he came from the void

The three of us headed in a direction away from Icacia.

Thanks to Kassadin's superb pathfinding skills, the return trip of the three went much smoother than when they came.

Occasionally, I encountered a terrifying giant shadow lingering in the scorched earth several times, but I also bypassed it far away.

Kassadin's combat power is indeed not very good. Facing a small group of ethereals alone may overturn the car. Two people consciously protect him. He just needs to go back to his old job and act as a guide.

He couldn't escape like the two of them, and it was often difficult to escape when he encountered danger, which was why the three of them were extremely cautious.

Kassadin's weak legs and feet will become a drag if he encounters the same behemoth as before.

Farther and farther away from Icacia, the bag full of food on Kane's back dries up day by day, and the age of the two is also growing day by day.

By the time they walked out of Icacia, the two had spent the No. 15 summers of their lives.

The 15-year-old Keisha has grown into a juicy girl. Her face still looks cold and dangerous under the scorching sun of Shurima, but when she looks at her family, her sharp eyebrows and eyes will become gentle.

"We're here." Kassadin stood on the sand dune, pointing to the ruins of the town not far away half hidden in the yellow sand.

He discarded a heavy protective suit, wearing ordinary desert clothing, wearing a turban, exposing his tanned strong forearms, breathing the scorching air unique to the Shurima Desert, and bathing in the golden sunlight.

Kane walked up the sand dune, with his right palm across his eyebrows and looked towards where Kassadin was pointing.

Most of the ruins there have been buried by the yellow sand, and only the tall buildings can be exposed to the surface.

And beside the tallest stone chamber, a fragment of the sun disk symbol was half buried, reflecting light under the scorching sun.

Obviously, this stone chamber is a temple.

The three of them walked along the slope, Keisha looked at these wind-eroded relics and had a question.

"Father, are you sure there is still something in here? Will it not be taken away by mercenaries, tomb robbers, archaeologists, or the rich and expensive masters of Piltover? They may have been here long ago."

Kesha learned the word Lord Piltover from Kassadin. Several times his employer was a family rich man from Piltover, and Kassadin always had a smile on his face when he mentioned them.

Because they gave a lot of money, Kassadin could buy gifts for her with more money, so Kesha has a deep memory.

"It's close to Icacia, and they usually won't find it here." Kassadin led the two towards the front of the temple, then pointed to a staircase leading down and said, "Look, the gate of the temple is fine. It's closed."

The stairs in front of me are covered with sand, and at the end is a small stone gate, I don't know what is closed.

"In order to avoid the sandstorm, I spent the night on this staircase, and the sun disc symbol above the temple was blown down by the sandstorm at that time."

This kind of heavy stone door must not be opened by manpower. Kassadin swept away the dust near the stone door, looking for the mechanism to open the door.

Chapter 80 The Temple

"Uncle, you said you spent the night here?" Kane asked in surprise.

"Yeah, what's the problem?" Kassadin turned to look at Kane.

"No." Kane's mouth twitched.

Seeing that he had nothing to say, Kassadin went back to look for the mechanism.

The two of them swept away the dust and saw some words, which probably meant "the dynasty of the sun shines forever", and they didn't say how to open the stone gate.

Seeing these words now, Kane suddenly felt a little ironic, because the dynasty had fallen for 3000 years.

But he immediately pursed his lips again with a serious look on his face.

If no changes are made, it may take another five years for the dynasty to really recover.

"Found it!" Kassadin threw the mechanism from the sand under his feet.

He directly pulled the switch, and the stone door rose, making a rumbling sound of boulder grinding, which attracted Kane Kesha's attention.

"There is really something!"

The sunlight on the stairs slanted into the temple, and one could see an altar surrounded by an abyss inside. On the stone platform in the middle of the altar, there was a piece of Gouyu exuding azure blue light, like a drop of tear.

"It's really this thing." The corner of Kane's mouth twitched.I thought, little yellow hair, you have no chance.

