LOL: Let me touch your steel

If there is no life or energy or magical nourishment around, the growth of the Void will slow down until it falls into complete dormancy, and the same is true for Void creatures.

According to Zhang Xu, in the bottomless underground world, countless unknown beings are sleeping at this moment.

"Do not..."

Zhang Xu narrowed his eyes slightly and denied Kasa's guess.

This ancient city should have become what it is today before the void invaded it.

This place has been in ruins for a long time, even the words on the city wall have faded, and it is difficult to see what is written on them.

"Zhang Xu, there seems to be something ahead."

Looking in the direction of Kasa's finger, Zhang Xu saw a huge stone altar with tall stone steps leading up to it, like a staircase leading to a mysterious place. In the center of the altar, there was a huge stone statue, looking down at the surroundings with a majestic and mysterious posture. The facial expression of the stone statue was cold and deep, which made people feel awe and mystery.

"This stone statue..."

Zhang Xu frowned, a look of confusion on his face.

It was a face I had no impression of at all.

But Kassa's face showed surprise, her eyebrows subconsciously frowned, and she muttered to herself in confusion:

"Shouldn't it?"

Zhang Xu turned around and looked at Kasa: "Do you know this statue?"

"Yes, this is a statue."

Kasha's tone was extremely confident. When she was young, she had seen this kind of statue in the market near the tribe. Except for a slight difference in expression, the status of the statue was almost exactly the same as this one.

"This is the God of Annihilation. It comes from the myths of other tribes. It is described as a cold-blooded god who wipes out everything without a trace of hatred and replaces it with himself."

"My father told me that this god is very scary and full of hatred for everything in the world. That's why I said that such a statue should not be enshrined here."

Chapter 33 Nothingness, Illusion

God of Annihilation?

It doesn’t seem to appear in the background story...I can’t remember clearly.

Zhang Xu frowned, subconsciously moved a little closer, and put one foot on the stone steps.

"careful!"

The expected changes did not happen. It seemed that this was just an altar that had been ineffective for thousands of years. Or perhaps, this altar had not yet failed, but just needed magic to activate it.

Zhang Xu felt that the latter possibility was more likely. After all, Icathia was once a vassal state of the Shurima Empire and was famous for its magic.

Zhang Xu walked up the stone steps step by step and walked onto the altar.

Zhang Xu saw that in the center of the altar, right at the feet of the statue, there was a collapsed sun disk symbol, as if it was stepped on by the statue.

Is this... the symbol of the Shurima Empire?

The statue of the God of Annihilation, trampling the sun disk of the Shurima Empire under its feet?

Zhang Xu recalled the epic war that took place thousands of years ago, the rebellion of Icathia and the ruthless conquest of the Shurima Empire.

At this moment, a faint light suddenly appeared in the center of the altar.

Then, a hexagram symbol suddenly appeared under Zhang Xu's feet. The previous glimmer of light also shone completely in an instant, and the light formed by the hexagram completely enveloped Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu keenly noticed the abnormality, and almost subconsciously wanted to use the void walking technique to leave the altar.

But Zhang Xu found that he couldn't do it. The top of the altar seemed to be completely blocked. Zhang Xu had no way to leave. He could only watch the rich light completely envelop him.

"Zhang Xu!"

Kassa's face suddenly changed, and he spread the wings behind him and wanted to rush over to help Zhang Xu. However, the dazzling light completely blocked Kassa's actions, as if a protective shield had formed, dividing the inside and outside of the altar into two halves.

......

Zhang Xu found that the light that enveloped him in the center of the altar did not seem to cause him any harm. Moreover, under the illumination of this light, the pain in his body seemed to be reduced a lot.

It still hurts, but it's much better than before.

Although it is not clear what exactly happened, this is definitely good news for Zhang Xu.

Under the influence of this ray of light, the energy of nothingness began to flow slowly in Zhang Xu's body. Moreover, this flow was no longer a purposeful diffusion, nor was it merging into a certain part of the body. Instead, it was constantly flowing throughout Zhang Xu's entire body.

Wherever the void energy passed, Zhang Xu would feel a distinct pain.

but...

The torture for myself became lighter.

Zhang Xu had no idea what was happening to him, and now he could only endure it passively.

A hint of purple rose from the surface of Zhang Xu's body and quickly spread outward. An illusory scene also appeared before Zhang Xu's eyes.

Thousands of men, women, young and old gathered on the broad main street, wearing the brightest clothes and the most exquisite jewelry, cheering and saluting sincerely to the guards in the middle of the street.

