"Why do you look weak?" Lothar noticed that Karthus's soul light was much dimmer than when he first saw him.

"It used a very time-consuming magic." Karthus said.

"doing what?"

"Fix some people who will bother us."

Lothar frowned, and Karthus didn't want to say that he didn't ask: "Where's my body?"

"Here I am."

"give me back."

"Why are you obsessed with a body that will rot sooner or later?" Karthus said doubtfully, "We have achieved the immortality that mortals dream of, why do you insist on retreating?"

"Do you understand life and death like this?" Lothar stared at Karthus. He was trying to understand Karthus' death to see if he could be subdued directly with the Book of the Dead.

"Yes."

"I'm different from you, I don't expect to live forever." Rosa said, "Besides, it's not attractive to be imprisoned in the black mist like this."

"Then what appeals to you?" Karthus asked back. "Wealth, power, food, or love are both worthless to death, and they will eventually perish."

"I'm not here to argue with you." Lothar took out the Book of the Dead, "Give me back my body, that's all I want."

"You seem to have made a summoning spell with many undead." Karthus looked at the Book of the Dead in Lothar's hand, "Do you know why I gave it to you?"

"Grant the traitor a thousand spears to pierce the heart." As soon as Lothar's spell ended, a slender and withered woman emerged from behind him, holding the soul spear and pointing directly at Karthus.

"Because I don't like it, to be precise, I don't like the part of the [Illustration Book]." Calthus's appearance did not shake Karthus at all, he just continued to calmly say, "[Dictionary] and [Spell] I like some parts. It taught me such a wonderful language as Auchen, but I don't like it at all. This method of enslaving other undead shows the conquest and control of mortals. There should be something, after realizing this, I will lift all the undead who signed the summoning spell with me."

"Are you trying to persuade me to release the contract curse as well?" Lothar asked Kalista to raise her spear, "But I'm not dead, I'm still alive, so I have this desire."

"You shouldn't have." Karthus said disappointedly, "It seems that you didn't learn anything during your time on the Shadow Island."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Callista Delosa shouted, the spear in her hand instantly let go and slammed towards Karthusza.

Karthus raised his hand gently, and the soul spear stopped in front of him: "You are so impatient, don't you want to know your background?"

Lothar was startled and stopped Kalista from throwing the second spear, his face sinking: "Speak."

"I was originally a Noxian." Karthus beckoned the little girl over to him, "Born in a slum."

Lothar listened quietly, but the little girl made a lot of noise and asked Karthus to give her a new toy. Karthus really gave her more souls, and the little girl was so happy that she couldn't open her eyes.

"I have a father and three sisters. As for my mother who died when she gave birth to me," Karthus said, "I'm sorry that I can't tell you their names. It's the luck of the deceased to forget everything that happened before. Although I haven't been able to forget my own, I can't remember their faces, I just remember there are so many people."

Lothar saw Karthus put his hand gently on the little girl's head, and watched her round and flatten the soul in her hand like a loving father, he continued: "If you have been to the slums of Noxus, , I know that it is not a good place for the living. My childhood memories are already very vague. I only remember that my father and sisters were starving every day, but I seem to be quite good at finding food. I found some rotten corpses to eat, but I can't remember the taste."

Lothar had no sympathy for Karthus, whose own childhood was worse than Karthus's.

"Actually, life can be like this. I remember that I like the slums. People die every day. I like listening to those sad cries and sobbing. It's just that death always comes by accident." Karthus said with a smile, As if the tragedy he was talking about wasn't his own, "It's like a plague, as happens in the slums, my sisters die one by one, and I'm the only one left, but instead of feeling sad like everyone else, I'm There was something sacred in their passing."

Karthus looked at Lothar and smiled: "Life and death."

"What does this have to do with my background?" Rosa asked.

"Don't worry." Karthus continued, "After losing my family, I later joined the Kindred Religion."

