The Glory of Noxus.

The dim starlight falls, embellishing the red-gold flames in the night sky.

Huo Jixing looked at the fierce battle between Kassadin and Rek'Sai from afar, with surprise in his eyes.

Kassadin's strength is worthy of the name of Void Walker.

Whether it's slaughtering Axe unscrupulously or fighting a life-and-death battle with Rek'Sai.

He was so calm and at ease, as if the power of the void had long been inseparable from him and had become a part of his body.

"Has Kassadin really found a way to resist the erosion of his mind by the power of the void?!" Huo Jixing frowned and thought secretly.

He had just fought with Malzahar and understood the danger of the power of the void, which could engulf everything and plunge people into endless madness and destruction.

But he couldn't see any signs of void erosion on Kassadin.

Instead, Kassadin expertly manipulates the power of the void, transforming it into his own strength to enhance his weapons and offense.

Especially Kassadin's ability to teleport in the void, which really made Huo Jixing extremely envious.

Such abnormal ability can not only deal a fatal blow to the enemy in battle, but also enable one to escape from danger at the critical moment.

As for Rek'Sai's attack, it was within Huo Jixing's expectations.

According to Faisal, Rek'Sai left Icathia long ago and came to the outskirts of Shurima to live and multiply.

Most of the Aksai currently attacking the rock village are descendants of Rek'Sai.

Seeing her descendants being slaughtered by Kassadin, she naturally couldn't just sit back and watch.

"Hmm? What's Rek'Sai doing?"

Huo Jixing raised his eyebrows slightly and looked into the distance in confusion.

He noticed that after a brief confrontation, Rek'Sai and Kassadin dived underground and disappeared from sight.

"Avoid a head-on confrontation?"

He whispered softly, thinking of Kassadin's teleportation ability and terrifying damage, and he somewhat understood Rek'Sai's choice.

Even when facing Kassadin, he still needs to be on guard against the threat posed by [Void Walking].

Rek'Sai's body is as majestic and hard as a mountain, and can basically ignore damage other than vital parts.

Relying on her strong body, she destroyed many towns near Shurima and left behind many horrific deeds.

But as a Voidwalker, Kassadin has dealt with void creatures for so long, how could he not understand their weaknesses.

So, relying on his Void Walking and Void Blade, he chose to attack Rek'Sai's eyes.

This was not only a test, but also a precise strike, forcing Rek'Sai to escape underground.

The red-gold color in Huo Jixing's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he keenly captured the figure of Rek'Sai slowly moving underground.

Helplessly, he shrugged his shoulders lightly, as if he had no idea what to do with the current situation.

"Are you abandoning me?"

He clearly felt that the cold and piercing aura from before had disappeared from it.

This should be because Rek'Sai selectively focused all his attention on Kassadin.

For Rek'Sai, this is undoubtedly the wisest choice at the moment. Kassadin's Void Blade poses a great threat to her, and she must go all out.

"Then we can only wait for the next opportunity."

Huo Jixing sighed secretly in his heart. He did have the idea of ​​joining forces with Kassadin to hunt down Rek'Sai together.

Unfortunately, Rek'Sai seemed to sense the danger coming and chose to dive underground to avoid possible hunting.

Huo Jixing’s choice is the same as Kassadin’s, he will not rashly go underground.

Although he and Kassadin are powerful, the underground is Rek'Sai's home ground after all, and they are not confident enough to defeat Rek'Sai underground.

Once something goes wrong, perhaps the identities will be reversed, from hunter to prey.

Huo Jixing slowly withdrew his gaze, looked down at Axel in the ruins of the city wall, and chuckled softly.

"Now it's my turn to take action!"

After Kassadin's killing, there were less than a handful of surviving Axel.

They became frightened birds, stopped their rampage, and prepared to flee the rock village and return to the underground tunnel.

Huo Jixing's consciousness moved, and he rushed towards the ruins of the city wall with the red-gold Nanli Suzaku behind him.

As soon as he landed, before he could take any action, he turned his eyes slightly, looked in the direction of the crowd, and smelled a familiar yet unfamiliar breath of power.

"Is that an Ascendant?"

In the assembled array of tribal hunters and caravan guards.

