"Are the people stable?"
Caleb turned his head and asked Renata Glasc, who had hurried over.
"Yes. Everyone has settled down for now. It's just that our food stores won't last long..."
Although Renata Glasc looked pleased, she grew worried again afterward.
Piltover was a port city, so right now, they could only buy grain from cargo ships at high prices.
But now everyone knew that no one could say when the Black Mist would end, so the prices had become absurdly high.
Zaun did engage in a certain amount of food production, and over the past two months, Renata Glasc had also deliberately stored some food.
But with such an enormous population, those reserves would be completely exhausted in barely a week.
By then, even if they offered far more than the current price for grain, there might be no grain available to buy at all.
"So it can last a week at most?"
"That's under the most optimistic circumstances. It can only last that long if everyone cuts back on everything."
Renata Glasc's voice was very soft and did not disturb Caleb's thinking.
"We're heading to the next place. Are you staying here?"
Akshan smiled.
Using his grappling hook, he had performed quite well in Demacia earlier.
"Where's the next stop?"
"I think it's Ionia."
"I'm not going..."
Caleb waved a hand, signaling for Jinx and Zeri to follow them.
"Don't fight with your lives on the line. If anything happens, run. That's fine."
The urgent matter now was not there. After all, Senna would eventually be targeted by Viego during the final battle.
But even with his current strength, Caleb believed he absolutely could not handle Viego.
So Caleb planned to go somewhere else and seek some help.
Caleb's World Rune, Sorcery, was still not enough to deliver powerful attacks. He could only rely on someone else.
Though strictly speaking, that person probably did not count as human either.
...
"You're going by yourself?"
After hearing Caleb's request, Jayce still felt that his words were utterly ridiculous, despite having created a computer with extremely high computing power.
"I'll set the coordinates myself."
Caleb continued almost without hesitation.
"But as for how I'll get back..."
Caleb thought for a moment, then simply dragged Yuumi to his side.
Yuumi floating beside him in that mysterious state was something Caleb could not quite define.
It seemed that aside from extremely high-level arcane power, as long as this yordle cat had a cat tree, she basically would not take damage.
"Entering countdown!"
Jayce was a little nervous. Generally speaking, this array was used to teleport large ships. Caleb, as an individual human, was something Jayce had never tried before.
"Just do it!"
"Three!"
Boom!
With a burst of light, the whole room brightened so intensely that people could barely open their eyes.
"Why did you send him away already? He wasn't ready yet!"
"Huh? Wasn't it supposed to launch when you counted to three?"
Ekko, standing to the side, looked completely confused and could not help asking.
"Looks like the gap between the two halves of the Twin Cities hasn't been fully erased yet."
Beneath the Sun Disc, Azir's sand soldiers had already surrounded Caleb so tightly that not even water could pass through.
"Let's get straight to the point."
Caleb got right to business.
By the time Caleb returned to the Twin Cities, he had already seen a woman with six blades hovering behind her and a handsome, silent man.
"You went to Mount Targon this quickly too?"
Caleb could not help frowning.
Even if Ionia was full of all kinds of people and Karma had been corroded by the Ruination, there was no way Mount Targon should have fallen so quickly too.
Those two places could be considered the farthest east and the farthest west.
Had they actually fallen in the time it took Caleb to make one round trip?
"Viego took the Ruined people from those places away. We dealt with the remaining trouble, then chased after him. It was a real hassle."
Perhaps Caleb's earlier strategy had indeed moved Senna, so now she chose the steadier strategy of waiting at ease for the exhausted enemy.
After all, this concerned the future direction of the entire world. They could not solve it just by chasing after Viego from behind.
"You actually know which places we went to?"
Senna was a little surprised. Caleb had clearly not gone with them, yet he knew they had been to Mount Targon.
"So where's the final battle going to be?"
Caleb could not help asking. On the map they had brought out, the Black Mist spread northward, but after only a short time, it immediately turned back south.
"Is it heading straight for the Twin Cities?"
Caleb looked at the spreading Black Mist and could not help feeling worried.
"No. That place is the final battlefield."
Senna's fingers were slender and beautiful, and the place she pointed to was only one location, Noxus's Immortal Bastion.
"This Ruined King really is ruthless..."
Even Caleb could not help drawing in a cold breath.
Compared to the Freljord and Mount Targon, Noxus definitely had stronger military power.
After all, they had been expanding outward for so long. Whether it was group warfare, multi-front attacks, or life-and-death duels in the arena, all of these could greatly raise a person's fighting ability between life and death.
Why had Viego chosen that place for the final battle?
Since the Ruination would not resolve itself, even if he returned to the Shadow Isles or to his old homeland and chose to fight on his own ground, Senna would still have to charge toward danger despite knowing what awaited her, even if her team was in excellent condition.
So why Noxus? Why not take the object there and leave?
If they could understand this bit of the Ruined King's thinking, then naturally, they could achieve victory in that battle.
"There's no time to lose. We should hurry over."
Zeri and Jinx still looked a little tired. Even though the battle ahead would be extremely difficult, if they did not go, the Black Mist covering the Twin Cities would never disperse.
"Are you serious...?"
Caleb's eyes went half-lidded as he watched Singed clear a bed by simply tying Warwick up with iron chains and hanging him upside down in midair.
"Hurry."
Lucian was also somewhat restless.
The enemy's target was clearly his wife. For someone who had already lost her and found her again, that was very hard to accept.
"After that, the Black Mist won't hurt anyone anymore."
Gwen also looked full of confidence.
"By the way, have you figured out why weapons of light can restrain the Black Mist?"
While they were at the Sentinels of Light headquarters, Caleb could not help continuing to stroke the blade of light in his hand.
Its texture was different from Youmuu's Wraithblade. It was more like... fine stone?
"Supposedly, it's a sacred stone from an ancient island. As long as you rely on the light in your heart, you can fire light bullets."
Lucian had also been thinking about it these past few days, and finally gave an answer that seemed fairly reliable.
"I see."
Caleb looked at the minigun Jinx was carrying and could not help sighing with emotion.
"That's nice... infinite bullets."
"Although Zeri already basically has infinite bullets."
Her electricity-generating body always made Caleb think of a certain yellow rat that refused to go into its ball.
"Then let's go there. To the final battle."
Unexpectedly, Caleb had thought this incident would continue for several months. He had not expected that after only a few days, it would already be heading toward its conclusion.
But the truth was like this Black Mist, impossible to grasp.
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