Arcane: The Gods Want Me to Pick a Route

Chapter 289: Chapter 289: Lissandra Becoming More Human by the Day

"How are you here?"

Nunu recognized the guy in front of him. He reached up and rubbed his eyes, staring at Logan in disbelief as he asked in a dazed, muddled way, "Weren’t you, weren’t you over there?" fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

As he spoke, Nunu stretched out a finger and pointed in one direction. Then he realized he had not even pointed the right way, so he immediately switched directions. "This place is super, super far from there. How did you show up here?"

Children stumbled over their words, and they could not even properly judge distance. That was very normal.

As long as Logan understood what Nunu meant, that was enough. He looked at Nunu, lowered his voice, and said, "This is no accident, Nunu. Just like when you met Willump, our meeting was also destined."

"Huh?" Nunu was startled. Sitting on Willump’s body, his little face suddenly turned red, and he stammered, "A-Are you a girl? Mom said ’destined’ can only be used for bloodsworn. Are you my destined bloodsworn?"

"Are you my wife?" Although he was shy, the little guy still gathered his courage. At this point, there was even another meaning mixed into his bashfulness as he whispered, "But aren’t you a little too old?"

Logan: "?"

Pfft.

Somewhere in the unseen, Logan seemed to hear someone laughing. The laughter was cold and clear, brief and sharp.

The moment he thought of Lissandra seeing this scene, Logan clenched his teeth.

Just what had Layka been teaching Nunu?

What did she mean by saying destined had to be bloodsworn?

What was bloodsworn? In the Freljord, bloodsworn meant husband and wife.

"You’re overthinking it, Nunu. I’m a man, no, I’m a spirit." Logan suppressed the speechlessness and frustration in his heart and spoke seriously to Nunu.

"A spirit? Are you a god?" Nunu clapped his hands and spoke as though he had suddenly realized something. "Then it really was you who saved me back then, right? I knew it! I fell from such a high place, passed out for two days, and somehow I wasn’t dragged away by snow wolves."

He had already seen the green light in front of him once before, so this counted as someone familiar. On top of that, for some reason, Nunu was willing to trust him. In some unseen way, he had a good impression of this green guy.

It was like... like if he met Braum, he would trust Braum unconditionally?

Thinking this, Nunu seemed to lower all his defenses. He looked at Logan with a pitiful expression, sniffled, and said, "Can you help me? Help me save Willump, just like when you helped me before."

"He’s fine. He has only fallen unconscious for now." Logan glanced at Willump. Yetis had thick skin and tough bodies. On top of that, when Nilah had washed Willump and Nunu down the cliff with that giant wave, she had shown restraint. She was just a little dramatic, not actually an idiot.

At the time, Nilah had deliberately controlled her strength and only withdrew it when they were about a dozen yards above the ground. With Willump’s physique, a dozen yards was nothing to him.

After all, Willump’s fur was probably half a yard thick, right?

Not to mention, this guy could jump four or five yards in one bound. So Willump had fallen unconscious now not because he was injured from falling from a high place, but because he had been protecting Nunu while Nilah washed them away with a giant wave.

How should he put it?

It was like tossing a person into a huge front-loading washing machine. When that person came out, they would definitely vomit and pass out.

"Fallen unconscious?" Nunu looked at Logan, somewhat doubtful. After all, with Willump’s physical condition, how could he fall unconscious?

Logan looked at Nunu, thought for a moment, then said, "If you don’t want to believe me, then there’s nothing I can do. Anyway, Willump is fine. You don’t need to worry about him. But Nunu, compared to Willump’s condition, shouldn’t what you should be thinking about right now be how you and Willump are going to reach Winged Mountain after he wakes up? That person is still waiting for you up there."

Logan pointed toward the mountaintop as he spoke.

Heh. Of course Logan was different from Nilah. He knew he had come here with a mission. When playing a role, one had to fully immerse oneself in that role. Right now, he was playing the mysterious old mentor who helped Nunu grow.

As for an actor like Nilah, who broke character because of her own preferences, she deserved a big, bold NO. She really was not qualified at all!

"How do you know about Winged Mountain?" Nunu blinked and asked the question.

He looked at Logan and suddenly became a little nervous as he whispered, "N-No, that’s not right. Mom only told me about Winged Mountain, and I never told anyone else I was going there. You shouldn’t know that!"

Logan: "?"

Why did he suddenly become smart?

"Because I know where your mother is," Logan thought for a moment, then said.

