Void Beetle Evolution Guide

Chapter 578 Deep Sea Beast Tide

Strange electric lights flashed across the dark seabed, as Kai'Sa slaughtered monsters. Wherever the forked lightning passed, abyssal monsters fell in droves, their hearts bubbling with smoke, and the dark purple light quietly faded away.

This gave Kai'Sa a lot of confidence. Although the Void Armor that Wild Hunt hastily created only had the function of discharging electricity, it is better to be good at one thing than a jack of all trades. It is more important to have a weapon that can efficiently kill monsters and help her break through the encirclement.

To her surprise, the auxiliary panel was back online. Now, every time she fires a shot, she can electrocute dozens of monsters, which are displayed as cold numbers on the panel and keep increasing.

The urge to kill was rising! Kai'Sa handed the pod thrusters over to Wild Hunt for control, while she turned the Void Armor's output power to maximum, reaping swathes of the monsters.

"Are you ready?" Kai'Sa shouted back at Nami. Inspired by Nami's valiant fighting spirit, the latter nodded emphatically and brandished the Tidecaller's Staff.

The restless magic spread out with the water, condensing into flowing blades. "Swish, swish, swish," dozens of sharp water blades pierced through the monster's body in unison, slicing the chaotic tentacles to pieces.

Some of them had their hearts cut open on the spot, while the luckier ones only had their tentacles severed. Their hearts were still pounding violently inside that ugly mass of flesh and blood, radiating invisible waves of fear.

"Watch out, their counterattack is coming!" Nami sensed the surging undercurrent. Kaisa, radiating lightning, had become a dazzling beacon in the dark abyss. The monsters that had been fleeing upwards turned back and joined the ranks of those trying to extinguish the wildfire.

Before long, Kasha saw a giant net formed by intertwined tentacles surging towards her, and as the tentacles tightened, it continued to grow, eventually turning into a black wall that crashed down like a tsunami.

Under this combined attack, Kai'Sa's Void Armaments were also somewhat stretched thin. Although the forked lightning tore apart the monsters in front of the gun barrels, the tentacles of those corpses did not untie. They remained connected and were being pulled in, carrying out their last commands before death, without leaving any gaps.

"Leave it to me!" Nami swept past Kaisa and stood in front of her, slamming her staff down, instantly splitting the seawater in two and vertically cleaving open the black city wall in front of her!

This is the seabed at a depth of 10,000 meters. The pressure of the seawater alone is a thousand times that of atmospheric pressure, equivalent to the pressure exerted on a person's back by two thousand adult elephants at the same time!

Kaisa noticed that Nami didn't seem to be struggling much, clearly indicating that individual strength alone couldn't withstand such pressure. Through her staff, she had become one with the deep sea; at this moment, she was the daughter of the ocean, able to manipulate the power of the entire deep sea with every gesture!

A murderous aura permeated every inch of the seawater, the surging currents transforming into sharp blades that annihilated the monsters trapped within the water curtain. Liquid energy emanating from the shattered core spread out, staining the seawater with an eerie color.

"Now's the time to break through!" Kaisa led Nami through the encirclement, and behind them, the seawater surged and merged, with countless severed limbs slowly drifting down.

……

A riot is taking place at the entrance.

"Your Majesty the Dragon Queen! Your Majesty the Dragon Queen! What do you mean? What is the meaning of this?!"

Several merfolk elders cried out in despair as the suddenly "darkened" sea dragon disregarded all attempts to stop it and forcibly entered their ancestral village. The moment its massive body landed, the entire village trembled, and the ancient underwater landscapes were trampled into dust by its thick limbs.

"It's ruined! Everything is ruined!" Without the powerful Tidecaller to protect the village, the merfolk, who couldn't even scratch a sea dragon's hide, could only watch helplessly as Sephiroth acted recklessly. The Holy Mother was powerless to stop it all, and her tears turned into pearls and fell.

