The fire mage from the game world

The first to arrive at the Sun City was an Ascended being with the head of a dog and the body of a man.

Powerful Ascended beings often have parts of their bodies transformed into bestial forms.

His appearance was not surprising.

What was truly astonishing was that there were surviving Ascended, and ones who hadn't been turned into Darkin.

Nasus, the name of this canine-headed Ascended, held a position similar to a strategist in ancient Shurima.

After witnessing the fall of the empire firsthand, Nasus carried a heavy burden of guilt.

It was precisely because of this that he was the first to rush here upon learning of the Sun City's reappearance.

Nasus walked through the Sun City, gazing at the familiar scenery in a daze, as if he had returned to thousands of years ago.

However, the traces of time left on the buildings told Nasus that he had not gone back.

He arrived at the very center of the Sun City.

Here stood a massive Sun Disc, with the ordinary human emperor Azir on the altar, and the Sun Priests conducting a ritual by his side.

The stars in the sky twinkled, and the Sun Disc emitted a radiance like the sun itself.

The flames of the sun spread all around, purifying all filth.

The Ascension Ritual!

If the ritual proceeded smoothly, this ordinary human emperor would become a new Ascended.

"If Azir becomes an Ascended, this young god-emperor will still need my guidance."

"I will never allow Shurima to be destroyed again."

"Never!"

Before he could finish speaking, a distant building collapsed with a roar, and with the tremor, a huge creature emerged from the ground.

Its body was covered in blue armor, it had no eyes, but possessed a terrifyingly grotesque mouth.

Its claws easily crushed the buildings.

The Void Burrower—Rek'Sai.

A ruthless predator, a peculiar creature from the Void.

The Void creature that Chen Yi couldn't find even after circling Shurima, had now come knocking on its own after Shurima's reappearance.

Nasus stood in front, his expression solemn: "You continue the ritual, I will stop it!"

Azir nodded with a grave expression.

Nasus slammed the scepter in his hand heavily on the ground, and purple soul flames erupted from the ground as a magic circle, but the Void Burrower had already burrowed into the ground once more.

Sand, to it, was like water to a fish.

Before Nasus could take the next step, a crocodile-like being descended from the sky, wielding a double-bladed battle-axe.

"I've found you!"

"Roar!"

Scepter collided with battle-axe.

"Your rage has burned away your virtues, brother."

The scepter deflected the blow, and Nasus twisted and kicked Renekton.

Renekton flew backward, crashing into a house, raising a cloud of dust.

This crocodile-like being was none other than another Ascended, and also Nasus's brother.

However, his mind had been twisted, almost equivalent to a beast.

Only his hatred for Nasus remained unchanged.

If Nasus could barely hold on against these two enemies, as long as the human emperor became a god, then everything could still be saved.

But how could the appearance of the Sun City only attract Ascended?

While fighting Renekton, Nasus suddenly roared towards the sky: "Get out! This is not a place you should be!"

Purple flames continued to bloom on the ground, and Nasus hurriedly rushed towards the location of the ritual.

In the direction Nasus looked, arcane energy surged, gathering in mid-air to form an arcane energy body—Xerath.

Xerath ignored Nasus's roar; he was just a stray dog. He was no longer the slave of thousands of years ago.

He had mastered powerful magic!

He had already Ascended!

He came here to sever his last chain!

An arcane beam swept across, the ground exploded violently, and Nasus, who was about to rush over, had to dodge, and the two who were entangled with him缠住 him again.

On one side was a fierce battle, and on the other was a sacred ritual.

It had to be said, it was somewhat ironic.

Because apart from that Void creature, the others were all Shurimans.

Azir looked at Xerath in the sky, his eyes without anger, but rather very calm: "Once noble god-warrior, why would you turn against each other, is this what you did, Xerath."

"Noble... god-warrior... Hahaha... Hahahaha..."

Xerath seemed to have heard some kind of funny joke, the simulated humanoid arcane energy doubled over with laughter.

"Azir, you know nothing."

Recovering, Xerath glanced around: "Remember, it was when you were performing the Ascension Ritual that I appeared."

"This moment is like that moment."

Back then, he was just a slave, and Azir was the emperor high above.

Even though the status gap between the two was so large, they became good friends.

It's just that the ending of the story was that Xerath killed his emperor-best friend and destroyed the country.

Although he was no longer that nameless slave boy, Xerath knew clearly in his heart that he was still chained.

This chain was guilt.

Guilt towards Azir.

Only by completely killing Azir could he be freed.

Only then could he pursue the truth of chaos.

Azir: "Why?"

He couldn't understand why his former friend harbored such deep hatred towards him.

Xerath: "How pathetic."

"There are no god-warriors, look! Shurima is already destroyed! I did it!"

"A slave could easily destroy Shurima!"

"Such as I, was sealed by a Renekton, a coffin, for thousands of years."

"Before you performed the ritual, you freed all the slaves of Shurima, but you didn't know that you were also a slave."

"A slave of the gods!"

Xerath's answer made Azir somewhat silent.

But Xerath's next sentence made him even more silent.

"Everything in the world tends towards chaos, towards annihilation, sinking into eternal darkness."

"I am not the same as you, I know all this, willing to be a pawn, and you, my friend, you are just immersed in false glory."

Terrifying magical power fluctuations gathered in Xerath's hand, and a huge energy beam descended from the sky, trying to destroy the Sun Disc along with Azir.

However, this energy beam did not fall on the Sun Disc, but was blocked by the magic shield formed by Nasus.

Nasus gasped for breath: "I said, get out, this is not a place you should be... Xerath!"

By the end of his words, Nasus had grown from two meters to a hundred meters in size.

Soul flames covered his body, and a desert storm surrounded him.

This was the power of Ascension.

This was the complete Ascended.

If the previous Nasus was at most level 3+, then now he had jumped to level 59.

This was not the limit of the power of Ascension, but the limit under the restriction of the law.