Void Beetle Evolution Guide

Tens of thousands of Zerg swarms were just appetizers. When Kai'Sa thought about having to face countless void tides, she felt a headache.

Those sickle-jaws seemed to be targeting her specifically. The sonar could break her invisibility, and the poison spray offset some of her long-arm advantage. Facing swarms of sickle-jaws, she could only stay away from them.

The appearance of Sicklejaw has already brought her a lot of pressure. If new void creatures appear, who knows how difficult they will be.

"Where did they come from? I've been listening to you talking about the Void and the Void. What kind of existence is that?" Speaking of which, Kai'Sa still doesn't quite understand what kind of enemy she is facing.

"About 3,500 years ago, in order to escape the tyranny of the Shurima Empire, Icathia risked everything to open a passage from the void to the real world during the capital's defense.

They completely underestimated this power. Those things in the void hated the concept of "existence" because they represented nothingness, and the throbbing from life would make them feel extremely painful, and then turn them into terrible monsters full of desire for destruction.

The capital was reduced to ashes in an instant, and the surrounding land suffered unprecedented corruption. Even the legion of ascenders with divine power could not match this horror.

Icathia may have succeeded, for they made the Empire abandon this land forever, but they themselves also became the soil that nourishes the void, and from then on they were embedded in the Rune Land like a tumor. "

"What then?"

Kesha listened carefully, for this was a secret that even her father did not know. Those ancient legends only told how terrifying they were, but never mentioned why they devoured humans and animals.

"In order to curb the expansion of the void, the Shurima Empire used the whole country's strength to resist, and once fought until the national strength declined before sealing the rift.

But the seal is like an oak cork, which will be penetrated over time, so you can see endless void creations spreading through the ground towards the center of the continent. "

"Is there any difference between you being a void creature and a void creation?"

“In fact, the void creatures you see now are very different from the ones that invaded Runeterra at the beginning.

Many of the void creatures in the past were directly transformed from individuals in the void, with more bizarre shapes and larger sizes.

The current void creatures are created by the fusion of void energy and real-world matter, so you can see many characteristics of native creatures in them. Because they are created, they are also called void creations. "

Kesha roughly understood what kind of enemy she was facing. It was an alien army that could confront the ancient kingdom of God head-on and even destroy the world.

There were hundreds of millions of enemies, but she was alone. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel powerless.

"Ah, it would be nice if there were others to fight alongside us."

"Our symbiotic state is unique. Only you and I can survive and fight in the gap between the two worlds. Maybe others will join us in the fight against the void, but only we can go deep into the most dangerous places."

Kai'Sa was silent and thoughtful, and suddenly remembered that she had never asked about the origins of the Wild Hunt, and she knew nothing about his past.

"Wild Hunt, why do you know so much? Just like last time, you said that Vekora would become a war of ascenders in the future, but those gods disappeared in the long river of history. Where did you get the information from?"

"The prophet can predict the future, so is it strange that I can?" The Wild Hunt choked, seeming dissatisfied with Kesha's prying into his secrets.

"Well, I just want to get to know you better. Otherwise, I can't imagine what you look like, let alone what it's like to have someone accompany me."

Kaisha is a simple-minded person who doesn't have many intrigues. Her sincerity makes the Wild Hunt reconsider whether to confess his origins.

"I'm actually from the future, so I know the direction of some things. Otherwise, why do you think I chose you?"

In the end, the Wild Hunter did not reveal that he was actually a time traveler, but instead gave himself a patch of rebirth to prevent Kesha from becoming curious about his origins and asking questions in the future.

To a certain extent, time travelers and reborn people are actually not much different. They all know the general trajectory of history, so it is not that they are completely deceiving her.

"Hey! Are you a human? Then why did you become like this?" After knowing that the Wild Hunt was once a human, Kai'Sa was obviously much more excited and felt that she had found a common topic.Mei is not here, I imagine there is no Lin in the sky...

"Who knows? Maybe it was the punishment for being too picky about food and wasting food that turned me into a monster that is never full. And I was thrown underground for so long that I couldn't find a bite to eat."

"Being picky about food is a problem only rich people have. You must be very rich, right?"

“Rich people can eat their favorite foods every day, so they are not picky eaters.”

"Well, then there are still foods you don't like, right? Is there anything you hate?"

"I can't even remember my original name, so how can I remember these?"

After traveling for so long, the Will of the Void has indeed had a significant impact on the Wild Hunt.

Under the subtle influence of eternal hunger, his personality disintegrated bit by bit, and finally he became indifferent to life. The memory of his original world was also constantly fading, as if to turn him into a fool who only knew how to eat.

However, since possessing Kesha, his previously lost memories seemed to have shown signs of recovery. Specifically, he could always hum some melodies that he had no impression of at all.

Maybe one day, he can recover his original memory.

The chat didn't last long. Kesha's eyelids drooped due to fatigue, and she soon fell into a deep sleep.

