Chapter 492 Doubt the Devil

Chapter 492 Doubt the Devil

Ruins of Icathia.

A figure wearing a purple masked cloak sat quietly on the ground, as if he was meditating, and a purple energy emerged from his body.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, looked into the distance and murmured to himself: "The breath of the key has appeared. No matter what, I have to get it back."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes again, and there were murmurs in his mind that were incomprehensible to humans, but he could understand the meaning of every sentence.

That is the voice of another world, and it is also the voice that will eventually bring annihilation to this world.

All the plans are ready, all you need to do is get the keys back.

Marrow Seal Market.

After a week of running around, Lu Qi arrived here. Although it was still some distance away from Icasia, it was already quite close.

The Marrow Seal Market is a market built on the remains of the ribs of an ancient behemoth. The size of the place is equivalent to that of a small city, and the remains of the ancient behemoth are also quite astonishing.

Just a piece of bone is at least tens of meters high, with two rows of ribs extending outward at the same time. Human beings built houses and camps under these ribs and sold goods. It was a famous market base.

It's hard to imagine that this kind of creature once existed in Runeterra, at least it is extinct now.

Taliyah was quite looking forward to this place, because it was home to businessmen traveling from all over the place. It was said that as long as you had money, you could buy anything here.

She hoped to find out news about her tribe here.

It was already afternoon when the three of them arrived.

For some reason, the sun in this area is incredibly hot, and it shines fiercely overhead, making people feel inexplicably weak.

However, the Xueyin Market was very lively. The merchant tents on both sides of the huge rift valley were lined up all the way.

Some of the vendors were shouting hard, and a variety of products were displayed there, selling everything.

People were coming and going on the road, and it was a bustling scene.

"I want to stay here for one more day and get some news about my tribe, is that okay?"

Taliyah looked at Luqi and asked.

"Of course." Lu Qi didn't mind. He was not in a hurry anyway.

"That's great, let's go find the whereabouts of the intelligence dealer first."

Taliyah said happily.

While walking around the market, she inquired about information.

Usually in markets like this, there are information dealers who know a lot. They don't even go out, but they know things that many people don't know.

You can also sell it for a good price.

After asking several merchants, the name Taliyah heard the most was ‘Krol’.

So she began to inquire about Kroll's whereabouts again, and like a detective, she followed the clues and found the tent where Kroll lived.

But the timing of their arrival was not good.

A woman in her thirties walked out of the tent. Her skin was dark, but her appearance was not bad. She said, "Krol is seriously ill now. I'm afraid I won't be able to receive you. You three, please leave. "

"A serious illness?" Taliyah asked in confusion, "Is it impossible to cure it?"

"I don't know, but I can't find any solution at the moment." The woman sighed and said again: "So you three, please forgive me."

"Okay." Taliyah sighed in disappointment.

After hearing this, Lu Qi thought for a while and said, "I am a doctor, you might as well let me take a look."

His words surprised Taliyah. She didn't know that Lu Qi would still see a doctor.

The woman also looked at Lu Qi and hesitated: "Then please help me take a look."

She thought Lu Qi was quite young and didn't seem to have great medical skills, but right now he could only be a living doctor.

So the three of them were welcomed into the tent, and they immediately smelled the tangy medicinal smell, which was very strong.

Not long after, he saw Kroll lying on a bed.

His breathing was short, and his complexion was as white as wax, gray and white, very bleak.

When he heard someone coming in, he opened his eyes, glanced very weakly, and coughed: "Rosa, this is"

"This is the doctor I found for you to help you look at your illness."

Rosa said as she sat down next to him.

"It's useless. No one can cure this disease." Kroll himself felt that there was little hope and his words were weak.

"Anyway, give it a try." Rosa sighed again.

Lu Qi observed Kroll, thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk about his illness first."

Rosa said: "At first it was just weakness, like a fever. I thought it would pass quickly, but I didn't expect it to become more and more serious, and finally it became like this. Many doctors came to see it, and they all asked for help. For no apparent reason, I prescribed all kinds of medicines, but none of them showed any results.”

