Pirate Sequence: Start with Outlaws.

When the red energy of the killing path merged with the killing blood essence, the world in front of Rune's eyes changed completely, from the previous Beloberg to an unknown space. He tried to call Nils and the octopus wizard, but found that neither of them was around.

At this time, Rune entered this place in his complete state, not some illusion or soul transfer.

In other words, he was teleported to a place that was deep and dark. He could not see anything and could not hear anything. There were only strands of red threads floating in the void.

"Are these the things needed to advance in the Path of Killing?" Rune tried to reach out and grab one of the strands, but the other party swam away quickly like a nimble fish and broke free from his restraints.

Rune was slightly surprised and attacked again, but the red lines around him fled one after another, with no intention of making contact with him. This aroused Rune's desire to win.

He leaped up at an extremely fast speed and finally pulled a red thread in his hand, but there seemed to be something pulling at the other end of the red thread.

Rune pulled hard, and a clear bell sound was heard in the void.

Jingle Bell.

Just after the bell rang, the world in front of Rune's eyes changed again. It was a battlefield stained with blood. There were countless corpses and abandoned weapons scattered all over the battlefield.

The battlefield was surrounded by a murderous aura, and the strong smell of blood kept coming into his nostrils. Rune took two cautious steps forward.

However, a burly soldier suddenly stood up from the pile of corpses in front of him. The soldier was more than three meters tall, wearing heavy armor, and holding an iron rod thicker than a bucket in his hand.

He was wearing a crooked helmet and his face was covered in blood, indicating that this guy had just survived a fierce battle. The moment he saw Rune, the soldier was a little surprised, and then he noticed the clothes Rune was wearing.

Then, without any hesitation, he picked up the iron rod and swung it towards Rune.

The thick iron rod made a huge sound. If this soldier was on the battlefield, he would definitely be a terrifying sweeper at the forefront.

With a swing of his iron rod, ordinary soldiers could not withstand his attack at all, and he could easily create a vacuum zone.

However, Rune simply took two steps back slowly and easily avoided the soldier's attack. He then drew his blade and slashed down. A thin red line appeared on the soldier's throat, and he fell down unwillingly, covering his neck.

"It seems that this place is not a dead ancient battlefield, but a battle is taking place."

After getting this result, Rune carefully checked every place around him.

The fact that the soldier just now was able to stand out from the pile of dead bodies means that there must be other hidden dangers around. If someone stronger than himself suddenly launches a sneak attack on him, the degree of danger can be imagined.

After listening carefully, Rune quickly ran towards the east side of the battlefield.

He heard the sound of weapons clashing there.

Climb to a high place and look down from above.

Below, there are two armies coming from nowhere, fighting fiercely.

On one side were humanoid soldiers wearing neatly equipped equipment. The reason they were called humanoid was because Rune could clearly distinguish that these people were not humans but just looked somewhat similar to the human race in the world of the Five Oceans and Seven Seas. On the other side was an army of undead. However, these undead were wrapped in crazy blood. They were not creations controlled by necromancy, but creatures naturally generated by blood.

Rune frowned slightly as he watched the battle below.

The blood essence actually teleported itself to such a place, which meant that if it wanted to find an opportunity to kill, it must be in this world. At the moment, it seemed that only the undead creatures had blood on them.

"Maybe I'll go take a look behind them."

Rune made up his mind and immediately started to take a detour from one side of the battlefield. After three hours of travel, he finally reached the rear of the undead army. The skeleton soldiers who were busy fighting had no time to pay attention to Rune's arrival.

As he sneaked into the tent, a strong smell of blood instantly penetrated into his nostrils. Following the direction from which the blood smell came, Rune moved forward and finally found a strange place behind the skeleton camp.

It was a tall stone platform, about 10 meters high, with intricate and exquisite patterns carved on it. On the platform, a red plant like a snow lotus was emitting dazzling light.

There are many soldiers who were injured after the battle and walked to the flowers to absorb blood and energy from them, gaining a certain healing effect. There are also soldiers with swords and spears on duty in this place.

However, the abilities of these soldiers were not outstanding, and their strength was at most around Sequence 8. After making sure there were no other dangers around, Rune walked out slowly.

The moment they saw him, the surrounding skeleton soldiers immediately became alert and pointed their weapons at him. Rune also said in the common language of the empire: "I came here just to study this red flower. I have no other malicious intentions."

Rune didn't care whether the other party could understand him or not. To be honest, he didn't want to kill them easily. After all, the blood and energy in these little skeleton soldiers would be useless even if he collected them. His real purpose was the red flower above.

The soldiers were stunned when they heard what Rune said. Although they did not attack him directly, they still remained vigilant against him and were reluctant to put down their weapons.

Seeing that the other party did not move, Rune shrugged his shoulders. It was not his fault.

I originally wanted to negotiate, but now that the other party doesn't understand, I won't bother anymore.

The surrounding world began to condense frost quickly. Rune's Tidebringer did not stop for a moment and passed equally through the bodies of every skeleton soldier. No sound could be heard. The lives of these skeleton soldiers were ruthlessly plundered, and their blood entered Rune's body.

After cleaning up the place, Rune jumped onto the platform and looked at the red flowers in front of him.

This flower seemed to have its own intelligence. When it saw Rune, it immediately folded its petals and huddled in place, brewing some kind of red light.

Rune took a quick look and knew that the flower wanted to escape, so how could he let it succeed?

Just when the flower was about to move, his hand pulled the flower out of the ground. With the blessing of the Dragon-Catching Hand, the flower had nowhere to escape and could not use any abilities.

When Rune held the flower in his hand, he seemed to feel a complex emotion mixed with anger and fear coming from the flower, and at this moment Rune's heart surged with a strong urge to devour the other party.

