Chapter 520 Preparation
Since then, the young king has given orders like crazy, even if he searches the entire Rune Land, he must find a medicine or method that can cure the queen.
However, the queen's condition worsened day by day. Fury and despair overwhelmed him. Every coin in the treasury was used to heal the queen.
But all in vain. Isolde died on the bed, while Foego was consumed by madness.
His search for a cure becomes unscrupulous and irrational.
He could not accept the queen's death and sacrificed all the treasures and wealth of the kingdom just to get her back. As the whole country fell into chaos, Foego locked himself and Isulde's body together, hiding from the outside world, filled with hatred and violence.
Until one day, the people he sent out brought back news about Fuguang Island. It was said that the water there could heal all injuries and illnesses.
He immediately took the queen's body to Fuguang Island, but learned that even Fuguang Island could do nothing to deal with the dead queen.
Already crazy, he attacked the sanctuary without any hesitation, broke into the center of Blessed Island, and immersed his deceased wife in the water overflowing with blessings.
Then, the Curse of Destruction was triggered, and the entire Blessed Light Island was destroyed.
This is the origin of the black mist.
"The mages of Blessing Light Island used their last resort to seal the Ruined King on what is now Shadow Island. However, now, the Ruined King is about to break through the seal."
After Senna said this, she slowly stopped and gave everyone time to think.
"Isn't this the love brain?"
Lux murmured something under her breath, thinking of this word that Lu Qi once said.
The proper love brain is gone!
This sentence has been recognized by many people. It doesn't matter if you are in love, as long as you don't harm others or yourself.
But Foego had hurt so many people for the queen back then. Even today, thousands of years later, there are still people who are persecuted by the black mist.
"In other words, after all this time, he still hasn't given up on the idea of resurrecting the queen?"
At this time, Sarah asked.
"Yes." Senna nodded after hearing this, and continued, "Foego failed to successfully resurrect the queen, but instead caused the outbreak of the ruined curse. During that period, due to the influence of the curse, the queen's The soul was torn apart and flew to nowhere."
Everyone's brains were working very well. After listening to this, Illaoi said aloud: "In other words, the black mist that spread all over the world in the past was actually his search for the queen's soul fragments?"
"Nine times out of ten, yes."
Senna nodded again. "But Bilgewater's annual Soul Eater Night is simply because it's too close to the Shadow Island."
These words could not help but make everyone in Pigeon feel helpless, lamenting that they were too unlucky.
He was the first to suffer the persecution of the black mist.
Everyone was thinking silently at this time, and Senna witnessed it and was quiet for a few seconds before continuing: "Before this, the Ruined King had been sleeping in the seal, and the black mist was only passively affected by him. But Now, I have a strong feeling that he has woken up and is breaking through the seal."
"Once he breaks through the seal of Fuguang Island, the black mist is bound to come back, and it will be bigger than anything we have ever seen."
After her words fell, the atmosphere at the scene couldn't help but become a little more solemn.
Even though some people have not seen the real Soul Eater Night, they can still hear the danger in it.
Lu Qi took over the words at this time: "This is also the purpose of me convening this meeting. The danger of Shadow Island may affect the entire Rune Land. We must prepare in advance, unite and deal with it together."
Naturally, everyone has no opinion on this point.
Even if it's not to protect Runeterra, even if it's to protect yourself and the people you cherish, you still have to stand up and face the black mist.
"Then the question is, how do we deal with him?"
Jarvan IV spoke at this time.
Senna replied: "As far as I know, the first thing Foyego did after breaking through the seal must be to resurrect the queen. Then, his purpose must be to be the first to find those soul fragments scattered around the world."
"And these places will definitely be the first to be invaded by the black mist. Anyone cursed by the black mist will eventually become an immortal soul. If we don't stop him, Foego will only get stronger and stronger. "
Everyone understood what she meant.
Those places with soul fragments will definitely be attacked by the black mist first.
You must find those soul fragments in front of the Ruined King and protect them. At the same time, be on guard against the black mist to prevent it from cursing more people.
Senna said: "The best way is to gather these soul fragments for protection. This can also prevent the black mist from spreading to other places."
She was sure that the Ruined King would not waste time going to a place without soul fragments. In other words, as long as the fragments were concentrated at one point, the black mist could be prevented from sweeping other places in Runeterra.
"But this is just a precaution after all." After thinking about it, Fiona said, "If we don't solve the problem from the source, the black mist will just keep flowing."
"Yes." Lux nodded: "How are we going to destroy the King of Destruction?"
"I don't know about this anymore." Senna sighed softly, "The origins of the ruined curse are all on the Shadow Island. No one knows how to solve the curse at its root."
All she knew was that if the curse was not broken, the Ruined King would be difficult to kill.
The Black Mist will not dissipate until the Ruined King dies.
These are all problems they must face.
The field fell silent again, and everyone was thinking.
Lucci was the same. Even he didn't know how to eliminate Viego. It was completely his blind spot in knowledge.
This is also the reason why Shadow Island is so troublesome. The curse is difficult to eliminate. If it is allowed to develop, it will one day sweep across the entire Runeland.
In terms of the degree of threat, Shadow Island is no less than the Void.
After thinking about it, he took out the secret key, swiped twice on the contact list, found an account with the note "Purple Potato Head", and called it.
The other party answered the phone unexpectedly quickly, and then a video popped up directly. The whistling sound in it attracted people's attention.
There was a person standing in the picture.
It was obviously a hot summer day, but there was wind and snow behind him. The world seemed to be covered in white, and just looking at it made a chill.
Ryze was wearing heavy clothes and was struggling to move forward in the huge wind and snow.
Needless to say, this place can be recognized by everyone.
