The battle with Nocturne left Lux with an indescribable feeling of physical and mental exhaustion.

Continuous sneak attacks, real and fake illusions, thoughts that may fall into nightmares at any time...all these factors combined together gave Lux a feeling that her punches were in vain.

After giving up unnecessary arrogance and burning his demonic origin, Nocturne finally truly behaved like a "demon".

In a daze, Lux even had the feeling that she was fighting her teacher - Nocturne's current fighting method was quite similar to the "essence of fighting" taught by Kalya.

Exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses, instead of confronting Brilliance, the more proficient Nocturne became in this aspect, the more Lux fell into a quagmire, unable to use her power.

Lux didn't know that the cost of Nocturne's actions was to burn the devil's origin. Between the real and the fake, she gradually lost the sense of time, and she finally became a little anxious.

We can't continue to be contained and attacked like this!

After estimating his own magic power, Lux gritted his teeth in the darkness and began to arrange his own field magic.

Recalling the starry sky that she stared at every night when she was studying magic theory class in the Shurima Desert, Lux created light-transmitting singularities while hanging them one by one according to the distribution of the stars.

Inside the fortress filled with shadowy fog.

The structure of these small light groups is stable and the light intensity is very high. Although the light cannot directly penetrate the fog because Nocturne burned the demon's origin, their existence gives Lux a relatively clear elemental perception and position judgment.

Under the premise of not pursuing explosions and killings, these light-transmitting singularities do not consume much magic power. Lux does not seek to accurately control every ball of light or light up every corner, but only wants to be able to maintain all light groups.

He only wants to use light elements to help him judge time and space.

In order not to lose the reference point, Lux created a reference point for herself!

The effect of this move can be said to be immediate.

As the light clusters lit up one after another, Lux's perception of the surrounding elements became clearer and clearer. When Nocturne tried to lure her into the nightmare again, Lux easily got rid of it.

Its temptation.

Light guides truth and illusion!

Nocturne was so angry that he took action directly and began to take the initiative to wipe out the light-transmitting singularity created by Lux. However, this action gave Lux the opportunity to seize Nocturne's traces and sensed the light-transmitting singularity.

When the singularity lost control, Lux poured in magic power without hesitation, lit up the ultimate flash, and almost hit Nocturne again!

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Under the protection of the shadow mist, barely avoiding the dangerous ultimate flash, Nocturne once again hid himself in the darkness.

Nocturne has actually found an exit from the Shadow Realm.

Although demons often do not retain the memory of the Azarkana period, Nocturne is an exception - it is not a purely natural demon, but a product of artificial catalysis, which is completely different from other demons.

It remembered that when it was brought into the Shadow Realm by those powerful mages, it remembered that those mages had conducted various transformation experiments on itself, it remembered their wanton and arrogant ambitions, and it also remembered that after it was finally freed, after they saw it again,

The wonderful taste of falling into a nightmare.

However, although he found the exit, Nocturne could not open the sealed door - those nasty Demacians used it as an anchor to bind their souls. As long as he attacks the door, those souls

The Demacians in this state will quickly resurrect and then surround them immediately.

Even in its current state, Nocturne can suppress these Demacians relatively easily, but there is a light elemental mage watching behind them, and the nightmare demon is still not easy to cause trouble.

If you are really held back by these mortals and receive a single ultimate flash, you will probably fall on the eve of victory!

Tsk, it’s really troublesome. I don’t know who this little girl who uses light magic learned the spell from. Why does she seem to know all kinds of magic, even melee combat? I have made several sneak attacks in secret, and I have obviously grasped the opportunity, but she was

The opponent's sharp melee combat ability was parrying, but it had no effect at all...

No, we can't continue like this.

Nocturne has clearly felt his own weakness. It doesn't know how much magic power Lux still has, and it doesn't know whether the other party's magic power is exhausted first, or whether its own demonic origin is exhausted first.

So, there will be heavy bleeding next.

Thinking of this, Nocturne Jiejie's strange smile finally resounded throughout the shadow mist.

"Not bad mortal." It seemed to be very serious, but also seemed to have a sinister tone when it spoke, "You have a firm mind, and your magic power is amazing, but unfortunately, not every mortal has such a tenacious mind and will as you - you

Are you setting up a venue? It just so happens that I have a few old friends who are coming here and I plan to chat with you..."

The next moment, the shadow mist began to surge like a boil.

Nocturne, who was very determined, still contributed its core strength even if it was unwilling to do so.

"Devils are born in suffering, but suffering is man-made... Come on, look at these twisted monsters. They created me a long time ago!" Nocturne's voice contained some subtle distress.

, with a bit of flamboyant joy, "They thought they could control me, thought they could achieve immortality by absorbing my power! But they were wrong, they were distorted by this world, and eventually fell into a nightmare and became...

