"There's no need to be so frustrated, it's not a bad thing to have a solid foundation at all times."

The Outsider said flatly, his dark eyes as calm as a dead man.

"At least I've never seen anyone else like you, who can fully harness the power of ancient runes to improve themselves without the slightest waste...... Moreover, your relationship with the Void is too good. ”

“……”

“……”

"Uh, may I ask, what do you mean by 'great'?" Mo Chen chuckled in his heart, and after hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but ask directly.

"It's so good, literally...... Can you feel the call of the void? ”

The Outsider said calmly, and he stretched out his hand to the boundless dark space, where small islands of fragmentation floated in the ethereal void, and huge whale carcasses slowly floated by in the distance.

"It's longing for you too, just not violently, because I'm still there at the moment. But it also means that when you become one of the Voids, you will show all the signs of the Void. ”

"If, one day, for some reason, I cease to exist, then, it will devour another—the Force will move, the void will rearrange until a viable condition is created to give birth to a new god."

He said very terrible things as if nothing had happened.

However, just when Mo Chen's expression was a little stiff, the Outsider changed his words and talked about another topic:

"Then again, your changes are interesting to me, and the first time we met before, I believe you had no choice...... So now, what does it feel like to kill a second time? ”

Mo Chen raised his eyebrows, but after thinking about it, he gave the answer: "It's too simple, to be honest, I'm a little scared." ”

"But you don't see any fear in your performance, or is it that you're not afraid of "killing", but "killing is too easy"?"

The Outsider's tone was full of sarcasm, but Mo Chen subconsciously felt that it didn't seem to be sarcastic.

It doesn't make sense, it's just a gut feeling.

"Your performance has attracted me, I have been through an unknown number of years, but I have never expected this to happen. However, since it's against the fellows of the Monastery that opposes me, I should probably want to thank you. ”

The dark-eyed young man said lightly, making it impossible to figure out what he was thinking.

"I have given my mark with care, and I have never been partial, and I have seen people who use it for power, for love, and for money, because of a strange obsession with demons, and it makes the bearer finally crazy."

"But I'll watch this time...... Unusual attention this time. Don't worry, I'm not telling you what's alarming about this, I just want to see what you intend to bring to the world. ”

"Intrigue and mystery, sacrifice and betrayal, an empire is feeding on itself, and swindlers, merchants, nobles are like maggots on the wreckage...... The empire was already on the road to decline, it was already rotten, and now it just needs someone to push it. ”

At this point, he slowly paused and smiled meaningfully—

"Are you going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, or are you going to give it some golden age?"

“……”

“……”

"I think you're probably thinking too highly of me." Mo Chen laughed dryly a few times, and he didn't really want to pick up this topic.

"Perhaps, in the days to come, you will go through a great trial, and as for how to use the gifts I have given you, the power is entirely in your hands......"

The Outsider didn't think so, and he stretched out his hand, as if he had given a mechanical heart, and the shape and outline of a knife appeared in the void next to him.

"Take it, since you gave Emily back the mechanical heart, I'll give you this gift as compensation...... This is a diagram of the mechanism of the folding knife that Corvo used to use. ”

"Its mechanics allow it to be retracted, ejected, and perform well in both assassination and head-to-head combat, except that Corvo's knife is made of dense metal from the continent of Tyvia, and the material of this knife is ......"

After a pause, the Outsider said meaningfully—

"It's the same knife that pierced your body, stained your blood, and almost killed you that day, but I added the substance of the Void Realm."

"What special does it do?" Mo Chen looked at the knife, and saw that the blade of the knife also showed a mixture of special substances and the metal of the original knife, and suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Special role? You can use it to go straight through the Void, and two people can go straight into the Void with spells, now ...... You can too. ”

The Outsider's voice came slowly, but his people were gone.

The surrounding void also began to distort and become out of tune, as if everything was rapidly moving away, and a certain falling feeling enveloped Mo Chen, and in the process, he heard a low call again.

It's coming and going like this again?

He opened his mouth, but eventually just sighed, and didn't say anything, just reached out and grabbed the cold-touch folding knife.

The next moment, the surrounding scenery returned to normal, the void had been removed, and the surrounding space had turned back into a storage room, and the simple shrine of the Outsider stood in front of his eyes.

Mo Chen was not in a hurry to dismantle the shrine and take back the two ancient runes, but carefully examined the folding knife in his hand.

It is scalable.

This means that all three of its components are inlaid with each other, a simple handle to hold, a cross gauntlet to open, and the most important part that allows it to fold, the part that pops out of the blade in the middle.