"The Order of the Kindred" Lothar knew about this order. It was a Order in Noxus that believed in Kindred. Unlike most Noxians who only believed in wolf spirits, the people of the Order of Kindness were different. At the same time, he believed in sheep spirits and wolf spirits, and was mainly responsible for collecting and burying corpses. Lothar still remembers seeing them collecting corpses on the street.

"Yes, I'm pretty happy working there," Karthus said. "I love communicating with the dying and the dead, and their voices always bring me closer to death, I thought. I will serve in the Order my whole life until... I meet you."

"I" Lothar's spirit halo flickered a few times.

"Yes." Karthus looked at Lothar with a hint of excitement on his thin face, "I knew the moment I saw you, I saw a miracle."

"What do you mean!" Lothar stepped forward.

"It's just like your name, life and death, what a beautiful name." Karthus seemed to forget himself, "Only you, and only you, can completely rule... No, it's the Book of Conquering the Dead, because you are a thousand Jue's child!"

"What did you say?" Lothar didn't understand what Karthus was talking about. How could he be a child of the gods, "Clarify it to me!"

"I want to thank you, Lothar." Karthus really looked at Lothar gratefully, "It was you who taught me the true meaning of death, and made me leave the Order of Kindness and come here without hesitation. I was really pleasantly surprised when you showed up around the Shadow Isles, and it's you again, about to help me accomplish my great cause."

"What great achievement?" Lothar's heart pounded wildly, he felt that Karthus was about to do something, and he had to stop it immediately, "Kalista!"

Kalista immediately obeyed Lothar's order and threw the spear at Karthus, but it still failed to get close to Karthus. .

Karthus unhurriedly took out a piece of paper.

Lothar's pupils shrank, he recognized the piece of paper.

That's the pages of the Book of the Dead.

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Although there are Kindred beliefs all over the world, most of them are unorganized pan-beliefs, which are more similar to folk myths. Therefore, religious beliefs like the Kindred Order of Noxus are still quite rare.

But this may also be related to Noxus being a country that integrates many regional cultures and people.

—— "In Search of Kindred's Faith"

Chapter 429: Soul Eater Night

Lucian got up from the ground in pain.

Not far away, the upper body of the Berserker named Olaf was completely buried in the soil, but judging from his still-frozen legs, he was still alive.

"I actually jumped down with him on a whim." Lucian held himself down and hurt his back a little. He had not recovered from the injury, but now it is more serious.

Lucian held his dual guns tightly. On the Shadow Island, these two guns were equivalent to his life. If he lost him, he could only be buried here.

Lucian looked at the giant dragon beside him. Its bone scales were scattered all over the ground, and its fall directly smashed a big hole on the ground. Lucian and the others were in this hole at the moment.

While watching out for the dragon to wake up, Lucian slowly moved towards Olaf: "Hey, are you okay? Are you still alive?"

In response to Lucian, only Olaf’s legs thumped desperately. Lucian sighed, but he could only put down the gun temporarily, and endured the pain to pull Olaf out of the ground.

"Ah bah! Bah!" Olaf spat out a mouthful of dirt, "Why is the soil so bitter in this hellish place, I almost died of bitterness!"

"Shh! Be quiet!" Lucian pointed to the giant dragon beside him, "Let's go before it wakes up."

"Is this guy still alive?" Olaf looked unwillingly at the giant dragon whose body was extremely distorted by Syndra's bombardment. "That **** is too fierce, so I don't give Lao Tzu a chance to perform."

"The undead can recover as long as the body is not destroyed." Lucian coughed twice. "Except for the holy stone weapon, there is no way to destroy it. My gun can't deal with such a large undead. Let's retreat first."

Olaf reluctantly followed Lucian out of the giant pit: "I thought Shadow Island would be a good place to die in battle. Even one of his mother's ghosts can't be hacked to death, and it's useless to die."

"Shadow Isle is not a good place to seek death." After staying for so many days, Lucian also knew the dream of this Freljord Berserker, "The dead will not rest in peace here, they will be stranded here, and they cannot be killed by Kindred. to the land of the dead."

