"Ta-ta-"

"Um...what's the sound?"

Anne's attention was attracted by the sound coming from the end of the passage.

"It's probably the pendulum swinging. It's no big deal, it's just a clock."

It would be nice if it was just a clock. This place is related to Thresh, it borrows the power of Thresh, and it also imitates Thresh's lantern.

Thresh's lantern is used to imprison souls. In addition, he also has a soul-enchanting weapon, which is a pendulum.

"Of course I know it's the sound of a pendulum! But how could something like that appear in this place? It doesn't match the environment at all."

In Anne's opinion, the age and style of the clocks with pendulums were far different from the furnishings in the underground passage.

In the past, no matter which courtyard the furnishings were in, they all conformed to the customs and habits of the same era or region. At least based on Anne's knowledge, there was no obvious difference.

However, a clock popped up from this grave. Isn’t it a joke?

"It is said that in a gloomy and dark environment, coupled with the sound of the pendulum, it is more likely to scare people. Maybe it is to scare you."

Balliard tried his best not to let Anne see the ghost, and of course he would not let Anne know that the pendulum was likely to attack later. Anyway, as long as he was around, the imitation would not cause any big trouble. If he didn't tell Anne,

It also saves her from being afraid.

"I won't be intimidated by this kind of thing."

Anne snorted softly and raised her head proudly, but there were will-o'-wisps everywhere, and no matter which direction she looked, she couldn't see the end of the darkness.

She quickly retracted her head and rested it on Valliad's back.

"That's good."

In the dark, Balliard's field of vision was almost all-round, and Anne's little moves couldn't be hidden from him. However, she was not afraid if she said she wasn't afraid, and there was nothing to expose.

"Now, Balliard."

After walking another one or two hundred meters, Annie suddenly spoke.

"What's wrong?"

Balliard slowed down, intending to calm the panicked kitten.

"Is the sound of the pendulum getting closer?"

In this darkness, what Anne could see was really limited. Even if extraordinary people could basically see at night, the darkness here was different from other places.

Therefore, Anne paid attention to the sound of the pendulum uncontrollably. The sound gradually became louder and louder.

Balliard said that the sound of the pendulum is to scare people. As the sound gets closer and closer, isn't it getting closer to the clock? Is the clock that scares people about to appear?

What does it look like? Is it haunted by ghosts? Or is that clock the belly of a monster?

"It is indeed getting closer, but don't pay attention to those sounds. Let's see how far we are from the core of the magic circle."

Balliard did not deceive Anne this time, and did not tell Anne that "it's just your illusion." If he really said that, Anne might be even more frightened.

After all, how could a transcendent be unable to hear the distance of the clock? What if that girl had been worried and frightened, and suddenly felt that Valliard had been "switched", and then gave her a fireball?

Moreover, it is Thresh's pendulum. It is said that it can bring bad luck to others. Even if it is an imitation, it is not as powerful as the original. However, these powers involving fate cannot be taken lightly.

Even a little bit of bad luck may lead to a person's death.

"There's still almost a thousand meters left."

Annie looked at Tibbs, who rolled his eyes, and the data showed up on the screen,

"Didn't I tell you about the distance before? You don't remember it yourself, why do you keep asking me."

"Wouldn't this reduce some pressure on you?"

As long as she diverts her attention to other places, Anne will not concentrate on listening to the sound of the pendulum, and naturally she will not be disturbed by that force.

"I'm not afraid..."

Anne's face turned red, she lay on Balliard's back and muttered a few words.

"Yes, little Annie can't be afraid of these weird things..."

With that said, Balliard stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Anne used her hands to support her body upward, put her head on Balliard's shoulder, and tilted her head to look at Balliard.

"……nothing."

Balliard continued to move forward, but this time the speed was not as fast as before, the pace was heavy and slow.

"Why is that pendulum sound coming from all directions now?"

