There was really no one on the street, it was as quiet as a ghost town, only the cries of children I heard from time to time told Luo Thir that there were still people in this city.

"Have the Icathians locked themselves in the house? Yes, after all, it's during the war..." Luo Shi quickly crossed the street. He was not sure if there were guards patrolling the city. He walked so fast that he didn't even bother to go around. Road, directly start jumping off the roof and walk in the direction of the city wall.

On the city wall, many Icathian soldiers turned their backs to Luo Thirty. They were neatly facing the outside of the city. Luo Thirty saw the bright golden light that overflowed from the city wall and knew who it was.

"Has the Shurima army been overwhelmed?" Luo Shi began to have a headache. "Oh, if the war starts at this time, Setaka will find out that I secretly joined the army."

Luo Shi looked at the city wall hesitantly: "I can't go out yet, I have to find Xisha and the others first. Where did they go?"

While thinking about it, Luo 30 suddenly saw a huge black shadow passing by outside the city wall.

Luo Shi was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, the huge black shadow had disappeared.

"That is..." Luo Thir frowned, "What is that? Monster? How could it be possible... How could there be monsters in Shurima's army..."

While Luo Thirty was thinking, he heard footsteps.

"It's a guard!" Luo Shi quickly found a place to hide.

A patrolling line of Icathian guards passed under the walls.

Luo Thia looked at it. He wanted to know how the Icathian soldiers looked like when the army was approaching the city. They were still in a panic when they fought generously. He hoped to see from the soldiers' faces whether there was any resistance from Icacia Chance.

But Luo Thirty saw nothing.

Because the guards have no faces at all.

All they have left is a skull, which is placed in the helmet, and the hollow eye socket is afraid of creeping tentacles and fibrils that do not come from octopuses and insects, because even the strangest creatures do not grow that An organ so distorted that it makes people vomit and feel dizzy at the first glance.

"What is that!" Luo Shi's eyes widened.

"Void... Worms of the Void... Swarm... Your partner..." The voice in Luo 30's head kept saying.

"Is that the void?" Luo Shi was extremely surprised. This was much weirder than the sea of ​​worms he had killed in the void, and the uncomfortable feeling was much stronger.

"They... stronger... the void... stronger..." the voice said.

"A stronger void..." Luo Shi stared at the strange creatures in the soldiers' bodies, and an idea suddenly popped up, "The creation of the void... Isn't that how it was born?"

"Positive solution..." The voice gave Luo Thirty the answer, "The larvae...grow...differentiate...acquire abilities...become...the world-devourer..."

Luo Shi's heart sank.

There are at least twenty or thirty people in the guards passing by him, and everyone has such grotesque bugs in their bodies. If they all grow into Void Creatures... Luo Xiu only thinks about dozens of Void Creatures appearing in him together. In front of me, I feel that my brain is shaking. If it really happens, I am afraid that Setaka will not be able to ask for a group of ascenders.

And this is just a small patrol in the capital city of Acacia. Luo Thirty doesn't know how many people like this are there. It doesn't make much sense to rush out and wipe out this patrol now.

"Are the Mage King and the people who govern the council of Icacia crazy..." Luo Shi scolded, "They actually keep this kind of thing in the body of their soldiers! They really think they can control it!"

Luo Shi forced himself to calm down: "The most urgent task is to find Xisha and the others first... um... Where are they most likely to go?"

Luo 30 looked up, and in the center of the countless mage towers suspended in the air, the largest palace was particularly conspicuous.

...

"Your Majesty!" Kieran knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to the Mage King.

He had already kowtowed dozens of times with all his strength, his head was bleeding, and the blood was stagnant on the floor.

"Zieran!" The Mage King looked at the white-haired old man who was desperately admonishing him, and said angrily, "Shurima has already conquered the entire territory of Icacia! Now this is the only place left! You still have to stop me. Are you satisfied to see that **** of Setaka chop off my head!"

"I absolutely dare not have this intention!" Kieran kowtowed again, "But Your Majesty! It is absolutely impossible to completely open the entrance to the void! We have absolutely no grasp of the nature and laws of the void, and rashly opening it will have unimaginable consequences!"

"Is it a good ending to wait for Shurima's army to capture the palace!" The Mage King said angrily, and his voice was full of disappointment and grief under his anger, "Kiran, I thought you understood me best. Man, is the wisest person in Acacia, I didn't expect...you are still an old-fashioned old-fashioned person, your eyebrows are burning but you still don't know it."

"The duty of the old minister is to assist the king." Kieran's voice showed no guilt, "Your Majesty is doing a crazy thing, the old minister is afraid that your move will make Acacia utterly doomed!"

