Chapter 184: The Power of Light in the Eternal Nightmare
Push the time forward a little.
Lux drove Spark to leave the town of Forsbarrow, crossed the business road, and moved quickly in the dark forest.
The scattered trees and shrubs disappeared on both sides like a horse watching a lantern.
Lux leaned over the horse's back, and the golden cane in her hand shone with white light.
Warm and blazing light illuminates the rugged road ahead.
But in the current bad environment.
Even if there is light leading the way, it is still very dangerous to run through the dark forest with Spark's fast pace.
The nightmare brought by the thick black mist is like a tidal wave, coming endlessly, just like the demon army faced by Galen and Huo Jixing.
The endless source of nightmares is human imagination.
Fear of death, fear of weakness, or fear of losing a loved one quickly becomes the stuff of nightmares.
Da da! Ta-ta! Ta-ta!
Starfire's pace became more and more rapid, and Lux poured her refraction power into Starfire's body.
Making this white horse vaguely transform into a unicorn in mythical stories, its mane is dotted with white light, and its extraordinary eyesight allows it to overcome all obstacles.
Lux and Starfire ran through the endless black mist, and finally came to a familiar intersection.
This time she did not choose to go west or east, but without hesitation embarked on the northbound path covered with bracken -
The road leading to the tomb of her great-grandfather Fosian!
The white light flashed, and the spark that received Lux's magic power walked extremely steadily.
But after entering the trail, the terrain of the mountain road began to become steeper.
Rocks are everywhere, bushes and grass can be seen everywhere, and occasionally there are weird whistling sounds.
As Lux goes deeper, we get closer and closer to Fosian's Tomb.
The surrounding environment gradually changed. The withered trees were covered with black tree oil, and the twisted branches were extremely ugly, as if they had grown into the shape of a demon.
As Lux moved forward, she could feel them tugging on her hair and cloak.
“These things.”
Lux’s eyes were solemn. The tree trunks in her field of vision were like bloody mouths of sharp teeth, and poisonous spiders weaved dense webs on their highest branches. .
At the same time, the grass-covered land became soft and muddy, like a stagnant swamp.
Lux and Starfire came to the entrance of a clearing surrounded by shadows and wanted to continue moving forward.
But Xinghuo seemed to notice something, shook his head back, refused to move forward, sniffed in fear, and his strong body trembled.
"Relax." Lux stroked Starfire's mane soothingly.
"Great-grandfather Foss Ian's tomb is right in front, just a few steps further."
But this time, no matter how Lux comforted her, Starfire was unwilling to take another step forward.
Even under the wave of nightmares, he knelt on the ground with his limbs crossed and his head buried in the grass.
"Okay." Lux looked helpless upon seeing this, and she understood why Starfire was afraid.
As a last resort, Lux slid off the horse, clutched the golden cane, and walked towards the shadowy clearing in the cemetery.
On the top of the cane, the white light shines brighter and brighter, like a lighthouse in the waves and storms, but the surroundings are too dark, and the white light can only barely see a foot away.
The grave of Forthian Crownguard is a hill covered with weeds.
Under the thick black mist, the grass has long been dyed black, and streams of different black smoke like demon warriors are hovering over the cemetery.
It seems that if the time is right, it will invade the world where mortals live.
Lux ignored the black smoke in the sky and saw a somewhat decayed and mottled stone slab on the road in front of the cemetery, which recorded the heroic deeds of her great-grandfather Fosian.
The time stamped on it is completely unclear, but you can distinguish some small characters below.
Forsian Crownguard used a Demacian steel sword to pierce the demon's black heart and slew the demon in the wild forest of Forsbarrow.
But it was not this stone slab that caught Lux's attention.
But the boy sitting on the stone slab.
A little boy, no more than twelve or thirteen years old, sitting on the stone slab with his legs crossed.
His shriveled and thin body was swinging back and forth like a willow, and the black smoke pouring out of the cemetery was wrapped around his neck like a branch.
"Luka?"
Lux spoke softly, with a hesitant tone.
She had seen a portrait of Judge Giselle's missing child, which was very similar to the boy in front of her.
Hearing Lux's voice, the boy's swaying body suddenly stopped, and his dim eyes looked at Lux.
In an instant!
Lux seemed to see an ancient evil coming to the world, and her body trembled involuntarily.
The boy's completely dark eyes reflected Lux's flawless face, and then he grinned a cruel smile.
“Not anymore!”
‘Luka’ looked at Lux, who was waiting in front of him, and laughed softly.
His voice sounded a little hoarse, not like a teenager at all.
"Uh-huh!"
Lux endured the demon's pressure and groaned, her flawless face turning pale.
Although her heart was driving her away from the smoky cemetery, Lux still walked towards the boy.
Within her field of vision, she saw darkness rippling outward from Luca's eyes, and the nightmare inside was waiting to be nourished by human weakness, ready to burst out of the ground.
