Void Beetle Evolution Guide

The sword hilt in her palm was slightly hot. She realized that this couldn't go on. But unlike the spirits of the sun, moon, and stars, she couldn't rely on the radiance of the heavens. All she could rely on was the justice in her heart, her belief in justice, and her determination to defeat evil.

Driven by her conviction, Kyle flew straight into the air, pursued relentlessly by a swarm of flying insects whose flapping wings were deafening and whose sharp mouthparts almost touched her wings.

Kyle abruptly stopped mid-air, turning to face her pursuers, raising her twin swords overhead with a reverse grip. In an instant, thousands of burning sword shadows erupted from her body, hanging like stars in the inky night sky, each blade gleaming with intense golden light, the holy fire dancing on its surfaces scorching the air. The burning swords were aimed downwards, intending to thoroughly cleanse the eroded pit.

A barrier formed purely of holy light instantly enveloped her, turning her into a ball of light. Flying insects rushed towards her one after another, but they couldn't even stir up a ripple in the barrier. Instead, they burst into flames, emitting black smoke as they fell to the ground.

The angel's eyes burned, her flickering, heavy gaze radiating an unyielding fury. Her glory was both beautiful and terrifying, surrounded by countless sword shadows that set the entire night sky ablaze.

As Kyle's earth-shattering shouts echoed, a rain of burning swords rained down, pinning countless monsters to the ground and igniting the bizarre giant carpet of the void, turning it into a sea of ​​infernal fire, with the sounds of exploding carapaces rising and falling.

Looking at his masterpiece, Kyle felt no satisfaction; instead, his gaze froze.

She did ignite a sea of ​​fire, but in the grand scheme of the entire Pale Purple Sea, it was merely a tiny, insignificant fire that failed to create even the slightest ripple.

The area engulfed by flames was just the tip of the iceberg; more swarms of insects were pouring in from the untouched darkness, stepping over the corpses of their comrades and filling the gaps on the battlefield in the blink of an eye.

Her gaze was suddenly drawn to a precipice. The pale purple sea was actually a hidden world, with a wider rift valley below the precipice, and deep pits within deep pits.

The rock face was riddled with enormous holes, tunnels for the void creatures. They poured out of the rock face in an endless stream, rushing to the battlefield like a swarm of ants, impossible to kill or annihilate, as if the rock face held an inexhaustible darkness.

"No wonder these monsters are endless. The reason why Bervis dares to wage a war of attrition is the countless regeneration pools in the void beneath Shurima. These regeneration pools are like Void barracks, constantly producing Void creatures. A typical regeneration pool can produce hundreds of Void creatures per minute, while thousands upon thousands of regeneration pools produce millions of monsters—with so many regeneration pools, she can completely wear us down forever!"

"How can we resist a torrent formed by the convergence of tens of thousands of streams?" Kyle didn't understand what this meant, but after Wild Hunt saw everything through her vision, his solemn voice resounded directly in her mind, making her deeply aware of the terror she was facing.

"Is that all there is to it?" Wild Hunt sighed.

"Is this all... alright?" Kyle's grip on her sword tightened slightly, causing the sacred flame to tremble. The swarm of insects before her seemed endless; she couldn't imagine anything worse.

“From our perspective, we launched the attack and gained the upper hand,” the Wild Hunt’s voice was chilling. “But if we look at it from a temporal perspective, Bervis began preparing thousands of years ago and gained the upper hand.”

"Before she was even born, she had already amassed a swarm of trillions of insects. If the space of the Pale Purple Sea hadn't been too small to contain so many monsters, we would be facing a swarm of insects that would be taller than Mount Targon. An army like that could destroy the entire Runeterra with ease. In the face of such a massive scale, the size of the numbers is no longer of any significance."

"So what we face is never a torrent formed by the confluence of tens of thousands of streams..." Kyle's voice was hoarse as the image of the boundless swarm of insects appeared in his mind, "but rather a vast ocean formed by tens of thousands of streams over thousands of years."

