Void Beetle Evolution Guide

The tornado and the black star rotated in opposite directions, and even before they made contact, they were already violently tearing each other apart. Gale-force winds howled, and lightning flashed. They devoured each other, colliding like the poles of a magnet, the resulting powerful shockwaves sweeping across the entire pale purple sea, even shattering the glow of the sunset in the sky.

But the tornado quickly fell below, carrying the Void Gate with it. With each rotation, it spawned terrifying minions that polluted reality—a "creation" with a destructive purpose. Syndra's Black Star, on the other hand, was pure nothingness, a total annihilation capable of obliterating even light and matter, leaving no trace of its existence.

One enters and one exits, one is born and one dies, destined for the tornado to be swallowed by the black hole.

The tornado's walls gradually crumbled under the gravitational pull of the black star, cracking open like fragile cardboard. The void monsters still struggling in mid-air were instantly gripped by an invisible force, dragged towards the black hole like puppets with broken strings.

Their shells gradually shattered under the tearing force of gravity, and the matter that made up their bodies collapsed under pressure strong enough to crush steel, eventually turning into clusters of scorching light particles that exploded with a series of booms at the edge of the black hole, leaving not a single fragment behind.

The nightmarish ball of light within the storm finally revealed its true form—an octagonal sphere, composed of an unknown material, pulsating powerfully like a heart. Its surface was riddled with holes of varying sizes, within which surged a torrent of liquid energy, reflecting ripples from another dimension.

It turns out that all these holes are regeneration pools! They are combined in such a bizarre way that as the spheres pulsate, frenzied monsters, as if blood were being pumped out of their hearts, tumble out of these holes, splashing into the sky and unleashing their destructive claws upon the pale purple sea.

The moment Syndra saw this thing, she felt extremely troubled. It swallowed all the light emitted by the solar disk without giving any feedback, and her gravitational black hole was also unable to destroy this heart.

The regeneration pool is equivalent to a loophole in the world's barrier. In order to repair these loopholes, the world's consciousness must keep it under the control of the rules.

Combining planar vulnerabilities into a three-dimensional sphere is extremely inconceivable. This heart not only makes the most of the space but also uses the sealing power that accompanies the regeneration pool to protect itself, rendering most attack methods ineffective.

To destroy this heart, one must first break down the world's barriers and the protection of the rules. It completely exploited the loopholes in the rules, leaving Syndra helpless against it.

The only solution is to use a combined rune lock, so Syndra has to team up with the Katarina sisters to suppress it.

But none of this mattered to Kai'Sa anymore. She watched as Kayle was cut in half at the waist, and her anger exploded instantly, surging from her chest to every part of her body, even making her fingertips tingle slightly.

Sensing Kasha's anger, the branches growing from the wound contracted in response, causing a slight friction sound in the wing membranes, which annoyed Bervis.

Bervis initially failed to take down Kai'Sa, but as time passed, the situation subtly shifted. Now, the Wild Hunt is desperately defending against the invasion, while Kai'Sa has launched her counterattack.

"Kasha, make your skin armor give up resisting, and I might spare your lives. Otherwise, this will be the fate of all of you."

An undeniable cruelty erupted from the Queen's mouth, manifesting as countless charred, withered arms sprouting from the ground. Kael's screams suddenly exploded as the writhing arms tore at the angel's white wings, ripping off feathers and flesh, leaving only bloody, flesh-and-bone fragments. Then, they lifted her, her battered body raised high, displaying her horrific state clearly before Kasha's eyes…

—They are threatening her in this way, and that these arms will continue to tear Kyle apart into a bloody skeleton whenever the Queen gives the order.

Hearing Kyle's heart-wrenching screams, Kaisa clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turning white. The torture that was meant for her had been taken by Kyle instead.

Perhaps the angel hadn't anticipated the cruel punishment for her mistake before she acted. Utter terror and overwhelming resentment surged within Kai'Sa, threatening to tear her sanity apart.

"Don't worry about me! I'm dead, but you must not give up on me!" Kyle shook her head with her last bit of strength, issuing a weak warning. If it weren't for the Protoss's strong physique, she would have died the moment she was cut in half at the waist.