It has a button located at the front of the handle that can be pressed with the palm of the hand, and can be used to activate a bidirectional drive switch, which creates a force inside to eject and lock the middle blade from the top of the handle.

The last part extends out of the middle section in the same way, and with the press of the button one more time, the switch resets, unlocking the clamp of the blade and retracting the two ejected parts into the handle, making the knife easy to carry and easy to hide.

To put it simply, this thing usually has only one grip, like a delicate craft.

But when necessary, the edge of this knife will bloom.

Holding this folding knife, Mo Chen subconsciously felt that there was a feeling of blood connection and heart connection, as if the fingers of the arm, and the feeling of chopping people should be very refreshing.

Moreover, he had a vague kind of strange realization.

Is this knife really like a "Void Realm Channel" that can be carried around, or more appropriately, mobile WiFi? Just hold it anyway...... Their advantages are far more than just doubling them directly.

"It's a good thing......

Exhaling lightly, Mo Chen looked at the two ancient runes on the shrine, intending to try to develop new magical abilities in one go.

According to the Outsider, a relatively simple and intuitive magic effect generally requires only the power of an ancient rune to support the user to complete the shaping of the amorphous void power, giving it a form and fixed attributes.

But the more powerful magic you want, the more ancient runes you need to channel.

Very simply, only during the transformation and strengthening of the rune power, the user can directly guide and shape the amorphous power of the void with his own imagination, but this process takes a while.

It's like doing a math problem, a simple multiple-choice problem can make a choice quickly, and a troublesome solution problem requires a list of equations to be solved slowly, and the time required is different.

However, Mo Chen didn't plan to start lighting up magic skills like "Time Warp" right away, starting from the basics was the right thing.

For example, a little "bloodthirsty" or something, as an assassin route, does not have the ability to annihilate the army head-on, it is inevitably too unqualified.

But at this time, Mo Chen seemed to suddenly feel something, and then he sighed, turned around and walked to the door silently.

—just stood quietly, waiting for the sound of footsteps approaching.

Bang bang bang!

About half a minute later, footsteps came to the door of the storage room on the third floor, and rudely slammed on the door, accompanied by a loud voice:

"Hey, did you guys take this opportunity to be lazy again, why did you put something for so long? Hurry up, we're going to go to the old man at the back of the tavern, and if he refuses to pay this time, we'll drown his dog......"

The Overseer outside was not at all vigilant, perhaps just thinking it was a common thing, and after knocking the door, he pushed the door open and entered, screaming loudly.

However, the smell of blood in the air made him unable to react for a moment, and the corpse lying on the floor of the dark room also stirred with him, causing him to lose his balance for a moment.

His pupils contracted sharply, and his words stopped abruptly.

Thankfully, a powerful palm was able to hold the Overseer's body in time.

Unfortunately, at the same time, a blade stabbed the Overseer in the throat.

"Ho...... Ho ......"

The rapid, dull gasps didn't make much of a movement, not even as loudly as the Overseer's frantic dancing struggles.

Soon, after a few violent convulsions and spasms, the man's pupils dilated to the limit, his mouth opened, his chest rose and fell sharply several times, and finally he slowly calmed down.

Mo Chen took out the folding knife and gently placed the corpse on the ground.

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Addermire Station is a special station in Karnaca.

Like all other stations with railcar traffic, it's not different in itself, except that it's the route to the railcar at the Addermire Institute.

The Institute is located on a small island in Karnaca Bay, south of the Campo-Seta marina. It was once a sunbathing beach for the wealthy people of Karnaca, and has since been converted into a research institute for a variety of diseases.

The dean is none other than Dr. Alexandra Hypatia, the chief alchemist of the Addermire Institute and the inventor of Addermire's special medicine.

She was a friend of the old duke and a student of Piero Joplin and Anton Sokolov, and was extremely talented and kind-natured, but Luca Abel discovered her talent and forcibly grounded her in the Adermire Academy under the pretext of developing a new antidote to bloodfly fever.

In addition, the monarch killer kidnapped Anton Sokolov before and took him to the research institute, so no matter what, Emily needs to go there now.

It's just that the station is blocked, and it's not just the light curtain generator, but also the Davids team defending.

It's not hard to sneak in, but it's necessary to get rid of everyone, otherwise you won't be able to get on the railcar at all - the guards are too well guarded to be purely stealthy.

This is not a game, and you will be able to get rid of it by just entering the next map under the pursuit of many enemies.

No matter how many enemies there are nearby, as long as a certain plot is triggered, they will be safe and sound.

There is no such good thing, everyone is a living person, and no one will be so mentally retarded in reality. The soldiers of the Davidians may be brutal and cold-blooded, but they will never act so retarded.

Emily felt that she might have to make a choice.