Ike is a wizard from the bad neighborhood of Zaun. He can manipulate time to make any situation work in his favor. By using his own invention – the Z-drive – he can explore other branches of parallel reality and create the most perfect conditions. As much as he loves this freedom, he will do whatever it takes to protect his friends whenever they are threatened. In the eyes of onlookers, Ike always manages to do the impossible on the first attempt, and that's always the case.

Ike is a high-IQ genius who learned to make simple machines before he even learned to climb. His parents, Inna and Weiss, are delighted with their son's talent and vow to provide him with a bright future. In their eyes, Zuan was full of pollution and crime, and was not worthy of his natural intelligence. They work overtime and hard work every day in high-risk occupations to create a future for their son.

But Ike thinks otherwise.

He watched his parents grow old and support the family with their meager salaries, while the goods they produced were sold to the wealthy people of Phi City at sky-high prices, and the profit difference between them was firmly in the hands of the mill workers and shrewd middlemen. Some of them wander the dance hallways for a cheap pastime, or head down to the Slow Terrace Square for a "no-holds-bar" bar. Therefore, the good life in the city of progress that his parents envisioned for him did not allow him to identify.

Looking at Zaun, his parents could only see layers of overwhelming pollution and lawless crime, but Ike could see the vibrant city behind them, full of power and potential at all times. Zuan is a hotbed of innovation, a melting pot of culture, and immigrants come here to be the forerunners of the future. But even these forerunners cannot be compared with the native-born Zuanke. Zuanyan wasn't talking about the prosthetic-enhanced villains, or the bully bastards who often featured in the Piltover news, but the low-level gutter fighters, alchemists, and plant breeders who tended to the towers. Countless people like them make up the heart and soul of Zu'an City. They are resourceful, tenacious, and hardworking. They built a thriving civilization from the rubble of the catastrophe and thrived in the desperate situation where others were certain to die. This Zaun spirit inspires Ike to make his own inventions out of the trash discarded by others, and to experiment with them.

Ike is not alone in possessing this spirit, he has befriended many aggressive, curious orphans and runaway children, as well as anyone who craves thrills, and their thirst for adventure is as contagious as gray pox. Everyone has the same skill: some are good at climbing, some are good at carving, some are good at drawing, some are good at plotting. Many Zu'an people are reluctant to receive an orthodox education, preferring to learn a craft in the way of master-apprentice inheritance, and these children who call themselves "Zu'an fans" worship the same master, that is, the labyrinthine streets of Zu'an, and they squander their youth in the company of the master in the form of young people.

In order to set their small group apart from other criminal gangs and alchemunk teenagers, Ike and his friends deliberately keep themselves in good health. For them, amputation and fitting a reinforced prosthesis is a despicable waste of money. In the same way, it is unacceptable to steal from those who have nothing or who are equally poor. So those glamorous skins and prosthetic-enhanced bullies became the ideal targets for their pranks. In their secret base, all kinds of stolen loot are decorated, as well as art paintings painted directly on the walls. The Zaun fans feel invincible.

As Ike grows older, his inventions become more magical and complex, requiring rare parts that can only be "rescued" from a privately run garbage factory. Fortunately, he was flexible in his views on the matter of trespassing. It didn't take long for Zaun's fierce thugs and brutal guards to keep an eye out for Ike and his wacky gang, often staging happy chases with the kids. Ike had always been amused, wondering why the Leather City Lab and the Alchemy Baron Factory were all heavily guarded with their garbage. They don't really take advantage of these discarded technological devices. On the contrary, in his hands, all this garbage can be cleverly turned into treasure.

One night, Ike picks up trash from the ruins of a laboratory that has just been blown up, and is surprised to find a treasure: a blue-green crystal shard with a magical glow. He quickly searched the neighborhood and found other fragments. The shards seem to be humming in a low voice, trying to sing a broken melody, and the song grows slightly louder each time the pieces come close to each other. He patiently managed to find every crystal shard, some of which were buried deep in the rubble, and he had to burrow into all sorts of stinking rubbish heaps. Every child of Zaun has heard the story of the Hex Crystal. This crystal is the source of power for the gods and heroes. They can generate energy on their own, and they have the potential to change the world. And now he had a broken Hex crystal in his hand.

Before he could celebrate his discovery, he was surrounded by a crowd of fierce men, who were conducting a carpet search, apparently looking for something. Ike knew that what they were looking for was the crystal in his hand. In the end, he narrowly escaped the search.

After meticulous research, Ike discovered that as long as the crystal fragments were close to each other, they would emit a faint trace of energy agitation, and the edges of the crystals would emit a faint crackling sound, and the ripples of energy would distort the air around them. As he pulled the pieces apart, he could feel a reverse force that resembled a magnetic field. It seems that this broken crystal has memories of what was once in its full form. What's even more interesting is that Ike has a strange feeling, always feeling that he has experienced this moment in his memory, but there is a slight difference between his memory and reality.

His hands could no longer keep up with the idea of the crystal in his head. During a less scientific experiment, the crystal exploded into a swirl of crystal dust that triggered a time-warping cyclone. Ike opened his eyes and saw many branches of reality, and many mirrors of himself at this moment, and the mirrors were also looking at him in horror, overwhelmed by the shattered space-time.