He Comes From the Void

Following the direction Kahn pointed, several people saw an altar, which was carved directly on the rock wall and looked like a large group of sea snakes gathered together.

Around the altar were hundreds of unlit candles, melted wax everywhere, and dozens of skulls of various animals. There are also several human skulls.

And on a knee-high stone platform nearby, an old woman was lying on her back with her hands folded in front of her body, as motionless as a dead person.

"Damn it." Graves's attention was all attracted by the old woman, and he walked over cautiously despite his fate, ignoring the rubbish piles.

In fact, by the looks of her, she might be dead, or not far off. Her clothes were half rotting, and her complexion was that of a week-old fish. Her skin was so thin that it was transparent, and the veins beneath it were black and black.

"What is she doing?" Drizzt asked.

"Sleeping, or waiting to die. I don't know." Graves took a sniff, and almost threw up last night's chowder. "She stinks so much, so I guess she's dead."

Drizzt showed a worried expression, his eyebrows furrowed together.

He usually only shows this expression when he's drawn a bad hand, or his coat is splattered. His coat had been made to measure in Piltover and was ridiculously expensive.

Graves wondered whether Drizzt would keep the Sea Dragon boots or wear them when he got his hands on them.

"Don't wake up this sea witch and ask for trouble, it's important to find the crown." Kahn reminded in a low voice.

"Good idea," Graves responded, a little louder, while eyeing to see if she was awake.

The sea witch let out a quick gasp, like a mouthful of phlegm stuck in her inner trachea. But did not wake up.

Very well, the smelly old woman is still alive.

Although they knew that the sea witch was weird, Graves and Drizzt tacitly did not solve this hidden danger.

No matter how stinky she was, shooting her would probably bring them more than a shipload of bad luck. Especially Drizzt, as a superstitious river wanderer, is even more convinced.

And Kahn looked at the sea witch again, and saw a crutch in the shape of a sea snake's head beside her.

He didn't do anything to the sea witch, because the sea witch's ability was not strong enough to hurt him, and it was still useful for him to keep her.

The two people in front touched the altar, but they didn't see the so-called crown after stepping on it.

So Drizzt simply sat down and laid out a symmetrical array of cards, face down to start divination.

Graves didn't bother him, and started poking around, probing the dark place with the barrel of fate, making sure no one saw it, and secretly grabbed a few golden sirens and put them in his pocket, but he didn't care about the more valuable ancient coins. Turn a blind eye.

He felt that these mottled ancient coins might be very evil.

Kahn pretended to be looking for the crown. In fact, he knew that the crown was sealed inside the altar, but he was not in a hurry to take it out. He had to wake up the sea witch first.

He suddenly had the feeling of being watched. This feeling was a little uncomfortable, but it made him smile knowingly.

——Finally, the last actor was in place.

Kahn seemed to see something moving in his peripheral vision, but as soon as he looked over it, it disappeared immediately. His eyes followed that thing, involuntarily staring at an upside-down bucket on the ground.

He stared at it for a while, and the wooden barrel moved a little bit, exposing the hole on the side.

In it he felt a gaze, an eye looking out, a big yellow eye.

Kaisha followed Kahn's gaze and noticed the eyes in the barrel. She didn't make a sound, but glanced at Graves who was still playing with the card array and poking around, and then watched quietly as En walked towards the barrel. He bent down to meet those eyes.

Seeing that he was seen through the disguise, the thing inside opened the bucket and ran hard.

It was a green octopus with only one eye directly in front of it. Maybe I was wrong, because Kahn couldn't see which side was directly in front of it.

This and that soft thing slid around on the floor of the cave, surprisingly fast.

"What sound?" Drizzt put away the cards and asked alertly.

"I accidentally kicked over the bucket, and my foot slipped." Kahn almost made a split, and Drizzt and Graves no longer doubted it.

These two guys are very careful in some ways and very careless in others. He seemed to think that the two little devils could not be more alert than himself, so he easily believed what they said.

When they turned their heads, Kaisha pursed her lips at Kahn, and then he followed her reminder and saw the octopus that had disappeared, the slender green thing rolled to the bottom of the stone platform where the old woman slept , and then stretched out a pair of tentacles, and began to climb up.

—Let it wake the sea witch.

Kahn ignored it, and walked towards Drizzt and the others. The latter was interpreting the card draw results, and didn't know that his employer was actually an insider.

Drizzt showed a card with what looked like a golden crown in the shape of a sea serpent.

The golden sea snake is spitting out snake letters, and its winding body is connected head to tail.

"I don't think I've seen this card before." Graves pointed in the past.

"Neither have I," Drizzt said. "It never existed, and now it pops up. The crown must be here. Around here."

Drizzt only learned about the appearance of the crown of the abyss, and sealed it in the altar without discovering the crown, but it doesn't matter, it will emerge by itself later.

From their conversation, Kahn realized that the patterns on the Drizzt cards are not always fixed, which is really strange.

"The giant snake holds its tail, fate reincarnates." Kahn who was next to him suddenly leaned over and said something mysteriously, causing Drizzt to look at him deeply.

Drizzt has always been the most superstitious person, and what Kahn said was his most deeply believed fate, so he had an unfathomable impression on him on the spot.

He changed his name from Tobias to Drizzt because he believed that changing his name was equivalent to changing his life, so he was reluctant to call him by his real name because he felt that it would bring him bad luck.

He began to think about what Kahn meant. Isn't the Serpent's Owntail referring to the Crown of the Abyss? The meaning of fate and reincarnation is...if you wear the crown, you will repeat fate? Is that immortality or curse?

In fact, Kahn just said something casually. He heard this sentence from Nasus, and even he didn't know the allusion.

"What are you looking at me for? Looking for a crown!" Kahn said.

"Oh." Drizzt turned his head secretively, looking for the crown on the altar, but it seemed that he didn't dare to have any thoughts about the crown, after all, his current life is quite nourishing, and he didn't want to make any changes.