After another two or three hours, Longshe finally came back. There was blood on his clothes. Of course, it was not his. His blood was not of this color.

"Ballyard, it's your turn, keep watch."

Longshe didn't say much, and rested against the wall when he came back. His body was covered in the blood of void creatures, which contained a lot of void energy. Longshe's current situation was no better than that of the wolf spirit.

If he were not so arrogant and still used his sword skills like a killer, then the blood of void creatures would not be able to touch his body. Unfortunately, he was anxious. He wanted to kill more void creatures quickly.

He doesn't care whether his body will be contaminated with the blood of void creatures, as long as he is fast enough.

"...I will keep it safe."

Balliard walked dejectedly, step by step slowly towards the outside of Hearth, like a twilight old man walking towards death, mourning the passing years with every step.

Then... Longshe kicked Baliard out and landed right in the middle of the void creatures. Then, groups of void creatures surrounded him directly.

"Is this going to be okay?"

Qianjue shot a few words on the ground with a bow and arrow. Longshe was not a demigod and could not communicate with Qianjue directly through words. Although Qianjue could hear and see Longshe, Longshe could only feel Qianjue.

"Of course it's okay. Look at these eyes, they are still in good condition."

After Longshe finished speaking, he continued to lean against the wall. He discovered a very interesting thing. When he kicked Balliard, part of the void energy attached to him was sucked away.

Is this the origin of the purple skin? He knew that with Bariad's character, it was unlikely to fight the void head-on. How could the void energy on his body be contaminated by fighting the void.

It seems that there is no need to consider the issue of recovery.

Balliard, on the other hand, struggled to push away the void creature pressing on him.

"Bah! How rude."

I don't know whether he was talking about Longshe or these void creatures. Anyway, Balliard took out his ruin and slashed at those void creatures to vent his anger.

Immediately afterwards, he discovered that he seemed to be unable to hurt these void creatures. Although the dilapidated weapon was an artifact, the attacks of the artifact did not have will attached to it. Even though every blow could cut off the limbs of the void creatures, the void creatures were not of the same size.

Small.

Yes, they are called the void insect swarm, but what matches them to the insect swarm is their number.

Therefore, even if Balliard cuts off the bodies of these void creatures, if the core cannot be hit, there will be no harm to them.

Anyway, isn't there a remnant of the same kind of body on the ground? If you eat it, it will grow out.

Balliard slashed with his sword one after another, and the void creatures also bit him bite after bite. Every time Balliard struck with his sword, the bodies of the void creatures were cut off, and with every bite of the void creatures, their bodies were cut off.

Leaves saliva on Valliard.

Balliard has been stuck in the realm of tough body for countless years. Correspondingly, his tough body is also very hard. These void creatures that are less than extraordinary can't hurt him no matter what.

However, he can't kill these void creatures. They are all ridiculously tall. With Valliad's melee ability, he will be slapped to the ground as soon as he jumps up. He can't even reach their vital points. How to kill them?

"Brother, how about we discuss it?"

Of course, Balliard is not talking to those void creatures, but to the void energy attached to him. The origin of this layer of void energy is Malzahar. After breaking away from Malzahar, as long as he enters the void, he will

There is a chance to directly become a void creature at the level of a transcendent.

After all, this is void energy that has absorbed the runic energy of Volibear and Ornn. It is basically much higher than other void energies. Moreover, this mass of void energy has initially begun to have its own consciousness. In time, it will be inevitable

If you can have your own will and put it back into the void, maybe there will be one more demigod in the void in a few hundred years.

"Discuss? What is that? Is it delicious?"

A little boy's voice came into Balliard's mind, in a low voice, like a child who might be beaten by an adult at any time.

In fact, this is also the case. Baliard did not provide rune energy to this guy, which is equivalent to starving him, and often uses his own power to consume this void energy, which is equivalent to beating him and wanting to kill him.

Therefore, it is normal for this group of void energy to be afraid of Valliard.

"...Just do as I say, and you will have something delicious."

A child who is more than ten days old can speak quite well. Balliard does not expect this guy to be very smart, as long as he has an appetite.

"Delicious? What's delicious?"

As soon as he heard about eating, the child suddenly became excited and his voice became slightly louder, but soon it dropped down again.

"Do you see this ball of runic energy? If you do as I say, I will feed you this energy."

Balliard is holding a ball of rune energy in his hand, which of course is not his. The energy in his body is almost completely opposite to the rune energy. In other words, on the surface, it looks like the rune energy, a delicacy of the void.

, can seduce the void, but once you take your mouth, you will find that this is not mung bean cake but mustard.

