Runeterra: I actually know a little bit about everything

To help so many people withstand the attack of a top-tier demigod, Zuo Chi would need to draw upon a massive amount of power from the World Runes, which also means that he would be subject to even stronger influence from the World Runes!

The fox mark between his brows flashed with dazzling light as Zuo Chi desperately resisted the bewitching power.

Volibear sensed Anivia getting closer and closer, and his white-glowing eyes looked down at Zuo Chi and the others, specifically at the World Rune in Zuo Chi's hand.

He had to admit that Zuo Chi had many surprising qualities.

But at this moment, he needs to crush Zuo Chi and the others to death!

"Roar!"

A deafening roar erupted, and Volibear's legs began to move. He landed on all fours and charged straight towards the left pool.

Under the gaze of Winter's Claw's suddenly contracting pupils, Volibear's mountain-like body charged straight towards them.

As Volibear approached, everyone saw the cruelty in his eyes.

He suddenly raised his claws, channeling all his strength into his arms, and struck with his head, aiming straight for the Winter Claws below!

He wanted to tear apart Zuo Chi's defenses, kill all the Winter's Claws under his lightning, and finally transform Sejuani and Zuo Chi into bear-men.

Looking at Volibear who had come to stand in front of him, Zuo Chi's eyes also revealed an extreme madness.

Zuo Chi wrapped the scroll that had previously contained the runes around his arm to barely reduce the influence of the world runes. The light shimmering from the world runes in his hand was becoming increasingly intense, and elemental power like a tsunami was swirling around them.

Under this force, Zuo Chi even saw the veil separating the material realm from other realms.

The next instant, Volibear's attack from the sky arrived in front of Zuo Chi, and the power emanating from the World Rune in Zuo Chi's hand also erupted completely!

"Buzz!"

In an instant, all the energy around Zuo Chi and Volibear was pulled to the center of the explosion, and space and energy began to collapse dramatically.

Then, it exploded instantly!

"boom!"

As these two world-creating forces collided, a mushroom cloud hundreds of meters high shot straight into the sky, even completely dispersing the storm clouds above.

The surging force relentlessly eroded the defensive light shield created by Zuo Chi, causing large holes to appear in the shield before it was eventually completely destroyed.

However, the light barrier also withstood the vast majority of the impact, and the remaining force only blasted all the Winter's Claw members below away.

On the other side, Volibear's massive body, which was nearly fifty meters tall, was thrown out by the force of the explosion, flying straight out of the city and crashing heavily onto the ground!

Upon closer inspection, Volibear's claws now bore very obvious burn marks, and his palms were covered with countless tiny wounds.

Volibear lay on his back on the ground, looking up at the sky. It was then that he saw Anivia's wings that blotted out the sky, and the icy storm that followed.

“Voliber, brother, get out of here.” Anivia’s voice was unusually authoritative.

At this point, Volibear realized that he had actually been stopped by that human.

Slowly rising to his feet, Volibear walked towards the northern woods without looking back.

"As you wish, sister."

However, just as Volibear was about to enter the forest, he suddenly turned back and looked with a mysterious gaze at Winter's Claw in the ruins and the figure holding the World Rune.

"I believe we'll meet again soon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Volibear's figure completely disappeared into the woods.

On this journey, he relied on the offerings from the Claws of Winter to repair his severely injured body. Although he failed to achieve his other goals, he knew that the Claws of Winter did not get enough food and they would die anyway!

"Zuo Chi!"

At that moment, Ashe's exclamation came. She jumped off the side of Anivia's huge body and rushed quickly towards the direction where Zuochi was. Anivia also looked towards Zuochi in the ruins.

She saw the world rune in Zuo Chi's hand and also noticed Zuo Chi's current state.

"Wasn't this rune in that human's hands? Why is it in his possession? And his current state seems very strange."

Anivia's voice was calm and cool, her eyes fixed on Zuo Chi.

Just as Anivia said, at this moment, Zuo Chi's left arm was tightly gripping the crook of his right arm, while he was constantly making suppressed, painful roars.

In order to defend against Volibear's attack and retaliate against him, Zuo Chi instantly used a massive amount of World Rune power.

At the same time, a terrifying backlash also came his way!

His palms were completely engulfed in flames of panic; had it not been for the restriction of the mysterious scroll, those flames might have spread to his arms in an instant.

Once, it was this very flame that instantly engulfed Brand, transforming him into a mysterious spirit that knew only killing and revenge.

