Void Beetle Evolution Guide

The soldiers dug the door of the tomb out from under the yellow sand, and Delia immediately put her hand on the stone door, but the door did not move at all, not even a crack opened. Above the door, there was a circular groove, and it was obvious that something had to be put in it to activate the switch.

She turned around and looked at everyone. "The bad news is that this door may require a specific method to open, such as a special key or a special token. The good news is that we brought explosives."

"Don't worry about damaging the tomb. We have lost so many people, how can we be willing to leave without taking a look at what's inside."

At Cassiopeia's command, the soldiers, who were originally looking at each other in bewilderment, began to place explosives on the stone gate. Then they retreated several dozen meters away and waited for the fuse to burn out.

With a loud bang, the stone gate collapsed into several pieces in the explosion, and then a shocking scene appeared.

The yellow sand in the entire area began to surge and poured into the gap in the tomb door. From a distance, Kasa could feel the quicksand under her feet moving forward and being swallowed by the tomb.

Fortunately, they had the foresight to move far away, otherwise their ankles would have been caught by the quicksand and they would have been trapped in the sand.

"The bigger the wind and waves, the bigger the fish!" Delia clenched her weapon excitedly, and even Cassiopeia, who usually didn't like to show her emotions, cast a fiery look at her.

When the quicksand subsided, the sand suddenly sank a lot, and the two giant jackal statues buried in the quicksand in front of the door were exposed.

"The jackals and crocodiles represent Nasus and Renekton, symbols of wisdom and force respectively. The two brothers are the two most famous ascenders in Shurima and are also household patron saints. I don't know why there are only jackals and no crocodiles here."

"Go and check if there is any mechanism inside." Delia glanced at the statue and then released the purple-eyed lizard that had been lying on her shoulder.

Watching the lizard quickly sneak into the tomb, Kasa asked in doubt: "Is it that smart? Can it even find the mechanism?"

"Of course it's not that magical. I'm just more sensitive to gold, silver and treasures. By the way, I want to verify whether there is poisonous gas in the tomb." Delia explained.

Kassa admired their caution. When she thought about it carefully, she realized that the skin armor was so convenient that it allowed her to move freely in dangerous environments without having to worry too much. She had never considered such a thing before.

After a while, the lizard came back, and after confirming that there was no direct threat, the group entered the tomb one after another.

The interior of the tomb was much larger than it looked from the outside, and the tall rock pillars were only the tip of the exposed iceberg. Several people held lanterns, but the light from the lanterns could not illuminate the entire tomb.

Through the void vision, Kasa saw that the structure inside the tomb was like a huge pyramid. The tomb door alone was more than ten meters high. They only blew a small hole on the top of the tomb door. If it weren't for the large amount of quicksand that poured in to form sand dunes, this group of people would have a problem getting down.

“Such a high door, could it be a mausoleum prepared for the god warriors?” Delia exclaimed in amazement and was the first to slide down the sand dune.

Although the tomb chamber is large, there are not many doors and windows inside. Dust floats up like ghostly shadows, outlining a corridor. There are many reliefs carved on the stone walls, which are extremely huge and engraved on every wall and ceiling.

Hundreds of two-meter-high horse-headed human-faced statues were neatly arranged at both ends of the corridor, like golden guards lining the road to welcome people. Delia scraped some powder with her sword and put it in her hand, then said with a beaming face.

"Lady Cassiopeia, these centaurs look like they're made of pure gold!"

The soldiers' breathing became hot when they heard this. Hundreds of pure gold centaur statues, anyone who was not a fool would know what this meant.

This is a wealth that can rival a country!

In comparison, Cassiopeia was much calmer.

"Gold is just a common thing. Even if there is a lot of it, we can't bring it back with just a few of us. I'll send someone over after we get back to continue looking for other things."

"These golden centaurs are not solid. There is a mold line on them. There may be something inside."

Kasa reminded them that she felt that there must be some special meaning behind placing these centaur statues here. Even if it was the tomb of an ascended being, it would be too convenient for tomb robbers to display the gold so openly.

Delia also noticed the mold line on the centaur, and she ordered several soldiers to insert shovels into the gap and pry it open. The golden shell collapsed, but only a pile of yellow sand flowed out from the inside of the centaur.

"It seems that there is no treasure hidden in it." Seeing that the lizard did not react, Delia sighed.

She didn't feel regretful, even a pile of gold shells would be worth a fortune, she was just grateful that an unstable factor had been eliminated. After all, before she pried open the Centaur, she was still worried about what unknown mechanism was hidden inside.

As a Shuriman, she knew that some things should not be dug up, but since they came here for this, they didn't need to care so much.

However, storing sand in gold is inherently weird.

