“I didn't expect that for the first time in my life, I'd be late to the battlefield. No, perhaps I should say the swords of you young people were a bit too fast.” Feixiao couldn't help but praise, “I thought the best-case scenario would be the few of you joining forces to stall this fierce beast and keep yourselves safe. But... you defeated Hoolay together. Truly, the younger generation is to be feared.”

“Come on, to avoid any more complications, it's time to imprison Hoolay once again.”

The two approached Hoolay again. Regarding his own defeat, Hoolay was quite composed.

“What an impressive strike... so similar to when I was defeated by that woman back then. After more than seven hundred years, I thought I had found a way to break it. But in the end... my claws and teeth have grown dull. You won, kid.”

Feixiao: “No need to struggle, Hoolay. Back in the The Shackling Prison, you'll have plenty of time to be tormented by regret.”

“I have indeed lost, but it wasn't outside my expectations. Yet you still showed up, Feixiao. I've waited so long; this hunting game has finally reached its end... I said, I prepared a path for you...”

Before he could finish, Hoolay suddenly bared his sharp claws and thrust them straight into his own heart!

Blood dripped from his sliced-open chest. He dug out a still-beating heart and held it aloft. In an instant, a crimson light covered the entire Skysplitter, and even Yanqing was blinded by the piercing red glow.

“I will die, and with me, the entire Xianzhou Luofu!”

“The Crimson Moon in my chest will spill blood light everywhere!”

He threw the Crimson Moon into the sky as if a red moon had truly risen. The eyes of all the Foxians who looked at this moon gradually became dull, staring blankly up at the “moon” in the sky.

“I will make all Foxians go mad with fear... craving slaughter... endlessly!”

“What will you do now... Feixiao...”

Hoolay's body finally turned to ash amidst a sinister laugh, completely vanishing.

Yunli shielded her eyes with her hand: “...What is that thing?!”

“That is the ‘heart’ of the Borisin Warchief, a product of the abundance plague scourge.” Feixiao handed her weapon to Yanqing, “I'll have to leave the rest to you all.”

——

Arcane.

Red light.

A red light, pulsing like a living thing, was currently pouring down from the Celestial Screen, coating the entirety of Piltover in a layer of flowing blood-colored paint.

It all happened too fast; no one expected Hoolay to actually tear out his “heart” and throw it into the sky. At this moment, buildings, streets, airships, pedestrians... everything was soaked in this unsettling hue, and the streets were already in chaos.

“Maintain Order! Do not crowd! Move to high, open ground! Stay away from narrow alleys! Seniors and children first!”

Caitlyn stood on a stack of metal crates, her voice broadcasting through the street's loudspeakers. The entire police department was short-handed. The nobles and Councilors responsible for coordination had hidden away the moment the abundance plague scourge appeared, fearing they might be tainted by this unsettling red light.

“Cupcake!”

Vi pushed through the crowd to reach her side, asking with concern: “...Are you feeling okay?”

“Are you?”

“I'm not.” Vi frowned, “But the previous Ambrosial Arbor was also an abundance plague scourge. When it was revitalized, didn't the power of Abundance pass through and affect us? I'm afraid this time too...”

“I'm fine, uh... at least for now.” She looked up at the Celestial Screen, which was stained with red light and appeared exceptionally eerie. “From what we know, this Crimson Moon seems to only affect Foxians. Those Foxians with Borisin blood will fall into a chaotic frenzy... Thank goodness, at least Piltover doesn't have any. But we can't rule out other effects the Crimson Moon might have on the human body.”

She pointed at the crowded masses on the street and shrugged: “...But right now, we don't have time for experiments or checkups. Everyone is terrified. The priority is to clear the crowd. Whether the abundance plague scourge affects people or not, we can't have casualties from a stampede this time.”

——

A gale swirled around Feixiao, and at the center of the vortex—a fox's cry that pierced the clouds rang out from where the wind was strongest. A gargantuan creature flew into the sky, suspended above everyone's heads.

It was a fox as large as a small mountain, its body a pale bluish-white with a faint glow. It was covered in wings and followed behind Feixiao, looking down upon everyone from its height.

“General, I don't understand...?”

“We can't let the influence of this thing spread. I will do my best to swallow this ‘Crimson Moon’. If the situation changes... Yan Qing, the War Guard, you will execute the Cloud Knights' military law. Understood?”

Yanqing gripped his weapon and nodded firmly: “Yes!”

Feihuang soared into the sky and swallowed the Crimson Moon in one gulp. As a red ripple spread from its body, Feihuang quickly vanished. Feixiao plummeted from the sky and crashed into the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

——

Harry Potter.

“Swallow it! It swallowed that terrifying red moon!”

In the common room, countless students witnessed the giant flying fox swallow the Crimson Moon. At the same time, the blood-red color splashed across the sky of Hogwarts disappeared almost instantly.

“So... so big...! That's Feixiao's Lightning Lord!”

“It's as big as Jing Yuan's Lightning-Lord!”

“So cool!”

The Crimson Moon turned into wisps of red light in the fox's mouth and vanished along with it. Seeing another crisis of the abundance plague scourge resolved by the General, a thunderous applause immediately erupted in the common room.

Malfoy stood slightly ahead of the crowd, his back ramrod straight. Although he had been quite frightened by the blood moon just now, he still tried his best to maintain the composure expected of a pure-blood family. However, Crabbe and Goyle behind him clearly lacked such awareness. Seeing Feixiao's Lightning Lord appear, they were so excited their faces turned red, and they were practically jumping off their chairs and dancing.

“Feixiao's Lightning Lord can actually eat the blood moon in one bite! Now she's the Borisin Warchief!”

“The legitimate descendant of the Borisin is actually a General in the Xianzhou!”

“Young Master, that was so cool!” Crabbe excitedly shook Malfoy's shoulder.

“Let go! Don't make a fuss like those Mudbloods, as if you've never seen anything before.” Malfoy glanced at Crabbe's chubby face with a look of disgust.