Anne stopped shrinking down, and hugged Balliard's neck with both hands, holding Tibbs with one hand and blocking Balliard's chest.

"Maybe it's because I'm too close. Well, maybe it's an echo."

Of course Balliard understood the truth, but it was difficult to explain the current situation to Anne.

Just before he stopped, he felt the movement of the "earth" and expanded the shadow's vision, only to realize that he and Annie were currently standing on the pendulum.

In order to prevent Annie from discovering it, he deliberately "locked" himself with the pendulum, just like humans on the planet who would not be thrown out just because the planet was rotating.

However, this pendulum is not a planet after all, and does not have such a strong gravitational pull. In order to prevent Anne from noticing, Balliard spent a lot of energy, and even his walking speed dropped by half.

Judging from the current situation, he and Annie may no longer be above the blood moon.

This is - hell?

"An echo? Indeed,

There was an echo even when I walked in front of me.”

Anne didn't think so much. Why was there no echo before, but now there is an echo? Who can tell this kind of thing clearly? The echo of the first pendulum sound is at the same time as the second or third time, anyway, it is the subsequent pendulum sound.

If you put it into your ears, will you no longer hear the echo soon?

As for whether this was the reason, Anne did not investigate in detail.

"What is the value of a soul?"

The disembodied voice, filled with malice, penetrated into the ears of Balliard and Anne.

"Who's talking? Who are you?"

Anne strangled Balliard's neck and subconsciously increased her strength. Fortunately, Balliard was a transcendent and didn't need to breathe, otherwise, this moment would have been quite uncomfortable.

"I... am the thing under the bed."

Accompanied by several cold laughter, the speaker answered Anne's words.

"Do you still like to taste fear so much? Thresh."

Balliard gradually raised his head and looked at the darkness in the distance. There, there was a huge head with bloody rune energy floating around it. It seemed that it was affected by those energies, and the will-o'-the-wisp also quietly changed.

color.

This place is indeed hell. Creatures that are thousands of meters high, or even nearly 10,000 meters high, can only exist in areas other than Runeterra.

In Runeterra, creatures that could originally grow to such a large size will be suppressed within a reasonable range. Just like the dragon birds in the Jin Kingdom and the dragon birds in the normal world line, only dragon birds that can grow as large as the rules allow

To the point where it can carry people, the rules don't allow it, so sorry, it's just a bigger bird with the blood of a dragon.

At this moment, Balliard was advancing with the weapon in the hand of Thresh, which was nearly 10,000 meters high.

"Threstone? Is that Thresh from the Shadow Isles?"

Annie reacted. The name Thresh was not a household name, but it was familiar to children. After all, parents always used Thresh to scare their children and make them sleep obediently.

"It's understandable, but he is now a demon in hell,"

While Baliard was explaining to Anne, he was talking to Thresh again.

"You brought us here not to scare people, right?"

That's right, that passage did not lead to hell, but Thresh took him and Annie to hell.

To be more precise, it cannot be said that he and Anne were in hell.

The door to hell has not yet been opened, the demons in hell cannot get out, and no one from the outside can get in.

Thresh, on the other hand, used his own pendulum and used the lantern in the passage as a coordinate to pull that space over, barely overlapping it with a space in hell.

But neither Thresh nor Balliard can interfere with things outside the space they are in. The propagation of sound is close to the limit. If Thresh still wants to penetrate his power, then this forcibly folded space

It will break and then quickly return to its original shape.

"You have a strong aura of Shadow Island. Your divinity is the most fitting of death I have ever seen. Who are you?"

It is not an easy task for a demigod like Thresh to pull a piece of space across the barrier between Hell and Runeterra. Of course, he will not give up such a thing just for the souls of one or two extraordinary people.

Big strength.

If you want the soul of a transcendent, there are so many transcendent-level demons in hell. If you kill just a few, won't you get the soul?

"You should have heard something or be able to detect something. After all, you are the one who survived the curse of the ruined king."
To be continued...