Freljord.
"Can we connect in such a place? This invention is really amazing."
Ryze's voice came from it. His head was covered in a velvet hat to keep out the cold, with only a pair of eyes exposed.
When they parted last time, Lucci gave him this secret key and told him how to use it.
But this was the first time they contacted each other through the secret key.
After thinking for a while, he said again: "Is it about the Shadow Isles?"
Before they parted, they talked about the Shadow Isles, and he also said that they would go there together.
I think Lucci would contact him only because of this.
"Yes." Lucci nodded and said: "The Ruined King is about to appear in the world, and we are discussing how to deal with him."
Next, he briefly told Ryze about the Shadow Isles.
Ryze was originally from the Blessed Light Island. He escaped a disaster because of the long voyage with his master. Later, he returned to the Shadow Isles many times and learned some things.
But it was not comprehensive enough.
Now, with a more complete story line, he finally has a clear understanding of what happened that year.
"The water that heals everything you mentioned should be the Fountain of Life." Ryze was very impressed by this. He had sneaked into the location of the Fountain of Life and stole some spring water from it to drink.
"If the Curse of Ruin breaks out there, we can only learn the truth there. Perhaps the way to break the curse is there."
He naturally didn't know how to break the curse, after all, he was not involved.
But he knew where the Fountain of Life was. If that was the origin of the Black Mist and the curse, as long as he reached that place, he would be able to find a way.
"I will rush to meet you next. We will talk about the specific situation when we meet."
Ryze said, and soon hung up the phone.
Lucci put away the secret key and said, "This is the situation. We must go to Shadow Island. The solution to break the curse is probably on the island. I don't know how much time is left. We must make more comprehensive preparations as soon as possible before the threat of the Black Mist arrives."
Everyone nodded, without objection.
There is indeed a lot of preparation to be done.
Shadow Island must be visited, and the fragments of the queen's soul must also be found.
At the same time, in order for people to fight against the Black Mist, they also need to borrow the technology of the Sentinels of Light to make special weapons and combat uniforms to resist the Black Mist.
However, this is not very difficult, because Senna learned a lot of lost technologies in Thresh's lantern.
She can make it herself.
"The most important thing at the moment is the location of those soul fragments." Lucci looked at Senna and asked, "Can you find them?"
"I don't know either." Senna couldn't give a clear answer, "I don't know the specific location, but I can sense which area they are in through subtle connections."
"That's great."
Lucci nodded.
In this way, at least they don't have to fly around like headless flies.
After making a plan, everyone immediately took action intensively. The current work is mainly to cooperate with the Sentinels of Light and arrange the necessary defense lines.
At the same time, according to the direction guided by Senna, multiple teams were divided to find the Queen's soul fragments.
Lucian has some experience in this regard.
Later he learned that the spirit umbrella he found in a church contained a fragment of the Queen's soul.
No wonder he could resist the attacks of the black fog and Thresh with this umbrella.
In this way, the direction is also clear.
All these people or things that store souls must have some special features. In addition, Senna can roughly sense the area where the soul fragments are located, so it shouldn't take much effort.
The reason why this is possible is that Senna has a part of the queen's soul in her body.
It is also because of the queen's soul that she can survive in Thresh's lantern.
During this period, Lucci was not idle and was also looking for the queen's soul fragments.
Time passed slowly, and two days passed in a flash. As various regions launched operations, the entire Rune Land seemed to have a solemn and indescribable atmosphere.
It was as if the storm was coming, the eve of the storm.
In these two days, the plan went smoothly.
Everyone successfully found a fragment of the queen's soul in Demacia and Noxus, on a dressing mirror and a long dress respectively.
After finding it, Senna did not sense other soul fragments in Demacia and Noxus, indicating that there were no more.
At the same time, there was also a soul fragment in Freljord, but it had been found by Ryze and was already on his body.
The only remaining ones that have not been found are those in Ionia and Shurima.
However, Lucci knew that although all the queen's souls were divided into many parts, the main soul was actually divided into only three parts.
One of them was on Senna, and she seemed unable to sense the other two.
Right now, there was not much time left.
Late at night on the second day, Lucci suddenly received a video from Sarah. As soon as she answered the call, her very solemn face appeared.
"My men found signs of black fog, and it has begun to spread on the sea. However, I have asked people on islands near the Shadow Isles to evacuate in the past two days, but there are still some places that have not been notified in time."
She quickly told the situation she found.
"What about the situation in Shadow Island?" Lucci asked.
"I don't know." Sarah shook her head: "They retreated quickly when they saw the black fog from afar, but the movement speed of the black fog was not fast, but very slow, unlike the previous Soul Devouring Night."
The movement speed of the black fog was very fast, faster than the speed of the ship.
In the past, if people encountered black fog on the sea, it would be basically difficult to escape.
But now it is different. After Sarah's men observed the black fog with a telescope, they found that it moved very slowly.
However, this is already a dangerous signal.
"I know, I'll go over and take a look."
As Lucci spoke, he stood up and moved quickly towards the Hexgate without delay.
He was at the safe fortress set up by Demacia and the Sentinels of Light. The Queen's soul fragment was here, and the defense line had been set up here.
Even though there was still some distance from the Hexgate, Lucci's speed still arrived quickly.
Taking the flying gate, he teleported directly to the base of Bilgewater.
Sarah had been waiting here for a long time. After Lucci learned more details in person, he decided to observe the black fog closely.
If the Shadow Island has appeared, then they must respond as soon as possible.
Fortunately, they have not only been preparing for the past two days, but have already taken action many months ago.
And it seems that there should be some time before the Ruined King comes to the world, otherwise the black fog will not move in this way.
After making the decision, Lucci set off alone.