Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Kalya did not appear at Lux's coronation ceremony on purpose.

Kalya knew that Lux was about to become emperor.

He knew better than anyone else that no matter how unwilling Lux was to become the emperor, the result would inevitably be to ascend the throne - because Demacia needed a strong emperor to deal with the subsequent reforms and crises.

Only the position of emperor can maximize Lux's reputation advantage and use the huge reputation she has accumulated in the past to the political situation of Demacia.

Although it is a bit of a pity not to attend the enthronement ceremony, for Kalya, this can also be regarded as preparation for the future.

In the past twenty-five years, ever since she came into contact with that magic penetrating rod, everything about Lux has been firmly bound to Kalya.

Kalya taught everything he knew, whether it was magical theory or political theory.

And Lux ​​accepted everything from him and inherited everything from him.

However, this bond is not permanent.

To this day, Kalya has long lost his immortality.

When he became an Ascended One, Kalya embraced eternity and was forever fixed at the age of forty-two.

After losing his immortality, this forty-two-year-old whose watch was stopped finally moved the hour hand forward again.

Even if Kalya doesn't have the power to ascend now, he is still considered a transcendent.

However, unless there are some special adventures, the life of an extraordinary person is very limited - maybe a little longer than ordinary people, but it is only a hundred years.

Lux was used to having Kalya around.

But in the future, she will have to experience a long, long time without Kalya.

Life is full of vegetation and autumn.

Having lost the power of eternal ascension, Kalya's current mentality is getting closer and closer to that of an old man.

In his spare time, he became more and more accustomed to reminiscing.

His extraordinary memory allows him to clearly remember every bit of what he has experienced in the past thousands of years. These past events in his memory are like gratings engraved with exquisite lines, which have long since disappeared. Light and shadow refracted in Kalya's heart like a revolving lantern.

In Lux's view, Kalya is a very hard-working person. Whether in Vazuan or in Forsbarrow, he can always handle government affairs in an orderly manner, leaving only problems that Lux and Ino can handle. as their learning and trial.

But only Kalya himself knows that the main reason why he is so busy is because he does not want to be idle.

Kalya himself is actually not that hardworking.

Once he is free, Kalya is easy to indulge in the memories of the past - the memory of ordinary people only lasts a hundred years, but people still miss him when they are old, but Kalya's memory spans thousands of years, this heavy memory It was always on his mind.

And in that heavy memory, although there are countless sweetnesses, those sweetnesses eventually turned into bitterness.

In this case, only through continuous work can Kalya prevent himself from being immersed in it and experiencing mental pain.

Just like now, in Isuoken, Kalya goes to and from Qiyana's private dragon farm all day long, as if he is really a dragon-loving person, carefully observing and studying Qiyana. of those "private collections".

He was clearly the driving force behind the cooperation between Qiyana and the radical faction, but he seemed to be just a person who stayed out of the matter.

However, what is interesting is that it is precisely because of his "staying out of the matter" that Kalya is taken seriously - Qiyana has always maintained courtesy to Kalya, because after she cooperated with the radicals, both parties discovered that He didn't know much about things outside of Ixtal. Although Kalya showed an attitude of staying out of the matter, his importance increased instead of decreasing.

However, Ixtal is still in the stage of party struggle. Kalya's "Shurimaton" is useful, but it has not yet been used, so he is only treated politely.

And being treated with courtesy was enough for Kalya.

Because of this courtesy, he got the right to go deep into Qiyana's private dragon farm and get close to the south wall of the dragon farm.

Further south on the south wall is the restricted area!

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Once things have reached this point, it will be much easier to enter the penalty area.

In the previous exploration of the restricted area barrier, Kalya had long confirmed the properties of this barrier - as a space shielding barrier, it can not only detect people and objects crossing the barrier, but also isolate the inside and outside. The spatial connection is an artificial spatial barrier.

If the physical body passes through the barrier, it will be discovered immediately, and it will have to endure the space tearing of the barrier; and if you want to be teleported... Sorry, people outside the barrier cannot determine the internal space. coordinates.

The transfer destination cannot be selected!

It seems that this kind of barrier cannot be penetrated no matter what.

But in fact, Runeterra has never been foolproof, and Kalya already had a plan in mind on how to pass this barrier.

Unbeknownst to anyone, he creates a spatial coordinate that serves as an anchor location for teleportation.

Then, the next day, Kalya, who had been "studying elemental dragons", became interested in the acid dragon in the southernmost part of the dragon farm.

With curiosity about the dragon species he had never seen before, he "slightly" teased the elemental dragons closest to the south wall, causing the acid-spitting dragon to spit in the direction of the barrier outside the restricted area. saliva.

Taking advantage of the fluctuations in the barrier, Karl threw the forbidden magic stone engraved with the spatial coordinates across the barrier.

Under the erosion of the acid, the boundary of the restricted area fluctuated, attracting the attention of the guarding soldiers.

But it was obvious that this was just an accident - things like the elemental dragon spitting water at the barrier had occasionally happened in the past.

So, after the barrier guard quickly arrived at the scene, he briefly checked the situation inside the barrier, confirmed that there was no problem, and then turned around and left.

Nothing seems to be happening.

That night, Kalya quietly sneaked into the dragon farm.

He was already familiar with the dragons along the way. These elemental dragons with keen senses did not make even the slightest movement when Kalya passed by - you know, the reason why this dragon farm can rely on In addition to the fact that its owner is Qiyana, another important reason for the placement of the forbidden zone barrier is that the dragon's nose is far more clever than the dog's nose.