Wild Hunt remained silent, while Kyle froze in mid-air, the temperature of the holy light barrier around him seemingly dropping.

Looking down at the swarming insects still emerging below, she suddenly felt like a faint campfire in the cold night.

Even if it burned brightly, it was nothing more than a fleeting spark in the face of that purple ocean that had stretched for thousands of years, unable to transmit even a trace of warmth, let alone illuminate anything.

With just a small wave crashing on her, she would be gone in the blink of an eye.

"Do you need me to help you push down that cliff?" Syndra's fingertips flowed with magic. Hearing the Wild Hunt's in-game voice chat, she looked up at the cliff in the distance that was constantly spewing out swarms of insects.

Although her magic was inexhaustible, she didn't want to waste any more time in the Pale Purple Sea, watching the black-purple swarm repeatedly wash over her. She wanted a swift victory, and that cliff might be the key to changing the situation, making her impatient. No one but her could easily accomplish this.

“It’s worth a try.” Wild Hunt’s reply was brief, which made Syndra raise an eyebrow, her slight displeasure almost overflowing, but now was not the time to dwell on such things.

She didn't say much in the end, but simply snorted and summoned a spell rune. Purple magical energy spread out like a tide, enveloping her in a distorted elemental aura.

Syndra closed her eyes, letting her consciousness spread throughout the world. What ordinary people saw as a cliff riddled with void tunnels and gnawed by swarms of insects, was simplified in her elemental vision to a stack of elemental blocks, seemingly ready to collapse at the slightest push. "You're not free, are you? Lin is here, are you here...?"

She slowly pressed down with both arms, as if suppressing the entire cliff from afar. Instantly, spiderweb-like cracks appeared all over the rock face, eerily glowing within them. These flowing torrents of elements caused the entire cliff to tremble violently. Large chunks of rock crumbled and crashed into the abyss below, while the tunnels from which swarms of insects had been constantly emerging were buried by the collapsing rocks.

With a muffled roar, the entire cliff collapsed completely. Without hesitation, Syndra further compressed the collapsing rock, causing the underground bedrock to rise and coalesce, melting everything into a scalding liquid that formed a mudslide tsunami that met the waterfall of rubble.

The millions of tons of debris from the collapsed cliff have been transformed into a counter-current wave. The swirling, meandering patterns on its surface feel smooth and warm to the touch, like half-mixed paint on a painter's palette. The fused material is so seamless that it doesn't resemble a single piece of stone at all; every undulation at its edges looks like a wave frozen in mid-air.

Chapter 704 Lissandra's Bet

After Syndra raised her hand and smoothed out the cliff that was constantly spewing out mutated insects, the rampant insect swarm was indeed brought under control.

The pressure on them lessened dramatically, and the sand soldiers pushed their lines outward, expanding their territory by dozens of miles in this eerily glowing, pale purple sea.

However, in the eyes of the Wild Hunt, this was merely a brief respite.

Once the war machine is started, it will not stop easily. As long as Queen Bervis of the Void lives, this war, which threatens to destroy the world, will never end.

Wild Hunt knew that pushing down the cliff wouldn't be very effective; his reason for agreeing to Syndra's request was actually to try and provoke Bervis. But judging from the current results, Bervis hasn't fallen for his trick.

Piervis was rational; as long as she remained determined to stay hidden, she would be invincible. The endless swarm of insects would eventually outlast everyone.

Moreover, they can still escape even after stirring up a hornet's nest. If they dare to flee the Pale Purple Sea and allow the swarm to multiply unchecked, within a month, the insect tide will sweep across Runeterra like a plague, devouring all life and turning it into a gray, saline wasteland.

Want to spare manpower to seal the Regeneration Pool? That's even more impossible. You Yong doesn't have it, Lin Kong, you Lin Zaizai don't have it either...

