Void Beetle Evolution Guide

Seeing the two people stepping into the garden, the gardener immediately rushed over waving a shovel, his empty eyes flashing with cold light, coldly searching for any life or thing that could be harmed.

Faced with this warm welcome, Kassadin was not polite at all. She sent out a plasma bomb, which made a hole in the evil spirit's head and completely destroyed it in the subsequent explosion.

Watching the undead disintegrate into black smoke and merge into the fog, Kassa couldn't help but frown.

Her attacks seemed to be of little effect against these fleshless undead. The power of the void could not completely destroy them, and there would always be some black smoke left behind.

"These undead spirits are difficult to kill. Once they are destroyed, they will return to the black fog and be resurrected after a period of time. To be honest, the evil spirit I encountered on the ship before was not the first time I encountered it." Iris said.

"It's really weird, is there no way to completely solve them?"

"As far as I know, the Baru priests of the Serpent Islands have this power. When the Haunting Night comes, they will take the lead in resisting the shadows and use divine light to purify the black fog and the undead."

"The holy stone weapons used by the Sentinels of Light can also do this. Their predecessor was a certain religious order on the island." After Iris finished speaking, the Wild Hunt also added.

In fact, the disadvantages of the Water of Life had already appeared in the early days, so the masters of Fuguang Island chose to seal it up and were unwilling to give it to Viego to treat Isolde.

When a living person drinks the water of life, he will see many spirits that he should not see; and when a dead person drinks the water of life, the spirits will enter the corpse, creating the illusion of "resurrection".

The reason is that the water of life makes the boundary between the two realms of matter and spirit become thinner, allowing things that should not have intersected to come into contact with each other. This power is extremely unstable and can easily go wrong.

The Wild Hunt thought, since the power of runes turned spring water into water of life, was it possible that the Holy Stone was also formed under the influence of runes?

Wherever there is a poisonous snake, there must be an antidote within seven steps. The Water of Life allows people to see the dead, and the Holy Stone weapon can be used to destroy the dead. It is hard not to suspect the connection between these coincidences.

"We are neither Baru priests nor Sentinels of Light, so it's useless to say anything. Forget it, let's just leave it at that. It's not like we can't win." Kassa shrugged and motioned for Iris to continue leading the way.

"By the way, the explosion you just made was too loud. You'd better be careful on this island full of death and silence." Iris reminded as she walked: "The reason I chose to come here at this time is because the powerful undead on the island have just gained enough souls during the Soul-Eating Night. In this state, they will be more obedient than usual."

Kaisa also felt that the explosion was harsher than usual: "Powerful undead... How powerful is it?"

"Hecarim, the centaur monster who leads the Ghost Cavalry, often launches destructive charges near the coastline, trampling everything that can be destroyed. I parked the ship in that small bay to prevent it from destroying our ship and trapping us on the island. In addition, there is a warden named Thresh who enjoys torturing others. He appears and disappears at will, and likes to torture people to death and then put them in lanterns to continue to torture them.

The two of them have a relatively large range of activities, so the chances of encountering them are higher. Some more powerful undead only stay in certain areas, such as Hylia where we are going. We should be able to protect ourselves, but it is better to avoid them if possible."

Kai'Sa lowered her head in thought. Both Hecarim and Thresh appeared in the stories of Shadow Isles that the Wild Hunt had told her. One was the leader of the Iron Order of the Kingdom of Kamavia, who was extremely ambitious and greedy, and was a born bad seed; the other was the keeper of the underground warehouse and the warden of Thresh's prison. Thresh was named Grell Urlock in his lifetime. He was not well-received because he was a pig farmer. He had excellent grades but no mentor recognized him. He was exiled to the underground warehouse and ignored for more than ten years, which eventually led to his evilness.

The people involved in the incident were basically transformed into powerful undead. Even a rag doll beside Isolde gained life because of her soul fragments. If she met the Jailer, she would definitely smash his lantern. It was said that there were hundreds of souls imprisoned in it. Even if they were released, they would still be bound by the black fog, which was much better than continuing to be tortured by Thresh.

As Kasa was thinking about it, she suddenly noticed a pair of scarlet eyes staring at her in the darkness on the side of the road.

"Who is there!"

Kassa's voice attracted Iris's attention. The latter was very confused because when she looked over, the red eye had disappeared, and she didn't even sense any abnormal vibration.

Just as the two were searching for the sneaky guy, a head quietly emerged from the shadow of Kassa's heel. Its mouth, full of ferocious fangs, was cracked to the ears and bit her ankle hard without letting go.

The fangs penetrated her skin armor, and a cold blue light was injected into her body. Along with the pain came a biting cold.

