LOL: Let me touch your steel

A calm and honest voice came from that face. Perhaps he himself did not realize how loud his voice was, but Kassadin and Taliyah had to cover their ears.

“There are living things stirring inside the stone, and although there is a unique beauty, there is also a sense of chaos.”

"Although there is no commotion of any living creature on your body... it is still filled with chaos."

"who are you?"

Kasa asked subconsciously. Before this, she had never seen a "creature" like this.

Maybe... it's the spirit of the mountain?

With a low rumble, the brows on that face frowned.

"Once part of a whole. There's so much chaos in the world it's hard for me to remember it all."

As his voice rang out, the entire mine bent with its lament.

"I am... a small fragment of a greater whole. A servant of order in search of purpose. Call me... Malphite."

really!

The guess in my mind was confirmed. The guy in front of me was indeed the stone man!

Smart Malphite!

Chapter 126: The Spread of the Void

Loose shale fell from the cracks in the tunnel wall, and the wooden pillars groaned as they were under pressure beyond their design limits. The face on the stone wall, or rather Malphite, his eyes fell on Zhang Xu.

"I feel the breath of nothingness in you, but it seems a little different."

Malphite's voice was still heavy, his eyes dimmed and he closed his heavy eyelids, as if he had no intention of continuing to speak.

Looking at the huge stone giant in front of him, Zhang Xu frowned subconsciously.

Just as Malphite could feel the void energy in his body, Zhang Xu could also find traces of void erosion on his body.

Malphite's existence is unique. His origin is a powerful weapon, a weapon created by countless people, a powerful weapon that can fight against the void and completely eradicate the void.

The Monolith - a floating fortress and a living monolith, is maintained by a group of the greatest elemental mages, and aboard its ramparts are other god-warriors of Ixtal.

This giant fortress is even comparable to a mortal city. Its level of violence and scale are unprecedented in Runeterra, and the witchcraft and magic they use are enough to wipe out an entire civilization or turn an entire continent into a memory.

It is this kind of power that is released into the void.

But the Void responded as well, its malevolent energies gouging deep gashes into the Monolith, leaving its surface jagged and blackened, forming the unnatural Murphyite—“bad stone” in the language of Ixtal.

Although the designer of this giant fortress, the powerful ascended being Nazuk, had anticipated this situation, he had designed the giant fortress as a super weapon that could self-repair damage.

But even the most amazing magic has a breaking point.

This super weapon, which cost a huge amount of manpower and material resources, eventually disappeared into the giant mouth and fell into the silence and space on the other side of the world.

After this, fragments of the monolith remain and struggle to reshape themselves into whole entities.

It is buried so deep beneath the surface that even those that dwell in the depths are oblivious to its existence.

And just like that, it survived.

Moffitt.

From the Murphy Rock clearly visible on his huge body, it is not difficult to see the erosion of the void on that single stone.

"Malphite, perhaps I can help you solve your dilemma. The nothingness I control can help you expel the necrotic parts of your body, allowing those parts that have turned into murphy rock to regain the power of magic."

Zhang Xu was not exaggerating. His current mastery of void energy was enough to support him in completing such a huge project.

Although Malphite's existence spans the long river of time, he has never forgotten the mission he was originally created for. Malphite is quietly accumulating his own strength. When the void awakens, Malphite will still stand in front of the void and fight against it, just like he did thousands of years ago.

This kind of help is something we can do, so of course we will help if we can.

But what Zhang Xu didn't expect was that Murphy rejected Zhang Xu's proposal.

Malphite's eyelids reopened, and countless pieces of rubble fell from above. The crack on his head... seemed to have grown a lot bigger.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't have any use for it anymore."

Moffitt spoke in a heavy accent, word by word:

"Although the necrotic stones sometimes bother me, it is precisely because of their existence that I can feel those things that should not exist, those creatures that only exist to devour."

Moffitt's rocky face smiled gently, and once again activated the tunnel above, shaking the rubble down.

"These creatures may have once been far away, but now they move through the earth's crust like the roots of a poisonous tree. Although I have been infected, it also gives me the means to trap them."

"I trapped them inside me and crushed them."

Zhang Xu nodded silently. Although most of the stone men he met in the game had to share a brain with other stone men, in Runeterra, Malphite was definitely the most reliable partner.

In the days to come, Malphite will become a great legend of Runeterra, and his figure will appear everywhere.

"You'd better leave. This pit is about to collapse."

As soon as Moffitt finished speaking, the entire tunnel was instantly shaken violently.

Just as he said, this place is about to collapse.

Even though the red light was flashing right before his eyes, Zhang Xu suppressed the impulse in his heart.

"Goodbye, Malphite. But I believe that we will meet again when the Void awakens."

......

The mine collapsed again, burying the huge stone giant of the underground world again.

Taliyah felt the gradually receding rock element energy and shook her head with some regret.

Unexpectedly, there is such a being deep underground, silently crushing those horrible void creatures, accumulating strength to protect this world.

