Chapter 499 Void Training Camp
On that day, the Shadow Isles Leaders Association was established and the Shadow Isles were liberated.
Although Thresh, who resurrected Viego in the original world, had already died and the Ruined Crisis had been resolved in advance, the Wind Leader still carefully added a few more seals to Viego's grave to ensure that he would never be able to resurrect again.
Of course...even if he pretends to be dead now, he will be beaten by Janna.
All in all, the whole process went very smoothly.
Except for bloodthirsty and murderous evil spirits like Hecarim, and a Yordle who couldn't sleep because of the noise, the undead of the Shadow Isles all welcomed the arrival of the Underworld Leader.
A few days later…
The southernmost tip of Shurima, the Icathia Peninsula.
Here once stood an ancient and prosperous kingdom, the birthplace of a powerful civilization that rivaled Ixtal and rivaled the ancient Shurima Empire.
But the invasion of the void changed everything. The human civilization of Icathia was completely annihilated in that catastrophe, and the few survivors fled their homeland in a hurry, leaving behind only a life-forbidden zone polluted by the void.
For thousands of years, this place has been the nest of void creatures and a wild and remote place with few people.
But at the same time, in this wasteland that no one noticed, during these long years, a new race, a new civilization, was silently rising.
And this civilization is Belvis.
She, the Queen of the Void, is a collection of countless knowledge and memories. She is a civilization in one person.
She longed to devour the entire Rune Land and to merge all races and things in the world into one - then, she would be the world, and the world would be Belvis.
This is a grand ambition. And the scary thing is, she also has the potential to realize this ambition.
only……
Unfortunately, since the past year, Belvis' great cause has encountered a series of setbacks.
The Wind Leaders were aware of her presence and joined forces with the resurrected Ascendants to repel her attack.
After that, things started to go from bad to worse for her, until now:
"Lord Belvis, the current situation outside is not optimistic for us."
The person who reported to her at this time was Malzahar.
But he is not Malzahar.
The real Malzahar died in the failed Battle of the Sun Disc.
But for those who were devoured by Belvis, death was not the end. Their souls and memories would be integrated into Belvis intact, becoming part of the lavender sea, achieving "eternal life" in another sense.
And Belvis was very optimistic about this loyal and capable servant.
She then infused Malzahar's soul and memories into other followers, creating an identical copy.
This replica inherited the original's will and continued to play the role of the Void Prophet, running a sect for Belvis in the outside world, recruiting believers, and luring more humans to Icathia as her "food".
Eating people in this way to grow is a bit slow.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
The east, west and south sides of Icathia are surrounded by uninhabited sea, while the north is still a vast yellow sand desert and Gobi hills stretching for thousands of miles.
Even if this is a tourist attraction, not many people would come from far away to experience desert survival.
What's more, this place is a notorious evil place and a forbidden zone for life.
Even ghosts have to be used as snacks by void creatures. Who normal person would come here for excitement?
So, there was no other way. In order to obtain more nutrients, Belvis could only use human guides like Malzahar to continuously lure more sacrifices back from the outside world.
This trick used to work pretty well.
The thousand-year chaos of Shurima has allowed the Prophet's Order to develop with peace of mind. Humans, struggling to survive in troubled times, have an instinctive desire for the power of religion.
But now...
"The followers of the false god Janna have taken control of the most populous northern coast of Shurima," Malzahar reported helplessly. "The Shurima Empire, which has formed an alliance with the Wind Leader, has reestablished its rule in that desert oasis."
"Now, all the city-states on the northern coast are loyal to Janna, and the oasis tribes in the desert are also tempted by the stable water source and have all turned to the reborn Azir."
The disorder and chaos that lasted for nearly 3,000 years in Shurima finally officially came to an end.
The leaders and the ascenders joined forces to rebuild the regime, rules and order here.
“With Janna and Azir to rely on, few Shurimans will trust us.”
There are large tracts of reclaimed land in Dawn Oasis waiting to be cultivated, and the factories on the north coast of Shurima also need more workers.
Janna and Azir are actually dividing the land and managing the work. What can your Order of the Prophet give? What benefits can there be from believing in the Prophet?
So people abandoned the Order of the Prophet and threw themselves into the arms of Janna and Azir.
"And what's worse is..."
"The leaders and ascenders are still using their control over society to launch propaganda that is detrimental to us."
The Prophet's Order has long been officially identified as a shameless traitor to humanity and an anti-human terrorist organization.
The leaders have even fully utilized their propaganda machines, using radio, newspapers, novels, dramas, nursery rhymes and other methods to try their best to expose the reactionary nature of the Queen of the Void and the Prophet's Cult.
"Any request for you to go to Icathia in any form or for any reason is a scam."
“Cherish your life and stay away from the prophets.”
“…”
These slogans are now well known in Shurima.
Now when the Leader's propagandists see the Shurimans, the first thing they do is to spread anti-fraud knowledge, and the second thing is to spread the Lord of Janna.