"Ugh, damn!"Mei thinks you Lin Youkong Yong without Lin Youyong...

Kassa half-knelt on the ground because of the pain. She immediately grabbed the thing that was biting her and looked at her ankle, which was bloody and turned outward. Black veins had already appeared around it. The skin armor was like a space suit with a broken airlock, and the black mist was taking the opportunity to absorb her vitality.

The thing that attacked her should be considered a humanoid creature, with short limbs like a dwarf, not even as tall as a stool. It was hairless and muscular, with skin as dark as the night, and a small torn skirt around its crotch.

The most surprising thing is the huge, flat head, which is very disproportionate to the petite body. It has a pair of large, thin-skinned bat-like ears. The earlobes are full of broken bite marks and many tiny blue blood vessels.

A big mouth was grinning at her, occupying about half of the entire face. The scarlet eyes and bloody fangs were filled with malicious intent.

Shadowy Diver, Threat Level 2.

The auxiliary panel came online again, which meant that the Wild Hunt transferred his consciousness back in an instant.

"Be careful, these things appear in groups." After giving this warning, he returned to Iris and prepared to face the enemy.

Looking at the monster that was struggling and screaming, Kassa's palm gushed out energy and melted it rapidly. In the blink of an eye, many scarlet eyes appeared in the surrounding darkness.

They were everywhere, on the branches of dead trees, in the collapsed ruins, and in the thickets of thorns, like overlapping black shadows, and they were surrounded.

Chapter 104: Successive Attacks

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In just a few seconds, countless scarlet eyes emerged from the darkness and surrounded the two of them.

"Can you run?" Iris asked.

She already knew the purpose of this trip and didn't want to continue fighting with these undead spirits. There was no benefit in defeating them, so she would avoid fighting if possible.

"What a sinister guy, it happened to my ankle..." Kassa dragged a few steps in pain and shook her head helplessly.

The thing directly bit off her tendons, but that was actually nothing. The key was the cursed power that came with the bite.

The skin armor was unable to quickly dispel the cold and numbing curse power, causing the wound to take longer than usual to heal. During this period, she probably wouldn't be able to run away.

"Then I'll try to delay it."

Iris raised her hand and shot the poisonous sticky bomb into the darkness, but the expected impact did not come.

Those shadowy bats suddenly disappeared from their original positions. The poisonous sticky bombs only hit the ground, corroding a poisonous pit, and even the rocks emitted black smoke from the dissolution of substances. But if they can't hit, no matter how powerful they are, it's useless.

"It's troublesome. It seems they can hide in the shadows." Just as Iris finished her words, a shadow bat quietly emerged from the shadow behind her, opening its sharp mouth full of fangs.

Just before it was about to bite, a crystallized bullet hit it accurately and sealed it in amethyst.

The cluster of crystals also affected Elise's feet, growing and blooming along her ankles. But it was not a big problem. She pulled her feet out of the crystal cluster, and then used her sharp appendages to pierce the shadow bat, smashing it and the crystal cluster together.

The monster shattered into several pieces and turned into black smoke and merged into the black fog. Iris looked at Kassadin who raised her hand towards her and nodded and thanked her. The crystallized bullet just now was shot by Kassadin.

"Don't say these useless things. Is there any way to deal with them? We are too passive like this."

In the darkness, countless pairs of scarlet eyes were staring at the two of them, laughing eerily and creepily, and approaching them stealthily. As long as the two of them relaxed a little, these guys would immediately seize the opportunity and launch a sneak attack from the shadows behind them, making it impossible to defend against them at all.

The threat level of the Ghostly Prowler is not high, but it has the disgusting ability of stealth shadow, which makes it difficult for most attacks to hit. It is a very typical mechanism monster, and if you don't find a corresponding method, you will be in a difficult battle.

A calm sea does not breed true sailors. In general, in order to train the fighting awareness of the clan members, the Wild Hunt will not give an answer immediately when encountering such a situation. If they really cannot think of a solution and are in danger, he will give some advice or personally join the battle.

“As for shadows,” Elise said, “if there is enough light, they will disappear.”

She pulled out glowing spider silk from her palm, but this level of light was not enough. The liquid energy itself was bright and eye-catching, but the purple light it emitted had weak penetrating power and could not even illuminate the shadows under her feet.

The shadow bats launched a tentative attack, waving their claws with black air and rushing forward, but Iris easily cut their bodies with a sweep of silk thread. Knowing that Iris was powerful, they did not charge recklessly again, and the battle fell into a stalemate.

"Light?" Kassa exhaled a breath of white cold air and looked up at the sky. The moon was looming in the surging black fog, casting only a dim and cold light. She still had to rely on herself.

