Chapter 39: Runestone

Different from Lao Wang's rougher and more practical fighting style, the former protector Corvo is the same as the royal guard, both are dexterous warriors with good speed, but don't forget that Corvo's identity in addition to the protector is the chief of the royal guard of the empire, and most of the combat skills and methods used by the royal guards are taught by Corvo here.

Even if the puppet royal guards of the Void Realm have been transformed and have some weird changes, it is not difficult to find that their battle mode is still based on the elite of the royal guards, so this kind of battle is simply a vole tossing an old mouse for Corvo - to fight back to his mother's house.

At the beginning of the battle, Corvo had a brief loss of consciousness because of the opponent's appearance, and then immediately returned to his senses, and the puppet royal guard who put him against the attack, the two sides fought fast, all kinds of ingenuity, and the fight was full of flowers, how could the puppet royal guard be Corvo's opponent, after three moves and two styles, it was unstoppable, and after eating a few moves, he was finally picked up with a knife and lost the eating guy.

Before Wang cleaned up, Corvo was done.

As soon as the former protector was ready to go to support his subordinates, his body was immediately restrained by a strange force, and he couldn't move, and the voice of the outsider sounded faintly, telling him: "The Void Realm has great power of law, even I can't violate it, the so-called test is against the two of you, so don't think too much about helping this kind of behavior, I suggest that you better pray that your subordinates can defeat the enemy by themselves now." ”

Corvo frowned and didn't speak, turned his head to look at the battle situation on Lao Wang's side, and happened to see Lao Wang repeatedly pressing the axe shaft, and repeatedly slashing his chest and abdomen at the puppet royal guard, and couldn't help but be taken aback in his heart, in this situation, do you still need me to pray?

Corvo has the impression that Mark Mason is not the most elite among the royal guards, and his performance can only be described as decent when he usually trains with other royal guards.

It's just that because he is stout, he can be beaten most of the time, and he doesn't say anything, so the winning rate is passable, so he has earned the title of 'Silent Rock Mark', but when it comes to skills and talent, it is relatively modest.

But now, although Mark's combat is still continuing his past routine of exchanging injuries and fighting, his aura is completely different, first of all, his control of his body has improved significantly, and his current combat is rough and savage from moves to methods, and at the same time simple and practical, and it has nothing to do with the elegance emphasized by the royal guards, but this makes him look even more deadly.

Let's take a look at this guy's new weapon, the black tomahawk that has no noble temperament at all, and is not chic at all, except for the attribute of being able to lengthen at will, it is still a tact, what is the difference between it and the tools used by the woodcutter in the mountains, this is not even a weapon, right?

However, when in Mark's hands, this axe looks wild and hideous, combined with his current simple and effective combat skills, it is simply natural, this Mark, or my Mark?

This confusion is combined with his amazing resilience, although he explained that after finding the axe in the sewers, he felt that he was very suitable to use this weapon, and then it was like the Outsider asked for the same type of weapon, so it all made sense to say, but Corvo believed that he casually threw an axe to any of the other royal guards in his team, and no one could use it so well, was this a temporary idea?

The suspicion entrenched in Corvo's heart became more and more vigorous, and he thought of the problem of Mark's amazing recovery speed just now, or a sentence of 'given by the outsider' to explain, in retrospect, it felt more and more far-fetched, Corvo frowned, looked at the last axe whip of the old king to kill the puppet royal guard, and secretly decided that even if he was the one who saved me from prison, from now on, he could no longer be completely at ease with him.

Lao Wang finished his work, collected and pretended to be 13, Corvo also regained free control of his body, where is there a stupid person in the aristocratic political circle, he was puzzled, he still looked like he was fine, he walked over and patted Lao Wang's shoulder, did not speak, just turned his head and motioned for Lao Wang to continue to climb with him with the cable to the next floating ruin platform.

Lao Wang was still smacking the taste after the battle, and naturally he didn't notice the subtle changes in Corvo's heart, so he immediately took out the climbing rope and continued to move forward with Corvo.

Although the Outsider did not clearly indicate his hiding place in the middle of this Void Realm, the old king Corvo and the others still found the doorway as they went.

The Void Realm is a chaotic realm of different times and spaces, and if there must be any clue, it is that the time and place that the people who took the test have experienced have been copied by it.

So Corvo took Lao Wang to follow the line of the Empress's assassination as much as possible, and on the way, the two tried to pick the ruin platform with the characteristics of Danwall Palace, and there were constantly projections of characters with the ruin platform to form different scenes, and these scenes gradually revealed the truth fragments of the Empress's assassination.

