Void Beetle Evolution Guide

His teammate roared as he took his weight. He was pulled by the rope, and the sudden stop caused him to slam heavily against the ice wall. His arm was broken in the impact and could not be secured to the ice wall, let alone continue climbing.

The mission was the priority, so his teammates could only leave the wounded man on this desolate cliff, far from any village or town, and bring him away when they returned. However, by then, the wounded man had already succumbed to his injuries.

After his death, his teammates found his body, discarded everything they could to lighten his load, and then carried him up the mountain after securing him back in place.

Because this abyss cannot tolerate any flesh or blood.

Syndra isn't a sentimental person; this is just her guess. Perhaps the injured player found his teammates coming back to find him.

Without much thought, she immediately merged into the mist and headed to the next bridge.

Along the way, Syndra saw several other bridges, erected at different heights and levels. However, they were all shrouded in distance, fog, and darkness like a shroud, making it impossible to see the bridges clearly.

At this rate, there are at least dozens of bridges between the two walls of the Howling Abyss, but apart from the Bridge of Sorrow at the very top, the rest have all been abandoned and rendered useless.

In addition to the bridges, the Frostguard has also built massive spiked walls on the cliffs at key points along the Howling Abyss, which have stood for thousands of years.

These structures, like giant, forked thorns growing from an ice wall, sprawled in the thick fog, were excessively large simply to match the enormous size of the observers.

If one day the watchers awaken again, these rudimentary fortifications might buy those above a precious amount of time, allowing them to make some modest preparations for the final battle.

"Found it." The flickering light in the fog allowed Syndra to quickly lock onto the target. Upon closer inspection, she discovered it was a giant, glowing cocoon, secured to the bridge pier wreckage by a cluster of earthworms.

Syndra suddenly frowned. Through the cocoon, she saw not only the hunched, grotesque shape, but also the outline of a human body, which had even merged together.

“Those missing people have probably been brought here and turned into a breeding ground,” Wild Hunt warned. “Be careful, those earth worms have come back to life.”

Like roots, the hernia went from being still and motionless to bursting through the air with a long, cracking sound in just a few seconds.

Syndra didn't care. She didn't dodge or evade, but instead raised her palm. A force field radiated out, and the hernia stopped abruptly before her eyes, crumbling inch by inch.

The fragments did not fall, but hovered in the air, trembling and emitting a buzzing sound, before being fired back by her like bullets.

Each fragment contained immense kinetic energy, instantly blasting the giant cocoon into bizarre slurry and shattered limbs, which were eerily frozen in mid-air as if time had stopped.

Not wanting the aftermath to become too complicated, she clenched her fist again. The fragments of flesh and limbs in the air recombine as if played in reverse, forming a cocoon that, under the immense force of gravity, collapses into a death star the size of a marble.

The black star floated to Syndra's fingertip, and with a crisp snap, vanished silently into the void. The cocoons on the ice wall were completely wiped away, along with the bridge pier remains, leaving only a smooth, round crater.

"Am I seeing things? Your control seems to have improved a lot compared to before." For a moment, Wild Hunt saw the shadow of a god in Syndra.

Syndra didn't mince words: "You read that right. Since dying and starting over, my cultivation progress has been nothing short of phenomenal, and I've become much more adept at using magic."

"Perhaps this is what they call 'building anew after destruction.' That self-destruction drained all the gloomy energy from your body. Without the uncontrollable malevolence, it has become much easier for you to cultivate and utilize your abilities." Wild Hunt remarked with feeling, "I originally thought that the talent to infinitely increase magic power was already abnormal enough, but I didn't expect that even the talent itself could continue to grow stronger. It's truly monstrous."

Those who obtained the Keystone Runestone experienced an explosive increase in power. Not to mention Syndra, whose talent was almost supernatural, even Cassiopeia, who used to only know a few clumsy spells, has become the mastermind behind the scenes, weaving destiny.

