The sudden appearance of three powerful Deity instantly drew the attention of all the ancient gods of Freljord.
Similarly, a group of Celestials, far beyond the stars, were staring in astonishment.
As the former "rulers" of Runeterra, the Celestials have lived for countless years and know the situation of Runeterra well. However, these three Deity who suddenly appeared in the sky above Freljord are also people they have never seen before.
The scents emanating from these three Deity were utterly unfamiliar to the Celestials Mount Targon. The white one exuded a bright, sunny, holy, and warm aura, while the two purple ones, though not exactly malevolent, carried a sense of chaos and oppression.
What's going on?
"I don't know either, but looking at their faces, I feel like I've seen them somewhere before, hmm, but where?"
"I said, that little one. Could she be Yordle?"
"It's very similar, but I can't be sure. The Yordle in Bandle City, and they are incredibly mysterious. There might be some among them who possess Demigod strength, but no Yordle could ever truly break through to the Demigod realm, because they cannot control the power of laws."
"That's strange. That little one is definitely Yordle, but damn it, her aura is no weaker than mine?"
In the starry sky, faint sounds echoed across the various small planets. The place that the Serylda called the Celestial Realm was actually known as the Galaxy by the Zaunite. And now, in the Galaxy outside the planet Runeterra, the Mount Targon were having a discussion around Runeterra.
The Mount Targon were born in the "Celestial Realm." Over countless years, they have visited countless planets and seen countless beings. Yet, even so, they must say that Runeterra is the most unique planet they have ever seen, without exception.
It is precisely because of the unique nature of Runeterra that the Targonians have been able to achieve what they have today.
Taking advantage of the importance that a powerful being placed on Runeterra, the Mount Targon was able to control him and gain domineering power.
And now, Runeterra has given them a new surprise.
This planet is truly unique!
"Li Ke, tell me, what do you want Tristana to do? I will keep my promise, but you have to keep yours too! You promised me this time it was a mission, not for me to go out and have fun, but next time you will let me go out and have fun!"
The purple-skinned little devil stepped through the Void, carrying a huge purple gourd on her back. The gourd was as tall as her and was grinning broadly.
She was only about up to Li Ke's thigh, quite short, but she had a large head, short limbs, and a face and features that resembled a cartoon character, making her look very cute.
Interestingly, these features, on Tristana, don't make her look like an incongruous big-headed doll; on the contrary, they are quite harmonious. Coupled with her purple skin and the sharp canine teeth that peek out from her lips when she smiles, she truly resembles a lively little elf.
"This time, I'll help you, and next time, you'll have to help me. I need to find something." A somewhat detached, neutral voice sounded behind Li Ke.
Li Ke turned around and saw a woman with white hair tied up at the back of her head, her bangs covering the right half of her face. She had a delicate and charming oval face, and one eye with a deep blue pupil but no pupil was visible. Her nose was perfectly curved, and her thin lips, tinged with purple, were parted. The woman, who resembled a demon, stared silently at Li Ke.
She wore a brocade robe, the material and color of which were somewhat similar to Thresh's clothes. It was a short skirt that revealed a pair of full, powerful purple legs, and she wore brocade boots. The broken sword in her right hand exuded a terrifying aura.
"Who do you want to kill?" Riven asked coldly.
Ahri pursed her lips after hearing Riven's words, her eyes filled with helplessness as she looked at Li Ke. She opened her mouth and silently said to Li Ke, "Make sure you keep a close eye on Riven, or you'll be in big trouble!"
Li Ke nodded to Ahri.
He understood Ahri's meaning. Tristana was alright; although she was quirky, she was honest and kind-hearted, and willing to listen to Li Ke. Riven, however, was a different story.
The Akana faction—to put it bluntly—is essentially the Boss of the Soul Core; they are second-in-command.
The Deity of the Akana faction are all about refusing to submit to each other, and in the Lotus Lands, they are never as united and friendly as the Deity of Kanmei.
This can be seen from the arguments between Cassiopeia and Tristana, Vayne's dislike of Riven, and Darius's repeated comments that Lillia is too timid.
On the Kanmei side, Evelynn and Syndra have a particularly good relationship, Yasuo Yone are also like brothers, Teemo can get along with anyone.
As for why Li Ke brought out three Deity this time, two were Akana and one was Ahri.
There's so much to say about that.
First of all, after becoming Lotus Guardian, Li Ke can now go to the Soul Blossom Land without needing to process emotional points, and there is no time limit. Li Ke can go whenever he wants.
What may have been a few minutes for Runeterra to the outside world, felt like half a day to Li Ke in Lotus Lands.
It took him half a day to calm down all the Deity of the Lotus Lands, and finally to calm down Thresh, that guy who was still hung up on him.