Zuo Chi tried to use his Ascension power to suppress the flames, but it had no effect. The terrifying backlash from the World Runes was something his incomplete Ascension power could not withstand.

In the ruins, everyone was watching Zuo Chi, who was screaming in pain.

They all knew that they had survived because of Zuo Chi, but they were powerless to do anything for Zuo Chi now.

Aisha came to Zuo Chi's side, supported his body, and continuously poured ice magic into his hands, trying to extinguish the flames for him.

However, her power was still inferior to Zuo Chi's, so how could she extinguish the flames of the World Rune?

Just when everyone was in despair, a loud phoenix cry rang in everyone's ears.

Turning their heads, they saw Anivia soaring into the sky, her wings radiating pure ice light!

The terrifying power of the True Ice descended from the sky, sweeping towards Zuo Chi's palm.

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The enormous ice phoenix spread its wings, and seemingly endless pure ice magic surged from beneath them, completely enveloping the entire city.

These storms and ice crystals seemed to be guided by something, and did not harm anyone else in the slightest, but went straight for Zuo Chi's right hand.

In Freljord, Iceborn like Ashe and Sejuani possess powerful ice magic due to their icy bloodline.

As the ancient goddess who governs ice and the cycle of life and death, Anivia's power is different from everyone else's; her magic has far surpassed the scope of ice magic.

Pure Ice Magic!

As the creator of True Ice, Anivia can summon extremely terrifying True Ice power with just a few gestures.

This is the power of a certain law, just like Ornn's First Flame and Volibear's First Lightning.

A series of cold currents rushed toward Zuo Chi's palm, and the strange flame on his palm that had rendered everyone helpless actually began to dim and eventually slowly went out.

As the flames subsided, wisps of white smoke rose in front of Zuo Chi, revealing his hands, covered in cracks and burn marks, to everyone.

Looking at his palm, Zuo Chi couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Although he had anticipated that the backlash from the World Rune would be terrifying, he hadn't expected it to be this bad.

Zuo Chi was even certain that if Anivia hadn't come today, he would have had to pay a huge price just to extinguish the flames, and might even have lost his hand completely.

This also seems to confirm from another perspective just how powerful that bald guy who has completely mastered rune magic is!

Zuo Chi has already achieved this level of power using only a portion of his strength, yet that person possesses numerous world runes and has held them for nearly a thousand years.

Bringing his thoughts back, Zuo Chi looked up at the ice crystal phoenix Anivia in the sky.

"Anivia, thank you."

Anivia descended from the sky, folded her wings, and stood on the ruins, her icy blue eyes curiously observing Zuo Chi.

"Human, you are special. You are the first human, besides the three sisters, to make Volibear suffer."

A bitter smile appeared on Zuo Chi's face: "We were barely putting up a fight. It's not like we suffered a defeat. If you hadn't come, I'm afraid few of us would be alive."

Anivia did not refute Zuo Chi's words, because she knew Volibear better than anyone else.

Both he and Iron Mountain Boar Idhaoug are battle maniacs, but Volibear is even more outrageous than Idhaoug because he almost never holds back against humans.

If it's possible to kill, then there will be absolutely no holding back.

On the contrary, Idhaoug only wanted to fight; he wasn't particularly attached to the ancient ways that Volibear believed in.

"Don't provoke the Bear People."

Anivia shook her wings and glanced at Ashe and Sejuani, as if to warn them.

In response to the reminder from the God of Ice and Snow, Ashe and Sejuani nodded respectfully.

Anivia then looked at Zuo Chi: "Human, the runes in your hands are very powerful, but you should use them as little as possible unless absolutely necessary. Unlike that person, whose body has been modified by runic magic, yours has not."

"Hmm?" Zuo Chi suddenly looked at Anivia, his eyes flickering.

"Anivia, do you know Ryze?"

"We had a chance encounter."

Anivia nodded her massive head: "The rune in your hand originates from a bottomless abyss in the far north of Freljord, northwest of the Frozen Sea. Ryze found it and snatched it from that tentacle monster."

"!!"

Upon hearing this, Zuo Chi was completely shocked.

Northwest of the Frozen Sea.

The Frozen Sea is located at the northernmost part of the entire Runeterra map. Further north of the Frozen Sea, apart from the islands inhabited by the Ursa, there seems to be only an unknown continent.

And then there's the tentacle monster Anivia mentioned.