Chapter 792 The Chosen One of the Bear Spirit

Kaisa traveled westward, passing through the village of orphans, and encountered a large army of bear-men crossing the sea on the coast.

They came carrying turbulent dark clouds, the white snowfield and the gloomy clouds forming a clear black-and-white boundary, lightning flashing and thunder roaring wherever they went, and the heavy, damp smell of fur carried on the wind.

"They actually came. But are the bear people really going to such lengths just for a large urn? No, I have to find out the truth, lest Lissandra hide something from me."

Kai'Sa was no longer the girl who could only run for her life when she first encountered the Bear Spirit. She braced herself and ran fearlessly towards the storm's edge. If she were afraid, she wouldn't have volunteered for this mission.

Before even seeing it, Kai'Sa sensed its power. As soon as she entered the storm's circle, silence swept over her, burying all sound under the black tide and severing Kai'Sa's connection with the Wild Hunt.

A fierce wind whipped snowflakes against the helmet, and a bolt of lightning struck directly into the eye of the storm. In an instant, the world was plunged into darkness, and endless lightning solidified into the outline of a giant bear.

It stood tall, higher than the highest mountain peak, and a pair of captivating, electric eyes looked down at Kai'Sa from the clouds, containing a furious rage capable of destroying cities and fortresses, as if a single glance could annihilate any who stood in its way.

"Halt ahead. Volibear, what brings you here?" Kai'Sa shouted in the thunderstorm. A fleeting flash of lightning reflected in the cold rainwater streaming down her armor.

"Are you alone? Commendable courage." The giant bear stared at the lone Kasha, immediately recognizing her as one of the group that had seized the urn. "Perfect timing! Let's settle both old and new scores!"

Kai'Sa wanted to find out the truth, but Volibear's lightning phantom was driven by rage, only thinking about destroying everything in its way.

Amidst lightning and thunder, it swung its bear paws, creating a storm of wind and thunder. All the lightning in the sea of ​​clouds was drawn to its arms, forming radiating fur and gleaming claws.

Until the giant claw covered Kaisa, it didn't see Kaisa move an inch. Perhaps she was too intimidated by its divine power to move, or perhaps she was paralyzed by the preemptive lightning strike.

The Thunderous Claw left a claw mark on the ground with a diameter of over a hundred meters. However, just as Xiong Ling was about to pull back his claw, he found that it was as if the claw was being held down by something and could not be lifted.

It roared and dispersed the surging lightning snakes in the air, only to notice that Kai'Sa was standing unharmed on the back of its paw, suppressing its bear paw all by herself, which was incredible.

"Why won't you answer me? Do you think I'm not qualified to talk to you? Or do you want me to make fun of you again before you'll even look at me?"

Kasha wouldn't attack without knowing the facts; she didn't consider herself someone to be trifled with. "Third time's the charm. Don't make me ask a third time."

But in Volibear's eyes, Kai'Sa's words and actions were like defecating on his head. "You're asking for death! You coward who only knows how to run away. I'll crush you before that happens."

Volibear roared furiously, its sonic boom whipping up Kai'Sa's rain-soaked hair. It assumed an attack stance, its mouth unleashing endless lightning. But before it could strike, Kai'Sa moved first, charging towards the bear's head.

"Then let me show you if all I can do is run!!"

With its heat-dissipating armor fully deployed, purple lightning erupted from the outer thigh, instantly turning the icy rain into scalding steam. A bolt of purple lightning shot out from the vapor, swirling and coiling around the giant bear's arm like a dragon, causing Volibear, who was formed from the first thunderbolt of Freljord, to experience for the first time in his history a chilling paralysis and the threat of having his divine authority stripped away.

"How dare you!" This unprecedented feeling excited Volibear, as if he had rediscovered the passion he had for fighting against the wild at the beginning of time. Lightning erupted from the giant bear's mouth, the forked bolts of lightning resembling inverted branches of a giant tree, arriving in an instant!

