Void Beetle Evolution Guide

In the darkness, the sound of gnawing was endless, and the smell of blood was pungent. When she saw those faint purple spots, Kaisha knew clearly what she was experiencing.

At this moment, she began to envy those people who were thrown to death directly after their memories were taken away by the prophet, so that they would not have to suffer such painful despair like being tortured to death.

She should have followed Uma's advice and left in time, so that she would not have met the Prophet's eyes.

Then I wouldn't have to hold Uma's hand like I am now, hypocritically thinking that I would not be separated from my good friend until the last moment of my life, and praying too late for forgiveness that would never come.

The tears of regret dried up at some point, and just when everything was over, a voice suddenly sounded in Kesha's mind.

"How dare you come and peek at the sacrifice? How can I put it... your performance is really terrible."

That was not the voice of the prophet, but that of the Wild Hunt whom he had met before.

The deep cave monster crawled to Kaisha's side. Unlike other void elves, it did not rush to eat. Instead, it stayed within her reach and looked down at her.

Is it here to laugh at me? Kesha wondered.

It doesn't matter. If I can be eaten by the Wild Hunt in the end, it's better than being eaten by other insects.

Maybe, it can end her suffering faster; maybe, it can convey her last words to her mother; maybe...

"But I'm not disappointed. On the contrary, this step has come faster because of your adventurous behavior." Wild Hunt changed the subject.

"What?" Keisha squeezed out two words weakly.

"I see something special in you. Your will is so strong that you can resist her devouring. You are born to do this... Incredible. I can't wait!"

The Wild Hunt's tone was unusually excited and sounded a little abnormal, which made Kesa begin to suspect that encountering it at the last minute was not a good thing.

But she had no choice, the Wild Hunt had not lied to her, it was the only Void Spirit that could communicate.

"...eat me," she begged.

"Eat you? No, no, no, I want to save you!" The insect swarm devoured very quickly. The Wild Hunt did not beat around the bush and suddenly opened his huge mouth of the abyss: "Now, put your hand in my mouth! See that heart? Hold it! I will use my heart to exchange for your immortality and mine!"

"Why... do this?" Kai'Sa was puzzled. Of course, the Wild Hunt would not answer "It's because I want your body".

"Cooperation is a win-win situation, don't you understand? You can gain strength from me and leave here alive, and I can abandon this fragile body and continue to evolve. We both have a bright future." Time is running out, and the Wild Hunt urged: "Hurry up, don't you want to get out alive and save your mother? Do you think the Prophet will stop here?"

"..."

Staying alive is more important than anything else. Kesha has no reason to refuse. If the Wild Hunt just wants to eat her, there is no need to tease her like this.

She stretched out her only intact arm, reached into the giant mouth as instructed by the Wild Hunt, and resolutely grasped the glowing, pulsating heart.

Chapter 7: Void Skin Armor

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Kai'Sa held the Wild Hunt's heart tightly, and the corrosion on her palm as she had imagined did not happen.

The liquid ball of light extended several tentacles of light, which grasped her hand, with their fingers tightly clasped.

The energy that should have been used for destruction was injected into her body, and winding purple lines spread up along her arms, like pulsating blood vessels. These blood vessels extended into more fine blood vessels, like strands of silk, weaving three-dimensionally into her second layer of skin.

This process of materialization was like thousands of needles stinging her flesh, and her skin was completely turned over. The skin armor that was born bit into Kaisha's flesh tightly, but at the same time it also injected a large amount of biomass, reactivating her broken body, quickly repairing all injuries, and reborn in destruction.

The Wild Hunt was quickly adapting to her body, and her body was also adapting to the Wild Hunt, and soon only a slight itchy feeling was left.

In contrast, the Wild Hunt's form changed dramatically. Its chitinous shell was shrinking rapidly, turning into a grayish-white substance like a dead fetus, and it faded and melted like a candle.

As one grew stronger, the other weakened. He transformed into the Void Beetle Armor on Kai'Sa's body, covering most of the girl's body, leaving only the part above the neck uncovered, like a tights tightly wrapped around her body.

Depending on the light and shadow, the armor sometimes appears pale and sometimes dark, but the basic tone is the eternal purple of nothingness.

The dull and non-reflective leather texture seems to absorb even light, and the dense scales look easily reminiscent of the phosphorus wings of a moth, which can arouse the fear deeply buried in the genes.

There are many gill-like lines on the skin, which look like muscle texture, opening and closing as if breathing. Purple light constantly flows through it, like flowing lava.

If you look at her body through these light gaps, you would mistake it for an empty shell, as if what's inside is not a little girl, but a bottomless void.

Elegance and horror coexist, and it is extremely evil and charming.

The final step of the fusion is for the Wild Hunt to establish a neural connection with Kai'Sa.

At the indistinguishable boundary, the skin armor extended a large number of fine synapses into Kesha's exposed neck. These synapses, thinner than a hair, connected to Kesha's neural network and blocked her pain for the first time, so the girl only felt pain for a moment.

