Void Beetle Evolution Guide

"Give him a quick death." Kassa could tell at a glance that the man was still alive, but there was no need to save him.

Another one dead. Sarathé was immersed in the grief of death and stepped forward silently. Just as she was about to take action, Kassa pushed her away.

"I'll do it."

Kassadin swung out the crystal blade and stabbed it into the man's chest. Immediately, a gurgling sound that shouldn't exist in the world came out.

The pus bubble burst, and Kassadin immediately dodged and retreated. Then several tentacles burst out from the chest of the corpse, wrapped around the crystal fist blade she left behind, and pushed it out little by little.

Keyemi was like facing a formidable enemy, and immediately aimed his weapon at the chest of the corpse. A mollusk made up of several tentacles slid out of the wound. It had no eyes or mouth, and looked more like a seed. It twisted weakly on the ground for a few times before it became motionless.

This scene made Sarath a little dazed. If Kassadin hadn't had the foresight to push her away, she might have been attacked by the tentacle monster by now.

"Thanks..."

"Cheer up." Kassa waved her hand, signaling the group to continue on their way. The longer they stayed in the city, the more unpredictable it would be.

The void can not only devour people, but also directly transform them into monsters.

After discovering this, Kassa became deeply worried. Perhaps the flying jellyfish monster did not directly devour the captured livestock for this reason.

She couldn't imagine what the city of Belvedere would become.

Although Kassa had said that not all of these people would be able to get out alive, the fact that two of them were gone in the blink of an eye still made Saratai feel extremely heavy.

Seeing that there was only half a kilometer left to get out of the city, she had to cheer herself up again and lead the team to find a way out of the continuous swarm of insects.

Escorting a group of ordinary people is much more troublesome than fighting alone. Kassadin, who is at the back, suffers the greatest pressure. She needs to continuously shoot plasma bombs to prevent the insect swarm from approaching. She doesn't even have time to recover energy. The swarm is also controlled by the Wild Hunt to join the battle.

Void energy filled her entire body, making Kassadin's pupils glow slightly and the facial lines on her face glow fluorescently.

All of this was hidden behind the mask, and no one saw how hard it was for her.

Chapter 74: Then I will build you into the cornerstone of the throne

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"We're almost out of town! Hold on, everyone!"

Saraté kept giving hints to encourage the remaining survivors. Although Kassadin wanted to say that they would not be safe once they left the city, she chose to keep silent under the circumstances.

They rushed into an alley, and at the end of the alley was the city wall. There were not so many bugs blocking the road ahead, and it seemed that they could run out as long as they tried harder.

However, at this moment, a huge figure emerged from the rooftops of the houses on both sides of the alley, blocking their way.

It was a monster that made one feel mentally polluted at a glance. It had a slug-like body with a long neck, and several heads branched out from the neck.

Except for the main brain that can split into four petals like a flower, the rest of the heads are subdivided into more and smaller heads at the ends, and the whole looks like a purple cauliflower.

The same is true of its hands. The ends of the arms are divided into fingers, and the ends of the fingers are divided into smaller arms, like a huge mop that supports the roof and spreads down along the wall.

"Damn it!"

The giant insect monster opened its mouth that was split up to its throat. Under the gaze of countless eyes, big and small, Kassadin fired several plasma bombs in succession, smashing the spreading wave of limbs into a bloody mess, with broken limbs flying everywhere.

One of the missiles circled and broke through the wall nearby, creating an escape route for the survivors.

"Run! Go into the house! Quick!" Saratai commanded the survivors to run into the house, and together with Mieko, they fired several shots at the monster, and finally followed into the house.

After Kassa came in, the monster also lowered its head into the alley, staring at the people in the house with its window-sized muddy yellow pupils, giving them a thoughtful gaze.

Everyone felt like they were being analyzed by that gaze and screamed in fear, their sanity teetering on the edge of the abyss.

"Don't look at it!"

Kassa squatted decisively, raised her shoulder pod and fired a spiral plasma cannon. The monster, whose eyes were blinded by the explosion, immediately let out a wail that shook the earth.

The house could only slightly block the monster's sight. Kassa didn't expect it to be able to stop the monster, but continued to shoot missiles to blast a hole in the wall.

They ran all the way through the holes and reached the street on the other side of the alley, while she stayed behind to drag the monster and buy time for people to escape.

But no one had ever expected that those huge tentacles hanging from the clouds would sweep over at this time.

The sound of the wind breaking through the ground sounded like the wailing of a giant. It plowed a deep trench as it brushed the ground lightly. Houses collapsed one after another, turning into ruins.

One of the survivors followed Saratai across the street, but he was a step slower and was swept from the side by a huge tentacle. Without even making a sound, he was crushed into a pulp by the tentacle and seeped into the shattered earth. The rest of the people were under the crumbling houses, also in danger.

Kasha rushed over as fast as she could and rescued Dahana and her daughter from the dangerous wall. The remaining couple had no time to escape and were hit by the collapsed wall.

