right after the man saw the dead body of his comrade hil started to sprint towards him with the sword in his hand. he held the sword with both hands while the edge of the sword was directed towards the mans heart, he intended to pierce it.
but the man's heart wasnt that soft, he is a bandit, a rogue, a thief. he wouldnt just freeze in place because of a dead body.
the man shifted his attention to hil but it was far too late, he didnt have a good grip of his sword with just one hand so he couldnt even block hil's attack and hil also was too close for him to react. hil already reached the man and tried to pierce his heart but the man sacrificed his free arm to block the sword. the man let out a cry of pain after his arm was pierced by the sword but he wasted no time and tried to take the sword from hil by moving his pierced arm with the sword. unfortunately, hil had the sword in both of his hands and his grip was much stronger than the man thought. the man's arm was sliced from the sword he tried to take from hil and the man started to bleed from the arm that was now sliced from the hand to the elbow. the man let out a cry of pain once again as he knew this battle wasnt in his hands, he had a few minutes before his own blood will take his life. the man tried to slash hil which was open to attacks because of his attack, he tried to direct the attack at his head so his sword would just fall on it. with the help of gravity, it should have at least made hil lose focus. hil saw the incoming attack and left his bloodied sword in the arm of the man, he stepped back from the man until he was sure his sword couldnt reach him. the man already tried to hit hil on the head so his sword just made him get stuck in place after it made a small hole in the ground.
"EDGE!" hil suddenly shouted.
[ skill: {call} has been activated ]
a strong purple light shone near hil's right arm. the light started to form into purple mist and the mist started to form a sword. the sword was very strange: it had a small hole a bit above the hilt, the blade was narrower at the middle left side of the sword so it created a gap between the blade at the bottom and the edge. the sword itself was purple and very sharp, aside from the strange blade it looked like a normal sword, it was a bit longer than the sword hil used to ravage the man's arm but not long enough to be called a longsword, the blade looked very thick and sturdy as if it wouldnt break even if it was swung for thousands of years. the mist formed the blade inside hil's hand so he didnt need to pick it up from the ground or get a good grip.
the moment hil had the sword in his hand he started to flow with the wind. he ran to the man with graceful movements and when he was in front of him he quickly dashed behind him, he stabbed him with the sword and pierced his abdomen and then slashed horizontally thus splitting his body to two.
the man died before he felt the pain, the entire process happened in less than 5 seconds. the man already bled a lot from his destroyed arm and now half of his body was bleeding, the man died.
[ killed a human, +4 souls ]
the sword vanished the moment the man died, a puff of smoke was the only memory from the sword that killed the man.
[damn, would you look at that, you almost have 10 souls]
"is 10 souls a milestone or something?" hil asked the system.
[no, i just like that number]
"..."
"can i level up now?"
[uh sure]
after a few seconds there was a little *ting* sound in hil's head.
[ leveled up! -4 souls ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
after the blue screen confirming his level up a red screen appeared asking him to activate the event.
"thats the stats event no? sure i guess"
[ level up! activated, +1 to all stats ]
"what now"
[how would i know, thats your life]
"helpful as always"
[well how am i supposed to know, you are the one whos living here]
"well last time you did tell me what to do. you gave me those mission shits"
[aaaahhhhh. quests]
"yea, those"
[well i mean. fine]
[ new quest! check your messages ]
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quest: finish what you started
description: you were taken as a captive and started to punish those who did it, finish what you started.
objective: punish the remaining lowlifes | 3/?
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"uhh, theres a reward most of the times no?"
[right, right]
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quest: finish what you started
description: you were taken as a captive and started to punish those who did it, finish what you started.
objective: punish the remaining lowlifes | 3/?
reward(s): +5 stat points
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"is that a lot of stat points?"
[not sure, i think it is a moderate amount]
"and what are those 3 out of ?"
[well i dont know how many are living here but you killed 3 :D]
"..."
"well ill just search for them"
[its the middle of the night lets get some sleep]
"shh, shh, you can go to sleep and ill do some stuff"
[you know what, i will]
[ mode: {sleep} has been activated ]
"uh"
hil felt lonely without his system, he still had work to do though.
he walked to the body of the man he recently killed. he took the iron sword he made and cut his chest, he grabbed his heart and walked to the other bodies in the room. at the end, he had a total of 3 hearts in his hand.