"Damn it." Olaf looked up at the sky, and the thick black mist obscured his sight. "It's strange, has the ghost fog suddenly thickened a lot? Why can't we see the big ship?"

Hearing Olaf's words, Lucian, who was distracted by the pain, also realized the problem, and his expression changed: "Why is the black fog thickening?"

"Ah? Are you asking me?" Olaf touched his head.

Lucian suddenly thought of something, his face became extremely bad, and he urged loudly: "Quick! We must leave the island quickly!"

"What's wrong? Are you in such a hurry to not find those girls?" Olaf didn't know why.

Lucian looked at the rolling black mist in the sky, his eyes dignified as if frozen: "The Night of Soul Eater is here!"

...

Elise stood silently, looking at the chapel in the distance, waiting for Lothar's signal.

Elise is alone, and there is no lonely ghost who dares to approach. She has become the most beautiful scenery in this wasteland. Unfortunately, not many ghosts still retain the desire for beauty. Elise's **** People can reward.

Only Elise was appreciating it.

The wounds left by Kalista have all been healed. Elise did not expect that Lothar could have such a divine item as the water of life. She remembered that it was something that even Lady Pale said she wanted to get.

Lothar also told Elise her real name in Auchen, which made Elise have to think about Lothar's intentions.

"Tell me my real name, and even use the water of life to heal my wounds." Elise really couldn't think of Lothar's intention to be so good to her.

Elise suddenly laughed: "A year ago, he was still my little lover who was arbitrarily dominated by me, but now I am dominated? This child is growing up really fast."

Elise took out the thing that Lothar handed her. It was a white as jade dildo, and the shape was very familiar to Elise. She didn't know how many times she had **** with something of this shape a year ago.

"But that's fine." Elise stretched out her bright red tongue and gently licked the tip of the dildo, "The more you grow... the more delicious it is..."

Elise suddenly raised her head, she saw the black mist in the sky suddenly boiled up, and she couldn't help frowning: "This is... How can Soul Eater be so fast?"

...

"What is that!" Lothar stared at the page in Karthus's hand. "You tore down the Book of the Dead!"

"There's only this page." Karthus said quietly, "It's the [Spell] chapter, which records a spell that you don't know."

"Don't even think about it!" Although he didn't know what the spell was, Lothar definitely didn't want him to use it.

Lothar tried to rush up to take the pages, but suddenly many ghosts appeared on the ground around Karthus, blocking Lothar's way.

"Wow! Karthus, what are you doing?" The little girl was also taken aback. "If it's very dangerous, I'll run away first and find my little brother to protect me."

"No." Karthus, who had always been used to little girls, was uncharacteristically.

The little girl realized that something was wrong and she wanted to escape to Lothar, but she found herself unable to move.

"Kalthus! What are you doing!" The little girl looked at Karthus in horror.

"I thank you very much." Karthus looked at the little girl. "I just went to Shadow Island more than ten years ago. If you didn't help me, I might not be where I am today. Now is the time for me to repay you."

"I don't understand in return?" The little girl looked into Karthus' eyes. The eyes she had been with for more than ten years now became so unfamiliar.

"You can sacrifice for my great cause, this is what I give you in return." Karthus said with sincere envy, "I gave you this opportunity, you must be very happy?"

"Stinky girl!" Lothar shouted angrily, "Come out! What does he want to do to you!"

"I can't get out!" the little girl cried.

"Damn it! Maokai!" Lothar shouted, the ground trembled, and the big tree that was lying in ambush came here, Lothar used Maokai's power as a living creature to forcibly break through Karthus's magic.

"Use everything in exchange for nothingness." Karthus, still calm, sang a spell softly.

Lothar's eyes narrowed, and he saw his body emerge from the ground beside Karthus' feet, and countless ghost hands lifted him high.

Karthus gently hugged the unarmed little girl and stuffed her into Lothar's body.

