Chapter 439 Malzahar's Master
Tam disappeared in an instant, leaving only the sound of Zaun's words echoing in the valley.
However, this loud echo was soon drowned out by the hurricane-like roar of the beast.
Endless void insects and beasts continuously poured out from the cracks in the ground like a tide.
The clear sky that had just been "cleaned" by the storm was instantly submerged by the sea of void insects that covered the sky.
Malzahar floated silently in the air, looking deeply at him with his purple eyes: "Are you... Levi?"
"Do you know me?" Levi looked up and looked at him.
"Yes." In order to realize his ideal of destroying the world, Malzahar, who has been hiding in southern Shurima for many years, has not neglected the situation in Runeterra.
"I know you, the president of the Wind Leader Association, the chosen one of Goddess Janna."
"I've also read your book." Malzahar's tone was more appreciative. "You have a thorough understanding of the problems in your world. If we only look at this point, maybe we can still be friends."
Levi didn't rush to respond.
Because he knew that Malzahar was about to say "but":
"But." Malzahar's tone turned mocking again: "You clearly see the problem, but you still fantasize that humans can cleanse the world's filth with their own power."
"Levi, you have overestimated the human species! This world is beyond salvation! The only thing that can bring eternal happiness to mankind is the void, only my Lord!"
Malzahar roared frantically, but Levi remained silent.
He is good at debate and is happy to discuss issues with people of different political views. Whether they are radicals or conservatives in the meeting, even if there are huge differences in their opinions, he has the patience to communicate with them carefully.
But Malzahar is different.
No matter whether they are radicals or conservatives, no matter how big the differences and conflicts are between them, everyone's starting point is always the same - that is to make the world a better place.
Everyone wants to get full marks on this test, so it makes sense to discuss the solution with them.
But Malzahar didn't want to answer the question at all. He just wanted to destroy the world completely.
Such people are not just ordinary dissidents, but outright enemies.
Discussing how to build a better house with an enemy who just wants to burn your house down... is a complete waste of time.
"I have nothing to talk to you about." So, Levi just replied.
What Malzahar needs more than weapons of criticism is criticism of weapons: "Stop talking nonsense and get started."
As soon as he finished speaking, a storm swept across the entire world.
In an instant, the clouds and mist rolled, the air surged, and countless tornadoes condensed out of thin air around Levi, and then spread out in all directions with him as the center.
These tornadoes were like wheels rolling over mud, mercilessly plowing out clean and clear skies from the dense sea of insects that blocked out the sky.
"Foolish." Malzahar said coldly, "The end is inevitable. Resistance is futile!"
As they were talking, thousands or tens of thousands of void insect beasts emerged from the ground.
Janna’s insect-killing efficiency was indeed very high, but she still couldn’t kill all these seemingly endless insects.
The ground was covered with a thick layer of corpses of the phantom spirits that had been crushed by the storm, but the sea of insects recovered in an instant and once again surrounded everyone with great momentum.
"Grip of the Underworld!" Malzahar used the same trick again, shooting out a powerful beam of void energy in coordination with the Zerg's charge.
At this critical moment, Nasus chanted in a low voice, gathered powerful magic in his palm, and pointed at Malzahar from afar:
"Wither!" Malzahar's body suddenly stopped.
At this moment, his movements slowed down by more than twice. The virtual energy beam that should have been fired faster also slowed down by half a second.
Levi took the opportunity to quickly stir up a strong wind and flew into the air to avoid the strange light.
“This guy opened the rift.” Nasus quickly flew to Levi and joined forces with him to fight the enemy: “Kill him, and the insect tide may be over.”
"Okay!" Levi nodded.
Because Taliyah 's investigation team does not need to report to Zaun remotely, and Levi, as the highest leader of the association, usually does not care about the real-time movements of this small investigation team.
So Levi now has no idea how this desert death god appeared here.
But with a powerful enemy in front of him, he had no time to think about this problem.
In any case, Levi can confirm that in the face of the common enemy, the Void, Nasus must be his ally.
"Eye of the Storm!" Then, Janna gently flapped her wings and confidently bestowed her blessing on Nasus.
A condensed high-speed airflow suddenly surrounded Nasus's huge body that was as majestic as a mountain.
This storm is both a shield to protect him and a deadly weapon that can strangle any approaching enemies. It can also accelerate him with airflow, making the movements of this desert death god easier and faster.
"Thank you." Nasus felt Levi's strong support.
He immediately raised the mountain-splitting axe in his hand, and with the protection and acceleration of the surrounding storm, he flew towards Malzahar who was protected by the raging swarm of insects.
Levi followed closely behind, using the powerful spiral airflow like a mountain-breaking cone to create a path for Nasus in the vast sea of insects.
