he came from the void

And Rexai is the queen of this group of Exai.

"That's not a beast, Sivir, it comes from the void just like the things on us, it's a real void creature." Kahn corrected extremely seriously.

There can be no underestimation of void creatures. If you only treat them as ordinary beasts, it would be a big mistake.

Sivir rarely showed a dignified expression. The only time she saw a void creature was when Taliyah lost control and tore open the ground, allowing the void spirit inside to crawl out.

Void Spirit pierced her back with a blade foot, and she almost died on the spot, but was saved by Kahn with the symbiosis of skin and armor.That experience left her with lingering fears, and every time she recalled it, she always felt a twinge in her heart.

If Exai were really void creatures, then the legends portrayed them as terrifying, perhaps not exaggerating.

"Even I don't want to go through that area alone, and I often choose to go around a hundred miles to avoid those monsters." Nasus said seriously.

"Then why didn't you take a detour this time?" Sivir asked.

"Because Ryze is here."

Nasus' words made Sivir look at Ryze, but the latter didn't explain anything, and went to the market with Scarash.

……

Two hours later, Ruiz returned with a team of camels.

Kai'Sa saw at a glance that the number of camels was wrong, there were as many as seven or eight, and even including Nasus, there were only five of them.So what are these extra camels used for?

"We don't have so much luggage to carry. Are the extra camels going to get a carriage for Nasus?" Kai'Sa asked casually.

"I guess, in addition to being used for riding, some of these camels are also used as bait."

"Is it to distract the void creature that I just mentioned?"

Kahn nodded: "Exai are a group of blind men. They have no eyes and catch their prey by sensing the vibrations on the sand. This is why crossing Calixa is so dangerous. It is almost impossible for you to avoid them. Because your feet will definitely fall on the sand, and once you encounter Exel... If you are small, it is okay, and you can be more careful; but if you are big, you have to learn to abandon pawns to protect the handsome."

"So, those extra camels are used as bait to lure Exel away, and are sacrifices to the void?"

"You're right in saying that."

"Master!" A strange voice interrupted the communication between the two of them. They looked at the back of the camel caravan, and a few sallow-faced and thin guys stopped Ruiz.

One of the bold ones, who was not too scared to speak because of Ryze's appearance, bit the bullet and pleaded: "Master, please hire me, let me take you through the dangerous Calixa. For the six of us, only one camel is enough!"

"No need." Ryze refused coldly.

"I, I will walk quietly and show you my feet!"

The young man raised the soles of his feet and aimed at Ryze. Although this was very rude, judging from his eager expression, he didn't mean to offend or insult.

Ruiz glanced at the soles of his feet, and could see that the soles of his feet were covered with thick calluses, and the skin of his feet had also cracked. It was indeed a pair of "peeled" feet.

"Put it down."

It is inevitable for the young man to stand on one foot and his center of gravity will be unstable. He was staggering, and it was as if he was forgiven when he heard Ruiz let him put his foot down.

"I don't need any guides. I've walked the road of Calixa many times. Do you think I'll need some of you guys to lead the way if I'm alive? I’m afraid I haven’t spent as much time on the Internet as I have alone.”

Ruiz's severe reprimand, coupled with the man's fierce appearance, immediately stunned the young man, and he backed away in small, disheveled steps, ready to run away.

"and many more."

Suddenly, he stopped the young man.The latter thought that he had changed his mind, and immediately approached him with a shy face.

Ruiz took out a few coins from his pocket and put them in the young man's hand, and said impatiently, "It's not that I don't want to take care of your business, but that we really don't need you. Take this money for something to eat." , don’t do this kind of business anymore, Calixa is very dangerous, very few people can survive in this desert for a few seasons.”

"Thank you, Mage!" The young man listened in a daze, overjoyed, bowed deeply to Ruiz and ran away with the other young men, disappearing from everyone's sight within a few steps.

Although Kai'Sa understood part of the abrupt scene in front of her, there were still many things that could not be understood at a glance.

"Are these people willing to be bait?" she asked.

