Void Beetle Evolution Guide

"It will be too late by then. Meier never intended to let me go from the beginning. He agreed to your conditions so that I could stay in the village until he could bring the prophet to catch me."

After Keisha's explanation, Eliza realized how serious the matter was.

She certainly couldn't let her daughter fall into danger, but she also didn't want to cut off contact with her husband. It was really a difficult thing to do.

"I knew it would be like this." While she was struggling, Keisha took her hand and said, "You don't have to leave. I know a hidden hiding place very close to the village. I'll take you there first, and we'll leave together when Dad comes back."

The place that Kai'Sa was talking about was naturally the cave that the Wild Hunt had dug earlier.

For adults, this cave is too narrow and they can only hide in it by lying down. But when something happens suddenly, one can't expect too much, so having such a hiding place is already good enough.

Eliza brought dry food and water bags, as well as valuable but space-saving jewelry, and silk embroidered with gold thread, which was her dowry from a nomadic weaver tribe.

The mother was kind-hearted and even wanted to persuade several close neighbors to leave and find another way out. However, due to time constraints and Keisha's comment that the cave was too narrow, she finally gave up.

"Mom, I'll have to bear with you for a few days."

When they arrived at the cave, Keisha went in first and spread the blanket on the ground, and then let Eliza lie on it.

Eliza had nothing to do but didn't want to rest, so she took out a pen and paper and wrote a lot of notes and gave them to Keisha.

"The more I think about it, the more I feel something is wrong. Since the prophet is so cruel to his followers, it is even more impossible for him to show mercy to the villagers. If he really takes action, he will definitely not have any scruples. Go to the village quickly and put these notes in their homes, reminding them to leave the village as soon as possible and not to be affected by us."

"Okay." Kesha agreed decisively, ran to the village with the note, and threw it into every house.

"You're delivering flyers in stealth mode, doing good deeds without leaving your name, right? You're wasting the energy I've worked so hard to save just for such a trivial thing." The Wild Hunter couldn't help but complain.

"They are afraid of me. If they know it is a note from me, they won't believe it."

"Excuse me, but few people will believe you. They are afraid of you, so you should take advantage of this weakness, show up openly, wreak havoc and scare them away."

"Your actions are too cruel."

Kai'Sa frowned. The Wild Hunt's approach would indeed be more efficient, but that went against her original intentions.

"You are the one who doesn't understand human nature. You can't let go of the opinions of a few fools about you. Just do it your way and don't regret it later."

The Wild Hunt fell silent again after saying this, which made Kai'Sa feel uncomfortable.

Then, the time came to that night.

Eliza sat on the blanket and ate, trying to keep her head from hitting the ceiling.

Kesha didn't eat anything, she just sat there and watched. This little bit of food was just a drop in the bucket for her now, so she might as well leave it for her mother so that she could eat for a few more days.

"What's going on?" Eliza asked.

"Only a few people chose to go out and avoid the limelight. They were all very wary of the small notes from unknown sources." Keisha acted listless, and most people did not understand their good intentions.

"It's already pretty good. After all, we can't be sure what the prophet will do. If nothing happens, wouldn't we be the bad guys who spread rumors?"

"It will happen sooner or later. In the eyes of the prophet, everyone can be sacrificed. Eat and go to sleep. Tonight may be a long night."

As soon as he finished speaking, the mountain began to shake violently.

"The Mother Weaver is angry, it's an earthquake!"

Gravel was falling, and Kaisa was afraid that she would be buried if she didn't get out, so she quickly dragged Elisa out of the cave.

Then, she saw a scene that she would never forget.

The valley village she was familiar with had a huge wound in the center, and several strong lights burst out. Purple energy arcs tore through the night sky, emitting deafening screams that kept drilling into Kaisha's mind.

She was knocked to the ground and rolled over, retching. The remaining flickering afterimages were seared into the depths of her mind, overlapping with the disaster scene in her dream.

Strips of grayish-white material grew wildly from the earth's bedrock. When they came into contact with the air, they quickly condensed and hardened, turning into violent earth hernias that caused the earth to fall apart and swallowed up entire villages.

The light gradually disappeared, and the hernias entangled with each other to cover the cracks in the earth, and continued to harden in the air. Finally, only twisted stone pillars as dark as night were left, piercing through the yellow sand of the desert.

And from beginning to end, Kesha never saw the culprit.

Chapter 14: Regret

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Kaisha knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the traces of the destroyed village. Any words seemed too pale at this moment and could not fully express her feelings at the moment.

She didn't expect the prophet to act so quickly, so suddenly, and so cruelly, and even use the entire village to bury her.

"Do you regret it?" asked the Wild Hunter in a deep voice.

Keisha was speechless.

She regretted it, how could she not regret it?

