Void Beetle Evolution Guide
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Whether it is accumulating plasma or moving at high speed, a large amount of heat will be generated. By concentrating this heat in the legs and erupting it, an astonishing speed can be burst out.
Forked lightning pierced through the air and came crashing down, collapsing part of the tunnel entrance that Kai'Sa had just been guarding, emitting thick black smoke. The Wild Hunt had Kai'Sa shoot a crystallized bullet to temporarily prop up the collapsed entrance.
Gnawing's lightning attack can split rocks, which is a dangerous signal. Kassadin decided to get rid of these monsters first to avoid having her retreat completely blocked.
A gnawing beast pounced towards her first, its three-petal mouth opened wide, and the accumulated lightning formed an crisscross network in its mouth.
The Wild Hunt controlled the pod and fired a round of missiles. At the same time, forked lightning exploded in the monster's mouth, splashing out and detonating the plasma in advance. The explosion caused by the collision of the two intercepted and shot down the monster.
When the smoke cleared, the monster was affected because it was close to her, and its front limbs were missing. Just as Kassadin was about to finish her off, another Gnawer had already locked onto her, so she had to dodge.
Forced to increase the distance, Kassadin saw the injured Gnash roll over for a few times, and the Void beside it was crushed to pieces by its heavy skeleton. The strange slurry that flowed out was absorbed by its limbs, and the broken limbs were then regenerated in the light.
Under the attack of the three gnawing monsters, Kaisa was exhausted and had few opportunities to fight back. As long as she couldn't kill them instantly, these skeleton monsters with their backs against the regeneration pool would be able to repair and heal in an instant. And she didn't have much to do about it. The cave was full of void spirits, and there was no place to land even if she was invisible and attacked.
"Gnawing's attacks don't distinguish between friend and foe. Perhaps we can use this to make the explosion affect the rest of the enemies." Just as Kai'Sa escaped from the double team again, the Wild Hunter suggested.
His words made Kassa pay attention to the void spirits that died in the battle. More of them died in the forked lightning or were gnawing and trampled to death than from Kassa's attacks.
Kassadin immediately understood what the Wild Hunt wanted her to do. She rushed into the swarm of insects and spun out a blade of light. She crouched down on her toes and spun around. The Void Spirits beside her fell down like cut wheat.
The strike was successful and it immediately broke away. The forked lightning struck her side, causing far more casualties than her. Whole groups of Void Spirits fell instantly, and their charred shells kept emitting foul smoke, like the smell of flames burning insects.
Perhaps because it is located next to the regeneration pool, accidents happen frequently!
Seeing that the situation was improving, just when Kassadin was about to guide the Gnawing to kill each other, fluctuations appeared again in the ocean of energy.
The ground shook and cracked, and a nightmarish purple light emerged from the abyss, covering the entire cave from bottom to top.
Tens of thousands of strange fish covered in bone armor emerged from the lake. They had only one glowing eye and could float and swim in the air without the help of fins. Their tail fin had turned into an upward-curved hook that flashed a poisonous light.
Void Fish, Threat Level 1
"It's her...who noticed us!"
"Who...is she you're talking about?" Kassadin heard the trembling syllables in the Wild Hunt's words. This was the first time he showed panic.
"She may not have a name yet, but you are already shrouded in her shadow."
Kai'Sa instantly remembered the shadow behind the prophet Malzahar on the day of the sacrifice. She was the one Malzahar wanted to sacrifice, and she was the one who devoured everyone's memory!
Chapter 28: Escape
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In a blink of an eye, the explosive emergence of void fish almost filled the entire cave, blocking the view and the only exit.
"Kill your way out and escape!"
The two had the same idea at this moment. They fired missiles with their hands and pods, tearing a hole in the defense line formed by the school of fish.
However, something strange happened.
Those fish that were blown into pieces immediately began to merge and transformed into another larger species of bighead carp.
Although they no longer have tail hooks, they have harder bone armor growing on their heads and their entire bodies are wrapped in a shimmering energy shield, which makes people feel so hard that their scalps numb just by looking at them.
Kassadin fired another round of missiles in disbelief, and the fathead fish took the initiative to come forward and protect the other small fish behind them. The shields on their bodies flashed wildly in the explosion. Although Kassadin knocked down the shields, she failed to break through the hard shells. The fathead fish just shook their heads and rushed towards her.
"Damn it!"
Kassadin hid his body, and the swarms of insects and fish that lost their target stopped for a moment, but then they began to circle around, as if a storm had blown up in the same place.
At the outermost layer of the storm, there were rustling tides of insects. They were arranged like a whirlpool, plundering the ground clean. In the center of the storm, there were flashing lightning. Three Gnawing Daggers were patrolling around the regeneration pool, trying to find Kassadin's trace. And those violent schools of fish made up the storm itself. They patrolled in an interlaced manner but would not collide with each other. They densely occupied all the space and left Kassadin nowhere to hide.
Kassadin had nowhere to hide and was forced to show up. As soon as she appeared, the sharp feet of the void spirit cut through the skin armor on her legs, and a minnow knocked her off balance from behind and stabbed its tail hook into her back.