"Yeah, the young man's life is cheap. They are basically abandoned children. They can only take risks in order to make a little money. They will keep half a day's distance in front of the caravan to test their own danger, so as to guide the caravan to avoid ambushes on the road Exel."

Life is not easy, Kahn sighed.When life is unsatisfactory, thinking about what happened to these people, I suddenly feel that I am very lucky.

"Then if you encounter Exel, you will die?" Kai'Sa thought.

Six lads, plus a camel, are barely enough between the teeth for the insatiable hunger of void creatures.

"So they practice a technique called 'quiet walking', which is to move quietly and quickly by minimizing the vibration produced when walking. If they encounter Exai, they will scare the camel away to attract predators to get the attention of the predator, and then perform this trick on their own to move away from the predator in a different direction."

"Can this work..." Kai'Sa was speechless, substituting the first perspective of the void creature, she felt that this was a joke with her own life.The breath of life of a living person is so obvious, how could it be impossible to smell it.

"That's why Ryze didn't hire them. This is a gamble for life. If you are unlucky, you will die."

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Chapter 566 Callixe

From the wastelands of the south to the Farajsai known as the "Endless Plains," the deserts of Shurima hold many dangers beyond their arid climate.

While most trade posts are free to customize their customs and laws, there is no security outside the reach of local enforcers, and merchants usually cannot survive in the Badlands for long if they are not careful.

It may be that Ryze's previous generous behavior was noticed, so after leaving the gathering place, this group of people followed them.

This group of people was dressed in messy clothes, including light civilian clothes, furs, and armor made of scales, but they didn't bring much goods, so they didn't look like honest businessmen.And this is the direction to go to Calixa, normally speaking, there is no such coincidence to meet the companions.

"Yo, it looks like we've gotten into trouble." Sivir was not nervous at all when he found out that he was being followed. On the contrary, he was a little excited, as if he had found some fun.

"Shall I take care of them?" she said.

"How are you going to solve it?" Kahn asked her.

They have all noticed this group of people, but they are just watching. If this group of people doesn't know what to do and come together to make trouble, there must be no good juice to eat.

"Let me go and kill them." Sivir put her hand on Chalikar, she thought that she would slow down and approach the camel caravan behind to deal with them, and she would do it when she got tired of playing.She wants to see how many people can escape from her.

"There's no need to kill them, just drive them away." Kai'Sa persuaded.

"That's fine, let them suffer a little bit." Seeing Kahn's face, Sivir restrained himself with difficulty.

She reached out and grabbed one of her braids, pinched three fingers on one of the golden hair pendants and kept rubbing. With her movements, a wave of magic power spread and penetrated into the sand .

Bang!

After a short period of silence, an inconspicuous rock on the side of the road was suddenly lifted, and a huge monster sprang out from the ground, swiftly pounced on the trailing team, and let out a low-pitched roar, full of warning.

This cave-dwelling creature looks like a huge hedgehog, standing taller than a camel, with dense rock thorns growing behind it, it is not easy to mess with at first glance.When the following camels saw it, it was as if they had encountered a herd of hyenas. They were so frightened that they threw their hooves and immediately scattered and fled.

"What kind of creature is this?" Kahn asked, pointing to the hedgehog-like creature. At the moment, it was holding a stone and throwing it at the followers, roaring in its mouth.

"Rock bear, vegetarian, isn't it funny." After speaking, Sivir laughed loudly to himself, as if amused by a group of robbers being chased away by a vegetarian animal.

She didn't conjure this rock bear with the power of the talisman, but it was hiding in the burrow to enjoy the cool and sleep, but it was woken up by her, and immediately opened the door of the house and broke out of the ground.

"..." Kahn didn't think it was funny, he just thought it was weird.

The front of the rock bear is not as threatening as the back. On the contrary, it has a dull face, which looks a little cute, and it doesn't run fast. It has nothing but throwing stones with one hand.However, it is really troublesome to deal with this thing. It just needs to lie down in the hole and show its back, and ordinary people can't do anything about it.

