The Overseer Outpost is an apartment complex.

Mo Chen didn't rush into it, it was full of Overseers of the Monastery, and it wasn't like the setting in the game, everyone was preset with preset dialogues and behaviors, just kept repeating.

They are all living people, and it is not surprising what they will do in the next second.

Although it caused some kind of illusion to Emily and Meghan, Mo Chen knew quite well in his heart that his "strength" was a little too biased-

After all, he has already strengthened with more than a dozen ancient runes, but he has never developed new magical abilities, and he is always strengthening existing powers, can this not be extreme?

And although his stealth ability has increased quite well, he doesn't believe it if he is in the house.

Therefore, it is still not possible to act recklessly, after all, recklessness does not equal bravery.

The Overseers of the Abbey are not really useless, and their combat abilities are very commendable, definitely not inferior to those of true professional soldiers.

They are skilled in the use of deadly weapons such as swords, pistols, and even grenades, and some have domesticated hounds.

They are best known for their music boxes, which are said to emit "digitally clean" notes, following the theory that there are hidden fluctuations in nature that interfere with the operation and maintenance of paranormal phenomena within a certain range.

It is precisely because of such hole cards that they dare to attack the Danwall King Tower in the back.

It's a pity that although the Abbey's Gu Le can effectively restrain the magic effect, specifically targeting enemies such as witches and Outsider Mark holders, it has no way to take effect on robots.

As a result, the Overseers were defeated, slaughtered by the literal killing machines of the Clockwork Soldiers.

Unfolding the all-encompassing realm of perception, Mo Chen paid attention to movement from all directions, moving cautiously and not letting himself be noticed by anyone, and by the way, he kept observing where the two Overseers went with the box containing the contraband.

The two men laughed loudly and talked about some terrible topic as they carried the boxes into the Overseer building, one step at a time.

Along the way, they greeted the other Overseers in the building, and they didn't hide the topics they were talking about.

It's as if everyone is accustomed to this, they have absolute power to kill and kill, and they can persecute whoever they want, which is a matter of course.

Mo Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, after the flood of power, it was out of control.

When a huge organization begins to corrupt, if it is not stopped in the first place, then there is almost no chance to turn back in the future.

Because the entire organization and the entire environment are like that, the uncorrupted people have become abnormal and alien to the surrounding environment...... In the end, the Overseers who were still able to stay in the monastery were basically those who accepted the corruption.

Say what only a small part is bad and most is still good...... This statement is unrealistic when you think about it.

The two Overseers parted on the second floor, one going to his office while the other continued up the floor, eventually stopping in front of a room on the third floor.

Relying on the perception of the void, Mo Chen clearly saw all the movements inside the entire building, and also found that there was a torture room on the third floor, but the people imprisoned inside were coldly slumped on the chairs, and they had long lost their vitality.

It appears to have been tortured to death, and outside the torture chamber, several Overseers are talking angrily.

A faint voice came, which seemed to mean that they were blaming each other, and before they could ask for information, they killed the person by mistake, and complained that if the corpse was not disposed of as soon as possible, there would be a danger of bloodfly breeding.

Mo Chen took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him, and then directly teleported in a flicker and disappeared in place.

The Overseer, who walked to the third-floor storage room with the box in his hand, hummed an unknown tune, used the key to open the locked iron door of the storage room, and stepped inside.

The room was a little dark, and he leaned down to put down the box, and before he could straighten up, he suddenly felt a cold sensation in his throat—

A sharp blade peeked through his neck, and hot blood flowed down the blade.

His pupils contracted violently, and the grim expression on his face instantly turned into an incomparable horror, he wanted to ask for mercy or call for help, but he couldn't make a forming sound, but he didn't know whether he was inhaling or exhaling.

His body also trembled violently, waving his hands desperately, but he couldn't grasp anything, and finally after a burst of intermittent convulsions and spasms, the man's lower body quickly wet, and there was a foul smell.

Then, never move again.

Mo Chen slowly withdrew the saber of the city police member, and then closed his eyes slightly. It was only after his astonishing wrist strength was no longer supported that the Overseer's corpse fell limply to the ground.

It was his second killing, the third person he killed...... It doesn't feel that bad, or rather it's too simplistic to be worth mentioning.

Maybe it's because the holders of the Outsider Mark have some kind of killing nature......

Maybe it's because he subconsciously substituted some game settings, and just felt that it was some kind of "weird......

Or maybe it's because I heard their conversation before, so killing this guy really doesn't make people feel guilty......

Anyway, Mo Chen found that the psychological impact of this killing on him was not as great as he expected. He took a few deep breaths, paced his breathing, and stepped over the corpse on the ground.

The inside of the storage room was dim, and the space was a little cramped, or not cramped, but the cabinets and shelves on both sides were too space-consuming, and they were full of all kinds of things.