He crushed the flower fiercely, and a large amount of blood and energy gushed out from it instantly penetrated into his body, making his eyes light up.

The pure blood contained in this red flower was something he had never come into contact with before. The blood he had plundered before was obtained from the bodies of various creatures, and there were more or less impurities in them. But the blood in this flower was incredibly pure.

Just absorbing this red flower is equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the blood and energy that Rune had absorbed before, and the purity of the energy can be better utilized.

After swallowing the flower, Rune slowly adjusted his breathing. He could feel the blood and energy in his body rapidly condensing towards some kind of qualitative change.

If there are three more flowers like this, it should be able to bring about changes in the energy in the body.

After a rough estimate, Rune immediately ran towards the other military camp of the skeleton soldiers. Although this kind of flower was not common in the military camp, it should not be particularly rare. After all, it was specially provided for the wounded soldiers.

Rune's guess was not far off the mark.

A moment later, he found the same flower in another camp of skeleton soldiers. This time, without much obstruction, he easily obtained the energy from the second red flower.

However, when he arrived at the third wounded camp, the other party was clearly on guard, and even sent several Sequence 6 elite soldiers to guard the camp. At the same time, there was also a Sequence 5 soldier nearby, ready to provide support at any time.

Rune understood that he couldn't force his way in this time. After all, he was in the enemy's military camp, with all kinds of tricks at his disposal, so he had to be careful.

He thought for a moment, and then changed his body shape into a crooked and injured skeleton soldier.

Dragging his tired body, he walked slowly towards the wounded camp. The skeleton soldiers around him didn't say much when they saw him.

After all, there are no doctors here, the guards are busy patrolling, and the others are all wounded, and no one wants to have too much communication.

So Rune approached the red flower very easily.

This time, perhaps because there are fewer wounded soldiers here, the energy contained in this flower is obviously greater than the previous two.

Rune sat cross-legged under the flower, and then began to greedily absorb the energy from it.

At first, the soldiers around him didn't notice anything, and the energy in Rune's body was increasing.

But as time went on, Rune absorbed more and more energy, and the soldiers around him gradually discovered that something was wrong. How could this wounded soldier absorb so much blood energy!

The red flower above was also a little hesitant, wondering whether it should continue to supply energy to Rune.

Logically speaking, the blood energy absorbed by this guy is enough to provide recovery for hundreds of seriously injured soldiers!

Sensing the unusual movements around him, Rune knew that he had been suspected and time was running out, so he simply gritted his teeth and began to forcibly absorb the energy from the red flower.

Like a greedy wolf, it was madly biting its prey.

The red flowers on it immediately sounded the alarm when they saw this, and the surrounding soldiers began to gather around it.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Rune immediately flew up and forcibly plundered the last bit of energy from the red flower.

The soldiers were already surrounding him.

The Sequence 5 being swung his axe directly at Rune's head, but in the end all he chopped off was a piece of white frost, and Rune had already escaped.

"It was really thrilling." Rune was still a little scared.

The strength of the Sequence 5 was even more terrifying than he had imagined. He was indeed a seasoned warrior. Whether it was his actual combat experience, the energy in his body, or his skills, they had all reached a terrifying level.

It is not comparable to ordinary Sequence 5.

After Rune absorbed the energy of the three red flowers, a red core finally formed in his body.

In the red core, waves are constantly released to the outside world, looking like the red flowers before.

This ripple was filled with all kinds of negative energy, which urged Rune to want killing, blood and devouring, but they were all gradually suppressed.

The red core kept rotating, and as time went by, the negative effects it had on him became more and more severe. In the end, even Rune couldn't resist it.

Various hallucinations began to appear before his eyes.

Those were scenes of fighting, representing all the battles he had experienced from the past to the present. His mind was gradually taken over by these illusions.

At this moment, a large number of skeleton soldiers suddenly appeared around him. His previous behavior of plundering red flowers had attracted the attention of the skeleton army, and these soldiers came to encircle and suppress him.

Rune took out the Tidebringer in his hand based on his instinct, and then he got into a melee. Rune didn't know what moves he made or how many heads he cut off. In his eyes, there was only the blood-red color and the thought of killing.

Kill kill kill kill!

Nothing else.

When he regained consciousness, he was already standing on the top of a mountain made of bones.

There were already tens of thousands of skeleton soldiers' corpses surrounding Rune, and in the distance there were skeleton soldiers walking towards him, their eyes full of fear, but they had to continue to encircle and suppress him.

All the equipment on Rune's body also looked very broken, but he did not have many wounds.

In the distance, many humanoid soldiers took advantage of Rune's wave of killing to advance. The look in their eyes when they looked at Rune from a distance was as if they saw a god descending to earth.

Just now, that guy was killing people in the enemy's camp alone. He even killed several of the enemy's lieutenant generals.

Rune took a few breaths and now his brows were furrowed, looking unhappy.

The feeling of being dominated by the desire to kill is really terrible, but I currently have no way to fight against it.

At this moment, Nils' voice suddenly rang in his ears, "Go find the red flower, find its body. It has absorbed the energy of the red flower and done something to it."

"You have a great chance. After you find it, you will have the precursor to advancing to Sequence 4."

Rune wanted to ask something, but after one sentence, Nils' voice disappeared again.

But at least Rune already understood the next direction. He concentrated on looking inward at the blood in his body, and immediately used the Eye of Insight to see the source of the blood.

It was a red thread floating in the void. Without any hesitation, he immediately raised his knife and headed towards the direction of the blood.

The skeleton soldiers behind him also breathed a sigh of relief when they saw him leave.

That guy finally left. Although I didn't understand what his purpose was, at least it was fine as long as he stopped killing.

After a brief search, Rune also felt the breath of the red flower mother getting closer.

Is this a sign of Sequence 4?