Huo Jixing saw someone throw away the outer spinning cloak, revealing the golden armor underneath.

It was the standard armor of the Ascended Legion, which he had seen Nasus and Renekton wearing.

These Ascendants who suddenly appeared rushed straight towards Ezreal and others who had not yet reacted.

In the ruins of the city wall.

Broken walls and boulders collapsed, and bright red blood was like glaring paint, mercilessly staining the ground.

Broken flesh and cold corpses were thrown casually in the corner, and the strong fishy smell mixed with sand danced in the wind.

The surviving tribal hunters and caravan guards appeared one by one, their eyes closely following the fleeing Aksai.

When they saw the extremely miserable figures of the Aksai, they breathed a sigh of relief and put down their heavy burden.

Who is not afraid of death?

As ordinary people, facing the invasion of void creatures, all they can do is fight back desperately.

I had already given up hope.

But Kasas's wanton killing dealt a heavy blow to the Axe people and greatly eased the pressure they faced.

Reorganized by Elder Feisal and Shamara, tribal hunters and caravan guards gathered within the ruins of the city walls.

Xiamara tightly grasped the scimitar in his hand and looked at the caravan guards under his command with tired eyes. His dark face twitched slightly with grief and anger.

Even though she had already reminded him to avoid danger in time and not to show off his bravery.

But the number of surviving caravan guards was less than half of the previous number, and those who were missing were likely to become Axel's meal.

Shamara couldn't accept such a cruel reality, as the caravan guards on this trip were her direct subordinates in the Midalda Chamber of Commerce.

Fortunately, compared with the tribal hunters, the caravan guards are in pretty good shape.

Xiamara turned her gaze towards the tribal hunters gathered around Elder Faisal. Only about one third of them were left, and most of them were injured.

These tribal hunters were once the pride of the rock village, but suffered heavy losses in the invasion of void creatures.

As the calls came one after another, tribal hunters and caravan guards gathered together bit by bit.

"The Queen of Axel!"

Hearing the roar that shook the sky coming from afar, Elder Faisal couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound with a look of horror.

Above the oasis, the deep purple body of the Void Burrower Rek'Sai stretched out like a mountain range, pressing down on the ant-like Kassadin.

It was just the aftermath, and the surging power made him feel like a small boat in the ocean, which could capsize at any time.

Fortunately, the strength displayed by Kassadin far exceeded Elder Faisal's imagination.

This extraordinary being who has been living in seclusion in the village has the strength to rival Queen Axelroy.

Ezreal and Ixtal's mages were also keeping an eye on the battle in the distance.

The battle scenes that seemed like those recorded in mythological stories made them yearn for it extremely.

Although the fight between Kassadin and Rek'Sai had stopped after a brief exchange, they still hadn't recovered.

"Void Burrower Rek'Sai!"

Ezreal stared at the dark purple monster disappearing on the surface of the oasis, his eyes flickering.

He remembered what he had seen in an ancient cemetery, where the horrific body of Rek'Sai was carved into the pattern of a temple buried beneath the desert.

Countless cities and towns were destroyed by Rek'Sai's void body.

Ezreal looked at Kassadin floating alone in the air and felt relieved.

"This battle should be over, right?"

Not only Ezreal thought so, Elder Faisal and the two Ixtal mages also had similar ideas.

Just as Ezreal was about to look for Huo Jixing, he suddenly felt that time seemed to have slowed down abnormally.

The sand floated slowly in the air, and the flickering firelight left traces.

Xiama La was turning around, but her movements seemed to have slowed down many times and were extremely stiff.

And there was Elder Faisal, he could see the fear and panic reflected in those old eyes.

Suddenly!

Ezreal regained his senses, and time returned to normal.

But behind him, two barely audible voices were heard quietly.

At the same time, Ezreal's pupils trembled violently, sensing the deadly danger approaching.

Buzz!

[Arcane Leap]!

The golden light flickered, and Ezreal disappeared from the spot and teleported to a nearby area.

The arcane energy left at the place just condensed into a golden magic arrow, but before it was shot out, it was annihilated in the palm of a pair of hands covered with metal armor.

"A tribal hunter? No, that's not right."