She controlled the shoulder pods to accumulate energy, and the pods emitted a furnace-like light, turning into a pair of searchlights. Then she turned her body, and the approaching shadow bats retreated back into the shadows under the illumination of the beam of light.

It had some effect, but the pod could only illuminate the front. Kassa then transformed the pod into a floating cannon and launched it into the sky, alternately illuminating the ground below. Although the illumination range was much larger, the relative brightness also dropped a lot.

A shadow bat took advantage of the gap between the alternating lighting of the floater cannon to come out and bite Kassadin. The black air on its body offset some of the light.

“Kassadin!” This time it was Iris’ turn to pierce the bat and the ground with her insect legs in time. She approached Kassadin and said, “It seems that we can deal with the attack of the shadow bats as long as we help each other to keep an eye on the blind spots in our vision.”

"But this is still very passive. Do I have to drag it out until my foot is healed? What if I get injured again by accident?"

The biting coldness clung to Kassadin's ankle like a malignant tumor, causing black veins to appear near the wound. The skin armor had stopped its spread, but it was not easy to expel it. She probably needed a good night's sleep to fully recover.

Because of the protection of the armor, Kai'Sa hadn't felt the cold for a long time. She didn't expect to be caught soon after arriving in Shadow Island. If it were an ordinary person, the bite just now would have put a countdown to death.

The soul keeps slipping away, like a wound that never heals. First, one will limp and be unable to walk, and when the curse spreads throughout the body, one will turn into a frost-covered corpse in a trance.

Seeing Kassa's legs trembling, Iris sighed, "If only there was fire."

"Damn! How could I have forgotten this."

Kassa seemed to have thought of something. After cursing, she immediately controlled the floating cannon to turn the muzzle. The pod that had already been filled with light shot a round of scorching light bullets towards the group of shadow bats on the dead tree.

The missile circled in the air, and all the shadow bats took the opportunity to hide in the shadows, but Kassadin didn't care, as they were not her target from the beginning.

I saw the light bomb fall on the dead tree, and the dry and rotten branches broke one after another in a series of explosions. White-hot purple fire rained down from the sky, and the dead tree turned into a huge torch, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

In the hellish heat, the dark creatures screamed and fled. Some of them accidentally got stained with the purple fire, and their bodies suddenly burned violently. Because they could not dive into the darkness under the light of the fire, they could only be burned to ashes.

"Using plasma bullets to start fires, is this really possible?" Iris sighed as she looked up at the burning tree. She had just obtained the skin armor and didn't quite understand the characteristics of the various ammunition.Mei thinks about you Lin Kongyong without Lin Youyong...

"These dead trees that have lost their moisture for many years can be ignited easily, and they are the best fuel. But I have long been accustomed to the darkness, and for a moment I did not think of using fire to dispel the darkness."

Kassa can see in the dark, and she never feels cold with her skin armor, and she doesn't need to make a fire to cook food, so fire is superfluous to her. If Iris hadn't reminded her by chance, she wouldn't have thought of using fire to dispel the darkness.

She was a little out of her mind. If she were an ordinary person, the first thing she would think of when she came to this cold and dark place would be to light a torch. But she didn't expect that she had given those shadow bats a chance to get close from the beginning.

"I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have been injured like this." Kassa stomped her feet. The skin armor had covered the wound again, but she still felt like she was wearing a boot filled with snow, which was heavy and cold.

"The power of habit is terrible. Don't blame yourself. Your fighting instincts are already sharp. I didn't even think of using dead trees as fuel." Iris squatted down and carefully examined Kassa's foot injury. She asked gently, "Do you need me to inject some spider venom into you? Although it can't dispel the curse, it should be able to alleviate your pain."

"No need, it will be fine after a while." Kassa thanked Iris for her kindness, but she still couldn't accept fighting poison with poison.

"Do you want me to help you walk?"

"I just slowed down, not that I couldn't walk."

As an elder who has lived for hundreds of years longer, Elise has a tolerance far beyond that of a mature woman. If she doesn't engage in any conspiracy or intrigue, this tolerance will naturally be revealed, but Kassadin doesn't appreciate it.

"Okay--" Elise was about to say something when the fur on her appendage suddenly felt a vibration.

The next moment, a strong wind blew, targeting Kassadin who had not noticed it yet. Without the spider's reaction, she was a little slow.

"Be careful!" The Spider Queen subconsciously extended her appendages towards the flying object, piercing it through and intercepting it before it hit Kassadin.

"Again?"

Kassadin looked towards the dark woods where the sound of breaking air came from with uncertainty, but Iris was unable to take her eyes away because of confusion and stared at the thing she had intercepted.

