he came from the void

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Around the altar were hundreds of unlit candles, melted wax everywhere, and dozens of skulls of various animals.There are also several human skulls.

And on a knee-high stone platform nearby, an old woman was lying on her back with her hands folded in front of her body, as motionless as a dead person.

"Damn it." Graves' attention was all attracted by the old woman, and he walked over cautiously despite his fate, ignoring the rubbish piles.

In fact, by the looks of her, she might be dead, or not far off.Her clothes were half rotting, and her complexion was that of a week-old fish.Her skin was so thin that it was transparent, and the veins beneath it were black and black.

"What is she doing?" Drizzt asked.

"Sleeping, or waiting to die. I don't know." Graves took a sniff, and almost threw up last night's chowder. "She stinks so much, so I guess she's dead."

Drizzt showed a worried expression, his eyebrows furrowed together.

He usually only shows this expression when he's drawn a bad hand, or his coat is splattered.His coat had been made to measure in Piltover and was ridiculously expensive.

Graves wondered whether Drizzt would keep the Sea Dragon boots or wear them when he got his hands on them.

"Don't wake up this sea witch and ask for trouble, it's important to find the crown." Kahn reminded in a low voice.

"Good idea," Graves responded, a little louder, while eyeing to see if she was awake.

The sea witch let out a quick gasp, like a mouthful of phlegm stuck in her inner trachea.But did not wake up.

Very well, the smelly old woman is still alive.

Although they knew that the sea witch was weird, Graves and Drizzt tacitly did not solve this hidden danger.

No matter how stinky she was, shooting her would probably bring them more than a shipload of bad luck.Especially Drizzt, as a superstitious river wanderer, is even more convinced.

And Kahn looked at the sea witch again, and saw a crutch in the shape of a sea snake's head beside her.

He didn't do anything to the sea witch, because the sea witch's ability was not strong enough to hurt him, and it was still useful for him to keep her.

The two people in front touched the altar, but they didn't see the so-called crown after stepping on it.

So Drizzt simply sat down and laid out a symmetrical array of cards, face down to start divination.

Graves didn't bother him, and started poking around, probing the dark place with the barrel of fate, making sure no one saw it, and secretly grabbed a few golden sirens and put them in his pocket, but he didn't care about the more valuable ancient coins. Turn a blind eye.

He felt that these mottled ancient coins might be very evil.

Kahn pretended to be looking for the crown. In fact, he knew that the crown was sealed inside the altar, but he was not in a hurry to take it out. He had to wake up the sea witch first.

He suddenly had the feeling of being watched. This feeling was a little uncomfortable, but it made him smile knowingly.

Finally, the last actor was in place.

Kahn seemed to see something moving in his peripheral vision, but as soon as he looked over it, it disappeared immediately.His eyes followed that thing, involuntarily staring at an upside-down bucket on the ground.

He stared at it for a while, and the wooden barrel moved a little bit, exposing the hole on the side.

In it he felt a gaze, an eye looking out, a big yellow eye.

Kaisha followed Kahn's gaze and noticed the eyes in the barrel. She didn't make a sound, but glanced at Graves who was still playing with the card array and poking around, and then watched quietly as En walked towards the barrel. He bent down to meet those eyes.

Seeing that he was seen through the disguise, the thing inside opened the bucket and ran hard.

It was a green octopus with only one eye directly in front of it.Maybe I was wrong, because Kahn couldn't see which side was directly in front of it.

This and that soft thing slid around on the floor of the cave, surprisingly fast.

"What sound?" Drizzt put away the cards and asked alertly.

"I accidentally kicked over the bucket, and my foot slipped." Kahn almost made a split, and Drizzt and Graves no longer doubted it.

These two guys are very careful in some ways and very careless in others.He seemed to think that the two little devils could not be more alert than himself, so he easily believed what they said.

When they turned their heads, Kaisha pursed her lips at Kahn, and then he followed her reminder and saw the octopus that had disappeared, the slender green thing rolled to the bottom of the stone platform where the old woman slept , and then stretched out a pair of tentacles, and began to climb up.

Just let it wake the sea witch.

Kahn ignored it, and walked towards Drizzt and the others. The latter was interpreting the card draw results, and didn't know that his employer was actually an insider.

Drizzt showed a card with what looked like a golden crown in the shape of a sea serpent.

The golden sea snake is spitting out snake letters, and its winding body is connected head to tail.

"I don't think I've seen this card before." Graves pointed in the past.

"Neither have I," Drizzt said. "It never existed, and now it pops up. The crown must be here. Around here."