Ezreal quickly turned around and looked at the attacking enemy, noticing the gauze cloak discarded on the ground and the golden armor he was wearing.

"This armor"

He looked straight at the enemy's golden armor with a look of horror.

He was very familiar with the style of armor before him. He had seen it in many ancient tombs and palaces, engraved in the most conspicuous positions.

It is the standard armor of the Ascended Legion of the Shurima Empire!

"Ascendant?"

Ezreal felt the strength of his enemy's body through the Shurima gauntlets in his hands and was a little bit unbelievable.

Thousands of years have passed, and these ascenders are still alive in the world, and they seem to be as powerful as ever.

The two Ixtal mages standing behind Ezreal were originally fine.

However, they were also affected by the unknown magic and had no time to avoid the attacks of the ascenders, and died on the spot.

Their bodies were split in two, with gushing blood and falling organs announcing their fate of death to everyone.

"It's Bakay!"

Elder Feisal looked at the attacker's golden armor and strange aura and murmured.

"Abandoned Bakay!"

When Ezreal heard Elder Faisal's words, his expression changed again.

Abandoned Bakay.

This is what the continent of Shurima calls it.

In the historical records of Valoran, they have a formal name, called

The Lost Ascender!

Since the collapse of the Shurima Empire and the destruction of all the sun discs, the once successful ascension rituals have failed.

The Ascendant Legion, which left a significant mark in the long river of history, was directly split into different forces as a result.

Coupled with the horrific effects of the battle with the void, the surviving ascenders were either abandoned or fled in all directions.

Some of them were mentally affected and became darkspawn, intent on dominating the Valoran continent; others' whereabouts became a mystery, bearing humiliation, hiding in dark cemeteries.

There are even many ascenders who commit themselves to the void and become [Bake].

Their immortal hearts lack the illumination of the sun disc, and can only rely on the great power of the void to survive in the world.

At this point, they became alternative void creatures, and their bodies underwent various strange changes.

Ezreal looked at the Ascendants holding the golden spears again, and his eyes were filled with shock when he sensed the familiar power in their bodies.

He had heard rumors about Bakay.

But he had never really seen it, and thought that the identity of the Ascendant was just a label that Bakay gave himself.

Now, Ezreal looked at the three Bakays approaching, feeling the powerful force surging in their bodies, and his expression looked grim.

Outside the oasis, there are Axe and the Queen of Axe who have not left yet, but in the village, Bakay, who was once an ascender, appears again.

There are wolves before and tigers behind!

Ezreal felt that his current situation had really reached a moment of life and death.

"kill!"

A low, cold roar sounded, shocking the gathered crowd.

A Bakai wearing golden armor and holding a spear jumped up and pounced on Ezreal who had escaped his attack.

He looks like a desert hyena, with cruelty and cunning in his eyes.

The purple-gold spear in his hand flashed with a cold aura, and as the Hyena Bakay swung it, it pierced through the air and pierced straight into Ezreal's head.

The sharp spear tip trembled the moment it approached Ezreal, as if there were millions of voices screaming, carrying the power of the void, affecting people's minds.

Faced with the attack of Hyena Bakay, Ezreal was caught off guard and felt his consciousness beginning to blur.

But he reacted quickly, suppressed his inner fear, and activated the Shurima gauntlets he was wearing.

【Secret Shooting】!

Just as the tip of the spear was about to pierce Ezreal, the azure longbow on his wrist automatically pulled the bowstring and shot out an energy arrow shaped like lightning.

puff!

The two collided, and the purple-gold spear was incredibly powerful, crushing the energy arrow directly and continuing to stab Ezreal's head.

Despite being in a life-threatening situation, Ezreal calmed down and prepared to use the magic rune item left to him by his uncle.

However, at this moment, the chasing hyena Bake suddenly made an unexpected move.

He quickly pulled away with smooth movements, flipping in the air before landing steadily.

Then he did not look at Ezreal, but turned to the left, with fear in his eyes behind the golden mask.

"Bakay? The Ascended One?"

Huo Jixing held the hilt of the sword with his left hand and walked towards the hyena Bake who was facing a formidable enemy.

On the way here, he had heard the words of Elder Faisal and Ezreal and learned their identities.