Chapter 326 [0323] Wasteland Punk and Elementary Geography

"What happened to Shurima after the collapse of the empire?" Lux murmured, "Why did that prosperous empire become like this now?"

"That's what I want to know." Kalya said in a low voice, "Although many Ascendants became darkborn like me during the Icathia War, even without Ascendants, Shurima was still the greatest country in Runeterra."

"..."

"If possible, I also want to know what happened at that time, so that when I first woke up, all the efforts I had made were buried under the thick dust." Kalya He continued, "I have a feeling that this trip will give me the answer."

"I will find the answer!" Lux clenched his fists and nodded, "Don't worry, I will definitely be able to do it."

"Don't think too far ahead!" Sensing Lux's emotions, Karya finally let go of this topic for the time being, "Shurima is very big, and there are many secrets here. What's more important now is to continue to head west, cross the entire continent, and finally reach the pinnacle!"

"Believe me!" Lux promised with a smile, "Everything will be fine!"

With the jerky of the multi-man beast and the dried tea wormwood, Lux's main supply goal has been achieved.

The next thing to do is to take Skarash to have a big meal and feed it before setting off!

In Waynebo, there is a special beast station. It only takes a few symbolic copper coins to take Skarash for a full meal, the kind that is full.

Such a price is naturally not the boss doing charity - the price of letting Skarash enjoy a "buffet" is that his excrement in and out will belong to the boss.

Obviously, this pack animal station should have business dealings with some spice manufacturers and is a supplier of raw materials for the manufacture of amber stone.

Lux was naturally very satisfied with being able to feed her pet without having to clean up her poop. After she and Ino inquired about the news of the pack animal station, they led Skarash there and gave it a big treat.

Skarash enjoyed the meal very much.

Lux and Ino were also very happy not to have to clean up their poop.

The owner of the pack animal station was in a good mood when he saw the "high-quality raw materials" excreted by Skarash because he had eaten a meal of oil silk seeds. For this reason, when Lux and Ino led the extremely satisfied Skarash away, he also gave Skarash a bundle of coniferous moss that he liked as a "snack" for free, hoping that they would come again in the future.

A win-win situation, it was really a win-win situation.

In this way, after feeding Skarash, getting enough supplies, and confirming that there would be no storm in the short term, Lux and Ino finally set out again, leaving the small town of Waynebo and continuing their journey to Bumang.

On the second day after leaving Waynebo, Lux finally understood the meaning of what Karya said, "This is the real Great Sai Desert."

This sentence is not rhetoric, but an extremely appropriate description.

After entering the Great Sai Desert, Lux and Ino saw a large number of undulating sand dunes. Under the wind, the sand and gravel formed sand dunes like undulating mountains, layer upon layer, endless.

During the journey from Waynebo to Bumang, the wind came much faster than before. Under the strong wind, many sand dunes even moved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even if Skarash would walk carefully on the ridge of the sand dune, his wide feet would still sink into the sand from time to time.

Although Skarash's stride was very long, Lux and Ino's journey was getting slower and slower. After a whole day of bumping on Skarash's back, they calculated the straight-line distance carefully at night and barely walked a hundred miles.

"From here to Bu Mang, if we calculate it this way, we will even have to walk for a month." In the evening of the third day, when Ino was feeding Skarash ice cubes, Lux said to Kalya with some concern, "It's okay for us to have supplies in a month, but can Skarash really hold on?"

"Don't worry, if there is drinking water, Skarash will not have a big problem if he doesn't eat for a month."

"That's good." Lux breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with some concern, "But if we walk for a month, will we encounter a storm in the second half?"

"No." Kalya heard this and laughed, "Do you know why there are often storms here?"

"I don't know." Lux shook his head honestly, "Is it because there are no mountains around?"

"On the contrary, there are storms in the west of Waynebo because of the Barren Hills Mountains." Kalya explained, "The Barren Hills Mountains are a mountain range running from northeast to southwest, and because the desert trade winds blow towards the Valoran Strait almost all year round, the Barren Hills Mountains are like the outlet of a blower, and the trade winds have pierced a hole."

Lux blinked, took out the map at the first time, and pointed at the map according to Kalya's words.

"Is this the Barren Hills Mountains?"

"Yes, this map does not have a name marked - it is the Barren Hills Mountains."

"Is that so." Looking at this mountain range located between Nashram and Beljuen, which is diagonally on the map, Lux was a little surprised, "The southeast foothills of the Barren Hills Mountains tightened the wind outlet that was not originally violent, which caused the desert storm in this area to be far more severe than elsewhere?"

"Yes, so as long as you reach the northwest foothills of the Barren Hills, there is almost no wind there."

"But if that's the case, wouldn't there be strong winds every day in Talishni?" Lux stared at the mark on the map, "It looks like it's right at the wind's outlet!"

"No, Talishni's location is very special." Kalya knew the topography of the city very well, "It's actually located at the end of the Barren Hills, where the Barren Hills are divided into two mountain ranges, and Talishni is between the two mountain ranges."

"So there's actually no wind in Talishni?"

"Yes, Talishni's The port is the one with the smallest wind and waves in the entire Valoran Strait."

"I see... It's incredible that the direction of a mountain range can actually cause a storm in an area. Karya, how did you discover all this knowledge?"

"Well, I guess it's just learning by analogy." Karya thought about it and decisively began to cover up, "I can't remember, it was too long ago..."

Fortunately, Lux was still looking at the map, observing the direction of the mountains, trying to combine the information on the map with what he had seen and heard along the way, and did not notice the subtle guilty conscience in Karya's tone.

Karya's small class·The Barren Hills and Desert Trade Winds:

In the north of Shurima, the Great Sai Desert is almost always blown by desert trade winds from south to north. Because the Kalduga Mountains and the Barren Hills are almost in the shape of an "eight", there is a large wind outlet between Telishni and Belguin - so the ships from Belguin to Telishni will not sail along the north coast of Shurima, but turn north and sail along the south coast of Valoran.

In other words, from Telishni to Belguin, the route is Telishni-Stonewall Town-Locklund-Belguin, which directly leads to the natural closeness between Telishni and Belguin and the Noxus Empire.

This is also one of the reasons why these two cities immediately hung the Noxus flag when Noxus began its Shurima strategy. Although they are Shurima cities, due to the interference of trade winds, the transportation connection between them and Noxus is closer.

Interested book lovers can go to the Runeterra map of the League of Legends universe to see the interesting terrain of these two places.