"This is... a soul transfer!" Lothar knew about this magic, which was recorded in the Book of the Dead, transferring a soul into another body that did not belong to him, so that a living corpse could be made, and Yorick's living corpse was almost the same. This is the principle, except that he uses the black fog without self-awareness as his soul.

But it is difficult to change the soul, and the greater the difference between the soul and the body, the more difficult it is to integrate. The little girl is completely different from Lothar in both spirit and personality, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to succeed.

But Karthus did it. He successfully put the little girl's spirit body into Lothar's body.

"Are you surprised?" Karthus showed a rare mood swing, and his voice carried a hint of pride, "I gave this child a soul-sucking magic beforehand, so that when this child follows you all the time, the spiritual body can gradually be contaminated with Your breath, while you are constantly understanding death, she is also understanding, she is growing with you, and gradually grows to be worthy of this body."

"Why are you doing this!" Lothar heard Maokai's footsteps getting closer, and he was coming soon.

"One of the reasons is that you can't return to your body." Karthus lamented, "You are too indulged in the false desires of the living to embrace true death, but this is also a matter of time, when you leave Your body is long enough that you don't get tangled up with those things anymore."

"Do you think you can put her soul in and I won't be able to return to my body! I can still pull her out!"

"I know, so I will cut the grass and root out." A soul dagger appeared in Karthus's hand, and he inserted the dagger into Lothar's body, "There is so much life force in your body that you can make you even without it. The soul is also almost immortal, but now there is only an ignorant soul in your body, she can't mobilize your power, but she can stimulate your power, which allows me to make them all disappear."

"you dare!"

Karthus inserted the soul dagger into Lothar's chest.

Ice, fire, blood and pollen, the power in Lothar instinctively poured out to protect the master, but the little girl's soul does not match Lothar's body, no matter how the power of Lothar passes, they will think that Lothar has not been cured. Well, thus constantly wasting power.

The majestic life force poured out from the wound without stopping. The choir of Karthus opened their mouths in unison, sucking the life force of Lothar, even at the expense of being blown up by those life forces. .

Maokai finally arrived, and his giant hand slammed into Karthus, but an equally large ghost hand blocked him.

"You are too late." Karthus looked at Lothar, "From the moment you conquered Kalista, your understanding of death has been profound enough, you will become the master of death sooner or later, and I will bow down sooner or later. In front of you, I'm here to help you."

"What is this, help me!" Lothar summoned Resha and Hecarim one after another and ordered them to recapture their bodies, but Karthus' magic circle made it impossible for them to approach the dead, and the only ones were the living. Maokai was also entangled in a giant hand.

"Sooner or later, you will understand my painstaking efforts. Time is not a problem for us." Karthus looked to the sky, he stretched out his hand, and directed the magic power that overflowed from Lothar's body to the sky, "In order to make If you see my sincerity, I will lay down a piece of land for you first, so that when you wake up, not only Shadow Island is your territory."

"What do you want to do!" Lothar wanted to talk while delaying the time. He had already sent a signal to Elise to come over. Karthus' madness exceeded his expectations, and he had to show his cards in advance.

"Let the Night of Soul Eater be advanced." Karthus said, the infinite life force rushed to the sky, like a drop of water entering the hot oil, the life force greatly stimulated the black mist, and the black mist began to roll violently, "This way the undead We can leave Shadow Isle, and although this early Night of Soul Eater can’t go too far, it’s no problem to go to Bilgewater.”

"Bilgewater" Lothar was surprised, "You want to make it like the Shadow Island"

"Yes, only Shadow Island, as your territory is too narrow, Bilgewater is just the beginning, I will help you, let the land of the dead spread all over the world." Karthus admitted, his voice finally had With a particularly obvious fluctuation, he looked at Lothar with a frenzy in his eyes, and he even used the honorific title, "This is my gift to you."

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Soul-devouring night, ten thousand ghosts will die.

- Bilgewater proverb

Chapter 430: Pursuit and Blocking