Jayce took to healing naturally; it could be because the Horizon gave him strong healing right away, or he spent so much time and dedicated all of his attention to it magically, but either way, it flows through him so easily. It reminds him of how easily the ideas of Hextech came to him, or connected he was to his greatest invention. He might not have a balance, but his calm is very real when healing. To have it succeed for so long but then fail for him, it's difficult. They always knew it was likely, but it still feels like he was cheated.
He sighs and looks out into the fake image of his city. He does miss it. Cadens is not so bad and he has come to like the city for what it is. But it will never be Piltover. It's where he has accepted the rest of his life to be. Maybe some day he will come to love it the same amount. It's not even been a year.
"Back home, in that timeline, I found Viktor looking like he was days away from death. It was a drastic change from the last time I saw him. He was still fading but ... we had time. I thought." All of it happened over the course of a few days, that's the craziest part. The worst week of their life but it couldn't be slowed down or stopped. "Something happened. He made the Hexcore and whatever it did, it didn't cure him, it made him worse. He made me promise to destroy it, because he wasn't able to. He never explained."
So it meant that when he and this Viktor relived that memory, neither of them could understand what happened that would lead there. It had to have been worse than bad. "It was his only chance at survival, but he was choosing to die, and making me destroy it and therefore accept he couldn't be saved." It was selfish, in a way, to put Jayce in that position, but it is because they trusted one another. He needed him, and they both always stepped up for one another. It haunted Jayce for a long time when he got here, that memory. Viktor won't live back home. He can't.
"All I can do here is hope that the Hexcore he made here, with all of our help, is different from the one he made alone. Because ... I think it was evil, Kell. It's a strange magic-technology artificial intelligence, it did something to him." Jayce couldn't understand because he wasn't there. He was doing other things. But he's clearly concerned about it, despite the fact they are going to use it anyway. As of right now, the Hexcore hasn't given any indication of menace. But maybe it didn't back home either until it was used.
"I'm going to destroy it as soon as he's out of the woods, just as I promised. We're going to take the risk." There's no question about that! "But if it doesn't work, it's over. He'll die on the table in front of me."
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He sighs and looks out into the fake image of his city. He does miss it. Cadens is not so bad and he has come to like the city for what it is. But it will never be Piltover. It's where he has accepted the rest of his life to be. Maybe some day he will come to love it the same amount. It's not even been a year.
"Back home, in that timeline, I found Viktor looking like he was days away from death. It was a drastic change from the last time I saw him. He was still fading but ... we had time. I thought." All of it happened over the course of a few days, that's the craziest part. The worst week of their life but it couldn't be slowed down or stopped. "Something happened. He made the Hexcore and whatever it did, it didn't cure him, it made him worse. He made me promise to destroy it, because he wasn't able to. He never explained."
So it meant that when he and this Viktor relived that memory, neither of them could understand what happened that would lead there. It had to have been worse than bad. "It was his only chance at survival, but he was choosing to die, and making me destroy it and therefore accept he couldn't be saved." It was selfish, in a way, to put Jayce in that position, but it is because they trusted one another. He needed him, and they both always stepped up for one another. It haunted Jayce for a long time when he got here, that memory. Viktor won't live back home. He can't.
"All I can do here is hope that the Hexcore he made here, with all of our help, is different from the one he made alone. Because ... I think it was evil, Kell. It's a strange magic-technology artificial intelligence, it did something to him." Jayce couldn't understand because he wasn't there. He was doing other things. But he's clearly concerned about it, despite the fact they are going to use it anyway. As of right now, the Hexcore hasn't given any indication of menace. But maybe it didn't back home either until it was used.
"I'm going to destroy it as soon as he's out of the woods, just as I promised. We're going to take the risk." There's no question about that! "But if it doesn't work, it's over. He'll die on the table in front of me."