The few of them continued to move forward. In a place they could not see, the yellow sand flowing out of the golden centaur statue began to swirl and take shape. A roaring human face vaguely emerged in the vortex.

Author's note: The chapter has not been converted into a paid chapter and the editor is being contacted to see how to handle it.

Chapter 44: Tomb of Nasus

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At the end of the corridor was a door. After sweeping away hundreds of years of dust, some obscure words were revealed.

This is a form of ancient Shuriman writing, and no one present could recognize what was written on the door, including the Wild Hunt.

Several people worked together to push the door open a crack, and Kassa continued to walk inside.

In the dark tomb, some light appeared, and a beam of light occupied everyone's vision. The tomb was obviously closed, but the sunlight illuminated the magnificent hall, which made people puzzled.

A bridge connects the door and the hall of the tomb. After walking across the suspended bridge, on the left is a giant jackal statue sitting on its knees with a golden disc hanging from its neck, like a heavenly dog holding up the sun. On the right is another statue with a wolf head and a human body, kneeling on its knees with a golden disc hanging above the backrest behind it, indicating that the sun is witnessing the jackal's loyalty.

"We've hit the jackpot. This might be the tomb of Nasus, the god of death in the desert." Delia was certain, because Nasus' image was a black jackal, the embodiment of wisdom. Along the way, the frequency of jackal elements appearing was too high.

"Isn't the Desert Reaper still alive?" Kassa noticed that the floor inside the tomb was covered with a layer of very fine sand, so fine that it could penetrate directly through the shoes and into the soles of the feet. It felt like human skin and gave people a chill.

"Some say he is missing, some say he is dead. Witnesses appear in the desert from time to time, and no one knows whether the rumors are true or false. But the only thing that can be confirmed is that ancient emperors would start building tombs for themselves during their lifetime. Nasus' status is so high that it even exceeds that of mortal emperors, so it is not surprising that he has a tomb of his own." Cassiopeia said slowly.

Kasa listened and observed the two statues, then shifted her gaze to the center of the tomb - a huge coffin lay quietly in the hall, with a jackal-headed statue erected in front of it, with emerald green light emitting from its eyes, as if looking down at them.

Under the jackal's head was a semicircular golden disk, clearly different from the surrounding stones. However, it was empty inside.

“It seems that Nasus is not inside. It is not a good idea to rob a tomb whose owner is still alive.”

The light and shadow in the tomb seemed to have changed. In addition to the huge coffin, Kassa noticed several strangely shaped golden hanging coffins hanging vertically in the air with iron chains.

Some of them have been opened, the coffin lids have fallen to the ground and covered with dust for a long time, and the contents of the coffins have disappeared.

Kassa hurriedly looked for the disappeared things, and suddenly found that at the angle between the ceiling and the wall above her head, there was a huge outline hanging upside down like a bat, with a long lizard-like snout sticking out.

"Get out, there's something in the tomb!"

She issued a warning, but the sleeping shadow seemed to sense something and opened his eyes.

It was a pair of huge and swollen eyes, with a sickly white film like a dead fish, and no pupils... Between two withered and turned-out fangs, a shriveled snake tongue lolled out, stirring in the dusty and dull air, and then, as if it had received some information, it leaped down from the ceiling, making a heavy sound when it landed on the ground.

Dust filled the air, and things in the darkness began to take shape.

A lizard-like monster, as tall as a two-story building. Its scales glowed a moldy purple, and its skinny and shrunken limbs deformed the gold lines drawn on its plump muscles. The monster wore a dirty robe with many golden discs hanging down, and its neck, mouth, and limbs were wrapped with many rotten and yellow bandages, with some scarlet feathers inserted in the gaps between the bandages, which made people think of the image of a voodoo priest.Mei is here. I am Lin Kongyong, not Lin Youyong...

"Intruder..." At this moment, it was extending its shriveled tongue and sniffing blindly in front of Kasa, fear or hostility...

"How could there be another ascender in the tomb of the ascender!"

Delia only saw that the other party was huge, full of animal features, and exuding a violent and crazy aura, and she matched him with the legendary ascender.

She protected Cassiopeia behind her as if she were facing a formidable enemy, and several soldiers raised their crossbows and aimed at the monster.

"This is Bakay, not an Ascendant." The reverberant voice of the Wild Hunt sounded in Kassadin's mind, telling her not to be misled by Delia.

"Bakay?"

"Bakay is the product of failed ascension. The magic from the sun cannot be perfectly integrated with the body, causing them to be in pain all the time. Coupled with the huge humiliation of being transformed from a hero into an outcast, they tend to gradually fall into madness under the double torture. Their minds are like sand dunes blown by the wind, with only the rage germinated from the seeds of anger, which cannot be extinguished by the sweet spring water of any oasis."