She had a chance to save them. She only had to follow the Wild Hunt's advice and kill Mayr in his home to prevent him from informing the Prophet.

Even if they couldn't do it, there was still a chance to make amends later. As long as they destroyed the houses with plasma bombs and forced people to leave, they could also avoid the disaster.

However, she underestimated the cruelty of the prophet and did not carry out the dispersal mission with 100% effort, resulting in only a few people escaping in time.

Let’s put aside the question of whether these people should have died and just look at the results. These people all died because of her inaction.

"Child, don't blame yourself too much. This is not your fault. It is the disaster caused by the prophet."

After coming back to her senses from the cracking of the earth, Elisa hugged Kesha tightly with heartache, buried her face in her chest, and prevented her from seeing the wound of the earth.

At this moment, she also felt a little scared. If she had not followed Keisha's advice and left in time, the mother and daughter would have been separated forever.

"My mother-in-law is right. It is really unreasonable to blame myself for saving people instead of blaming the murderer. And even if they don't die today, they will be sacrificed to the void by the prophet one day in the future."

The Wild Hunter did not continue to scold Kesa. Since she couldn't see clearly, he would explain it to her.

"Kesha, Kesha, this is the trap Malzahar set for you. You thought it was because you didn't do what I said that the whole village was sacrificed.

But the prophet is not a fool. If you do what I say, he won't waste his energy attacking an uninhabited ruin. When those fools come back and find that nothing happened, they will definitely hate you for the rest of their lives.

This is his conspiracy. The more people you save, the more enemies you create for yourself and the more believers you earn for the prophet. Can you accept such a result? No, you can't.

There is no such thing as a perfect solution. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for not being strong enough to kill Malzahar and then shoot all the Zerg swarms underground before anything happened. Otherwise, how could there be so many problems? "

The Wild Hunt took the opportunity to instill in Kai'Sa the theory that power is supreme, which will become the driving force for her future growth.

"Since you have thought so much, why didn't you explain it to me clearly at the beginning?" Kai'Sa clenched her fists, trying to suppress the resentment in her heart, and the rage that made her want to rush out and blast Malzahar into pieces.

In fact, the prophet never deliberately targeted Kesha. He just made a few random moves to put her in a dilemma.

No matter what choice she made, she had to choose between the guilt of not being able to save the person or the grievance of being misunderstood, and she now knew which one was more painful.

"Because I don't want to be hated for nothing. If you use violence to expel those fools, they will hate you to the core, and when you are wronged, you will blame me, the one who gave you the idea.

Look at you now. As soon as something happens, you start to blame me for not explaining it clearly first. If it happens again, can you guarantee that you won’t blame me when you are wronged? "

"I..." Kesha was speechless for a moment after being hit in the vitals.

People who have conscience but no wisdom will subconsciously pass the buck to others after making a mistake to ensure that they firmly occupy the moral high ground. This is what she just did.

You can't expect a ten-year-old child to be very sensible.

That's why the Wild Hunt only mentioned it at that time and let Kai'Sa choose what to do. She definitely didn't have the courage to be the bad guy, and in the end she would have to bear the consequences of her own actions.

It is useless to teach others with a hundred words; only events can teach people once and for all.

If she encounters similar situations in the future, she will know what to do without the Wild Hunt telling her.

The night was long. Kesha asked Elisa to go back to the cave to rest, while she sat in the wind and sand all night, showing a heaviness that was completely unbecoming of her age.

"Wild Hunt, can you do me a favor?" Kai'Sa asked hoarsely when dawn was about to break.

"explain."

"Help me bear witness," she took a deep breath and said, "--For every person who dies in this disaster, I will make the Void pay a thousand times the price! When I have killed enough Void creatures, I will go to Malzahar to settle this blood debt!"

"You can actually say such bold words. It seems that you have thought it through." The whole village offered sacrifices to the gods. It can be said to be a classic start. The Wild Hunter laughed excitedly: "I will definitely help you with this!"

After experiencing this incident, Kesha has grown a lot, and this growth is in many aspects.

First of all, in terms of reason, Kai'Sa herself was disobedient and suffered a lot, so she will naturally increase her obedience to the Wild Hunt and no longer act rashly.Mei is not there, you want to sing, the sky is not there, Lin has to sing...

Secondly, in terms of mentality, she is no longer the girl at the beginning. She has abandoned her childish heart, carries hatred, has a very clear goal, and the motivation to keep getting stronger.

Finally, in terms of strength, it is said that the darkening is three points stronger. Appropriate darkening will allow Kai'Sa to better understand the thinking mode of the Wild Hunt, thereby enhancing the tacit understanding between each other and becoming more handy when using the Void Skin Armor.

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With a glimmer of hope, Kesha returned to the valley to search for survivors, but the rift had swallowed up the village completely and she found nothing.

