Void Beetle Evolution Guide

Kassa sighed, shifted her gaze away from the skeleton, and stared at the golden gate of the Shimmering Tower.

For some reason, she saw a blurry figure holding a huge sword emerge, and he was talking to a figure holding a lantern next to him.

The figure reached out and pushed at the door, which immediately caved in as if it had been hit by a battering ram, pulling down large pieces of wall bricks.

The heavy door was broken as easily as a branch, and fell into the tower. The figure held a huge sword and slaughtered people.

In the blink of an eye, everything in front of him had become a settled state. The collapsed door was covered with thick dust, the scattered wall bricks were trapped in mid-air by an invisible force, and those who were slaughtered had long since turned into perishable skeletons.

"Did you see that?" Kassa blinked hard, thinking she was hallucinating.

"I saw it. Viego's residual image and what he had done in the past." Iris said sternly, "I didn't expect that he had such magical powers when he was alive."

"These are the powers that Viego received after he signed a soul contract with Soul Eater. He is just an ordinary man, and he was recognized by Soul Eater only because of his royal blood." Wild Hunter explained.

"Just like the relationship between the host and the skin armor..." Kassa murmured.

The Wild Hunt did not comment, and said, "But the Kamavia people seem to like to disguise this giant sword that devours life and souls as the King's Blade of the Glittering Silver Throne, named Mu Qing."

Mu Qing was not made by human hands, nor was it even forged in the mortal world. It only exists in the Temple of the Ancient Spirits, the place where the Kamawia people go after death, and will only appear when summoned by the person who has made the contract.

Generally speaking, the moment the contract is signed, the contract ends, and Mu Qing will return to the Temple of the Ancient Spirits. However, the Curse of the Ruined King imprisoned Viego in a state of neither life nor death, causing the Soul Devouring Blade to continue to exist in the world, affecting the unstable runes for thousands of years.

If we can find a way to end the contract, the Curse of Ruin should be able to be broken.

"Viego's afterimage has moved. We can follow him to reach Wanzai Well." The Wild Hunter noticed that the afterimage had entered the tower and urged.

As they continued to go deeper, Kassadin and the others walked up the continuous and floating stairs, passed through several doors, and saw Viego wielding a giant sword and killing people along the way.

The Soul-Eating Blade was truly brutal. Those who were hit by it would have their lives sucked out before their bodies even fell.

In order to resurrect Isolde, he committed too many murders and was beyond redemption.

After breaking down another door, the two followed Viego's afterimage and came to an empty hall.

Everything here was built of marble and gold. Above, there was no visible top, only a shadow, now shrouded in black fog. Each archway on the edge of the hall was carefully carved with intricate geometric symbols, but unfortunately they had long been distorted. The lamps on the walls and pillars were dim, leaving the entire hall in darkness.

"Xinghe Hall." The Wild Hunter whispered the name of this place.

Before the Star Harmony Hall was destroyed, the masters used mysterious magic mechanisms to draw an exquisite starry sky above the hall, presenting the celestial map of the sky above Fukumitsu Island at this moment.

Tens of thousands of points of light twinkled in the vast darkness, the points of light flickering, drifting slowly at a speed that is imperceptible to the naked eye as each star moves.

Now all I can see when I look up is dead silence and darkness.

"There is a circular staircase on the ground, and the afterimage just walked down it!"

Kassa discovered an opened mechanism, which triggered the floor to sink, revealing a series of steps leading deeper underground.

"We're lucky. The mechanism here must have been destroyed by the Ruin, otherwise we might be stuck here for a long time." The Wild Hunter pointed to the eight pillars on the four sides of the Star Hall.

There is a niche on each pillar, in which are placed some parallel copper rods horizontally. There are about twenty pearls on each copper rod, which can slide left and right on the copper rod, corresponding to the hundreds of tiny scales on the copper rod.

When the stars meet and the light shines, the road will open. To open this mechanism, you have to arrange the pearls into a specific pattern to trigger the conjunction of the stars.

The Wild Hunter doesn't have the patience to slowly crack the mechanism. If the mechanism here is locked or stuck, he will directly try to crack it with brute force.

