Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

Since the aftermath of the magic ceased, the entire mausoleum has become silent and quiet.

Just as Ryan was about to float towards the void passage, Ezreal's voice suddenly sounded behind him:

"Mr. Speaker, I found this!"

Ryan stabilized his body and looked back.

Ezreal's face couldn't hide the smug look, and in his hand he held a notebook with a dark brown appearance and what looked like a sheepskin texture.

Ryan frowned slightly and asked Ezreal:

"Did this come from him?"

"He" refers to the dead bone sitting on the ground.

For that withered bone, Ryan Bao has a little respect.

If it wasn't for his sacrifice back then, perhaps the desert surrounding this mausoleum would have been occupied by the void...

To make matters worse, if the magic fluctuation just now exceeds the saturation value that can be accommodated, the self-destruction program of the mausoleum will be triggered, and the explosion caused by the self-destruction will open a large void passage, and countless void creatures swarm. to...

And this is enough to destroy the entire Shurima continent.

Now...not Shurima's heyday.

Ezreal nodded solemnly, retracted his raised right arm, with reverence on his face, and said word by word:

"He's a hero."

After expressing his evaluation, Ezreal recounted the deeds recorded in the notebook:

"He was a mage during the founding of Noxus, and like me, he likes to explore. By chance, he got the world rune, and in order to further explore magic, he chose to enter here."

After a pause, Ezreal sighed:

"This is a diary, which also records his unwillingness and remorse. He successfully cracked all the trials left by the Mage King, and easily opened the main tomb of the mausoleum..."

"Unfortunately... it is not the treasure of the Mage King that greets him, but the void passage that the Mage King has painstakingly prepared."

Ryan glanced at Dry Bones, and he could easily see that the corpse did not die from trauma, but from exhaustion of magic power or exhaustion of physical strength.

This pioneer could have left this place with the help of the power of the world runes, but he did not do so.

He chose to stick to it until the last moment of his life, and left the world rune here.

It was only today that they re-witnessed this past.

The three of them were silent at the same time, and the atmosphere around them became heavy. Their eyes were neatly looking at the white bones on the ground, as if they were in a simple but sincere mourning.

After a while, Ezreal opened his mouth and continued:

"The diary also wrote that he realized something was wrong the moment he opened the main tomb, but it was too late. The void passage was opened, consuming everything in the main tomb, and he relied on the world rune to kill it. "

"At our feet, he used the world rune to build a hard barrier to isolate all void creatures. At that time, he had two choices, use the power of the world rune to go out, or die here."

Obviously, the mage chose the latter.

After merging with the world runes, Ryan has a deeper understanding of magic. The magic power contained in the world runes is extremely high, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary magic power.

For ordinary mages, it is extremely difficult to just invoke the magic power contained in the world runes, and it is impossible to maintain the barrier while teleporting.

Once teleported away with the help of the world rune, the Void creatures here will swarm out without seeing anything.

One life, ten thousand deaths...

or...

One dies, all lives...

"At the last minute, he made a choice to inject all the magic power into the world runes, and hope that the next person who enters here will be able to solve these monsters." Ezreal said in a low voice.

He raised his head, his eyes flashed, and looked at Ryan who was floating in the air with a look of hope, as if the pioneer passed through the long years and looked at Ryan.

The diary ends here.

Ezreal concealed the exploration of void creatures in the notes, which marked the mage's research on this undead creature.

Precisely because there is no way to kill it except the world runes, even these damn creatures devour magic...

Therefore, all these are the reasons why the mage chose to sacrifice. He could not see the hope of human beings in this alien encounter.

The notes also recorded that the pioneer mage named those small worm-like void creatures - Void Spirits.

"He was a venerable Noxian, and his deeds deserve to be celebrated in the Empire, along with the tomb's past."

Ryan's voice was very soft, but Ezreal could hear the seriousness in it, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

If the deeds here spread out, wouldn't he have a share.

Oh! Ezreal, the great and brilliant explorer...

Just thinking about it is exciting.

He quickly pulled away from his sad mood and volunteered:

"Mr. Speaker, don't worry, I'll do this when I go back."

"I'll leave it to you, bury this dead bone in the mausoleum. He deserves to be buried here forever. As for the original Mage King here..." Ryan's voice paused, "I admire this Mage King's courage to break the net. But he shouldn't let out the void."

The Void... the enemy of all creatures on the Material Plane.

He didn't know how Icathia came into contact with the void, but he guessed it had something to do with time magic.