The source of the swarm has long been deeply embedded like a poisonous root in the ravines and gullies of Shurima's underworld. The numerous regeneration pools are hidden in the shadows, and they are struggling to even kill the swarm head-on, let alone spare the manpower to seal the source. Even if they could free up manpower, it would probably take centuries to seal all those wormholes.

Moreover, the Void Queen is lurking in the shadows, watching their every weakness like a hungry tiger; the slightest distraction could lead to their annihilation.

From the very first moment this battle began, they were already in a predicament.

Fortunately, the Wild Hunt had prepared rune bombs as a way to break the deadlock. If all else fails, he can also overturn the table and wipe out this life-devouring pale purple sea, along with the Void Queen hiding within it.

Soon, the swarm's revenge came.

A swarm of enormous Exys—"Sand Piercers"—suddenly burst through the slope built by Syndra. Each of their eight eyes was topped with a sharp horn, which used its horn, which possessed some of the power to tear through space, to dig out tunnels and release the restless swarm of insects from the ground.

These volatile creatures would normally not allow other void creatures to approach them, but under the suppression of the swarm's will, they did not engage in battle with the rustling swarm around them, but instead obediently acted as excavators.

The earth trembled once more. Wild Hunt asked Syndra, but she said she hadn't started repairing it yet.

Before long, one after another, sand dunes moved forward, or rather... a tsunami composed entirely of sand and gravel burst out from the slope.

The sand dunes rose suddenly like a tsunami crashing onto the shore, and after being hundreds of meters high, they shed their sand and revealed their true form—the ultimate adult form of the Exeed, a terrifying existence known as the King of Kings among the earth-burrowing beasts!

Some of them look like crabs, while others resemble two-legged giant lizards, but without exception, they are all genuine kings in strength, each a formidable enemy capable of ruling over a vast desert and turning it into a forbidden zone for life!

The kings, with their stronger territorial instincts, would kill all Exiels within their territories except for the larvae. However, this time, they not only ignored the surrounding Sand Piercing Horns but also showed no hostility towards each other. One by one, they were as obedient as vassal kings coming to pay homage to the Void Queen, submitting to the supreme will of Bervis and digging new passages for the swarming army of the Pale Purple Sea.

If Rek'Sai, the Queen of the Burrowing Beasts, hadn't been killed by Kai'Sa and the Wild Hunt on the eve of the Empress's birth, she would probably be here now, offering her loyalty.

Besides the Exyser, who had long since separated and formed their own race, ordinary void creatures such as burrowing worms also kept emerging from the slope. They were completely unrelated, but they all shared a common goal: to bring destruction to the creatures on the ground. Now, the Queen had allowed them to come out and carry out their grand ambitions.

No one would agree to this new reinforcement joining the battlefield, so Azir simply used the sand brought by the kings to summon sand soldiers on the spot to block the entrance of the cave and stab them with spears to stop the swarm of insects pouring out of the cave like water.

The Abyssal Calamity Sephira's eyes lit up instantly; it had finally spotted a formidable opponent. With a roar, it pounced off the Royal Palace. For a thousand-meter-long demonized sea dragon, bullying these mere hundred-meter-long sandbags was a piece of cake.

Previously, she couldn't touch the giant jellyfish and starfish that could fly, and she rejected the thousand-limbed slugs because she hated mollusks and found them too disgusting. Now, these Sand Kings were perfect for her to vent her frustrations on. She had also heard from Kai'Sa that the ability of the skin armor to travel through space was evolved from killing an Exy Queen, which gave her an unprecedented drive, making her eager to disembowel them.

Seeing Sephiroth return to the battlefield to fight the desert kings, Portil was unwilling to lag behind. However, before disembarking, she mustered her courage and said something to Lissandra's retreating figure, who was still observing the situation.

"Chieftain, don't you understand yet? We have no way out in this battle. If you continue to stand idly by, even without the Watchers' intervention, Bervis will destroy the world, and we will all be buried forever along with those secrets." With these words, Portil transformed into an ice dragon and went to seal the cave entrance.