Lux's heart sank, and she felt a pair of cold and cunning dark eyes with the power of refraction. He is looking at himself, looking for nutrients.
Looking at Lux walking over, Luka nodded slightly and stood up from the stone.
Countless whispering black shadows gathered over the cemetery. Demons and fears hid at the edge of the field of vision, slowly surrounding Lux.
"You are full of nightmares." Luka seemed to have penetrated Lux's spirit and smelled delicious food.
"I need to peel off your head and scoop them out carefully."
"Luka, this is not you." Lux said solemnly.
"Not me?. Then who am I?"
Luka walked towards Lux step by step, and the lingering black smoke turned into clouds and surrounded him.
"The devil in the cemetery!" Lux said with a steady gaze.
“I don’t think it died together with Foss Ian, unlike people think.”
“Haha! Haha!”
Hoarse laughter sounded, and Luka stopped laughing, grinning. The skin at the corners of his mouth was broken, and two black blood streaks flowed down his chin.
"Not dead at all." Luka whispered.
"I'm just sleeping, healing, recovering, and preparing."
"What are you going to do?" Lux couldn't help but forced herself to take a step forward.
The boy tilted his head, smacked his lips, and stretched out his fingers contemptuously. Then Lux stopped, unable to take the next step.
"Wait, wait!"
As he said, he bent down and took out the black blade with a strange luster from the black mist.
"I smell delicious food, let me peel off an interesting nightmare first!"
"Luca!" The diffuse black mist oppressed Lux and was unable to move forward, but She can still talk.
“You have to resist it, I know you can.”
"You have magic in your body. You can defeat the devil in your body just like Fossian!"
The thing attached to the boy's body laughed, and the surrounding grass withered and decayed in the laughter.
“His tears are like sweet springs in the desert.”
‘Luca’ lowered his eyes and circled around Lux, seemingly looking for a suitable position for the craniotomy.
"The sweet spring awakened me and nourished me. I have been sleeping for so long that I have even forgotten how sweet the suffering of mortals is."
"I put him to sleep, and there are already many mature fears in his dreams, which can be transformed into entities immediately."
'Luca' seems to be unable to hold back his inner desires. The black blade in his hand The strong wind blew up Lux's long golden hair.
"His magic is insignificant. Compared with his embers, your flesh is like a blazing furnace, lighting up the darkness."
"Although he does not have a big A practical convenience, but a child's fear is already a treat to a hungry me."
"Demacia is his fear, your fear."
Lux felt the power of her refraction, defeated by this creature.
The darkness in the cemetery suppressed her light until only a few sparks remained.
But even if it is a little spark, she does not want to give up, because a spark can eventually start a prairie fire.
Lux grasped the golden cane tightly and bent her fingers hard, a tingling feeling spread to her mind.
She gritted her teeth and used the pain to let the sparks in her body burn, isolating it from her fear and letting the fire slowly return to her body. "Luka, please." She said with difficulty.
“You must resist, don’t be used by it.”
“Haha!” Luka laughed again. "He can't hear you, even if he hears it, so what?"
"Mage, you should know this feeling better than anyone else."
"In Demacia, magic , is what everyone hates the most.”
"No, magic will not be the thing I hate the most!" Lux seemed to recall the nightmares she had had day and night.
She aroused the boiling power of refraction in her body, waved her golden cane, and faced Luca.
'Luka's eyes were filled with surprise. He felt the boiling magic power and subconsciously avoided it, but still slowed down.
The golden cane rubbed against his face.
Boom!
The pure white light radiated out, like a flame, burning away the black mist that had gathered around it.
A bright light burst out over the cemetery, breaking through the layers of black fog.
The existence in Luka's body made bursts of angry sounds, and its corrosive power on this body was stirring.
The white-hot light surrounds it and melts the demonic power.
Lux raised her golden staff high, the darkness retreated in front of her, and the blazing light dispersed most of the shadows in the cemetery.
But there is still the remaining demonic power and black mist, which is coming fiercely.
"No one can help you now!"
'Luka' endured the purification brought by the power of light, stared at Lux in front of him, and the remaining demonic power attacked The hands raised towards her wanted to cut the connection between her and the light.
Clang!
The red-gold fireworks, like lightning, moved from far to near, cutting off the demonic power that rushed towards Lux.
Huo Jixing retracted his wings and his body fell from top to bottom.
【Suzaku · Flurry】!
The red fire blade stirred the black mist, and the blazing flames swayed down like scattered snowflakes, burning the remaining demonic power and black mist in the cemetery.
“The timing is right!”
Huo Jixing listened to the quintessential reminder in his ears, and his eyes fell on Lux and the frail boy in front of her.
The two seemed to be in a stalemate, with light and darkness each occupying one side.
[Suzaku·Red Eyes and Fire Eyes]!
Within the red field of vision, Huo Jixing saw monstrous black clouds rising, intending to cover the sky.
"Is this guy's power really that of a demon?"
"Quickly, kill all the remaining demonic power in the cemetery." Lux saw Huo Jixing's arrival , a hint of eagerness appeared on his pale face.
