Li Lin said hello to Sivir and Cassiopeia who arrived belatedly.
The noble girl of the Du Cacao family apologized for being late.
Of course, everyone was aware of such polite words and didn’t take them to heart.
Simply understood, Cassiopeia’s words are equivalent to “I was wrong, I will try again next time.”
After all, she said this every time she cooperated with Sivir.
But who let someone be the sponsor?
Even though Sivir was dissatisfied with Cassiopeia’s attitude, he still tolerated it.
It’s easy to make money, and it’s not shabby, and she really gives you a lot…
They waited for the Noxian guards to prepare food and water and hang them on the camels, and then an expedition team consisting of dozens of people walked out of the southern gate of Nasramei.
Kassadin is already waiting here with both Scarash in his hands.
There is actually not much skill in riding such a big guy that is five to six meters tall. You just need to sit cross-legged on the recessed position of their neck and peak, and then hold the reins to maintain balance.
Kassadin briefly taught Li Lin how to maintain balance, and then he sat on Scarash for a minute or two to adapt, and he almost mastered the technique.
Later, Sivir and her mercenary group were led by Cassiopeia and Noxus in the middle, while Li Lin and Kassadin riding the giant Skalalash followed the queue.
The desert was not too hot in the morning, but for Li Lin, who was entering the desert for the first time in his two lives, being hot was not the most important thing. After all, his power armor had heat insulation and cooling functions.
What had the biggest impact on him was the extremely dry air in the desert. The breathing filter could only filter the gravel blown up by the heat wave, but could not humidify the air.
Fortunately, Kassadin taught Li Lin the unique breathing method of the desert herdsmen, which made him feel a lot more comfortable.
The journey in the desert is boring.
Generally speaking, experienced people will try to avoid talking in order to keep water from being lost.
However, Nasramei is not far from Zurita, only three or four days away.
With the large amount of supplies carried by Scarash and the supplies in the morning light of the floating mechanical device, the two of them were not too worried about thirst.
Along the way, Li Lin asked Kassadin many things to pay attention to in the desert.
For example, how to find water sources when water is scarce, plants growing in the desert that can be used as emergency food, how to avoid dangerous creatures, how to deal with encounters, etc.
As a desert guide, Kassadin has seen too many people who died in the sand sea because they didn’t know how to pretend to understand.
Therefore, Kassadin admired Li Lin’s attitude of valuing his own life and patiently answered his questions.
At least this young guy didn’t come to the desert just because he had a hot head and slapped his butt.
As for Li Lin’s previous statement about studying the void in advance to be prepared, Kassadin has always maintained a skeptical attitude.
The void is not accessible to ordinary humans, and even Kassadin himself must be fully prepared.
Not only does it require blessed defensive armor, a weapon for the Celestial Warriors to slay the void, but there also needs to be a special item that can prevent the body and soul from being corrupted by the void.
But Li Lin knew the danger of the void, but he left behind the comfortable life of a nobleman and his lover, and wanted to get close to the void without hesitation…
Kassadin didn’t understand his motives, but felt that Li Lin’s purpose was not as simple as he said.
But he could see that Li Lin had no ill intentions, so he didn’t take this kind of thing too seriously.
Three or four days passed in a blink of an eye.
After passing through the vast desert between the two towns, Sivir and Cassiopeia decided to take a day off in Zurita to prepare more supplies.
At the next stop, they will go directly through the boundless “Dasai Desert” and go to the ruins of Shurima’s once lost imperial capital, the City of the Sun.
It was almost a month’s journey between the two, and there wouldn’t be any towns where they could stop and resupply.
Therefore, tonight will be the “last” carnival night for the mercenary group and the Noxian guards.
In the most luxurious hotel in town, Li Lin took a comfortable bath.
Water resources are very expensive in towns far away from rivers and oases in the desert, let alone Li Lin’s luxury of taking a bath.
For this purpose, he spent more than twenty pieces of silver sand.
But so much money is only equivalent to a few silver wheels, so it is nothing to him.
Later, on Kassadin’s recommendation, Li Lin tried a special Shurima lunch – sun bread and camel dairy products.
Sun Bread is Shurima’s unique flavor. It is baked in a special “earth oven” and paired with dairy products made from camel milk. It is full of aroma, without any fishy smell, and is very appetizing.
Although Li Lin has never been too fond of this kind of Western-style “bread and cheese” taste, he still finished an entire forearm-sized piece of sunloaf by himself.
In the afternoon, Kassadin went to prepare supplies for the next trip.
Li Lin, who had nothing to do, wandered around the town.
Zurita is an old town with a rich history.