As far as he knows, the mages of Icacia are very good at this magic, and they can even use it to spy on fragments that may happen in the future.

He suspected that the Mage King did not come into contact with the void, but peeked into the void from the future and obtained the coordinates there.

Thinking of this, Ryan glanced at the void passage not far away and slowly drifted there.

Since he quelled the self-destruction procedure of the mausoleum, there has been no more void creatures pouring out of the passage.

It is not that they know what fear is, but that there is a stronger presence that cuts off all void creatures from the other end of the passage.

"Void..."

Ryan spit out a word and stretched his palm forward.

hum!

The dark blue magic turned into substance in the palm of his hand, fused together, and finally formed a translucent bright blue magical creature.

Its body is only a finger long, with a pair of pointed and large ears on the top of its head, slender and short limbs, and its tail is like a bunch of blue flames.

On the whole, its length is similar to that of a cat and a mouse, and its whole body has a jelly-like blue luster, which is very pleasing.

"Goo!"

The little guy let out a happy cry, lowered his head, and rubbed Ryan's palm with his round face.

Looking at its cute appearance, Ryan's brows and eyes were soft and a faint smile appeared.

This is one of the abilities that Fusion World's runes bring him...to create magical life.

The magical creatures created by him not only have life, but are directly composed of the magic power of the world's runes.

Because it is an energy body, it is not subject to any physical damage, and will not dissipate until the magic power is exhausted. Of course, he can also replenish it at any time.

And even if the magic power is used up, Ryan can re-use the power of the world rune to regenerate it, and even the memory does not have any deviation.

If that's the case, he wouldn't place so much importance on this ability.

Crucially, the magical creation can also amplify his magic, and even attach to his spells to attack.

At the same time, he can operate the operation of attachment magic.

And regardless of its small size, the little guy's own magic power is enough to maintain the energy supply and magic maintenance of the floating castle.

"Go."

As soon as Ryan's voice fell, the little guy's round head was lifted up immediately, and a serious expression appeared on his little face.

"Goo!"

Like a response to Ryan. It shook its small pointed ears, kicked its limbs in Ryan's palm, jumped down, and entered the void channel without hesitation.

Ryan watched the blue figure disappear into the passage, and he was not worried that it would encounter problems.

According to his and Syndra's research, the plane where Void creatures live should be a dead, material-drained spiritual plane.

The matter of the Void Plane is almost swallowed up by the Void. In order to satisfy the hunger, the Void is eager to come to the new material world, plunder, devour...

But even the most powerful void cannot cross the walls of the plane.

The mind of the Void is disordered and chaotic, contrary to the wisdom required to open the gates of the planes.

Their own strength is not enough to break the barriers between the planes, and they can only rely on the passages opened up by the material plane.

However, not everyone on the material plane has this ability, and the size of the door that can open up the plane is not the same.

Like the small void passage in front of you, powerful void creatures cannot pass through at all, and they will ignore this passage.

As for the first person to open the door to the plane of the void, Ryan does not know who it is.

But that person is undoubtedly a mage. Only magic can steal the authority of the world, communicate with other planes through authority, and open the door of planes.

like now...

Ryan sensed that there was an extra plane coordinate in his mind, and a wave of fluctuations flashed in his dark blue eyes.

With the authority of the world rune, he also has the ability to open the void channel.

"interesting..."

Through the information returned by the little guy, he saw an interesting "creature".

On the other side of the void tunnel...

Chaos, disorder, unknown, mysterious, wild...

No matter what kind of abnormal vocabulary is placed here, it is not suitable. If you insist on saying it, it seems that... "nothingness" is the most suitable description.

There is no light here, only endless darkness, and endless unconscious creatures.

A blue figure emerged.

The little guy floated forward in the endless void, his short limbs swayed vigorously, like stirring a pool of stagnant water, and the blue flame-like tail swung left and right behind him.

It opened its dark blue eyes and looked around curiously.

It wasn't always emptiness and silence here, at least not in its eyes.

The purple ball of light lights up from time to time, and every time it lights up, there will always be a roar of a bomb explosion, smashing a dense mass of void creatures into purple flesh.

And the source of the light ball is a "monster" with the same height as a person and wearing a void shell...

"It" was covered with a layer of black-purple skin without any dead ends.

If this could be called a "skin".

Wrinkled, rough, and covered with sharp bone spurs... It's hard to imagine how it feels to wear it.

