Void Beetle Evolution Guide

Cassiopeia followed and plunged into the sea. The two fought fiercely, causing the sea to boil, giant waves to erupt, and dazzling sword light and dark rays of light seemed to split the sea in two.

After a fierce battle lasting half an hour, Cassiopeia grew stronger with each fight, while Leona gradually showed signs of fatigue. After all, it was nighttime, and her solar power couldn't be replenished; every drop she used was a drop less.

Leona felt increasingly uneasy. Having learned her lesson from last time, why would she engage in such an intense battle at night? She suddenly realized that she had become much more aggressive than usual.

She usually trained with everyone on the mountain, accustomed to the tactics of counter-attacks in formation, and was often accompanied by several Rahoraks, the so-called high-ranking warriors. But now she had come down the mountain alone, recklessly acting in a way that was unlike her usual style.

Is it because she's too eager to find the Celestial Spirit? Or is she just getting overconfident because she now possesses Celestial power? But sunrise is just around the corner, and when the first rays of dawn shine on her, that's when the counterattack will begin.

Leona had doubted herself, and she had doubted the Protoss, but she had never doubted the enemy before her. The power of the Overmind's Foundation was binding the two ends of the thread tightly together. Through the sun, she would find the moon.

The Star Spirit of Blazing Sun thrust its golden longsword forward, the rune-engraved blade creating a fiery afterimage of the same shape in the air. The incandescent flames engulfed the humanoid behemoth before it, and it even began to burn in the seawater.

The nails dug into her flesh like branding irons, and the horrifying pain caused Cassiopeia to scream in agony. Leona felt the cosmic power within her reveling in this person's agony.

It seems there's no need to wait for sunrise. Leona crushed the opponent's skull with her shield, then unleashed another sword strike, piercing from the shoulder and neck down to the pelvis.

The monster was split in two. Leona was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but she didn't see any blood staining the seawater, and there was no one inside that fleshy armor!

At that moment, a deep panic rose in her heart. She turned around in shock, only to see Cassiopeia standing unharmed on the beach, the sand spotless, showing no signs of battle. (The rest of the text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

There were no demons or humanoid monsters at all. From beginning to end, she was fighting her own illusions, not the enemies she perceived, like a clown performing a one-woman show without realizing it.

If it weren't for the approaching dawn and the gradually heating up of the Protoss power within her body, she might not have noticed anything amiss!

Chapter 590 Bright Moon Star Spirit

A deafening gasp drowned out all other sounds. In a daze, Leona thought she saw Cassiopeia open her mouth towards her, but she couldn't decipher what she said from her lip movements. "You Lin want to be in Lin Kong, you Lin are in Lin Kong, are you ...

Dawn was approaching, and she was about to reach her territory, but Leona felt a growing urge to back down. This experience of being manipulated left her feeling uneasy.

Just then, a white beam of light flashed across the sky, and although it only lasted for a moment, Leona still managed to spot it.

“Moonlight…” Leona’s gaze sharpened. She didn’t want to fight anymore, so she made an excuse: “Capturing the traitor is the priority. I’ll let you go this time.”

After saying this, Leona transformed into a streak of light and disappeared after chasing the pillar of light, leaving no chance for her to be exposed, leaving the group looking at each other in bewilderment.

“They ran pretty fast,” Cassiopeia clicked her tongue. The others remained silent, still savoring the bizarre scene they had just witnessed.

"What kind of spell did you cast on her?" Kasha asked.

They saw it all clearly: from the moment Leona was thrown into the sea, she had been fighting against thin air all by herself—it was incredibly eerie. Although they knew it was the Overmind working its magic, putting themselves in her shoes still made them shudder.

"Hehe." Cassiopeia reached out and twirled her hair, giving Kaisa a wicked smile: "Why don't you try it and see?"

No one wants to be made a fool of, so Kai'Sa warned coldly, "Don't let me find out you're misusing runes, or I'll have the Wild Hunt take them back immediately."

"Okay, okay." Cassiopeia wriggled a couple of times in a coquettish manner, her affected voice making Kasha turn her head away in disgust.

"Fine, let's go too."

……

In the Guihai Maru Temple, Laluen watched the entire battle unfold. The strength of Cassiopeia and her group far exceeded her expectations; they had completely outmaneuvered the Celestial Spirit.

Her deliberate act of having Aphelios create a disturbance to lure away the Solari seemed somewhat unnecessary. Even if she did nothing, Leona's defeat was inevitable.

However, this only strengthened her resolve to win over these individuals. How could such a powerful group not be used by the Crescent Moon Cult? Thus, she turned her attention to the Crescent Moon Celestials, preparing to set the wheels of fate in motion.

……

Nighttime was always Diana's favorite time of day, from a young age. As a child, she often climbed over the high walls of the Temple of the Sun to watch the moon drift through a sea of ​​stars.

