At night, Crownguard's mansion.

At night, the Crown Guard Manor is quiet and solemn. The Crown Guard family is different from other noble families. As the top noble family that has been inherited in Demacia for nearly four hundred years, the Crown Guard family has experienced all the historical changes in Demacia.

Escape, and later countless wars, large and small.

Countless dignitaries have disappeared in the long river of history, noble families have changed from generation to generation, and even the throne of Demacia has gone through several changes, but the Crownguard family is still standing here, unyielding, despite changes big and small.

Overt or covert conspiracies seem to never bring down this family.

It is not that Crownguard has experienced troughs. During the most critical wars, the Crownguard family was on the verge of extinction several times, but it still survived.

Crownguard, Krongard, Keeper of the Crown.

As a large family with almost the longest history, its inheritance is naturally extremely important, and as the underground library of Crownguard Manor, it is even more important.

It's night, everything is quiet, and autumn gradually has a bleak coolness. The insects and birds that used to scream are gone. Under the dim street lights, only guards wearing armors and holding weapons line up along the street.

Trail patrol.

"Kakkakkak..." The sound of metal boots on the bluestone road spread far away.

Lacus, who got into the room early, still didn't fall asleep.

Wearing a long milky white dress, revealing her smooth calves and cute little feet as white as pearls, Lux sat on the window sill of the room. The wide stone platform was more than enough to accommodate her petite body.

For Lux, a height of four to five meters is no different from flat ground.

Looking out the window in a daze, the sparse street lights in the manor illuminate the silence of the night, and outside the manor, there are already very few people.

Although today is the day of the celebration, the crowd that had been partying all day has exhausted all their energy and dispersed early. The only people waved goodbye at the intersection and met on the streets to celebrate tomorrow.

A cool breeze blew by, blowing the hair on Lax's temples. Her long golden hair slowly fluttered in the evening breeze, curling up and caressing the delicate window screen beside her.

Feeling the chill of the night, Lux came back to her senses, raised her hand to comb her hair, casually tied a flower in it, and hung it on her chest.

The girl jumped down from the window sill, holding her shoulders with her hands, and stepped on the thick velvet carpet with her bare feet.

Walking all the way to the clothes rack nearby, the girl looked around for a moment, then hesitantly took out a cream-yellow long-sleeved shirt, put it on her shoulders, hurriedly opened the door, and walked out.

His father and mother went to attend the king's banquet and have not returned yet. Galen led his troops away from home for many days because of the restlessness of the Freljord people in the north and has not returned. However, his own people, at such a banquet,

We have already found our goals, and we don’t know where we are going.

In other words, she was the only one in the huge Crownguard Manor tonight.

After separating from Julian, the girl ran back home alone on the pretext of feeling unwell. Thinking about what happened not long ago, the girl could still feel her cheeks getting slightly hot.

Smiling infatuatedly, the girl came back to her senses, looked at the slightly dark corridor, and took steps forward.

Go all the way to the end of the corridor and go down the spiral escalator to the first floor. The wall lamps on the wall emit a faint light, guiding people along the way.

The girl stopped and looked at her home casually.

She has lived here for a long time.

When she was a child, she was born in Misilver City, which was a city built on a mountain. A large river extended from a distance, surrounding the mountainside all the way to the east. The stretches of houses stretched from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. At the highest point of the mountain,

It is the castle of the Crownguard family, her home.

The hereditary fiefdom of the Crownguard family is located.

There, she spent a carefree childhood.

Until he was six years old, in order to receive a more perfect and noble education, and to facilitate the movement of the two families of Crownguard and Lightshield, Peter Crownguard, as the head branch of the family, moved his wife and children to the manor in the capital of Demacia.

Until today, she has lived here for nearly ten years.

She was familiar with every place in the manor, and every corner left traces of her playfulness.

The manor's fountain, pavilions, small rockery hills, and groves with many animals used to be her favorite places to visit.

Every decoration in the manor has her hard work.

One day a few years ago, she couldn't control the magical energy in her body and violent fluctuations broke out, leaving several rooms in the manor in a mess.

Facing the frightened and serious eyes of her parents, she squatted on the ground at a loss, holding her knees and sobbing.