"Icacia is doomed!" The Mage King was furious, "When I lost to Shurima a thousand years ago, it was doomed! Icacia has been loyal to Shurima for a thousand years! What a contribution to Shurima! Shurima refuses to give the qualification of an ascendant! This kind of slave-like treatment is no different from eternal redemption! Today, even if the fish die and the net is broken, Shurima must witness the backbone of Icacia!"

Kieran raised his head, the old man's face was covered in blood, and his tone was sad: "Then what should the people of Acacia do!"

The Mage King's expression trembled, and he clenched his fists: "Icacia can't live in humiliation, it's not alive."

Kieran still wanted to dissuade him, but a flame burned in the hands of the Mage King and smashed onto the pillars of the main hall.

"Say one more word, and you will be like this pillar." Mage Wang Han said.

Kieran lowered his head silently. He took off the official hat on his head and put it at the feet of the Mage King. Finally, he bowed to the Mage King and stepped back out of the hall.

The Mage King looked at the bloodstains and official hats on the ground and was speechless for a long time.

After Kieran exited the hall, he walked quickly to his mage tower.

An apprentice came up to meet him, saw Kieran's face covered in blood, and panicked to give him treatment.

Kieran waved his hand: "No, I made it myself."

The apprentices came over one by one and asked Kieran what happened with concern.

"Your Majesty is about to gamble..." Kieran said bitterly, "To have taken all the power to govern the Council to nothing... As expected of His Majesty, he has made preparations for a long time... But open the void and take all the Shurima army. Killing here...how do you see it, Icacia will suffer too..."

The apprentices have different expressions, but they are all worried. The Void has been exposed, and they all know the existence of the Void. For unknown power, any qualified mage should know to be cautious, but the Mage King has obviously lost reason of judgment.

Or maybe he's actually very awake, but that's all he can do.

"Teacher, what should we do?" a female apprentice asked, "do nothing?"

"We are not battle mages, can we still go to the battlefield..." Jilan smiled bitterly, "I am afraid that if we go up, we will only be able to trample the ascenders..."

Many apprentices have begun to despair, kneeling on the ground in pain.

A weak male apprentice burst into tears: "Why...why did things happen..."

Another male apprentice sighed, stepped forward and said to Kieran: "Teacher, it seems that our destiny is out of our control. I just want to say, I'm very happy to be your apprentice and spend time with you in research. I cherish it very much.”

Kieran's heart is sour. He is an old man who doesn't have much obsession with life and death, but his apprentices are all young people.

"Wait... time?" Kieran suddenly turned his attention to the huge gear magic device in the center of his mage tower.

High-strength energies converge, twist, and collide in the device.

It was Kieran's lifelong effort, a simulation of time and space magic.

"Time...time..." Kieran swallowed, and he suddenly had a bold idea.

"Everyone! Get up! I know what we're going to do!" Kieran quickly ran to the device under the astonished eyes of the apprentices, "Let's change the time and space!"

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If we could change the time.

Then we will dominate everything, whether it is the flow of energy, changes in entropy, or the century-old problem of whether to drink milk or coffee in the morning, all will be solved.

—Heimerdinger, professor of physics and engineering at Piltover University

Chapter six hundred and ninety-ninth chance encounter

Luo 30 climbed over the high wall and entered the palace smoothly.

Icacia's palace has always been defended and warned by a powerful magic circle, so there are not many guards guarding it here. Luo Thirty already knew this when he came here last time.

In addition, during the war, almost all the combat power was sent to defend the city, and the huge palace was very deserted at this time, and no one could see it, which seemed very strange.

Luo 30 looked around: "Will Shisha and Ramos be in here... I can't think of any other place to look..."

Luo Xiu didn't think Xisha and the others would be in danger. Ramos and Amumu were both powerful enough to fight against the Void Creatures. Although Amumu was not very stable, Luo Xiu didn't think there was anything that could hurt the powerful one. little mummy.

Moreover, Xisha and the [Brides of the Archipelago] also have good fighting strength, Luo Thirty doesn't need to worry about their safety.

Just where did they go?

"Embrace the void... Embrace the void..." The voice in Luo Shi's head continued to tirelessly annoy him.

"Go hug the shit." Luo Shi had been annoyed all morning and was in a bad mood.

He walked through the vestibule of the palace that was engraved with many complex runes. Because Luo 30 did not have any powerful abnormal magic fluctuations on his body, the defense circle of the palace was functioning normally and was not activated.

"Huh..." Luo Shi breathed a sigh of relief, he was still thinking about what to do if the voice in his mind was detected by the defensive circle.

Luo Thirty stepped into the palace, and Icacia was really at the point of life and death. There was not even a waiter in the palace.

After seeing the soldiers eroded by the void, Luo 30 knew that the people of Icathia were not only hiding from the Shurima army outside the city, but also the Icathian army that had become monsters.

"This war is really getting more and more complicated..." Luo Shixin said, "Shurima, Icacia, and the three sides of the void..."