"So the ascension ceremony can also fail..." Kassa had heard many old people talk about the glory of the Ascension Empire, how powerful and majestic those ascended warriors were, and how many heroes flocked to it, eager to obtain the supreme honor, but she had never heard anyone say that failing in ascension would turn one into a monster and be expelled.

It seems that becoming a god is not easy. Who knows how many failures are behind the birth of every god warrior.

"It was the priests of the Ascended Group who pushed the heroes to the altar, but it was the gods in the sky who decided whether the heroes could ascend." The Wild Hunt continued: "The merciful way is to end the inhuman suffering of the losers as soon as possible, but for some reason, these Bakai escaped... Perhaps Nasus took them in as a symbol of wisdom. He must want to turn these former heroes into god-forged bodies like him."

"I smell disrespect. Wake up, Forsaken!"

A roar broke the stalemate, and the lizard Bakay suddenly smashed the ground with the giant pickaxe in his hand that was like an anchor, and a shock wave of smoke and dust immediately spread out.

The sound of a long tail whipping the ground echoed in the mausoleum. A tightly closed coffin opened from the inside, and another huge monster crawled out.

It looked like a hyena, wearing golden armor, but it still couldn't hide its rotten fur and withered flesh. Although it was hunchbacked, it was not weak in ferocity. As soon as it climbed out of the coffin, it bared its teeth and roared furiously at Kasa and the others, holding a crescent shovel in one hand and digging the ground with the other hand, rushing towards them like a beast that had been hungry for tens of thousands of years.

The crossbow arrows fired volleys, and the arrows penetrated the hyena's body like a sandbag, with only some sand leaking out. Its movements were not affected at all, and it swept the soldiers in front of it with a shovel, and the soldiers fell down like harvested wheat. It cut the soldiers in the waist and the wound was very smooth. Then it stretched out its head and bit off the part above the chest of another soldier.

"You...all must die!"

The chilling chewing sounds were heard in the tomb. Unspeakable fear swept over them. The remaining people were all terrified and had no intention of resisting it.

The auxiliary panel prompts that the threat levels of these Bakay are all above level five!

Compared with the real Ascendants, these Bakais are still far behind. But for mortals, they are still invincible.

"You guys run away quickly, I'll cover your retreat!" Kassa fired a round of plasma missiles to cover everyone's evacuation.

"Miss Kasa, what are you going to do?" Cassiopeia shouted anxiously.

"Don't worry about me, I can escape anytime I want." Under Kassa's control, the missiles drew dozens of arcs in the air and all attacked the hyena Bake.

The hyena was large in size but extremely swift. It dodged the missile by leaping under the bridge and then flipped around before pouncing again.

Kassa didn't dare to take it head-on, and retreated while firing plasma bullets with both hands. The plasma eroded the opponent's fur but had no obvious effect, only some sand flowed out, which further aroused the hyena's ferocity, and it chased and attacked Kassa with its crescent shovel.

The lizard behind the hyena was not a decoration. He continued to hit the ground with his pickaxe. Kassa was entangled by the hyena and could not stop it. She watched it awaken two tall figures one after another. There was a reaper with a sickle and a raptor head, and a weaver with six arms holding a golden basin.

The oppressive feeling brought by the four Bakei is desperate. If there are only one or two of them, Kassadin can still deal with it, but if all four come together, let alone protecting Cassiopeia, she herself will be in trouble.

The Wild Hunt released a swarm of bees to harass the Bakays to buy time for Kassa. Seeing that Cassiopeia and her group had already fled to the corridor outside, Kassa was about to seal the door of the tomb to lock all the Bakays inside, but the Bakay Weaver in the deepest part of the tomb took action.

It was covered in a large black robe, with its head covered by a huge and exaggerated headdress, so that only a pair of glowing eyes could be seen. Under the robe were a pair of goat-like reverse-jointed hooves, and three arms stretched out from each side.

The two arms at the bottom, which had more beast features, held up a golden basin filled with glowing sand that was about to overflow.

I saw his four arms flying up and down, constantly pinching gravel from the basin and throwing it into the air, weaving an ancient and strange magic. The golden centaurs on both sides of the corridor suddenly made a dull "bang bang" sound, as if something was violently hitting it and couldn't wait to rush out.

Chapter 45: The Sands of Time

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boom!boom!

There was a violent crashing sound coming from the golden centaur statue, as if something was eager to rush out.

The noise was like the beating of a drum, and everyone's hearts began pounding. They couldn't help but quicken their pace, and could only pray to escape from the mausoleum before those things came out.