Even in her dreams, she dreamed of fighting with void creatures.

Chapter 20: Going Underground

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The next day, Kesha returned to the sacrificial site full of energy.

When she first saw the sacrificial site, she thought she was hallucinating—the large number of corpses that had been piled up at the edge of the cave entrance had all disappeared overnight, leaving only a corroded land riddled with holes, proving that a fierce battle had taken place here.

"Wild Hunt, was there a sandstorm blowing by while I was asleep last night?"

"If you haven't woken up yet, go back to sleep."

"I am very sober. There was no sandstorm last night. How did these debris disappear?"

"It could only be that the Void Spirit carried him back to the Regeneration Pool."

The Wild Hunt devoured the hearts of his own kind many times while underground, but the remains always disappeared inexplicably after a period of time, which made him very confused.

In order to find out the reason, he once stayed behind to wait after devouring a small group of void spirits. After a while, he saw another group of passing void spirits eating the remains.

This discovery made him feel scared at the time, because in his understanding, the Void Spirits would not attack their own kind, so he would eat his own kind so unscrupulously.

After that, the Wild Hunt conducted several more experiments and found that different batches of Void Elves had the habit of eating the remains of their own kind, and those Void Elves that had eaten the remains would eventually go to the same place.

He followed the Void to an underground cave, where he saw a lake made entirely of liquid energy. The Void transported debris into it, and the lake would then use the scraps to reshape new Voids.

The Wild Hunt calls the energy lake the Regeneration Pool. In addition to recycling debris, that place is also an arsenal for the Void. Many Void creations are born there.

Of course, including himself.

"The Regeneration Pool... is it the birthplace of the Void?" Kaisha asked thoughtfully, "I'm curious, if we destroy it, will there be no new Voids born?"

"Maybe, but it shouldn't be that easy. And there's more than one of those things."

Because the Wild Hunt had devoured many of his own kind, he did not dare to touch the regeneration pool, for fear that the energy stored in his body would be taken back and redistributed.

Or worse, they may be discovered to have self-awareness and then encounter unimaginable consequences.

“I’ll definitely give it a try if I get the chance.”

Because the sacrificial site was empty, Kai'Sa, who originally wanted to clash with Scythejaw, could only turn her attention to the underground cave and go hunting underground.

Returning to the underground cave, Kai'Sa was besieged by void spirits as soon as she landed. Fortunately, there were not many of them and she managed to defeat them in some time.

She did not see any remains of surface creatures in the cave. So many people and animals were eaten without leaving anything, not even the bones. Only the dark red rock formation under her feet proved that the scene in her memory was not a nightmare.

In addition to the huge passage overhead, the underground cavity is connected to several other tunnels.

They seemed to have no pattern with each other, and it was impossible to guess where they led to. But compared with the passage above, one could clearly see the difference between whether they were man-made or not.

The passage created by the prophet is overall regular, as if it has been shaped by some great power and is more in line with human aesthetics.

And those tunnels dug by the void spirits seemed to be opened up by aimless corrosion and gnawing, and each one seemed to exist just to devour the world.

"Should we wait here?" After recovering the energy, Kai'Sa pointed at the wreckage of the Void, meaning to stay here and follow the Void that was recovering the wreckage to the regeneration pool.

"No hurry, the Void Spirits are everywhere underground, you can explore the surroundings first."

Keisha responded and chose a tunnel to go in.

It was dark and cramped, with many corroded circles of cracks on the walls, and glowing mucus inside, as if walking in the intestines of a giant beast.

Then she stopped. Less than a hundred steps ahead, there was a fork in the road. Neither of them was on the same level. One of them extended deeper downwards.

"Keep going. Don't bother trying to remember the route you've taken. If you want to go back, just turn back. The underground tunnels are very confusing. You won't be able to remember anything after two more forks in the road."

The Wild Hunt used one sentence to describe the chaos and complexity of the underground tunnels, full of sudden corners, dead ends, overlapping spirals... It is very difficult to construct a three-dimensional map in the mind.

This is also the reason why he was not happy with Kesha's running and fighting tactics. The underground is different from the open surface. There are only various winding tunnels here, and there is very little space for movement.

She didn't even know where these tunnels led to, so where could she run to? If she accidentally ran into an encirclement, how would she fight?Mei is not here, no time, no Lin has time...

So she had to fight quickly and decisively, using her high mobility to move around in narrow spaces, and try to stay where she was to resolve the battle instead of rashly opening up a new battlefield.

"Now that we're here, we won't be thinking about going back all day. If we think about retreating, we will only become timid." Kesha replied.

"It may take several months or even years to find the exit. Kaisha, you'd better be aware of this."

"My name is Keisha! Not Kasha!"

The pronunciations of these two names are very similar, and Kesha thought that the Wild Hunter was talking nonsense, so she quickly corrected his pronunciation.