She looked up at the sky beyond the forest canopy, her purple eyes searching for the silver moon, but she could only see a hazy halo behind the branches and dense clouds. Since leaving Mount Targon, she hadn't been able to see a clear night sky very often.

After making such a huge blunder, there was no place for Diana on Mount Targon. She was forced to descend the mountain and wander aimlessly, following the moon's shadow in search of her destiny.

The woods grew denser and denser, the dark tree trunks covered in moss, their branches twisting like arms reaching for the sky. She could no longer see the path ahead, only rows of wild grass and jagged thorns.

The night wind rustled the thorns against her streamlined armor. Diana closed her eyes, feeling a memory stirring within her.

A memory, but one she never experienced herself. It was something else entirely, a fragmentary remnant of the celestial spirit residing within her.

When she opened her eyes again, a shimmering forest scene overlapped with the dense forest before her. She saw the same trees, but from a different time. The forest in her memory was young, laden with fruit, the forest paths were bathed in sunlight, and wildflowers dotted the roadside.

Diana grew up in the desolate landscape of Mount Targon and had never seen a forest like this. She knew the scene before her was a memory from ancient times, but the scent of honeysuckle and jasmine was as real as anything she had ever experienced.

“Thank you,” she murmured, continuing along the ancient path, a path still etched in her memory. Since becoming a Protoss, these hazy visions and glimpses of ancient knowledge would occasionally surface, urging Diana to achieve some grand goal.

Diana followed the ancient path past a grove of thick, dead trees, long since withered. She then climbed a rocky plateau, passed several clumps of twisted pines and firs, crossed a mountain stream, and meandered around steep slopes until she finally arrived at a rocky plateau overlooking a vast, cold lake.

In the center of the plateau was a circular megalithic structure, each stone engraved with spiraling arcs. Diana saw the same runes on every stone, identical to the glowing runes on her forehead, and she knew she had reached her destination.

To her surprise, someone had already arrived at this desolate and remote place. The group of seven didn't look like natives of Mount Targon, nor did they appear to be bandits or pilgrims.

Diana's gaze searched for a moment before finally settling on the leading figure. The two alien carapace-like structures extending from the back of the other person's shoulders sent a tingling sensation through her skin, and a premonition of heat welled up within her.

At the same time, Kasha on Stonehenge felt a stinging sensation on her armor. She looked up and met Diana's gaze on the distant platform. Diana's hostile eyes made her blood rush and instantly prepared her for battle.

The force of a thousand pounds is broken in an instant, and the speed of tearing through the sky is achieved in a single kick.

In a mere instant, the motionless figure traversed a distance of over a hundred meters. Diana drew her scimitar, transforming into a streak of white light as she swooped down, crashing onto the megalithic formation. Kasha dodged aside, the impact of which caused countless cracks to appear in the frozen lake.

As the distance closed, Diana sensed an ancient hostility from Kaisa's purple armor, which resembled bruises and bloodstains. The spirit residing within her was suddenly activated, and her mind was filled with an undying hatred from a distant era.

Many ancient battles flashed before my eyes, so brutal that they almost wiped out the entire world. The culprits were these purple creatures, whose bodies emanated pure energy from another dimension.

"You are... a dinosaur!" She seemed to have found her destiny, shouting the sacred incantation of the Lunari. The gleaming scimitar ignited with a white-hot light, drawing a crescent-shaped arc as it rushed towards Kai'Sa's neck carapace.

"Wait, we're not the enemy!" Kai'Sa dodged behind Diana to avoid the fatal sweep. The Moonblade in Diana's hand made her realize that the attacker in front of her was the Lunar Spirit they were looking for, but this hostility made her feel quite troubled.

Judging from the fact that moonstones can suppress void creatures and that Diana collects abyssal pearls every hundred years, Diana should also play the role of a void hunter, just like her.

They should have been on the same path, but because Kai'Sa didn't want to reduce the performance of her skin armor and didn't transform like the others, she kept the original appearance of her skin armor, which caused Diana to misunderstand her and start the fight with zero frames.

Chapter 591 Evil Beast Intrusion

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Diana seemed convinced that the person in front of her was an enemy, and didn't stop her attack just because Kai'Sa spoke. Kai'Sa didn't want to fight her, but her constant dodging allowed Diana to point her Moonsword at the others.

Kasha caught up from behind and grabbed Diana's wrist, which was holding the knife. Diana felt a strong, iron grip pulling her head back. She threw a punch, but it was caught firmly by a sharp claw. After struggling for a few moments and finding it futile, she was forced to meet the gaze of three narrow eyes.

The helmet split open on both sides, revealing a cold face. Kasha said in a low voice, "I'm warning you, I don't want to fight you, but if you insist on being my enemy, my claws won't be out of the question."

