Void Beetle Evolution Guide

"You misunderstood. I have heard about the harm that the glimmer can do to Zaun, but I didn't go looking for him because of this kind of thing." Kaisa explained quickly.

It is well known that the abuse of Glimmer Potion has had a great negative impact on Zaun.

This drug that emits purple fluorescence has an extremely obvious strengthening effect on the human body, but it is also highly addictive and can drive the user into madness and hallucinations.

It was mass-produced by the Chem-Barons and released into the market, reaping huge profits while also causing Zaun and Pierwaterf to become increasingly chaotic and unstable.

Few people know that the creator of Shimmer was actually Colin Leveque, an alchemist who was mysteriously fired from Piltover University.

For some reason, he voluntarily gave up his bright and promising future and turned to researching crazy alchemical potions.

However, these secrets cannot be hidden from the omnipresent wind. For hundreds of years, Janna has been witnessing the changes in Zaun.

After learning the source of the Glimmer Potion, Mariam went to find Colin in person, wanting him to stop producing this extremely harmful potion.

But after seeing the real reason that led this genius to fall, she chose to pray silently and buried the secret deep in her heart.

When Mariam heard Kasa say that she was not here to get involved, her expression eased a little.

"If you didn't come for the glimmer, then what's your purpose in looking for him?" The temple was leaking air from all sides, so she looked around and made sure that there was no one else around before asking in a low voice.

"To be honest, I also know the reason why he was willing to be despised by the world and invented the glimmer of light - to eliminate all the diseases in the world... and that is why I came here."

Kassa stretched out a finger and removed the armor at the fingertips, releasing a wisp of holy mist.

The mist entered Mariam's mouth and nose, shocking the old watcher. Feeling the powerful vitality contained in it, she seemed to feel a few years younger.

"May Janna bless Zaan... there is hope! May he be redeemed." Mariam prayed devoutly, as if conveying the good news to the goddess.

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After getting Colin's address from Mariam, Kasha left the Jana Temple.

This time there was no Bluebird to lead the way. Because she was not familiar with the road conditions in Zaun, she asked many passers-by along the way before she found Colin's laboratory.

The laboratory was huddled in darkness. There was no alchemical street lamp in front of the door. The thick glass stained with oil emitted a hazy light. There was also an unknown liquid on the rusty railings at the door, which emitted a dazzling purple fluorescence in the darkness.Mei I am singing, there is no sky, there is no forest...

Looking at the iron gate in front of her that gave off an aura of "No Entry", Kassa frowned and hesitated for a while, but still walked forward and knocked on the place avoiding the oil stain.

About half a minute later, footsteps were heard from inside, and then the observation window on the door was opened.

The man wiped the thick dust off the window, and through the thick glass of the window, Kasha saw an unnamed man.

His skinny face looked like a wax figure melted in a nightmare, with dark scars from chemical burns all over the right half of his face, and his eyeballs were also diseased into a strange appearance with no pupils and filled with turbid bluish-white. His deeply sunken and asymmetrical eyes hung on a distorted and pale face, and the mask tightly wrapped in front of his mouth and nose rose and fell slightly with his breathing.

While Kassa was observing him, he was also observing Kassa with his only intact eye. His cold and scrutinizing gaze made Kassa feel like an experimental subject locked in a cell.

"Mr. Colin Leveck, would you please open the door and talk?" Kasha asked.

"You've got the wrong person. Only Singed is here." The man then closed the window and stopped communicating.

Kai'Sa was a little surprised by the other party's reaction, and the Wild Hunter immediately reminded her: "You are right, Singed is Colin's alias. He has a daughter named Orianna, who is his lifeblood. You can just use this as an excuse."

Listening to the footsteps gradually fading away, Kaisa shouted again: "I'm here to help you, to help Orianna, are you sure you don't want to see me?"

After Kassadin followed the Wild Hunt's instructions, the other party stopped as expected.

After hearing why Kasha came, Colin welcomed her into the laboratory.

The laboratory was very dark, and the smell inside was even worse than outside. In the huge glass tank, there were human-like and inhuman-like stitched creatures floating in the green liquid, and artificial predators filled the left and right walls.

The lantern on the table illuminated various specimens soaked in unknown liquids, some of which were small creatures, and some were some kind of biological organs. The movement of the two disturbed the quiet light, making a slight sound, causing the "dead objects" in these vessels to twitch, which was extremely creepy under the dim light.

In addition to the specimens, Kasha also saw many laboratory vessels filled with liquids. They were piled on the table, emitting green or purple fluorescence, or flowing in transparent alchemical tubes and dripping into the prepared instruments, adding a strange glow to this gloomy and terrifying laboratory.

“Ma’am, this is not a place to entertain people. Please just find a seat.” Colin pulled off his mask, revealing a pair of dry and flaky lips. He made a hoarse sound with minimal movement, as if the muscles in his mouth had become fibrotic.

Kasa looked around but couldn't find a suitable place to sit down.

The specimens were placed everywhere, and even though she had seen truly horrible things, she would still be disgusted by them and didn't want to get close to them, for fear that the glass jar would suddenly explode and splash her with corpse fluid and rotten flesh.