The physical sensation from the appendages was very strange. When intercepting, the force was so strong and heavy that even the reinforced appendages could hardly catch it. But after grabbing it firmly, it felt that the mass was much lighter than stone, and there was no such heavy feeling at all.

After a closer look, I found that it was a toad made entirely of tree bark, with a pair of glowing green eyes, green saliva dripping from its mouth, and many sharp thorns covered its body.

It had extremely strong vitality and even after being pierced by the appendages, it did not die completely. It was struggling wildly with its limbs kicking wildly at the end.

Both of them gasped. This thing, curled up into a ball and flying towards them, was simply a living meteor hammer flying at high speed.

If the attack had hit Kaisa directly or Elise had chosen to catch it with her hands, they would probably have been pierced.

Chapter 105: Twisted Tree Spirit

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Spiked Toad, Threat Level 2.

Before Iris could deal with the toad at the end of its appendage, another spiky toad pierced through the black fog and shot out from the direction of the woods like a cannonball.

This time, neither of them dared to take it head-on. The toad landed on the ground, creating a cloud of dust, then kicked up its hind legs and pounced towards the two of them, making strange croaking sounds as it leaped.

Iris dodged the long tongue covered with green mucus that suddenly stretched out, and then nailed it directly to the ground. Seeing that it was struggling and refusing to die, she sprayed out a sticky spider silk and wrapped it tightly.

"Their jumping ability is not strong, they can't fly so fast by themselves. Something must have thrown them here!" Kassa keenly discovered the problem, and subsequently, the frequency of the living shells' attacks gradually increased.Mei thinks that Mei has time to spare without Lin Youyong...

“Perhaps it was Maokai,” Elise guessed. “These bark monsters were most likely created by it. I once found something similar near the lair of the Vile Maw.”

"Maokai? The twisted tree spirit?"

"Yes." Iris nodded: "Let's go, there is no need for us to conflict with it. Before, the Despicable Throat and it did not interfere with each other."

"Wait, isn't it an enemy of the undead?" Kassa knew there was no point in fighting it, but she wanted to see what the thing looked like before leaving.

"The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. What's more, we burned its trees... These dead trees around were all its neighbors before the Great Destruction. It has a bad temper and is the type that protects its own shortcomings. If it disagrees with something, it will -"

As if to confirm Iris's words, another bark monster was thrown over, interrupting Iris's voice.

This time it was not the spiked toad that came, but another kind of round little tree spirit, and it fell from the sky above the burning dead tree in a parabola, like a high-throw grenade.

The thing rolled twice on the ground, then grew tiny limbs and crawled towards the two people. A smiling face almost occupied its entire body, and it looked harmless.

The moment she saw it, Iris's appendages emitted a strong sense of crisis. She opened her eyes wide and instinctively shot out a sticky spider silk to wrap it up.

The seemingly harmless little thing exploded violently the next moment, and the resulting shock wave cleared the surrounding black fog. If Iris hadn't shot out the sticky spider silk in advance, the flying bark fragments would definitely make the two of them pay the price!

"Get out of my forest!" A rough and furious roar came from the darkness, causing the burning dead tree to drop dozens of burnt black branches.

The roots grew very fast and spread along the ground, and the soil flew up as if it had been plowed. Kassa used plasma barrage to create a wall of fire, but the thick roots drilled into the ground and then crossed the wall of fire and appeared under Kassa's feet.

Kassa wanted to tear open the space and escape, but Iris lost her patience and took her away by force. She grabbed Kassa's waist from behind, controlled her appendages to support each other off the ground, and the four insect legs quickly retreated alternately to create distance.

Helplessly, Kassa had to stare at the front. He saw dozens of bark-howling monsters rushing towards him quickly with thunderous roars, and behind them, the figures of twisted tree spirits began to appear through the surging mist.

To Kassadin's surprise, the guy was not that big, at least smaller than the Vile Maw, but the range of its roots was not small at all.

The strange tree had a totem-like face, with clusters of tumors as its joints, and the green leaves growing on it were the only green things they saw since they arrived on the island.

Its roots pulled out of the black soil to form legs, and the branches became arms. One of them was as thick and heavy as a shield, and needed to be supported on the ground to move forward; the other arm was extremely slender and held a small tree spirit in its palm. There were also many bark monsters of various shapes around it. It was obvious that this hand launched them like cannonballs.

"Get out of my forest!"

Maokai's hollow eyes shone with vengeance, and the leaves trembled like an old man shaking his beard in anger. He opened his mouth and uttered an ancient tone, heavy and slow, deafening.