Except for the weird skin

In addition, "it" has a weird head, spindle-shaped or football-shaped... The surface of the head is smooth and hard, like some kind of insect carapace.

"It" has no extra features, only two slender purple eyes that meander down.

No one knew where they were looking.

And all of this is not the most conspicuous part of "it".

At the position of "it"'s shoulders, two pairs of winged dark carapaces extend back, similar to the material of the head, and look very streamlined, with a purple light ball on each front end.

The purple ball of light that just lit up was lasing from here.

During the little guy's observation, several more purple light balls shot out from the carapace and exploded between the little guy and "it", clearing the small insect-like void creatures in the middle.

What a weird big guy!

The little guy blinked his eyes twice, his big ears trembled slightly, showing a human-like unexpected expression.

It tilted its head and stopped to look at "it".

Perceiving the sight of "it" seems to be looking at him, the little guy hesitated for a while, and finally raised his front paws and made a move towards "it".

"Goo!"

Then the little guy took a deep breath and turned his face so round and translucent.

It tried to hold its breath, opened its small mouth, and a small blue light shot out of its mouth.

This ray of light was as fast as lightning, instantly traversing the distance between the two, and almost emptied the void creatures in the middle.

But when the light hit "it", it didn't do any damage.

On the contrary, "it" reacted, and the figure quickly rushed in the direction of the little guy.

The little guy was not panicking, but instead the light swept across, and defeated a large area of ​​small void creatures.

In the end, "it" crossed a not-so-short distance and finally came to the side of the little guy.

The little guy didn't have the slightest emotion of fear, he shook his short limbs with all his might, and tried his best to climb up on "it"'s carapace.

During this process, the two newly made partners cooperated tacitly.

The purple ball of light and blue light interweave, preventing any Void creatures from approaching.

After climbing onto the opponent's carapace, the little guy flicked his tail and pointed to the void passage behind him.

The void passage is only the size of a wellhead, but it is enough for the petite "it" to pass through.

"It" did not hesitate, and brought the little guy into the void passage when it came.

......In the mausoleum, I saw a humanoid void creature jumping out of the passage. Ezreal and Katarina took an attacking posture at the same time, and their eyes were full of alertness and tension.

But when they saw that Ryan didn't respond, their hanging hearts dropped a little.

From Ezreal's point of view, with the strength shown by Mr. President of the Council now, it is not too easy to kill a void creature of this size.

"Your Majesty..."

On the other hand, Katarina couldn't help but reminded her when she saw the Void creature's ready-to-go appearance.

Ryan shook his head slightly at her, then smiled and turned his eyes back to "it".

The next moment, he actually bowed slightly and made a courtesy courtesy of Shurima:

"Welcome back, fellow race that survived in the void."

Hearing this sentence, "it"'s alert action instantly froze, and Ezreal and Katarina also widened their eyes.

No matter from top to bottom, from left to right, it is a genuine void creature, how could it be their kind?

They looked at "it" with incredible eyes, as if to break through the protection of "it" and see what kind of human beings could survive in the void.

"You...recognize...have...me?"

A voice with obvious female characteristics sounded, but the tone was incoherent, with a sluggish vibrato.

"It" or she, the vocal part is also very strange, coming from the carapace-like head.

In addition, the language she spoke was not the lingua franca they were familiar with, which made it unfamiliar, and Katarina couldn't even distinguish the specific meaning.

On the contrary, Ezreal, who was exploring everywhere, felt familiar. He looked at the strange lady in front of him and guessed that this was the language used by a remote village in Shurima.

"I don't know your name, but you're our countryman, no doubt about that. I'm Ryan Meredith from Noxus."

Ryan introduced himself to the smooth introduction of his home. He could feel the familiarity and kindness in the other person's voice, like a friend he once knew.

But the other party's real body is hidden under the skin, and even he can't spy on his true identity.

He spoke the same language as hers, Shurima spoken in the villages near Icathia. He had traveled there and had some help.

Shurima has different language habits due to different regions, and there are huge differences between them.

If Ryan hadn't set foot on that land, he wouldn't have mastered the language.

"Ryan Meredith..."

Her carapace head uttered again, murmuring the name,

This time, when she spoke, she was unusually smooth, not as strange as before.

After repeating it several times, her tone gradually became higher, as if a certain dusty memory had awakened, more like suppressing some unspeakable emotion.

In the end, it all turned into one emotional sentence:

"haven't seen you for a long time!"