Drizzt only learned about the appearance of the crown of the abyss, and sealed it in the altar without discovering the crown, but it doesn't matter, it will emerge by itself later.

From their conversation, Kahn realized that the patterns on the Drizzt cards are not always fixed, which is really strange.

"The giant snake holds its tail, fate reincarnates." Kahn who was next to him suddenly leaned over and said something mysteriously, causing Drizzt to look at him deeply.

Drizzt has always been the most superstitious person, and what Kahn said was his most deeply believed fate, so he had an unfathomable impression on him on the spot.

He changed his name from Tobias to Drizzt because he believed that changing his name was equivalent to changing his life, so he was reluctant to call him by his real name because he felt that it would bring him bad luck.

He began to think about what Kahn meant. Isn't the Serpent's Owntail referring to the Crown of the Abyss?So fate reincarnation means wearing the crown will repeat fate?Is that immortality or curse?

In fact, Kahn just said something casually. He heard this sentence from Nasus, and even he didn't know the allusion.

"What are you looking at me for? Looking for a crown!" Kahn said.

"Oh." Drizzt turned his head secretively, looking for the crown on the altar, but it seemed that he didn't dare to have any thoughts about the crown, after all, his current life is quite nourishing, and he didn't want to make any changes.

Chapter 224 The Crown

"Strange, the card told me it's here, why can't I find it?"

Drizzt walked back and forth on the altar a few times, but still did not find any trace of the crown of the abyss.

"Maybe you need a metal detector," Kahn said.

"What's that high end? From Piltover?" Graves wondered if it was a magnet or something.

"Maybe."

"Ho-"

As if someone had sucked in a mouthful of phlegm, the sudden sound made everyone stop. After realizing that it was the snoring sound of the sea witch, Graves and Drizzt looked over.

A slimy octopus wraps its tentacles around her face, climbs onto the top of her head, grunts disgustingly, and then snaps on top of her head like a freaking hat.

Facing the four of them, its big yellow single eye blinked, revealing a wise gaze.

"Something's wrong," Graves murmured.

Then the old woman sat up abruptly.

"what--"

The two big men let out a shriek tacitly, which was not very honorable, but at this moment they had no intention to ridicule each other.

I don't know if it was because of their cries, the sea witch's eyes suddenly opened.

Her pupils were as cloudy as the milk of a sea serpent, and though she might not be able to see, she turned her head in their direction.

"The mouse came in again, what are you looking for?" Her voice was incoherent, like the hiss of a sea snake spitting out a letter, echoing in the empty cave: "Naughty mouse, I have nothing here, oh, no ..."

"We are looking for the crown of the abyss." Drizzt couldn't find the crown, so he could only ask the sea witch for help: "If you are willing to give us the honor, there will be no trouble."

As he spoke, the Sea Witch flung her legs apart and dropped her bare feet on the cave floor.Graves turned fate on her, but she didn't seem to care.

Leaning on a crutch in the shape of a sea snake's head in her hand, she looked at several people with her hollow, cloudy eyes, and then showed a weird toothless smile.

"Stupid mouse, stupid mouse..." She was drooling as she spoke, "I drowned a long time ago. I gave it to the sea monster, but I didn't know it."

The sea witch hit the ground with her cane, and the magic ripples spread, making Kahn's mouth smell of rancid milk.

There was a tremor in the cave, and the black water in the pool stirred up ripples.There was a rattling sound from the water, like a sharp knife scratching, and then the surrounding rock walls began to vibrate.

Something was crawling out of the darkness all around.

It's a crab!

Huge crab!They were as big as a carriage, and looked extremely fierce, as if they wanted to take off their arms and legs.

The crabs rattled and charged at the men, each wielding their giant blue claws.The crab claws, which are so big that they can pinch a person by the middle, give them a majestic look.

At the same time, more crabs came out of the water, rustling and gathering into an army of crabs.

Kahn felt that this scene was a bit like being surrounded by ethereal spirits, he didn't feel scared, but had a great appetite.He suppressed the urge to eat, pulled Kai'Sa and held the scimitar, and slowly retreated behind the two of them.

"Unfortunately, I hate crabs." Graves never added crabs to chowder: "Or I hate things with a lot of feet."

"Octopus has lots of feet, too," Drizzt said.

"Since you know, why didn't you grab that one-eyed octopus just now?" Roaring, he hit the giant crab that was rushing forward with both hands: "Take your shot, you long-legged bastard!" ...!"

