Pirate Sequence: Start with Outlaws.

"How was it? How was your talk with the general inside?" As Rune came out of the Mosaic Family Hall, the Octopus Wizard couldn't wait to circle around him and asked.

Although the octopus wizard knows many evil witchcrafts and has done many evil things, this is also based on the behavioral logic of their race.

Even though she was already seven or eight hundred years old, under normal circumstances, she was just a simple-minded child.

So she sometimes behaves very childishly.

At this moment, the Octopus Wizard had only one thought in his mind, and that was to kill the Blood God Priest!

This guy once destroyed many altars of his believers and took them for himself. Of course, the Octopus Wizard would not let him go.

When the Octopus Wizard heard that Rune would discuss with General Nils how to deal with the Blood God Priest, he applauded.

After all, she had heard of Nils' name a long time ago. With Nils' help, it would be much easier for them to deal with the Blood God's believers.

At the same time, he was completely impressed by Rune. He originally thought that Rune was just a relatively powerful guy, but he didn't expect that after entering Beloberg, he found that both his fame and status in the Wassett family were very high.

This made her more determined to cooperate with Rune.

"Don't worry, everything has been agreed upon. Now we just need to see how to execute it." Rune comforted the octopus wizard and continued, "I just talked with General Niels and analyzed the current situation."

"Just like I thought, our current focus is to obtain evidence of the collusion between the old lord and the Blood God's followers. The information we found before is very important. As long as we can copy the teleportation array in the lord's mansion, combined with the recent space fluctuation records, this is important evidence of the old lord's collusion with the Blood God's followers. In addition, we also need to bring this."

As he spoke, Rune took out a blue crystal from the package. The octopus wizard rubbed it with his tentacles and blinked his eyes. "What is this? A regular hexagon. It looks like a dice. There are strange magical fluctuations inside, but it has a restriction that is very difficult to break. Even for me, it will take decades to break this restriction."

"Your observation skills are very good." Rune praised, "This thing is a crystal stone."

"Photo crystal? No, no, I remember seeing a photo crystal before. The structure inside is completely different from this one. How can a photo crystal be so complicated?" After hearing what the octopus wizard said, he looked at the blue crystal in his hand again, then frowned and retorted.

Lu En took the crystal back and said, "It's completely normal that you haven't seen this photo crystal before. It is different from ordinary photo crystals."

"The internal principles and core structure have not changed, but you have also discovered that there are many restrictions on the outside. These restrictions were specially set by the mystics of the Imperial City, and they have their own unique analysis methods."

Hearing this, the Octopus Wizard also understood the origin of this Image Crystal, "Oh, so this Image Crystal was sent from the Imperial City!"

"That's right. This crystal stone is not only very difficult to crack, but also has almost no spiritual fluctuations when used. It is very difficult to detect. Even if you use some means to destroy the restrictions of the crystal stone, it will leave a corresponding record. It is impossible to break the restrictions quietly."

After hearing this, the Octopus Wizard finally understood the importance of this crystal stone. "I understand! The key point of this crystal stone is that the images recorded by the person using it are completely real and cannot be tampered with. Once this crystal stone is taken to the Imperial City to test those secrets, it will be known whether it has been tampered with or whether the restrictions have been cracked. It is a really smart design!"

"This crystal was given to me by General Niels. After discussion, we decided to send a total of eight teams to explore the old lord's mansion. Each team will have two people. This way, we can maintain concealment to the greatest extent possible and conduct an effective exploration of the lord's mansion."

"Our team consists of just you and me."

"I understand!" The octopus wizard was very excited, and the octopus tentacles under her feet kept wriggling, "Then when do we set off!"

"tonight."

After waiting for a while, the sky gradually became dark and it was finally time to set off.

After sorting out his equipment, Rune and the octopus wizard quietly passed through an alley and headed straight for the lord's mansion.

