Ever since Cassadine vowed to avenge his wife and daughter and eliminate the "prophets" who had been fighting for the tiger, he used all his personal connections to arm himself and then came to Acacia alone.

His ability to make a living was to find a safe path in the treacherous land, so Cassadine was able to reach the hinterland of Acacia safely under the lurking of the void creatures.

There was a limit to what a person could bring, and Cassadine was also in a food emergency, and it was too late for him to go back the way he came.

As a desert guide, he knew that the city had been abandoned for more than 3,000 years. But he had no choice but to venture into the ruins of a lost city in search of life-saving supplies that could not possibly exist.

Luckily, Cassadine discovered this eerie tower.

But because time stood still in the tower that served as a refuge, the large amount of food stored in it did not decay over time, and it was with this food that Cassadine was able to gain a foothold in the perilous city of Acacia.

He then used the tower as a base to hunt the nearby Void creatures for clues to the Prophet...... Until now.

Cassadine without the Void Skin would not be able to survive in Acacia like Kaisha, the flesh and blood of the Void creatures are undoubtedly highly poisonous to ordinary people, and he needs normal food to replenish his nutrition.

"So have you seen anyone else alive in the tower?"

Jeno didn't ask what Cassadine had been eating thousands of years ago. What does it taste like? He wondered if Cassadine had met the original owner of the tower. Kieran, who can master the magic of time, is powerful, and Jeno needs to get in touch with him.

Cassadine shook his head: "I have not seen any living people except you, there are only still human figures here, like figurines buried in the tomb." ”

Jeno regrets this, even Cassadine, who came a few years before them, has not seen Kieran, so how can he meet him?

"Listen to you, should there be anyone else here?" Jax asked.

But Jeno avoided talking about it, and the matter couldn't be explained.

He carefully examined Cassadine's face, although he had not cleaned his dirty beard for a long time, and looked very sloppy, but he did not show any signs of being infected by the void.

This is strange, considering that Cassadine does not have a spiritual fire protector like the Eternal Flame, and the breathing mask produced by Zaun obviously does not have such a powerful function.

"Why have you been here for so long and you haven't been affected by the Void?" Jeno asked.

"Because of it." Cassadine spread out his palm, revealing a brown stone.

The stone was embedded in the palm of his hand, rough but warm, connected with the black veins of his pale complexion, sharing the rhythm of life.

"This is the stone I asked someone to pick up from a mining team, and there are many of them in the ground near Acacia. Most people don't know what they come from, but through research, I found that the formation of these stones is related to the void, in which some kind of conscious being sleeps, so it has a life-like temperature. ”

Cassadine rubbed the stone in his palm, then held it tightly.

"I call it the Void Stone, or the Void Pebble. It can hold back the corruption of the Void, but at what cost my body and soul, I can't guess, for this tiny object is now beating at the same time as my heart. That terrible pulsating rhythm did not belong to life, not to magic, not to anything whole, but to the annihilation of nothingness. ”

After listening to Cassadine's description, Jeno's face sank like water.

"This thing...... It's going to hurt you. He is very sure: "It has begun to absorb the nutrients in your body, and then your memories." One day, you will forget your wife and daughter, and even your own name, and even if Keisha is standing in front of you, you will not remember who she is. ”

"Father......" What Jeno said made Kai'Sa suddenly worried, she looked at Cassadine's clenched palms, and unconsciously clenched her fists, and the tears that had just stopped were about to well-up again.

Jeno panicked, but he continued, "But that's not the worst case, in the end, the monster in the stone will hatch and burst out of your body, taking your life. The Void is never benevolent, it gives everything to bring life to annihilation, and that is the price. If you don't want things to turn out like that, get rid of the Void Stone's dependence right away. ”

"How do you get rid of it?"

"Burn to death with the Eternal Flame, or you cut off your hand with the Blade of the Underworld. The Void Stone has become one with you, and you can't easily take it off. ”

Cassadine smiled bitterly: "No matter how you choose, will my hands be wasted?" ”

Jeno nodded, he wasn't alarmist, but the truth was so cruel.

"I'm not afraid of becoming disabled, but I want this hand to be useful—when I slash the Prophet with my own hands, I'll do it for Kaisha's sake."

"Since you've said so, I won't talk much." Jeno didn't say anything more, they were already close to the Prophet, believing that the moment to kill him would soon come.

A few years have passed, and in a few days, Cassadine's situation will not suddenly deteriorate, right?

"Why do you want to come to Acacia, do you all share my unquenchable hatred for the Void?" Seeing that Jeno no longer asked, Cassadine asked him in turn.

He needed to know what kind of people his daughter had made friends.

"Whether there is a grudge or not, the void is the mortal enemy of mankind. We were looking for the Prophet, but we came across the corpse of an ethereal spirit on the way, and we followed us all the way to find it. ”

"What did he do again? Isn't he afraid of retribution? Cassadine clenched his fists, and at the mention of the Prophet, he had only endless hatred waiting to slash him with his own hands.

"It never stopped, and we should ......"

Just as Jeno was about to say something to absorb Cassadine into the team, he felt a creepy gaze suddenly sweep across his back, causing an uncomfortable feeling of nausea.

"Shhhh

"It's the Void!" Kai'Sa was alert, her skin tightening. The tip of the needle, the constant itching......

Cassadine also sensed something was wrong, and he heard a constant buzzing sound, like a nest of bugs trying to burrow into his brain. He felt his teeth loosen and retched, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, but he didn't expect a few blood stains on his hands.

Isn't it that fast? Could it be that what Jeno said is about to be verified?

"Cassadine, put on your mask, don't think too much, it's Vikz who has appeared, it's just outside the tower!" Jeno tried to lower his voice to explain, but panic had begun to spread.