She finally stood against the wall, next to a rusty alchemical pipe. Part of the inner wall of the laboratory was built directly against the rock wall, and leaning against the stone made her feel more at ease.

"Would you like something to drink? I have a choice of hot cocoa and sweetened milk, or both?"

Colin passed a cup in front of Kasa. There were signs of corrosion on the rim of the cup, which looked unhygienic.

Kassa didn't want to drink the fluorescent liquid of unknown origin, so she rejected the other party's kindness.

She felt that Singed was not unaware of these things, but was restricted by the simple conditions, or he no longer cared about them.

"No need to bother. Let me confirm first, Mr. Colin developed the glimmer in order to cure his sick daughter, right?"

"The glimmer is far from the effect I want. It is at best a byproduct of a failed experiment. It can only slow down Orianna's death." Colin stopped, leaned on the table with his back to Kaisa and said, "I'm not as great as you say. I know the side effects of the glimmer better than anyone else, but I still took it to the Alchemist Baron in exchange for investment, because the experiment requires money, a lot of money..."

Kasha looked at Colin's back, but the image that emerged before her eyes was that of a middle-aged man who was overwhelmed by life.

Only love can make a person willing to be a sinner despised by the whole world.

Chapter 190: The Girl in the Hibernation Chamber

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"Can I help you, can you let me see Orianna?"

"How are you going to help me? And why?" Colin turned and looked at Kasa.

Although he was eager to save his daughter, he did not let it get to his head. Before the stranger in front of him showed his ability, he would never show his most precious thing.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm actually a healer."

Kasa looked left and right, and finally aimed at a dissected salamander on the laboratory table.

The dying salamander had its limbs nailed to its chest with nails, and a huge cut was made on its back, exposing all its internal organs and blood vessels.

Its skin is green, but the flesh inside is transparent purple. The colors are abnormally colorful, as if it is some kind of mutant product.

"Salamanders have a strong regenerative ability. Even if their tails and limbs are broken, they can recover as before if given some time." Wild Hunt Kaisa reminded in her mind: "Colin should have taken a fancy to the ability of the salamander and wanted to extract a substance from its body that could help Orianna stand up again... But the body fluids of this salamander have been drained, and it will definitely not live to recover."

"That's great. I'll use it to prove myself."

After knowing that curing Orianna would make Colin give up developing Shimmer, Kaisa spared no effort to show her strength. The Wild Hunt did not tell her how Colin's withdrawal would affect the situation in the Twin Cities.

She released a wisp of holy mist from her fingertips. The white mist penetrated into the salamander's body, bringing vitality to its gradually failing organs. The wound on its back also healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What did you do?" Colin was shocked, staring at the salamander struggling wildly with its tail swinging.

The energetic posture did not look like he was dying at all. If his limbs were not nailed to the table, he would have run away in a blink of an eye.

"Just a little magic."

"Magic? That should be considered unproven science."

Kai'Sa said noncommittally: "I have proven myself, can you let me meet Orianna?"

"..." Colin was silent for a moment. He looked at the struggling salamander on the table again to confirm it. He struggled in his heart, then walked to a wall covered with various experimental inspirations and diagrams written in chalk.

He pulled out a brass pocket watch from his pocket. The surface was as clean as new and looked like it had been polished frequently. He turned the knob half a circle, and a key extended out of the seemingly ordinary pocket watch, which was unexpected.

Colin opened the door in front of him with a hidden key and walked in heavily and silently.

Bright lights shone down from the stained glass skylight in the room. Kassa followed Colin, avoiding the densely packed alchemical pipes on the ground, and came to a hibernation capsule with a red curtain hanging down.

Through the cloudy glass cabin cover, Kassa saw a blonde girl lying in the hibernation cabin. She might be younger than her, but her condition was worse than that of the salamander outside.

She was only a hair's breadth from death, relying on being immersed in liquid medicine to stay alive. If Kassa had come a few months later, she might have seen a carefully preserved, incorruptible corpse.

"What disease does she have that requires you to treat her?" Kasa asked.

Colin sat down heavily on the chair on the right side of the hibernation capsule, rested his arms on his knees and lowered his head to recall.

"There was a toxic gas leak in Zaun. This child cared about the victims, so she secretly went to the disaster site with supplies. But she was too kind, so kind that she gave her breathing equipment to a stranger. The child inhaled too much toxic gas and suffered heart and lung failure."

Colin's tone was heavy and sad. "I looked for doctors and tried all kinds of methods, but I could only watch her getting sicker day by day. She used to love going to the theater to watch dancers tell stories from afar with leaps and spins. She dreamed of traveling to those strange and magical places in person. However, in reality, she is bedridden and even breathing is full of pain."

"The doctor said that Oriana had no hope of recovery. I refused to accept that, so I used my own methods to try to save her. But time was not on my side. If I failed in the end, I would load her consciousness into a body made of clockwork, so that she could dance and jump like a dancer on the stage, just like she dreamed."

While Colin was talking, Kassa noticed that on the dressing table to the left of the hibernation capsule was a clockwork dancer made by the girl herself. After magnifying that thing dozens of times, perhaps she would get the image of Orianna in the future.

