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Realizing that there were even more watchers lurking and eager to make their move in the tunnel, the Wild Hunt reacted immediately.

The key to stopping them from entering this world lies in the [Transformation] divine power obtained from Bervis.

Those who wish to enter the material realm must adapt to the rules of this world, transforming from spiritual beings into physical entities. The Wild Hunt, however, directly used its divine power to block the transformation process, forcing them to be unable to touch the real world for a period of time.

"Katarina, stop daydreaming!" Kai'Sa's warning snapped Katarina out of her daze, who was worried about her sister's life or death. She quickly used all the consciousness and senses she could muster to plug the gap between the two worlds with the power of runes.

In this state, they could clearly sense the pulse of the earth, the ebb and flow of the tides, and even hear the beating of a heart in the abyss. They could also see beyond their sight the trajectory of a falling snowflake, and outside the fortress, Sejuani was calming the increasingly restless beast beneath her as they fought to the bitter end against the other tribes.

And all of this, they could destroy with a mere thought. Submerging the continent would be a simple matter. If they were willing to invest the time, they could even reshape the entire Runeterra into something entirely different.

But could a mortal body withstand such omniscience and omnipotence? This power was too immense; it felt an unusual heaviness in its heart and difficulty breathing, as if the entire continental plate was pressing down on its shoulders, and the slightest relaxation would shatter it to pieces.

This vulnerability is far too large, and the cost of fixing it is incomparable to the previous ones.

The power of the runes is seeping into their bodies. If they cannot withstand it and choose to accept this power, they will be transformed into immortal elemental spirits. Only in this way can they withstand the domineering power of the runes. The price for doing so is that their spirit will also collapse, and they will eventually become puppets of the runes.

They had to act quickly; the world runes were frantically bewitching them, trying to twist this pain into something addictive.

The three of them cautiously used the power of the runes, only to repair the huge hole in front of them, not daring to overstep the bounds.

Runes shot out beams of light like prisms, injecting into the gaps in the world's barrier. The surge of energy began to recede, and the boundaries of the domain were shrinking.

Once Runeterra's most fatal wound was healed, the three regained their consciousness.

"Is it over...?" Looking at the passage that was no longer there, Kasha rubbed her eyes in a daze.

She only truly relaxed when she heard Wild Hunt reply in a weak voice, "It's over."

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone."

After Runeterra's most fatal wound was healed, Kai'Sa breathed in the suddenly much easier air, barely clinging to life.

Will the air change? Perhaps not; what changes is only her relieved state of mind.

She looked up, and the people on the bridge looked like tiny black dots from a vertical distance of ten thousand meters. She couldn't see or hear anything clearly, but Kasha was certain that they were cheering and jumping for joy, celebrating their survival and the peace of the future.

"What about Cassiopeia? How is she?" Katarina asked anxiously.

"I'm sorry, just now, I couldn't sense her presence anymore." Although he knew this was also part of Cassiopeia's plan, Wild Hunt's answer still left a lingering sense of regret in the lighthearted atmosphere.

"Don't worry, she won't have died in vain. She said she would come back, and she will."

Kasha's words of comfort helped Katarina hold back her tears. She wiped her eyes and sighed, "I hope so." (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the previous sentences.)

……

Minutes ago, Cassiopeia used Nightfall to forcibly drag the Watcher to the Underworld.

On this gray wasteland, only she and the heavily injured Void Watcher remained.

A jumble of whispers lingered in my ears, and a ghostly mist enveloped my body. Occasionally, tiny, ghostly figures would drift by, seemingly lost in their own nothingness, before gradually disappearing into the mist and vanishing into time.

Those ghosts that did not want to disappear gathered in the Ash Kingdom left behind by Mordekaiser, far from the wasteland.

From material interests to the afterlife, the changes in the world's rules caught the observer off guard. Its wounded eye was oozing thick darkness, blood-like yet not blood.

Cassiopeia saw that all the light was flowing in one place. The light did not travel in a straight line, but flowed in a swirling, meandering manner, eventually converging at one point.

That place... was the watcher's pupil. Or rather, the darkness flowing from its eyes.

When Kai'Sa thrust her lightning spear into the Watcher's single eye, a black sphere appeared at the center of that enormous eyeball, swallowing everything around it like a black hole.

Light, sound, temperature... even the observer himself was sucked into the black sphere. Like a hungry mouth, it endlessly devoured everything.

The light and air were swallowed first, but the black sphere did not stop there; instead, it continued to devour the other contents in the observer's eyes.

The swollen eyeball began to shrink, and the body, created by combining matter according to the laws, began to collapse, twist, and shrink rapidly under the fierce and indiscriminate devouring... until it disappeared completely.

Cassiopeia witnessed the entire process, how the Monitor was completely devoured from the inside out. She was deeply shocked, never imagining that the Monitor would return to nothingness in such a way.

She could sense that it wasn't a real black hole, but rather a void that would devour even time, space, the meaning of life and death, and even herself.

The fear this black sphere instilled in her was tens of thousands of times stronger than the terrifying entity of the Watcher! Fortunately, this was the Underworld; if it were the real world, none of the people present in the Howling Abyss would have been able to escape.

She knew that if she were also devoured, all traces of her would be erased, her memories would be forgotten in other people's minds, and everything she left behind would disappear, as if she had never been in this world.

No one will remember it, and it has no meaning whatsoever; that black hole leads to nothingness.

To prevent this from happening, Cassiopeia decisively took out the Runestone and inserted it into the pre-prepared detonation device.

“Death is not the end. I... will eventually return. All of this... is for becoming a god... Only by becoming a god can I stay by my master's side forever.”

Cassiopeia knew what the consequences would be, but she still made the choice as always for the sake of that goal.

Only in this way can she become a special person in the Wild Hunt's eyes, no longer having to submit to Kai'Sa.

Driven by this selfish desire, she made up her mind, her eyes flashing with resolute determination, and threw the rune bomb into the black hole, letting gravity suck it into her single eye.

Then, a dazzling light engulfed everything, and the underworld began to collapse.