he came from the void

Vel'Koz was looking at the ruins in front of him.

Although there is not a single living thing in this space, it does feel the throbbing of life in front of its eyes.

It just made a routine trip back to Icacia, bringing the knowledge gained through splitting over the years back to the big rift in the material base of Rune Land, and handing it over to the watchers in the void.

But unexpectedly, he unexpectedly felt the throbbing of life in the ancient city that had been destroyed for many years.

As if separated by frosted glass, he vaguely felt something moving in front of him, which aroused Vel'Koz's curiosity.

And the curiosity from the eyes of the void is extremely deadly.

Chapter 76 Curiosity

Keisha saw a strange light cast from the window, as if it came from outside the sky.

The light cast a purple spot on the ground, and Kane and Kassadin clung to the wall to avoid the spot.

"What's going on outside?"

Just as Keisha was about to stand up, she heard Kane yelling in an almost trembling voice: "Kisha, don't move!"

"You can make noises, but you must close your eyes and don't move!"

Keisha was overwhelmed by the fear in Kane's voice, then suddenly closed her eyes and put on her helmet.

Kane looked at the monster in the mirror.

It slapped its well-defined tentacles, made a crackling sound like a long whip, and approached the tower at a constant speed.

A huge eyelidless eye stood in front of the tower. It seemed to try to squeeze its eyes in, but the narrow windows couldn't accommodate its pupils.

Boom boom boom!

The thunder flashed away, illuminating the outline of the huge black shadow outside the building.

Its main body is a huge purple one-eyed, wrapped in a carapace, with three constantly beating tentacles stretched out, constantly moving.

The eye without eyelids cast an unknowable gaze into the tower. Just looking at each other through the mirror for a moment made Kane almost crazy, and his reason was like a spool thrown into the night. Shout out.

But he didn't dare to shout, he suppressed a roar between his teeth, he was afraid that even a small movement would bring Vel'Koz's blurred vision into focus.

From studying the strange manuscript, Kane knew that Vel'Koz couldn't really "see" them as long as they were still.

This void ancient creation has collected a huge and vast amount of knowledge over the past ten thousand years, but only time has not been included in it.

This is knowledge that only the tower owner understands, and since he is no longer around, Vel'Koz has no way of knowing.

But even so, Kane cannot be confident.

If Vel'Koz was convinced that there was life here, maybe they would still be exposed.

And exposed to the eyes of the void, there is only one ending of annihilation.

Vel'Koz's pupils flickered, slowly sweeping across the ruins in front of him.

What is shown in the tower is that the spot of light moves around in the tower, searching for traces of life.

Then, Vel'Koz's rolling pupils stopped, and the spot of light enveloped Kesha who was motionless with her eyes tightly closed.

Intuition told Vel'Koz that there seemed to be something in the nothingness it saw.

It was a wonderful feeling, as if it was far away in the sky, yet close in front of you.

Seeing this scene, Kane hissed in a crying voice: "Don't move, don't move, please"

Keisha couldn't hear Kane's voice, she only felt a strange gaze covering her.

At this moment, she felt the same fear as Kane.

Her soul teetered on such a far-reaching brink, and the monster's relentless hunger was tugging at her.

If it wasn't for the skin armor covering her whole body, she would have become a soulless shell the moment her eyes made contact.

At the juncture of life and death, Kesha believed in Kane, even though she felt that she had been targeted by Annihilation, she did not move, like a sculpture.

However, Vel'Koz's temptations did not stop, driven by his endless thirst for knowledge, let him figure out the mystery in front of him.

Why is there a throb of life in an empty place?Does it also hallucinate?

It wants to find out, and it stretches out its tentacles of seeking knowledge towards the nothingness in front of it.

Crackling tentacles stretched out towards the tower, and when everything was about to go dark, Kane closed his eyes in despair, resigned to his fate and waited for annihilation.

But unexpectedly, Vel'Koz's tentacles passed through the tower without touching anything.

Really just an illusion?

Vel'Koz's bulging one-eyed looked at the tip of his tentacles. It was thinking, trying to explain its feelings with its vast knowledge reserves.

In the end, it got two answers.

Mirage It has seen a mirage in the desert more than once, and it knows that it is a virtual image formed by the refraction of light reflected from a distant place through the sky.

Some inorganic substances in the ruins have the ability to store and release images. Under certain conditions, lightning once recorded certain scenes, and now they are released under the electric light.

Looking at the never-ending lightning in the sky, although he felt that these two answers were not close enough to the truth, Vel'Koz couldn't find anything closer.

The life throbbing sensed earlier has completely stopped, like a dead thing.

In the end, Vel'Koz regarded this as some kind of natural phenomenon that he saw for the first time, and his interest was greatly reduced, and he turned and drifted into the distance.

After Vel'Koz really left through the mirror, Kane's tense muscles loosened, and his whole body lost all strength and fell to the ground.

What he experienced just now was really terrifying. The fear that he would be discovered if he moved had already been deeply implanted in his fear, making his legs and feet weak.

Kassadin was not much better, he knelt down suddenly and propped his hands on the ground, his eyes were wide open, his vicissitudes of face was dripping with sweat, and he didn't know whether it was tears or sweat.

Then Kane helped Kassadin up, staggered towards Kesha, and asked as he walked, "Kesha, are you okay?"

"Can I move?" Keisha made a timid and suspicious voice when she heard the movement around her.

She did not yet know that the danger was over.

