Looking at the expectation in the young woman’s eyes beside him, Zach nodded without hesitation.
“Of course.
I’d also really like to hear you tell me about what you saw in the Void.”
A deep look of surprise flashed through Kai’Sa’s eyes.
She nodded hard.
“Then it’s a promise!”
Zach raised his hand and held out his pinky toward Kai’Sa.
“It’s a promise.”
Kai’Sa looked at Zach’s gesture and froze in place, unsure what to do.
Zach used his other hand to hold Kai’Sa’s wrist, lifted her hand, and hooked her pinky with his.
“Pinky swear.”
Throughout the whole process, Kai’Sa watched Zach’s every move with curiosity.
She looked at Zach and asked, “What… is this?”
Zach smiled and said, “Back where I’m from, a pinky swear means it’s a promise.
You can’t go back on it.”
“Pinky swear…”
Kai’Sa looked at Zach with fresh curiosity and asked expectantly, “Can you tell me about other things?”
“Of course.”
Zach pulled over a stool and sat beside the bed, while Kai’Sa leaned against the bed.
Just like that, the two looked at each other.
Drawing on his memories of Runeterra from his previous life, Zach began telling Kai’Sa about what the other continents looked like.
“To the north of the Shuriman continent, there is a place called Valoran.
Valoran is made up of Demacia, Noxus, and the Freljord.”
“To the east of Valoran is the boundless Guardian’s Sea.
Farther east is Ionia, the First Lands.
It’s said that natural magic is abundant there, so there’s a lot of vegetation, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.”
“To the south of Ionia is Bilgewater, a chaotic place with no real order.
Farther south are the Shadow Isles, where all kinds of bad news comes from.”
As Zach spoke softly, Kai’Sa listened with complete focus, her amethyst-like eyes filled with curiosity and yearning.
The weak candlelight flickered gently, casting Zach and Kai’Sa’s shadows onto the wall and stretching them long.
This man and woman, who had only met for the first time today, seemed to have completely opened their hearts to one another.
Time passed bit by bit, and the atmosphere between Zach and Kai’Sa grew closer and closer.
At first, Zach spoke the entire time while Kai’Sa rested her chin on her hand and listened.
Later, Kai’Sa also began telling Zach about her experiences in the Void.
In the end, as the two looked at each other, the smiles in their eyes grew clearer and clearer.
Before they knew it, the sky outside the little house had gradually brightened.
Only when the people in the village began their day’s work, and the sound of patrols reached the little house, did Zach and Kai’Sa realize they still wanted to keep talking.
“I may need to leave the village,” Kai’Sa said softly.
When she said this, her eyes were filled with reluctance and struggle.
But under Kai’Sa’s gaze, Zach slowly stood up and stretched.
Then he turned to her and said, “Let’s go.
“Huh?”
Kai’Sa stared blankly at Zach.
“What do you mean, together?”
Zach gestured toward the outside of the little house with his chin.
“Didn’t you say you’d take me out of the Shuriman continent?
Until then, wherever you go, I go.”
“N-no!”
Kai’Sa immediately said, “You can’t come with me.”
She wanted to say that if Zach stayed with her and the villagers saw it, they would very likely reject him too, or even drive him out of the village.
But before she could finish, Zach directly grabbed her wrist and flashed to the door of the little house.
After making sure there were no villagers nearby, Zach pulled Kai’Sa along, stomped down hard, and the two leaped straight onto the roof.
Then they quickly swept toward the outside of the village.
With Zach pulling her like this, Kai’Sa did not even have time to resist.
By the time she came back to her senses, Zach had already brought her outside the village.
Zach let go of Kai’Sa’s hand and looked at her with a smile.
Kai’Sa looked at the smiling Zach in front of her and finally said helplessly, “Don’t go too far from me.
Void creatures are extremely dangerous.
Stay close so I can protect you.
Your power may be very good at healing, but when it comes to killing Void creatures, that’s my job.”
Although her tone was a little helpless, when Kai’Sa looked at Zach, there was still deep emotion in her eyes.
For the first time, someone had refused to look down on her, and had even been willing to clash with the villagers for her sake.
Zach nodded with a serious face.
“I understand.
I’ll just let you carry me.”
