Ascended power shone in Zach’s hand, forming an almost unbreakable shield around Kai’Sa’s body.
The instant the Xer’Sai’s claws struck the shield, the scorching energy even turned its claws directly into charcoal.
With Zach’s support, Kai’Sa killed the Xer’Sai with almost no effort.
The Xer’Sai’s body slammed heavily to the ground, and Kai’Sa’s voice rang throughout the entire group.
“Leave this place!”
She looked at Taliyah.
“Taliyah, recover your magic as quickly as possible!
The Xer’Sai judge the location of their prey through footsteps on the ground.
Your stone magic can lift us off the ground, which will greatly reduce the danger of being discovered by the Xer’Sai.”
Kai’Sa came to Zach’s side and said in surprise, “Your healing ability can also form shields for other people?”
Zach said helplessly, “Actually, I can fight too.”
“Try not to.”
Kai’Sa shook her head.
“Just stay behind me.
It’s very dangerous for a healer to fight.”
Faced with Kai’Sa’s words, Zach could only nod.
In truth, compared to Ascended power’s support abilities, its offensive power was what was truly terrifying, especially against Void creatures.
Unfortunately, Kai’Sa and Taliyah both believed Zach was a healer.
There was nothing he could do.
Zach could only think about making a move when the group truly encountered danger.
Before that, he had to guarantee Kai’Sa and Taliyah’s safety.
Under Kai’Sa’s guidance, the group hurried forward.
During this process, Kai’Sa also explained some things related to the Xer’Sai to everyone.
Even across the entire Shuriman desert, the Xer’Sai could be considered extremely powerful Void creatures.
They had the ability to move freely through the sand, and they could also dig tunnels beneath the desert.
By now, the entire area beneath the Sai Kahleek Desert had long since become the underground kingdom of the Xer’Sai.
At the end, Kai’Sa added, “The underground kingdom of the Xer’Sai has very likely already spread to the Xolan you mentioned, so there may be danger there too.”
Just like that, the group advanced little by little toward the other side of the Sai Kahleek Desert, while Taliyah rapidly recovered the magic in her body with Zach’s support.
During this process, the group encountered several more Xer’Sai attacks.
However, with Kai’Sa and Zach working together, the group still made it through without real danger.
In the past, Taliyah had needed to use her magic to fight Void creatures, so she could not use the stone platform to travel for long periods of time.
Their group could only walk through the desert.
But now, Taliyah no longer needed to use her magic against Void creatures.
She only needed to put all of her strength into traveling.
It had to be said that after Zach and Kai’Sa joined the group, their speed had increased countless times over.
It could even be said that without Zach and Kai’Sa, Taliyah and her people would have had no way to cross the Sai Kahleek Desert at all.
Finally, after two full days of traveling without sleep or rest, the group reached the edge of the Sai Kahleek Desert!
At this point, they had successfully crossed the entire territory of the Xer’Sai.
At that moment, everyone in the group looked toward the old man holding the parchment scroll.
“Clan chief, which way should we go?”
The old man unfurled the parchment scroll, and his withered fingers slid gently across it.
After a long while, he pointed toward the northeast, his tone incomparably excited.
“Taliyah, we’re already very close!
Xolan is in that direction!”
Following the direction the old man pointed in, Kai’Sa and Zach also looked that way.
Kai’Sa leaned close beside Zach and said softly, “That direction is already extremely close to the border between Shurima and Ixtal.
If you want to leave Shurima, you can also go that way.”
Kai’Sa’s voice was very low, low enough that only Zach could hear it.
Zach could hear that Kai’Sa’s tone seemed very downcast, but to keep Zach from noticing, she was trying her hardest to restrain her emotions.
In Kai’Sa’s heart, the days she had spent with Zach were truly the happiest time she had experienced in so many years.
If she could, she truly wanted to leave the cursed land of Icathia and stay with Zach forever.
But she could not.
She could not watch people die in the mouths of Void creatures and do nothing, and she could not tolerate the Void cult’s devastation of Icathia.
Other than that, deep in Kai’Sa’s heart, she also had a hope of her own.
When her village had been swallowed back then, Kai’Sa’s father had not been in the village.
Kai’Sa often imagined that perhaps her father was still alive, and that he had been searching for her all this time.
There were truly too many reasons why Kai’Sa could not leave Icathia.
At the same time, Kai’Sa also knew that Zach did not belong to this cursed land.
And Zach was different from her.
Zach had no way to go deep into the Void.
The Void might even erase Zach the same way it had erased the Ascended Host thousands of years ago!
All these conditions combined meant that Zach and she would eventually have to part ways one day.
Thinking of this, Kai’Sa could not help feeling a little down.
Seeing Kai’Sa’s expression, Zach suddenly took her hand.
Because it feared Zach’s power, the Void armor on Kai’Sa’s arm naturally retreated, and Kai’Sa’s pale hand was held in Zach’s.
Zach winked at her.
“I’m not leaving right now, so why are you suddenly so down?
Or do you want me to leave?”
“No!”
Kai’Sa shook her head quickly.
She did not pull back the hand Zach was holding.
Instead, she anxiously tried to explain something to him.
Zach squeezed her hand and said with a smile, “I’m alone, with no family and nothing tying me down.
Going to another continent would just be me finding a more peaceful place to keep being an aimless drifter, so I’m definitely not in a hurry to leave.”
“An aimless drifter?” Kai’Sa had encountered another new phrase.
“Come on.
I’ll explain it while we walk!”
Zach held Kai’Sa’s hand and continued toward Xolan together with Taliyah’s people.
And after hearing Zach say that he would not leave right away, Kai’Sa’s purple eyes also carried a faint trace of joy.
For some reason, along the way, Zach kept feeling as though something was flashing past beneath the earth under their feet.
Even now that they were infinitely close to Xolan, that feeling still existed.
Finally, after another half day of travel, tall cliffs began to appear ahead of the group.
Seeing this scene, the old man waved his arms with incomparable excitement.
“We’re here!
Ahead of us is Xolan!
The legendary holy land!
The homeland of the Faceless God, Xolaani!”
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.