He Comes From the Void

"Can I do it too? Protect your family from monsters like you do."

Keisha was surprised by the little girl's answer. She looked at the arrow in her hand and shook her head: "This won't work."

The girl seemed to have been shocked and fell silent. Keisha quickly changed the topic: "What year is it now?"

"982 AD." The little girl answered honestly.

AD 982... This is the Noxus calendar... I didn't expect it to be three years since it fell into the ground.

Kane, who was hiding behind the stone pillar, also realized that he and Kaisha were not twelve years old, but thirteen years old.

There was a silence.

Keisha really doesn't know how to talk about it, because she knows nothing but the void and monsters, so she doesn't know what to say to the little girl.

She saw the crowd not far away suddenly commotion, and knew that she was running out of time.

"Do you want to kill the monster? Do you want to destroy the monster?" Keisha asked.

The little girl nodded.

"Then starve it!" Kesha said.

The girl was a few years younger than Keisha. Although Keisha knew that the little girl had no idea what kind of monster they were facing, she still admired her courage.

So Kesha has a showdown, and she wants to convey a message through the mouth of the little girl.

"Listen, you go back and tell them. Let them know, no more dancing under the new moon. No more tying animals to stakes. The Void doesn't know mercy—it dies if it doesn't eat."

The needle-pricking sensation in the flesh became stronger, as if responding to her words.

The people in the settlement searched over, and the little girl yelled out without reminding Kesha: "Daddy! I'm here, with a sister."

Then people looked over, holding weapons and torches in their hands, and the bright firelight penetrated the darkness.

It was still exposed, but Keisha didn't run away, because Kane also stood up and was beside her.

The girl's father saw two terrifying monsters standing beside her, with a look of terror on his face.

He didn't dare to rush over, and while shouting, he put the arrow on the bow: "Come back to me! Stay away from those... monsters!"

"Girl, go to your father and tell him what my sister told you just now."

Kane approached the girl, and her father immediately pulled the bowstring with trembling hands and begged, "Run! Please!"

The little girl had never seen her father look so scared, and she panicked.

"Let's go." She was pushed a few steps by Kesha, then suddenly turned around and asked her, "Sister, I don't know your name yet?"

"Kesha." Kesha answered her without thinking, and now she just wants the little girl to leave quickly.

The little girl continued to approach her father. She heard a movement, and when she turned her head again, there were no two figures behind her.

The chief came over and hugged the girl, with frightened tears flickering in the corners of his eyes. No one hurt her, and she didn't know why her father was crying.

"Don't come near here anymore, monsters will eat people." The girl's head was pressed on the broad shoulders, and her father panted nervously.

"But sister Keisha said that they are protecting us, and told us not to sacrifice any more." She raised her head, her voice piercing through the noisy voices.

"Absurd, only sacrifices can be exchanged for peace!" A tyrannical voice broke into the conversation between the father and daughter, and the missionary was angry at the childish statement of the girl.

"How can you believe what the monsters say? If the sacrifice didn't bring you peace, it must be caused by them!"

...

The smell of blood filled the tunnel, and Kane didn't count carefully how many sheep he had slaughtered.

But in order to prevent these sheep from running around and becoming hunters, he could only guard under the burrow and kill them all.

When Keisha came back from hunting, she saw a pile of sheep corpses and asked what happened.

"Those people didn't listen, and they kept stuffing sheep into the sheepfold, and even pushed the sheep into the tunnel." Kane explained the seriousness of the problem to Kesha: "Now they're blocking the entrance of the tunnel again. Stopped, the bloody smell couldn't go out, and began to spread underground."

"Why block the exit to prevent us?" Keisha felt unreasonable. If it wasn't for her painstaking efforts to convey the message, how would these people know that they were in danger.

"Um."

Kesha turned her gaze back to the corpses on the ground: "Let's find a way to clean up these corpses, such a strong smell of blood will trigger a wave of beasts."

"I'm afraid it's too late." Kane replied helplessly.

Some kind of mutation had already occurred in the abyss, and he sensed it immediately.

Countless monsters are forming, claws crawling out of the abyss dragging their wet bodies, and rushing towards this place in droves with an inconsolable killing urge.

"No way..." Kaisha murmured incredulously, until her skin armor also sensed, responding to the calls of the void creatures.

She immediately made a decision, turned around and fled into the darkness.

"Where are you going?!" Kane asked.

"I'm going to lure them away! You hurry up and clean up the corpses!"

"Leave away?" Kane felt that Keisha's hasty decision was unrealistic. This time the beast horde was bigger than ever before, and it was obviously impossible to wipe them out by fighting guerrilla warfare.

"Kesha is not here, why not take this opportunity to make a break, let people see the real horror, so that they will be willing to leave."

After making up his mind, Kane crawled towards the surface, pushing hard against the rocks that sealed the entrance of the tunnel.

The huge movement made the guards find him immediately, and all the sharpened spears were aimed at Kane, as if he was facing an enemy.

"Monster, go back! You are not welcome on the ground!"

Such a weak enemy can't even arouse the stinging warning of the void skin armor. It sends a feeling of hunger and wants to eat them.

Kane also couldn't help feeling a bit of urge to share food. He realized that the skin armor had been trying to usurp power, so he swung his claws and hit the nearby rock pillar, suppressing the desire to kill on the surface of his body.

The support point at the bottom of the rock pillar was hit by him with a huge gap, and it looked crumbling. The guards looked at Kane differently.

Not only was he more frightened, but he also lost his fighting spirit.

"The real monsters are coming, and they won't listen to you."

Facing a few adults, Kane has no pressure at all.

He sniffed the air for the fear that would make void creatures flock to it.

"Let's go, there's still time to go back and pack your luggage," he said.

The guards looked at each other with fear written all over their faces, but they didn't back down, and still pointed their spears at Kane, even in the eyes of the latter, there was no deterrence at all.

Their mission is to prevent monsters, for the settlement, they can't just leave their duties like this!

If possible, Kane really doesn't want to fight these humans. He really doesn't know how much force he should use to make them feel pain without being beaten to death.

Not merciful, just not worth being jotted down by Kesha for it.

Suddenly he remembered that there seemed to be a way without using force.