Because Taliyah had torn the cliff apart by force, the three of them were completely swallowed by dust and smoke.
When the dust finally cleared, the three of them looked at one another, each with a completely different expression in their eyes.
Taliyah stared at Zach in shock.
She could not believe that Zach, who had always seemed the most harmless of them all, actually possessed such terrifying power.
Against a thousand enemies alone, he had saved both Kai’Sa and her at the most dangerous moment.
Kai’Sa’s gaze toward Zach was a little evasive, but there was also a bit of girlish stubborn pride in it.
She looked as if she were saying, I was trying to save you when I blocked Rek’Sai, so you’re not allowed to scold me.
As for Zach, he was looking helplessly at the two girls before him.
All he could say was that both of their performances had surprised him, especially Taliyah’s.
She had actually pulled down a small mountain with a turn of her hands.
“Let’s go.
We need to get out of here now.
Rek’Sai might bring the Xer’Sai back and dig through the passage again.”
Without saying anything more, Zach was the first to hurry back in the direction they had come from.
Behind him, Taliyah and Kai’Sa followed.
Only, when Kai’Sa saw that Zach was not speaking to her, she gently pressed her lips together and quietly followed behind him without saying a word.
After they met back up with the old chief and the others, Taliyah honestly told them everything that had happened here.
“Chief, Xolan has already become the territory of Void creatures.”
As they listened to Taliyah, despair filled the eyes of the old chief and the others.
It seemed they had already expected this.
After all, no matter how they looked at it, everything before them was nothing like a place where they could settle down and live in peace.
“We have nowhere left to go.
Perhaps we were always destined to be buried in this desert.”
The luggage in Taliyah’s people’s hands fell to the ground.
Some of them beat the earth in despair.
Women held their children in their arms and sobbed silently.
Zach and Kai’Sa stood shoulder to shoulder, their expressions complicated as they watched everything in front of them.
Suddenly, Zach seemed to think of something, and he looked at Kai’Sa beside him.
“Kai’Sa, where exactly are we on the Shuriman continent right now?”
Kai’Sa paused for a moment, then said softly, “The southeast of the Shuriman continent.
If we go south, we reach Icathia.
If we go far enough east, we should reach the border between Shurima and Ixtal.
As for the north, I’ve never been there.”
Hearing Kai’Sa’s words, Zach fell into thought.
According to what Zach knew from his past life, the entire Shuriman continent was divided into three parts.
At the far west was Mount Targon, the most sacred place in all of Runeterra.
East of Mount Targon was the Shuriman Empire, which occupied more than seventy percent of the entire Shuriman continent.
And farther east of the Shuriman Empire, one could reach Ixtal, hidden within the jungle.
The place their group was currently in was located in the southeast of the Shuriman Empire.
If they continued east for a while, they could reach Ixtal’s border.
However, judging by the food and water they had left, there was no way they could reach Ixtal’s border.
After all, there were many elderly people and children in the group.
And even if they did reach Ixtal’s border, where were Taliyah’s people supposed to go then?
Risk entering the jungles of Ixtal?
Go face those razor-toothed beasts and elemental drakes?
That road would not work.
As for returning the way they had come or heading south, that was no different from marching straight to death, because both directions were full of Void creatures.
After thinking for a long time, Zach slowly raised his head and looked at Taliyah in front of him.
“Taliyah, I might be able to lead you all to a place suitable for living.”
“Hm?” Hearing Zach’s words, Taliyah, who had already sunk into despair, suddenly raised her head and looked at him.
“Zach, do you know which way we should go?”
For the current Taliyah, she had to seize every bit of hope.
Otherwise, she might have to watch her people die one after another with her own eyes.
Zach said in a low voice, “Summon the stone platform and follow my directions.”
And so, the group left Xolan, the homeland of Xolaani, the Faceless God, the sacred place they had longed for so deeply, and once again set off on the journey to find a livable home.
But this time, the mood among the group was unbearably heavy.
There was none of the laughter and joy they had carried when they first arrived.
After all, when they had come to Xolan, the group had carried hope in their hearts.
But now, the crisis of death was gradually covering these people struggling to survive in the desert.
At the front of the stone platform, Taliyah followed Zach’s directions and controlled the platform as it moved forward.
Zach and Kai’Sa sat at the edge of the group, and the mood between them felt a little off.
“Zach, why…
why aren’t you saying anything?” Kai’Sa sat beside Zach and asked softly.
Kai’Sa knew that Zach was still angry because she had ignored her own safety earlier and tried to block Rek’Sai’s attack.
Zach put on a stern face and looked at Kai’Sa seriously, still saying nothing.
Kai’Sa’s purple eyes blinked, and she muttered, “I remember what you told me.
I never forgot.
But the one in danger back then wasn’t someone else.
It was you.”
Just as Kai’Sa finished speaking, Zach’s large hand reached out and rubbed her long purple hair. Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
Zach did not blame Kai’Sa.
He only said softly, “Next time, you have to be careful.
No matter what you do, protecting yourself has to come first.”
“Mm.”
As Zach’s hand stroked her head, Kai’Sa not only did not resist, she obediently let him mess with her hair.
Looking at the yellow sand ahead, Kai’Sa asked, “Zach, do you know where there’s a place that can take these people in?”
Zach nodded.
“If Azir really has been resurrected, then my guess won’t be wrong.”
“Azir?” Kai’Sa was slightly stunned.
She had only heard that name from a few travelers she had saved, but Kai’Sa had always felt that the name was far too distant from her.
After all, one was the emperor of the Shuriman Empire, and the other was a girl who wandered the Void-touched lands.
There was almost no chance for the two of them to ever have any connection.
But now that she heard Zach mention the name again, she could not help feeling curious.
“Does the place these people can live have something to do with Azir?”
“Of course.” Zach stared ahead and nodded firmly.
“Azir has only just restored his empire.
He will definitely win over the people and gather Shurima’s scattered descendants as quickly as possible.”
“You could even say that he will give his people everything he is capable of giving them.”
“But…”
Kai’Sa thought over Zach’s words and asked curiously, “To get from here to the heartland of the Shuriman Empire, they would have to cross an enormous distance.
Without supplies, these people couldn’t possibly make it.”
“Then we’ll go find supplies.”
Zach winked at Kai’Sa.
“Food and water will come.
Azir’s resurrection also means that the symbol of Shurima has risen into the sky once more.”
Just as Zach and Kai’Sa finished speaking, they realized the stone platform beneath them had shaken violently.
Everyone looked toward Taliyah, who was controlling the stone platform at the front, only to find that Taliyah’s expression had gone completely blank.
Ignoring the confused gazes of her people, she looked straight at Zach.
“It’s…
it’s the sound of water!”
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.