The tall female clan leader exhaled a chilling breath from her black lips. Although she had not yet met the Void Queen, she already knew from the Zerg army under the Queen's control that the Queen was someone she could not possibly defeat.

Piervis may not be as powerful as the Watcher, but she is more cunning, understands the world better, and has learned from the Watcher's failures and is well-prepared.

If such a formidable enemy were to escape from the Pale Purple Sea, there would be no way I could trap Bervis like I had set a trap eight thousand years ago to trap the Watcher who was undergoing a dramatic change.

The best course of action is to eliminate Bervis here, solidify relations with these allies as much as possible, and then turn around to deal with the Watchers together. As for the Storm Bear's hostility, we can only pray that he doesn't discover the fortress's weaknesses.

"Wild Hunt, open the portal," Lissandra said.

"Hmph, so you're finally going to place your bets, huh?"

Wild Hunt opened a portal at the foot of the hill leading to the Frostguard Vault, as if opening a gate to an icy world, from which a group of Frozen Slaves emerged one after another.

Their outlines were blurred by the frost, and although they had the form of trolls, they were essentially no different from void creatures.

The troll's original enormous, ugly nose was gone, and its eyes merged into a single, massive, azure eye, deeply embedded above its mouth. Its messy hair turned white and swirled in the wind, and enormous ice horns grew from the sides of its head, its fangs as long as bull horns, and glowing ice crystals pierced its body, creating a striking contrast with its dark skin.

The female chieftain gave the order, and as soon as these monsters appeared, they unleashed cleaving rays from their single, enormous eyes, frantically sweeping across the slope before them. Tens of thousands of beams of light swept back and forth across the battlefield, and whether they were void creatures or rock soldiers, the parts struck by the rays melted like wax the instant they came into contact with them.

Under the overwhelming firepower, the Zerg reinforcements were unable to show themselves, and the situation stabilized again.

However, what no one knew was that it was the appearance of this army of slave demons that made the Void Queen, who was hiding in the shadows, feel a threat from the watcher, and finally decided to take action herself.

Chapter 705 The Empress Appears

The teddy bear with seagull wings led Kasha to a wall made of countless arms. She remembered this place; the Queen had waited for her "audience" behind this "screen" before.

Kasha paused briefly in front of the wall, and the charred, withered arms on the wall immediately began to stir. They sensed the presence of a living being, but could not reach their target so close at hand, and could only wave wildly in the air, their fingertips making a piercing scratching sound.

In the chaos, several arms entangled the teddy bear and began tearing at it frantically. First, they ripped off the already rotten seagull wings, then emptied the cotton wool like entrails, and finally crushed the bear's body into a tattered ball of cotton wool.

After satisfying her destructive desires, the walls formed by limbs slowly opened to the sides, revealing a corridor bathed in the glow of sunset. At the end of the corridor was an archway, and a figure in a long robe stood backlit beneath it, waiting for her. (The last two lines are a poetic expression and don't directly relate to the preceding text.)

“Belvis…” Kasha gritted her teeth, practically forcing the name out. Her fingers unconsciously clenched into a fist, and she took two steps forward with an instinctive aggression. The wall of limbs closed behind her again. She glanced back, and when she turned back, her gaze was fixed on the figure.

"Kasha—" the other person spoke, her tone still as calm as still water, devoid of joy or sorrow, as if nothing in the world could stir her emotions. She was truly a formidable opponent.

She turned and walked toward Kasha, as numerous strange creatures bowed respectfully to her along the way. They had no concept of etiquette; they simply obeyed the Queen's will.

The empress's appearance gradually overlapped with the image in Kasha's mind: a deathly pale complexion, a bald head with a touch of feminine softness, and a vertical pupil embedded in the center of her forehead. The fabric that appeared to be a robe was actually fleshy wings tightly wrapped around her entire body. Most eerie of all was her voice; her mouth movements and words were constantly out of sync, her thin lips opening and closing meaninglessly, the sound never actually coming from her throat.