The two walked quickly along the spiral staircase into the last room, which was a spacious round hall with various symbols decorated with bas-relief on the walls. The gilded door in front of them was the last barrier between them and Wanzai Well.

Chapter 114 The Last Two Locks

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Following Viego's afterimage to the final secret chamber, the Wild Hunt saw him waiting in front of the door for a while, and then he walked in holding Isolde.

When I returned to reality, the door was closed and I didn't know who closed it.

Geometric patterns covered the entire door, and the interlaced lines and patterns drew the Wild Hunt's eyes to the symbol in the center of the door - an eye staring out from flames.

"Put your hand on the eye surrounded by flames on the door."

The Wild Hunt gave the order, without specifying who should go up. Kassadin trusted the Wild Hunt unconditionally, and she stepped forward decisively and placed her hand on the eye-shaped relief.

Elise looked at her back with some regret. Such a good opportunity to show off was snatched away by her just after a moment of hesitation. There was a reason why the Wild Hunt loved Kai'Sa so much.

Kassa placed her palms on her burning eyes, and a surge of energy immediately ran through her body, causing her breathing to stop.

A series of mechanical sounds were heard, and after a moment, two triangular holes appeared on the door, one on either side of the eyes. The size of the holes was exactly the same as the key stone obtained earlier.

Seeing this, the two asked in unison: "You actually want two key stones?"

"Sure enough, there is still one missing..." The Wild Hunter fell into deep thought.

In order to prevent a master from betraying the council and taking the water of life privately, the rune locks of Wanzai Well are designed to require two keystones to open.

He actually knew all these things, and he came to Wanzaijing without preparing two key stones in advance because he was planning to try brute force.

The keystone obtained from Hecarim is just an extra layer of protection.

"Let me try to open the lock. With only one keystone, Ryze manually unlocked the second lock and entered the Wanzai Well to retrieve some water of life for Thresh." said the Wild Hunter.

Rune Mage Ryze was also one of the factors that contributed to the occurrence of the Great Ruined King. He was caught by Thresh for stealing magic secrets and was forced to steal the first-hand water of life.

It was this water of life that allowed Thresh to forcibly pull back Viego, who had already given up on treatment, and triggered the subsequent Great Ruining.

After experiencing the Great Ruining and the Rune Wars, even his mentor, friends, and apprentice were bewitched by the power of World Runes one after another, causing Ryze to hate World Runes deeply.

He is dedicated to collecting runes scattered around the world, and in order to prevent the runes from falling into the hands of others and causing disaster, his methods have become extremely extreme.

After getting the World Rune, the Wild Hunt will hide it carefully. Even he is afraid of being hunted down by this super-strong old bald guy.

"For some reason, Ryze clearly knew that there was a World Rune in the Wanzai Well, but he didn't come to retrieve it after such a long time? Is there something that even he has to be wary of? Black Mist? Soul Blade? Or Thresh?"

The Wild Hunter muttered to himself as he controlled Kassadin to take out the keystone from the hive and place it in front of the keyhole. The keystone was suddenly pulled to the left, like a magnet being sucked by an iron block.

He inserted the keystone exactly, and as soon as it was in place, a blue energy lit it up.

Of course, the door was still closed, so he went to another keyhole. The inner wall of the triangular keyhole was engraved with lines, forming a certain pattern.

To be honest, the Wild Hunt knew nothing about magic, let alone such a complicated rune lock. He just wanted to give it a try, if he could unlock it, that would be the best, but if he couldn't, that would be fine.

A tentacle that could be deformed at will stretched out from the palm of his hand. The Wild Hunter inserted it into the keyhole. The soft yet tough tentacle filled every space inside and tried to squeeze and move it.

He soon discovered that this lock was like more than ten locks meshed together, and its complexity was far beyond his imagination.

The Wild Hunt simulated the protrusions on the keystone, constructing a pattern of intertwined runes, like the edge of a key pressing onto the pin of a lock.