The gunshots were deafening, and the gunfire with full force pushed the giant crab back a few steps, and the blue carapace was covered with cracks.There was a flash of red light, and Drizzt flew a card into the middle of their gathering.

The cards exploded, enveloping them in witchcraft flames, these crabs were not heat resistant, and turned red after a few hits.

A giant crab rushed forward, and Graves had just arrived and reloaded.The destructive power of the shotgun was fully highlighted by the close-to-face shooting. Its huge pincers were smashed into pieces with one shot, and the residue of crab shells and wet white meat were scattered all over the ground.

The giant backed away, its eyestalks and upper jaw shattered by the second bullet, and it lay on its back.

"My destiny is as strong as a mule." Graves laughed loudly, aiming to show off to Drizzt.

"You are as stupid as a mule, come and help me!"

A crab surrounded Drizzt from the side. He swooped to avoid it, slid on the ground to avoid the crab claws caught on it, and then threw out another card.

When the card hit the crab, a golden light flashed, and the crab immediately remained motionless, frozen in place.Graves had just finished loading the gun, and took a step forward to smash it into crab sauce and drop it back into the water.

The two cooperated tacitly and were like ducks in water among the crabs.Seeing this, Kahn couldn't touch the fish anymore, so he blasted the eye stalk of a crab rushing towards him with a pistol, and then stabbed it into its mouth with a knife, stirring it hard to kill it.

Kaisha on the other side is not used to pistols. She hit the crab’s carapace with two shots. It wanders around, bumping into rock walls and other crabs.

The Sea Witch stayed far away, screaming furiously.Because she didn't do anything, and Kahn didn't touch her, he was thinking about how to pretend to open the altar by accident.

Then he noticed the fate in the hands of Graves, who was strong enough to smash rocks.

He first let Kai'Sa run far away from the altar, causing a large pile of crabs, and instead of killing them, he took advantage of their rampant nature and kept circling around his back.

Then he lured a giant crab towards Graves, and when Graves was caught between the two sides and rushed to fight back, Kahn decisively rushed over and knocked him down.

"careful!"

Graves dodged the pincers, and at the same time deflected the barrel of Destiny's gun, sending it blasting towards the altar at his feet.

The altar was shattered and turned into a pile of rubble.A person was buried inside, and only a pile of dry bones remained. The skull was wearing a mottled crown. The shining part seemed to be gold, and the shape was like a sea snake spewing letters...

"Crown of the Abyss!" Kahn's eyes reflected, deliberately letting Graves see the greed in his eyes.

One second he saved Graves, the next he kicked Graves, and rushed towards the crown.

Poor Graves was used by him as bait to hold the two giant crabs, of course he knew that, and he was kicked in the chest, and this revenge will be paid back sooner or later!

He rolled to avoid the claws dropped by the giant crab, picked up his fate, and thought about whether the last bullet in it would go to the two giant crabs or Kahn.

The choice was easy, he couldn't kill two crabs with one shot, so he aimed the gun at Kahn's back, wanting to see him die with hatred in front of the crown that was so close at hand.

But suddenly, Kai'Sa on the other side screamed. She was surrounded by a group of giant crabs, and she was about to die.

Kahn's footsteps stopped, a few steps away from the crown of the abyss.

Seeing this scene, Graves' trigger also stopped.

Kahn seemed to have had a painful psychological struggle. He gave up the crown of the abyss that was within reach, and rushed towards Kai'Sa with his scimitar tightly, and slashed into the pile of crabs.

With a terrifying roar, he swooped onto the back of a giant crab, rode it and grasped its eye stalks with his hands, and controlled it to swing its claws indiscriminately to attack the crabs around him. rescue.

Just fucking like a god of war!

Chapter 225

Graves is a person who values ​​affection. He was immediately moved when he saw this scene, and almost burst into tears.

"I respect you for being a man!" He stopped aiming at Kahn, turned around and used fate to blow open the skull of a giant crab, and it happened that Drizzt's yellow card also held up another crab, enough for him to reload and shatter it. .

However, he was moved. He did not forget the things that Kahn imprisoned him and threatened him. This account must be settled.

"Good man, it's a pity..." Graves sighed, rushed to the chaotic pile of broken stones of the altar, took off the crown of the abyss from the top of the skull, and threw it to Drizzt.

"Cuizi, run away!"

Graves actually didn't want to hand over the crown to Drizzt, he was worried that the latter would run off alone with the crown and make him work for nothing.

But right now there is no better choice, he will never be able to swim out with the crown, who knows what curse is attached to the crown, whether it will be triggered if placed in the water.