"What's this?" Kesha asked.

"The Tears of the Goddess is a magical holy object that contains huge magical power. Mages can use it to cast spells frequently." Kane added after finishing speaking: "It is recorded in the book in the tower."

"Then I'm welcome."

"and many more!"

Kaisha pushed Kane to step into the temple, but was suddenly stopped by the latter.

"What's wrong?" Kassadin asked.

"There are void creatures inside! And there are a lot of them!" Kane pointed to the bottomless abyss next to the altar: "They are lurking below, as long as you take away the treasure, they will be alarmed."

"Then still take it? Or just leave the things here?" Kassadin didn't know the specific situation, so he didn't dare to be too aggressive.

"Take it, but let Keisha get it alone. She runs fast, so we will stay by the door to meet her."

Kane thought that if he didn't take it, he might kill the little yellow hair in vain, so he decided to take it away.

Kassadin glanced at the thickness of the stone door retracted into the ceiling, and felt that the blade of the underworld could be cut open, so he had no objection, but asked Keisha to be careful.

"Kesha, run out as soon as you get the things." When he was about to do something, Kane patted her lightly on the back.

"Okay." Keisha nodded, then walked towards the altar with a solemn expression.

The light in the altar was a little dim, and Keisha went straight to the edge of the abyss to look down.

It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.

Several carapaces cover the face, stacked staggered to form a helmet.

By switching vision, Keisha saw what was hidden in the darkness.

A strange and terrifying carapace body, with hooked blade feet hooked to the edge of the abyss, with black eyes opened on the top of the carapace, rustling all over the bottomless rock wall.

Keisha's pupils shrank, it was the first time she saw so many ethereals entrenched in one place.

She came to the altar by the stone steps over the abyss.

As Kane said, if you don't touch the tears of the goddess, you won't disturb the swarm, and those ethereals still hang quietly on the rock wall.

If it was an ordinary person, they might not have noticed that they were entrenched in the darkness below.

Kesha didn't doubt him, and stepped on the bricks on the altar to the stone platform.

She noticed that the stone platform was constantly absorbing the magic power of the Goddess' Tears, and the mist containing the magic power turned purple in mid-air, and was sucked into the stone platform like a injection.

It's time to do it.

Kesha glanced at Kane, saw him nodding to her at the door, and finally grabbed the tear of the goddess.

After she made a move, all the purple smoke penetrated into the stone platform, and quickly spread downward through the lines hidden in the masonry.

The purple light briefly illuminated the abyss, and all those ethereal spirits were alarmed, their eyes lit up with purple light, and they swarmed up to the altar.

After getting the items, Keisha immediately ran to the exit.

She accelerated her sprint and jumped over the abyss.

Xu Ling flew towards her, but couldn't reach the corner of her clothes, twisted her limbs and fell into the abyss.

Keisha landed lightly, and then ran towards the gate. These ethereals couldn't keep up with her speed at all. This task was easy for her.

At this moment, the stone gate made a rumbling sound and began to descend.

Keisha was stunned. If she let it come down and used plasma bombs to break through the door violently, it might be too late.

But Kane, who was guarding the door, was already prepared. He put his hands and shoulders against the heavy stone door to buy time for Kaisha.

The stone gate is extremely heavy, coupled with the constant pressure of the mechanism, no matter how hard Kane tries, he can only delay its descent.

His knees are bent and the door is getting lower

But that was enough, Keisha slid sideways, quickly slid out of the door, and retreated with the tear of the goddess.

Kane let go of his hand, and let the stone door slam down, blocking the coming torrent of fangs and claws.

"I got it out for you." Keisha exhaled and stuffed the tears of the goddess into Kane's hands.

"Good job." Kane praised her fiercely.

"Won't they rush out?" After stepping out of the stairs, Kassadin looked back at the stone door.

Now, he finally realized how dangerous it was for him to hide at the door for the night.If the ethereal swarm rushed out and drowned him at that time, he would have no chance to see Keisha again.