"Monster!" Diana was impulsive and easily angered. Even though Kai'Sa had shown her human side, the threat made her facial muscles twitch uncontrollably, her lips clenching into a grimace revealing her pale teeth. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the initial statement.)

A pale orb rose between the two, and Kai'Sa immediately kicked out, stepping on Diana's raised knee. Using the force of the knee strike and the orb's explosion, she gracefully somersaulted backward to create distance.

Like a waterfall, moonlight poured out from the explosion, falling on Diana and forming a thin, transparent robe. Then, it transformed into an unstoppable white light and charged forward, even faster than Leona.

This time, Kasha didn't back down; instead, she charged towards Diana. The two passed each other, a strand of purple hair falling down. Diana thought she had the victory in the bag, but suddenly felt a warm sensation on her face.

She reached up and touched her cheek, immediately staining her glove with crimson. Kasha had only had a few strands of hair cut off, but the only part of her body not covered by armor was injured.

Diana couldn't understand how she had been injured while enveloped by the Pale Falls. Recalling that fleeting moment when they passed each other, she remembered that Kai'Sa's claws seemed to be coated with a venomous purple light; it was that substance that had corroded her protective layer.

The crimson blood falling onto Stonehenge actually calmed Diana down. It wasn't that she admitted defeat in their previous exchange, but rather that a greater sense of crisis gripped her.

The two of them stopped fighting and stepped back, scanning their surroundings for signs of danger. It seemed that some unseen force was drawn by the blood and was quietly growing.

The next moment, the space between them was torn apart, the air was compressed and deformed, and a large number of monsters roared and burst out from the cracks, like pearls poured into a plate, instantly occupying the center of Stonehenge!

These monsters had waxy white skin, as if they had just been born. You could vaguely see their beating hearts between their ribs. They were covered with a sticky placenta, but their sharp teeth and claws were already aimed at them.

"Void/Terror Beast!" The two sides had different perceptions of these monsters, but the only thing they had in common was that they both regarded the monsters as enemies.

Screams rang in her ears, but Diana had no time to pay attention to anyone else, as she was surrounded by a dense horde of monsters.

She swooped down diagonally, only to have a gaping maw of sharp teeth bite through empty air. At the same time, she drew her sword and retaliated, slicing through the first monster's thick skull in an arc above her head, cutting it to the shoulder.

The monster fell, and its flesh immediately began to reveal its true form, turning into a puddle of bubbling black mud, which was then trampled over by the claws of its own kind.

They pounced again, attacking simultaneously from multiple directions. Exposed to the air, their flesh gradually darkened, turning a purplish-blue bruise, and they hissed with hostility from another world.

But the monster had already tasted her blood, awakening the hunger of its predators. Its body had now turned completely black, gleaming with a malevolent purple light.

The claws extended fully, transforming into a fan-shaped structure of hooks and blades. The flesh and blood of the otherworld flowed like hot wax, closing the wound she had just inflicted.

Diana leaped above the monster on the left, her scimitar blazing with white-hot light. A new moon rose, and the monster beneath her blade exploded from within, its newly formed flesh turning to dust under the power of the moon blade.

Upon landing, she was immediately attacked by a monster and thrown to the side. A pale waterfall descended upon her, but razor-sharp, venomous claws still pierced through her steel shoulder guards, dragging her haphazardly.

In an instant, several monsters pounced on her at the same time, each biting one of her limbs, seemingly determined to tear Diana apart.

Diana hid her head under the belly of one of the monsters to protect her weak point, but the next second the monster's chest opened up, revealing sensory organs covered in mucus and hooked teeth.

Just as the gaping maw was about to fall, a plasma missile struck the monster that was biting her arm, opening a hole in its chest, and she was able to pull her arm out.

Diana flipped the hilt, holding the knife like a dagger, and plunged it deep into the monster's body. The monster howled and opened its massive jaws, black pus flowing from its body.

She rolled away to atop the boulder, the pain in her shoulder spreading throughout her body, a numbing chill seeping from her wound. Fortunately, the monsters couldn't climb up for the time being. Panting, she looked at the others.

To Diana's astonishment, the person who had previously fought against her was now moving with ease among the beasts, his clean and swift movements a textbook example of on-the-spot reaction, leaving her completely mesmerized.

Kasha's proficiency in dealing with these monsters was far beyond what a novice like her could achieve. She was merely charging around recklessly with her divine power, while her opponents not only surpassed her in stats but also employed numerous techniques, leaving Kasha feeling ashamed of herself.

Kasha held off most of the monsters by herself, while the rest of the group stood back to back, seemingly without any pressure.

One of the white-haired women floated in mid-air, surrounded by three magic orbs, which were pitch black and seemed to devour all the light around them.

