LOL: Let me touch your steel

Kiran's hands drew a clock-like pattern in front of the door, and then a clock mark also appeared on the door.

A touch of magic power instantly surged on the door, and the closed door finally opened.

Zhang Xu didn't know if it was his own illusion, but he always felt that Jilan seemed to glance at him vaguely when he drew the clock pattern.

Behind the dusty door was not the same floor as the one below, but a slightly simple room.

The reason why it is called simple is that there is only an antique table and a lamp on the table in this room, and there are no huge bookshelves and countless books like in other rooms.

Kiran walked over the steps and went straight in.

Zhang Xu and Kasa outside the door looked at each other and followed Jilan in.

When Zhang Xu and Kasa stepped in, the door slowly closed as if it sensed something.

The space in this room is larger than Zhang Xu imagined. At least after they walked in, they still didn't feel cramped. There was only a table and a chair, which made the whole room look a bit empty.

Seeing Jilan sitting down on the only chair, Zhang Xu finally calmed down.

They come, the security.

Anyway, the worst outcome is just death.

Zhang Xu's behavior became much more outrageous. Before Jilan could speak, he directly pulled Kassa towards the table and stood opposite Jilan.

As he got closer, Zhang Xu noticed that the lamp on the table was not an oil lamp at all. Inside the wick was a ball of flame that was always dancing!

The faint light in the entire room was emitted by this constantly flickering flame!

"Eternal Flame, you should know what this is, right?"

Kiran took out a teapot from somewhere, took out a cup, and poured himself a glass of water.

His voice was still calm, as if he was indifferent to everything.

Listening to Jilan's words, Zhang Xu began to think subconsciously.

Eternal Flame...This should be the torch staff in Jax's hand, right?

Isn’t it said that this fire is the last light of Icathia?

How would it appear here?

"The torch staff in Saijax's hand was once the staff of the wizard Ekathiassar Arabia. That wizard... was once my good friend. So I also have a ball of eternal flame in my hand."

Jilan took a sip of tea and after returning to the room, he seemed to talk more:

"I know, you must be confused as to why I know your identity as an outsider."

"The answer is simple. I don't see any trace of your past. I can only see your present and your future. There is no way to trace your past... The only possibility left is that you are an outsider."

"Like the little girl next to you, I can easily see her past and the beautiful home she once had. But in you, I only see your past of surviving in the void."

My...future?

Isn't it said that time travelers are unknown variables? Shouldn't we feel that there is a fog over us, unable to see our future clearly?

Why does it change when it comes to me?

Zhang Xu stared at Jilan in a daze. Under the light of the eternal flame, Jilan's face looked even more mysterious.

Although he knew it was wrong to ask this question, Zhang Xu couldn't help but ask:

"What is my future? Death in the void?"

Hearing this, Jilan's expression suddenly became strange, and then he looked at Zhang Xu meaningfully:

"No, you became the void."

After these words were spoken, not only Zhang Xu was stunned, but even Kassa beside him widened his eyes.

Became void?

What does it mean?

After a brief moment of surprise, Zhang Xu frowned.

Becoming void, does it mean that I was ultimately unable to resist the void energy in my body and was eventually assimilated by the void and became one of them?

不 ...

If that was the case, then his future was definitely 'dead', and Kiran would not deliberately add a negative answer in front of it.

Zhang Xu wanted to ask what this sentence meant, but Jilan suddenly changed the subject, completely ignoring the anxiety in Zhang Xu's eyes, and started to talk about it:

"For nearly a thousand years, I have been using deep meditation and complex tools of my own creation to begin to divine the threads that connect the past and present to this moment. Gradually, I have learned how to follow these threads forward or backward, all in search of a future in which I can succeed."

"I believe that I can find a way to save my people and prevent this disaster from happening, or rather, to resist the invasion of the disaster."

"But thousands of years have passed, and I have gained nothing. In the long years, I have predicted the future countless times and seen countless futures on the branches of time. I even thought about using my own life to reverse the past and prevent the arrival of the void. But the results are always the same, I failed."

"Until one day nine years ago, I predicted a strange variable."

Nine years ago...

A year ago, he met Kassadin, and including the eight years he survived alone in the void, it has been exactly nine years.

So, the variable that Kiran mentioned is himself?

"I first discovered your figure in the long river of time. Since then, I began to predict your future and your past, hoping to find a way to success from you. But your future has too many branches. So I can't accurately find the right path."

"Your existence is indeed special."

Zhang Xu pursed his lips, finding it difficult to find an accurate adjective to describe his current mood.

Shock?

fear?

Still confused?

Neither seems quite accurate.

There is only one thing that Zhang Xu can be sure of now.

His existence was already noticed by Kiran nine years ago, when he first came to the underground world!