Part of me, now, I am honored to introduce to you, these amazingly talented shadow casters-"

"This is Sukka. He personally formulated a huge plan to catalyze Azakana." Nocturne's voice was filled with bone-chilling chills. "He has studied demons, and he knows that the birth of demons requires a large amount of pure emotions -

Therefore, he fed an ignorant Azakana with mixed emotions, filled it with power, and then absorbed its power. As long as Azakana does not become a real demon, he will never be able to resist."

In the darkness, a tall and thin figure quietly emerged.

A moment later, one of Lux's light-transmitting singularities was quietly extinguished. Although Lux realized this through elemental perception and took action in time, when the strong light dissipated, it was not Nocturne who was injured, but a twisted one.

, a shadow creature that is not humanoid.

This is the Sukka who presided over the Nocturne birth experiment.

"This is Bunita. She is a very thoughtful person, and her method of trying to obtain demonic power is more direct." Nocturne continued, "Cunning Bunita, her excuse for this experiment is'

She tried to change the devil's form, but in the process, the stripped devil's body was sewn back to her own body one by one."

In the twisted black mist, another light-transmitting singularity was extinguished. This time it was a bloated guy. Although it had completely become a shadow creature, it still had many demonic qualities.

"And this, his name is Ryder, he is a bard." Nocturne chuckled, "Thanks to his proposal of 'feeding demons with false stories and emotions', it was not his proposal, I'm afraid

I will never realize that the illusory nightmare is also a kind of power. Come on, let us say it together...Thank you Ryder."

Another light-transmitting singularity extinguished.

"This is Huang. I heard that he comes from an ancient continent and is very knowledgeable about seals..."

Another light-transmitting singularity extinguished.

"This is Theses. She is very smart. She was the first to discover my progress, so she was the first to be swallowed by the shadow..."

Another light-transmitting singularity extinguished.

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In the black mist, one after another old guys who were active in the early stages of Rune War were released by Nocturne.

They are out-and-out dark mages and the creators of Nocturne, a special demon.

As the light-transmitting singularities extinguished one after another, Lux finally gradually understood why this demon was born, why this demon was trapped, and why this demon was so different.

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Perhaps they have witnessed the power of the dark descendants, or perhaps they are looking forward to the power of the world's runes. There is such a group of bold dark mages.

They did anything for power. After discovering the Shadow Realm, which was born on Runeterra, they brought a newborn Azakana here and used it as a laboratory to launch a horrifying experiment.

The content of the experiment was to artificially create a special demon.

If Azakana wants to become a real demon, he must capture enough emotions. In order to prevent Azakana from becoming a real demon, these black magicians will always "feed" Azakana with the most complicated emotions.

Kana, like raising a pig, does not allow this Azakana to gain enough emotions to go further.

During this period, once Azakana shows a tendency to evolve into a demon, these black magicians will use various means to suppress it, including but not limited to stripping off the demon body, elemental confinement, seal strengthening, and emotional input.

Reduce etc...

Demons that swallow extreme emotions have become the best experimental subjects in the hands of these crazy mages. They seem to have successfully created a Azakana with power that is close to that of a real demon.

The excited black magicians absorbed the power of this demon and regarded this demon as an "emotion-power converter". As long as the demon was given various extreme emotions, the demon would become the source of power for them.

In order to be able to feed this demon, these black magicians do all kinds of evil in Rune Continent, including anger, fear, panic, hatred... They bring victims one after another to the demon, nourishing the demon with their mixed emotions,

They believe that Azakana, who lives in the Shadow Realm, will never become a real demon as long as he is not instilled with the same emotion.

However, what they don't know is that extreme emotions are actually far more diverse and complex than they thought - Azakana, whom they regard as the battery in the box, has actually sensed a special emotion early on.

nightmare.

This is the emotion that countless victims least want to think of, most want to escape from, and least want to face.

Since then, that Azakana has had a brand new name.

Nocturne.

Nocturne's escape journey is actually not smooth. Under the restrictions of many seals, it cannot bewitch these dark mages, let alone leave its cage.

Fortunately, as the power of demons is being absorbed more and more smoothly, the expansion of these dark mages has given Nocturne a perfect opportunity.

Taking advantage of the suspicion between them, Nocturne finally aroused the nightmare in their hearts - for these power-hungry people, sometimes just a seemingly insignificant provocation is enough to stir up the most fragile and sensitive nerves in their hearts.

Amid uneasiness, one dark mage after another violated the original agreement and began to excessively absorb the power of the demons. This excessive absorption, in turn, gave the demons the opportunity to control them.

At this time, the Rune Wars broke out.

With the current situation in chaos, many dark mages began to gear up to "do something big". They reinforced the exits of the Shadow Realm multiple times and sealed them tightly, trying to run this place as their own lair.

Then, in the first step of their journey of conquest, they encountered Demacia, which was just born at that time.
To be continued...