Kai'Sa leaped into the air, stepping on the oncoming lightning storm. In the fraction of a second before it dissipated, she used it as a runway to propel herself forward.

Volibear was stunned by Kai'Sa's performance. No one had ever been faster than lightning, not even Osiris's agent possessed such agility to trample the intangible lightning bolt underfoot. Yet Kai'Sa had done it, giving Volibear a solid lesson.

The sea monster priestess of Baru said that life is about movement, and Kai'Sa thought she was right. To unravel the power of the Resilience Rune, she needed to be fast enough—faster than anything else!

Kaisa's understanding was quite crude, but it symbolized her pursuit of perfection.

At the world's only extreme speed, all the forked lightning bolts emanating from Volibear's mouth were drawn back to Kai'Sa's back like iron filings attracted by a magnet, transforming into a high-frequency twisting, scorching lightning spear, which Kai'Sa hurled with all her might.

The lightning spear pierced through the bear spirit's massive mouth and emerged from its body, plunging straight into the sea of ​​clouds behind it. A surge of lightning exploded instantly, tearing a large hole in the rolling dark clouds.

Kai'Sa's devastating attack shattered Volibear's unquestionable silence, bringing light back to the coast!

However, the giant bear did not fall down. Although it staggered back a few steps and stepped into the icy sea, creating a tsunami tens of meters high, it then regained its balance and let out a loud, earth-shattering laugh.

Laughter so loud it's like lightning and thunder, laughter so powerful it's like mountains collapsing and the earth splitting, laughter so intense it's like the sea weeping and rocks crumbling.

"Good, good, good!" the giant bear said three times in a row. "If I weren't the incarnation of lightning, I might have really been lying in bed for hundreds of years after that."

Volibear was not only unharmed, but also gained some insight from Kai'Sa's ultimate technique the moment the electric spear pierced through his body.

He wanted the Freljords to fight the wilderness to gain a tough physique, which was another interpretation of the idea that life lies in movement. It never expected that Kai'Sa's thoughts would be so similar to its own; now it was beginning to admire Kai'Sa.

The giant bear lowered its head and asked, "Outsider, would you like to become my chosen one, the bear of Valhal, who has endured countless cuts and spears? I can grant you the power to control lightning and the power to fight without dying!" (You didn't expect Mei Kong Ni Lin Zai Zai Mei...)

As he spoke, he conjured a lightning bolt mark with his claws. This was a recognition that only beast spirit walkers who had braved countless hardships to reach Thunder Bluff and remained loyal to the Bear Spirit faith could obtain, and it was thus bestowed upon Kai'Sa.

Volibear's unusual hospitality caused Kai'Sa, who was wearing a mask, to frown. She shouted, "Bear Spirit, I just want to have a few words with you on equal terms, not to become some kind of chosen one."

"I rarely bestow power upon humans, but so far no one has dared to refuse my gifts. Besides, you still have my brother's horn on you. Whatever or whatever it sets its sights on, I will destroy if I cannot have it!" The domineering bear spirit imposed the lightning mark on Kaisa without further ado, and Kaisa had no choice but to accept it.

"Voliber, I only want to know one thing. Why did you suddenly attack Frostguard Fortress? Didn't you think a few old, weak, women, and children had enough to eat and drink?"

Upon hearing Kai'Sa's question, Volibear, who had initially calmed down, erupted in fury once more.

"Why should I care about that broken urn! That despicable thief stole Anivia's egg of rebirth, isn't it only right and proper for me, as her brother, to lead my followers to rescue her?!"

"what?!"

Chapter 793 The Reason

"What?!" Kai'Sa was shocked.

What Lissandra said was completely different from the reasons Volibear gave! She didn't think Volibear, as a god, had any reason to deceive her, so it was Lissandra who deliberately obscured and shifted the cause and effect.