According to legend, the first emperor of Shurima, the daughter of the ascended Martial Queen Setaka, served as the priest of the Ascension Group here and selected those who were qualified for ascension.
In the center of this town is the temple of the Ascension Group. A huge imitation sun disk stands on the top of the temple made of smooth marble, reflecting the golden rays of the sun.
Just as Li Lin stopped and stared at the metal disc that was cast thousands of years ago, imagining what it would be like to have the sun disc actually suspended in mid-air, a familiar female voice interrupted his thoughts:
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”
“Sivir?”
Li Lin turned around in surprise. Sivir, who was carrying the cross blade, looked down at the imitation sun disk, and looked at him with a faint smile on his face.
She walked forward slowly and stood side by side with Li Lin, her emerald green eyes looking back at this small town, which was also a symbol of this declining empire.
“The Temple of the Ascension in Zurita enshrines the spiritual tablet of Gladys, the daughter of Setaka. Since the imitation sun disk of Nasramei has long since collapsed, many pilgrims will come here to worship the warriors of the gods.”
Thoughts flowed in Sivir’s eyes, “In the legend of Zurita, this great ascended priest had a similar fate to her mother. He also died in the battle with the void, and his body was buried under the temple…”
“Have you been to her tomb?” Li Lin raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.
“Of course… I’ve never been there.” Sivir shook his head and chuckled. “For thousands of years, no one has found the entrance to Gladys’s mausoleum in the temple. I have tried before, but with no success.”
Good guy, why can’t even Sivir, who specializes in this business, find the underground tomb?
Li Lin couldn’t help but feel curious.
Afterwards, Sivir continued to laugh and said: “I even doubt whether Zurita’s legend is true or false.”
“If it’s true, I’m afraid there’s also Bakai who failed to ascend, guarding the tomb, right?”
“Huh? It seems you know a lot about the history of Shurima? Even Bakai knows about it?” Sivir looked at Li Lin in surprise.
Li Lin smiled and excused himself with a random excuse, “I’m more eager to learn…”
After the conversation ended, an inexplicable silence fell in the air between the two.
After a long time, Sivir’s expression returned to calm before he broke the silence with a low voice: “What did you mean by what you said before?”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
Li Lin raised his eyebrows, and suddenly heard that he seemed to have been a Riddler a few days ago at the gate of Nasramei City.
“Bloodline and destiny, why are you asking me this?” Sivir turned around and stared at Li Lin with his sharp eyes. “I thought about it all the way, but I can’t figure out what you want to express.”
How do you want me to tell you this?
Could it be that when you reach the ruins of the City of the Sun, Cassiopeia will stab you in the back, and then your blood will resurrect Tsar Azir?
Li Lin scratched his head, not knowing how to answer her.
Seeing his appearance, Sivir’s doubts deepened, “Do you know something?”
Li Lin looked at each other with this woman who had no idea of her life experience. Finally, he sighed helplessly and pointed at the cross blade on her back.
“Chalikar, I think you should know its name, right?”
Sivir frowned, nodded and made an affirmative nasal noise.
“Then do you know its origin?”
She hesitated for a moment, then said: “This is a family heirloom that an elder from Naslamy entrusted me to find two years ago…”
Sivir only revealed the first half of the content.
As for the second half, Li Lin knew it without her asking.
When Sivir found “Chalikar” in the tomb of a certain god warrior, Sivir instantly fell in love with it and killed all his employer’s bodyguard team to monopolize it.
“You are wrong. It is not an heirloom of an elder, but a weapon of a great god warrior in ancient times.”
Li Lin noticed that Sivir’s pupils shrank slightly, with a flash of shock.
But he didn’t finish his words: “The weapon of Setaka, the first emperor of Shurima, was made by the giant star spirit from the core of stars and celestial matter. It was a gift given to the first ascended person in Rune Land.”
“Impossible…this is impossible!”
With a look of disbelief on her face, Sivir subconsciously took a few steps back and took off the Charikar fixed on her back armor.
Under the reflection of the golden sunlight, its golden blade seemed to be flowing with gorgeous magical light.
“Nothing is impossible, Sivir.”
Li Lin shook his head, pointed at Chalikar and said: “The weapons of the first emperor are not something that anyone can freely control… This is what I asked you before, whether you believe in blood and destiny.”
Sivir stared down at Chalikar, gently rubbing its blade, and then asked Li Lin another question: “Why do you know so much?”
Li Lin had long expected that she would ask this question. He shook his head and chuckled, and responded with the answer he had prepared in advance: “Read more, and you can be as knowledgeable as me.”
Sivir: “…”