With this one sentence, the wariness Nunu had just developed was instantly shattered. He looked at Logan excitedly and shouted, "Mom? You know where my mom is?"

"Your mother is called Layka, right?"

"Yes!"

"She... isn’t in danger right now, but that is only temporary, Nunu. She is currently in the very place you are trying to reach. Go to Winged Mountain and uncover the secrets of the yetis together with Willump, and you will be able to find your mother."

"Is everything you’re saying true?" Nunu looked at Logan, then whispered, "Can I trust you? I don’t even know your name. How am I supposed to trust you?"

"My name? Nunu, you can call me the Guardian," Logan said softly.

"Guardian, like Braum? But you aren’t bald." Nunu tilted his head and said.

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Under the green light, Logan’s facial expression twisted again.

Why did this brat have so many questions?

Breathe. Take a deep breath, Logan. Be patient. Nunu was not a naughty child. On the contrary, having this kind of caution and asking all kinds of questions meant that Nunu was very smart.

Although Logan had experience raising a child, it was very obvious that Isha had been much more obedient than Nunu. Also, Isha could not speak, unlike Nunu, who had so many questions.

To put it bluntly, Nunu’s curiosity was simply too strong.

Somewhere unseen, Logan seemed to hear the witch’s laughter again.

Should he say that Nunu was truly impressive for being able to make Lissandra laugh?

"No, Nunu. I have lived much longer than Braum, and from a much older age. I am an existence unknown to you." Logan said this to Nunu, then continued, "The Freljord holds many secrets. What you must do now is uncover those secrets. Don’t you like adventures? This is exactly what you want, Nunu. You must go to Winged Mountain, not only to save your mother, but also to save the Freljord."

"I’m going to save the Freljord?" Nunu became excited and stood up on Willump’s big belly. But he immediately realized that this was not good for Willump, so he carefully climbed down from Willump’s body and reached Logan in a few quick steps.

Looking up at Logan, he reached out and, while boldly trying to touch Logan, shouted excitedly, "Can I become a hero who saves the world?"

Buzz.

With a faint sound, Nunu’s hand was blocked by something transparent. He looked up at Logan in surprise and saw the huge green figure in front of him reach out a hand.

The big green hand moved toward his head. This made Nunu instinctively dodge backward, but immediately afterward, he bravely took a step forward again, letting the strange person in front of him place his hand on his head.

"As long as you want to, you can."

"But first, you have to overcome the difficulty in front of you," Logan said seriously to Nunu.

"Please tell me what I should do. She doesn’t listen to me at all. Also, can, can we avoid hurting her?" Nunu asked several questions in a row.

"She threw you and Willump down here. You almost died, you know?" Logan looked at Nunu with a strange expression.

"No, it’s not like that." After hearing Logan’s words, Nunu shook his head. He said clearly to Logan, "I can feel it. She didn’t really want to hurt me and Willump. She, she was just playing with us?"

Nunu said this uncertainly, but even so, he still said with certainty, "Anyway, she definitely didn’t want to hurt me."

"If that’s the case... Nunu, you need to do this." Logan looked at Nunu, working hard to recall the plot from his previous life and think about how to combine things into a questline for Nunu.

A moment later, Logan suddenly smiled.

"I have a tool that can absorb the waves she creates. Without the waves, she naturally won’t be able to stop you from going to Winged Mountain." Logan bent down and crouched so he could look Nunu in the eye as he spoke.

Nunu’s eyes lit up, and he stretched out both hands. "Can you lend it to me?"

"Not only can I lend it to you, I can give it to you outright." Logan said this with a smile, laughter in his voice. He had already imagined Nunu’s little expression after finishing that task and discovering what the real situation was.

"But there is a problem with that tool."

"What problem?"

"That thing is broken right now. I need two materials before I can repair it." At this moment, Logan felt like he really had become an NPC handing out a quest.

"Say it. Willump and I will find them!" Nunu patted his chest and promised.

"The first material is called jurlberry. It is a strange fruit that grows in the Ice Fortress..."

Nunu suddenly interrupted Logan and shouted, "The Frostguard Citadel? I only just came from near there!"

His voice carried disappointment. Everyone knew the Frostguard Citadel was Lissandra’s territory, and he had only just run away from Lissandra’s orphan village!

If he went back to get it now and Lissandra found him, putting aside the problem of the material, how would he explain Willump?

The reason Nunu and Willump had not returned to the orphan village and had not gone back to tell the adults about this was because Nunu wanted to protect Willump.

Willump was not some cruel, vicious yeti. He was Nunu’s best friend!