"Damn it." Suppressing her anger, she chose to calm the giant bear first: "Bear spirit, whose tendons and bones have been severed and whose authority is beyond question, please listen to me. There must be some misunderstanding—"

"A misunderstanding?" Volibear interrupted Kai'Sa with a punch. "I don't care what her reasons are, daring to covet the power of a god is already an overstepping of boundaries. If Anivia falls because of this, I will make Freljord never have peace again!"

Volibear's roar transformed into rolling thunder, and a flash of lightning ripped through the night sky, marking the end of the conversation, signifying that the words had come to an end. No one could shake the will of God.

“Okay.” Kasha lowered her head, her expression darkening, and she clenched her fists, trembling. “I will find out the truth as soon as possible and give you an answer. If there is a reason for this, I hope you will not push things to the extreme.”

"You have only one day. After one day, the losers will be at the gates." With Volibear's announcement, the thunderous roar subsided for a few breaths before the storm continued its advance inland.

"One day? That's enough." Kasha turned and ran, her speed so fast that everything in her path was stretched into simple lines, as if she had mastered the magic of shrinking the distance to an inch, instantly covering tens of thousands of meters. (The last two lines appear to be random characters and are not translated.)

She pressed her fingers to her temples and called out to the Wild Hunt, receiving a response shortly afterward.

"Kasa, what did you find out from Volibear? Our senses were cut off for a while just now."

"Quick! Go find Lissandra immediately! She's hiding the truth from us. Volibear didn't attack Frostguard Fortress because of the Great Jar, but because she stole Anivia's Rebirth Egg without permission!"

"Stealing eggs..." The voice in his mind remained silent for a while, even Wild Hunt was quite surprised. He immediately traversed the void and arrived alone at the Ice Phoenix Nest of Phoenix Wing Mountain, only to find that the statue in the cave had indeed disappeared.

The telepathic communication resumed, and Kai'Sa heard Wild Hunt's response: "Voliber might be right. I just went to Phoenixwing Mountain, and Anivia is no longer in the lair."

"Voliber has only given us one day to settle this matter. If we don't give them a satisfactory answer, this battle will probably be unavoidable."

"What a shrewd woman." Wild Hunt's opinion of Lissandra dropped even further. Why couldn't she be as obedient as Kai'Sa or as astute as Cassiopeia, always causing him unnecessary trouble?

He wouldn't care about minor incidents like LeBlanc's, but Lissandra's actions had seriously impacted his plans, causing them to fall apart and forcing him to put aside his current tasks to deal with the mess she had created.

Wild Hunt pondered for a moment, then asked, "Do you need me to bring you back now?"

“Okay…” Kasha was about to agree, but then a scene of ruins suddenly appeared before her eyes.

The stream froze into ice, dark clouds obscured the stars and moon, and the city was plunged into a deep, dark night, devoid of any warmth from its hearths.

The former village of abandoned children is almost gone; all the buildings are now just charred skeletons, with only carbonized wood and stone chimneys standing atop the pointed piles of rubble.

The streets leading to the city center were covered in soot and bore the paw prints of bear-men. Curtains of black smoke drifted around, obscuring the streets and the leveled stone houses.

The air was thick with the smell of death, a peculiar mixture of burnt charcoal and rotting flesh. A plume of black smoke dissipated, revealing a dozen or so half-human, half-bear creatures.

They formed a line around a burning watchtower, surrounded the few survivors, and drove them into the flames. The remaining Frostguards desperately tried to escape, but only axes and death awaited them.

Nearby, a bear-man was dismembering the corpse of the Iceborn. It turned its beast-like face to look at Kai'Sa, its fur stained with blood, and casually swung a pair of battle axes at the already dead body.

Immediately afterwards, the bear-man let out a roar, and the nearby survivors immediately closed in on the remaining town guards, mercilessly pushing them into the sea of ​​fire.

Kasha stumbled up the rubble steps and arrived at the ruins of a plaza. Surrounded by tall stone houses, she saw the avatar of the Bear Spirit standing alone in the center of the city.