At the same time, the Leader also offered a very generous reward to all members of the Prophet's Order.
"So, don't even think about continuing to preach..."
Now, even if he used a magic trick with flashing purple light outside, he would be immediately reported by the enthusiastic masses and hunted down by the leader.
"Breeding doesn't work, and kidnapping is also difficult to achieve."
"Because the presence of the Wind Leader in Shurima has become increasingly strong. The Wind Leader can be seen in almost every city and every densely populated oasis."
If ordinary people discover followers of the Prophet and report them, they have to find the leader.
If the leader wants to report the situation, he just needs to pray to the goddess.
Goddess Janna rarely interferes in grassroots affairs, but she takes the threat of the Void extremely seriously and almost always responds to requests in this regard.
Basically, as soon as the Prophet's followers show up in front of people, in less than a minute, Tam will come here with the masters of the Leader.
Deception no longer works, and kidnapping is becoming increasingly difficult to pull off.
"So, our space for activities in the outside world is becoming smaller and smaller."
"Lord Belvis, if this continues, I'm afraid we will have no choice but to watch the Leader grow stronger and stronger, and watch your great cause come to a standstill!"
Malzahar spoke worriedly about what he had seen and heard in the outside world.
"..." Belvis remained silent after hearing this.
She knew how serious the situation Malzahar described was. She was locked in this southern corner and could not grow, but the strength of Goddess Janna was advancing by leaps and bounds every day.
If she doesn't find a way to solve this problem, then all that awaits her is a slow death.
But...what solution could she come up with?
Belvis's real body is in Icathia - no, it should be said that her real body is Icathia, the vast peninsula that was swallowed and merged by her.
The peninsula cannot be moved. So the further away from Icathia, the more limited her ability will be.
As long as the leaders hide in the north, far away from Icathia, and wait until the goddess Janna grows to be stronger than her original body, they will be able to win the victory.
There was nothing she could do to stop it.
"Could it be..." Belvis gradually realized a fact: "Am I destined to fail?"
Although she was unwilling, the high wisdom from the fusion of millions of lives still made her rationally recognize the current situation.
From the moment Janna appeared in the mortal world with that new idea, she was probably already failed.
So, how should she face this fact?
Belvis thought for a long time.
And just then:
"Hmm?" She frowned suddenly.
"What's wrong, Lord Belvis?" Malzahar asked carefully.
"There's movement in the north... Guests are coming." Belvis looked far to the north.
It is north of Icathia and south of the Shurima Desert.
This place is still some distance away from Icathia, and has not yet been devoured by her;
But it is not far from Icathia. Groups of void creatures have already infiltrated here and are hiding among the endless yellow sand.
For example, Belvis's little brother, the Void Burrower Rek'Sai, is one of the Void creatures active in this desert.
And now, the void creatures told Belvis that humans had set foot here.
Moreover, the people who came were not ordinary people. They made a lot of noise.
"Let's go and take a look!"
Belvis immediately transformed into a manta ray and flew north with flapping wings.
She flew for hundreds of kilometers, finally flew out of the void wasteland, crossed the hills, and arrived at the desert.
Then, she was surprised to see:
In this barren land that has been infiltrated by the void and where countless void creatures are hidden underground, there is suddenly a...
"Great Wall?"
Yes, a Great Wall suddenly appeared in the desert.
And this is the masterpiece of Shurima Emperor Azir.
As an ascended being, he personally participated in the labor and in a short time built a Great Wall in the desert, a long isolation wall separating the north and the south...
This isolation wall is still extending in the east-west direction, as if it wants to block all of Icathia's northbound roads in one go and completely isolate the void creatures south of the Great Wall.
Besides, building a wall is fine...
In addition to Azir, Nasus, Xerath, Renekton who has regained some of his sanity, Levi and the goddess Janna herself, Belvis' old rivals are also here.
They are using their divine power to build cities and fortresses behind the Great Wall with an efficiency a thousand times greater than that of Zaun's construction team.
"Hmm..." Belvis was stunned.
It’s not enough to just build a wall, but you’re also building a city fortress?
Do you want to settle down in her territory?
"Bastard!" Malzahar shouted angrily.
He wished he could rush out right now and tear Azir and others who were concentrating on building walls and cities into pieces.
"Wait." Belvis was calm.
Her wisdom did not allow her to be impulsive.
So she knew: "The leaders knew my strength, but they still came."
"Do you think they are here to die?"
"This..." Malzahar couldn't believe it: "Could it be that Goddess Janna is confident that she can defeat you?"
Although this place is still outside of Icathia, Belvis, who has separated from his original body, is still limited in his performance here.
But compared to the Dawn Oasis, which was two thousand miles away when the two sides fought last time, this desert is close enough to Icathia.
Even though Belvis could not exert his full strength, he could still use abilities that were ten times better than before.
But Janna, who had to join forces with four ascenders to barely deal with her clone last time, now came here openly again.
"How much has her strength grown?" Malzahar asked worriedly.