The fish was injected with void energy, which is the most toxic poison for surface creatures. If it weren't for the Wild Hunt symbiote, Kassadin's body would have been decomposed in the blink of an eye and transformed into an ugly form.Is there any plum blossom in the sky? Is there any forest in the sky?
Kassa reached behind her back and grabbed the fish. Energy surged out of her palm and dissolved it. Then she threw the remains forward in anger.
Faced with such a dense army of monsters, the concealment and mobility that the skin armor is proud of have lost their effect. The Wild Hunt can only give up stealth and acceleration and instead focus on improving the defense that the skin armor is least good at.
While helping Kassadin extract the energy that was corroding her body, he was also doing his best to create the Dark Condensation Armor. Whether they could finally escape depended on whether he could seize the time to build a strong suit of armor.
The soft gray-white substance spread all over Kasha's body. Before it hardened, it had no defensive power. More monsters rushed up to bite her, and Kasha leaned down to resist, with the muzzle of the pod gun pointed forward.
After firing a round of missiles, she immediately stretched out her weak energy shield and pushed forward, taking advantage of the gap in the school of fish created by the missiles to force her way through.
The skin armor has weak defense, and the explosion caused by the plasma cannon also affected Kassadin herself, but in this situation, even if she was injured, she had to move forward, otherwise, when the fathead fish blocked the gap, she would not be able to escape.
Monsters swarmed in from all directions, so densely packed and countless that it was almost impossible to tell which was the head and which was the tail, and all that could be seen were their messy fangs and claws. They scratched the armor, creating wounds at a speed far faster than the armor could heal itself.
In a few breaths, Kassa was already covered in wounds. Her arms, legs, and cheeks were all dripping with blood, and the blood flowed into her mouth, bringing a strong taste of rust. She couldn't drag it on any longer, and the Wild Hunt could only force the biomass on her body to harden.
There was no time to clean up the void spirits and void fish that pounced on her body. Their limbs pierced into Kassadin's body and were half buried in the biomass, thus becoming one with the hardened dark armor, as if they were built into cement.
"Let's just charge out like this." The Wild Hunt created a shell sword for Kassadin. While he was speaking, the Void Spirits and the Fish were constantly biting the Dark Condensation Armor, making a harsh friction sound.
Feeling a surge of power injected into the armor, Kassadin groaned, tightened the hilt of the sword, fired another round of missiles, and then rushed into the explosion.
The Dark Condensation Armor withstood the explosion, and its surface became bumpy, covered with bite marks and corrosion marks.
She pushed forward desperately, and the Wild Hunt was also doing its best to repair the armor. The armored blade wrapped in the disintegration force field kept slashing, cutting the oncoming fathead fish in half with its shield and shell, and the cut was extremely smooth.
The Gnaw behind them was accumulating lightning in his mouth, and they had no time to care about it. The forked lightning struck the Void Hunter's back, causing her to stumble. The violent current melted the Dark Condensation Armor and enveloped her in high temperature.
Kasa's forehead was covered with sweat, and she seemed to smell the smell of burning flesh in her skin armor. However, she could only swallow the pain, and took advantage of the lightning to tear through the school of fish and crash into the exit.
The cluster of crystals was forcibly broken through, and the seriously injured Kassa rushed into the tunnel entrance. Under the control of the Wild Hunt, the pod released another round of missiles, which collapsed the tunnel and blocked the way for the fish to chase.
Without even time to catch their breath, they fled frantically from the regeneration pool, releasing crystal bombs to block the road all the way, until they reached the Great Rift Valley and sat down dejectedly against the rock wall.
"I almost died in there. Even if a giant dragon came instead, it would be broken once surrounded by the school of fish." The Wild Hunter took off the broken dark armor, on which there was a fish head, and its body had been blown up in the explosion.
Even with the armor protecting him, the skin and flesh inside were not in much better condition. The skin on his back was melted by the high temperature, and the skin on his back was charred black. There were countless wounds of varying sizes on his body, and a ghostly stump was stuck in his leg.
"Before repairing your body, I have to help you remove the necrotic flesh. This time I can't help you block the pain, because the erosion of void energy is painless. I have to rely on your reaction to confirm whether the erosion is completely removed."
Kassa had just pulled out the stump, and she was gasping for breath and unable to speak as she looked at the wound with black blood vessels bulging out. The Wild Hunt didn't wait for her to get ready, because if she delayed treating the wound for a second, the erosion would be more serious.
The skin armor spread across Kassadin's back in a web of light, devouring her charred dead flesh. She roared in agony, and the pain echoed in the rift.
……
When Kassa opened her eyes again, eight hours had passed.
Most of the injuries on her body were healed, but she found herself in a place she had no impression of.
"Am I...sleepwalking?!!"
"The fish caught up with us. I forced your body to move, but you fell asleep and didn't notice."
"I slept so soundly."
The Wild Hunt's explanation made Kassadin suddenly realize, but then she became deeply confused.
"Haven't we blocked all our retreat routes? Those strange fish caught up with us so quickly."
