Chapter 948 [0939] Devouring and Evolving
The appearance of the Watcher completely changed the situation on the battlefield.
When a huge monster emerged from the abyss and hovered above everyone's head, overlooking everything with its terrifying one eye, with no emotion in its eyes, only the purest curiosity and hunger, even the most solid warriors would feel fear from the bottom of their hearts at this moment.
In this situation, Lux lamented that the Shurima Empire had found a way to fight against the Watcher, and on the other hand, she was glad that the Watcher locked the first target on the Frostguard Fortress.
That's right, when the Watcher emerged from the Howling Abyss, it did not spend more energy on the coalition base, but immediately locked onto the three Freljord primitive gods.
Moreover, judging from its waving tentacles, this guy's second target should be the solid Frostguard Fortress on the other side. Its dangerous eyes swept past the three primitive gods from time to time, and its tentacles kept scratching the walls of the Frostguard Fortress.
The Frostguard Fortress, with its solid ice shell, systematic defensive magic, and a large number of professional defenders, seemed like a large toy in front of the observer. As long as the tentacles moved, the stone blocks, each weighing more than ten thousand pounds, were like Lego pieces taken apart by a naughty child, and were impatiently thrown aside. Some were even thrown out and fell into the Howling Abyss. After a long time, a muffled "bang" sound was heard.
At the beginning, the Frostguard priests on the Frostguard Fortress were still trying to resist.
One frost spell after another fell on the tentacles, but it did not really cause any effective damage. Even if the observer's tentacles were occasionally pierced by ice spears, it only needed to shake the tentacles, or even take the initiative to shed a section of the tentacles, and it could continue its demolition work.
So, the initial sporadic cheers on the Frostguard Fortress soon turned into a heart-pounding silence.
The Frostguard tribe had no idea how to effectively kill this huge monster. They tried all their means of attack. Only the extremely cold ice thrown by the large catapults fixed inside the fortress had a chance to break one or two of the monitor's tentacles.
However, these tentacles only needed a few breaths to grow again smoothly. During the whole process, the monitor's one eye did not even look over. From beginning to end, it was staring at the three Freljord primitive gods, trying to use its dangerous eyes to analyze these existences that interested it.
It seemed that its action of demolishing the walls of the Frostguard Fortress was just a change of pace in the battle.
Such behavior was a fatal blow to the morale of the Frostguard tribe.
Originally, the boss was forced to seal himself up. The Frostguard tribe thought that if they couldn't afford to provoke him, they could at least hide. At worst, they could close the gate of the Frostguard Fortress and hide in this fortress. Not only could the insect tide not break through the defense line, but even the furious Volibear would not be able to attack.
But who could have thought that such a terrifying big guy would appear later, and he was more skilled in dismantling the Frostguard Fortress than dismantling a sheep's head!
Despair and panic began to spread at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Many Frostguard warriors, under the influence of fear and despair, even jumped directly from the broken city wall, trying to chop the twisting tentacles with their weapons in their hands, but the result of such bravery was often just a shallow scar on the tentacles thicker than the thousand-year-old trees, and then they were captured by the terrible mucus, and then under the erosion of the void, together with their memories and bodies, all became the nutrients of the monitor.
It is precisely because of the continuous absorption of the lives of the Frostguard tribe that the monitor's one eye always looks energetic, and the tentacles are always waving cleanly.
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If the fear of the Frostguard tribe comes from helplessness, then the three primitive gods of Freljord are falling into helpless fear at this time.
Before facing the Watcher, Anivia had fought with the Horus more than once, and Ornn, who participated in the construction of the Frost Bridge, also knew about the existence of the Void, but they had never met the Watcher before.
In their cognition, the Watcher should be the alien god discovered and used by Lissandra, with power that is not inferior to that of the gods, and even gave the Freljord people the power they dreamed of - the Ice Bloodline.
Until they really faced the Watcher, the three realized that compared with the Watcher, the original gods of Runeterra were simply a joke.
The two sides were not in the same dimension at all.
Ornn was tall, more than fifty yards tall, and could use a small mountain as his forge.
But in front of the Watcher, He was just like a toy.
Under such an amazing body contrast, many of His usual means of attack would become ineffective, because when the Watcher was suspended in the air, even if He jumped up, He could not hit the terrible big eyeball.
Among the three, only Anivia's attack can really work on the Watcher.
When the polar storm roars, even the Watcher's tentacles, which are thicker than ancient trees, will be cut off by ice and snow.
However, almost at the same time when one tentacle was cut off, another tentacle grew behind the one-eyed man. Anivia's spell obviously cannot really cause any effective damage to the Watcher.
The speed of natural recovery alone is enough to completely cover the damage caused by the sprinkle of water.
Anivia has obviously never seen such a situation before. He has no idea whether the self-recovery of the monitor is a natural skill or a certain condition. In this case, he can only look at two aspects. On the one hand, they would expand the scope of the polar storm to see if they could test the limits of the monitor; on the other hand, they would try to attack the One-Eye body to see if they could cause effective damage.
However, neither direction seemed to work.
Even if ten or dozens of tentacles are broken at the same time, the monitor will still not care. In a few breaths, new tentacles will fully grow and replace the broken tentacles.
As for the ice picks and ice spears that hit the monitor's eyeballs, they would immediately disappear in the flash of purple light in front of its eyes.
What's even worse is that as more and more spells are swallowed up by the purple light, Anivia keenly discovers that the monitor's resistance to his own spells is visibly increasing.
It seems that every time the purple light devours Anivia's magic, it is also digesting his magic and analyzing her power.