After hearing this, Lu Qi looked at Kroll and asked, "When did you realize something was wrong?"

"A week ago," Kroll said, coughing.

"A week ago?" Taliyah couldn't help but be surprised. In one week, she changed from a normal person to what she is now?

"Describe carefully how you felt something was wrong."

Lu Qi asked again.

"If I have to say it, it started from that day when I moved things." Clore said in order to save his own life: "I am born with greater strength than ordinary people, but when I was carrying heavy objects that day, I suddenly couldn't do anything. Energetic."

"I thought it might be because I was not in good condition, so I rested. However, I had almost rested, and when I went to move again, I still couldn't do it. I felt that I couldn't exert any strength and was very weak. It stayed like this for the next few days, and finally It’s just that my memory is very good. I usually only need to read something two or three times to remember it, but now I can’t even memorize it.”

In a weak voice, Kroll described what was wrong with him.

To sum it up, memory declines and physical strength declines.

Kroll was born with extraordinary strength and memory, but at this moment they all declined inexplicably.

I thought it was a fever, but the symptoms turned out to be different from a fever, and it ended up like this.

"So I started going to doctors and seeking medicine everywhere, but it never worked. Instead, it got worse every day. It is said that this is a degenerative disease. People who got this disease in the market eventually died."

Kroll coughed violently at the end, like a terminally ill patient, and his eyes revealed a bit of despair.

He is not the first person in the Marrow Seal Market to suffer from this disease.

"Stretch out your hand."

After Lu Qi heard this, he motioned for Kroll to extend his hand.

Kroll did as he was told, extending his right hand.

Lu Qi stepped forward to check his pulse, and then said, "If I said that your body is normal and healthy, would you believe it?"

When Kroll heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then felt annoyed: "It's better not to make such jokes. If you don't know how to treat a doctor, don't waste my time."

"I don't know how to tell you. The high probability of suffering from it is heart disease. Psychologically, I think I am not good enough, so I am becoming less and less good."

Lu Qi stood up and felt that Kroll's situation was strange.

This was the first time he had encountered someone suffering from such a heart disease.

His medical skills can naturally confirm that there is nothing wrong with Kroll's body, but his current weakness is not fake.

That is most likely due to psychological factors.

In the end, the three of them were kicked out of the tent, and Lu Qi was considered a quack who knew nothing.

Taliyah felt that Lu Qi would not lie to others, so she asked in confusion: "Why do you say he is in good health?"

"His pulse, heartbeat, blood flow rate, and body surface temperature are all normal."

Lu Qi briefly explained it to her: "This is how normal people behave."

"But why did he become like that?" Taliyah was puzzled.

"I don't know. Let's go around and ask around to see if there are any other information dealers."

Lu Qi was actually not very interested in this matter. Anyway, he was just asking for information about the tribe for Taliyah. He could have used another information dealer.

However, after some searching, Kroll was the only news dealer in the area.

He is good at making friends, so he knows a lot of things from time to time.

He is considered a person with a monopoly on news in this area.

Until it finally got dark, no other news dealers were found.

Taliyah sighed: "Let's forget it then and wait until we go to other places to inquire."

Since it was getting dark, the three of them decided to spend the night at the Xueyin Market.

The next day.

When Lu Qi and the others were about to leave, they passed by Kroll's tent again, but they heard crying sounds coming from inside.

The voice was very much like Rosa's, very sad, and there were other people in the tent whispering comfort.

"Well, if you think about it a little more liberally, it might be liberating for him."

"No one can recover from the disease of decay."

"Is this damn disease really so terrible? What is the cause?"

"I don't know either. This disease didn't exist a few years ago, but its frequency has suddenly accelerated in the past few months."

"Is it some kind of infectious disease?"

"Anyway, Rosa, please look away."

Taliyah was still a little stunned when she heard the conversation in the tent.