"There's nothing wrong with being dark......"

Mo Chen muttered in a low voice, he had no intention of turning on the lights, he still carried the bone talisman of the "Shadow Embrace" on his body at all times, and when he entered the shadows, he did feel the support of the power of the shadows for himself.

The defective bone talisman was not brought, although the effect was good, but the side effects of limiting the recovery of mana were somewhat fatal, and the impact was even greater at the critical moment.

Therefore, Mo Chen put it "over there" at the beginning and didn't bring it over.

But in addition to this, he selectively brought three other more useful bone talismans,——

They are the "Whirlwind" which increases the speed of swinging the knife, the "Iron Lung" that increases the time it takes to breathe underwater, and the "Shadow Mouse: Gentle Touch" which reduces the noise emitted by movement.

Leaning down, he reached out and took out the two wet ancient runes and the mutilated bone rune from the box, Mo Chen pursed his lips and didn't say anything, just turned his head and relied on the void perception to continue to observe the magic reaction.

The Overseers are indeed collecting ancient runes and bone runes for a long time, and are the only organization in the Empire that does so above board.

So just the storage room of such an outpost, the magic inside was even stronger than the original underground vault of the bank.

Mo Chen found a metal box in a corner, but it was tightly locked.

He turned around and found a bunch of keys on the dead Overseer corpse on the ground, then half-crouched down in front of the heavy metal box, carefully testing the keys one by one.

As luck would have it, he soon opened the metal box.

The contents are indeed some forbidden "witchcraft items", but most of them are books that seem to be about black magic, and only a small part are the classification of ancient runes and bone talismans.

This suddenly made Mo Chen feel extremely disappointed.

He was indeed able to see through the Void Perception in a certain sense, but this was also situational, and there was no way to distinguish the specific situation with a bunch of mana reactors piled together.

So he thought that the whole box was full of ancient runes and bone talismans, but now he found that useless books took up a large part of it.

It's like when you open a particularly heavy treasure chest and think it's full of gold and silver. But after opening it, it was found that most of it was bricks, and gold and silver were indeed there, but a very small part of it.

Because the gap between psychological expectations is too large, I was quite disappointed for a while.

"Alas, too, it's just a prison stronghold close to the docks, how could there be a box of bone talismans and ancient runes......" Mo Chen grinned, and after calming down a bit, he began to count the harvest this time.

Twelve pieces of ancient runes, plus the two pieces he got before, are fourteen pieces.

There were a little more bone amulets, more than twenty, but a third of them were mutilated. That is, the magic effect itself is weakened, and there is also a broken bone charm with serious side effects.

Mo Chen didn't have time to check the effects of these bone runes one by one, he was now paying more attention to the number of ancient runes he had obtained.

Fourteen pieces of ancient runes, even if they were divided into half to Emily's Majesty the Empress, she would be able to keep seven of them, and maybe she would have captured them on the black market...... How strong can you go this time?

Theoretically, new capabilities should be developed, right?

He suddenly had a rather bad premonition, and after hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth and sat down on the spot.

Fourteen pieces of ancient runes are definitely a burden to carry on his body, and it is impossible for Mo Chen to run around with them. If you use half of it now, you can still consider the remaining seven pieces.

I can only feel the treatment of the protagonist who doesn't have space equipment or anything.

After a careful investigation of the perceptual field, it was confirmed that no one in this building should enter the storage room for a short time, so I gave up the dangerous idea of killing all the people first to ensure that my stealth would not be detected.

He planned to strengthen himself directly in the storeroom, anyway, it was not a particularly time-consuming process that could not be disturbed, and a piece of ancient rune was only a matter of seconds.

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The three-dimensional appearance of Karnaca City is reflected not only in the canyon-like streets, but also in the majestic Cinderi Peak, where the wind blows from the mountain pass all the way down the narrow strip to the dusty area.

Empress Emily has seen the streets of Karnaca very well from just now to now.

I saw the treehouses converted from centuries-old trees, and I also saw vines clinging to the brick walls of the buildings, but they were very harmonious and natural. There are also people who build balconies on rock walls or paint on natural rock walls.

These are the products of Karnaca's combination with nature, and are unique landscapes.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere of the city is not right, and Emily can only feel the lifelessness emanating from the city, and the people are like marionettes, not acting according to their own wishes.

The harshness of the Dukes, the atrocities of the Davidians, the persecution of the Monastery......

All this shocked Emily and made her almost suffocate. Because this was something she had never thought of when she was in Danwall, she couldn't help but feel distraught.

The misery here is indescribable, and she only knows that when the opportunity is in her hands, she does not do her best to protect the most vulnerable people of the empire.

In the eyes of her own people, she is an empress who is not worth her life.