At that time, she was scared, confused and helpless.

Fortunately, her father and mother love her.

For her sake, her parents forced everything to be covered up, and this magical fluctuation was concluded to be an attempt by some evil forces in the country to assassinate General Pitt.

Things calmed down.

Her parents still loved her. In order not to let her think too much, they poured more love into her. Even Galen once said jealously: "If you commit the same thing, you will be protected, and I will have to be beaten."

Hit. Mom always told me not to care about what you do."

Even the redecoration of the home was completed by mother Ogesha and Lux ​​together.

It seems that life is no different from before.

But from that moment on, the carefree girl gradually became anxious, sentimental, and no longer innocent. Although to outsiders, she was still the warm spring sun that made everyone like her.

little girl.

"Thank you for saving me." Lux whispered while looking at the dim hall.

In her opinion, the person who appeared when she was most helpless and rescued her from the nightmare was undoubtedly the hero who saved her.

It is also the person she loves most, Julian.

Thinking of the warm and secure feeling in his arms tonight, the girl's cheeks couldn't help but turn red.

Standing at the top of the stairs, the girl hesitated for a moment, then walked straight to the clock on the wall.

Moving a low stool and kicking off her slippers, Lux stood up on the stool, stood on tiptoes and reached out to take down the chandelier hanging high, revealing the slightly raised round nails behind the wall.

After hesitating for a moment, the girl raised her hand and pressed it on the round nail. With the slight exertion of her fingertips, the nail slowly sunk into the wall. Along with it, the radius around the round nail was less than ten centimeters.

And with the dent in this wall, it seemed as if a mechanism was activated. Lacus, who was standing on the stool, could clearly feel the hall trembling slightly.

Fortunately, no one is here tonight.

Lux jumped off the stool and thought angrily.

He put the hanging clock on the table nearby. At this time, the vibration in the room had stopped. In a small area under the hanging ladder, a deep hole about one meter in diameter appeared. The entrance of the hole was so dark that it was impossible to see inside.

What exactly is there.

This time, Lux didn't hesitate at all. She walked to the hanging ladder, pressed her clothes with one hand and the hem of her dress with the other, and jumped into the deep hole.

The dark corridor is like a long slide, extending all the way down for an unknown number of meters.

After sitting on the slope for nearly a minute in the darkness, Lux successfully landed.

Stepping on the soft cotton mat, you suddenly feel enlightened.

Squinting her eyes slightly, after getting over the initial discomfort, the girl straightened her messy clothes while looking at the mysterious space below the manor.

This is what she discovered by accident.

That was when she had just moved to Crownguard Manor. One day her parents took Galen to attend a banquet hosted by the king.

Alone at home, she was mad and accidentally knocked the clock on the wall to the ground with the ball in her hand.

Terrified, she hurriedly picked up the hanging clock and stood on the high stool, tiptoeing to hang it up. However, the clock was a bit high, and she was a short little girl. It took her a long time to hang the clock up again.

Anxiously, her foot slipped and fell through. The hanging clock hit the nail hard. She also kicked over the high stool and sat down on the ground.

Lux struggled to turn over and sit up. Before she could check whether the hanging clock was intact, she felt the ground tremble.

In her frightened eyes, a hole was revealed in the corner of the spiral staircase behind her.

Out of various thoughts, she mustered up the courage to jump.

This is the first contact with this place.

That day, she only stayed underground for a few minutes before running out of another door in a panic.

After running through the long corridor, when she saw the sun again, she was surprised to find that she had appeared in the rockery of the manor.

This matter became her secret, no one told it, not even Galen, and the broken clock was scolded by her mother and no one pursued it further.

In the next few years, when she grew up, she thought of this mysterious cave entrance again. She loved fantasy, and once thought that this place was connected to another world, and there must be endless food on the other side of the world.

Candy and endless play house.

Thinking about it now, Lux still laughs at her innocence back then.

Smiling, the girl stopped a little depressed, looked at the big iron gate standing in front of her, her eyes full of complexity, and whispered softly: "I can't go back..."

Yes, as time goes by, young girls will turn into graceful girls, and high-spirited young people will also have beautiful hair.

But fortunately, you are with me.
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