She didn't expect that Kroll, whom she had just met yesterday, would leave this world overnight.

What exactly is this debilitating disease?

Why would a healthy person die so miserably?

"Let's go."

Lu Qi took a look at the camp and felt that there was no need to stay here for a long time.

The three of them quickly left the Marrow Seal Market and continued in the direction of Icacia.

The failure to find any news about the tribe this time made Taliya feel a little discouraged. She didn't know when she would be able to see her relatives again.

Therefore, Taliyah's mood was slightly depressed along the way.

She is a very cheerful girl, but she suddenly becomes less talkative.

Taliyah felt that there was no need to be so sad. At least she knew that the tribe just migrated away and did not encounter any marauders or bandits.

But she didn't know why, but she couldn't get excited, and she couldn't get her mood up.

The more I think about it, the sadder and more frustrated I feel.

Gradually, she was also affected by this mood, first of all, her daily practice.

When she practiced according to the meditation method Yasuo taught her, she couldn't concentrate, as if she was cut off from the spiritual realm, which made her even more discouraged.

Later, she discovered that her ability to control her own magic seemed to have slightly regressed.

"Taliyah, what's wrong with you?"

At night, Taliyah, who had found several excuses to leave temporarily, couldn't help but whisper to herself. She forced herself to cheer up, so she raised her hand to call for a rock.

But it failed surprisingly. She hadn't encountered this situation for a long time.

It wasn't until I tried it again that it worked.

The following consecutive attempts also made mistakes one after another, which made Taliyah have self-doubt.

Did she think it would be the same as before?

The magic in her body was out of control again.

But she has obviously found a way to control it, why is it like this?

As the seeds of self-doubt fell, the impact grew. Over the next two days, no matter how hard Taliyah tried, she was unable to call the rock as she wished.

Instead, her mistakes became more frequent, and she once almost got hit in the head by a stone she summoned.

Her control over magic became increasingly out of control.

Naturally, her abnormal behavior could not escape the eyes of Lu Qi and Morgana. They had already noticed Taliyah's abnormality.

"I'm going to take a walk around the area."

As he rested again for the night, looking at Taliyah who once again found an excuse to leave, Lucci didn't look at Morgana until her back disappeared.

"Did you feel anything?"

"Tali Ya may also be entangled." Morgana nodded slightly, already seeing the clues.

"The so-called disease of decay seems to be caused by some kind of evil."

Lu Qi thought for a moment, his eyes twinkling.

When he saw Kroll in the Marrow Seal Market, he felt something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it at that time.

Until now, when the so-called degenerative disease happened to Taliyah, he finally felt something abnormal.

Through observation in the past two days, he discovered that something was wrong with Taliyah. Although she didn't say anything, it was hard not to notice.

This disease of decay is most likely not a disease, but rather a psychological suggestion.

Naturally, the person who gave this psychological suggestion could only be a creature like a demon.

Lu Qi did not notice the devil's aura before, which shows that the other party is extremely good at hiding, and it is very likely that he is targeting Taliyah invisibly.

But now based on the situation, Lu Qi speculated that the demon hiding in the dark is most likely the demon of suspicion-Zhang Po.

Lucci actually learned about the Doubt Demon through Ryze.

The books he carried with him recorded many secrets and unknown stories of Runeterra.

One of them mentioned the Doubt Demon, whom Ryze had encountered once.

This demon is very cunning. He will first use his own abilities to give a psychological hint of 'self-doubt' to the person he is targeting.

In layman's terms, it's the self-doubt of "I remember that I was obviously very strong, but why am I so weak now?"

The more self-doubt you have, the more your ability will be weakened, and finally it will be absorbed by Zhang Po.

After Ruiz later found out Zhang Po's true name, he beat him away and never met him again.

Lu Qi speculated based on the situation that the person who entangled Taliya was most likely Zhang Po.

Most likely, it was because they went to the Marrow Seal Market a while ago that Taliyah, who had special abilities, was targeted.