"What?" Malzahar sensed the danger.
The Chosen One cannot possibly have this kind of power.
It’s Goddess Janna who’s taking action!
"Is it her?" Malzahar noticed the blue bird on Levi's shoulder.
But even so, the power of Goddess Gana was much stronger than he thought.
Malzahar retreated rapidly and summoned more void insect beasts to block in front of him as his shield.
But this still couldn't stop the powerful combination of Janna and Nasus.
Millions of void insect beasts flooded in, and millions of void insect beasts were strangled into mud in the storm and fell powerlessly.
"Soul Flame!" Nasus's giant axe was wrapped in flames and storms, condensing suffocatingly powerful magical energy.
He struck out with his axe—
"Soul-sucking attack!"
With just one axe, he chopped hundreds or thousands of void insect beasts into pieces.
The dense sea of insects blocking Malzahar's way was actually split open with a huge gap.
"Go with the wind!" Levi quickly stirred up a strong wind and accelerated Nasus to his full potential.
Nasus raised his giant mountain-splitting axe and chopped at Malzahar with the force of taking the head of a general among millions of soldiers.
"Ah--" The void barrier condensed around Malzahar burst instantly.
His body was completely out of control under this axe, falling into the abyss like a cannonball.
The void insect swarm suddenly became quiet and stopped moving.
"This..." Levi frowned.
He flew quickly to Nasus' side and looked down into the abyss.
Malzahar...was defeated just like that?
Is it that simple?
"Talia!" Levi suddenly thought of something.
He turned to Taliyah and asked, "Taliyah, why did you meet Malzahar here? What is this guy doing here?"
The situation was urgent just now, and Taliyah did not mention these minor information in her prayer.
“He…” Taliyah didn’t understand, but she answered immediately: “He came here to hold a sacrificial ceremony. Comrade Kassadin’s home is nearby, and we rushed here to ensure the safety of his family.”
"It's just that we didn't expect all this to be related to the void."
"Sacrifice?" Levi frowned, and then his heart sank: "Oh no!"
In the sacrificial ceremony, to whom is the sacrifice made?
Needless to say, it must be Malzahar's master - the Void Queen, Belvis, who is hiding in Icathia.
For Belvis, eating people is like eating. The so-called sacrificial ceremony is Malzahar feeding her rations.
And if a person wants to eat, she always has to go to the restaurant in person.
In other words…
"Run!" Considering that this place was not far from Icathia, Levi immediately realized that something was wrong.
Without saying a word, he changed the direction of the wind, sweeping Sivir, Taliyah and others away into the distance.
“This…” Nasus was stunned.
Then he quickly believed Levi's judgment and flew away.
"Stop! Kai'Sa belongs to my Lord, you can't take her away!" Malzahar's angry roar sounded behind him.
But there was nothing he could do.
Levi and Nasus may not be able to kill the endless swarm of void insects, but if they are determined to escape, Malzahar and those void insect beasts will not be able to stop them.
So in just a few breaths, Levi and his group used the storm as spears and fought their way through the sea of insects.
The swarm failed to stop them.
"Wait!" Little Kesha flapped her young and tender wings and flew over anxiously asking for help: "My mother is still at the foot of the mountain. There are still many people living in that village!"
"No problem!" Levi didn't have the confidence to stay and fight, but he was able to escape with ease.
He led his group and quickly flew out of the valley and over the village.
Then a storm arose, and the villagers were at a loss as the roofs of their houses were blown off by the strong wind and they were swept up into the sky by the air currents.
"Let's go!" Levi took a last look at the swarm of insects chasing him, and accelerated with everyone towards the distance.
…
Shortly after Levi and others escaped, a swarm of insects completely flooded the land.
The villages, roads, hills, and even the desert in the distance have all turned into a wasteland with cracks everywhere and no grass growing.
But gradually, the insect tide dissipated, and the spirits retreated back into the earth. Only the torn rock layers, as if they had experienced a major earthquake, still told of the tragic war that had just taken place here.
"My Lord, please forgive my incompetence." Malzahar knelt on the ground devoutly and bowed to the abyss: "I failed to keep Kai'Sa and those ignorant people who resisted fusion."
His voice floats over this wilderness.
Soon, a fish emitting a strange lavender light quietly flew into the sky from the crack.
Then, the second and third...
Ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, ten million, one hundred million...
Endless glowing flying fish soared into the air from the crack in a strange, beautiful and gorgeous posture.
They occupied the entire sky. The sky was also illuminated by the light emitted by these void flying fish, and from a distance, it looked like a gorgeous lavender ocean.
Finally, a tall and slender female figure with both ethereal and human features slowly fell down surrounded by ethereal spirits.