Not only that, the one-eyed gaze will often turn into a substantial purple light, sweeping across the bodies of the three original gods of Freljord. As long as it is swept, their bodies will be covered with a layer of light. The disgusting energy that is unacceptable to humans requires great effort to remove.
Even the three original gods of Freljord vaguely felt that this terrible watcher might not be serious with them - maybe this was just a feeling, but this feeling was already very telling.
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Are the monitors not serious?
The answer is yes.
In fact, this watcher that left the three original gods of Freljord helpless and helpless was just the basic form of the watcher, and it was still far from the complete form!
If we want to use the human situation as an example...then the current monitor can at best be regarded as "a person who has just woken up and has not yet figured out the situation."
In fact, under the Howling Abyss, the seals used by Lissandra to seal the monitors were not only the nine seals made by Zhenbing, but also the dream seals that used the power of dreams to trap the monitors.
The nine seals sealed the monitor's body, and the dream seal sealed the monitor's consciousness.
Using the seal of dreams, Lissandra can bind the Watchers with endless, bizarre dreams. The Watchers are the embodiment of the power of the Void. They are as full of hunger as the source of the Void, and are always longing for it. It devours everything - therefore, it will instinctively devour everything it can get, including not only entities, but also memories, spirits, and wills.
In the dream seal, Lissandra cleverly satisfies this devouring desire through dreams, but unlike devouring entities that will bring satisfaction and growth, the monitor's devouring dreams is essentially "no nutrition."
Dreams do contain certain information, and some of the world laws of Runeterra can also be analyzed.
However, the information contained in illusory dreams may not be true, and the laws of the world analyzed by swallowing are often full of fallacies. If the monitor wants to rely on the results of these swallowing to guide its further growth, it will only end up contradicting itself. Cause irreconcilable internal harm to oneself.
The nine seals made by Zhen Bing physically prohibit the monitor from further devouring and growing. Without the supplement of organic matter, although the monitor's size slowly grows during the process of being sealed, this kind of Growth is actually imaginary and has no actual effect.
Therefore, when Lissandra sealed herself for three days and the Watcher completely tore the seal and emerged from the Howling Abyss, her condition was actually not good at all.
Let alone its peak form, its appearance is not even normal. In addition to being much larger than the original Icaxia, it is far inferior to it in every aspect.
It's just that because of the power of the Monitor itself, it can so easily deal with the offensive of the three Freljord primitive gods, and it still has the power to demolish the walls of the Frostguard Fortress.
It is also interesting to say that a large part of the reason why it is so obsessed with demolishing the walls of the Frostguard Fortress comes from the influence of dreams - although Lissandra will also use the dreams she captures to "feed" the monitors, but in the long run During the sealing process, most of the dreams that the monitors had access to did come from the Frost Guard tribe, which made the monitors have an instinctive desire for the interior of the Frost Guard Fortress.
This desire is reflected in action, specifically in its non-stop action of demolishing city walls.
And since most of the dreams of the coalition forces were protected by Kalya using the power of nightmares, and were not captured by Lissandra, the monitors had no interest in these dreams, so they regarded the coalition forces as the least important target.
The Monitor is not a native existence of Runeterra. It does not have the thinking logic of Runeterra creatures. In the long process of being double-sealed to create false satisfaction, it has instinctively learned to analyze and devour cautiously. Although the void The hunger is still urging it to act, but it will not act too hastily, and everything can be done slowly.
This kind of "taking your time" is just like a person who is not fully awake. His reaction is always a little slower. Fighting also relies entirely on instinctive support. It all depends on the advantage of being beaten by his huge body, which can force him to survive.
Of course, this doesn't mean that monitors really only get beaten.
In fact, for the monitor, this process of being beaten and regenerating is itself a kind of devouring and evolving. Anivia's feeling is not wrong at all. In this process, it is indeed analyzing the power that hurts itself, devouring and digesting it, and making itself more resistant to it in subsequent battles.
It's just that because it was fooled by dreams before, the current monitor has not really improved its devouring and evolving efficiency.
Once the monitor finally wakes up gradually and finds that it is no longer in a dream, and finds that the efficiency of devouring and evolving has increased, it will soon enter a rapid evolution process. At that time, whether it is the three Freljord demigods or the Frostguard tribe on the walls of the Frostguard Fortress, their attacks will soon become ineffective.
At that time, the huge body of this monitor, which is "fat", will truly be transformed into an advantage in combat power, bringing a nightmare to the coalition.
However, the original gods of Freljord, the Frostguard tribe and the coalition on the battlefield are all unaware of this.
Kalja, the only one who had really fought with the Watchers and understood these big guys, quietly returned to his own small world for unknown reasons and prepared the "decisive weapon" for the final battle.
The complete awakening of the Watcher is not far away.
And at that time, it will soon find that it will be unstoppable. A world that connects countless small worlds and sub-planes, the intersection of the multiverse, will completely open its doors to itself!
A gluttonous feast seems to be just around the corner!
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On the south side of the Howling Abyss, the Malphite combat units outside the coalition camp formed a solid line of defense, resisting the impact of the void worms and maintaining an energy field that resists the erosion of void energy.
Above the Howling Abyss, the Watcher is greedily absorbing and testing everything in the Runeland by being beaten, and awakening in constant injury and regeneration.
North of the Howling Abyss, the three original gods of Freljord and the Frostguard tribe are gradually falling into a bitter battle.
The battle seemed to be at a stalemate, and a variable was needed to change everything.
In the small world, Karya had prepared everything.