"There are too many Void Spirits, and it will be troublesome for us to solve them. Lock them if you can, and stay away if you can't."

The three walked away, and then they heard Kesha say: "Kane, I think there is something strange about this altar."

"What's weird?"

"I got closer and saw that the altar was actually absorbing the magic power of the Goddess' Tears and transforming it into void energy."

"You mean someone transformed it and used the tears of the goddess to feed the void?"

Kane lifted the stone he was holding, his armor eager to devour its magic, but he held it down.

"Well, that's pretty much what it means." Keisha nodded.

"It should be that the Prophet's cult has tampered with the Sun Temple and transformed it into a void sacrificial field." Kassadin clenched his fists: "Those beasts, I will throw them down to feed the void sooner or later! If this continues, more people will die!"

Kesha had never seen her father so angry, and grabbed his arm.Kassadin looked at his daughter's nervous expression and stroked her hair to suppress his hatred.

Kane felt that it was wrong to throw the cult to feed the void, they were damned, but throwing it to the void was to increase the dark power of the void.

But Kassadin would be very angry when he mentioned this matter, so he stopped talking.

Kassadin was just talking out of anger, and he will be measured when he really strikes.

"It's not far from our village." Kassadin was silent for a while with the big fort on his head, then suddenly turned his head and said to Kesha: "Let's go back, go back and see your mother, and then we will start again along the water source."

Chapter 81 Doman Behemoth

If Kassadin hadn't mentioned it, Keisha would have never imagined that the village they had lived in for ten years was in front of them.

Except for a few stone pillars that are as dark as night and twisted, there are only quicksand and gravel here, and there is not even a trace of settlement.

But Kassadin was impressed here.

When he found his wife and daughter in the ruins, he dug his hands bleeding for several days in a row, and finally collapsed completely, in a trance, with empty eyes and tears under the scorching sun.

If it wasn't for his companions rushing over to forcefully pull him away, there might be an extra loyal bone here now.

Kassadin led the two of them to the shade of a tree in the valley, where there stood two low tombs, which were the empty tombs of his beloved wife and daughter.

Seeing her own grave, Kesha felt strange at first, but was immediately overwhelmed by the sadness of losing her mother.

Kassadin pulled out Keisha's tombstone, then took out food that would never rot from his luggage and placed it in front of his wife's grave, and pulled Keisha to kneel down to worship.

The memories began to replay, and Kassadin was talking about his life to the spirit of his dead wife.

Looking at the tombstone that became lonely, Kassadin secretly vowed in his heart that he would come back to accompany his dead wife after the revenge was avenged and the child was settled.

Although he has no blood relationship with Kesha's family, Kane also felt uncomfortable watching this scene.

He felt that he had to do something, and he was the one who would take over Kesha from Kassadin in the future, so he should integrate into it.

Kane tried to cast a spell to revitalize the old tree next to it, but this time his spell was successful, and the old tree sprouted new branches to shade the tomb below.

Then he plucked a twig, placed it in front of the grave, and stepped back to kneel beside Kassadin.

There are no flowers, but branches instead.

Kassadin glanced at him silently, and then talked about the past again.

The memorial service went on for a long time, until Kassadin's legs were paralyzed, and he needed two people to support him even to stand up.

"I heard that in faraway Ionia, the soul of the dead will return to the Blooming Spirit Flower to bid farewell to the living relatives." Kassadin said with emotion.

"That's right." Kane nodded, but unfortunately they were not born in Ionia, and their souls would be taken away by Qian Jue at the moment of death.

If you die tragically in the void, even your soul will be annihilated.

Also, Noxus invaded Ionia in the year they fell to the ground, and the war polluted that pure land, and the spirit tree did not bloom for several years.

"It's a pity, I haven't learned the spell that can call back the soul, so I can let you meet your aunt again," Kane said.

"That's enough, let's go."

Following the water all the way west, the three of them came to Keharise.