Chapter 15: Rune Enhancement
Creeping into the vault, stepping over the corpse of the person in charge of the bank who should have been coerced lying in a pool of blood, Mo Chen quietly walked to the side of the "garbage heap" in the shadow of the dark corner.
Holding his breath for a moment, he made sure that the group at the end of the side hadn't noticed him at all.
Then, with the help of the ability of Void Perception, he locked on to the position, and with as careful action as possible to reduce the noise, he pulled out all the sources of the mana reaction, a process that took several minutes.
Those are all ancient runes and bone talismans, Mo Chen is not unfamiliar with them in the game, and now they can be recognized at once-
The ancient runes were palm-sized bone plates, with symbols similar to the Outsider's Mark engraved on one side, and iron inlays on the corners. Maybe ordinary people wouldn't feel anything, but Mo Chen could sense the strong magic contained in it.
And the weight is a bit weird, palm-sized bone and some iron sheets, but the weight of each piece is close to a heavy brick.
Bone talismans are bone talismans, which are made of various talismans made of animal teeth or bones carved with rune marks. They are generally handicrafts, and some of them are said to sound at night.
But the really powerful bone talisman has unimaginable magical power, and it really has all kinds of magical effects, such as some bone talismans are not beneficial to people's energy, or some bone talismans can prevent pregnancy.
These are still petty fights, some rare masterpiece or coincidental achievement of the bone talisman, possessing the power of complete enough to be called black magic.
With this power, the owner can easily increase their reputation, gain glory, and even prevent death if they are not fools.
It's just that Mo Chen only knows how to distinguish whether it is genuine or fake by observing the magic reaction inside the bone talisman.
But he didn't have the knowledge and ability to tell what the specific effect of the bone talisman was, but it didn't matter, just take it all away, anyway, the bone talisman was a bone talisman the size of an index finger.
Even if you have a dozen or so, it won't affect anything if you bring them all in one go, and they don't add up to the weight of a pistol full of bullets.
It's just that the ancient runes are a little more troublesome.
Mo Chen took a piece of rune in his hand and weighed it, confirming that a piece of rune was the size of a palm, and the weight was not light...... It's not impossible, but the impact on your actions is definitely huge.
And there are a total of six pieces of ancient runes here.
"If it's doubled, it's enough in the game to directly fill up the time-stopping skill......"
Muttering to himself in a low voice, Mo Chen quickly made a decision after thinking about it for a while.
He piled up all the ancient runes, carefully tucked them into his arms, then turned around and continued to walk along the shadows against the corner of the wall, silently reaching out of the vault.
Then he glanced back, then grabbed the handle of the heavy vault door and pulled it back little by little.
The heavy iron door made an unavoidable dull sound as it moved, but none of the bandits on the other side of the vault at the bottom of the vault noticed it.
They all gasped and reddened, staring at the gold and silver, as if they were afraid that if they blinked or turned their heads, their companions would quietly take some of it under their noses, and reduce the amount of money they could get later.
This is also one of the reasons why Mo Chen went in to steal just now, but he didn't worry too much.
The attention of these guys has long been completely attracted by the huge wealth, and as long as they don't walk in front of them openly or make too much noise, then it will be difficult for them to notice.
If this was a game where you could brush up on skill proficiency repeatedly, Mo Chen would definitely not mind training his stealth ability here.
But now-
As the heavy door of the vault was closed, and there was a dull sound of the mechanism turning and the gears snapping inside, Mo Chen reached out with satisfaction and pulled out the key inserted in the lock hole above the door directly.
At this moment, the group of thugs inside was directly locked up.
The doors and walls of the vault weren't so easy to blow open, and they would have to stay inside for at least two days, and even longer if the people outside found out they were trapped too late.
The most important thing is that in such an environment, suspicion and suspicion are the most deadly, and people like them have absolutely no trust and fetters with each other, only pure interests.
So there is a high probability that they will kill each other.
Even if they are rescued by the people left behind outside, it is useless, and they will also suspect that the people outside want to trap them inside in order to monopolize the gold and silver...... So no matter what, we still have to kill each other.
Anyway, the rest of the story is basically a foregone conclusion.
I want to count on them to work together, advance and retreat together, achieve common prosperity, and run towards a better future...... It's impossible anymore.
Mo Chen quickly took the huge "wealth" he had gotten in his hand, walked around the intricate corridors, and soon left the underground vault, and continued to go up the floor, and finally found a room near the top floor.
Close the door, close the window, close the curtains, and by the way, move the bodies of the two men and women in the room and block the door.
Mo Chen sat down on the spot and began to carefully examine the ancient runes he was carrying, and inexplicably felt a joy in his heart, as if it was the feeling of ordinary people counting money.
That's right, he plans to use these runes directly to improve his abilities.