The location of the lord's mansion is very meaningful. In the past, the lord's mansion of Beloberg has always been located in the center of the city of Beloberg, symbolizing that the lord's power rules over everything. It also represents that the lord sits in charge of all directions and is the center of Beloberg.

But when he arrived at Lord Andrews's area, he moved the lord's mansion to the north of the city of Beloberg, not far from the northern city gate, where he also built an inner city wall to isolate it from the outside world.

Under normal circumstances, Lord Andrews would never leave his mansion. At that time, people thought he had no interest in political and military power. Now it seems that he just wants to stay in the hidden lord's mansion and carry out the shady blood god sacrifice activities.

"The inner city wall is so high." The Octopus Wizard and Rune groped their way to the door of the territory's mansion. The soldiers patrolling here seemed very dense, and the patrol positions at fixed times made it impossible for the two to find any gaps to sneak in. This was enough to show the old lord's emphasis on defense work.

Rune hid in the dark, secretly watching these soldiers.

Among the information provided by Nils, there is naturally the patrol schedule of these soldiers.

Rune, who had read it carefully, understood that it was almost impossible to pass through the heavily defended soldiers quietly, so they were well prepared.

A scroll quietly appeared in Rune's hand. After tearing it open, the moonlight like a veil enveloped the two of them, and the two of them immediately merged into the environment.

Entered stealth mode.

If you don't observe very carefully, you won't find anything unusual.

Even if one concentrates all his attention to check where they are, he would at most feel that the space is slightly distorted. It is extremely difficult for ordinary people to discover the abnormality.

With the help of the invisibility scroll, Rune's infiltration became much easier.

It was at this time that he opened the crystal stone on his body. All infiltration actions would be recorded in this way and then presented as evidence in court to expose the old lord's heinous crimes.

Everything was ready, Rune and the octopus wizard began to grope their way into the lord's mansion.

The soldiers passed by without showing any signs of vigilance.

The octopus wizard was wearing a hooded robe that was larger than her body. She looked around curiously, but she had already tightly grasped the staff in her hand. As long as she found anything unusual, she would immediately use a binding spell to control the enemy.

They arrived safely at the gate of the lord's mansion, but the tightly closed door refused entry to any outsiders.

The layers of formations above also prevent anyone from opening it without permission.

Rune and the octopus wizard had no intention of entering through the main gate as that would have attracted too much attention.

The two men followed the gaps between the bricks of the inner city wall and lightly tapped the top with their toes. They had already jumped over 10 meters in height. In just two or three steps, they had reached the top of the inner city wall. A patrolling soldier passed by but could not hear any sound from them.

Jumping from the inner city wall to the interior of the city lord's mansion, it is an extremely vast area.

To describe a mansion as vast is already an exaggeration.

If the wine estates owned by the wealthy businessmen that no one had visited before were amazing enough, then the scale of the lord's mansion was even more breathtaking.

After being in the city of Beloberg for a long time, Lu Enhai had never seen the entire picture of Lord Beloberg's mansion, but now he finally had the opportunity to see it.

The entire lord's mansion is roughly divided into four areas.

The four districts of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest have extremely strict property planning.

The eastern part of the lord's mansion is the sphere of influence of the lord's daughter, the western part is the storage area for various resources, the southern part is the location of the garrison, and the northern part is the inner palace where the lord himself lives.

This setting has been very interesting from the beginning. After all, the southern part of the lord's mansion is the interior of the city of Beloberg, and the garrison is also located here. Generally speaking, the lord has to consider resisting foreign enemies, so the location of the lord's mansion is completely opposite to the garrison location.

The implications behind this are quite intriguing.

Rune and his companion entered from the south, while members of other teams had entered from different directions in order to obtain the most comprehensive information.

Rune and the octopus wizard fell down from the city wall and moved more cautiously.

The southern garrison was also the most heavily defended location. The two men had only taken a few steps when they encountered seven or eight prohibitions. If they were not careful, the alarm would be triggered and they would be chased by the soldiers.

