Chapter 445: The King Who Doesn’t Understand People’s Hearts
For this selfless act, Azir passed his Ascension ceremony.
A pillar of flame lifted his body into the air, and Shurima's magic brought him back to life. The sun's immortal light poured into his body, shaping his majestic eagle armor and granting him the ability to control the sand.
Azir felt this unprecedented surge of power.
Inspired by the sun, he raised his hands: "Boom——"
For a moment, yellow sand swept up and the earth trembled, as if the entire desert was moving according to his will.
The thick yellow sand that had covered the ruined city for thousands of years disappeared at this moment like the receding tide. The buildings and temples from Azir's time emerged from the "water" like reefs after the tide receded.
This city, which had been dead for 3,000 years, came back to life.
And the most important thing is...
"Sun disk?" Belvis' pupils shrank.
The immortal light from the stars did not dissipate just because of Azir's successful ascension.
The collapsed and shattered remains of the sun disk rose into the air under the support of endless yellow sand, and then the bright light of the sun completely dispersed the dust and haze covering it, and burst into endless sunlight.
The sun disk reestablished its connection with the stars in the universe and once again floated in the sky of Shurima.
It was as if there was an extra sun between heaven and earth. It attracted the sun's brilliant light and spread it across the sky and earth of this ruined city.
Even the void beast tide that covered the sky and the sun could not stop the blooming of this brilliance.
The sun's rays tore through the purple sea, making the sky sparkle with purple light on one side and dazzling gold on the other.
The power of the sun has completely awakened the ancient magic engraved under the ground of this city.
Clear fresh water gushed out from the ground, filling the stone basin. Sweet healing water flowed between the temples, bringing infinite vitality to this dry land that had been dry for thousands of years.
The Dawn Oasis, which once nurtured most of the Shurima Desert, reappeared in this brief moment.
"Shurima!" Azir's grief-stricken heart was rekindled with lofty ambitions. He raised the golden spear high and shouted to the land: "Your emperor is back!"
"This..." Everyone present was shocked.
As Xerath looked at the reborn Azir, his emotions were so complicated that he couldn't express them in words.
Nasus looked at the golden sun disk and his eyes became moist for a moment.
Renekton stared at the resurrected city in a daze, and a bit of clarity suddenly returned to his confused eyes.
Sivir, Taliyah, Kassadin, Kai'Sa, these ordinary Shurimans who grew up in the yellow sand, were so excited that they were speechless as they looked at the seemingly endless oasis springs that kept gushing out from the yellow sand.
Even the "prophet" Levi was shocked. He had expected Azir to ascend successfully, but he never expected that it would be Azir and his "good brothers" who moved the heavens this time...
"Xerath!" Azir had no time to notice Levi's strange expression at this time.
After completing his ascension, he leaped down from the sky and immediately came to the side of his good brother to protect him.
"Are you okay?" He also asked Zeras, who had just escaped from the clutches of Belvis.
"Hmm..." Zerath's language function completely failed.
When he backstabbed Azir, he never thought that one day Azir would save his life again.
Fortunately, he is now a shining "human-shaped light bulb" and does not have complete facial features like humans. Otherwise, his expression now would definitely be very interesting.
“Can you still fight?” Azir finally asked a question he could answer.
"Yes." Zeratul nodded.
“Then let us fight together, just like before.” Azir turned around and cast his gaze towards the purple ocean: “Thank you for your hard work over the years, my friend.”
"From now on, I will not let you continue to protect this empire alone."
Xerath: “…”
He remained silent, but Azir could not wait to launch an attack on Belvis.
"Sand soldiers appear!" Azir raised the golden spear, and the desert responded to his call.
Tens of thousands of hectares of yellow sand rushed in, rolling up endless waves. The sand waves swept past, but what was left behind was not sand, but rows of neatly lined up soldiers made of star energy and yellow sand.
"Kill!" Azir gave an order, and these lifeless sand figurines came to life instantly.
They formed an undead army as vast as the desert, and rushed towards the world occupied by the void spirits without fear.
The sea of yellow sand and the purple sea collided with each other at this moment. The roar and screams of the void monster soon resounded in all directions.
The master of these void spirits, the Void Queen Belvis, is in a very bad situation at the moment.
Facing the combined forces of Janna, Nasus, Renekton, and Xerath, she could no longer maintain her crushing momentum. Adding in the powerful Ascendant Azir, her personal strength advantage was even more negligible.
And the vast beam of light that just came straight from the universe caused severe damage to this incarnation of Belvis.
The immortal sun's light was like the deadliest poison to void creatures. Her body was burned into charcoal by the light and has not recovered to this day.
"Take advantage of now!" Levi didn't bother to study the evil relationship between Azir and Xerath. He immediately cast the Eye of the Storm on himself with Janna and rushed forward to launch the final siege on Belvis.
"Wither!" Nasus also reacted quickly.
He used all his strength to corrupt Belvis' soul with spells, slowing her movements.