She tried to save herself; the sacred fire burned her wounds to stop the bleeding, but her charred arms immediately tore open the scabs, pulling out her intestines from her abdominal cavity. She summoned the Sword of Judgment to save her master, but the burning sword stuck in the ground was also imprisoned by layers of restraints, wavered a few times, and ultimately failed to break through the encirclement.

"Don't hesitate for a dying man! Justice will never be absent. After I die, new righteous celestials will take my place." The angel representing justice had already given up hope, but she didn't want Kai'Sa to give up here. This enemy of humanity, Piervis, must be punished!

"Mount Targon is dead in name only! There will be no new Protoss!" Kai'Sa practically roared, her voice trembling without her even realizing it.

Her condition wasn't much better than Kyle's, but if she could escape from Bervis's clutches, she could save Kyle even if he was on his last breath.

Would Pedros let her go? Kasha knew better than anyone that it was impossible.

The so-called way out, at best, only grants them some more time. Once the Void invades Runeterra, will there still be a place for them to stand on this World Tree?

Only by deciding a fight to the death can we truly find a way out!

“Belvis! I won’t believe a word of your nonsense,” Kassa suddenly looked up. “If you want this armor, you’ll have to step over my dead body first!”

"Very well, then I'll deal with you first, and then I'll deal with the others." The eyes of the four predators gleamed with a resolute coldness as they made a move to bite off Kai'Sa's head.

Kai'Sa abandoned all her calculations. Her previous thoughts of delaying, probing, and finding weaknesses were now completely overwhelmed by anger and determination. She stared at the light drawing ever closer to Bervis's throat, suppressing all the rising rage within her into the runestone, letting it feel her resentment and fury. "Are you thinking about Lin Kong, or Lin Zai Zai...?"

The next moment, the rune responded, and a dense aura of death spread from Kai'Sa's chest.

The vibrant branches withered and died in the blink of an eye, their emerald green luster fading into grayish-brown dead branches. The tips of the Queen's wings were also invaded by death energy, tinged with a hint of blackness.

Chapter 711 The Power of Immortality

Under the threat of death, Kai'Sa finally discovered another ability of the Resilient Foundation.

This rune governs the laws of life and death, capable of both bringing the dead back to life and killing them. However, Kai'Sa's use of it has always been limited to growth and healing, with little knowledge of the latter.

She had always felt that if she wanted to kill someone, what could be more thorough than the destruction of the void? Her armor was enough, and runes weren't absolutely necessary.

Her enemies are often Void Evils, rarely ordinary beings, so Kai'Sa rarely has the opportunity to use the power of runes to decide life and death.

It wasn't until the recent experiment that reversed life and death that Kasha gained a deeper understanding of death—sacred death is not to be desecrated, otherwise it will be met with severe punishment.

At this moment, she was put to death by Bervis, her body and mind hovering on the edge of life and death for a long time, finally fulfilling the prerequisite for triggering divine retribution and allowing her to touch the realm of death.

Void creatures do not participate in the normal cycle of life and death; their birth and death are different from ordinary creatures. However, this does not mean that they can escape the constraints of the rules.

Even the Watchers need to develop a physical form to enter the realm of reality, and all other creations are no exception. It's enough to know that once you have a physical form, you're doomed to die.

A dense aura of death emanated from Kai'Sa. Bervis hesitated for a moment, ultimately deciding against consuming Kai'Sa. Instead, she flapped her sharp wings and swiftly and cleanly severed Kai'Sa's head with a single strike.

A few strands of hair fell, and blood seeped from her neck, only to heal again in an instant. Kaisa twisted her neck, and the chitinous plates of her helmet flipped back, overlapping each other like an insect tucking its wings into its shell.

Her skin was exceptionally pale, with black veins exposed, and her entire body was shrouded in an aura of death. Her pupils were shrunk to pinpoints, the whites of her eyes were bloodshot, and her eyes, almost spitting fire, were fixed on Bervis.

"How could this be? You should be dead by now!" The Queen stared at Kasha in disbelief. She had clearly felt the sharp pain of her neck being severed by the tip of her wing, yet Kasha was still alive and well before her. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the previous sentences.)