Under Syndra's control, these orbs expanded rapidly, transforming into gravitational black holes that sucked the monsters on the ground into the air.

However, this gravitational pull also caused the boulder beneath Diana's feet to shake, and she immediately shouted to stop it: "Don't destroy the altar, or even more monsters will come out!"

Syndra glanced at her with some skepticism, and did not intensify the gravity further. The monsters that should have been crushed were instead held in mid-air.

Now it was her turn to make her move. Diana stretched out her knife-wielding hand to the side, the dark clouds in the sky began to disperse, and a beam of bright moonlight shone down.

The scimitar drew energy from the moonlight, its blade blazing with a bright light. Diana, with the deadly force of an executioner, swept out a blade accompanied by the light of the night sky, cleaving through bones and tendons.

Moonlight streamed from the tip of the blade, and with the explosion of white light, the monster's body was torn to pieces, turning to ashes under her powerful strike, as if purified and merging into the night.

Only they remained on the platform. Diana knelt on one knee, her chest heaving as she gasped for breath. The divine power she had merged with at the summit of the giant peak had begun to dissipate, withdrawing from her body.

Chapter 592 Wishes Come True

After the power of the astral planes faded, it left Diana with a lingering echo of an ancient memory.

A bustling, vibrant town appeared before her eyes, perfectly coinciding with the empty plateau. As she mourned, the imagery faded, and she was Diana again.

After the monsters vanished, silver patterns appeared on the boulders within the circular array. They had been freed from the source of hatred on the other side of the veil and now began to emanate healing power.

Diana walked to the center of the Stonehenge circle, knelt on one knee with the tip of her knife against the ground and the hilt guard against her cheek, and chanted a spell in an ancient language.

The pale moonlight pierced through the clouds, reflecting off the blade and making it sparkle like diamonds. Diana felt this power permeate the entire wilderness, seeping into the rocks, seeping into the very skeleton of the world.

“The night ritual is complete,” she said. “This path is now closed.”

"You can seal these void rifts?" Kai'Sa was immediately taken aback, as if she had discovered something extraordinary.

“It’s the function of these megalithic structures that I don’t quite understand the principles behind them.” Diana hesitated for a moment, but then put aside her hostility.

"It's alright, as long as there's a way."

Kasha suppressed her joy, trying her best not to show it on her face. This way, the abyss at the bottom of the sea could be sealed. But if Diana had gone down and sealed it directly, wouldn't the Moonstone have been unnecessary?

Just as she was lost in thought, Nami walked past her, quickly approached Diana, and asked with hopeful eyes, "Moon Spirit! Do you remember your promise to the Merfolk?"

"What agreement..." Diana hesitated. Having grown up on the sacred mountain, she had only heard of merfolk in legends and had never seen one, let alone any agreement.

"It's the agreement to exchange Abyss Pearls for Moonstones every hundred years! Now that the hundred-year period has arrived, and I've brought the pearls as agreed, shouldn't you give me the Moonstones now?"

Nami took out the dark purple pearl, and Diana's gaze fell upon it. An ancient afterimage immediately flashed through her mind. She instantly understood the so-called agreement and the important role of the moonstone.

“I remember now, there was indeed such an agreement, but…” Diana looked away and said softly, “I’m sorry, I don’t have any moonstones to give you right now.”

She had only been a Moon Spirit for a short time and had been constantly on the run from pursuers. Without the help of the Moon Cult, she didn't even know her own destiny and could only fumble her way forward through fragmented memories of ancient times.

If Nami and the others hadn't come to her personally, she might never have known about this memory, let alone foreseen bringing the moonstone down from the mountaintop.

"How could this be..." Nami was stunned, then asked unwillingly, "Do you have a way to go to the bottom of the ocean and seal the passage?"

"Let's leave here first, lest Leona chase after us."

"Well... okay." (You Lin, I Lin Lin, Lin is empty, you Lin is here, not here...)

At Diana's suggestion, the group left the plateau and ventured into the dense woods, arriving at a secluded alcove.

Moonlight spilled onto the wall, revealing a magnificent scene: soldiers in golden armor and those in silver armor stood together, corresponding to the sun and the moon, appearing together atop Mount Targon.

Diana looked at the scene and sighed deeply, but she didn't have the idea of ​​confiding in these strangers yet. She turned to them and said, "This place is safe. You can talk here."

Upon hearing this, Nami, eager to save lives, immediately explained to Diana how terrifying the monsters at the bottom of the abyss were and how urgent the situation was. After thinking for a moment, Diana gave her a reply.

"So you call those things the void?" she said in a deep voice. "There should be a way to seal them, but moonstones are indispensable. Moonlight cannot directly shine into the bottom of the abyss, so it can only be stored in moonstones and taken down with it."

"Can't you use magic to conjure moonstones?" Nami asked anxiously.