It pinned the corpses to the tips of spikes, forming some unknown pattern. Black branches and roots sprouted from the scattered corpses around the altar, like worms emerging from the ground.

Through the blood sacrifice of the city, Volibear's flesh and fur on his face have healed, and his muscles seem to have become thicker and heavier than before.

More than a dozen new eyes emerged on its face, each as dark and cold as a spider's eye...

"Kasha? Kaisha! What's wrong?"

The gradually clearer call in her mind roused Kai'Sa from her daze. It seemed to be related to the runes. She had an inexplicable and clear premonition about the impending death, as if she had experienced it herself.

Looking at the open void rift, she suddenly changed her mind: "No. I can go straight back and still pass through the Village of Abandoned Children. I need to notify them to evacuate as soon as possible. The bear-men crave slaughter, and they definitely won't mind taking the large urn along the way and massacring the city."

"Okay. You handle it. I'm going to find Lissandra."

The two ended their communication, and Kasha sped forward, arriving at the village of orphans within half an hour. Standing in the central street, she shouted, "Listen up, everyone! Evacuate immediately! The bear-man army will arrive in half a day. Adults and children alike, the old and the weak, women and children—they will kill you all!"

But her warning had no effect. Several children peeked out of the house, looking at her, this outsider who had suddenly appeared on the street, with puzzled expressions, but showed no intention of moving. Not far away, several Ice Children and Frost Guards had already surrounded her with weapons, wanting to subdue this madwoman who was spreading panic.

Memories flooded back, and Kasha clenched her fists in resentment. Did she have to resort to creating death again to protect these innocent and ignorant people through expulsion?

Suddenly, she remembered the lightning rune that Volibear had just bestowed upon her and decisively summoned it. A bolt of lightning struck, forming an undeniable phantom of a bear spirit above the village, overlooking all living beings from the clouds.

The guards halted in their tracks, staring at the sky in terror. Kasha's voice, amplified by divine power, transformed into rolling thunder, its power utterly terrifying.

"In the name of Xiong Ling, I hereby declare that you have half a day to leave this place. Otherwise, you will all die!"

Chapter 794 Awakening

Unnatural flashes of lightning and thunder rang out overhead, like the death knell urging the Ice Children to flee their homeland.

Although she was reluctant, Kai'Sa did it anyway.

Rather than leaving their homes, she hoped these people could survive, for only by surviving could they have hope.

However, this time the situation was different. Xiong Ling's name was very intimidating, and no one questioned Kaisa's words. They all hurriedly packed up everything they couldn't bear to give up and set off.

Although they were frustrated and angry, they did not show any resentment towards her, as if they regarded the accident as a natural disaster rather than a man-made one.

This is determined by their faith. When these people swore to believe in Black Ice, they were prepared to be retaliated against by the Bear Spirit and understood what the Bear Spirit represented.

They remained vigilant, since the bear-men had never given a pre-battle announcement before their attacks.

Kasha's actions gave them time to evacuate, and they were so grateful that they would never blame her for bringing disaster upon them.

Therefore, Kaisa, who was not misunderstood, felt a little self-satisfied and stayed to help with the command.

"Take everything you can, especially food and water, and your weapons, and head towards Frostguard Fortress!"

Some people, after listening to Kai'Sa, went to the canteen and brought back large urns. In their eyes, Ornn's urns meant an endless supply of broth, and as long as they brought the urns, they wouldn't have to worry about eating and drinking their fill.

The result, of course, was a barrage of abuse from Kai'Sa: "What time is it and you're still thinking about Ornn's urn? Something has to be left behind to slow down the bearmen's advance, either it or yourselves!"

The large urn is extremely heavy; if they were to carry it, they definitely wouldn't reach Frostguard Fortress within a day. If the bear-men caught up with them halfway there, those carrying the urn would likely become ingredients for meat soup.