Anyway, it's going to be used later.,And it's not like in the game.,Accumulate enough runes to be able to learn and strengthen a certain skill in a targeted manner.,So there's no need to accumulate.。
In the dimly lit room, Mo Chen picked up an ancient rune and gently pondered it, sensing the strong magic power inside.
It was impossible for him to press the "J" key to directly open the skill upgrade page, and just use these ancient runes, in fact, it was precisely because this was reality that it was even more ...... Be practical.
As long as the ancient runes are genuine, then there is a strong magic power inside, but unfortunately, ordinary people can't use this power.
Except for the existence of witches and the like, only those who have the mark of the outsider can directly use the power of the runes to strengthen their magical abilities.
For example, the Outsider has many people who worship him, and his shrines are all over the world, but in fact, the vast majority of people don't get a response from him, but as long as the person with the seal touches the shrine, he will come out and chat and fart for a while......
It's unfair, but the imprint itself represents the nature of that unfairness.
Because the Outsider only imprints those he is interested in, in other words, he only talks and discusses with those he is interested in, which is completely fine!
The process of directly using the power of runes was not complicated, and Mo Chen also knew about it as a matter of course.
Now, the Outsider Mark on the back of his left hand had begun to heat up, and there was a strange burning sensation, and some kind of repulsion began to come from the rune that was grasped, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
It's just that at the moment when Mo Chen's face changed slightly, and he felt that the rune was almost about to fly out of his hand, his premonition seemed to come true.
The sheer force of repulsion made him feel his arm suddenly be pulled by someone, and it looked as if he was unsuspecting and threw a punch into the air, and at the same time, he felt that the rune he was holding suddenly lost its substance.
Without warning, the thing in his hand suddenly disappeared, and his five fingers naturally clenched into fists.
In an instant, more than a dozen faint blue lights suddenly burst out from his fingers, rushing into the air of the room with great speed, circling several times.
Then, in a short period of time, he quickly burrowed into the Outsider Mark on the back of his left hand.
This chain of phenomena has already occurred in only a second or two, and people can't react at all. When Mo Chen blinked his eyes and finally made a move, the light in the dim room had disappeared.
He withdrew his left hand and glanced at it, and found that the ancient rune had indeed disappeared out of thin air, as if it had suddenly been reduced from matter to magical energy, fused into his body.
The Outsider sigil on the back of his hand was changing from a black tattoo to a kind of blue light flashing, as if there was a lot of magic flowing through it.
It must have taken a few seconds for the blue light to dim and return to normal.
And in the process -
Mo Chen felt the feeling of a kind of flowing water like warmth washing over his body, and he clearly noticed that something was gradually integrating into his body little by little, and slowly became a whole feeling with his body and soul.
The most intuitive feeling is that the magic has increased significantly.
Instead of returning to a full state, it directly increased the upper limit of mana, doubling it from four units at once.
And there is a rather wonderful feeling, although there is no reason, and there is no use of the skills of flickering teleportation and void perception now, but Mo Chen just has no reason to feel that the magic ability he has mastered has been strengthened.
"Is it eight units all at once? That is, it can be used eight times in a row to teleport or perceive, and this increase speed is ...... It's really a plug-in......"
His reaction to this was to be slightly stunned for a moment, and then muttered in a low voice with a strange face, and looked at the five remaining runes next to him, as if he was a little unwilling.
The Outsider's Mark brings the skill tree of Disgrace, no, the skill tree of Dishonored.
While there will certainly be a bit of a discrepancy between the game's mechanics and reality, some of the features are certain. That is, as long as you get the Outsider interested, then he will really give you a hang in the first place-
The most important thing is that the magic ability brought by the Outsider Mark can really be enhanced through ancient runes, which is equivalent to implanting a setting similar to "skill points" in the real world.
Therefore, as long as enough runes can be obtained, the magic ability of this system grows quite quickly.
Mo Chen is not too clear about the plot of the first generation, but he still remembers the plot of the second generation. It seems like it's about a month or so overall, or a little longer, but it doesn't deviate too much.
There's not much to say if the protagonist is the section chief, but if the protagonist is Emily.
That shows that it only took her a month or so from the coup d'état, her father being petrified, and being forced to flee the Tower herself, to becoming an equally terrifying legendary assassin and reclaiming everything she had on her own.
The significance of this is that the magical ability brought by the Outsider Mark has the potential to grow rapidly in just one month-
And it is enough for a girl who is well-trained, but is still an ordinary person in essence, to quickly leapfrog into the sky and the earth and become an omnipotent superpower assassin in a month...... exaggerated growth.
In other words, Mo Chen can also replicate such a miracle.
Maybe you can't keep up with the experience or something, but the degree of ability growth will not make a difference.
It's just that when Mo Chen found that his upper limit of magic power was instantly strengthened and doubled, he didn't know what he thought, smacked his lips, and didn't look too happy.