"You'll know if you try it." Belvis' mind moved, and the lavender power of the void enveloped the world.
But before she could push down the high wall, a huge wave of air swept in from the front.
Goddess Jana flew into the sky in her original form, facing the Queen of the Void.
The rolling air waves and the pale purple sea collided violently and impacted each other back and forth in the air. For a moment, they were evenly matched.
There is no need for Azir and others to help, Janna can block her attack alone.
"As expected." Belvis sighed softly.
She waved her hand to dispel the void evil energy that filled the sky.
Janna also tacitly withdrew the raging waves, allowing the world to return to peace again.
"Your growth rate is truly amazing." Belvis exclaimed.
She felt the same frustration as Mordekaiser. She worked hard for thousands of years, but was caught up by others in just a few years.
"Janna, what do you want to do this time?"
"Eliminate this hidden danger of mine?" Belvis stared at Janna coldly: "Then you are still a little short of it."
"No." Janna shook her head: "I came to negotiate with you."
"Negotiate?" Belvis was puzzled: "I am Void!"
“Yes, but you are also an intelligent life form that can communicate,” Janna said, “and we have a common enemy.”
The biggest difference between Belvis and void creatures is that she not only possesses a high level of intelligence, but also does not have the strong instinct to annihilate everything like her kind.
Her philosophy is to integrate all things, rather than annihilate the material realm.
This resulted in her and the watchers who controlled the void plane becoming de facto opponents.
Levi knew that Belvis had cooperated with Kassadin in the original world line to deal with the Observers.
Compared to a pure void creature, she is more like a fusion of void and human, not a void force that is absolutely impossible to communicate with.
"You know a lot..." Belvis said with a subtle look: "Yes, the monitor is also my enemy."
"But just because we have the same enemy doesn't mean we can cooperate."
Her ambition is to devour and fuse humans, so how could she possibly cooperate with humans?
"Of course," Janna said bluntly, "Because with me here, your ambition has already failed."
"If you don't want to cooperate, then we will destroy you."
This is really an irrefutable reason.
Belvis had already seen his own failure before, and now he was even more speechless.
"How do you want to cooperate?" Belvis asked, "Let me fight the monitors together with you when the void invades?"
"Can you trust me?"
"No, we don't need you to take action." Janna didn't intend to recruit Belvis as a thug.
No one is willing to turn their back to a monster that likes to eat people.
But Levi knew that the Observer was still sealed in the Zhenbing and could not get out , and the Void Crisis would not occur for at least ten years.
By then, Goddess Gana would have been invincible and would not need help from others.
"But no matter how powerful I am, I may not be able to save everyone when a crisis occurs."
This time, Modkaiser's world-destroying crisis taught the Leader a lesson.
Although the goddess can help humans solve many powerful enemies, if such a global crisis occurs again, the goddess may not be able to protect everyone due to her lack of manpower.
At critical moments, leaders still have to rely on themselves.
"So, Belvis, I need you to cooperate with us and help the warriors of the Leader to conduct targeted anti-void training."
"What?" Belvis was slightly stunned.
“To put it simply, it is…” Janna looked down at the cities and fortresses rising from the yellow sand and said, “Let our people be stationed here to train their ability to fight against void creatures.”
Pervis: “…”
My goodness, is this treating her territory as a training camp?
"That's right." That's exactly what the leader thought.
War is not a game.
The sports competitions of League of Legends can only train the personal bravery of extraordinary people, but cannot guarantee the combat effectiveness of the leading army.
So Levi has already made a plan. When the world is peaceful and there is no war, he will use this desert in the north of Ekassia as a training ground for the leaders.
There are void creatures everywhere here, which are just right for humans to kill monsters and level up.
Those city fortresses were camps specially prepared for the leading warriors who were rotated here.
From now on, whether it’s the Twin Cities, Shadow Isles, Shurima, Ionia, Demacia, Noxus, Bilgewater, Freljord…
Leaders from all war zones and units around the world will rotate here to participate in actual combat training.
"And what we need you to do is not to take action yourself and harm our people by bullying the weak."
"Otherwise, I will have no choice but to find a way to destroy you."
If Belvis died, Icathia would be purified, and there would no longer be an endless stream of void creatures born from Icathia.
Monsters no longer refresh, and the leader has no place to level up.
"So, we don't actually want you to die."
"It would be great if you could stay alive forever, and serve as the leader's sparring partner and opponent forever, reminding everyone to be prepared for danger in times of peace and not forget the threats."
Belvis: “This…”
"This is really too much!" Malzahar was heartbroken to hear that his master had humiliated his minister and he died.
It is obvious that the leader wants to keep them in captivity as "copies" and come to visit them from time to time!
But... Belvis looked at the strong air currents swirling around Janna, and thought of the conclusion he had already reached -
She has already failed and there is no possibility of a comeback.
"Forget it, Malzahar." Belvis sighed.
She accepted the outcome calmly: "I agree."