The two of them experienced 3 more attacks, basically every time they walked through a scene platform that revealed a secret, it would be triggered, which looked like some kind of protection mechanism for the information revealed by the Void Realm to the time node, but fortunately, the enemy's strength and even appearance did not change, and after adding a few shallow injuries to Lao Wang's body, all of them were easily resolved.

Corvo revisits his hometown, with little mood swings along the way, except that he looks a little ferocious in the fight after seeing Princess Emily kidnapped.

Eventually, the two of them came to a ruined platform with a long staircase, and the Outsider revealed his form again, and the black-haired young man seemed to be satisfied that the king and Corvo had passed the test, and smiled at them for the first time: "Very good, I need to remind you that in the days to come, you will face great challenges, especially you, Corvo." ”

"You know, the Void Realm is not my creation, but a similar database built by the law itself, the time node is archived here, available for query, even me, there is not much power that can be used here, as an outsider, we have very strict rules that must be enforced, so I can no longer appear directly in the human world, so, I provide you with Dawn, and in return, I also need you to help me collect some valuable items in your world. ”

Lao Wang pursed his lips, and said in his heart, I know that roe deer meat is not eaten in vain, and sure enough, this product still needs us to do something.

Hearing this, Corvo raised his head and said, "Mr. Outsider, you must also have enough strength to help you, as you know, I also have my own troubles now, so do you give me the power first, as the sincerity money you hired me?"

"Of course, if you pass the test, it is actually equivalent to opening up a line of time in the Void Realm, because you have my mark on you, so I can also use some more power here, which allows me to..."

Strands of blue silk appeared on Lao Wang's body, like life, wandering in the void realm a few times, and then burrowing into Corvo's body, Lao Wang didn't feel much, but Corvo was a little different, he closed his eyes and was silent for about a minute, and then suddenly opened, and there was a light blue light in his pupils that flashed away.

Without waiting for Lao Wang to ask him, Corvo had already clenched his left hand, and then his body disappeared into thin air strangely, and the next second, Corvo appeared about 5 or 6 meters away from Lao Wang.

Lao Wang Xin said that people are more popular than dead people, Corvo can mix such an anti-heaven skill as flashing, and it only has a small BUFF effect, is there such a thing as the protagonist's aura in this trial world?

"Do you feel this power, Corvo?" the Outsider is obviously much more satisfied with Corvo's mastery of magical power than with the old king, "Remember what I said next, in that wild place where you are, you will find some shrines with my name on them, look near them, you should be able to find the ancient runes engraved with my mark, the kind you have in your hands." ”

The Outsider turned to Corvo and seemed to say to him alone, "These runes can give you more powerful magical powers, you can absorb them immediately after finding them, and then these rune stones will be teleported directly to my hands through the Void Corridor, this is what you have to do, isn't it a win-win?"

Phew, the dog looks down on people, and Lao Wang secretly thought to himself, seeing that I am useless, I am just a Corvo nagging, and I have a virtue with the teacher in high school who only favors honor students.

"Mark Mason, you don't have to be discouraged, you also have benefits, in order to make it easier for you to find these rune stones, I have prepared this for you. As he spoke, the Outsider raised his palms upward, and spots of light were hovering over his palms, converging and turning into reality, finally forming two positive hearts, no different from real organs, and they could even be seen pulsating faintly.

"This is the heart of runes, and it has a great ability to perceive, with which you can clearly perceive the location of the rune stones, no matter where they are hidden. The Outsider turned his head to look at Wang Mancang and said, "Mark Mason, you can't accept magical powers, but the Rune Heart can still provide you with great help, please take it seriously." ”

Two rune hearts flew into the hands of Lao Wang and Corvo respectively, and when you look closely, this heart is also inlaid with a dial, and there seems to be a tiny light bulb in the center of the dial, which seems to be emitting a faint light.

"Rune Heart: A special scout prop made by the Outsider himself, because it is infused with magical power, so it can easily resonate with the rune stone, through the clock dial hands and signal lights to remind the user of the location of the rune stone, the pointer on the clock will point to the position of the rune stone, the faster the signal light flashes the frequency means the closer to the rune stone, in addition to detecting the rune stone, aim the heart at a close enough distance (the target must be a living entity with an independent mind), you will hear some hidden stories of the target.

Note that this item is unique to the Trials of Humiliation world and cannot be swapped out of this world. ”

"Selector No. 95270 Wang Mancang, please note that your World Exploration Quest Exploration 'Let's Run Errands' has been triggered, do you accept it?"

"Accepted. Lao Wang said silently, he had already guessed that he would be so tormented with the Outsider, if he couldn't get a world exploration mission, wouldn't it be very wronged.