"It's okay." Kane stroked the hair exposed by Kesha's helmet, and forced a smile.

The latter is still unclear, because of the fear left in his heart, he hugged Kane naively.

After a while, Kassadin walked over rubbing his sore eyes. He said with emotion: "Vel'Koz can't even see through the magic here. It seems that the tower is still safe for the time being."

"But you still have to be more vigilant, God knows when it will come back." Kane separated from Keisha and walked to the window again.

That's right, why can't Vel'Koz see through it?It has obviously discovered it, and has already stretched its tentacles in, why did it just go through it?

It seemed that the magic on this tower was stronger than he thought.

After the unexpected incident of Vel'Koz's "visit", the three of them paid more attention to the outside world.And Kane felt the pressure, and his research on the manuscript became even more frantic.

Finally, after a month, he understood the meaning of each symbol in the basic formula, and theoretically, he could accelerate or decelerate time in a local area!

Don't get too excited, it's just a theory.Kane is still the same, kneeling in actual combat.

After leaving Icacia, sooner or later he will find that he cannot release magic but lacks the necessary conditions.

But here, he can only continue to rely on books to numb himself. If he can take out the ancient magic and carry it forward, it will be regarded as a great merit.

Chapter 77 The Law of Time

Kane leaned against the candlestick, still holding the manuscript.

After figuring out the speed of time, he began to study its advanced time stop.

But the time stop spell recorded in the manuscript is flawed. It will eliminate the caster from the spell when it is completed, and banish it from time forever.

This is the painful price of casting the forbidden technique.

Kane doesn't want to bear such a price, so this time he can't pick up the wisdom left by others, he can only study and perfect it by himself.

It is easy to imitate, but it is difficult to innovate and surpass.

Therefore, Kane fell into endless distress.

"Speed ​​is relative. If you accelerate your own time flow to infinity, will it stop in time compared to others?"

"No, I will die of old age in an instant if I do this, and the result is not valid."

My own time is extremely fast or everything around me is extremely slow, which will create a false time-stop illusion for myself, but this is not a real time-stop after all, and it is far from the effect Kane wants.

"This is too difficult! Forget it, let's study elemental magic first."

Kane finally put down the manuscript. In fact, there is still a conjecture about going back in time, but it seems that the research has not yet started. It is only a conjecture, so he doesn't bother with it.

He can be an apprentice, but not a scholar.

into the night.

There is no big difference between day and night here, and Kane has become accustomed to the endless thunder in the thick clouds.

He was lying on the bed, and the time-stop technique recorded in the manuscript always appeared in his mind.

Isn't there a result with a lower cost?Even if the stop time is reduced to one second or two seconds!

Thinking to no avail, Kane turned over and planned to sleep, but his body was tightly pressed by Kesha, and the two layers of skin seemed to be glued together, and they were inseparable.

So clingy.

He took off the skin armor on his hands, stretched out his hand and brushed Kesha's hair, revealing a handsome face.

When can I put away the fur armor and sleep in a different position?But what about clothes?

Go pick off the clothes of the ancient lady and change them for her?

Forget it, let's talk about it when we go back.

Every day in Icacia is in danger, and skin armor can only be used to deal with various emergencies when worn on the body.

As if feeling Kane's touch, Keisha uttered an indistinct dream, and didn't know what she was talking about.

Then he closed his eyes, not realizing that there was a white shadow beside the bed looking at him.

There was a loud sound of boulder grinding in the distance, causing Kane to open his eyes suddenly.

He felt a lightness in his chest, and the thing that should be pressing on his chest disappeared. He couldn't remember it, but it felt like a piece of his heart was missing, empty.

The nightmarish light from the windows of the tower, a vile, hideous violet, seemed to envelop the world.

The window suddenly opened, and a deafening scream poured in, as if to tear the air apart, it did not belong to this world.

Kane fell to the ground and covered his ears, then hurriedly followed the sound and looked out the window.

Several strong lights burst out from the tents on the city wall, and huge arcs of purple energy tore through the sky and hit the ground like huge waves.

The bang echoed, and more and more ravines tore the earth apart.

He fell to his knees amid the shaking of the ground, and the walls of Icathia, the walls that had been knocked down and rebuilt, were completely shattered amidst a low moan that tore the earth apart.

Sand and smoke spewed out of the city, and people screamed loudly, but their cries were completely drowned out by the collision of falling rocks and the tearing of the earth.

Where the first Mage-King set down the Star-Iron Staff, towers and palaces were swallowed whole by the gaping mouth of the ground.

Annihilation has come, the end of the world.

"why?"

Kane was flustered.

Why did I see the scene of Icacia being destroyed thousands of years ago?

Could it be that he crossed over again?

He felt a lump in his throat. Could it be that everything he had so hard to have just left him?

At this moment, there was a shout from downstairs, a completely unfamiliar voice.

"Hide in quickly, there is a reinforcement circle in the tower!" A white-haired old man dressed as a mage opened the gate of the tower and shouted anxiously towards the outside.

The flames soared into the sky, and cracks opened in the city, engulfing everything into darkness.

The panicked crowd rushed into the tower one after another, all looking out the door with terrified expressions on their faces.

Kane suddenly felt that the faces of these people were very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.

The ground shook and the mountains shook, seeing that the tower was about to be swallowed by the open ground, the old mage finally made up his mind.

He opened his hands to cast spells, his eyes were filled with white light, a clock-shaped magic circle emerged from both hands and outstretched hands, and the hour hand turned crazily and then, time stopped.