"You are on the side of the void..." the voice in his head said.

"I'm on Setaka's side." Luo Shi ignored the voice in his head and continued to walk inside the palace.

Luo Shi walked around a corner and saw a group of people kneeling on the ground.

Luo 30 hid in a hurry and secretly observed the group of people.

Judging from the clothes, he seemed to be a nobleman of Icathia, but he was kneeling for some reason.

Luo Thia looked in the direction where they were kneeling and worshipped, where there was a statue of a god.

It is Acacia's iconic Eternal Fire Statue. It is a statue made of a variety of magical ores. It is obviously a solid stone, but it can continue to dance and roll like a flame. This is Acacia where magic culture is prevalent. treasure.

Luo 30 remembered that Mai Yisha had told him about the achievements of the four major kingdoms of Shurima in terms of magic.

Ixtar defines elemental magic with a unique set of "early axioms" theories.

Baru adheres to the teachings of the **** Naga Cabros, believing that movement is the secret of magic, and the priests of Baru will carry huge totem poles or drive furious sea beasts.

Because Fuguang Island has "healing water" from Shurima, which is their "water of life", the whole place is very rich in magic, plus it is an isolated island country, so they are not good at fighting with magic, but instead He prefers to study the nature of magic and life, and has many scholars and acolytes.

As for Icacia, they claim to be the "masters of magic", and their king calls himself the "Mage King", which shows how confident this country is in terms of magic.

Luo 30 knows the speciality of Eternal Fire, which is the national treasure of Icacia, a high-energy magic body that can greatly strengthen the human body and even prolong its lifespan. Its power is enough to hurt the ascendants.

The Eternal Fire is as important to Icathya as the Sun Disc is to Shurima, and it is the foundation of Icathia's ability to establish a nation.

Luo Thirty once asked Setaka why he did not let Icathya hand over the secret of the eternal fire, but Setaka just said very proudly that Shurima did not need the eternal fire, the flame of the sun was above all else.

It should be normal for this group of Icathian nobles to bow down to the statue of the Eternal Fire, but the statue itself is not normal.

A twisted tentacle covered with countless slightly open eyes wrapped around the Eternal Fire statue.

"It's a void again..." Luo Thirty said in her heart.

The tentacle's eyes were not fully open, it drooped weakly.

The nobles stepped forward one by one, touched the tentacles with their trembling hands, and in an instant, their bodies dissipated like scattered dust.

"What is this doing?" Luo Shi couldn't understand.

"They're embracing the void..." Fortunately, there is a voice in his head to help him solve his confusion, "Embrace the void... abandon yourself... become part of the eternal tranquility..."

"Is this a sacrifice?" Luo Thirty understood that these nobles were sacrificing themselves to the void.

But this is not the same as the sacrifice in Luo Shi's cognition. Every place in Shurima often holds sacrifices, and sacrifices livestock, crops, wine, and slaves to the sun. Usually, the sacrifice is placed on the sun. It is a Shurima tradition to let the sun roast them alive in the middle of the desert.

However, the sacrifice in front of him had neither fanatical singing nor any ritual steps. It was more like a group of numb people lining up to commit suicide.

"Embrace the void... no... red tape..." the voice in my head said, "just give up everything... mind... emotion... memory... body... strength... give up everything... get eternal peace... …”

"How could this group of people choose this..." Luo Shi couldn't understand why the nobles did this.

They are nobles, and they are the most greedy people for life. Even if the Shurima army has arrived, there is no reason to give up their lives like this, and throw them into the void so obediently.

Luo Xiu once again felt the treacherousness of the void. It can actually convince the most greedy and fearful of death to commit suicide. Luo Xiu began to worry about whether he would be bewitched by the voice in his head one day.

"I have to go back to Mai Yisha as soon as possible." Luo Shi stopped looking at these nobles, turned and walked in another direction.

Just as Luo 30 turned a corner again, he suddenly felt a dark head above his head.

Something fell.

Luo 30 wanted to dodge, but it was too late. A heavy object slammed firmly on Luo 30's body, crushing him to the ground.

Luo Thirty felt a hand on his neck.

"Human?" Luo Thirty shouted badly, as if he had been discovered by the people in the palace.

The person who captured Luo 30 had a lot of wrists, and held the center of gravity of Luo 30's whole body, making him unable to exert any strength at all.

"Don't talk!" The person who captured Luo Shi lowered his voice and said, "Your life is in my hands! Be honest if you don't want to die!"

"Wait..." Luo Shi was taken aback, "Why is this voice so familiar?"

"Varieva?" Luo Thirty asked.

A surprised voice came from the woman behind: "Luo Thirty?"

Luo Thirty felt a light behind him, he turned over and saw a beautiful desert woman's face, it was Varieva in human form.