Because Malphite himself is a huge rock, Taliyah could immediately feel the emotion of loneliness from his words.

Coming out of the dim mine and looking at the pit in front of her that had completely collapsed and disappeared, Kassa opened her mouth, and recalled the hideous and ugly void creatures deep in Icathia in her mind, and a trace of horror flashed in her eyes.

"These void creatures...travel through the earth's crust. Have they appeared in this position?"

"There's nothing to be shocked about. These void creatures have penetrated everywhere. Including under the sand of Shurima, they may be everywhere. Even the Beljum has been swallowed up."

"It won't be long before the Void fully awakens."

A trace of sadness appeared on Zhang Xu's face. Although he didn't really feel how strong Malphite was just now, but to make a conservative estimate, he should not be inferior to the weakest ascender.

Then the problem is coming.

Malphite is just a small fragment of the original super weapon monolith. The power of a fragment is enough to rival that of a weaker Ascendant... What kind of magic does the entire monolith contain?

Think about it further, such a powerful super weapon was destroyed and shattered by the erosion of the void...

The void is indeed a big and thorny problem!

Whether it's the void objects that are constantly spreading around the rock formations, or the void that has not yet awakened, or the mysterious watchers in the depths of the void...

Chapter 127 Free is the most expensive

This is a city where steel and colored glass meet, located in the middle of a canyon. Only a dim strip of sky can be seen above the towering canyon. The thick fog rolling in the sky covers the sky above tightly, and the whole city is filled with a pungent smell of chemicals.

Many people around coughed from time to time when they smelled the smell, with unbearable pain on their faces. Occasionally, there would be a few people who had the desire to survive and knew to find some wet clothes and cover their mouths and noses.

There were only a few people with fully equipped ventilators on their faces, looking at the three people with somewhat malicious eyes whose clothes clearly did not belong here.

Looking at the green bubbling industrial wastewater in the ditch and the foul smell emanating from the wastewater, Kassadin and Taliyah frowned subconsciously, their eyes full of astonishment.

"This is...Zuan?"

The scene here is completely different from what Kassa remembers. When she was young, before her home was swallowed by the void, her father often brought back things from the Twin Cities.

Every industrial creation here filled the young Kasa with interest.

It was not until she came to Zaun, the city in the canyon, that she realized how far her fantasies about Zaun were from reality.

The exact opposite of what she had seen in Piltover.

Zhang Xu and his three companions bid farewell to Malphite and set out on their journey again. Riding on Sina, they soon arrived at the two cities adjacent to Ixtal - Piltover and Zaun.

Before landing in Zaun, Kai'Sa clearly saw the city located above Zaun.

Technology and industry are everywhere, and it is a bustling trade center.

Kai'Sa originally thought that Zaun should be similar to Piltover, but she didn't expect the environment here to be so bad.

"Logically speaking, Zaun's environment is bad, but it shouldn't be this bad."

Zhang Xu frowned and looked around.

This level of exhaust gas pollution would not cause any harm to any of them, at most they would just find the smell a bit pungent.

"I feel like I'm going to stink if I stay in a place like this."

Kassa complained silently. She could endure the dark environment of the void and the bloody smell in her nasal cavity, but the stench and irritating smell of chemical pollution was really unbearable for her.

"Since we're already here, let's just take a stroll. I feel like the smell here seems a little unusual."

Taliyah looked around curiously, her sights falling on the workshop forest area nearby.

The factory had obviously stopped production because of the pungent poisonous gas that filled the air. But it was worth noting that the scene at the corner of the alley near the factory was completely different from that outside.

Unlike the lifeless scene beside the stinking ditch, the scene here can be called lively.

A slightly skinny boy was squatting at the entrance of the alley, wearing a punk-style leather jacket. The jacket was a bit big and looked a bit out of place on him.

He had a large cloth bag on his chest and a very basic breathing mask on his face, which completely blocked his face and made it impossible to see his features clearly.

In front of him, there was a line of people, neither too long nor too short, seemingly waiting to receive the things he was distributing. Most of the people in the line were gang members from the streets, but their expressions and behavior were very polite, and they did not rush to snatch the cloth bag from the boy's chest.

Seeing this, Kasa immediately became interested and hurriedly pulled Zhang Xu and Talia along the muddy plank road and into the alley.

From time to time, bursts of conversation could be heard in the alley. The few people listened carefully for a while and barely heard a few key words from their dialect.

'Alchemy factory accident', 'highly toxic smoke', 'the worst disaster in decades', 'Dear Lady Renata', 'free basic breathing equipment and replacement filters', these key words string together a complete story.

Zhang Xu's eyes narrowed slightly and he frowned subconsciously.

Alchemist Baron...Renata?

Zhang Xu had never played this hero in the game, not even in the Abyss. From Zhang Xu's superficial perspective in his previous life, Renata was not even a hair better than Seraphine, so he naturally abandoned this hero.