If the adults at the Frostguard Citadel learned about Willump, Nunu was very worried they would hurt Willump. Because of that, for Willump’s sake, Nunu had given up on asking the adults at the Frostguard Citadel to help him find his mother.

And now, this green guy was actually telling him to go back!

"No, not the current Frostguard Citadel. I mean the Ice Fortress. That isn’t Lissandra’s current home. It is her old home," Logan said to Nunu. Of course he knew what Nunu was thinking.

At the same time Logan finished saying this, a cold voice sounded in his mind.

"Even if it is my old home, it is still my home. Are you teaching this child to steal my things?"

Listening to Lissandra’s questioning, Logan rolled his eyes.

Ignoring Lissandra, he continued speaking to Nunu. "Head that way. That is the opposite direction from the Frostguard Citadel. When you see an open tundra, keep going a little farther in, and you will discover an enormous ruin. There is a landmark building there. You will recognize it."

Nunu nodded, then asked, "Then what is the second material?"

"The second material is called the Tear of the Frost Goddess. After you obtain the jurlberry, travel north. When you see the Ice Sea, you will know what to do."

"Once I get them, can I go to Winged Mountain?"

"Yes. Get them and bring them back to me. I will repair the tool that can counter that person up above. With that tool, you will be able to go to Winged Mountain," Logan said seriously.

Nunu took a deep breath and nodded. "Th-Then how do I find you when the time comes?"

"When you return to the foot of the mountain with the items, I will appear before you myself, Nunu."

"Okay, I understand!"

Nunu nodded loudly.

"Then... farewell, little one." After Logan said this, he vanished directly in front of Nunu before Nunu could react.

He left Nunu standing there alone, mouth wide open, looking left and right.

After coming back to his senses, Nunu immediately ran over to Willump. Kneeling in the snow, he gently patted Willump’s cheek and shouted loudly,

"Willump, wake up!"

"It’s time for us to go on an adventure!"

"I know how we can get to Winged Mountain!"

"This is your plan?"

In the sky, Lissandra’s figure appeared. Her expression was cold, but there was a trace of laughter in her eyes.

Logan caught that trace of laughter. Honestly, Lissandra really was becoming more and more human.

Just now, she had laughed at Logan because of Nunu’s words, and she had also become unhappy because of the quest Logan had given Nunu.

These were all signs that Lissandra now had humanity.

"What else? The Ice Fortress is easy enough to deal with, but the Tear of the Frost Goddess is something I made up out of thin air. When the time comes, we’ll have White cooperate and pretend to be the Frost Goddess to give Nunu a trial. As for the specific trial, we’ll have him find a way to reach the ice island in the middle of the sea, then make up something White wants and have him give it to White."

"Will that really work?" Lissandra frowned and said softly.

She no longer thought Logan was doing something useless, because Nunu really had found Willump, and Nunu had also merged with the Heart of the Blue. Lissandra had seen that with her own eyes.

That gemstone containing Anivia’s magic... Lissandra had actually wanted it very much too.

With that thing, she would be able to truly control True Ice, not dark True Ice.

But Lissandra could not bring herself to rob a child in front of Logan. Of course... if Logan had not been there at the time, with Lissandra’s scheming nature, she really might have snatched the Heart of the Blue.

But now, it was too late to say anything.

"It will. Everything I’m doing is to let Nunu find a way to use his power while facing adversity. That child’s heart is too kind. When he faced Nilah just now, it wasn’t only because Nilah went overboard. It was also because he didn’t want to hurt Nilah, so he never even imagined himself defeating her."

Although even if Nunu had imagined it, it would not have worked.

Turning fantasy into reality was indeed an extremely powerful ability. Saying Nunu was a walking super-gimmick monster would not be excessive, but the problem was that Nilah was a stats monster!

Because of that, even if Nunu really had thought that way, as long as Nilah was unwilling, he and Willump would still have no way to pass through the mountain range.

"All right. I understand. Then let’s do it like this." Lissandra nodded and said softly.

After saying that, she prepared to leave directly.

Because from the look of things, Logan was probably going back to Zaun too. If she did not leave, was she supposed to stay here and watch over Nunu?

She was not as idle as Nilah.

But just as Lissandra opened an ice mirror and was about to step inside, Logan’s voice rang out.

"Hey, have you noticed you’re becoming more and more human?"

Lissandra turned her head and saw Logan looking at her with curiosity.

Her pale lips parted slightly. Lissandra closed her eyes and spat out one word.

"Scram."

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