After the two reached an agreement, Kai’Sa led Zach and swept toward the distance.
On the way, Zach asked Kai’Sa curiously, “Kai’Sa, what is your daily life usually like?”
“My daily life…”
Kai’Sa did not look back.
She only said softly, “I wander across the land of Icathia and the border of Shurima.
While killing Void creatures, I also warn lost travelers to stay away from this place.”
“What else?” Zach asked.
“What else?” Kai’Sa froze.
“That’s it.”
Zach understood.
In Kai’Sa’s life, there was no time that truly belonged to her.
She lived almost every moment hunting Void creatures and helping other humans.
But based on Zach’s understanding of the Void, could Void creatures truly ever be killed off completely?
And by one person alone, no less.
The Void realm would use matter from the material realm to endlessly create Void creatures.
As long as the material realm still existed, the Void realm could use it to create countless Voidborn.
But Zach also knew that killing Void creatures and helping others had already become Kai’Sa’s obsession.
So Zach would not try to stop her. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
Instead, he followed her as they swept toward the northern border of Icathia.
According to Kai’Sa, this area bordered Shurima’s desert.
It was where Void creatures were most active, and also where travelers often lost their lives.
Kai’Sa would often come here to hunt Void creatures and drive away greedy humans.
Soon, Zach and Kai’Sa arrived at Icathia’s northern border.
Not far ahead of them was sand filling the sky.
As they walked through the yellow sand, Zach narrowed his eyes slightly and scanned every corner around them.
Suddenly, the moment Zach and Kai’Sa took a step forward, the sand ahead was blasted into the sky by a tremendous force.
A huge bloody maw immediately lunged toward the two of them.
Looking at the whale-shaped Void creature that had suddenly appeared in front of them, along with the giant teeth still streaked with blood in its mouth, Zach’s right hand instantly filled with an incomparably dense surge of Ascended power.
However, just as Zach prepared to tear this Void creature apart, a figure suddenly flashed in front of him and blocked his path.
Immediately after that, Zach saw the pair of external skeletal structures on Kai’Sa’s back light up with rich purple radiance.
Icathian Rain!
Under Zach’s amazed gaze, countless purple bolts flew from behind Kai’Sa’s shoulders, attacking the Void creature’s body from every direction.
Boom!
A violent explosion rang out.
Kai’Sa’s attack knocked the Void creature off balance, even forcing its charging body to veer aside.
After crashing heavily into the yellow sand, the Void beast had just prepared to burrow into the sand.
But at that moment, a pair of purple ring-shaped weapons suddenly appeared in Kai’Sa’s hands.
As Icathian Rain poured out once more, bolts of purple light also shot from the weapons in Kai’Sa’s hands.
Throughout the entire process, Zach was protected behind Kai’Sa.
Kai’Sa herself darted and shifted around, leaving countless wounds on the Void monster’s body.
In the end, under Kai’Sa’s dense barrage, the Void monster crashed heavily into the yellow sand and completely lost its breath.
The weapons in her hands slowly disappeared, and Kai’Sa turned to look at Zach.
“There must be other Void creatures in this area.
Make sure you stay behind me.”
Zach opened his mouth.
He really wanted to say that he was not only good at support.
But then…
“Ahhh!”
Just as Zach was about to say something, a shrill scream suddenly reached his and Kai’Sa’s ears.
Kai’Sa and Zach looked at each other, then quickly swept toward the direction of the sound.
As the two gradually approached that place, the screams in their ears became denser and denser.
And among those screams, there was also a young woman’s shout.
“Everyone, get behind me!”
“Unraveled Earth!
Seismic Shove!”
Felix, a transmigrator from Earth, wakes up in Zaun before and during the events of Arcane.
He becomes connected to Silco’s side, gains a Skin Master System, and uses League skin-based weapons, tech, armor, and abilities to change the fate of Zaun.
Instead of letting Arcane’s tragedies play out exactly the same way, Felix tries to protect the people around him, especially Powder/Jinx, and push Zaun toward open rebellion against Piltover.
The story starts with the Piltover-Zaun conflict, then expands into the wider Runeterra setting: Noxus’s invasion of Ionia, Demacia’s internal conflict, the Freljord, Shurima, the Void, and eventually the Ruination/Shadow Isles plotline.