Six-armed Bakay continued to scatter the golden sand. Kassa tried to stop him but was dragged by the jackal Bakay. The Wild Hunt controlled the swarm of bees to entangle the other raptor Bakay and lizard Bakay. She didn't have three heads and six arms, so she couldn't spare a third hand.

When the few people ran to the middle of the corridor, the things in the golden centaur statue broke through the seal and walked out. They were centaur warriors wearing golden armor, with gravel forming their dark brown iron hooves. Their faces were tightly wrapped in yellow bandages, revealing only murderous eyes. They raised double-headed machetes with hooks on the ends in their hands.

What was even more despairing was that countless gravels on the pile of yellow sand at the end of the corridor began to swirl and form, transforming into warriors rising from the sand dunes. They walked out of the yellow sand and formed a square formation, marching in perfect synchronization that mortal soldiers could not achieve, and stretched out their spears at the same time towards several people. The blades on the spears flashed with crystal embellishments, mixing with the wavy sand on their bodies.

Sand-brown Charger, threat level two.

Quicksand Soldier, Threat Level One.

In a blink of an eye, we were surrounded by the army and our retreat was blocked. Who could believe that all this was made of sand?

The tomb was dead silent, with only the sounds of Kassa and Bakay fighting, and the Wurmhounds brought by Cassiopeia roaring at the surrounding sand soldiers. However, the latter were not moved at all, and the centaurs had already charged with their double-headed machetes, trying to crush them into minced meat.

"We must find a way to clear a path! Use explosives to kill all these sand soldiers blocking the road!" Cassiopeia thought quickly and found the only way to break the impasse.

But who would carry out this fatal mission? Cassiopeia held the venomous snake and pursed her lips slightly, and one of the two remaining soldiers took the initiative to stand up.

"I'm going to blast a path!" The soldier had his back to the crowd, a strange green light flashing in his eyes. He took out the explosives from his waist and lit the fuse, then rushed towards the Sand Soldiers with a determined look on his face, "I'll go to the Wolf Spirit Hall, bear witness to me!"

“This is the promise of Noxus! A fire that consumes all, including its own people,” Cassiopeia said with emotion. “May his spirit find peace among our ancestors and lend us strength in the battle to come.”

Another soldier was so moved by the scene that he volunteered to stay behind to cover the rear.

"You guys go quickly, I will try my best to delay these sand soldiers." Facing the charging Centaur, he bravely raised the engineer shovel to resist.

Under the powerful blow of the Centaur, the engineer shovel broke. But at the moment of breaking, the magic rune on it was activated, and green lightning emerged, which reassembled the broken engineer shovel and blocked the attack.

Cassiopeia smiled imperceptibly. It was worth it that she spent money to find a rune caster in the army to inject rune magic. Even a piece of scrap iron could be turned into a treasure.

The soldier fought back angrily, but the powerful sound he imagined did not come. Noticing that the weight of the weapon in his hand was not right, he quickly took a look and found that the strange rune weapon began to turn into sand and turned into quicksand scattered in the air.

Without his weapon, the soldier was beheaded by the centaur's spinning machete in the blink of an eye. The dragonhound rushed forward and bit the centaur's ladder, but was kicked away, and his chest caved in.

Cassiopeia's smile froze instantly. The sound of the explosion did not come for a long time. She turned around abruptly and looked at the suicide soldier who was rushing towards the formation of sand soldiers. The explosive pack in his hand was gradually turning into sand, and along with their hopes, it turned into a handful of useless yellow sand.

His body was pierced by the spear and raised high into the air.

"No!" Even though she was calm, she couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.

Time would not stop because of her desperate cry. The six-armed Bake in the tomb continued to pinch yellow sand from the golden basin and sprinkle it into the air.

"Ah! The sands of time from Icathia!"

Under the remote control of Six-Armed Bakay, the corpses on the ground began to turn into sand, and everything from bones to flesh and blood turned into a fine golden sand.

Cassiopeia felt sick as she thought about it. She suddenly remembered the sand that had sunk into her feet when she entered the tomb. It felt so delicate, like skin, but it turned out to be human scum.

The sand floated in the air and formed a golden wind, which drifted to Cassiopeia's side and enveloped her. As soon as the glowing sand touched her body, her armor and weapons seemed to be assimilated by the sand, being decomposed from the outside to the inside, and turned into golden sand that floated down.

Then the sand began to grind away at Cassiopeia's body, forming small storms that left wounds everywhere. Her hair withered and withered, her chest caved in, and her skin shrank like wet parchment.

She felt that her life was being sucked away quickly. If this erosion continued, this beautiful body would soon fall away and turn into the layer of fine golden sand that covered the ground when she came in.