The Lotus Guardian's abilities are very useful. Even though Thresh tried several times to suck Li Ke away with his lantern while Li Ke was holding a meeting with the gods, he failed each time. Therefore, Thresh could only listen to Li Ke obediently while drooling.
Li Ke was furious. Thresh's gaze was terrifying. To put it simply, the way Thresh looked at Li Ke was exactly the same as the way Li Ke looked at Ahri.
But damn it, Li Ke had no intention of becoming a rabbit god!
Then, Li Ke told the gods of the Lotus Lands about how he met Kindred and Ahri along the way, and the stories that happened between him and Ahri Kindred. Nearly twenty powerful Deity gathered around and listened to Li Ke's story very attentively.
Tristana and Teemo interrupted Li Ke several times, asking him numerous questions.
This is because these Deity are all incredibly bored, really incredibly bored.
The Deity of the Lotus Lands are not like Ornn or Lissandra; they were not born Demigod, nor did they achieve their Deity through cultivation alone.
Before entering the Lotus Lands, they possessed memories of their past lives. Later, due to the powerful spiritual boundaries of Ionia and the nurturing of the Spirit of Ionia, they gradually became Deity.
Therefore, in a sense, they are Deity with strong "human" emotions.
They are human beings; they experience reluctance, sadness, joy, and tears.
The Lotus Lands, devoid of civilization, would naturally become boring after a while. Therefore, the outside world is a great stimulus for these Deity.
However, when Li Ke said he needed help and would invite three Deity from the Lotus Lands to fight for him, things took a slight turn.
The Deity of the Kanmei faction also wanted to go out, but many of them expressed their unwillingness to fight and kill others. After much thought, some of them refused Li Ke's Deity, while the Akana faction's gods all agreed, one by one, to leave the Soul Blossom and go to the outside world.
In the end, Li Ke had no choice but to select the relatively obedient Tristana and Riven.
After all, Darius is the Spirit of War, Cassiopeia is the Temptation Spirit, and Vayne? She's even more outrageous. She's the Spirit of the Hunt.
These guys have such bad tempers and eccentricities, each one more outrageous than the last.
What? Why aren't you letting Thresh out?
Ha, if Thresh is released, Li Ke will probably Thresh him first.
Even with a pre-arranged contract, Li Ke was still afraid. He was afraid that Thresh, that madman, would break the contract and attack him once he got out.
Li Ke thought Thresh was really capable of doing something like that.
When Riven asked who he wanted to kill, Li Ke released his divine sense, and a lotus flower was imprinted between his eyebrows. At this moment, he could also do what Janna did. The spiritual power bursting out from his powerful soul transformed Freljord into a bird's-eye view that appeared before Li Ke.
Then, Li Ke looked south with a gloomy expression.
"Help our own people first, Riven. Go, I want you to kill that black wolf."
Li Ke's gaze turned south, and he saw Janna being bullied.
Swain was there too; he finally came out, but he was far too weak. Even with demonic power, Swain was at a disadvantage against the ancient god Jin'er and was being beaten down.
Janna was forced to fight two opponents at once, but even fighting one opponent was difficult for Janna, let alone fighting two.
If Janna hadn't become a god through faith, without a physical body, and her faith were immortal, Janna would likely be severely injured, or even on the verge of death.
Therefore, Li Ke felt angry.
Along Li Ke's path to growth, aside from the Soul Blossom Golden Finger, he had two gods who were always helping him.
One is Ahri, and the other is Janna.
Especially Janna, whether it's Li Ke or Jinx, Janna often acts like an older sister, protecting Li Ke and doting on Jinx.
Naturally, Li Ke was now seething with anger.
Riven glanced at Li Ke, pursed her lips, and then closed her eyes the instant she raised her greatsword. When she opened them again, a surge of black energy appeared on her body, quickly spreading for several kilometers. Then, Riven's energy locked onto a black wolf.
"Watch your tone, Li Ke. You're not my superior, and I'm not your soldier. We're just in a business relationship."
Just before her body disappeared from Li Ke's sight, Riven coldly said, leaving behind the words: "If there's a next time, after I complete the contract, I'll kill you."
"What about me?! What about me?!"
Tristana reached out her small hand and tugged at Li Ke's trouser leg.
"Give that little snake to..."
"Okay!" Before Li Ke could finish speaking, Tristana giggled and agreed.
Her short, ear-length hair was tinged with purple, and the gourd she had been carrying on her back was now in her hand. On her round, chubby face, her Big Eyes turned red, and a vertical pupil appeared between the pinkish-red whites of her eyes.
Tristana also disappeared, and Li Ke followed her, flying south.
Seeing this, Ahri quickly followed.
As Riven's aura locked onto Rilfen, the giant Blood Shark in the North Sea cried out in alarm, his face turning ashen.
"How is this possible! These three Deity are not from Runeterra!"
His expression was solemn, and the several eyes on either side of his fish head looked to the sides, exchanging glances with the two ancient gods beside him.