"Tyrant Strike!" Renekton instinctively coordinated with his brother, and with a spiral thrust, he approached Belvis and cut through her bat wings that were burned to charcoal by the sun.
"Sand Attack!" Azir followed closely behind, summoning endless sand soldiers to attack him.
"Arcane Pulse!" Xerath also subconsciously cooperated.
Now that Belvis had been severely damaged by the Sun's Radiance, he was also suppressed by Janna's Storm, Nasus's spell, and Azir's Sand Soldiers, and was unable to move at all.
Xerath didn't have to worry about the hit rate. He immediately output magic power at maximum power and blasted a beam of arcane pulse light as wide as a river forward.
The dazzling huge beam of light completely submerged Belvis's figure in an instant, and then a powerful and vast energy burst out from her body. The blast stirred up countless yellow sands, whistling in all directions.
And when it all comes to an end...
After the light of the explosion faded away, the powerful and invincible Queen of the Void appeared in a miserable state with her body broken and covered with wounds.
It was obvious that the balance of victory had tilted towards humans, and she could no longer gain the upper hand over Levi, Azir and others.
"Die, Void Demon!" Azir raised the golden spear high and prepared to pursue the victory.
"Master!" Malzahar flew over eagerly, as if to protect his master with his own body.
Belvis, however, looked calm, without any of the anxiety that her followers showed.
She didn't seem to plan to fight any further: "There's no point in fighting any further."
As he spoke, Belvis supported his broken body and looked up at Azir wearing golden eagle armor and the sun disk that was floating in the sky of Shurima again, as if he had calmly accepted this reality:
"You have won this battle."
"I didn't expect that this empire that had been dead for 3,000 years could be resurrected along with its emperor."
"This..." Azir was slightly stunned. He realized that so much time had passed.
An empire that has been dead for 3,000 years... Could it be that the Shurima Empire perished after his death?
Azir didn't have time to think about it, because Belvis's terrifyingly calm voice sounded again: "Shurima has been resurrected. But what can this change?"
"In the heyday of Shurima, there were hundreds of Ascended God Warriors. They tried their best but could only barely stop a small ."
"And now..." Belvis's eyes swept across the ruins in front of him, as well as Azir, Xerath and others.
It took the Shurima Empire thousands of years to amass a legion of hundreds of Ascended Ones.
So what if Azir is resurrected now? The Void will not give humans another few thousand years.
"The void will eventually devour the Runelands, and all things will return to the purple sea. Your resistance today is only delaying your own doomed death."
"You will definitely lose the next battle."
"You... want to escape?!" Azir clenched his spear tightly and shouted harshly.
"I don't need to escape." Belvis replied calmly.
Then, she turned to look at Malzahar: "Malzahar, I can't take you away from here. I'm afraid your life as a human being will end here completely."
"Hmm..." Malzahar was slightly stunned, and then he showed a surprised expression: "Yes! Lord Belvis!"
He was like a devout believer who was finally led by an angel to heaven. He was so excited that his voice trembled: "Please accept me into the great nothingness and grant me eternal happiness!"
"As you wish." Belvis cracked his head and opened his hideous mouth: "I will let you gain eternal life in the Purple Sea, my faithful believer."
As soon as she finished speaking, she covered Malzahar's tiny figure with her huge manta ray wings, then opened her bloody mouth and swallowed him in one gulp.
A strange purple light flashed, and the human named Malzahar completely disappeared in this rune land.
His body and soul, including all his knowledge and memories, merged into a part of the Void Queen.
"This..." Azir looked extremely alert.
He thought that Belvis suddenly devoured his friendly forces because he was desperate and was about to use some evil trick.
However, after Belvis integrated Malzahar into himself, he...
“Bang——” a purple light burst out.
Her body exploded into a piece of light purple void energy, which then scattered in all directions along with the whistling airflow and quickly disappeared into thin air.
The countless void monsters flying in the air also lost their vitality instantly as Belvis disappeared. Their bodies quickly became dim and fell down like rain.
The void dissipated and the azure blue sky reappeared before everyone's eyes.
But no one was happy. Because Belvis's calm self-explosion had already shown one thing:
"This... is just an incarnation of her?" Azir couldn't believe it.
“I’m afraid so.” Nasus sighed heavily. Levi had already warned him about the power of Belvis. This Void Queen with the ambition to destroy the world, her true strength was definitely not something that a few Ascendants could match.
"It seems that her true form is still hiding in Ekassia for some reason."
Nasus quickly deduced the limitations of Belvis' abilities.
After all, if Belvis was really strong enough to sweep the world without any scruples, then she wouldn't have to train humans to serve as guides and nibble away at southern Shurima bit by bit.
“Icathia?” Azir was bewildered. “Grand Maester Nasus. Wasn’t the Void invasion of Icathia completely quelled by the Ascended Order before I ascended to the throne?”
"Why..." He had many questions to ask at once.