At this moment, the Holy Mother was filled with remorse. A dragon was indeed a dragon; expecting it to keep its word was utterly delusional. She shouldn't have made the deal with Sephiroth in the first place. Now, this dragon had healed from its wounds and betrayed her, attacking the village with treachery.

This is truly a terrible tragedy!

"Shut up." The merfolk's cries irritated Sephiroth, who roared loudly enough to stun them. Without explaining her intentions, she said with a wicked grin, "It's not time to cry yet. Even more disastrous scenes are yet to come."

Sephiroth swaggered into the village center, finally stopping at the entrance to the abyss. The merfolk had indeed helped her, but given their decision to build the village on either side of the abyss, her massive size meant she was bound to trample and damage the buildings along the way. The destruction would only be greater once the battle began.

With her moon-sized, deep blue vertical pupils sweeping downwards, Sephie saw that her kin from the village had already arrived at the abyss, ready for battle. The monster army hadn't arrived yet; all she could see were seaweeds drifting with the current. Given her enormous size, she could only use the entrance as her battlefield, with no possibility of going deeper.

"Do you know what happened? How could an investigation have led to such a huge mess?" Saifei asked.

“I heard they encountered a formidable creature that awakened all the void creatures in the ocean,” Cassiopeia replied. “I’ve encountered a beast tide in the desert before, but I don’t know how it compares to this one.”

As they spoke, rustling shadows crept out of the lush seaweed, revealing their eerie and sinister forms. They constantly twisted their segmented tentacles, and a malevolent purple light emanated from between the hollow supports surrounding the heart, appearing from a distance like tiny purple dots.

These purple dots were not few in number. After Syndra used her mind to remove all the seaweed that obstructed their view, all the merfolk could clearly see that these dots completely filled the crack, densely packed and stretching to the very edge of their vision. The waves of purple dots surged and undulated, seemingly turning the entire deep sea abyss into a distant, empty land.

They were all wrong!

The light turned the merfolk's eyes purple, and the desperate black tide assaulted their minds, awakening ancient fears etched into their genes. Everything else had vanished from their minds—the tentacles, the terrifying creatures, and even the feeling of fear itself. Only the pounding hearts radiating a mesmerizing purple light remained.

Only then did they realize that the merfolk village was in dire straits, and all they could rely on was the evil dragon that they had just regarded as a calamity.

"Why are there so many soft, floppy things? It's so annoying." (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the initial question.)

Sephie growled angrily. During this time, the merfolk had been feeding her small fish and shrimp, as well as molluscs like octopuses, squid, and jellyfish, which were not part of her diet.

She usually ate large, firm-fleshed sea creatures, and the fishier and smellier they were, the more delicious they tasted to her. Eating these things was like asking a glutton accustomed to large amounts of meat to suddenly drink porridge—how could she possibly adapt?

Enraged, Sephie looked at these ugly monsters, immediately raised her head, which was as thick as a small island, opened her mouth to reveal sharp teeth as long as the keel of a ship, took a deep breath of seawater, and a ghostly blue light emerged from the depths of her throat, while her lungs expanded to their limit.

As the aura reached its peak, a torrent of magic erupted from the giant sea dragon's throat, creating a rapidly spinning waterspout. Countless water blades within the torrent shredded and killed all the monsters caught in it. Like a millstone, the waterspout swept across the entire abyss as the dragon slowly turned its head, cleansing away all the filth.

Chapter 579 Undersea Interception War

Wherever his breath touched, all filth was swept away.

But Sephiroth only held his breath for a moment before seeing a massive number of monsters emerge from beneath the scattered remains of their kind.

The seemingly endless numbers forced Sephiroth to take it seriously, and her composure and confidence at the top of the food chain vanished under the onslaught of fear.

Without a second thought, Sephiroth knew there was no way she would let these monsters crawl on her. She gathered her strength again and unleashed a powerful breath attack to clean up the battlefield.

“There are far too many of them.” Cassiopeia, encased in her armor, realized the seriousness of the problem. The monsters she had just encountered were far larger than the beast tide she had faced in the desert.