Kaisa felt disgusted that a monster that eats people had to pretend to be human.

“Kasha,” the monster spoke again, “you have disappointed me.”

"Disappointed? Great." Kasha shrugged and replied with a cold laugh, "You said you'd give me time to deal with the Watchers and allow me to find help. I've simply used this time reasonably, how am I disappointing you?"

Kasha wanted to see any look of displeasure on Piervis's face, but she didn't.

"What disappoints me is that you could have joined us with your pledge of loyalty and secured a place in this Pale Purple Sea. Instead, you chose the most foolish path, openly challenging my authority."

"Is it just a provocation?" Kai'Sa managed to squeeze out a question through the echoing wall of sound.

“Yes.” Piervis lightly flapped its wings, completely unconcerned about Kasha’s anger.

"I'm here to kill you!" The armor rapidly heated up, it was warming up, and the fighting spirit was burning hot.

“You cannot,” the many voices of Bervis answered in unison. “You are powerless to put up even the slightest resistance. I have been watching you all along, and even now you cannot harm me in the slightest. These heroes you brought, wielding weapons they thought were enough to repel the void, have ultimately become nothing more than food for me. The remaining fragments… if they can even survive, they will become the salt of this pale purple sea.”

"Don't try to fool me!" Kasha refused to believe it. Six wriggling human arms emerged from the wall behind her, aiming straight for her back. Kasha was prepared and easily dodged to the side. She would never again be fooled by such a despicable trick.

She charged forward, simultaneously unleashing a barrage of missiles. The Queen spread her wings, and scorching purple plasma roared and splashed. Beams that could once tear apart void creatures struck Bervis's translucent skin, writhing wildly, while others were swallowed by the fangs and maws on her chest. Layers of flesh contracted, revealing an interwoven web of light within, from which dazzling purple light surged.

Kaisa wasn't surprised that the plasma bomb was ineffective, because it was just a feint; her real purpose was to transform Bervis and expose the core inside the exit!

The instant she saw the throat, Kai'Sa immediately slowed the flow of time, her body strengthened by pure runic power. The heat-dissipating armor on her outer thighs snapped open, and a blade spun in her palm, imbued with void energy. She unleashed unprecedented speed, ignoring the excruciating pain of her muscles being torn apart, transforming into a streak of purple lightning. The surrounding scenery, along with herself, was stretched into lines. Her relentless sprint over the years was all for the sake of delivering this blade into Bervis's chest!

However, just before the attack was about to hit, the Queen's figure disappeared from being motionless into a wisp of smoke, and then instantly reappeared in Kai'Sa's path. With what seemed like a light wave of her hand, she directly sent Kai'Sa flying, leaving a scratch mark more than twenty meters long on the ground.

Kasha lay on the ground, both shocked and furious. She couldn't understand why, even though she was so much faster than before, she still couldn't see the other person's movements!

"You still harbor delusions? Then I'll have to prove to you that your resistance is futile." The Queen appeared before Kai'Sa, the sharp tips of her fleshy wings piercing Kai'Sa's chest and lifting her off the ground. Kai'Sa fought back desperately, but to no avail.

"Daughter of the Void, you are merely a pawn, yet you dare to dream of leaping off the board. But it is no use; I will place you back in your original position." Bervis's illusory eye looked at Kai'Sa, his expression cold and resolute, his determination unwavering.

A ruthless determination suddenly crashed into Kaisa's senses, and her entire body trembled violently with fear—Bervis actually wanted to invade her mind and establish a mental link with her, just like the Wild Hunt had done before!

"You must guard your mind, Kasha! Bervis's head contains the collective wisdom of a million people. If she breaks in, those voices will instantly overwhelm your consciousness!" In this critical moment, the Wild Hunt concentrated all its will to resist Bervis's invasion alongside Kasha.