"This pronunciation is how people distinguish the names of void creatures. When you return alive from underground, you will also be honored with the name Ka. Why not start calling it that from now on, as a farewell to the past."

Although Kaisha was young, she could tell that the Wild Hunt was referring to her as a monster. Because the Wild Hunt had the ability to see the future, she had no doubts about this and snorted coldly.

"Let them call me whatever they want, I won't agree to it anyway."

"If this name gets out, you won't be able to agree to it or not. I call you that so that you can get used to it first, so that you won't be overwhelmed when the time comes."

It is really infuriating that heroes who fight on the front lines of the battlefield to protect people are instead called monsters.

"It's all because of you... Never mind, you can call me whatever you want."

At this point, Kai'Sa couldn't blame the Wild Hunt for everything. Without this skin armor, her life would always stay in the summer of her tenth year.

Now they were in a symbiotic relationship where they shared weal and woe together, and they shouldn't be too separated from each other, but that didn't mean she couldn't have her own opinions.

She used her brain and soon found a way to comfort herself.

"Kassadin" refers to Kai'Sa who is wearing the Voidskin Armor. She is a combination of the Wild Hunt and herself. So she can be understood in this way - the "Ka" in "Kassadin" refers to the monster part of her, and the "Sha" refers to the human part, which refers to the Wild Hunt and herself.

After this deconstruction, you will no longer feel anything about the new name.

After this little episode, Kai'Sa soon found a nest of Void Spirits. This underground was indeed as the Wild Hunt had said, full of Void creatures.

She wiped out the group of virtual spirits without saying a word, and then found several other nests elsewhere and disinfected them all.

Feeling that this was a bit inefficient, she simply hid herself and stayed where she was, waiting for a group of Void Spirits to come and lead her to the Regeneration Pool. As the nest of Void Creatures, there must be a lot of prey there for her to hunt.

One couldn't feel the passage of time underground. After several hours, Kassadin finally saw a group of void elves passing by the scene.

They broke the wreckage into pieces of suitable size, held them in their mouths and walked towards a tunnel. Having witnessed the whole process, Kassa quietly followed and trailed at the end of the team.

Then, Kassa found that the Void disappeared from her sight. She walked forward quickly, but found that the road under her feet also suddenly disappeared.

The loose rocks fell off from under her feet, hitting the rock wall with a distant echo, and fell into the darkness. She quickly retracted her feet, calmed herself, and looked out from the tunnel entrance again.

In front of him was a large rift valley that sloped steeply downward, a rift valley deep underground.

The cliffs on both sides of the rift were connected by dozens of tunnel openings that penetrated deep into the rock, and where she stood was the entrance to one of them.

Kasa looked at the group of Void Spirits as they crawled deeper into the canyon. She wanted to follow them, but she noticed that there were many long monsters crawling on the rock walls on both sides of the canyon, making short, high-frequency insect sounds from time to time.

That’s right, it was the sickle-jaw that made her escape in embarrassment last time.

Chapter 21 Walking on Flat Ground

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“That’s a lot.”

Kasa pulled her head back, leaned against the wall and even lowered her voice.

She originally thought that Kamajaw would stay at the entrance of the sacrifice site, so that she could hide high up in the open valley and shoot from outside the range of Kamajaw. With the crosshairs, she wouldn't have to worry about hitting the target.

But once the terrain changes to an underground rift, this strategy becomes completely ineffective.

Restricted by the terrain, as long as she launched an attack, she would inevitably expose herself to the range of the sickle jaw. The enemy was outnumbered and she would not be able to gain any advantage even if she succeeded in a sneak attack.

The short and sharp chirping of insects echoed in the rift from time to time, causing a slight pain in the brain and making Kassadin frown all the time.

"If you want to be more careful, can I sneak over there?" Kassadin wanted to avoid the fight, but was immediately rejected by the Wild Hunt.

"Unlike the Void Spirits that only know how to charge in groups without thinking, the Scythejaws are Void Creatures that can work as a team. A single Scythejaw may not be able to accurately and quickly lock onto the target's location using sonar, but they will share their findings with each other through sound. The staggered locking of multiple sources greatly improves accuracy, and you will be found immediately once you leave the tunnel."

It is precisely because of the anti-infiltration characteristics of the sickle jaws that they are placed on the road to the regeneration pool as reconnaissance guards.

"What should I do? They are so scattered, and I can't kill them all at once."

Invisibility doesn't work on Kamajaw, so assassination is naturally impossible.

Kassa was very clear that once she made a move, the noise she made would attract other giant centipedes, and their intensive long-range firepower would make her unable to raise her head.

"There is actually a delay in sonar information acquisition. As long as you are fast enough and run far enough within one second, they can only lock onto your position from the last second through sound waves, not your current position. Combined with invisibility, the long-range attacks of the sickle-jaw should be ineffective against you."