Sephiroth was enough for the main battlefield, especially since Syndra hadn't even made a move yet. Cassiopeia began moving towards the edge of the battlefield; the two ends of the rift were weak points in the defenses, but they still needed to be guarded. She saw herself as an elite force to clear out the mobs, and as for the bosses, she'd let those two handle that.

The throbbing tentacles dragged suspicious-looking limbs ashore, but before it could even get a glimpse of the merfolk village's ecosystem, a high-energy ray shot in from afar, cleaving the monster in two. (The last sentence appears to be unrelated and possibly a fragment from another text.)

The black high heel landed on the tentacle, but there was no real sensation of stepping on flesh. Cassiopeia looked down and saw that the heel was embedded in the hollow structure.

Only now did she realize the true nature of the void creatures as extraterrestrial visitors. Compared to the Sha Clan in the desert, the void creatures in the seabed were completely beyond reason.

A stone egg, compressed from a tentacle monster, attempted to deceive her in the distance. Cassiopeia immediately lashed out with her tail, the whistling drill churning the seawater and shattering the stone egg into pieces. A subsequent cleaving ray pierced the darkness, sweeping back and forth across the abyss, the evaporated seawater forming countless surging bubbles.

On the other side of the abyss, the ice dragon Portil has taken up residence. Unable to soar in the sea, she has transformed into a fixed turret, constantly spewing frigid dragon breath, freezing any tentacle monsters attempting to land into lumps of ice sculpture. Whenever this happens, Katarina appears in the abyss and unleashes Death Lotus, hurling her crimson blade while spinning at high speed, shattering the monsters and ice sculptures alike.

Above the abyss, Syndra stood alone. She looked down into the abyss, where the monsters, with their terrifying numbers, broke through the resistance of a few people and began their attack on the merfolk village.

Seeing this, Syndra pointed into the air, her eyes radiating darkness, creating a gravitational singularity at the center of the abyss.

Under Syndra's control, the black hole quickly stabilized, and its irresistible force pulled at everything in the surrounding sea. The beast tide's offensive was momentarily halted, and then it retreated backward as if playing a video in reverse.

Countless tentacle monsters were sucked into the singularity along with the seawater, compressed, and annihilated. The monsters clinging to the cliff walls were no exception, being sucked in along with the detached rocks.

"Hey, are you trying to suck us in too?!"

Sephiroth raised her head to resist the powerful suction, and the seawater formed a terrifying whirlpool in front of her, dragging her massive, mountain-like body little by little into it. If even a sea dragon was like this, then others were even more vulnerable.

The Cassiopeia sisters had no time to fight back, focusing all their efforts on resisting the vortex's suction. Meanwhile, Portil clung tightly to the exposed rock with her claws, occasionally being hit by pieces of building debris.

As for the merfolk, facing the natural disaster created by Syndra herself, they have reached the point of holding hands and saying their last words.

Hearing the surrounding protests, Syndra felt she might have overdone it. Her magic was already powerful, and with the addition of a little runic power, it had resulted in this effect.

She casually crushed the gravitational singularity, and immediately dozens of spires wrapped in chains rose from the crack, like interlocking fangs emerging from the jaws of an abyss.

Black light shot from the top of the spire, and the interconnected rays formed a net of light that sealed the cracks. Any monster that tried to cross the defenses would be instantly annihilated upon contact with the light.

However, this moment of ease did not last long, as the tentacle monsters found a weak point in the defense and began to concentrate their attacks on the defensive tower.

With the tremors of countless tentacles, the chains snapped, and the spire was uprooted. The monsters screamed silently as they broke free, once again plunging the situation into a fierce battle.

……

"Give it your all, we're almost out!" Kaisa and Nami fought their way out of the encirclement and were just a hundred meters away from the exit.

Surrounded by the water summoned by Nami, the two became invisible. As long as they didn't attack, the eyeless monsters around them wouldn't notice them.

However, a cleaving ray that shot towards them nearly swept over them, startling the two of them. They thought it was Velcz waiting for them up there, or that the monsters had evolved.