Raising dragons outside the barrier is strengthening security!

But it is a pity that these violent elemental dragons and elemental dragons have become completely familiar with Kalya in the past few days. Today, the acid dragon who was provoked by him to spray dragon breath randomly also benefited. Submissive.

As a result, these elemental dragons turned a blind eye to Kalya's infiltration, allowing Kalya to reach the southern wall very smoothly.

Very good, this step is successfully completed.

Next, what Kalya has to do is to teleport himself to the space coordinates!

This is not difficult.

Although Kalya is not like Ryze, who can directly use arcane magic to realize winding jumps, he has a lot of research in space accommodation, and he can at least designate his own small world exit at close range.

After confirming that the coordinates he left in the barrier were still intact, Kalya first left the coordinates in the southern wall, and then entered his own little world.

And when he came out again, the exit coordinates had been changed to the preset location within the barrier!

In this way, Kalya successfully passed the barrier in a way that was almost "buggy".

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The first thing to do after entering the barrier is to explore the surrounding environment.

But at this time, it was pitch black inside the barrier, and everything Kalya could see was filled with chaos—if he wanted to see the surrounding environment clearly, he needed a light source.

Concerned that using magic might lead to detection, Kalya chose to light a prepared hexminer's lamp.

After the miner's lamp was lit for a quarter of an hour and there was no movement around, Kalya finally breathed a sigh of relief, then put the miner's lamp on his head, looked around, and began to move towards the depths of the restricted area.

It's very empty here.

There seemed to be nothing wherever the light touched. When the miner's lamp swept around, Kalya could only see a bare patch of ground.

On the ground, it is all ordinary sand that is most common in Shurima, and there is nothing special that should be noted.

To be cautious, Kalya would conduct an environmental test every five hundred steps—mainly tests related to elemental concentrations.

The test results show that the closer Kalya is to the depths of the restricted area, the higher the activity of the elements. It seems that there is indeed something amazing in this place that is kept secret.

After walking for almost two hours, when Kalya checked again, he felt the unique energy erosion of the monolithic element for the first time.

Could it be that the ruins of a monolithic fortress are hidden here? !

Then, just as Kalya continued to move forward and continued deep into the restricted area, in the place where the energy erosion of the monolithic fortress was the most intense, many shadowy figures finally appeared within the scope of the mining lamp, as if they were towers. The head stood quietly on the ground.

Um?

What the hell is this?

Even though he was well-informed, Kalya was a little confused at first glance, because he didn't understand why Ixtar would build so many things that looked like defense towers in these restricted areas...

Then, when Kalya approached these "defense towers" full of doubts, he found that there were many familiar and unfamiliar inscriptions on these towers, and these inscriptions clearly explained The origin of these towers.

All the towers are made of monoliths removed from the monolithic fortress!

So the Ixtal people demolished the monolithic fortress and made this thing?

Why do they do this?

Arriving at the nearest tower, Kalya studied it carefully from top to bottom.

The tower is solid and made entirely of the building materials of the monolithic fortress. On the surface of the tower, there is a new layer of inscriptions that suppress the inscriptions on the previous construction of the monolithic fortress.

Judging from the old inscriptions on the ground floor, the building materials for this tower should come from the base of the monolithic fortress.

Then, Kalya studied the newly engraved inscriptions, and he was surprised to find that although he knew almost all the magic circuits and sigils on it, when they were combined, Kalya was completely confused.

According to Kalya's existing knowledge, these inscriptions are completely contradictory!

Absorbing magic power and releasing magic power are in the same circuit.

The flow of magic power at high elemental concentrations is opposite to that at low elemental concentrations.

There are also "growth" and "stasis" in parallel...

The entire tower is filled with paradoxes!

What are you doing, performance art?

For a moment, Kalya even wondered if there was something wrong with Nezuk's mind.

Shaking his head, Kalya followed the direction of the magic circuit and looked at the top of the tower - many paradox sigils and circuits that should not be connected in parallel are all here. Maybe these towers are hidden inside. The real secret?

At the end of the magic circuit, Kalya saw a plain black stone.

This stone is a bit like a monolith, but it is completely different from a monolith. Feeling the elemental fluctuations and monolith erosion it brings, Kalya finally narrows his eyes.

Familiar, too familiar - this is what Kalya sensed in those towers of elements!

Could it be that these black stones are the core of the Tower of Elements?

And these strange towers are special devices used to make these black stones?

It looks very similar, but Kalya can't figure out the joints. At his level, he can't understand why these sigils and magic circuits with contradictory meanings that he can clearly understand can create the Tower of Elements. core!

There must be something wrong here!

While Kalya continued to observe the tower and wondered whether he had made any omissions during the entire observation process, in front of him, the tower suddenly... moved slightly.

Um?

After confirming that he had seen it correctly, Kalya finally narrowed his eyes slightly.

Wait, it moved?

Is there some kind of driving mechanism?

Or is it because... it's actually alive?

When this idea appeared in Kalya's head, he finally couldn't help but his eyes widened instantly.

Live!

As we all know, the magic circuit engraved on the body of a creature and the magic circuit engraved on the forbidden magic stone are completely different things. If self-regulation can be carried out, the contradictory circuits will not be a problem!

As for the tower made of the building materials of the monolithic fortress, why might it be a living thing...

There is actually precedent for this.

Galio is alive.

If there were no Kalya, a living Malphite would be born in the monolith.

These monoliths that are stacked together and engraved with magical circuits and inscriptions, if there are certain stimulations... maybe they can also be "alive".

At this moment, Kalya finally understood!

Open your mind