At the same time, she was also glad that she hadn't recklessly bitten off Kasha's head, otherwise she would have swallowed the death energy as well, and she certainly wouldn't have felt good.

"I am an existence you cannot kill. I will become your...nightmare!"

Kasha had gone mad, her hands gripping the withered branches wrapped around her wingtips tightly. Black energy spread along the branches, slithering into Bervis's wingtips like venomous snakes.

A flash of cold light. Seeing that he couldn't pull his wingtip out of the dead branch's grasp, Piervis suddenly swung his other intact wingtip and decisively cut off the section of the wingtip that was entangled in the dead branch in an attempt to survive.

Without even glancing at the slime dripping onto the ground, she used the gap left by severing her limbs to swiftly retreat, creating distance while watching Kasha with apprehension. The glowing slime enveloped the wound, constantly writhing and deforming, and in the blink of an eye, the severed wingtip had healed.

"Belvis! Die!" A thunderous roar poured down from above. Belvis looked up and saw a towering Fury appear above him.

The goddess's hair billowed into the heavens, shrouding everything in inky darkness. Her eyes radiated a terrifying black light as she looked down at Bervis from the clouds, raising her mountain-like hand to bring it crashing down.

In the goddess's palm, an enormous black sun was being pressed down with all her might. The resulting wind pressure was like a giant hammer smashing open the gaps in the fabric of space, causing the shattered sky to fall together, and even the distant horizon seemed to crumble under the power of this blow.

A moment later, the entire flowing dead city vanished completely from the territory of the pale purple sea, leaving behind only a circular valley hundreds of feet deep. The exposed rock layers were covered with spiraling deep grooves, and even the hardest ores had turned into brittle fragments that crumbled at the slightest touch. The wind blew through the valley mouth, stirring up nothing but ashes carrying the aura of destruction.

After receiving Wild Hunt's plea for help, Syndra entrusted the task of sealing the Void Gate to her two sisters and came to support Kai'Sa. She was confident in her all-out attack, believing that severely injuring Bervis would be a piece of cake.

However, the Empress would not take this blow head-on for nothing. Her powerful physique easily broke free from the black sun's gravity, and in an instant, she crossed the battlefield and appeared on the deck of the Royal Palace almost in a flash.

Belvis didn't believe the others were as tough to chew as Kasha. By the time they discovered their base had been invaded, their sharp wingtips had already pierced a living heart.

Without any warning. Without any preparation. The Empress's figure appeared on the ship so suddenly!

Katarina, who was struggling to activate the runes to seal the Void Gate just a moment ago, was stabbed through the heart and lifted off the ground in the same brutal manner the next second!

The tip of Bervis's wing pierced her skin and flesh without resistance, precisely penetrating her beating heart. A sharp, excruciating pain exploded in her chest. Katarina's pupils dilated abruptly; she couldn't accept the fact that her heart had stopped beating. She opened her lips but no sound came out. Her heart was pierced, yet not a drop of blood flowed, for that blood had already been absorbed by the Queen before it could even seep out.

Fear, like an icy tide, instantly washed over every inch of the Royal Palace's deck.

Cassiopeia, who was closest to Katarina, covered her mouth and instinctively backed away, but her feet seemed nailed to the deck, unable to move. Her gaze was fixed on the protruding wingtip on her sister's chest, belatedly succumbing to despair.

At that moment, everyone on the ship felt the same premonition—they were all fish on a chopping board. If Bervis wanted to kill someone, it would be as easy as lifting a finger, and no one could stop her! Even a second of resistance or a decent dodge was futile under the crushing power of her terrifying strength!

This is not a battle, but a one-sided massacre!

With a muffled thud, a glittering, wedge-shaped gem fell from Katarina's limp hand, catching Pierre's attention.

She retracted her wingtip, tossed the lifeless Katarina into a pool of blood, reached out and picked up the golden gem, which was slightly larger than her fist, and examined it closely with the eyes of a predator.

World runes do not diminish their brilliance simply because they fall into evil hands; otherwise, there would be no tragedies.

The hearts of everyone present instantly jumped to their throats. Bervis's performance was no different from that of a god. If she were to take away their last hope, it was unimaginable how they could possibly contend with her.