He also tried to break through the barrier of the hernia and go to the underground ruins to save people, but he found that those thick pseudo-root tentacles were not dead things. After being stimulated, they would immediately come alive and madly attack all living things in the range.

In the end, Kesa, who returned empty-handed, could only spend all her time outside of hunting accompanying Elisa.

Because of her promise to the Wild Hunt, she might not be able to stay with her parents in the future, so every day she can spend with them is a day.

At noon on the fourth day after the disaster, Kassadin returned.

He was returning from Pirwaterf with a caravan, and on his way home he met one of the few survivors and learned of the disaster that had befallen his homeland.

Worried about the safety of his wife and children, he left his companions behind and rushed back alone day and night, almost tiring his mount to the point of collapse.

But when he returned to the place where the village used to be, what he saw was a field of wildly hunting and twisted strange roots.

The knowledgeable Kassadin immediately recognized that this was the legendary hernia, and his hopes were shattered the moment he saw it.

Because the hernia is the proof of the void breaking out of the earth, and the void never leaves any survivors.

"Eliza!! Keisha!!!"

Collapsing, he knelt under the scorching sun, screaming the names of his wife and daughter, digging meaninglessly in the scorching quicksand with his hands.

He didn't stop until a clear and familiar voice sounded behind him.

"dad?"

Kassadin turned his head suddenly, and when he saw the person's face clearly, he burst into tears of joy and went forward to hug him.

"Keisha! Great, you're still alive."

Kesha pursed her lips, wanting to speak but stopping herself. She wanted to say something, but when she remembered that some of these things were caused by her, she gave up on explaining.

"Where's your mother?"

"We've been waiting for you for days. We heard your voice from a long distance away. She can't run as fast as me and is still behind us!"

Kassadin didn't feel embarrassed at all. He looked in the direction where Kai'Sa came from, and sure enough, he saw Elisa running out of breath. He then pulled his daughter forward to greet her.

"I heard that the village was hit by a disaster." He took off the water bag from his waist and gave it to Elisa, while staring at the insect armor on Kesa's body. "And the things on you, what are these about?"

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and then, as agreed, they told Kassadin the whole story.

Chapter 15 Extreme Overload

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"The prophet...it's him."

Kassadin had some impression of Malzahar: "I heard that this man used to make a living as a fortune teller in Amacara. One day he said that he was summoned by the void and went to Icathia. After returning, he began to spread his teachings and sacrificed people... If I had known that he was nearby, I would have taken you all away. It was my negligence that put you in danger."

"You are often away from home to make money to support the family. I can't help but know these things. No matter what, it's good to be alive." Elisa looked at Kassadin and said, "Dad, should we find a new place for Kaisha to live?"Mei Zai didn't think about it. Kong Yong didn't have Lin Youyong...

"We definitely can't stay here. My camel can't carry three people. Let's wait a little longer. The caravan will arrive here tomorrow at the latest. Then we can leave with the caravan."

"So where are we going to settle down?"

"You need to go to a big city far to the south, preferably a place where the prophet's hand can never reach. For example, Piltover, where I just went, is a very prosperous place with advanced technology, and there are many airships flying in the sky. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine what a dreamlike scene it is."

Kassadin is a desert guide, a high-risk profession that specializes in leading expedition caravans to avoid or cross dangerous areas. If you want to do this for a long time, you need a very high level of professionalism.

Kassadin had already been a veteran for more than a decade before Kai'Sa was born. He was able to play the role of tour guide with ease. In order to show off his abilities in front of his wife and children, he talked incessantly and even drew a map on the sand with his fingers.

"It sounds like it will be very expensive. Can our family afford it?" Eliza asked worriedly.

The cost of living in Piltover is indeed high, which is fine if Kassadin is working. But his job is too dangerous, and if something happens to him one day, he doesn't want his wife and daughter to be forced to wander the streets of Zaun, a city with severe pollution, because they will lose their income.

So he changed to a place with lower costs, "Or Nashrameh in the north of Shurima. The sun disk there is beautifully built. We can go there together to see it, and then see the sea. You have never been out of the desert in your life, you must be curious about what the sea is like."

"But I heard that there are warlords fighting each other in the north. Is it really safe there?"

"Don't worry about that. Although Nashrameh is not included in the territory of Noxus, it has already made it clear that it has surrendered to Noxus. As long as we pay a protection fee and become citizens of the empire, those soldiers will protect us in return."

Kassadin was flipping through the map in his mind when he suddenly noticed that Kai'Sa had a heavy expression on her face. He paused, thinking that she was unhappy that he didn't bring her up for the family conversation, so he patted her head and said softly.

"Kesha's opinion cannot be ignored, my dear daughter, is there any place you want to go?"

"I'm going to...stay here."