"Let me try to see if I can cure her." Kasa took a deep breath. The experience of this young girl was really regrettable.

The lid of the hibernation chamber cannot be opened directly, as this will cause the liquid medicine inside to be contaminated by bacteria in the air, or the liquid medicine will evaporate and be lost. Kasa can only follow Colin's instructions and go to the injection port to release the adaptive holy mist, allowing the gas to enter the chamber along the pipeline and observe the reaction of the sleeping girl.

Time passed minute by minute, and the hibernation capsule was filled with misty white fog. Colin, who was standing aside, became extremely nervous. Beads of sweat flowed down his burned skin. He felt extremely itchy but had no hands to scratch it.

Gradually, under the powerful force of the source of life, the girl in the cabin began to respond.

First, the chest rose and fell slightly, showing signs of breathing, and then he began to cough violently, expelling the liquid medicine soaked in his mouth and nose.

Seeing the girl's eyelashes trembling and showing signs of opening her eyes, Colin quickly turned off the overhead light, fearing that she would be hurt by the light the moment she opened her eyes.

Then he tried his best to suppress his excitement, carefully lay on the hatch, and softly called his daughter's name.

"Olly...Olly..."

"Father......?"

In the darkness, the weak voice of a girl was heard. It sounded very muffled through the hatch, but was still keenly captured by the father.

At that moment, the tears that had long since dried up welled up again.

"I'm here... I'm always here. Can you take a good rest? I'll pick you up later..."

"Um......"

Hearing Colin's choking voice, the well-behaved and sensible Orianna immediately realized something and continued to lie in the hibernation capsule obediently.

She had been lying in the hibernation capsule for too long, and needed some time to slowly adapt to the external environment, air, light and so on.

Of course, the most important thing is to continue staying inside and allow Shengai to continue repairing her exhausted and shrunken body.

"Congratulations, Mr. Colin, on the reunion of father and daughter." After coming out of the sanatorium, Kasha said with a smile.

"Thank you for taking action in time, otherwise Orianna would never have survived." Colin sighed, and then said with a frown: "I'm really afraid that she will hate me when she sees me become like this."

"Don't worry. You are definitely a great father to Orianna." After receiving the follow-up instructions from the Wild Hunt, Kassa coughed twice and then said, "I don't want to be so realistic, but please listen to my request."

Kassa came to the experimental table again. She hovered her palm above the salamander, then opened her palm and released some void energy.

When the liquid energy dripped onto the salamander, Colin's asymmetrical eyes widened and he saw the most bizarre and terrifying scene in his life.

The pulsating light gradually spread over the salamander's body, wrapping it up like an ugly cocoon. Then the body seemed to dissolve and was swallowed by the tentacles of evil energy.

In just a few breaths, a salamander as long as a forearm was completely dissolved, and even the wooden table below was left with deep black pits of corrosion.

"What...what is that?" Colin asked tremblingly.

"Void." Kassadin answered concisely.

She collected the liquid energy that had grown larger after devouring the flesh and blood, and placed it in an empty glass jar.

The tar-like substance inside consciously expanded, contracted and elongated, forming swollen limbs, as if trying to escape from the isolation of inorganic matter and devour the surrounding specimens.

"This is an extremely dangerous foreign substance. It devours all organic matter and transforms it into a part of itself. In order to more easily obtain flesh and blood, it can even transform organisms to control the host, or grow limbs on its own to hunt. It is like a living cancer, invading our world."

Kasa's casual words challenged Colin's cognitive limits, and familiar words formed unfamiliar words.

This was an absolutely taboo area, which made his mouth dry and his Adam's apple rolled as he swallowed his saliva, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

"I know it's dangerous, but I still hope you can use your ingenuity to study it and find a way to destroy it."

"Let's give it a try..." Colin thought of his daughter who had just come back to life, and had to agree to Kasha's request. This was the most unconfident time he had ever had since he started his research work.I am in the plum forest. The forest is empty and there is no forest.

"Your current equipment is too crude. It's better to upgrade it first before researching." Kasha reminded: "Remember to take safety measures. This thing is a million times more terrifying than the glimmer. If you can't do it, don't force it. Seal it in an inorganic container and don't let it leak out. Just wait for us to recycle it."

After explaining the precautions over and over again and making sure Colin had written down all the knowledge in his notes, Kassa left the laboratory.

After leaving the dim alley, Kassa suddenly stopped.

"You said that the Icathian mages have studied the void for so long but still haven't figured out how to destroy them. Can he do it alone?"

"I don't know either, but it's better to have one more smart person researching it than to figure it out on our own." Wild Hunt sighed.

In fact, they never actually destroyed the Void.

When they killed those void creatures, they were simply plundering the void energy from their bodies and transferring it to their own bodies.

The Void cannot be killed, unless the Wild Hunt can expel the Void from Runeterra forever, or concentrate all the Void energy into themselves and then reversely transform it into organic matter.

...Otherwise, the harm done to the world by the void can never be eliminated.

Chapter 191: Ahri's Healing Time