They are witnessing the rebirth of their kingdom today.

Soon, screams began to echo in the city, and countless Icathian people shouted and hunted down every Shuriman official. During the hundreds of years of Shuriman rule, people's resentment reached its peak.

Even though the people they killed were just notaries, merchants, and tax collectors from Shurima.

But it doesn't matter anymore, they are all evil people in Shurima.

Icathia returns with glory!

The statue of the sun disk was torn down from the roof by the crowd, and a tall statue was erected. The people of Ekassia, who had already fallen into a frenzy, were completely crazy. They worshipped the statue of the God of Annihilation, hoping to replace Shurima.

The Kingdom of Icathia was confident that it could resist the invasion of the Shurima army because after the Saabras earthquake, Icathian magicians discovered a new type of weapon deep underground.

This weapon is enough to resist the army of Shurima and those damn god-warriors, the Ascended Ones.

But everyone in Icathia, including the king, underestimated the terrifying power of this empire that covered nearly half of Runeterra, and also overestimated themselves.

The Shuriman army arrived, the bronze spears of Shuriman warriors formed an array in all directions, a human wall held high a golden flag, and the sun disc totem shone in the midday sun.

Dust rose up and covered the sky, like a gathering storm that was about to sweep away the mortal realm.

Of course, the most terrifying are the god-warriors at the center of the army.

The people of Icathia believed they had the weapons to defeat the Shuriman Empire. They believed they held the key to Pandora's Box.

But in reality, they opened a door that should never have been opened.

It was a brutal war, from which no one benefited.

The Shurima Empire lost hundreds of god-warriors, and the former territory of Icathia no longer existed, completely wiped off the map of Shurima.

Or maybe there is still a winner.

Void.

The dark clouds of the void shrouded this cursed land, and above this land, countless raging terrors appeared.

At the end of the illusion, Zhang Xu saw a shrouded black cloud, Icathia which had become a ruin, and the void creatures that were constantly wreaking havoc on this land.

The light of the hexagram gradually faded until it completely turned into nothingness, as if it had never appeared.

But the pain, which had eased a lot, clearly told him that everything that had just happened was real.

Including the visions he saw.

He witnessed with his own eyes the brutal and fierce battle, as well as the source from where the void creatures first flooded into this land.

A bottomless crack, an abyss that exudes a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere.

"Zhang Xu!"

Seeing the light of the hexagram dissipate, Kassa's eyes narrowed slightly, and without any thought, she rushed straight to the altar and landed next to Zhang Xu.

Even Kasa herself didn't notice that a feeling of anxiety was emerging in her heart.

"Zhang Xu, how are you? What happened just now?"

"I don't know what happened... The change in the altar must be caused by something I accidentally touched. And I feel..."

Zhang Xu looked at his hands in a daze and subconsciously clenched his fists.

His condition now... is much better than before!

He mastered the energy of nothingness?

Chapter 34: God's Weapons

No, the energy of nothingness is definitely not so easy to master.

This is a power that has touched the essence of the void. If one could simply go to an ancient city ruins and find an altar to master it, then this kind of power would have been everywhere long ago.

The inexplicable activation of this altar simply helped him relieve the torment of nothingness.

Moreover, with the help of the energy of nothingness, he traveled through thousands of years and saw the illusions of the past.

This is definitely an unexpected surprise after coming to the ruins of this ancient city.

"I just saw a vision of the past here, Icathia thousands of years ago."

The pain and torture in his body were relieved, and Zhang Xu couldn't help but smile, changing his usual gloomy expression: "This ancient city was not eroded by the void to become what it is now. Thousands of years ago, the Kingdom of Ekathia betrayed the Shurima Empire and used the power of the void to start a war."

“This war completely destroyed Icathia, and also caused the prosperous Shurima to fall from grace.”

The Shurima Empire, an ancient empire that once ruled the southern continent for thousands of years, was not destroyed because of the failure of the ascension ceremony of the last emperor of Shurima.

This battle with the void was the real fuse.

In his fantasy, Zhang Xu seemed to see an entire army of divine warriors.

The number of people in this legion is conservatively estimated to be over a thousand.

Thousands of ascenders...what a terrifying number!

But after that war, the number of Ascendants in the Shurima Empire dropped sharply, with only one in ten left. The once prosperous Shurima Empire thus declined.

"Borrowing the power of the void..."

Kasa gritted her teeth and said angrily: "They deserve to be destroyed!"

Borrowing the power of the void...how dare they?