After such a move, those followers were busy appeasing the frightened camel, missed the opportunity to keep up with the target, and were left far behind by them in a short while.

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"The problem is solved, but unfortunately the sand here is not soft enough, and there are no sand-diving beasts, otherwise I will let the sand-diving beasts wash them away." She added.

Sand divers, as the name suggests, are creatures that can swim in sandy seas. They are as huge as whales. They rely on their powerful flippers to dig through the sand, and the fin-shaped bone plates on their backs often expose the sand to absorb the heat of the sun.

These gigantic creatures roam the desert, feeding on insects that most desert animals wouldn't bother with.Scavengers often memorize their circumnavigation routes and jump on their backs for a ride.

What Sivir thought was that when such a "bus" crashed towards the camel caravan, it would definitely make these scheming followers turn their backs and suffer a lot.

……

In the second month, a huge skeleton blocked their way.They stood on the top of the sand dunes, overlooking the bones of the gods.

These huge skeletons are like mountains, with huge ribs still slanting towards the sky, and the shadow cast by each rib is enough to cover the entire camel caravan.Even though it has been dead for many years, the strong winds in the desert have not been able to weather and erode it, and its residual power still remains.

"This skeleton means that we are about to enter Calixa, bypass it!" Ryze ordered from the front.

"Isn't this your race? Nasus. How do you feel seeing this?" Sivir pulled the rein and asked Nasus, who was walking on two feet beside him.

"Just like you see a human skeleton on the side of the road, the meaning of its existence is to remind you of the danger ahead."

"Pay attention to your feet." Sivir nodded thoughtfully, and responded like this.

"Why is this skeleton so much bigger than the Grand Maester's godly form?" Kai'Sa asked.

The skeleton has lost its magical powers, and its only function now is to serve as a signpost, guiding people carefully into Calixa.

"Everyone is different, and this principle also applies to those who ascend. The ascension ceremony is not an exact science. The transformation of us by the power of the astral world is unpredictable. No one knows what they will become after ascension." Nesser S said.

It's like he became a jackal after ascension, and his younger brother Renekton became a crocodile. These are their inner reflections.

Jackals are smart and witty, crocodiles are fierce and fearless, and there are also lions, vultures, poisonous snakes, etc... Every Ascendant has a unique appearance and ability, so it is not surprising that there are some Ascendants as large as elephants.

"The huge wreckage of the marrow seal market..."

"I can tell you clearly that it is not the skeleton of the ascender, but the rib remains of some kind of ancient desert behemoth, which existed long before the era of the ascender, and even I don't know what it is."

The Marrow Seal Bazaar is the largest market in southern Shurima. It is said that you can find anything under the sun here, as long as you can afford the corresponding price.But what makes it most famous is not the scale of trade here, but the whole market is built on the structure of huge ribs, so many people come here admiringly.

Like the ancient giants who descended upon Ionia, Shurima holds many ancient mysteries.

Chapter 567 Axel

Northerners call Calixa the "Sea of ​​Bones," but southerners think this is wrong because there is no sea.

There are continuous mountains in the south blocking the sea, and many southerners will never see the sea in their entire lives.

"Sai" in Rai language refers to the plain of sand and gravel, which makes people walk slowly and painfully.

It meant that the land was tunneled; it meant that Exel hunted; it meant that death was lurking beneath the gravel.

But Kahn felt that the northerner's name was also correct.

They were sailing in a desert boat through a sea of ​​sand strewn with bones, half-buried in the gravel of humans, camels, and many other creatures, as common as reefs on the bottom of the sea.Occasionally, the remains of some huge creatures can be seen, such as sand divers, scalash, etc., all of which were eaten clean by the only predator here, leaving only a skeleton.

Not long after entering here, they encountered a burrow.

The burrow emitted dark purple poisonous gas and was distorted under the sun. Kahn saw the abnormal colors around the burrow at a glance, so he asked Ryze to stop the camel caravan, and went to find out by himself.