Seeing his lover who had supported him all the way being crushed to death, the man with injured legs and feet screamed in pain. In endless grief, he chose to give up his life, tightly holding his lover's lifeless hand, and let the insect tide drown him.

Kasa gritted her teeth, turned around and led the mother and daughter across the trench to catch up with Saratai and the others. Some of her people were also killed by the giant tentacles. There was no time to grieve, they took the remaining survivors and continued to run all the way, otherwise they would be overwhelmed by the insect monsters and insect tides behind them.

When they fled out of the city, the original team of more than a dozen survivors was reduced to less than five people, excluding Kassa and two armed defenders, which corresponded to the number she mentioned at the beginning.

Some people persevered all the way, but collapsed on the spot after escaping, kneeling on the ground facing the city, tears streaming from their hollow eyes. Dahana and her daughter were lucky enough to escape, but she was also confused, biting her fingers. Having lost her home and husband, how could she and her daughter survive in this world?

Kassadin watched the scene silently, and suddenly heard the Wild Hunter sighing in his mind.

"Ordinary humans are so fragile in front of the void. Even the legendary god-warriors who fought against the void with glory will degenerate into brutal darkspawn due to the mental trauma left by the war against the void."

Yes, those ascenders were not corrupted by the erosion of the void. The main reason for their corruption was that they suffered excessive mental trauma from facing the void directly.

Although the Ascendants have divine bodies, their minds are not much different from humans and they can also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Although they survived, they will never forget these nightmarish hours and will often wake up in the middle of the night in the future."

Kai'Sa understands the horror of the void, so she drives humans away before they attack. Putting people in danger just to gain a little understanding is not her style.

She turned around without saying a word and walked towards the city. She thought she had done her best on her way here, so she planned to leave after fulfilling her promise.

"Kasha, wait!"

But she had only taken a few steps when she heard a call from behind. Sarathé, who was originally comforting the survivors, ran towards her, panting.

"Are you looking for something in the city now?"

"The prophet...and an old friend." Kassadin did not hide it. There was nothing that could not be said.

After listening to this, Saratai looked at Keyemi and nodded, saying, "It's our turn to repay you. Let us help you find it."

"The people have been rescued, why are you going back? Are you going to die?" Kassa said she couldn't understand and refused on the spot.

"That's not true."

Saraté smiled bitterly and lifted her cloak, revealing the part that was corroded by the Void Colonization Suit. Her chest had turned into a thin membrane, and one could directly see the pulsating purple light inside, replacing the original heart.

The same thing happened to Keyemi next to him, and it was even worse. The shark cannon had grown into his arm.

"These living weapons are eating away at our bodies. I'm afraid we won't be able to survive for long. They are extremely hungry, and only fighting other void monsters can alleviate this feeling." Saraté put down her cloak and picked up the strange spear.

"Originally there was a homeless man in our team. He was weak-willed and chose to run away when faced with the void. As a result, he was eaten by the hungry living weapons," Keyemi added.

The two's explanations made Kai'Sa understand that it was not that they didn't want to leave, but that they couldn't leave. The moment they became Malzahar's test subjects, there was no possibility of survival.

"Just let us go with you. You're already dying anyway, so you might as well kill some more void monsters before you die. Dying for Belvis is considered a heroic sacrifice."

"I just want to find the prophet before I die and ask him why he did this. I want to die with a clear mind."

"Let me make it clear first. If you encounter any danger, I will no longer care whether you live or die."

Kassa knew that even if she refused, they would still return to the city, so she just took them with her.

Noticing that the temple was still glowing with golden light, she headed in that direction.

"I see flashes all the time over there in the temple. Do you have any clues?"

"It should be the righteous light of the Desert Light Priestess. If there are any survivors in the city, they should have run to the temple to seek her protection."

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The staff emitted a dazzling light, turning all the evil spirits that tried to break through the light into ashes.

The priestess has been here for a long time. From the moment the catastrophe came, she has been calling out to the gods, but until Pervis was completely destroyed, no god responded to her.

"Hold on. Has anyone come to save you? Is it Nasus or Renekton?"

A hollow and ethereal voice came into the priestess's mind. She looked up and saw a purple figure floating in front of her.

He was barefoot, and covered his face with a purple scarf, but the exposed forehead was only a thin membrane. A terrifying light was pulsating and expanding inside, eager to eat. Even his eyes were dyed purple, emitting a compelling light.

This is the Prophet Malzahar, and his appearance now is no different than it was a few years ago.Mei thinks Mei thinks I am empty without Lin Youyong...

The priestess answered him with action. She stretched out her staff forward, and the scattered golden light gathered into a beam of light, shooting towards Malzahar.

The latter did not dodge or evade. At the moment before the light beam was about to hit him, a layer of flowing purple light appeared on his body surface, silently eliminating the golden light.

"Your memory is valuable, and she will surely be interested in it. Give up struggling and sink into the lavender sea. You will have the honor of witnessing her coronation."

Malzahar was neither annoyed nor angry, as if he had abandoned all useless human emotions. He spoke in a gentle and easy-going manner, but used an invisible force to pull the priestess into the air.