"How is it?" The Wild Hunter showed off in his mind, and that tough tone didn't seem to allow her to say anything bad.

"I don't know..." Kesha hesitated and clenched her fists, and a tragic purple light burst out from between her fingers.

When I opened my hand, I found a crack on the palm of my hand. The depth of the crack was far greater than the thickness of my palm, but I didn't feel any discomfort.

The light burned her face, and Kaisha subconsciously moved her hand away. The next second, a beam of high-energy plasma burst out from the crack in her palm, falling into the swarm of insects and causing a scorching explosion.

The naked eye only had time to see the broken limbs suddenly appear in mid-air, and a few drops of strange liquid splashed onto Kesha's body, and then were greedily absorbed by the skin armor.

The drastic changes in her body made Kesha feel nauseous and sick. She didn't feel any discomfort in her body now. The only discomfort came from her mentality.

She had no time to adjust to this sudden change and was terrified by how powerful she was.

"Hmph. What now?"

The voice of the Wild Hunt sounded in her mind. Just as Kai'Sa was about to say something, the insect armor at the neck quickly extended upwards. The overlapping armor plates covered her face, forming a helmet with three narrow eyes, leaving only her hair scattered outside.

Fearing suffocation, she subconsciously hugged the helmet tightly, but relaxed her hands after finding that she could still breathe. Through this helmet, Kaisha was given the strange senses of a void creature and could finally see in the dark.

"..."After seeing the tragic situation around her, Kesha didn't feel any better.

She stood on the pile of sacrifices, as the swarm of insects washed over the mountain of corpses below her feet like an invading tide, and the attack she had just launched was unable to tear a hole in it.

Kesha stopped looking, but the sound of them gnawing was so painful that her ears hurt. Fortunately, the food did not resist, otherwise Kesha would have closed her ears for fear that she would not be able to resist.

"Even if you gain power beyond comprehension, you are still just a brat at heart."

The Wild Hunter didn't get the answer he wanted from Kai'Sa, so he gave up after a muffled grunt, but his excitement did not diminish in the slightest.

Plasma bombs, invisibility, acceleration, energy shield... these abilities have all been unlocked. If the stored energy was not insufficient, he could even evolve the pod on his back in the first possible moment. It would be like a portable gunpowder depot!

But now he is very satisfied with it.

In the original world line, when Kai'Sa first merged with the void spirit, she only had a piece of armor on her arm, which was far from the skin armor covering her entire body now. Fortunately, she had devoured many of her own kind before and accumulated a lot of energy.

But this is not the biggest gain of the Wild Hunt in the fusion.

His greatest gain was that he regained human consciousness through Kesha's body. He could smell the blood, taste the bitterness, feel touch and pain, and feel Kesha's joys and sorrows.

It's like... I have my body back, and I'm still so young and full of energy.

This is the joy of living.

"It's time to leave. Do you want to snatch the sacrifice from these void elves?" Seeing Kai'Sa squatting down to move the corpse, Wild Hunter urged.

"I'm going to take Uma back with me."

Through the vision enhanced by the helmet, Keisha saw at a glance that Uma's heart was still beating, and she had a strong desire to take her home.

The Wild Hunt also saw that Uma was still alive, but he saw more than Kesha. "It's useless. She can't hold on for long in this state. Any action you take will hasten her death. Carrying another corpse will only add to the burden. Give up."

Keisha stopped when she heard that, but after a while she decided to pick him up.

If she takes it back, she will die. Will she be able to live if she stays here? They had agreed to go exploring caves together, but now that was no longer possible, she should at least be allowed to take Uma's body back.

"She became like this because of you, don't be hypocritical." The Wild Hunter continued to provoke Kai'Sa, and said sarcastically without any sympathy, "If you can't give her up, let me eat her and let her stay with you in another form."

The Wild Hunt believes that powerful forces must be controlled with a will that matches them, otherwise it will lead to destruction.

Kesha's evolution process was shortened by several years because of him. Her starting point was too high, but her mentality is still that of the little girl who has not been tempered.

It's obviously not okay for her to act on impulse like she is now, so don't blame him for speaking in a rude way.

"No," the terrifying words made Kesha's body tremble violently, and then she resisted fiercely with all her strength, "You can't hurt her! I must take her back!"

"She'll die soon without my help."

The Wild Hunt could let the armor sting Kesa to punish her for her rebellion, but the physical pain was nothing compared to the mental despair. A simple sentence broke the defense of this little girl who pretended to be stubborn.

"I know, I know this is all my fault. I made her like this! That's why I have to take her back!" Tears burst out, and Kesha screamed in agony.

The Wild Hunt tasted the salty sadness with disgust. The brat was crying and his nose was running. He didn't want the inside of his helmet to be a mess, so he had to bite the bullet and absorb the messy secretions.

But he was right. Keisha also noticed that Uma's heartbeat was becoming weaker and weaker, but what could she do?Mei is not in me, there is no Mei, no Kong Yong, no Lin You Yong......

"I don't understand why I can't protect the people around me even though I've become stronger. What's the point of having this power?"

