"Archers?" Azir was stunned for a moment, the Celestial warriors often ascended, gaining the ability to become gigantic or magical.

The former can always maintain a huge size if they want to, and then pick up a giant weapon to become an unstoppable war machine. They also do magic, just slightly weaker. The latter stay in a safer position, strategizing and using different magic to support their comrades or kill enemies from a distance.

But archers, do you really have such a thing?

Mages don't need bows and arrows to kill enemies, and a powerful warrior can draw a bow casually comparable to a siege ballista.

After thinking about it for a long time, Azir didn't think about who Jeno was talking about, until Jeno revealed the answer.

"His name is Verus, and he is now in Shurima." Jerno, who had gone to find Neko, had already confirmed that Verus had escaped from the seal and crossed the ocean from Ionia to Shurima along a certain river.

It can be speculated that the time should have arrived before Azir was resurrected. Because the river that Verus went up against, the water was gravel and cloudy, and it was definitely not the Mother of Life River, which flowed again after the resurrection of Azir.

"I remembered...... Whatever he became, Varus was a model of loyalty and honor. Azir suddenly realized, but his tone was not very pleasant, as if he was ashamed.

As a skilled archer of the Ancient Shurima Empire, Varus was tasked with guarding a temple in the eastern region of Shurima as a human, and he regarded this as his supreme duty.

The War of Acacia broke out, and both the temple and Verus' hometown were attacked. He met his enemies with his attacks, each arrow accompanied by a heart-wrenching roar.

Because he chose to keep his oath to protect the temple instead of returning to his hometown to protect his family.

The temple was defended, but Varus's family died. In recognition of his valuable dedication, the Empire invited Varus to join the ranks of the Ascended.

During the Great War, the number of Ascended Ones dropped dramatically. As a result, the Ascended Regiment is in dire need of a large amount of new blood to fight the Void.

They lowered the threshold for ascension, so that the screening process was not as strict as before, and people with a little merit and fame would invite ascension.

Although the number of ascendants has been replenished, the quality is different.

It may be that the power of faith is less at the time of ascension, and the new ascendants are generally weaker than the old ones, and their character is often problematic. Verus was one of them - the conflict of family and duty had left an indelible wound in his heart, and he should have been grateful when he ascended, but his heart was full of thoughts only to seek revenge on Acacia and the Void.

It seems that Varus did not understand that Shurima had won the war, and that he did not fully understand how the empire had fallen hundreds of years later, and his mind became extremely distorted.

Because Varus is a marginal figure among the Ascendants, his strength is also the weaker among the many Ascendants, and only a few people know him. If Azir hadn't been immersed in the library as a child and saw Varus's deeds, he might not have even heard of Varus's name.

But don't look at Varus as a reserve player, in fact, he killed a lot of Void monsters in Acacia, which can be ranked ahead of many old Ascendants, and this is only in the middle of the war.

It's all about the faith of revenge.

Azir knew something about Varus, so when he heard the name, he felt guilty for the Empire for him.

He protected the temple for Shurima, but Shurima did not protect his family for him.

As for how Varus later became a Darkspawn and was sealed into a bow, it is not something that Azir knows.

His mind has become incomparably twisted, and one after another atrocities have made him a withdrawn, cold-blooded killer, and his depraved compatriots have sent him into battle again and again.

Before he knew it, he was called the Darkspawn by mortals.

They fight among themselves and destroy anyone who dares to oppose them. The Crystal Longbow in Varus's hand is designed to assassinate enemy commanders and heroes, making it easier for the Darkspawn to wipe out mortal legions.

After that, he was cornered, sealed into a bow, and taken to Ionia where he was hidden in a lightless well.

When he awoke, he found the last glory of Shurima—that the Darkspawn had been slain by mortals.

He hated the Void before, and since he hates humanity, and since there are no Void creatures to kill, then he kills, and the arrow of vengeance comes from this.

"Varus may have become a Darkborn, but his loyalty is infallible. And he hates the Void more than humans, which is a great help to us in purifying Calixe. ”

Jeno knew that because of the balance between two human souls in his body, Varus's evil to humans was chaotic, and Kaye and Valmao would desperately try to prevent him from drawing their bows and killing people.

"Since you know he's in Shurima, does that mean you have a way to find him?" Azir looked at Jeno and said meaningfully.

"Varus seems to have revisited the same place he once guarded, going to the temple he once guarded, where he searched for a serpent-headed Celestial warrior."

"Celestial warriors with snake heads? There are several...... "Azir muttered hesitantly, swaying between his options.

"Varus calls her sister, and the two seem to have become close friends after becoming Celestial warriors, and she has become a spiritual comfort for Varus in place of his dead family, and she is very important to him."

"You say a female snake-headed Celestial Warrior?" It dawned on Azir that there was only one impression he had when he met this criterion, and that was: "Najaneka?!" ”

"Seems to be the name." Jeno nodded hesitantly, because there was so little information about the Ascendant. He only knew that Varus was looking for someone, and that this person's name was still deduced from the connection between the various heroic materials.

"Naganeka is an honest and kind person, and she is very friendly to other Celestial warriors and humans, and she doesn't know why she flew up with a serpent's head."

The image after ascension is related to human qualities, just as the eagle symbolizes pride, the jackal symbolizes wisdom, and the crocodile symbolizes roughness. And the snake often symbolizes evil, whether it is the snake saved by the farmer or the snake in the Garden of Eden, it is not a good thing.

"After the explosion of the Oasis of Dawn, Naganeka is gone, Varus can't find her in the temple, and we're one step slower." Nasus said that since no one could be found in the temple, then Varus must have left, and they would not find Varus if they went there again, and the clue was broken.

Listening to Nasus's words, Jano shook his head, and suddenly said something that surprised everyone.

"That's because she went to the emperor's mausoleum and guarded the gate of the mausoleum."