"Your Majesty, I wonder if you've ever heard of the Darkspawn?"

"Darkborn...... Scholar Nasus said it was a fallen Celestial Warrior who appeared after my death and sparked the Darkspawn War. ”

Nasus had told Azir about the unbearable past.

In 5000 BCE, the Ascended first appeared.

In 2500 BC, the War of Acacia broke out.

In 2000 BC, the Oasis of Dawn was destroyed.

In 550 BCE, the War of the Darkspawn broke out.

The Ascended Ones, after Azir's death, were still conscientiously administering the country for thousands of years. During this time, they resisted the spiritual erosion of the void while preventing the division and collapse of the dynasty.

He was ordered to turn the tide of the country in danger. Just as respectable as the medical staff who are fighting the epidemic on the front line.

But after being eroded by the Void and the last bit of honor in their hearts, these Ascended Beings have completely degenerated into the abominable Darkspawn, and the darkness that was originally hidden in the depths has been excavated by the Void and turned into evil gods full of destruction.

The Darkspawn is triple cursed. First from their enemies of ancient times, then from the fall of the Glorious Empire, and finally from the betrayal that will degrade them forever.

During the Void Erosion, they learned the forbidden sorcery, and gradually felt that they were the most reasonable inheritors of this world, and began to fight in all directions.

The displaced mortals refer to the new tyrant as the Darkborn, which in ancient terms roughly means a vague curse: the Fallen.

Eventually, the Darkspawn War came to an end as they were sealed in weapons by some kind of power.

"Yes, the Fallen who have been corrupted by the Void. The Void is undeniably terrifying, but it took five hundred years between the Great Void War and your death, and not a single Darkspawn appeared. That is, during this time, your presence prevents certain deteriorations from occurring. Jeno walked around Azir, speaking in an ethereal voice.

"They lack the leadership of an emperor, I should have been there." As if talking about his own mistakes, Azir lowered his head in shame.

"Is that really it?"

"What do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, do you know what made you emperor?" Jeno asked.

"Is it because I have the blood of the sun, or do I have an old friend who is full of evil, hehe......" Azir smiled self-deprecatingly, and a lot of the credit for being able to sit in this position goes to Zelas.

If Zelath was still alive and could assist him as before, then he wouldn't be so entangled with Jeno. The two work together, so why be afraid of a group of Void monsters.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to reveal your scars. I just want to say that without the restraint of the Sun Bloodline, these Celestial Warriors infected by the Void eventually failed to resist the erosion and fell into the Dark Descendants. ”

Hearing Jeno's explanation, Azir immediately smiled bitterly:

"Isn't that still my fault? If I had been wary of Zelas, none of this would have happened. ”

"I can't help it if you think so, I just want to tell you that there are still a few Darkborns in the world right now. You might be able to try to find them and use the power of the bloodline to evoke a sense of honor in them. ”

The method that Jeno just said was the only way to increase the power of Azir's command at the moment. Since you can't create Ascendants, then recall those Dark Descendants who have been lost everywhere, after all, fallen Ascendants are also Ascendants!

It doesn't matter if it's black or not, just have the sun blood to make them obedient, not to mention the saying that blackening is three points stronger. Although Azir could not shed blood, the dominance of the Sun blood was forever etched in his bones.

"Recall the Darkspawn? Are you sure they won't challenge me? Azir hesitated again, Nasus had said that the Darkspawns were not convinced by each other, and that they were all vying to be the sole ruler, and that this was not a challenge to authority?

Nasus stepped forward to answer Azir's concerns: "Your Majesty, you are too worried. The Darkspawn still has sanity, but due to the different degrees of erosion, there are also strong and weak sanity. At least during the war years, they still held me as revered as ever. ”

Nasus had experienced the Wars of the Darkspawn, and the Darkspawns, though they had become brutal and bloodthirsty, still held him in high esteem. They also invited Nasus to a meeting between them, but Nasus had no interest in the struggle for power, so he disdained to join them.

It's a good thing he didn't get involved in these, otherwise he might have ended up with those Darkborns now - either completely dead on a spiritual level, or sealed in a weapon and never seen the light of day.

"I see." Azir nodded, "If I can find some Darkspawn for my use, the matter of Ascension can indeed be put on hold." The question is where am I going to find them, I can't feel where they are. ”

Either way, it's hard to create an Ascension in a short period of time!

The traditional method requires the cooperation of Sivir, and the method of Jano calculation cannot find a mortal with enough prestige, so replacing it with the Darkspawn is the only option.

Jeno followed this line of thought and continued to strike while the iron was hot.

"Actually, I had a deal with a Darkspawn not long ago." Jeno said.

"Who is it?" Both Azir and Nasus quickly turned their heads to look at him, alert.

"He seems to have been called Raaste, sealed in a scythe."

"Raaste, with his great horns, his mighty but unbridled mouth, angered the Emperor so much that after the Great War of the Void he was relegated to garrison the east coast of Valoran......" Azir began to recall his old memories, recounting his impressions of Liast.

Because Azir was the last Ascendant of Shurima, and the youngest junior brother of the Ascendants, he knew a little bit about the previous Ascendants, but he didn't know as well as Nasus.

"Where is he now?" Azir asked.

"In Ionia."

"So far?!" As soon as he heard that he was going to cross the ocean, Azir immediately lost interest, and since he had acquired the ability to manipulate sand, he did not want to leave the desert, and he suffered from some symptoms of water abibition.

"No way, someone took him from Noxus to Ionia."

The scythe that sealed the Raaste was excavated beneath Noxus, proving that Noxus had been part of Shurima's territory before Mordecaesar. With the exception of Demacia, where the Forbidden Demon Forest stands, and Freljord, which has an even longer history, the entire Valoran continent was once the territory of Shurima.

"Anyone else?" Unwilling, Azir asked again.

"Yes, I know several."