After walking a distance, there was a military camp with soldiers stationed in front of us.

The military camp construction here is obviously much more sophisticated than that of the Shark Tooth Army, and the soldiers' standard equipment inside is also more advanced.

Rune even saw a new type of alchemical hand cannon in there, the power of which was more than ten times stronger than the muskets usually used by the navy.

In addition, there are also armors with array patterns engraved on them. Looking at those armors, Rune feels that they look familiar.

Isn't this just a simplified version of Warframe?

Each piece of equipment is somewhat shocking to look at.

Assuming that every soldier under the lord has this kind of equipment, it is still unknown who will win or lose in a head-on battle with the army of the Vasek family.

Rune recorded all of this silently.

Although this has nothing to do with the evidence of the old lord colluding with the Blood God's followers, it is important intelligence related to their war.

Before, Rune was still thinking that the old lord’s goal was to provoke a war between the various principalities.

Using the interests of Beloberg's civil war as bait, he involved major forces such as the Principality of Renard and the Principality of Wisteria, thereby triggering a major fight among the Kind Sea, and then satisfying his blood sacrifice ritual and becoming a sacrifice for his promotion.

In these chaotic scenes, how can the old lord stay safe? Or even if all the battles come to an end, how will he clean up the mess?

Now seeing these equipments, Rune felt that he had some guesses.

Assuming that the old lord really has a group of such soldiers, then when faced with internal struggles like those in the Sea of ​​Kindness, he might really be able to end everything.

These things were obviously unknown to Nils and others, and were also one of the old lord's trump cards. Now that Rune had discovered them, it could be considered a preventive measure.

After stealing two sets of armor and putting them in the storage space for future research, Rune and the octopus wizard continued to sneak deeper. The more he looked at this military camp, the more surprised he was. The combat quality of each soldier inside was beyond his imagination.

In other words, the lord had been training internally before, and these soldiers were just waiting for the current opportunity.

After more than half an hour without food, Rune and Octopus finally made it through the soldiers' barracks and were able to relax a little.

Everything became calm after entering the lord's mansion.

"Where are we going now?" The Octopus Wizard and Rune were currently in the center of the lord's mansion.

"There are three choices now: east, west, and north. However, we don't know the exact location of the Blood God's teleportation formation yet, so we probably have to go to each place."

"As for which one to go first, let's go to the west. After entering the lord's mansion, although there is only a little bit of the aura of the Blood God's followers, the aura in the west is obviously stronger."

"I think it's the west, too." The octopus wizard nodded and agreed with Lu Wen's opinion. "The aura over there makes me feel sick. Maybe the Blood God Priest is there!"

As he spoke, the octopus ignored the staff in his hand and Rune clearly felt that his steps became lighter.

With the help of the wizard's spell, Rune quickly headed towards the west of the mansion.

As mentioned before, this is where resources are stored on weekdays, and it is generally strictly guarded.

However, compared with the severity of the southern army and the strictness of the northern territorial government, the guarding in the west seems to be slightly more relaxed.

Because most people who come here with bad intentions do so to steal, the consequences of such things are not too serious.

But when Rune and the octopus wizard got closer, they did find something wrong.

There were not as many guarding soldiers as one would have imagined, and the doors of some warehouses were simply open. It did not look like the interior of a lord's mansion at all, but rather like a dilapidated village.

The further we went inside, the weirder things started to become.

Especially after passing through a garden, the blood god aura around them suddenly became thicker, even to the point of being exaggerated, as if it was going to drown and suffocate people.

The blood energy in Rune's body was instantly aroused, and he passively resisted the aura of the Blood God.

Everything around began to change at this time.

Seeing the surrounding scene again, Rune took a deep breath, feeling somewhat confused.

But then a slight smile appeared on his face.

It seems that my opponent is more difficult than I imagined.

After entering the lord's mansion, he and the octopus wizard had already fallen into an illusion.

Until now, I encountered the aura of the Blood God and finally broke free.