"They gnawed out a tunnel and rushed out. That tunnel leads straight to where we rest. It's impossible for void creatures to do that with their intelligence. It could only be her who was behind it. You should be thankful that she only noticed us from a distance. Her real body is still a million miles away from us."
"So she will chase us like this again?" Kassa gasped.
"I'm afraid...yes."
"Then we will never be able to live in peace again." Kasa frowned worriedly. She was already in such a mess with just a school of fish of threat level one. What if more powerful monsters were sent to chase and surround her?
"Don't worry too much. The pods have already evolved. At worst we can just escape back to the ground."
"That being said, we can't dig a tunnel, so we still have to find a passage that leads to the ground."
However, what the two did not expect was that by the time they fulfilled their promise, it would be two years later.
Chapter 29 From Girl to Young Lady
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After opening her eyes, Kasa once again found that she was not in the place where she had slept before, but she no longer found it strange.
She hadn't had a good night's sleep since she was chased by the fish. In order to prevent Kai'Sa from becoming mentally exhausted, the Wild Hunt could only force her into a deep sleep and then take over her body during her shutdown period.
Only in this way can we cope with the frequent attacks of fish.
As this happened so many times, Kassadin got used to it.
When she woke up this time, she did not check her surroundings immediately, but untied her helmet and covered her face with her hands and rubbed them hard.
“Another nightmare?” asked the Wild Hunt.
"Wild Hunt, I'm so tired..."
Kassadin did not deny it. After all, even if she fell into a deep sleep, her body was still under the control of the Wild Hunt and was busy dealing with the school of fish. How could she not have nightmares?
Moreover, her physical condition was not much better. Even with the skin armor providing nutrition to repair her injuries, she could still feel the fatigue penetrating into her bones every time she woke up. The girl who was once full of energy had become listless.
"I won't say anything to comfort you. You should take some time to rest. The fish may attack at any time."
In order to escape this predicament, the Wild Hunt has been trying their best to find an exit. But the fact is that the fish school has almost blocked all the upward passages, driving them away from the exit. They are sinking deeper and deeper, and they don't know when they can return to the surface.
"Wild Hunt, the pod is weighing so heavily on my shoulders." Kassadin lowered her head and spoke weakly.
"Is this okay?"
The Wild Hunt made the heavy shoulder pod detach from the girl's shoulders and float in the air. Feeling a lightness on her shoulders, Kassa raised her head and stared blankly at the shoulder pod that floated steadily over her head and in front of her.
"This is……"
"The skin armor devoured the void? The new ability of the fish queen's evolution can make the shoulder pods float in the air and become floating guns."
As he spoke, the Wild Hunt controlled a pair of pods to split into six smaller floating cannons. They slowly revolved around Kassa, with bright light shining from the muzzles, like birds circling over distant peaks. It was truly magnificent.
"It really feels like a school of fish patrolling." Kassa slightly raised the corners of her mouth. This might be the only good news in recent times.
"After entering the floating cannon form, they can only be completely controlled by me, which can be regarded as relieving you of some burden. However, after the battle, they still have to return to you to recharge."
The Wild Hunt noticed that Kai'Sa in the original world line had a tendency to hunchback, and Kai'Sa in this world line evolved a pod earlier in her growth period, and the hunchback tendency would only be more serious due to the pressure on her shoulders from heavy objects.
In order to keep Kassadin in good shape, he has been paying attention to using skin armor to correct her posture and prevent her from hunching over. But this is only a temporary solution, and if the weight behind her shoulders is not removed, Kassadin can only use her hunchback to resist the backward movement of her body's center of gravity.
Therefore, after seeing the remora that could float, the Wild Hunt kept looking for opportunities to devour them during battle until it evolved a little bit of the ability to float, and immediately added skill points to it.
It can be said that the floater was just developed as a byproduct, and his first goal was to reduce the burden on Kaisa.
However, this news did not make the girl happy for long. When the tunnel became quiet, Kasa hugged her knees and stared blankly ahead, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Won't you take a break?"
"I'm very tired, but I can't sleep." Kassa felt that as soon as she closed her eyes, she would see an overwhelming shoal of fish, so she might as well not sleep.
After a pause, she suddenly said.
"Wild Hunt, I want to eat peaches."
"...I'll go up and find you some peaches."
Even in dreams there were no peaches, for dreams were filled with horrible schools of fish.
"Did you know? Cactus fruit is actually delicious."
"..."
I couldn't find peaches, and I couldn't find cactus fruits either.
"Wild Hunt, I want to bask in the sun and breathe in the desert air."
"..."
If I could smell the desert, I would have found the exit long ago.
"Wild Hunt, I want to see my parents. Did you say they have arrived at Nashrameh?"
"..."
Sorry, can't do that.
……
The mentally ill Kassadin treated the Wild Hunt as a wish-making machine. It was not difficult for her wishes to come true, but they were all impossible to do at this stage.
She had tasted the bitterness of being away from the world, and every time the Wild Hunt was silent, the girl's voice became lower and lower, and finally turned into a hoarse whimper.
"Wild Hunt, can you hug me?"
A tear fell from the corner of her eye. Although the aura contained in it was insignificant, the void predators could still sense it and would swarm in from all directions like desert flies discovering feces.
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