The war in Icathia began with the Icathians' desire for freedom and independence - they were a colony of the Shurima Empire, and they were unwilling to accept their current life.

However, these Icaxians chose the wrong partner to cooperate with.

In the eyes of these Icathian warlocks, the void is a "power that can be guided by oneself." As long as this power is used well, Shurima will not easily win. When the time comes, they will be able to gain independence without having to do anything.

The colony of Shurima.

But they didn't realize that things were not as they thought...

Those warlocks who were the first to come into contact with the void had already unknowingly become slaves of the void and completely embraced the void. The judgments they gave that "the void can be controlled and utilized" were just the tasks of their masters.

The joyful Icathians launched an uprising, hanged the governor of Shurima, and celebrated their independence and victory, but they did not realize that they were just a springboard from the void to Runeterra.

When the Ascended Ones arrived and the God-Slaying Hundreds were unable to survive alone, the confident Icathians unleashed the power of the void.

No words can describe what the void looks like when it comes to Runeterra - the void travels through the planes in the form of energy, comes to reality, and then intersects with the laws of Runeterra to become a twisted entity, filling the entire battlefield in an instant.

The earth is cracked, the sky is covered, and the arrogant Ascended Ones are extremely fragile in the face of this power that does not belong to this world. However, compared with the Ascended Ones, the Icathians seem to be more fragile.

The Icathians drove out the Shurima invaders.

But they did not get the freedom and independence they wanted.

The creations of the void that swarmed out quickly filled the entire Icacia, and the joyful Icacia people became the food of the void. They were swallowed up by the void, digested by the void, and finally became part of the void.

This is how the Battle of Icathia begins.

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When he said this, Kassadin stopped.

"Pretty ironic, isn't it?"

"It's... not bad." Yasuo shook his head, "It is a common mistake to blindly pursue power that you cannot control - is this what you learned in the tomb?"

"Part of it." Kassadin said in a heavy tone, "Besides that, there are also many parts of Horok fighting the Void - he is an assassin."

"Hmm..." Yasuo touched his chin, "I know a little bit about the Battle of Icathia, but what happens next? The death of Horok and the birth of the Darkin?"

"That's another part." Kassadin stood up, "Horok has no memory of his death, but there is the part about the birth of dark descendants... In the final analysis, those dark descendants are just ascendants infected by the void.

That's it - the void cannot swallow the powerful Ascended Ones, and the Ascended Ones cannot expel the infection of the Void, so they become corrupted Ascended Ones."

"Fallen Ascended?"

"Then I became a darkin - I don't have any memory of this part, but it seems to be related to the Shuriman gods." Kassadin spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know, "But about the darkin and the ascended one

I have a guess about the hatred between them."

"Speculation?"

"After the Battle of Icathia broke out, the Ascended ones discovered that flesh and blood had a great disadvantage when facing the void, so they were divided internally." Kassadin sighed, "All the Ascended ones were almost divided into

Two parts - one part believes that the inability to resist the erosion of the void is because they are not strong enough and their hearts are not firm enough; the other part believes that the ascended ones are also flesh and blood, so they should not be allowed to fight."

Yasuo didn't speak - he had already roughly guessed what would happen next.

According to Kassadin's narration, things developed just as he expected.

As one of the most powerful Ascended Ones, Horlock entered the Void Underground Palace single-handedly and took the initiative to eliminate the Void threat in some areas. Although he was also injured, he was not infected.

However, judging from the subsequent results, Horok is one of the few beings who can resist the infection of the Void. Although the price of this resistance is death, many people who fought with him against the Void became corrupted and were eventually killed by Shurima.

The emperor and the gods joined forces to strangle him and became a dark descendant sealed in a weapon.

And the other way...

"Those who think that non-living objects can fight against the void may have found a way out, but I'm not very clear about this." Kassadin was helpless when he said this, "But judging from the results, they didn't seem to be going well.

, after all, the Shurima Empire is over, and the leader of the other faction, the elemental mage Nezuk from Ixtal, has also become a well-known bastard."

"Those people made the monolith." When he said this, Ryze appeared beside Yasuo at some point and said without any warning, "Their guess is right, only dead objects are immune to the void.

of erosion.”

"That's my guess." Kassadin glanced at Ryze, "They used the method of creating ascendants on specially made dead objects - according to your statement, they seem to have made a huge stone ascend.

Already."

Soaring... stone?!

When he heard this, Yasuo was shocked.

The one who imbues mortals with the power of the sun disk, this is the ascended one, the one who imbues stone with the power of the sun disk...

What an act of imagination!

And judging from Ryze's description, they succeeded!

"The Monolith ended the Battle of Icathia. This is a record in the secret collection in Hylia's library." Ryze recalled for a moment, "But as for what a Monolith is and how it was born, these sea

Liya has no description."

"Then do you know anything else about Dushi?"

"A monolith is a huge stone that can be suspended in the air." Ruiz tried hard to recall the historical notes he had read in his spare time. "This kind of thing seems to be a weapon and consumable specially designed to fight against the void. It needs to be infused with energy.

It will be used less and less, and then a waste product called Murphy's Rock will be produced... Well, Murphy is the Ixtal language, which means "bad stone" - from this point of view, Kassadin's speculation is true

It's very possible, after all, according to what you said, Nezuk came from Ixtar."

Murphy Rocks…

Murphy?

I don't know why, but when Yasuo heard this name, he felt a different kind of familiarity in his heart without any warning.

Why is it so familiar...

Murphy's Law?

No, it's not.

Not for this reason.

After thinking for a while, Yasuo, who had been reciting "Murphy" silently, suddenly had a sudden enlightenment - Murphy, stone, Malphite!
Chapter completed!