Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 140 The Vicious Snake Showing Its Fangs

On the other side, the crescent moon hangs high, covering the golden sand sea with a layer of silver-white tulle.

The temperature in the desert at night is very low, and there is a hint of chill in the wind blowing from time to time.

Li Lin and Kassadin waited for another half a day outside the gate of the ancient tomb before walking along the steep slope and marble steps to the outside of the tomb.

Seeing the majestic scene of the mausoleum, Li Lin gasped in shock, "Hiss—I've only seen this scene in movies and games..."

Kassadin was a little surprised when he heard his muttering: "Game? How to restore this kind of scene in a game? And... what is that electricity?"

"It's nothing, it's just a name from my hometown." Li Lin smiled, not wanting to get too entangled in this issue.

Kassadin is also not an inquisitive person, knowing when to say something and when not to say it.

Seeing that Li Lin didn't want to answer this question at all, he just skipped it.

Afterwards, Kassadin's eyes circled around the hall in front of him a few times, taking a panoramic view of everything.

He noticed four corpses that were far apart on the ground, and two of them had turned into scorched corpses, and their original appearance could not be seen at all.

"It seems that the expedition team discovered a lot of mechanisms...but they still triggered some hidden magic traps."

Kassadin thought for a while, looked back at Li Lin, and said in a very serious tone:
"This exploration is much more dangerous than the Horlock's Tomb I went to before. Although Sivir and the others broke most of the traps in front, I still hope that you will completely obey my arrangement from now on."

Affected by him, Li Lin also became serious, nodded heavily, "Don't worry."

The day before, he asked Kassadin a lot of things to pay attention to when exploring this ancient tomb.

Apart from the trap mechanism, the most dangerous in the ancient tomb is the guardian Bakay.

But Li Lin is very clear that the tomb where Azir is buried has a more dangerous and terrifying existence than Bakay...

The ascendant who has gone mad - Renekton, the butcher of the desert.

And Xerath, the ancient witch spirit who betrayed Azir.

Under the leadership of Kassadin, they followed the traces of the expedition team on the ground, avoided the mechanisms that had been disarmed by them, and finally reached the steps leading to the depths.

"By the way, Kassadin." They were walking, and Li Lin pretended to think of something suddenly, "You should know the legend of the Grand Maester, right?"

Grand Maester is the Shuriman title for Nasus, the warrior of the gods.

Because of his profound knowledge, he was once in charge of the Great Library of the Empire.

"Of course, Nasus is known to everyone in Shurima." As soon as the name was mentioned, Kassadin's voice was full of admiration, "Why are you asking this now?"

"I remember, didn't Nasus have a brother named Renekton?" Li Lin asked pretendingly.

"Yes, but he disappeared with the fall of Shurima thousands of years ago... There are many rumors that he was obliterated by the collapse of the sun disk along with Emperor Azir.

"But they all forgot the extremely strong vitality of the Ascended, and according to the ancient books left over at that time, Nasus and Renekton were sent to deal with an urgent threat, and they were not there at all."

Kassadin snorted coldly, expressing his disdain for those who are illiterate and like to spread rumors with no basis.

Afterwards, he told Li Lin what he knew, basically from ancient books and from the mouths of a small number of wise elders:
Emperor Azir has a trusted slave named Xerath, but this ungrateful thief is trying to steal Azir's ascension power.

At the highest point of the Altar of Ascension, the sun priests have summoned the great power of the sun into the world.

However, Xerath pushed Azir off the altar, making him lose the protection of the rune circle, and was instantly reduced to ashes in the surging sun fire.

After that, Xerath used the powerful power he had obtained to burn the city of the sun into ruins, and fought with the god warrior brothers who hurried back after hearing the news.

In order to destroy this evil guy, Renekton sacrificed himself and chose to die with Xerath...

These stories are told by Kassadin in combination with ancient books and legends passed down orally by the elders from generation to generation, which are relatively close to what actually happened thousands of years ago.