They had just dodged the laser when a suction force captured them again, pulling them towards the constantly moving waterspout. The water shields on their bodies were also broken, exposing them to the monsters.

Kaisa never expected to be accidentally injured by her own team's fire. Fortunately, Nami summoned a surging ocean current in time, which pushed the two of them to safety.

"What is that?" Just then, she saw a strange point of light flashing in front of her.

The battle escalated, and the aftershocks alone had devastated the village beyond recognition. To protect the village and drive the monsters of the abyss back into the darkness, the Mermaid Mother, embracing the moonstone, dodged the raging waterspouts and plunged into the abyss in a desperate act of self-destruction.

To her astonishment, the moonstone's light had no deterrent effect whatsoever. The merman had never seen fire before, but at this moment, like a moth drawn to a flame, she plunged headlong into the monsters' encirclement. Those terrifying, soft-bodied creatures ignored the white light and launched a frenzied attack on her.

Just as she was about to be dismembered, a stream of water swept in, tearing apart all the monsters around her.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Nami chased away the monster and stood guard beside the Holy Mother.

"I'm fine." The Holy Mother looked up and saw who it was. The moonstone she was holding tightly in her arms almost fell off. Her brows furrowed deeply: "Nami?"

"Yes. It's because I... went down there and became like this." Nami said, her eyes darting around. Coming back from the abyss and even her race had changed, which was hard to explain.

The Staff of the Tidecaller in her hand seemed to confirm her statement. The Holy Mother saw the hidden fear in Nami's eyes, hesitated to speak, and then sighed deeply, thinking of Rasha who had not returned: "Ah, it's good that you're back. It's good that you're back."

"Your Holy Mother, the Merfolk race still needs your leadership. Please leave the battlefield immediately."

The battle was still raging, and this was not the place to talk. Nami handed the staff to the Holy Mother and told her to leave. But the elderly merman hesitated for a moment, then pushed the staff back into her hands, grasped her hands with his age-spotted arms, and spoke earnestly.

“Nami, the Merfolk are facing a life-or-death threat. I believe this staff can play a greater role in your hands.”

Chapter 580 Sealing the Abyss

“This is…” Nami was stunned when she saw the fallen Staff of the Tidecaller being pushed back into the hands of the Holy Mother. The aged fingers pressed her fingers firmly onto the staff, as if to make her understand the weight she was about to bear.

"Nami, you are the strongest warrior of our race. Although your audacious actions have given us quite a headache, you have proven your courage and responsibility. I hereby appoint you as the new Tidecaller. Go, do what you have always wanted to do."

The solemn oath of the Virgin Mary stirred Nami's emotions deeply. She gripped her staff tightly and nodded emphatically: "I will certainly live up to your expectations and dedicate myself to protecting the Merfolk!"

"Are you done talking? If you're done, get out of here right now." Kaisa called out somewhat inconsiderately, shattering this historic moment that Nami would cherish for a lifetime.

While the old woman and the young girl were having their conversation, she was under immense pressure, silently creating opportunities for them to interact.

"You should leave now, we can handle things here."

Nami realized what was happening and hurriedly urged the Mermaid Mother to leave. The latter nodded and then turned to swim upwards, but was stopped by Kaisa.

"Since that stone is useless now, could you give it to me? Maybe we can make it serve a purpose."

Since Kai'Sa said so, and the Mermaid Mother also gave her the Moonstone, it's better to make the most of it now and squeeze out every last bit of value than to leave it in her hands and let it become a useless stone.

Once Kai'Sa got her hands on the Moonstone, she immediately had Nami protect her while she tried to infuse it with runic power, hoping to see if she could make it shine again.

The idea was good, but as soon as she tried it, she clearly felt a resistance; the world runes were resisting the input of their own energy into the moonstone.

"Is it resisted because it's from outer space? But the essence of the sun and moon is also an important part of Runeterra. As long as I promise that this power can return to the earth and be used to expel the void, there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Kai'Sa reassured the Rune Soul and revealed her intentions. After repeated assurances, the World Rune finally agreed to open its source and allow her to infuse energy into the Moonstone.