What happened to the Shurima Empire?
Why did the void invade again?
The capital of the Empire has been taken over by the Void, where are all the other Ascendants? Aatrox, Rhaast, Varus, Zolani, why are the main forces of the Ascendant Corps all missing?
Also, where did this Janna come from? Wasn't this heretic god banished from Shurima?
How come she has become so strong now that even a high-level Ascendant like Nasus can only play supporting roles for her?
"In the past 3,000 years..." Azir condensed these questions into one sentence: "What happened?"
“Uh…” Nasus didn’t know where to start for a moment.
“Let me begin at the beginning,” Azir said. “Grand Maester Nasus, I want to know what happened on the day I died.”
"Who killed me and caused the sun disk to explode?" He asked like a good brother, standing beside Zeratul.
“This…” Nasus was at a loss as to how to answer.
Xerath was so embarrassed that his face turned red.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, at this time...
"Nasus!" Renekton, who had just driven away the void monster and finally regained some sanity, immediately turned back into the mentally degraded beast full of hatred and madness.
Netherston sensed that something was wrong: "Brother, calm down. I..."
"You are not my brother, traitor!" Renekton roared.
"I did not betray you, Renekton. Have you forgotten? At that time..."
“Shut up!” Renekton simply didn’t listen: “You should have locked me up tighter, Nasus!”
More than 3,000 years ago, he was called the "Desert Butcher" by his enemies because of his cruelty and bloodthirstiness. Now his mind has been completely distorted by the wizards of Xerath, making him even more ferocious and cruel.
The surging rage that was embodied dyed his eyes blood red. He roared, opened his bloody mouth, brandished the sharp blade, and pounced on his brother with murderous intent.
Nasus had no choice but to raise his great axe passively.
A crocodile and a jackal, two giant beasts dozens of meters tall, were fighting fiercely in the yellow sand.
"This..." Azir was stunned.
They had finally driven away the great enemy from the void, so why were they fighting each other again?
And, it’s Nasus and Renekton?
They were famous for their deep brotherly love back then.
Nasus was already suffering from a terminal illness when he underwent the ascension ceremony. His muscles were atrophied and his bones were brittle. At the final moment when the sun disk cast its golden light on the altar, he was unable to climb the last step and walk into the light.
It was Renekton who, with the resolute determination to be reduced to ashes, rushed forward to help Nasus up, and walked towards the column of ascension light that did not belong to him with his brother.
As a result, not only did Renekton not die, but he created a miracle and completed ascension with his brother.
This story has been passed down as a legend in the Shurima Empire. But now...
"What the hell is going on?" Azir looked at Xerath blankly: "Why has General Renekton become so crazy..."
"Zerath, do you know?"
"This..." It was strange. Although he had lost his physical body, Zeratul could still feel himself sweating.
Looking at Azir's unguarded and trusting eyes, he finally couldn't hold it anymore.
"I, I'll go first." Zeratul took a big step and pretended to fly away.
"You can't leave!" Levi appeared in front of him prepared.
Janna then flapped her wings slightly, creating a huge airflow.
The airflow was like a huge wave hitting him head-on, and soon pushed Zeratul, who had just soared into the air, back down mercilessly.
In the fierce battle just now, Xerath, as the breakthrough point that Belvis focused on, took on a lot of positive output for the whole team.
His body had already suffered severe injuries, so he was naturally no match for Levi and Janna.
"Xerath!" Seeing his good brother being knocked to the ground by the strong wind, Azir rushed up immediately.
He glared at Levi and Janna, and tried his best to summon a wall of imperial soldiers to protect Xerath firmly.
"Azir..." Looking at the tall figure who was guarding him firmly, Xerath fell silent again.
Levi: “…”
This scene really exceeded his imagination.
“Azir.” He sighed helplessly, “You really don’t understand human nature!”
"Don't you understand yet? Renekton became what he is now because Xerath used sorcery to distort his will."
"And the person who pushed you off the altar from behind is the good brother standing behind you now!"
"You still dare to leave your back to him - aren't you afraid of being stabbed in the back by your good brother again?"
"Ridiculous!" Azir ignored Levi's words without even thinking about it.
In his eyes, Levi, the little brother who followed Cana, was a heretic.
"Xerath is my brother and a hero of Shurima! How dare you, a heretic god, speak nonsense like that!"
Azir scolded Levi.
However, when he turned around and looked at Xerath...
However, Zeratul still looked dazed as if his magic core had crashed, and he remained silent.
"Zeras..." Azreel suddenly felt something was wrong.
And the various abnormal behaviors of Zeratul just now finally caught his attention.
"Xerath, that's not the case, is it?" he asked nervously.
Xerath: “…”
"Xerath, why don't you speak?" Azir's voice trembled.
Xerath: “…”
He remained silent.
After a long time, he finally sighed: "Azir, that's right..."
“I did all these things.”
"The one who killed you was me."