His response was met with equally solemn expressions from the two ancient gods.
Especially the whale, what he was conveying was—it's not the Celestials, the Celestials would never help Lissandra.
After all, the Celestials were among the enemies the Three Sisters fought against; to put it bluntly, Serylda was fighting the Targonians.
Karma was flying in the air, her skirt torn, and one of the fans in her hands had its green light dimmed, the blades broken, and the fan ribs wounded. Similarly, the octopus she was fighting was covered with horrific dents and bloody holes.
Each pit is tens of meters in size.
Although the battle only lasted a short time, Karma went all out, while Octopus was only trying to protect himself. He wouldn't be foolish enough to risk his life, especially since if he got injured, the two of them would be at a disadvantage when it came time to divide up Freljord's territory.
In short, the situation in the North Sea is even more chaotic.
The Seal Sister's situation wasn't much better than Karma's. She had already transformed into her true form and sunk into the sea. The body that surfaced was that of a giant seal, over a thousand meters long. She also had many wounds on her body, the most horrifying of which was a wound inflicted by a Blood Shark.
On the Seal Sister's plump, fatty side, there was a huge wound with a radius of a hundred meters and a depth of tens of meters; that piece of her flesh had been swallowed by the Blood Shark.
"Those... are they your people too?" Seal Sister asked Karma, her expression dazed.
She sensed the battle taking place to the south.
Seal Sister trembled. She had thought that her side was already locked in a fierce battle, though not as desperate as Lissandra and Volibear, but they were still fighting seriously.
But the bloodshed in the fighting in the south now is even greater than that of the battles between Volibear and Lissandra!
The South—that's where the true meaning of killing the Deity lies!
Karma remained silent for a long time, then nodded.
The instant Karma nodded, the three gods —Blood Shark, Whale, and Octopus—made their decision.
"Withdraw!"
Are you kidding me!
Not only are the three gods not united among themselves, but even if they were to unite, killing Karma and Seal Sister would be difficult. In a battle between Demigod, if one side really wants to run away, it is very difficult to be killed; the worst-case scenario is that they will be seriously injured.
Die?
Over tens of thousands of years, only a handful of Deity have actually been killed in Freljord, most of whom were killed by Volibear, and some by witches.
But if they were surrounded, the situation would be different!
Karma and Seal Sister can sense the battle in the south, so why can't the three of them?
Of course!
That purple-skinned human with the knife is a complete madman!
Seeing the three gods flee Freljord and head towards the North Sea, Karma and Seal Sister did not stop them.
"Thank you," Seal Sister said to Karma after a moment's hesitation.
Karma nodded, then turned and flew south.
Seeing this, the Seal Sister hesitated for a moment, then transformed into a human and followed Karma.
"Damn it, are you insane?! You're not Deity of this world!"
Why are you listening to that human?!
Rilfen painfully dodged backward, his enormous body shrinking to the size of a normal wolf. It was a joke that he'd been hundreds of meters tall before; was he trying to get cut down big enough?
A pair of wolf-like eyes stared at the woman who silently leaped towards him. Black energy enveloped her, and she resembled a female warrior from the depths of hell, wielding a giant sword that shone with purple light as she met his attack head-on.
"Boom!"
A Sword Mark that stretched tens of thousands of meters ripped apart the land of Freljord, causing the Dragonbone Mountains to tremble and shake.
"Can't you tone it down a bit?!"
Complaints arose, and Ahri reached out to protect the humans who were almost caught in the crossfire.
Are you kidding me? If she hadn't intervened, Riven's sword strike would have affected at least tens of thousands of humans!
Therefore, Riven and Tristana were responsible for fighting, while Ahri was responsible for protection.
Li Ke flew quietly beside Janna, watching the battle.
"I ask you, why did you listen to that human! What did he give you? I can give you the same! I can give you so much more!" Rilfen cried out in pain, his wolf claws cracking, and his back bones, as hard as divine iron, were also injured and broken.
This woman's sword is too heavy and too ruthless!
In particular, she was completely unafraid of Rilfen's attacks, fighting entirely on the principle of risking her life for hers!
What a joke! He came out to respond to Volibear, to seize territory and strengthen his own power, not to actually sacrifice his life to fight for Volibear!
What did he give me?
Riven lowered her head, pondered for a moment, and when she looked up again, the broken Lotus Sword in her hand slashed at Rilfen once more.
Agile as a butterfly, Riven leaped into the air, shattering the Void. With a light touch of her toes, she instantly appeared a thousand meters away in front of Rilfen. As the Lotus Broken Sword fell, she uttered softly:
He can give me freedom.
"Also, you talk too much nonsense."
"Fight or die."
Riven lowered her arm, her eyes blazing with purple flames, and a demonic aura enveloped the black wolf Rilfen.
Boom!!!