He made sure that he had made no mistakes in every step, but suddenly a force came out that tightly pulled the tentacle and twisted it. Kassadin was flipped over with his entire arm, and had to turn around and fall to the ground, otherwise his shoulder would be dislocated.Mei misses me you are in the air without Lin Youyong...

"What's going on?" Kassa felt horrified. She saw a scarlet rune appear out of nowhere. The color was very dazzling and eye-catching, carrying a very obvious warning.

The Wild Hunter had no time to answer. He felt as if his entire tentacle was being dragged into a blazing furnace. He felt an intense burning pain and had no choice but to abandon that tentacle and escape.

After he pulled his hand away, the broken tentacle quickly burned in the keyhole and turned into ashes and scattered.

He sighed. Fortunately, he did not let Kassa put her hand in directly, but used her tentacles instead. Otherwise, he could not afford the consequences.

"This lock requires someone with both complex geometric deduction skills and powerful magic to open. I lack magic power so I can't do anything about it."

The Void is an alien invader and has a different origin from the magic of Runeterra, so it naturally cannot be effective against this rune lock.

Iris originally wanted to try using black magic. In theory, all magic in the world originated from runes, and the black magic that arcane can unlock should also be able to be unlocked by changing the thinking.

But after seeing the consequences of failure, she decided not to take the risk with her delicate hands. After all, she was not a magical genius, otherwise how could it take her so long to master the art of charm? She was very self-aware in this regard.

"Let me just melt this lock." After the Wild Hunt returned control of the body to Kai'Sa, she suggested. They had already reached the door, and no one wanted to stop there.

"You can try, but don't aim it at the keyhole. If you can't open it and damage the lock, then it's all over."

Kassa nodded, went to the side of the gate, found a place without patterns and pressed her hand on it, and void energy continued to surge out of the crack in her palm.

A film of light suddenly appeared, blocking the void energy outside.

Kassadin saw mysterious runes arranged in it, forming complex geometric shapes, which kept flipping and changing, avoiding the gaze of the eyes.

The indestructible void energy was unable to break through this layer of light film, and couldn't even waver. Kassadin persisted for a while, but was finally stopped by the Wild Hunt. He seemed to remember something.

"There was an Icathian who once visited the Blessed Light Island to have academic exchanges with the masters. His name was Jilan, and he was a witness to the Void War."

"So it was he who caused this barrier to be reinforced, and it can even resist the void energy that has no intersection with it at all?" Kassa thought that the reason why Kiran visited Fuguang Island could only be to seek a way to the void.

"That's not the case. The Ekassia people first used magic to contain void objects. They had already discovered that any form of matter would eventually be swallowed or destroyed by the void. Using a magic barrier to block the void energy is the correct solution."

"Well, let's try another way."

Kai'Sa transformed into a force attack form under Elise's extremely surprised eyes, and tried to use the tail bone drill to penetrate the barrier, but failed. Elise then tried to use the maw of the vile to break the door open, but it broke the stairs behind it and still couldn't open it.

They tried various methods but to no avail. The barrier of the door was too strong. In the end, the few people could only rely on finding the second key to open the door.

"The question is, where do we find the second keystone now?" Kaisa threw this difficult question to the Wild Hunt.

Chapter 115: Hylia's Underground Secret Vault

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When it comes to who is most likely to have the Keystone, the first person that Wild Hunter thinks of is Thresh.

Back then, he followed Viego and fought his way from the square to the Wanzai Well. He killed all the masters he met along the way, and the key stones on them should have been obtained by Thresh in the end.

In theory, Thresh not only has keystones, but also has many of them. But if given a choice, the Wild Hunt does not want to come into contact with that insidious and cruel undead.

So who else might be carrying the Keystone?

The Wild Hunt thought of Zhendakaya who had escaped from the island with him. As the only surviving master, the Light Sentinel he created has been fighting against the dead for centuries.

Lucian should have become the Sentinel of Light by this time, but there is no indication that he is qualified to carry the Master's Keystone, and he happened to come to the Shadow Isles at this point in time.

Another is Yorick of the Twilight Brotherhood. I don’t know if it’s due to the influence of runes, but this gravedigger can see and communicate with the dead without drinking the water of life.