"My Lord!" Malzahar buried his head deeper.
“Get up. This is not your fault.” The woman said coldly, “The Wind Leader has never appeared in southern Shurima before. No one could have predicted that we would encounter Janna here.”
"Yes!" Malzahar nodded excitedly: "Lord Belvis."
The Queen of the Void, Belvis, is the most special existence among the void creatures.
Unlike other void creatures from the void plane, Belvis was born in Icathia in the material realm.
After a port city and its surrounding seas were swallowed by the void, she was born from the memories, emotions, and experiences of everyone in it.
Belvedere, it turns out that this is the name of this city.
It can be said that she is both a collection of human consciousness and the queen of void creatures.
She was extremely hungry for new experiences, memories, and cognitions, and she swallowed up cities and their inhabitants, turning them into concepts and knowledge.
Therefore, unlike the Void Watcher who only wants to annihilate everything—
Belvis' goal is to devour and integrate the entire Runeterra, and ultimately transform Runeterra into its own world.
In a sense, this does achieve a kind of "symbiosis" between the void and the material realm.
It is for this reason that the Void and humans can achieve cooperation in a way that goes against common sense.
Malzahar deeply believed that only by allowing Belvis to integrate all things and allowing all humans to become part of the Queen of the Void could humanity's problems be truly solved.
“Master.” Having just suffered a loss at the hands of Levi and Nasus, Malzahar could not wait to make up for his mistake: “Please allow me to chase them and bring back our Void Daughter for you!”
He knew that Belvis was very interested in Kesha.
This human girl who has achieved symbiosis with the void creatures is an unprecedented and special existence.
"The one that merged and coexisted with that child was the Void Beetle I summoned."
"I can sense its location." Malzahar challenged, "Master, I can find Kai'Sa for you right now! This time, I promise I won't let her get away!"
"..." Belvis groaned for a moment after hearing this.
She didn't rush to answer because she knew that Kesha now had an ascender and a goddess to protect her.
Malzahar alone cannot deal with the combined forces of Nasus and Janna.
At the critical moment, she still has to be summoned to take the field personally.
However, it was different :
The current Belvis is not as powerful as her title, “Queen of the Void”, sounds.
In fact, if Levi stopped and thought carefully, he would be able to think of it -
If Belvis was really so powerful that no one could stop her, she should have already fought her way out of Icathia and devoured the world. Why would she need Malzahar as a guide who took the trouble to collect sacrifices for her?
If you build a city yourself, isn't this better than waiting for Malzahar to feed you slowly, so that you can eat your fill and level up quickly?
Don't talk about now.
Even in the "future" 10 years later, Belvis was still hiding in the southern part of Shurima and did not expand outward.
This shows that Belvis either had limited power or was restricted by some kind of constraints and could not expand outward as he wished.
The correct answer is that it is a combination of both.
But the latter factor is more important.
Belvis was born in Icathia, and her body was originally formed by the fusion of cities in Icathia.
In a sense, the current Queen of the Void is Icathia, and Icathia is the Queen of the Void.
This means that only in Icathia, in her home court, can she exert her most powerful strength.
The farther away, the weaker Belvis' power.
If it was in Icathia, she could definitely crush Levi and Nasus easily and make them unable to return.
But after leaving Icathia, the further north she went and the farther away from her original body, the more limited the divine power she could exert became.
Therefore, she needs Malzahar to help her erode Shurima step by step, and expand her "Void Corruption" step by step to the north and even the entire Runeland.
And now, Levi has escaped with Kesha and others.
If he used that ultra-long-range space magic to bring Kai'Sa back to Zaun directly like he did when he came here...
Zaun and Icathia are thousands of miles apart, and Belvis is probably out of reach.
“Please be assured, my Lord,” Malzahar said. “I can sense that Kai’Sa is still in Shurima—she is not far to the north of us, and she has not teleported away.”
"I will catch up with them and bring Kesha back."
"..." Belvis hesitated for a moment.
"Malzahar." She finally agreed: "Take me to Kai'Sa."
"And..." Compared to Kesa, Levi, or Janna's performance, Belvis was also very concerned.
"The growth rate of Goddess Janna has exceeded my understanding."
Belvis has merged the souls of countless people, and she knows a lot about Janna.
The current Goddess Janna is even stronger than she was in her heyday thousands of years ago.
But the Leaders Association has only been established for about a year and a half... Even this short period of time is as fast as a nap for the long-lived Belvis.
However, during the time she "slept", the marginal little character that she had never taken seriously at first inexplicably evolved from a rookie into a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"Janna's existence has threatened our cause." Belvis made a decision: "It seems that I need to take action."
"Malzahar, let's go—"
"Catch up with them and get rid of that goddess."