He approached the opening cautiously, stopping a yard away.Kahn's cautiousness was just light footsteps, he could sense the void creatures nearby, and it was impossible for Axel to sneak attack him when he was close to the burrow.

The diameter of the opening is not as big as a melon, but poisonous gas is coming out of it, indicating that the hole has just been dug.

Without sensing the void creature from inside, Kahn squatted down so that his line of sight was parallel to the entrance of the cave, and peeked at the situation in the cave with his left eye.

There were dense footsteps behind him, and everyone came over except Nasus.This ascendant was self-aware, knowing that his weight on the sand would cause much greater shock than ordinary people, so he wisely chose to stay where he was and guard the camel caravan.

Kai'Sa and Sivir approached because of curiosity, they had never seen Exel, and Ryze was going to come over to teach the three juniors a lesson, let them realize the danger of this creature, and approach the burrow rashly like this It's really stupid.

But as soon as he got closer, he saw Kahn put a hand into the hole.

"What are you doing, this is dangerous!" Ryze immediately issued a warning, wanting Kahn to take his hand back.

"No, we are different." Kahn was interrupted, and after saying something to Ryze, he continued to go his own way and stretched his hand into the hole, scraping out a bit of viscous liquid from the hole wall.

It was at this time that Ryze saw that his arm was already in an inhuman form.

A chitinous purple carapace covered the exposed parts of his arms, like Axel's hard skin, and its breath was exactly like the void creatures he had encountered before.Only then did Ryze understand what Nasus meant when he said they had returned from the void.

"This sticky thing should be Exel's saliva. They use saliva to consolidate the soft sand to form holes. Be careful not to inhale it. This thing is corrosive, and it will volatilize when it comes in contact with air, producing poisonous gas." En said, inserting his fingers into the sand and turning them around a few times until the saliva on his fingers was wiped dry.

Listening to Kahn explaining to the other two women, Ruiz suddenly felt that he was superfluous.My own knowledge of void creatures is probably far from enough to be a mentor to others.But he didn't walk away, nor did he urge the three to continue on the road, the conversation between them attracted him.

"Can you grab one and take a look? It's boring to talk like this." Sivir asked Kahn with her hands on her knees. She was always not afraid of trouble.

"It's not impossible." Kahn looked at the size of the hole and thought about it, and answered her like this.

"Should we stamp our feet to shake it out? Or simply use the magic of the talisman to 'lead the snake out of the hole'." Sivir showed the talisman she had woven in her hair, shining brightly under the sunlight.

"No, you can't control the scale. It would be terrible if you attract a large group." Kahn asked her to wait quietly, while he closed his eyes and began to sense the void creatures underground.

Almost at the same time, Kahn noticed a void creature deep in the formation.It's digging down, for unknown purposes.Karn controlled its monotonous thinking, and drove it to turn around and crawl up the ground with the instinct of hunger.

"It's coming." Watching Kahn close his eyes, the bystanders also held their breath involuntarily.Even with Kahn's reminder, they were still frightened suddenly when the monster jumped out of the hole.

Axel jumped out very fast, and he could only see an ugly black figure. Fortunately, Kahn was prepared and caught it the moment it jumped out of the hole.

The two of them opened their eyes wide and looked into Kahn's hand.Axel the size of a wild cat was being clamped in its hands. Because of the mind control, there was no strong struggle, so it was not difficult to see the appearance of this thing clearly.

It is very different from Void Spirit. The blind Axel's head is smooth, without dense needle holes, only an unusually ferocious mouth.The muscles of this mouth are completely exposed, and the powerful fangs and jaws have abandoned chewing and strengthened the ability to bite.

Void creatures have extremely abnormal digestion capabilities, and they don't need specially evolved teeth to help digestion.

The forelimbs of these guys for digging are extremely developed, and the second half of the body is as slender as a shrimp. It can be strongly curled and straightened, and the acceleration that can burst out when it hits the ground is comparable to a bullet.Instead, their hind limbs are severely degenerated, so they can't run fast on the sand surface, and their hunting depends on the deadly pounce when they rush out of the ground.