Because new buds had already sprouted on the spirit tree's branches—this was the first time since the war had begun.
Winter slipped away in silence, and the warm sun of early spring began to shine over this beautiful land.
This year's Spirit Blossom Festival would surely arrive as promised.
The people ravaged by war looked forward to it with all their hearts.
Everyone in the Dreaming Forest was preparing for this grand traditional festival.
But...
Perhaps those awaiting the blooming of the red spider lilies were not only the people of the Dreaming Forest.
There were also other kinds of beings.
The devotees responsible for balancing the material realm and the Spirit Realm called them...
[Demons of the Spirit Realm · Azakana]
Smiles Don't Disappear, They Just Move to My Face
Chen Ce left Hirana Monastery with Ahri and headed all the way toward Fae'lor Island.
This journey was practically from one end of Ionia to the other—Lalin was in the northeastern corner of Ionia, while Fae'lor Island lay at Ionia's southwestern end. It could be considered a trip across the whole of Ionia, so the distance was easy to imagine.
It took Chen Ce several days just to walk from Lalin to the Placidium Plains.
During those few days, he made two "discoveries."
The first was a letter from Irelia—she had sent it by Four-Winged White Dove, and it concerned the Resistance Army's next moves. The general content was that the Resistance Army was preparing to launch an all-out counterattack against the Noxian invaders.
The situation in both Navori Province and the Placidium Plains was quite good. Most of Noxus's large warbands had already been wiped out, leaving only scattered forces still fighting a "guerrilla war," but they were no longer any real threat.
Things in Wuju and Lalin