Chapter 76: Karthas
At the end of the cave, you will see a square, the size of an ordinary ten football fields, and in the middle of the square, there is a stone house, and at the top of the house there is a flame, a pale flame.
At the main entrance of the house, there was a figure, with empty eyes constantly looking at Yang Yu and Hu Zelin.
"It's really strange when a living person appeared on the Shadow Island."
He was obviously far away, but the voice sounded in the ears of Yang Yu and the others.
"You are not the people my master Karthas needs, get out of here"
Hearing his latter words, Yang Yu and Hu Zelin were shocked, Karthas, this name is really too big. If Karthas may not be known, but if it comes to his other name, I am afraid everyone knows it, Karthas the Death Singer.
Kartas was born under the walls of the Noxian capital, at the lowest level of the slums. His mother died at the same time as he was born, leaving his father alone to raise him and his three older sisters. They live with other families in a dilapidated almshouse with flies and squirrels, feeding themselves on rain and pests. Karthhas are the best foraging of all children, often adding some mutilated corpses to their cauldrons.
Disease outbreaks were common in such a crowded and dense settlement, and Caltha's sisters were also infected with the plague, so he began to take good care of them. His father knew nothing more than drinking to kill his sorrows, and at this time Karthas became a dutiful brother, caring for and caring for his sisters when they were seriously ill and dying.
As he watched his three sisters die one by one, his dying-eyes dimmed, Karthas felt some kind of divine call – he wanted to understand the afterlife, to explore the mysteries of eternal existence. When the death recorder came to take the body, Karthas followed them back to the temple and kept asking them questions about the Order of the Thousand Jue and about the funeral work. Can a person exist in the gap between the end of life and not death? If the boundary between life and death can be understood and controlled, can the wisdom of life be integrated with the clarity of death?
The death recorders soon saw that Karthas was a good fit to join their order and recruited him into their ranks, initially digging graves and collecting wood for cremation, and later rising to the rank of corpse collector. Every day, Karthas would push his bone cart and store corpses on the streets of Noxus. Soon, all of Noxus heard of his requiem, and his eulogy was mournful and poignant, depicting the beauty of death and praying that the world after death would be a holy place to be desired.
Many grief-stricken relatives of the deceased will find solace in his grief and peace in the elegy. Eventually, Karthas was sent to the temple to take care of the sick, give them hospice care, and greet the dead when death came as expected. Karthas would whisper to each person before they died, guiding the souls of the deceased towards death and looking for deeper wisdom after the blinding.
In the end, Karthas finally discovers that he can't learn much more from mortals, and only dead people can answer his questions. While the dead soul can't tell him what the world is like after death, there are fantasy stories and legends used to scare children, about a place where death doesn't mean the end – the Shadow Isle.
None of the captains were willing to take Karthas to the Isle of Shadows, but he eventually found a drunken fisherman who was ruined by debt. The fishing boats sailed through the sea for many days and nights, and at last a storm blew them up an island that had never been marked on a chart, stuck on a reef on the shore. A black mist billowed out of the twisted woods and barren ruins.
The fisherman immediately pulled the boat out of the reef, turned its bow and fled in the direction of Bilgewater, but Karthas jumped out of the boat and waded onto the beach. He barely stood firm on his scarred staff of the Death Recorder, and then proudly sang the elegy he had composed for his deathbed, his voice drifting into the heart of the island in a cold wind.
The black mist continued to drift away, passing through Karthas, ravaging his body and soul with ancient spells, but his desire to transcend death was so strong that not even the black mist had completely knocked him down. Instead, the Black Mist reshaped him, and Karthas was reborn on the island's tidal flats as a disembodied ghost.
Karthas fulfilled his long-held wish and became the form of existence he had always dreamed of, standing at the junction of life and death, when he received a new revelation. He was amazed by the beauty of a moment becoming eternal, and at the same time the other spirits on the island woke up, like a shark smelling blood, attracted by the enthusiasm of Karthhas to witness his transformation.
"This place is the place of Karthas the Death Singer, no wonder there are no strong undead creatures occupying it!"
Yang Yu suddenly realized that Karthas the Death Hymn should have gone to the Howling Swamp by now, turning it into his new home, this place was the place he abandoned, even so, the rest of the hero-level characters on the Shadow Island such as the Shadow of War - Hecarim, the Soul Shepherd - Yorick did not try to occupy this place, first, it was unnecessary, and secondly, Karthas made them very jealous.
"Now that you know the title of my master, you should retreat immediately, you are not welcome here!" The figure sitting near the stone gate suddenly became excited, and loudly scolded Yang Yu and Hu Zelin.
Yang Yu took a few steps forward, and he found a problem, the black shadow next to the stone seemed to be unable to get out of the place where the stone gate was, and the figure seemed to resist their approach.
"Karthas the Death Singer is your master? We came here after our companions, did you see a girl here? Yang Yu cautiously walked towards the position of the figure and asked.
"No, there are no girls, you should retreat immediately, or I will be rude to you!"
The threatening sound of the figure sounded in his ears like a thunderbolt, but Yang Yu heard a trace of it from his voice, he was afraid, Yang Yu's approach made him feel scared.
Yang Yu ignored his threat and continued to walk forward on his own, Hu Zelin, who was still standing in place, watched Yang Yu keep advancing, so he had to follow hard.