Piervis's will is more terrifying than the swarms of insects in reality. Her mental space doesn't follow the laws of reality; it's a battle of pure mental strength and willpower. Having devoured the memories of millions, she has already honed this realm to a chilling level.

All the people and events that existed in this ancient city provided her with countless memories and experiences. Every hero who was devoured became an instantaneous reaction in her neural synapses, giving her a significant advantage in the mental battle.

Before Kai'Sa could even blink, Bervis had already found countless loopholes in Kai'Sa's will defenses with his terrifying thinking and reaction speed—it turned out that what Kai'Sa feared most was not the world behind her being swallowed by the Void, nor losing everything she had gained along the way, but rather never having possessed this Void Armor.

As the Queen abruptly uttered the name "Wild Hunt," Kai'Sa's pupils instantly contracted, overwhelmed by boundless fear.

Chapter 706 Kaisa's Weakness

Piervis's words struck Kaisa like a thunderbolt. She knew of the Wild Hunt's existence, which wasn't surprising. But to pronounce the name "Wild Hunt" so precisely was highly unusual!

She didn't understand... she couldn't comprehend... how did Pierreves know the Wild Hunt's name? Did she really extract the memory from her mind so easily?!

A terrifying thought suddenly crashed into her mind. Kasha remembered that those whose memories had been extracted by Bervis had all become empty shells, unable to respond to the outside world, just like Uma… Didn’t that mean—

"No!" Kai'Sa screamed inwardly, "I don't want to become an empty shell! And I don't want to forget the Wild Hunt!"

Her trembling pupils reflected Bervis's silhouette; the Queen of the Void still gazed at her with those false eyes. Her gaze, like the sharpest probe, easily pierced her flesh, drilled into her heart, dissecting her surging fear, despair, and resentment, categorizing and dissecting them, to create eternal specimens for her perpetual contemplation.

This direct, penetrating gaze sent chills down Kai'Sa's spine, a stench of decay seeping into her very bones. And Bervis's next move utterly terrified her.

One wingtip remained embedded in Kassa's chest, suspending her in mid-air, while the other wingtip slowly rose, its sharp edge aimed at the center of her chest. The intention was clear: to slit open the armor and peel away this symbiotic armor from her body.

"No...you can't..."

Kasha struggled incoherently, flailing her arms and legs, but when her fingertips touched Bervis's fleshy wings, it was as if she had hit an incredibly dense block of iron, not even causing a tremor.

Piervis's movements did not falter in the slightest. The sharpness of his wingtips surpassed that of any known material in the world, slicing through her skin without the slightest resistance, and without even causing Kasha a single pain—until that thin line of blood slowly seeped from her breastbone to her lower abdomen, she belatedly felt a chilling sensation.

Piervis could clearly peel off the skin armor without harming Kaisa, but she felt it unnecessary. She was interested in the skin armor itself; as for Kaisa… a disobedient host had no value whatsoever.

"You are alive because of my permission," the Queen's human head uttered in a deep and insatiable voice. "Now you should also realize the consequences of disobeying me."

"..."

Kaisa opened her mouth, but no sound came out; something seemed to be weighing heavily on her heart. The spray pods began to heat up, and Kaisa tried desperately to control herself, to look away from Bervis, but her gaze only lingered deeper and deeper in the Queen's glowing pseudo-eyes.

Even when she was still that helpless little girl; even when she was sacrificed to the Queen by Malzahar and fell into the deep pit; even when she watched the hungry Voidlings swarm around and devour the mountain of corpses beneath her; even when she saw her friend whose memories had been taken away and who had become an empty shell, quietly waiting to die... she had never been so afraid.

Because even in that terrible moment, the Wild Hunt was there for her, rescuing her from dire straits. But now, Bervis wants to take not only her life, but also the Wild Hunt itself, and completely drain all her memories of him, leaving nothing behind!

For Kai'Sa, this kind of "death" was a thousand times more terrifying than having her bones and marrow removed.