"Its power has not fully recovered yet, we can defeat it."
Hearing this, Huo Jixing looked at the many demon warriors transformed into black mist in the cemetery, held his long knife upside down, and walked over casually.
No wonder these demon warriors can be used as essence. They turn out to be extensions of demonic power.
In the continent of Valoran, in addition to the stars and gods, there are also demons.
No one knows the origin of the devil.
But their power is unquestionable and can rival the stars and gods. It is natural magic.
Huo Jixing licked his lips and was just about to kill these demon warriors when he saw the power of refraction lingering around Lux's body out of the corner of his eye, and he looked slightly hesitant.
“Do you really want to help Lux now?”
To be honest, he and Lux only met in one day.
It was more the influence of his past life memories that made him naturally fond of Lux and Galen, otherwise he would not have accepted Lux's recruitment.
Huo Jixing looked at the shriveled and thin boy again, and happened to meet those dark eyes that seemed like a calm lake, reflecting his figure.
“Get away!”
Huo Jixing raised his eyebrows slightly, sensing a strange force, ignoring Nanli’s fire, intending to invade the depths of his soul.
"Nightmare, nightmare path?"
"Is it really an eternal nightmare? Or is it the remaining demonic power after the nightmare rages?"
Huo Jixing thought quickly in his mind, and when he saw the strange power approaching, he activated [Star Spirit Suzaku Stance] decisively and went all out.
Demon power, even if it is incomplete, cannot be treated with ordinary extraordinary concepts.
Clang!
A high-pitched cry sounded.
The red-gold Suzaku phantom appeared behind him, his eyes like flame gems lowered, facing the boy's dark eyes.
"Ah!"
As they looked at each other, a sharp and hoarse sound of pain echoed through the cemetery.
‘Luka’ staggered, covering his eyes with his hands engraved with black marks, and black blood stains flowed along his fingers.
"The power of the stars?!"
Before he had time to think, he noticed the light power in front of him again, and took the opportunity to gain the upper hand, like a pouring rain, washing away his body.
"Luca, wake up, you and I can expel the demons!"
Lux seized the opportunity in front of her and released the power of refraction in her body, suppressing the demonic power that enveloped Luka.
The pure white light became brighter and brighter, until finally, only the pure and empty endless light remained in the field of vision.
Hazy, Lux saw a little boy sitting on the ground hugging his knees tightly, his timid eyes full of childish innocence and fear.
"Luka, come here!" Lux's eyes flashed and she stretched out her hands to the little boy.
"I can't go there, I'm afraid, the nightmare is still there."
Luca shook his head and looked at the crown guard in front of him, as if he was afraid of something and did not dare to walk over.
"I know your difficulties. You are afraid that people will know your abilities. Trust me."
"I have experienced this too. The power in your body is not evil or darkness. It's the light. I can help you control the light."
Lux tried hard to take steps, reaching out her hands to hold Luka's hand.
"Me!"
Luca hesitated, but he saw the power of light blooming like a flower, driving away the black mist around him.
Finally he moved forward and gently held Lux's hands.
Buzz! Buzz!
The moment the hand touched, Lux's refractive power expanded again, becoming brighter than imagined.
Looking down from the sky, it looks like a white sun rising slowly, driving away all darkness.
Waiting for the light to dim, Lux held Luca's hand and saw the grave of her great-grandfather Fosian Crownguard in her memory.
Just like when I was a child, there are green grass, hills, cairns, and stone slabs, but the dark power is nowhere to be seen.
The dark forest shrubs have also returned to normal, and the canopy echoes with the calls of nocturnal birds.
The dark night sky appears midnight blue, studded with stars.
"Is it gone?" Huo Jixing put away the blade and walked towards Lux and the boy who woke up.
The black mist and demon warriors surrounding the cemetery have completely disappeared under his killing.
"Huhu, I feel like I'm gone."
Lacus gasped, a bitter taste emerging from her mouth, which was a sign that the dark power had dissipated.
"At least it's gone now. I don't think the remaining demonic power is enough for it to fully recover."
"So, it shouldn't be here anymore. This is the most important thing."
Lux's eyes fell on the long knife on Huo Ji's waist. In the confrontation just now, she noticed a cold killing touch. meaning.
To yourself!
Huo Jixing was surprised when he saw Lux looking at her.
The power of refraction, such a keen perception?
"The chaos in Forsbarrow Town has ended. Galen and his fearless vanguard soldiers are protecting the townspeople."
Huo Jixing turned around and left quickly.
Now that you have given up, don’t continue to struggle.
And in this unexpected incident, although no rune items were obtained, the amount of essence was quite large.
Lux looked at Huo Jixing's leaving figure and wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.
"Miss Crownguard, can we go home?" Luka held Lux's left hand tightly and spoke softly.
"Yes." Lux looked down at the little boy, a bright smile appearing on her face.
“We can go home!”
(End of this chapter)