Therefore, he used the runic energy extracted from a piece of perfect ice. Although the runic energy was imprisoned by Ryze's seal, it was a substance with runic energy itself.

Wen energy will not disappear, it will just be hidden.

Generally speaking, anyone who is not an Iceborn cannot mobilize the rune energy in it. However, this mass has not been used by anyone for who knows how many years and has been stagnating. Like aged wine, it is very attractive to the void energy in him.

Enemy? Don't be ridiculous. Balliard will not really let the void energy in him return to the void. A pig can run away after being fattened? It's not a good idea.

Besides, it's just a ball of runic energy, how can you fatten this thing?

"Then - what do you want me to do?"

The little boy seemed to have agreed to Balliard's request. Not everyone can refuse delicious food. Children who haven't eaten for a long time don't know how to suppress their appetite.

"Do you know how to communicate with your kind? Tell them that you have invaded my body, leaving only a shell. The enemy is in the northwest."

Balliard had had enough of being beaten. Although these attacks were not painful or itchy, it was not pleasant to have other people's saliva all over his body and others to keep pouring more layers of it on him.

The most terrible thing was that a void creature took advantage of him and stuffed it into its mouth to chew it. Balliard was reluctant to use his ultimate move to teach these void creatures how to behave. It didn't matter if they couldn't learn it, just learn a lesson.

"……good."

The little boy thought for a while and found that there was no harm to him. It was just that he could get delicious food by saying a few words to the same kind and those inferior creatures. It was so profitable, wasn't it?

"That's right."

Without saying a word, Balliard stuffed the rune energy into himself. The void energy film on his body swallowed up the rune energy at once, and he even burped.

"After eating, it's time to get started."

"..."

The little boy used a language that Balliard did not know and communicated with those void creatures through a contact method that Balliard did not know.

A void creature that was about to raise its claws to grab Baliard into its mouth and grind its teeth was stunned. It originally felt the runic energy on Baliard's body and thought it was a delicacy, but it didn't expect that they were both

I can't eat this delicious food.

However, they did not give up. Even though they couldn't eat it, there was always a delicious taste on it. It was much more straightforward to stuff it into their mouths than to quench their thirst by looking at plum blossoms.

But now, it put down its paws and headed northwest.

"Good job."

The result was just as Baliard expected. The void energy in his body originated from Malzahar, but because it was attached to the demigod, it lost contact with Malzahar and formed an independent individual.

And during this period, he developed his own consciousness, which was no longer the energy that could only seduce others by instinct, but also possessed the characteristics of a living being, and evolved in the direction of a transcendent being.

But no matter what, the little boy's energy comes from Malzahar. Before he truly became a living being, the aura attached to his energy was exactly the same as Malzahar's. When he gave orders, it was almost as if Malzahar was there.

Give orders.

Of course, the little boy didn't know this. He only knew instinctively that those void creatures were of a lower level than him and should naturally obey his words.

"Then...is there any reward?"

The little boy cowardly asked for a reward from Balliard. For the greedy void creature that never knew satisfaction, that ball of rune energy was still too little. He wanted more.

"Reward? Where did you hear these two words?"

Balliard had a feeling that the situation was getting out of his control. A child who was more than ten days old, no matter how fast he progressed, should not know these two words because he was a creature of the void.

The so-called reward is a free "remuneration" provided by one party for the other party's hard work that does not require any effort.

This little boy has just been paid for the first time. How can he know what the reward is?

"It's those guys. They are saying that if they can bring a spirit body back, they can get the reward of becoming a transcendent directly."

"Is this a reward? This is a reward. Those guys are all lying to you. Rewards are extra things that others give you if you do well. They catch the spirit body and exchange it for the opportunity to become a transcendent. It can be called a reward.

?"

Balliard found out what the problem was, and then he had to correct it.

"But didn't you say I did a good job? Why can't you give me a reward?"

The little boy is still a little smart. He understands the meaning of rewards and knows that the rewards mentioned by those void creatures are not rewards. Of course, for those low-level void creatures, they may indeed be a reward.

Because, in the void, it is an inviolable rule for subordinates to obey their superiors, and it is only for ordinary void creatures and transcendent-level void creatures.

The former's status in the void is that of beasts and slaves, with no freedom or rights. They can kill each other as much as they want, but they cannot offend any transcendent beings in the void. If the transcendent ones want to eat them, they must also let them eat themselves.

But his cleverness came to an end.

"Is that a reward?"

Balliard used his own power to destroy this mass of void energy. The little boy's screams echoed in his mind. Void energy is difficult to destroy, but because of this, this mass of void energy has its own will.

They will suffer pain thousands of times more severe than the death of other void creatures.

"I give you
To be continued...