He Comes From the Void

Follow the direction in which the thorns twine and grow, and you will find what you are looking for.

That's what Zyra told Karn.

In the noisy rainforest, the two walked on the mud covered with rotten leaves and mushrooms, until the ear-piercing cries came to their ears.

"Raptor." After Kahn finished speaking, Kaisha turned his head and glanced at him: "Do you want to wait for it to come?"

"Better wait."

Karn jumped up a thick, twisted tree and crept silently into the canopy. They crouched in the shadow of the trees, tasting the fresh smell and concentrating their eyes.

A group of razor-beaked birds were hanging on the thick branches. Their bodies were like falcons, and their bright and high-profile feathers were enough to show their strength. They flapped their wings and competed with each other.

"Why does that void creature hunt raptors specifically? Are they delicious?" Kai'Sa suppressed the impulse from the skin armor, and stood firmly at the corner between the forked branches of the trunk.

"For a specific evolution, it's not just as simple as accumulating nutrients." It is precisely because of similar evolutionary ability that Kahn has an understanding of its motivation.

Hungry and brainless void creatures should not be picky eaters. If they are selectively hunted, it proves that they have developed the ability to think.

Thinking about it, Kahn has always felt that this is the most terrifying ability that the void has evolved.

If those ethereals were no longer blindly driven by eternal hunger, Runeterra might have been destroyed long ago.

Kai'Sa nodded, roughly understanding the so-called evolution.

The fighting style of her void skin armor evolved out of her subconscious mind.

"Don't make me wait too long." She clenched her fists and got ready, as a void predator.

The two went up and down, quietly dormant in the woods.

They changed the color of the armor so that it fit perfectly into the canopy. As long as they don't move, even if they are only ten steps apart, the hunter with the best eyes can't tell them apart at a glance.

The breath of void air was well locked inside the skin armor, without any leakage. The dappled sunlight fell on the armor without distortion, and the air tightly surrounded them.

Adapted to the high-intensity, never-ending hunting underground, Kai'Sa can't bear this kind of patient hunting.

Fortunately they didn't have to wait long.

Before dark, the void monster finally appeared.

It first emerged from behind a tree trunk.

Bowed, a pair of powerful anti-jointed long legs are bent very low, but even so, it is still as tall as a person.

It's like an insect, but not quite.

Its body doesn't make sense. Limbs, flesh, carapace, and claws don't seem to grow out of a living thing, and they are wrapped in a layer of oily exoskeleton. The black and purple color is like rotten honey berries, exuding the smell of maggots. In and out drilled the taste.

The skin armor on the two of them was clean, but the exoskeleton of the void creature in front of them seemed to be coated with a layer of wax, foul and greasy. Downright nasty and disgusting, floating between the senses.

Its movements exude obvious malevolence, and even when it is lurking in the grass, it never stays still. It appears and disappears on the ground like smoke, and its head tilts and moves instantaneously, as if it is constantly switching back and forth between two dimensions, in a quantum state.

It raised its head, and stared at the raptor on the tree with a pair of shining evil lights. The foul-smelling sap flowed from between his teeth, and the long crystal silk thread dripped on the ground with its sharp chin. Corroding the dead leaves under their feet.

There is only pure hunger in those eyes, without any other emotions, beyond the most primitive desire to survive.

And as prey, raptors don't realize they've been targeted by the most fearsome predator yet.

Raptors, while not at the top of the chain, are still predators and rarely become prey. The things that attacked them were neither cornered by hunger nor cared about their danger.

With barely a kick, the monster leaped into the air.

With a sweep of the mantis-like sickle-shaped forelimb, the thick branch carrying several Raptors was broken, and the Raptors who had no time to react were cut into two pieces in an instant, and the corpses with the cuts were flat along with the branches. fall.

Blood splashed a trail of blood on the trunk, and the remaining raptors flew in all directions.

But the predator is nowhere to be seen after one blow.

A razor-billed bird flew upwards, with a strange creaking cry.

But I never thought that a filthy and evil figure suddenly appeared out of thin air on the branch passing by, and the bladed forelegs moved forward once, piercing the razor-beaked bird, and then opened the bloody mouth that was dripping with saliva, and took a mouthful. Bite off its crunching head.

Chewing big mouthfuls, rattling loudly.

The headless corpse slipped from the scythe, and the monster moved again, leaping towards another raptor.

It's fast, and that's its long-honed weapon.

In the dense canopy, Kai'Sa could only see its brief figure shuttle back and forth, another raptor fell to the ground, one wing was cut off at the root, and it was slowly dying, not a happy death.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind.

Seeing that it used its invisibility to such an incisive and incisive way, and it appeared and killed, Kai'Sa was aroused with the desire to challenge, and she was eager to try.

It's just that Kahn still watched with cold eyes, not in a hurry.

"Aren't you going to do it now?" Kai'Sa couldn't help asking, she couldn't wait to compete with the other party, and at the same time, the skin armor was constantly bursting with strength and tingling pain, gradually heating up.

"Wait until it's finished eating." Seeing how anxious she was, Kahn simply put his arms around her and whispered in her ear: "Wait for it to digest and evolve more and stronger abilities before we can do it. The crops have to wait until they mature." Only then can we reap.”

Kaisha was convinced by Kahn's scientific theory of raising pigs, she quickly calmed down, and continued to stare at the fleeting figure.

But at this moment, she keenly noticed the approach of an uninvited guest.

"Karn, look! There's a carnivore over there."

She pointed to her side, and a carnivorous beast leaped up the tree, doing the same thing as they did—crouching on the branch, blending into the canopy, watching the carnage feast of the void monster.

But the difference is that Kahn and the others came here for devouring, and the motive of the latter seems to be more complicated.

It watched the monster hunt the raptor, grinning and showing its teeth, and a smile emerged.

There are many complex meanings in that smile, the desire to challenge, honor, and proof.

Kha'Zix's stench is so unmistakable that it's no surprise that it attracts hunters.

However, when Kahn noticed that this carnivodon was obviously smaller than its peers, there was an extra layer of meaningful meaning in his eyes.

Is this a fateful encounter?

As if sensing their gaze, the carnivore also turned its head, its blue eyes searching for the source of its gaze.

When he found the two people hiding deeply under the cover of the tree crown, the smile on his face froze.