"You traitor to humanity, you will never succeed!"

The priestess was indomitable. She used her last bit of strength to control her staff to shoot out a ray of light, knocking down the sun disk on top of the temple.

Rather than leaving my memories to the void, I would rather die under the sun disk. If my sacrifice could earn the gods' mercy, I would not be ashamed of my ancestors.

But she underestimated Malzahar's power. A frenzied hernia broke out of the ground and instantly entangled the collapsed disc, strangling her hope of finding freedom.

"Then I will build you into the foundation of my throne."

As the prophet spoke, the priestess's facial features were submerged in a strange purple light, and dark fluorescent corals burst out from the surface of her skin.

Friends, family, faith, childhood…Her memories were like the stars in the night sky, extinguishing one by one, then falling and sinking into the sea.

She continued to sink in the purple sea, passing by those strange upside-down buildings, and through the empty living sky, there was a terrifying nothingness mottled with black light.

The picture froze, and in the bizarre carpet of void coral, she glimpsed something huge, on the verge of birth.

Chapter 75: One-Eye and the Puppet

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When Kassa arrived, the Temple of the Sun had already turned into ruins, with a cluster of hernias holding up a sun disk.

It was already in pieces, with a large number of purple blood vessels covering its surface like a fungal carpet, gluing it together and preventing it from breaking into pieces.

After sensing Kassa and others approaching, a pustule quickly grew on the fungal carpet of the disc. After the pustule exploded, a single eye emerged and glanced in the direction of Kassa.

"Kasha, you are finally here."

A voice sounded in Kasha's mind, but it was not the voice of the Wild Hunt. Kasha remembered clearly that the voice came from the person she wanted to get rid of.

She looked around as if she was facing a formidable enemy, searching for Malzahar's traces. However, the other party had no hidden intentions, and blatantly floated out from behind the sun disk, hanging barefoot above the ruins.

Upon seeing this, Kassa immediately knelt and aimed the mouth of the pod at the opponent, starting to accumulate angry bullets.

"I didn't expect that the little girl who escaped by chance would now become a Void Hunter and come back to find me." The purple headscarf covered half of Malzahar's face. Although he said this, there was no surprise in his glowing eyes.

"You didn't expect that? Ha, then you should calculate who of us will leave alive today. I'll give you some time." Kassa clenched his fists, and his face under the mask was distorted by anger.

This was the opportunity for a conversation that Kassa had been waiting for for a long time, but she really couldn't talk to him calmly. As soon as she opened her mouth, there was a strong smell of choking gunpowder, and she was already trying her best to suppress her desire to attack.

The reason why a prophet is a prophet is because he has the ability to predict the future. How could he not know that this moment is coming? Kasha didn't believe it.

Malzahar knew the outcome, so he must have been prepared for the reckoning or death, otherwise he would never have appeared here, so there must be a winner among them today.

"Maybe I will die, but you will never win." Malzahar said expressionlessly, "Human. Every minute and every second of living in this world is torture. I have completed my mission. Death is nothing more than an early release for me."

"Don't think I'll let you go just because you say that."

Kai'Sa loosened her clenched fist, raised her hand and shot at Malzahar, and the deadly plasma bullet broke through the air, drawing a deadly trajectory in the air. However, the single eye on the sun disk suddenly shot out a laser, detonating Kai'Sa's long-accumulated plasma bullet in advance.

Malzahar looked straight ahead, ignoring this. He sighed, "I originally wanted to recruit you, because we both follow the same master."

"Recruit? Are you kidding me?" Kai'Sa was so angry that she laughed. She wanted to tear Malzahar's head open to see what was inside.

"There is no reconciliation between our hatred."

"Hatred will only make you feel pain."

"Not killing you will make me suffer even more!"Mei Xiangmei doesn't have you, Kong Yong doesn't have Lin Youyong...

She suppressed her anger into the missile pod and immediately released a round of scorching barrage. However, without exception, all of these missiles were intercepted by the laser shot by the one-eyed man.

Negotiations broke down, and Malzahar no longer held back. With a wave of his hand, endless void spirits poured out from all directions, gathering into a purple tide.

Kasa frowned. These Void Spirits were not a problem for her. The problem was that along with the Zerg tide, there were also several humans, or puppets, armed with Void weapons. The living weapons had completely merged with them. The strange light flickered through the analysis of the chest ribs, and they had already shared the same glowing heart.

Keyemi saw that the priestess of the Temple of the Sun was possessed by a void weapon. An indescribable crustacean appeared on her white robe, with distinct limbs tightly attached to her shoulders, and a translucent hose extended out to connect to the staff in her hand.

It was a staff made up of sharp limbs, a drooling mouth, and a chaotic chitinous shell. The pupil of the bulging single eye at the end was beating, searching for food everywhere, eager to eat. In contrast, the priestess was slow and stiff, her eyes were empty and unfocused, as if it was not she who was controlling this body, but the one-eyed staff.

"Monster! What have you done to our priest?!"