But...

If there are many branches in his future, that is, many uncertainties, how can Jilan be sure that he will eventually become void?

What does it mean to become nothing?

The doubts about the hexagram have not been answered yet, but more confusions are rising in Zhang Xu's heart.

Chapter 44: Ancient Ekathia's Magic Circle

Jilan glanced at Zhang Xu, who looked shocked, and continued talking:

"In the countless future branches, your ending is not the same. Until a few days ago, I saw a drastic change in your future. All the branches almost disappeared a few days ago, leaving only one future."

"That is to become the void."

"Your future is frozen at this moment. Even I can't predict it any further. I can't even predict your past in this time. Because after becoming the void, you have become... a transcendent existence. In other words, above this line of future, you have jumped out of time."

"I'm very curious about what happened to you a few days ago."

A hint of inquiry gradually appeared in Jilan's eyes. Just as he said, he was indeed curious about what happened to Zhang Xu.

What on earth could allow Zhang Xu to escape from his divination and become an unknown variable?

Listening to Jilan's story, a thoughtful look gradually appeared in Zhang Xu's eyes.

But Kassadin on the side had a confused look on his face, obviously not understanding very well.

At this moment, she was still struggling with what it meant to become empty.

A few days ago, there was only one future left for me?

Zhang Xu thought about it carefully, and the answer suddenly became clear.

The only unexpected thing that happened to him was the hexagram formation that suddenly appeared on his body that day.

Zhang Xu said nothing, but took off his shirt in front of Jilan.

The angular muscles are like a work of art, and every line seems to have been carefully carved, showing an extremely attractive masculine style. Although she has seen it many times before, Kai'Sa still inevitably dodged a glance.

But as an old senior who has lived for thousands of years, Kiran would certainly not pay too much attention to Zhang Xu's explosive body. His eyes almost immediately fell on the hexagram pattern on Zhang Xu's heart.

"This is..."

Jilan frowned instantly, and the expression of the ancient wizard finally changed dramatically: "Have you been to Saabra?"

But soon, Kiran realized that the two young men in front of him might not know the name of the town.

Jilan shook his head, a trace of reminiscence flashed across his face: "Saabra is a coastal city in Icathia. There, an unprecedented earthquake once occurred. The damage caused by the earthquake revealed something hidden deep underground, a bottomless abyss, which you are familiar with as the void."

“In that abyss, Icathian wizards discovered a power that could rival the Shuriman god-warriors. A long-simmering armed uprising broke out.”

"I know that this little girl may not understand Icathia's choice, or even sneer at it. But in fact, at that time, the whole nation was full of resentment towards the huge Shurima Empire. Since Icathia surrendered to Shurima, everyone in Icathia has been full of expectations for Shurima. They have devoted almost everything they have. Icathia can definitely be said to have made great contributions to Shurima."

"But in fact, the quota of Ascendants granted by the Sun Disc has never been given to Icathia. Every application from the parliament was rejected by the Shurima Empire. This unfair treatment made the members of the parliament and the people of Icathia realize the tyranny of Shurima."

"Just then, the Abyss of the Void appeared. They gave Icathia another hope, a hope of armed uprising and regaining freedom."

"From your perspective now, this decision may seem foolish. Not all mages at the time agreed with it. It was not until my good friend, the mages of Saabra who mastered the Eternal Flame, learned about the void and created a magic circle."

"This magic circle has the ability to suppress the void. The only problem seems to have been solved. We can use the void to deal with the god warriors, and then use this magic circle to suppress the void."

Next comes the but.

When fate reaches this point, it will usually say sorry to you and go in another direction without looking back.

Jilan paused, smiling bitterly:

"But, this magic circle was not completed in the end. At the last moment of the life of the Saabra wizard, he told me that this magic circle only needed one last step to be completely completed. Unfortunately, he died. He died at the hands of the god warriors, and Ekathia also perished and was lost in the long river of history."

"The unfinished magic circle was also damaged by the flames of war. After I mastered the secret of time, I tried to repair the magic circle, but it was too late. If it was in the initial stage of the void erosion, this magic circle might really be able to suppress the void back to the abyss. But now, the void erosion has spread throughout Icathia and even swallowed up an area of ​​the Shurima Desert. What's more... I have no way to repair the magic circle."

"The hexagram mark that appeared on your body proves that you have been to Saabra, the city that was destroyed in the war. You accidentally activated the magic circle to suppress the void energy in your body, right?"

Zhang Xu and Kasha fell silent.

He had thought that the hexagram that suddenly appeared on his body might actually be a magic circle from ancient Ecathia, but he had never imagined that there was such a story behind it.

Even Kassa, who had previously cursed Icathia for being stupid, didn't know what to say at this moment.