Chapter 712 Stabbing the Emperor's Face

Without the precise runes to transmit energy, the enormous solar disk became useless scrap metal, crashing into the deep pit with a roar, only to be instantly engulfed and defiled by a dense swarm of insects.

Azir's sand army phalanx was also destroyed, leaving only the high platform built of yellow sand standing in the pale purple sea, but it will soon be submerged.

Everywhere there were eyes and claws eager to kill. Not only were swarms of insects constantly climbing up the high platform from the ground, but the sky was also filled with swarms of insects that blotted out the sun.

The dark purple storm and giant waves kept crashing against the only watchtower in the pale purple sea. At this moment, Azir was as helpless as a mortal facing a natural disaster alone. The suffocating despair could drag him down at any moment.

The civilization of Shurima has reached a critical moment of life and death! But humanity has never lacked courage in the face of adversity; the greater the adversity, the more its potential is unleashed!

Faced with this scourge composed of insectoid swarms, Azir radiated the glory of a leader, leading the four remaining Celestial Warriors to defend the high ground to the very last moment!

As emperor, he could never show weakness in front of his subordinates; even if the platform beneath his feet was collapsing, he would die standing.

Only Azir himself knew how much helplessness lay behind that resolute decision. If there had been even the slightest chance to escape, he would have led his warriors to fight their way out of the encirclement, rather than fighting a war that could not be won.

His desperate struggle was nothing more than a last resort in a desperate situation. All he could do now was to buy as much time as possible and wait for others to come to his rescue.

However, he was destined not to receive rescue; the Royal Palace was already shrouded in the overwhelming fear of the Void Queen. Anyone who dared to make a rash move could trigger Bervis's slaughter.

"So, this is what gives you the confidence to challenge me."

Piervis carefully examined the World Rune in her hand for a while, her vertical pupils reflecting the surging torrent of energy within the gem. It contained power beyond her imagination, which would greatly benefit her in reshaping the world.

Unfortunately, she could not use this powerful energy; the rune's will strongly resisted her entry and refused to share its power with the invaders from another world.

But that's alright, stubborn mules like Kai'Sa are ultimately a minority. She can always find humans willing to pledge their allegiance to help her create a new world, like the fanatical Adventists like Malzahar.

With this in mind, Bervis's gaze suddenly turned to the other rune holder in front of him—Cassiopeia, who was tightly protecting the red rune stone with both hands.

"Human, submit to me now, and I will grant you a ticket to a new world, allowing you to stand above billions of living beings." The empress's four cold, gleaming eyes locked onto her, and with each opening and closing of her massive fangs, echoes reverberated, a deafening roar aggressively surging towards Cassiopeia.

For a fleeting moment, Portil and Sephiroth suspected that Cassiopeia might turn against them.

Because she almost always cheated and shirked her duties in battle, possessing powerful runes but refusing to contribute, always hiding in the safest corner, and using all her cunning to curry favor with the Wild Hunt.

It's not hard to imagine that someone like that would betray them just to survive.

However, they were all mistaken about Cassiopeia. The woman extended a trembling finger towards Piervis, the provocation unmistakable. Just as Piervis was about to retaliate, Cassiopeia moved her finger away, pointing instead to the corpse at his feet.

"Do you know? The person lying in a pool of blood is my own sister!" Cassiopeia only mentioned her relationship with Katarina, but everyone present already understood her choice.

Her voice trembled at the end, not from fear, but from clenching her teeth so tightly that her voice shook. Her eyes no longer held their former flippancy, only a burning, fiery hatred remained.

"Very well, then you can die with her." Before the mockery in Piervis's eyes had faded, his figure seemed to be crushed by the void and then instantly reassembled, suddenly appearing in front of Cassiopeia.

The sharp wings, gleaming with a pale purple light, pierced out, tearing through the space with a hissing sound. They were so fast that only a distorted afterimage remained, and even light could not keep up with the speed of this attack.

However, Cassiopeia actually dodged the attack, causing Bervis's vertical pupils to contract sharply, his mocking expression instantly replaced by astonishment. Her attack speed was so fast that even Kai'Sa couldn't dodge it, and this woman didn't possess Kai'Sa's agility. How did she manage to dodge it?