But his story also has inaccurate content fabricated by later generations.

For example, it was not Xerath who destroyed the City of the Sun, but the huge astral power from the heavens was embezzled by him, an unrecognized guy, and the resulting explosion destroyed the capital.

And Renekton didn't die with Xerath, but sealed it with his brother Nasus in the magic sarcophagus that they carried with them when they went out to deal with an eternal flame beast spirit.

Ke Xerath was stronger than they imagined. He shattered the sarcophagus and fought with the brothers of the gods. Finally, under Renekton's restraint, the two were sealed together by Nasus in the emperor's tomb...

"But I remember that Renekton and Xerath didn't die together, but were sealed in the emperor's tomb by Nasus..."

After Kassadin finished speaking, Li Lin took the opportunity to bring up the background he knew.

"Huh?" Kassadin was taken aback by his statement, and subconsciously glanced at the depths of the mausoleum, "Where did you hear that?"

"Oshra Vazuan was once the northern trading post of the Shurima Empire. There is an ancient tome about Shurima in the Piltover Library."

Li Lin said nonsense casually, and found a reason that was reasonably convincing.

Kassadin, who fell into silence, stopped immediately.

He had heard that Zaun originally belonged to Shurima, and it would not be impossible if the classics from that time were preserved by some kind of coincidence...

"If it's true as you said, Renekton and Xerath are sealed in the emperor's tomb, probably this one... Are you sure, you want to move on? It's too late to regret it now."

Kassadin was not afraid of this, but out of concern for Li Lin.

If something really happened, he could use Horlock's Underworld Blade to tear open the space and escape, but Li Lin couldn't.

It's just that he doesn't know that Li Lin's power armor also has a function similar to "void walking".

"Go on." Li Lin patted Kassadin's shoulder lightly, "Anyway, we haven't encountered any danger yet, have we?"

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In the deepest hall of the mausoleum.

Of the last dozen or so of Sivir's subordinates who died, only three were seriously injured and fell to the ground, dying.

After Cassiopeia gave the order to move on, they encountered a group of undead guardians who had been mummified and reanimated upon sensing the intruders.

Among them, 5 mercenaries and 4 Noxus guards resisted desperately, and the rest entered a very crowded and narrow passage less than three meters wide.

However, this passage is full of more deadly traps than the outer hall of the mausoleum.

Amidst the blood and screams, most of the remaining mercenaries exchanged their lives for the survival of them and others.

However, before arriving at the last huge tomb gate away from the scene of the emperor and the Ascended, Sivir, who was originally very angry, did not ask Cassiopeia again.

She even ignored her three seriously injured subordinates, looking obsessively at the sculptured guards and reliefs depicting ancient god warriors standing around her.

It depicts countless beast-headed warriors battling vile and twisted monsters from the rifts of the subterranean abyss.

Sivir could feel the blood in his body boiling, and he felt an inexplicable hatred for these evil things in his heart.

It was as if it was not the great god warrior who fought those monsters, but herself.

Not far away, Cassiopeia's fiery eyes lingered on the last tomb door for a long time.

Afterwards, she looked at Sivir in a daze, a look of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes, "What a beautiful picture, Sivir, isn't it?"

However, Sivir did not have the slightest reaction to Cassiopeia's words.

She didn't even feel that she pulled out the poisoned dagger and approached behind her with hostility.

"I'm very grateful that you brought me here..." Cassiopeia's words suddenly sounded behind her.

Before Sivir could react, she felt a cold and numb sensation from her waist, like a sharp knife stabbing into her body.

Afterwards, unbearable pain swept through his body, and Sivir collapsed powerlessly on the ground, Gu Gu's blood flowed into one piece, staining the golden yellow sand scattered on the ground red.

When she was dying of consciousness, Sivir stared at her eyes. In her gradually dim vision, she saw Cassiopeia pick up her crossblade, and then walked to the huge door of the tomb.

Immediately afterwards, endless darkness fell, and she completely lost all perception of the outside world...

(End of this chapter)