"Can you blame me for this? We weren't together yet when the accident happened." The Wild Hunter was speechless. The ten-year-old naughty kid was really annoying.

"Maybe you shouldn't have saved me in the first place. A sinner like me deserves to die. You should give the chance to live to Uma... You should give the chance to live to Uma..." Kesha murmured and choked, repeating this sentence over and over again. Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered a blind spot and shouted excitedly: "That's right! You can save her! Just like you saved me!"

"Who do you think I am? A lustful demon who can sleep with anyone? Don't think I will agree to your request just because you act like a spoiled brat. She is not worth saving."

The Wild Hunt pretended to casually say that he had the ability to heal the patient, but Kai'Sa, who was so young, didn't have time to think and took the bait immediately.

"I will do everything, please save Uma!" Seeing hope, Kesha pleaded regardless of the consequences.

"You really can do everything?"

Hearing the Wild Hunt's intention, Kai'Sa said hastily: "I will! Even if you have to eat me!"

"Alright, alright, your words are enough. I don't know if my energy reserves are enough, I'll try my best. During this time without my protection, be careful not to be eaten by the Hollow Spirit."

The Wild Hunt does what they say and won't be half-hearted just because Kesa is still a child.

Through the arms, the living skin armor began to transfer to Uma.

Chapter 8 Crystal Bullet

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More and more void spirits joined the ranks of sharing the sacrifices. They rustled and rustled endlessly, forming a crazy ocean.

The insects below that couldn't get any food began to turn their attention to the top of the pile of corpses. With an insatiable urge to kill, they climbed up, stepping on the corpses of their own kind, like a surging tide.

"Damn it! Get away from me!"

Kai'Sa was mumbling nonsense while stuffing the corpses at her feet into the swarm of insects. It was unclear whether she was cursing or begging for forgiveness, trying to buy as much time as possible for the Wild Hunt to rescue Uma.

The reconstruction process was different from the beginning. Instead of forming a channel of void energy from scratch, it softened into grayish-white biomass and then transferred to Uma to reshape it.

This undoubtedly accelerated the process of transfer. When being besieged by a swarm of insects, time is life.

After combining with Kai'Sa, the Wild Hunter was no longer a member of the same species in the eyes of the Void. Without the golden medal of immunity from death, he was under tremendous pressure facing the siege of the Zerg swarm.

After the reconstruction was completed, the Void Skin Armor covered Uma's entire body and began to convert energy into biomass needed to repair wounds to accelerate healing.

It was during this process that the Wild Hunt discovered that the skin armor looked different when equipped on Uma and when equipped on Kai'Sa.

The cracks on the surface of the skin armor faded, and were replaced by many protruding purple transparent crystals that grew at the bends of the joints such as fingers, elbows, and knees. They were very sharp and full of aggressiveness.

The Wild Hunt felt it carefully.

Crystal Bullet - This is the new ability that the Wild Hunt evolved after merging with Uma.

The Wild Hunt originally had the ability of crystallization, but it could only materialize the void energy into a short melee weapon. The accuracy was not high, and it could even be said to be very crude. It was an emergency measure after being approached.

However, the strength of this crystallized bomb is comparable to that of a plasma bomb.

Completely different from the corrosive and explosive properties of plasma bombs, crystallized bombs will produce rapidly growing sharp crystals after hitting the target. Once they penetrate the epidermis and enter the body, they will disintegrate the internal structure and break out of the body, causing equally devastating damage.

If encountering prey with thick skin and flesh, the Wild Hunter can first use plasma bullets to break the armor, and then use crystallized bullets to shoot the wound, the effect is the same.

"Can a seemingly ordinary little girl provide me with an opportunity to evolve? Or is there something special about Uma?"

This unexpected discovery puzzled the Wild Hunt, but he couldn't just find a few people to try it out.

Each time he merged and adapted, he would consume a lot of void energy, which he would have to kill many void spirits to replenish. So he had to make sure he had enough energy before occupying it.

Reconstruction requires energy, and repair also requires energy, which quickly depleted the Wild Hunt's already limited energy reserves. He originally thought that it was not enough, but when he was trying to establish a neural connection with Uma, he was unable to succeed, which saved him some energy.

"I tried my best to repair her body, but I can't do anything about the memories that have been drained." The Wild Hunter returned to Kai'Sa, and the adapted body would no longer consume his energy.

"So what's the situation now?" Kesha didn't quite understand what the Wild Hunt meant. "Can Uma still remember who she is?"

"To put it simply, her brain has returned to the chaotic state of the fetal period. She has forgotten even how to breastfeed, let alone remember her own identity." Afraid that Kesha would not understand what a fertilized egg was, the Wild Hunt specifically called it a fetus. In fact, the problem was much more serious than he said.

"Is there any possibility of recovery? Like growing again or something?"

"I don't know. Now I can only leave it to time."

After receiving such a vague answer, Kesha had no choice but to accept the reality no matter how reluctant she was.

"No matter what, take her back first."

She made her decision, lifted Uma up on her back, and then tore rags from the body and tied the latter securely behind her.