Connected to the source of all magic, the small piece of moonstone was instantly filled with it, and white light flowed from its surface, leaving no evil spirit daring to linger in its wake.

The waves of light surged forward, and Kasha, who was closest to the light source, immediately felt a sharp burning pain on her skin and armor. Her body convulsed and contracted uncontrollably, and she couldn't wait to get rid of this hot stone.

Nami screamed in pain, as did the rest of the family. The massive Sephiroth couldn't help but roar in agony, demanding to know what Kaisa was up to all of a sudden.

Similarly, the sinister monsters shrouded in dazzling light convulsed and twitched, the white light merging into their hideous bodies, their cores peeling away and dissipating under the light.

Do void creatures also feel fear? Kai'Sa watched in disbelief as the monsters shrunk into stone eggs and tumbled back to the bottom of the abyss under the influence of gravity, while the moonstone in her hand began to shimmer.

The World Rune added insurance to the Moonstone; this stone is no longer an ever-burning lamp, but a one-time flashbang, so that energy can immediately flow back between heaven and earth.

Although the trial period was compressed to just a few minutes, the light it emitted was hundreds of times brighter than usual, and its lethality against void creatures was also increased by hundreds of times; it could be said that they would die instantly upon exposure to its light.

The light continued to surge, and even with the constant repairs from the Resolute Foundation, Kai'Sa's faceplate, arm armor, and shoulder armor were still melted and destroyed by the light, leaving them broken and revealing her fair skin underneath.

Fortunately, this place was not at the bottom of the abyss, and the water pressure was not too strong, so it did not backfire on me.

“It’s time to end this.” Kasha released the moonstone and threw it into the abyss. The moonlight melted into the abyss like the dawn, dispelling the darkness.

Everyone was captivated by the beautiful sight: like the first ray of sunshine after a storm, or the first hint of spring in the bitter winter.

Darkness retreated steadily, its terrifying tentacles coalescing into a chaotic storm. The out-of-control monsters devoured each other, some consciously merging into the white light, while others struggled to escape.

The beast tide eventually retreated into the depths of the abyss, back to the cursed lands they had occupied. But Kai'Sa did not relax; she knew that as soon as the moonstone lost its power, these fearless monsters would immediately return in waves.

"Syndra!" Kai'Sa arrived above the abyss and stopped in front of Syndra, saying without hesitation, "Quick! Seal the abyss before they surge up!"

Through the bubble, the witch frowned in confusion. "How do you want me to seal it?"

"Just close the crack! You should be able to do that with your abilities."

Syndra fell into deep thought. She had carved out new territories, but she had never stitched them back together before, and she was completely at a loss.

In other words, repairing is much harder than destroying.

"Hurry, I'm begging you!" Kai'Sa urged in her ear. Syndra glanced at the latter; this seemed to be the first time the other had asked her for a favor.

"Well... since you've asked me for help, I'll reluctantly lend you a hand."

Syndra flipped her hand and took out the World Rune. Dense, visible magical power emanated from the purple rune base, swirling around the rune like a fluttering ribbon.

An unstoppable force penetrated her body, and the immense power of the elements surged through her veins. The torrent of energy engulfed her, and her eyes, nose, mouth, and even every pore emitted a blinding light.

Syndra wasn't entirely clueless; the weaver girl who could manipulate rocks was quite skilled at repairs. She had seen Talia's magic, which simply involved using the earth's own power to mold rocks into any shape one desired.

She can tear the earth apart with brute force, but no matter how hard she tries, she can't repair a broken mirror. So she needs to use world runes to communicate with the earth and reshape the terrain, just like Talia did.

Syndra gripped the rune tightly, the surging energy filling her, taking her a step closer to the legendary omniscient and omnipotent ultimate being.

She could clearly sense the pulse of the earth, the ebb and flow of the tides, and even hear the pounding of a heart within the abyss. "You're here, Lin, you're here, I'm here..."