Piervis launched another attack in an instant, and then she keenly noticed a strange scene—in the space-time that seemed to slow down to almost stand still in her eyes, Cassiopeia's head was still tilted to one side, and the curve of her neck was clearly still in the posture of dodging the previous attack, but the tip of her wing that she thrust out inexplicably deviated from its original direction, turning half an inch away and piercing the air to the side.

"What have you done?!" A million angry voices suddenly overlapped, and this strange power filled Bervis with fear.

Anger did not cloud her judgment. Quick-witted as she was, she instantly realized that the runes in Cassiopeia's hands were the culprit!

The other party used some kind of invisible force to either distort her perception, causing her to misjudge the target, or directly altered cause and effect, turning the expected outcome into a failure, and turning her into a ridiculous existence like a puppet on a string.

Pierce knew there was no way to resist the power of this rule; it was her weakness, her blind spot. "You're here, I'm here, you're here, Lin is here, are you here...?"

She could only try to break free from the invisible control with her powerful body, unleashing unparalleled strength and speed. She frantically lashed out with her gleaming wingtips, striking a thousand times in an instant, the phantoms weaving a scene of rapid wind and rain, like a dense array of laser beams crashing down on Cassiopeia.

She absolutely cannot let this guy live!

Cassiopeia initially managed to grit her teeth and deflect Piervis's attacks. However, as Piervis's attacks accelerated, her brain began to malfunction due to the intense computation, eventually exploding from within as the sheer volume of information overwhelmed her.

A gaping hole was blasted open in her head. Without the protection of the runes, Bervis's Face-Piercing Blade struck her without reservation. Her fragile body was like a rag doll that had been stabbed tens of thousands of times in an instant. Her internal organs and bones were pulverized into fine pieces of flesh, which gushed out from countless wounds, sticking to her clothes like blood-stained rags.

“Tell Kai'Sa…not…to activate…the rune bomb…”

Cassiopeia fell into a pool of blood, but her last words, spoken with her last breath, sent a chill down the spine of the ruthless killer, Pierre.

If she could sweat.

Chapter 713 Goddess of Destruction

The Empress's mind was filled with Cassiopeia's last words, and she hesitated for a moment, not daring to take the runes from the corpse.

Why did that woman say those words before she died? Was it to make her hesitate to act rashly? She knew very well how terrifying the potential of these runes was. If they were made into bombs, their terrifying power would probably wipe out ten pale purple seas without any problem. And yet she had carried such a dangerous thing on her person.

But she couldn't leave them behind, and she couldn't bear the thought of these runes falling into enemy hands; that would only pose a greater threat to her. (The rest of the text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

To Bervis's annoyance, she couldn't use the runes, nor could she collect them. Holding them in her hands hindered her combat, making them a real hot potato.

Seeing that Syndra had already torn through space and returned, Bervis had no choice but to implement a stopgap measure.

She first swept away the Overlord Rune from the pool of blood, summoned a group of Void Remoras, and sent them away from the battlefield carrying the rune, before turning to face her next opponent.

Syndra, who arrived a step too late after shattering the void, saw the two sisters lying dead on the deck and the two runes that had been stolen. Her face turned extremely grim.

"Belvis, what kind of skill is a sneak attack? If you have the guts, fight me one-on-one!" Syndra's eyes were almost spitting fire as she gathered dark magic and raised her hand to grab Belvis, but she forcefully twisted him away with her body.

"You did it first," the Queen replied calmly.

Syndra knew that none of the remaining people on the Royal Palace were a match for Bervis, and the only way to save them was to draw Bervis's hatred to herself. However, her clumsy attempt to provoke him failed, and instead, she was enraged by a single remark from him.

In fact, she did fail in her sneak attack and was caught off guard by Pierre's base-trading tactic.

From the moment Bervis disappeared from her men's grasp, Syndra felt a deep sense of foreboding, sensing that something terrible was about to happen. Kai'Sa told Syndra not to worry about her and that she had rushed back immediately, but Bervis had acted so swiftly that she ultimately couldn't save them.