

After doing all this, Lin Yan stood up and patted the non-existent dust on his hands. The thin chain on the time scheduler made a crisp sound.

Turning around and looking at the people watching behind him, Lin Yan clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, the party continues as usual!"

Chapter 154 Lin Yan: Tell me! This is your voluntary gift!

The wooden windows were banged lightly by the night wind, and the crisp sound of porcelain cups colliding mixed with the crackling sound of charcoal fire.

The incident just now was like a stone thrown into a pond. After the ripples dissipated, the banquet hall returned to its bustle.

After a round of drinking, chatting and boasting, the atmosphere became lively again.

Of course, some people also took this opportunity to build relationships and asked questions about cultivation over dinner.

Among them, Xiao Yan was quite active in this matter.

Toasts came one after another, questions came one after another.

Everyone was not averse to Xiao Yan's "diligent study and curiousness". After all, Xiao Yan's "fighting spirit" training system was also a new way of training.

Although this method of practice has great shortcomings, it is still a very good choice for reference.

At the dinner table, Yakumo Lan glanced at the motionless scarecrow not far away again and again.

Finally, her curiosity made her move closer to Ryze who was standing beside her.

"Um……"

Ruize, who was eating mutton with sesame sauce, seemed to have noticed Yakumo Lan's actions a long time ago: "What's wrong, Miss Fox?"

"Um...Mr. Ryze, do you know a lot about it?" Yakumo Lan pointed to the scarecrow in the corner.

Swallowing the mutton in his mouth, Ryze shook his head. "There is very little information about the original demon. Even I know very little about him."

"All I know is that thing is the primordial demon, representing the most primal fear in the world."

"There are rumored to be ten original demons. The ones currently active in Runeterra are 'Demon of Pleasure, Osilesh' and the one before us, 'Demon of Terror, Fiddlesticks'."

"Oshiresh had previously challenged the gods but was defeated and was eventually sealed in the Seventh Hell. He was then taken away by a man named Nila.

Nira was last seen a hundred years ago, traveling to Freljord to challenge Volibear and finally escaping…” At this point, Ryze seemed to be lost in memory.

He had heard of that battle as well.

After that, Nila seemed to be less active than before.

"Besides Osilesh, the only one who has been active in Runeterra recently is Fiddlesticks."

"Although it poses no threat to creatures without fear, as long as it exists, it will find ways to make you feel fear, and then, the moment you feel fear, it will devour you from the depths of your heart."

"As far as I know, Fiddlesticks has been killed several times, but as long as there is fear in the world, Fiddlesticks will not die. He will be resurrected from war and panic, and finally devour the humans who gave birth to him."

“In some ways, it’s even scarier than the runes.

So much so that I even doubt whether he was born in Runeterra."

As he spoke, Ryze put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked at Lin Yan: "Making a pact with a demon comes at a price. If you want his power, you'll have to pay something."

"I think, with your current strength, there's no need to sign a contract with him to gain his power. You just need to grow step by step."

Hearing Ruiz's advice, Lin Yan smiled and said, "...Don't you think demons are interesting?"

"I don't know where it came from, but it uses human emotions as an anchor to devour them and become stronger."

"...This way of becoming stronger seems very interesting to me."

“It’s like collecting items in a game.”

"His power may not be important to me, but I just want to get him, even if it's just as a collectible."

"As for what I have to pay to gain his power... I think it won't be long before he willingly makes a contract with me."

"And after the contract was reached..." When he said this, Lin Yan suddenly smiled.

He doesn't want the power that is temporarily lent.

If you want it, it must be permanent.

contract?

Would that kind of thing be useful to him?

Lin Yan is very trustworthy to humans, but he has no sense of contract with other creatures.

……

……

"let me out!!"

"let me out!!!"

"I promise you! I'll give you the power! Let me out!!"

Fiddlesticks roared silently.

He didn't need to breathe, but at this moment the feeling of oppression filled every bit of him.

If I were to describe the feeling... it's like being held underwater and breathing hard...

And you can't do without breathing.

He was born into the world with the first scream.

From then until now, even when he was killed or imprisoned in a cage, he had never felt so uncomfortable.

I couldn't feel any emotions, couldn't see anything, including darkness.

This feeling sometimes makes him forget whether he exists.

The most important thing is that in this case, you cannot go into hibernation.

That's right, hibernation.

Demons need to sleep.

During the long years of silence, the original demon mostly just let a set program hunt instinctively, while it itself obtained nourishment from food during hibernation.

When the original demons awaken from hibernation, they will descend on the most suitable breeding ground and harvest large areas of life in that area, or do whatever they want for fun.

Then a new round of dormancy → revival → harvest → dormancy begins...

It is precisely because of the need to hibernate that Fiddlesticks has ended up in his current situation.

When he was dormant, he was placed in a cage of fear by the Twilight Spirit, and the key to the cage was taken away.

The cage was found by a farmer and taken back to his farm.

When he woke up, he found that the body he came to after being resurrected had also turned from its original form into a cage.

In order not to be trapped in the cage forever, he decided to temporarily use those farm tools, straw, and rags to form a body to continue harvesting fear in the human world, while searching for the whereabouts of the Twilight Aspect and getting the key to the cage back!

Until today.

It encountered someone even more disgusting than the Twilight Aspect.

Although he had been very careful, he still used an unknown force to move himself into this huge 'cage' and trapped himself in a strange state.

Unable to sleep, unable to perceive the external situation, unable to perceive the body, can only feel thoughts.

Can you imagine a person floating in a space where he cannot perceive his own body and can only perceive the "brain" itself with his brain?

This is how Fiddlesticks feels right now.

It's more disgusting than eating shit.

One year... Two years... Three years...

Under the influence of the time scheduler, I don’t know how long this feeling lasted.

So much so that Fiddlesticks gave up thinking itself in this strange state.

until one day…

This suppressive force suddenly released his perception.

"Hey, Fiddlesticks. Have you thought it through?"

The sudden sound made Fiddlesticks' numb mind tremble.

Immediately afterwards, the dull eyeballs and black mist in the cage began to move again, finally fixing on Lin Yan.

After staring for a moment, Fiddlesticks slowly spoke: "I... have thought it through..."

"Think clearly about what?" Lin Yan asked.

"I am willing to sign a contract with you and lend you my power." Fiddlesticks uttered these words with difficulty in his hoarse voice.

Then, the black mist in the cage turned into a black parchment scroll.

The parchment scroll floated out of the cage, revealing its contents before Lin Yan's eyes.

His eyes scanned the contents written on the parchment word by word.

Suddenly, Lin Yan shook his head at Fiddlesticks.

“I think this should be revised.”

"where…"

"Here, you wrote to lend me power." Lin Yan pointed to a certain clause and said.

"...How do you want me to change it?"

"Emmm... I think you should change it to 'the original fear demon, voluntarily donating its power to the person who signed the contract' instead of lending it to me."

"What do you think?" Lin Yan said, revealing a smile that was more devilish than the devil.

It seems to be saying that if you don’t agree, I will keep you locked up for a while.

Chapter 155 Let the devil know what a real 'devil' is

The morning light slanted in through the leaves, and fine dust particles floated in the beam of light.

The sun was shining brightly today, but Fiddlesticks' heart felt as if it had sunk into an icy cave.

He had thought that Lin Yan had no moral principles, but he had never thought that Lin Yan was so unethical.

I don't even want to act!

What can I give you voluntarily?