He Comes From the Void

Kahn and Kai'Sa came to the gate of the main castle as promised.

This time there was no one to stop, the gate to the Howling Abyss was open, and the howling wind outside the gate was like the scream of a banshee.

The horns of the deep valley echoed, and the tall frost witch Lissandra was standing in front of the holy black ice statues of the three sisters on the bridge, as if praying to them for a safe trip during the waiting time.

They've been waiting for this day, and now, they're about to plunge into the abyss.

The two walked along the bridge without saying a word, and a huge guardian statue on the road watched them quietly. The roaring wind rolled into a vortex, whipping and howling mercilessly.

"Are you ready?"

Lissandra faced the two of them. She couldn't see her feet. She was standing on a defect in the stone bridge near the cliff of the rift valley. She was very close, and she would fall into the abyss if she was not careful.

This is undoubtedly extremely dangerous, but no one will treat her as an ordinary blind girl. She has lived for tens of millions of years, which is enough to explain the situation.

Kahn nodded, because of the howling wind, he didn't want to speak.

"Take your climbing tools and go down here. I'll wait for you at the bottom first." Lissandra pointed to the gap, and the huge crampons formed a shield to protect her, and put her into the ice coffin. The ice melted and she disappeared.

"It's gone?" Kai'Sa was stunned for a moment, and reached out to explore the place where Lissandra had been standing. She couldn't touch anyone, and she must have been teleported to the bottom of the abyss.

"Let's go too," Kahn said.

"How to get there?" Kai'Sa poked her head out of the bridge, and the bottomless abyss below was covered by thick fog, so she couldn't see how deep it was. On the side of the ice wall, there were many small holes made by ice picks, which gave her some hints.

"I heard from Hara that it will take at least one day to climb down from here. We will hang on the ice wall all day. I can't imagine how they persist, and accidents often occur. If someone dies on the ice wall Next, the one who is alive has to be responsible for bringing the corpse up, this is a death order."

While speaking, Kai'Sa was already covered with skin armor. She inserted her claws into the ice wall, exerting a little force, experimenting with how deep the ice must be to bear her weight.

"Come here, we'll just fly down," Kahn said.

"Oh." Kaisha leaned over and put her hands on his shoulders, her chest and abdomen pressed tightly together, so that Kahn could hug her. "I'm ready."

"You take the clock first," Kahn said.

"Why?"

"Pay attention to the time, I want to know how deep this abyss is."

"Oh." Kaisha took out the clock from the package and glanced at it: "It's exactly noon now."

It was a little strange to say, because she saw the moon hanging in the night sky at noon, and the whole day was dark at the coldest time.

As soon as the words were finished, there was a whirring sound, and the wind flowing in her ears suddenly accelerated, and Kahn actually led her body to lean forward, and fell straight down from the gap in the bridge body.

Their fall scraped off the ice of the protruding cliff wall ten feet below. Kahn's directness and brutality startled Kai'Sa, but as he spread his dragon wings, she gradually felt relieved.

The gust of wind in the abyss blew past his ears, like a scream that had been elongated and deformed. They fell rapidly, and were soon covered by thick fog behind them.

During the descent, neither of them spoke, the howling wind was still whipping between the valleys, as if the hands of ghosts were pulling them, and the voice of speaking would be covered. Kahn was resisting gravity and the ever-increasing falling speed, while paying attention to obstacles that might appear suddenly hidden in the dense fog. Kai'Sa didn't want to distract him, so she kept silent.

She fixed her eyes on the ice wall flying past in front of her eyes. The ice itself seemed to emit a dim, ethereal light, reflected in the thick fog, so she couldn't see her fingers.

A remnant bridge pier erected on the ice wall passed before her eyes, and the bridge hole had been sealed by an avalanche. In the short moment of passing by, Kai'Sa saw a frost guard's horned helmet half-buried in the snow, with abandoned climbing tools beside it, a loop of rope, two crossed ice axes, and a pair of ice axes. Snow boots with spikes.

In her mind, a scene of despair immediately appeared.

A team of three frost guards was carrying out their mission, clinging to the rock wall and climbing down day and night. Only one person climbs down at a time, and the other two are fixed on the ice wall as anchor points to prevent falling, and they descend in turn.

One of them chiseled out the ice ax, but because he was too tired and the ice was too shallow, he missed and fell. He was pulled by the rope, and the sudden stop sent him slamming into the ice wall. What's more, his arm was broken in this impact, and he could not hold on to the ice wall, let alone continue climbing.

His teammates roared and ate his weight, but on this cliff with no village in front and no shop behind, they could only cut off his rope with tears in their eyes, let him fall to death and melt away.

After he died, his teammates found his body, threw away everything that could be dropped on him to lighten the load, re-fixed it and brought it up. It is not for the purpose of going to the ground to perform the funeral, but this abyss does not allow any flesh and blood.

While she was thinking, Kahn slowed down, Kaisha also noticed the abnormality, and looked down.

"There is the breath of the void ahead."

Getting closer, Kahn flapped his wings vigorously to disperse the dense fog, and a bridge suddenly appeared like a ghost. One moment there was nothing beneath them, the next it was there.

If Kahn hadn't slowed down in advance, he might have bumped into it.

From a distance, the bridge appears to be overgrown with some sort of ravenous weed or bramble. But this is nonsense, obviously, no life can grow and multiply in this abyss, even if there is, Lissandra will have them wiped out.

The cold here seemed to radiate from below, but the breath of the void emanated from the bridge.

Kaisha wanted to turn around to look, but the tight embrace made it difficult for her to see anything.

"How long has it been since we got here?" Kahn asked.

Kai'Sa glanced at the clock: "It's less than three minutes."

"Three minutes..." Kahn was a little surprised. At the speed at which they fell, even if they were not in full free fall, they would have moved at least several thousand meters, and they hadn't reached the bottom of the abyss yet.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Howling Abyss should be ten thousand meters deep, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the abyss is ten thousand feet deep.

"Our speed is quite fast, there should be plenty of time, let's explore the bridge below first." Kai'Sa suggested.

"Alright, that's exactly what I mean." Kahn took her to the bridge. To be honest, he also wanted to find out what was on the bridge and why it gave off a breath of void.