He Comes From the Void

Keisha saw a strange light cast from the window, as if it came from outside the sky.

The light cast a purple spot on the ground, and Kane and Kassadin clung to the wall to avoid the spot.

"What's going on outside?"

Just as Keisha was about to stand up, she heard Kane yelling in an almost trembling voice: "Kisha, don't move!"

"You can make noises, but you must close your eyes and don't move!"

Keisha was overwhelmed by the fear in Kane's voice, then suddenly closed her eyes and put on her helmet.

Kane looked at the monster in the mirror.

It slapped its well-defined tentacles, made a crackling sound like a long whip, and approached the tower at a constant speed.

A huge eyelidless eye stood in front of the tower. It seemed to try to squeeze its eyes in, but the narrow windows couldn't accommodate its pupils.

Boom... Boom!

The thunder flashed away, illuminating the outline of the huge black shadow outside the building.

Its main body is a huge purple one-eyed, wrapped in a carapace, with three constantly beating tentacles stretched out, constantly moving.

The eye without eyelids cast an unknowable gaze into the tower. Just looking at each other through the mirror for a moment made Kane almost crazy, and his reason was like a spool thrown into the night. Shout out.

But he didn't dare to shout, he suppressed a roar between his teeth, he was afraid that even a small movement would bring Vel'Koz's blurred vision into focus.

From studying the strange manuscript, Kane knew that Vel'Koz couldn't really "see" them as long as they were still.

This void ancient creation has collected a huge and vast amount of knowledge over the past ten thousand years, but only time has not been included in it.

This is knowledge that only the tower owner understands, and since he is no longer around, Vel'Koz has no way of knowing.

But even so, Kane cannot be confident.

If Vel'Koz was convinced that there was life here, maybe they would still be exposed.

And exposed to the eyes of the void, there is only one ending of annihilation.

Vel'Koz's pupils flickered, slowly sweeping across the ruins in front of him.

What is shown in the tower is that the spot of light moves around in the tower, searching for traces of life.

Then, Vel'Koz's rolling pupils stopped, and the spot of light enveloped Kesha who was motionless with her eyes tightly closed.

Intuition told Vel'Koz that there seemed to be something in the nothingness it saw.

It was a wonderful feeling, as if it was far away in the sky, yet close in front of you.

Seeing this scene, Kane hissed in a crying voice: "Don't move, don't move, please..."

Keisha couldn't hear Kane's voice, she only felt a strange gaze covering her.

At this moment, she felt the same fear as Kane.

Her soul teetered on such a far-reaching brink, and the monster's relentless hunger was tugging at her.

If it wasn't for the skin armor covering her whole body, she would have become a soulless shell the moment her eyes made contact.

At the juncture of life and death, Kesha believed in Kane, even though she felt that she had been targeted by Annihilation, she did not move, like a sculpture.

However, Vel'Koz's temptations did not stop, driven by his endless thirst for knowledge, let him figure out the mystery in front of him.

Why is there a throb of life in an empty place? Does it also hallucinate?

It wants to find out, and it stretches out its tentacles of seeking knowledge towards the nothingness in front of it.

Crackling tentacles stretched out towards the tower, and when everything was about to go dark, Kane closed his eyes in despair, resigned to his fate and waited for annihilation.

But unexpectedly, Vel'Koz's tentacles passed through the tower without touching anything.

Really just an illusion?

Vel'Koz's bulging one-eyed looked at the tip of his tentacles. It was thinking, trying to explain its feelings with its vast knowledge reserves.

In the end, it got two answers.

Mirage - It has seen mirages in the desert more than once, and it knows that it is a virtual image formed by the refraction of light reflected from distant places through the sky.

Electro-optic photography - some inorganic substances in the ruins have the ability to store and release images. Under certain conditions, lightning once recorded certain scenes, and now they are released under the electro-optic light.

Looking at the never-ending lightning in the sky, although he felt that these two answers were not close enough to the truth, Vel'Koz couldn't find anything closer.

The life throbbing sensed earlier has completely stopped, like a dead thing.

In the end, Vel'Koz regarded this as some kind of natural phenomenon that he saw for the first time, and his interest was greatly reduced, and he turned and drifted into the distance.

After Vel'Koz really left through the mirror, Kane's tense muscles loosened, and his whole body lost all strength and fell to the ground.

What he experienced just now was really terrifying. The fear that he would be discovered if he moved had already been deeply implanted in his fear, making his legs and feet weak.

Kassadin was not much better, he knelt down suddenly and propped his hands on the ground, his eyes were wide open, and his vicissitudes of face was dripping with sweat, and he didn't know whether it was tears or sweat.

Then Kane helped Kassadin up, staggered towards Kesha, and asked as he walked, "Kesha, are you okay?"

"I... can I move..." Keisha made a timid and suspicious voice when she heard the movement coming from her side.

She did not yet know that the danger was over.

"It's okay." Kane stroked the hair exposed by Kesha's helmet, and forced a smile.

The latter is still unclear, because of the fear left in his heart, he hugged Kane naively.

After a while, Kassadin walked over rubbing his sore eyes. He said with emotion: "Vel'Koz can't even see through the magic here. It seems that the tower is still safe for the time being."

"But you still have to be more vigilant, God knows when it will come back." Kane separated from Keisha and walked to the window again.

That's right, why can't Vel'Koz see through it? It has obviously discovered it, and has already stretched its tentacles in, why did it just go through it?

It seemed that the magic on this tower was stronger than he thought.

After the unexpected incident of Vel'Koz's "visit", the three of them paid more attention to the outside world. And Kane felt the pressure, and his research on the manuscript became even more frantic.

Finally, after a month, he understood the meaning of each symbol in the basic formula, and theoretically, he could accelerate or decelerate time in a local area!

Don't get too excited, it's just a theory. Kane is still the same, kneeling in actual combat.

After leaving Icacia, sooner or later he will find that he cannot release magic but lacks the necessary conditions.

But here, he can only continue to rely on books to paralyze himself - if he can take the ancient magic out and carry it forward, it will be regarded as a great merit.