Build an ancient-level power in the nightmare world

Later, Otis's team disappeared while investigating an extraordinary event, along with a level 2 relic that he had requested to take from the Silent Chamber.

The interpreter of the Torchbearer's Rom City branch's orbital difference engine recently deciphered some information from the engine's chaotic and disordered calculation results. Some of this information showed that this Beron Stave was related to the Torchbearer team's disappearance case more than a decade ago.

Later, after investigation by Valentine and others, it was confirmed that he was Otis Walsh, who had disappeared years ago.

But when Valentine and others reported the situation and prepared to arrest him, they discovered that he had already died in apartment 101, 037 Nottingham Street.

The cause of death was ultimately determined to be natural aging.

Just as Valentine and others were searching for Peron Stave's belongings in the apartment, people from Madison Asset Management suddenly arrived, saying that they had accepted Peron Stave's request to give the apartment to his nephew Chris Fisher, who lived in Nirn City.

After searching the entire apartment building, Valentine and his team found no trace of the Level 2 relic. Ultimately, they decided to play along and have Madison Asset Management proceed with the normal process of awarding the apartment to a young man named Chris Fisher.

After that, they began their mission to monitor Chris.

I never imagined things would turn out this way.

After confirming that everything was alright, Axel left the torchbearer's temporary outpost at the Immorales Funeral Parlor.

Valentine, meanwhile, was staring at Chris, pondering how to write the incident report in a way that would best showcase his team's contributions.

Chris, who was unable to move, saw the phantom of an ancient key becoming clearer and clearer deep in his pupils.

Although unable to move, Chris managed to regain his senses by visualizing the key in his mind, thus recovering from the effects of the colorful, distorted light spots before him.

Those distorted spots of light that suddenly appeared and filled his field of vision seemed to affect his five senses and prevent him from thinking deeply.

After regaining most of his sensory and cognitive abilities, Chris was also fortunate enough to overhear some of Axel and Valentine's conversations.

He learned of the existence of another extraordinary organization within the Empire, the Hand of Eternal Silence.

Moreover, the opponent seemed to be more skilled in combat than the torchbearer.

Chris thought he would just stay in this state and wait for the countdown to end, hoping to get more information from the people present. But then the sky outside was completely covered by black matter.

Some of the black tentacles in the sky had already spread to the ground. The smooth, sticky black tentacles left behind winding black trails as they swept across the ground.

Along these winding paths, black bubbles continuously swell and take shape, then quickly burst, releasing wisps of black mist.

As the fog thickened, the entire city of Rom seemed to be veiled by a frosted filter, becoming blurry and indistinct.

But the people in this world seemed completely unaware of anything amiss. Even as parts of their bodies melted like candles and turned into thick black smoke, they continued doing what they were doing.

Inside the Inmorais Funeral Parlor.

Chris's body was still unable to move, and in order not to arouse suspicion, his gaze remained unfocused and confused, only able to roughly see the area directly in front of him.

In a daze, Chris felt the light in his vision suddenly dim.

Valentine, who was walking from left to right in his field of vision, suddenly stopped.

The pause was not the normal way a person suddenly stops; it was more like an actor in a video freezing in place after the audience clicked the pause button.

Chris's eyes, which had been deliberately out of focus, suddenly refocused.

The ancient key in his mind became exceptionally clear at this moment; he could even "see" the key emitting bursts of white light in his mind according to some strange rhythm.

The countdown is about to end.

Chris was not surprised by this.

Although he has no idea what has become of the outside world.

But this time was about the same as he had estimated.

"what?"

Because of maintaining the same posture for a long time, Chris felt some discomfort in his joints. Due to the invisible forces that held him tightly, Chris was previously unable to move at all.

But at that moment, he suddenly felt that all the forces that had immobilized him had vanished.

Once he was sure he could move freely, Chris got up as quickly as possible.

In his eyes, Valentine and Lawrence seemed to have been paused, remaining motionless in their original positions.

Without any hesitation, Chris went straight to Valentine and reached into the other man's right pocket.

He'd been aware of this for a long time.

Chris was very curious about what Valentine was holding in his pocket during their conversation.

His hand immediately touched a cold, hard object.

Chris simply took the hard object out of Valentine's pocket.

Looking at the flat, round object in his hand that had a silvery-white metallic sheen, Chris's eyes flickered. He saw that the silvery-white surface was finely engraved with many symbols arranged according to some peculiar pattern.

Chris didn't recognize any of the symbols on it.

Without further examining the round object, Chris simply put it into his pocket.

Chris then quickly searched Valentine and Lawrence, taking everything he could from them, such as their pocket watches, matches, pens, and Lawrence's monocle.

He wasn't sure if these things would work for him or if he could take them out of this dream world, but it wouldn't hurt to try, just in case.

After searching the two people inside, Chris prepared to go to the house next door to continue looting the Torchbearer squad's stronghold.

He opened the door, and a thick cloud of black smoke rushed in.

Chris instinctively held his breath and quickly backed away.

But the black mist spread very quickly, filling the entire room in an instant.

Chris squinted, and through the black mist, he could vaguely see many long, thin black tentacles writhing incessantly within it.

Then, to Chris's astonishment, the tentacles quickly groped around the room before reaching out to Valentine and Lawrence inside.

The black tentacles pierced through the clothes and skin of the two people as if they were nothing, stabbing into their bodies while constantly churning.