Chapter 133: Memories of Nasus, the Royal Bloodline of Shurima

Nasus' words aroused endless curiosity among the audience. Everyone wanted to know what had happened in the ancient Shurima Empire.

Why did such a glorious civilization eventually become a myth in the mouths of their descendants?
Judging from Nasus' words and actions in the picture, he came here to find the ascended bloodline in order to protect the ascended bloodline from falling into the hands of wizards.

So who is this wizard? Is he the one who is more lost than Nasus says?

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The camera continues to follow Nasus.

Nasus followed the crowd through the city toward the central temple, trying not to be looked at. His stature was already striking, and by now the water vendor must have made his identity known.

Shurima holds many secrets, but none of them remain hidden forever.

It would be strange if there were people who didn't know who he was by the time he arrived in the city center.

Yes, it was foolish to stop and lecture the peddler, but his ignorance of history deeply angered the scholar in Nasus.

Like the walls and gates, the sight of Inner Vikaura is but a shadow of its former glory.

Azir's mother was born here, and the young emperor had generously bestowed grace upon the people of this place. The layers of gardens were planted with flowers brought from all over the empire, surrounded by colorful colors and wonderful fragrances. Clusters of towers were decorated with silver and jade, and cool water flowed from the great temple and ran along the aqueduct day and night.

People naively believed that the blessings here would never end.

The past thousand years have stripped the city of its flesh and blood, leaving only a skeleton of stone, and much of its former splendor has fallen into ruins.

These ruins were built over the past few hundred years by people who still miss their homeland and stubbornly believe that the future of their homeland lies in the revival of its past.

As Nasus followed the growing crowd, all he saw was a poor imitation of that forgotten history.

Skilled artisans designed structures that were clearly fraudulent imitations of Shurima’s former glory. The walls, once renowned for their squared-off granite, were now composed of wood and roughly hewn stone.

The original outline of the city was still there, but Nasus felt as if he was walking in a nightmare. New materials and strange forms were wantonly transforming the once familiar surroundings. The original appearance of all things was deliberately distorted, as if the purpose of their design was to make people uneasy.

He heard people mumbling something around him, and occasionally his name was faintly heard, but he ignored it and walked forward, turning a corner and finally stepping into the square in the center of the city. When he saw what the residents of Vikaura had built in the revitalized city center, he couldn't help but clench his claws.

It was a sun temple, built of chiseled sandstone and bare rock.

It comes from human hands and ends in human environment.

Compared to the huge temple that once stood at the heart of the Shurima Empire, this temple is nothing more than a child's toy.

The Great Temple was once the envy and jealousy of the entire Valoran continent, and kings from afar came from afar just to see its splendor. And what later generations call remembrance is this pile of shameless stones?

The dark outer walls shone like basalt, but Nasus could see the uneven joints of the rough-jointed panels. A sun disk hung from the top of the temple, but even from a distance Nasus could see that it was not made of gold, but a wrought alloy of bronze and copper.

In addition, the sun disk that Nasus worshipped when he ascended into his ascended form was suspended in the air, but this bronze plate was hung by several hemp ropes and hung on several asymmetrical pillars on both sides.

Nasus wanted to be furious. He and countless other warriors had fought bloody battles for the empire, but today his people only used such an ugly way to commemorate their homeland.

He wanted to wake them up, to tell them that their ancestors fought desperately for the empire's solemn history. But they knew nothing, their eyes were cloudy, and they had no way of understanding the past he knew, and he couldn't make them understand. A priest in a feather robe stood in front of the disc, his hands raised in a prayer gesture, and his voice was drowned in the noise of the city.

Could this be the person he's looking for?
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In Nasus's memories, the ancient Shurima kingdom was full of glory, especially the Temple of the Sun standing in the center of the empire. The sun disk floated above it, which was the source of power for all ascenders.

"Temple of the Sun", "Sun Disc", "Ascendant"...

These keywords outline the mysterious power of the Shurima Empire.

“It seems that Nasus is one of the Ascended Ones.”

"It is precisely because of this power that he has been able to survive until now."

The audience discussed the dilapidated but distinctive Shurima buildings on the screen.

From Nasus's memories, the sun disk floating at the center of the empire can bless people and turn them into ascended beings.

This also explained the origin of Nasus's strange figure. This Ascended One was no longer human, but a dog-headed human. The golden light Taliyah saw under his robes was his hair.

As Nasus moves forward, the glory of the ancient empire and the ruins of the dilapidated city today are intertwined in the picture, making the audience feel a sense of vicissitudes of history.

Perhaps endless life is not a blessing but a curse for Nasus.

But as long as he is alive, this hero of the ancient Shurima Empire still remembers the responsibilities he bears, so he comes here to look for the blood of ascension.

Now, not only has returned the God-Emperor of Shurima, but also the Witch Spirits who were once sealed underground by Nasus himself. They are the biggest threat to the reborn Shurima.

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"It seems that this Ascension Blood is the most critical thing at the moment!"

"Are there any descendants of Azir in this city?"

According to Nasus, Azir was able to be resurrected because of his ascended bloodline.

This is the bloodline of the ancient Shurima royal family.

This means that there are descendants of the ancient Shurima royal family in this city!

Now, everyone's eyes were on the screen, and they saw the priest standing in front of the inferior sun disk above the temple. He was protected by a group of guards and was praying to the disk.

In ancient Shurima, praying to the gods was usually the emperor's duty. It seems that this priest is a key figure in this city. So, could he be of the royal bloodline of Shurima?

Nasus did not hesitate, pushing his way through the crowd and striding decisively across the square toward the temple.

(End of this chapter)