"You have accepted the World Exploration Quest 'Let's run errands', please collect 3 Runestones for the Outsider within the time of this trial world. ”

"Mission Reward: Random Points * 1500. ”

"Why is the reward for this task so small, it seems that this rune stone is a street good, and it is easy to find. ”

Wang Mancang frowned, pretending to be still studying the rune heart in his hand, wondering why the world exploration mission provided by the Outsider was so thinly rewarded.

"The level of eligibility to know is insufficient to obtain more detailed information. "The old girl in the space came to such a voice, which made Lao Wang feel even more tired, but this also means that the task must have other deep meanings, maybe after finding the rune stone, these mysteries will be solved.

Lao Wang was afraid that thinking for too long would cause unnecessary suspicion, so he took the rune heart into his arms, looked up at Corvo, and the other party also put away the rune heart as usual, and then he once again set his eyes on the outsider.

"As long as you can find more rune stones, you can use these powers and items as you like, I have given this power to others before you, if you are lucky, maybe you will meet them, oh, or should I say, if you are unlucky. Seeing that both of them accepted the rune heart, the Outsider continued: "I will continue to pay attention to you, the daily life of higher beings is very boring, I have always been interested in observing your behavior, okay, I will send you back to your wild world, goodbye." ”

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When Lao Wang opened his eyes again, he was still lying quietly on his bed, and the two kind nuns were still lying on the table not far from him, their bodies rising and falling slightly, obviously still sleeping soundly.

Lao Wang raised his left hand, and through the little moonlight that poured into the room from the window, he saw that the mark of the Outsider was still clear, you must know that now he has returned to the real space of the trial world, Lao Wang's identity here is not only the royal guard, but the Outsider mark that originally looked like an ordinary tattoo was still firmly imprinted on the back of his hand with some twisted folds.

Wang Mancang took advantage of the situation to reach into his arms, there was a slight but very regular beating frequency in his arms, and the heart of the rune was still there, he closed his eyes and concentrated, and vaguely heard four melodious bells floating in the distance, and it was already four o'clock in the morning.

Because of the relationship between entering the Void Realm, Lao Wang always felt that his injuries were getting better faster, looking at his attribute table, and found that it was just a mental effect, he moved his body a little to make himself sleep more comfortably, and began to continue to calculate the current progress in the humiliating world.

Fixed missions A and B were completed, half of the world exploration mission quota was completed, and the rest was received, except for the burns that appeared in the battle, so that he didn't immediately get in touch with Takenaka, the start was good.

The mysterious stalker still hasn't appeared, or that someone else has already attacked me at all, but I don't know about it, and I haven't met any other selectors, which is also worth considering.

The world of humiliation is a formal trial world, and the old girl in the space also made it clear that she will face other selectors, and the royalists, as another major camp in the main line of this world's background, can not be the only one who has made contact with the regent.

No matter how random the space is, it will not completely relate to the main line of the identity of the selector, for example, a selector is thrown into the world of humiliation and trial, and is directly arranged to be a sailor on a whaling ship that has just left the port, and in 12 days, in addition to driving to the open sea and learning marine knowledge, can't he only wait for the time to die?

In this way, it should be normal for the selector to be directly placed in the royalist camp, why hasn't anyone seen it until now?

Lao Wang continued to think about his logic, could it be the kind of Shuibo Liangshan, after a period of time, heroes from all walks of life came to defect, and the selectors would slowly appear in the royalists.

What he didn't know at all was that the first time he entered the trial world, because of the limit entry, Lao Wang almost never stayed in the random space again.

The short time means that the information obtained is relatively limited, and after Takenaka joined the house, I introduced it to him once, but I couldn't do it all, and there was always something missing.

And one of the key points of omission is the identification of the selector, Lao Wang really knows nothing, and Takenaka thinks that Lao Wang must still know such basic information no matter how bad he is, and the two sides are so negligent.

In the world of trials, except in the clear unopened selector confrontation mode, the selectors have no means to identify each other's identities, and if you add the background of the spatial arrangement and the deliberate hiding of some selectors, it is often difficult to distinguish from the characters in the trial world, which also provides more routines for the selectors to choose the way to kill the pickers.

Of course, this is not the case when tracking props such as road guides are used, and the tracker and the tracked person can immediately receive a spatial system prompt as soon as they take a look.

In addition, the selector still has a way to detect the identity of suspicious characters through detection skills and props, and finally, there is the most helpless way, that is, after a selector takes the initiative to attack another selector, the attacked person can know through the battle prompt that the person attacking him is the selector, Lao Wang's bloodborne curse world is not open to the state of the selector confrontation mode, Hoffman came up and immediately formed a team, so that Lao Wang didn't notice at all, now he is actually playing chess blindfolded, this hidden danger has slipped under his nose inadvertently...

Among the royalists, there have been selectors for a long time!