CHAPTER 178 - Queen of the Void, Rek'Sai
Everyone looked into the distance, where several jet-black objects resembling obsidian suddenly appeared at the border between the scorching sun and the earth.
However, they had not yet ventured deep into Sai Kahleek, and the rocky area in the northeast was even more out of reach.
The hot weather caused slight distortion in the spatial phenomenon. In the blink of an eye, the charred stones disappeared from sight.
The mirage phenomenon in the desert was common, but everyone knew that what appeared on the horizon had nothing to do with mirages.
"Xer'Sai is coming!"
Kassadin, who was experienced in this matter, suddenly became serious.
He grabbed the reins, causing the restless camels to stop, clenched his right fist, and the purple energy wrist blades quickly sprang from his right wrist, blending with the bright yellow sunlight.
Li Lin, Kai'sa, and Sivir also activated the weapons on their powered armor and the cheek pouches on their shoulders respectively. Sivir also took Chalicar from her back.
"Xer'Sai likes to launch sudden attacks from underground. We can't let them get close to the camels," Kassadin said in a deep voice.
According to the guides and caravan's practice, at this point, they should release the bait scouts and camels to gallop away while the rest stopped.
This way, the burrowing beasts would chase after the camels with louder noises instead of attacking the caravan.
If lucky, the scouts could return alive and rejoin the caravan.
However, one of Li Lin's goals in coming to Sai Kahleek was to hunt down the Xer'Sai, even their queen, Rek'Sai. Letting the camels go was meaningless.
With a thought, Li Lin's five storm robots received the command and flew straight into the air, activating the Overload Charge function, emitting a blue light from their bodies.
After a brief pause, they streaked across the sky like meteors, leaving a long tail of flames behind them, heading towards the direction where the Xer'Sai had just appeared.
At the same time, Li Lin grabbed the reins and guided the restless camel beneath him to pace back and forth.
Before long, a cloud of dust rose in the distance, dispersing in the air, followed by the explosion of energy.
"You have killed the Void burrowing beast Xer'Sai (Sandbreaker) for the first time, gaining 2 skill points and 200 blue essence."
"You have killed 2 Sandbreaker Xer'Sai..."
The prompts in Li Lin's mind confirmed that the monsters they wanted to attack had been eliminated by the storm robots.
"Two Xer'Sai, just died," Li Lin reminded.
However, the camels under them did not calm down but became more agitated.
If they hadn't been specially trained and had mild temperaments, they would have thrown off their riders and fled by now, although this would not save them from being eaten.
"Those two were just the vanguard. There are still many Xer'Sai lurking around us."
Kassadin squinted his eyes, continuing to search the area where the yellow sand met the sky, trying to find any unusual movements.
Due to the isolation of the sandy ground, Kai'sa could not sense the Void energy at the first time.
She put on the chitinous Void helmet again, and her field of vision changed drastically, searching for traces of Void energy lingering in the air.
At this moment, Nasus casually cast a small calming spell on the four camels, calming them down.
"There are more than ten Xer'Sai underground around here. We've been surrounded."
Then, he stooped to pick up a handful of sand from the ground, combined it with azure magic, and casually threw it forward.
The yellow sand combined with cosmic magic formed a visible array with their position as the center, quickly disappearing into the ground.
"I have set up a temporary magic barrier for this area. The Xer'Sai will no longer sense the camels."
Nasus walked straight out without looking back. "The next battle may involve the camels. Let's move further away."
Upon hearing this, Li Lin, Kai'sa, and Sivir jumped off their camels and followed Nasus closely.
When they were about two to three hundred meters away from the camels, reaching the top of a small sand dune, they found that the surrounding area was already filled with moving purplish-black "stones," kicking up clouds of dust.
"So many..."
Sivir's muscles tensed, her mind quickly calculating the possible angles the boomerangs might bounce off to once the battle started.
This open and obstacle-free place had the most impact on her.
"They were all attracted by the commotion just now, and we didn't hide our tracks," Kassadin explained.
Kai'sa's gaze was fixed on the group of Xer'Sai roaming within dozens of meters around them, but not attacking, which made her somewhat puzzled.
"Why aren't they attacking?"
"Perhaps they sensed the divine weapons and instinctively felt intimidated," Nasus suggested.
Nasus swung his axe, deciding to take the initiative and not give these Xer'Sai a chance to ambush them.
With the majestic magic power surging into his battle axe, a towering pillar of blue-purple flames instantly incinerated several Xer'Sai's shells, without even a whimper from them.
Although the rewards for killing a certain type of monster for the first time or killing elite-level monsters would be higher, even mosquito legs are meat. If there were many small monsters, the blue essence given by the system would still be considerable.
Seeing this, Li Lin immediately controlled the storm robots flying back from the distance to enter full firepower mode and attack the Xer'Sai that exposed their dorsal fins on the sand surface.
Under the sun, the storm robots with solar panels had a 2% increase in energy recovery rate. Even if they only fired energy shells without kinetic bullets, it was enough.
Kassadin and Kai'sa also did not hold back. Kassadin activated the Null Sphere, launching dark purple energy balls, while Kai'sa fired plasma missiles from her hands and shoulder pouches, targeting the Xer'Sai that were closer.
Only Sivir was idling by, after all, she wasn't very good at this kind of situation.
In less than 30 seconds, the more than ten Xer'Sai surrounding them were wiped out. Li Lin killed the most and gained another skill point and 146 blue essence.
The bodies of the Xer'Sai were quickly corroded by the corrosive liquid inside them, emitting a "hissing" sound.
The stimulating smell accompanied by the dry air entered Sivir's nostrils, and she frowned slightly, "Is it over?"
"No..."
Nasus uttered a word, then his eyes turned to the depths of Sai Kahleek.
Contrary to the beetle-like Xer'Sai just now, a completely different burrowing creature emerged from the sand dunes.
They had thin bodies with only two legs and no front claws. Their necks were extremely long, and their four-lobed split mouths opened wide, revealing terrifying sharp fangs.
"Those are called Xer'Sai Callers!" Kassadin's eyes narrowed, "They have almost no combat power, but they can summon their kind..."
Before he could finish his words, sharp waves that pierced the eardrums rushed from the distance, shaking the yellow sand and raising bursts of sandstorms.
Kassadin hurriedly warned, "Be careful!"
Nasus took a big step forward and plunged his axe handle into the ground in front of them.
In less than a heartbeat, a shallow blue magical barrier enveloped all of them, blocking out the majority of the sound waves and yellow sand that no creature could possibly emit.
The piercing screams came and went quickly.
In just a few seconds, those Xer'Sai stopped screaming and dived underground again, disappearing without a trace.
But they dared not slack off in the slightest.
In just one minute, the earth began to tremble, and a sandstorm rolled up in the distant horizon like a desert storm.
In the dim yellow sand curtain, a dorsal fin at least several meters high floated up and down in the sand, emitting a sinister purple-green glow.
"This aura..." Nasus's crimson eyes instantly turned blue-purple, "Its their Queen, Rek'Sai."
(End of this chapter)
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