During the Great Ruining, he was also spared due to his talent and was not cursed to become undead. However, like Lucian, he did not have a high status in the cult and could not have the master's keystone.

“We can only try to snatch it from Thresh.” After going around in circles, the Wild Hunter finally locked onto Thresh.

"Where can we find him?" Kasha asked.

"He should be staying in Hylia's underground warehouse, which is next door." The Wild Hunt said, directing their attention to a water channel on the side of the gilded gate.

"It's so narrow, you don't want us to squeeze through, do you?" They looked at the narrow gate and then at their own chests, both of them looking embarrassed.

"Ryze used this canal to get from the basement next door to the bottom of the Shimmering Tower."

"No way...can this really get through?" Kaisa was speechless. She didn't expect that the most powerful mage in Runeterra had such a dark history.

"Perhaps he was still very thin back then." The Wild Hunt replied, "As a thief, lock picking is a skill for survival, and being thin is an excellent quality. If Ryze had not stolen onto Tyrus's ship back then, Tyrus would not have forced Ryze to be his disciple, and there would be no Rune Mage today."

The Wild Hunt did not really want the two to move to the basement next door through the drainage ditch, because the exit on the other side of the ditch was blocked and they could not pass through unless it was opened.

After telling some anecdotes that few people knew, he asked the two women to return the same way they came and prepare to move to the basement from the path in the square.

"Iris, release some small spiders here for surveillance and positioning. The entire underground of Hylia has been hollowed out. If you don't want to get lost in the basement, it's best to make some preparations in advance." Before leaving, the Wild Hunt reminded Iris to mark the place.

"As you command."

Iris closed her eyes and released her perception. Soon, some spiders fell from the spiral staircase like rain, and gathered at Iris' feet.

She didn't have the ability to summon spiders out of thin air. These spiders were all originally in the Shinelight Tower. There were only a few dozen of them, but they were enough for marking and monitoring the Wanzai Well. In fact, if there were too many spiders, they might be discovered to be abnormal.

Elise had the spiders spread out throughout the chamber, with some weaving webs around the door and others drilling through the stone fence into the drain, using her connection with the little spiders as a compass.

After arranging all this, the two left the secret room, returned to the previous square, and walked towards the path to the north leading to the warehouse.

The two of them walked quickly across the square. The iron gate at the entrance was open. On the narrow stairs that could only accommodate one person were several skeletons. The white armor on their bodies had turned into crumpled paper balls, and they had obviously been killed by the Soul-Killing Blade.

"Viego originally went around here."

Kassa walked down the stairs and inevitably bumped into the skeletons, which turned into pieces. Seeing this, Iris behind her used her limbs to support her body and walked, carefully avoiding the skeletons.

They walked down the stairs about fifteen feet and saw a solid stone wall blocking their way.

"Do you want to melt it through directly?" asked Kassa.

"No, just use the key stone." The Wild Hunter observed the patterns on the stone wall intently, then controlled Kassadin's arm to knock on the stone at the intersection of the four lines, and a small hole appeared on the wall.

He inserted the Master's keystone, and the wall opened silently, revealing Hylia's underground warehouse.

The basement was very dark, but fortunately the skin armor had dark vision, so the two could see the surrounding situation clearly.

Beneath the low ceiling was a maze of tunnels, storerooms, secret rooms, and caves guarded by Hammerstone Wardens. The walls of the tunnels were caked with grime, and no one had walked here for a long time.

The two walked through the tunnel and officially entered the maze. Kai'Sa observed the surrounding environment vigilantly. The fork in the road in front of her made her very entangled. She had no idea where to go to find Thresh.

"The underground warehouse is divided into seven areas, each under the jurisdiction of seven supervisors. The area is so large that it will take several days to walk through it. Not counting the path we just took, there are more than a dozen other passages that can lead into the basement, and they all have site inspections." The Wild Hunt spoke in their minds, explaining the situation to the two and dispelling their uneasiness about the unknown.

"What is stored in this warehouse? Why does it need to be built so large?" The deep space made Kassa feel a chill spreading. Although it was not really cold, she couldn't help rubbing her arms.