"now where do i put you all..."
"ah perfect"
hil walked to his smithing station and grabbed the water bucket. he poured out all the water and placed the hearts in the bucket.
he walked to the door and exited the room. outside the room was a long corridor with about 8 doors, there was a sign above each door: "tony", "anna", "ava", "bor", "loazilla", "croun", "loucios", "mendelis". these were the only signs that caught his attention since he only wanted to kill the bandits.
he walked to tony's room, it was empty as expected but hil wasnt here for the man, he was here for his stuff. he didnt find anything worthy in his room apart from some copper coins with holes and one silver coin.
he kept doing it in anna's room room and croun's room. in all of their room he couldnt find anything apart from some food, clothes, and more coins. he wasnt hungry and all of the clothes were too big for him so he just took the coins, now hil had 69 copper coins, 12 copper coins with holes and 3 silver coins.
he went to loazilla's room, he walked to the door and put his ear to the door and tried to listen. he couldnt hear anything so he entered the room, slowly. inside the room was...
"EEEEEEEEEEEKKK!!! GET OUT OF MY ROOM YOU PERVERT!"
a naked woman.
hil quickly closed the door and waited outside, you dont kill someone when they are naked right? unless of course, you have other intentions...
he waited for some minutes and thought about moving to the next door first but then the woman came out of the room.
the woman was pretty tall, she had blonde hair that almost reached her shoulders, her eyes were black and she wore some kind of a robe.
"hi, are you loazilla?" hil asked the woman.
"yes i am but what are you doing here? and why are you wearing ra~"
her sentence was cut short as her life was. hil drew his sword within a second and before she finished her words the sword has already pierced her throat. due to the blood flooding her throat not even a single scream was heard before hil pulled the sword and pierced her right lung. seconds after hil pulled the sword from her lung she fell to the floor, dead.
[ killed a human, +3 souls ]
hil collected her heart too and searched her room. he found 2 daggers inside the room and some coins. after he was done hil walked to bor's room.
when he opened the door he saw a man standing in the middle of the room "sparring" with a training doll. the man wielded a sword which looked like the one hil was using but the man's sword was a bit rusty.
"SMOKE BOMB" hil shouted as he took a heart from the bucket and threw it right at the man's eyes. the man cut the fresh heart midair which exploded in his face. the man was blinded and hil quickly ran at him with his sword. the man was blind but somehow could hear hil's movement, he tried to attack the source of the voices which made hil duck, dodge and back off from the attacks which were pretty accurate for a blind man. hil took the daggers he found in loazilla's room and threw one of them at the man's right ear and the another one at the left. the dagger that was aimed at the right ear didnt cut the ear off, instead, it just grazed it and made it bleed a little. the dagger that was aimed for the left ear, however, cut it off cleanly and made a stream of blood rush out.
now hil dashed at the man once again but this time, the man was also deafened. hil ran at the man with his sword and cut his neck with a horizontal slash. the man fell to the floor and his head was rolling next to the body in the puddle of blood. hil also collected this man's heart and went to ava's room.
[ killed a human, +4 souls ]
when he arrived he slowly opened the door. ava was asleep so hil just quietly went to her and slashed her neck, a small, muffled scream was heard before the head fell from the bed and rolled on the ground.
[ killed a human, +4 souls ]
hil collected her heart and looked around the room and searched for something worthwhile. after some time he found a book.
'oooo, what do we have here?' hil thought as he tried to open the book.
luckily the book wasnt sealed with magic or anything so hil just opened it but what was inside the book was a problem.
'uh... umm... hmmm...' hil tried to read the words before he remembered hes not from this world and doesnt know their language.
'wait then how did they understand me? maybe because im used to talk many languages? meh, like i care. now, should i find some "read and write" school here?'
hil tried to keep the book with him but he didnt have a backpack nor he could tuck it in his clothes. he searched around the room for clothes and found some.
'well, its kind of girly but at least it fits me' he thought after cutting the shirt and pants he took from the closet in the room. hil then put the book on the bed and went to the next room.
the next room was loucios's. hil opened the door slowly and saw that loucios is also asleep. he went to him and sliced his neck, his hand slipped and it only grazed his skin.
loucios sprung up from his bed without even screaming. he searched for his weapon and within 5 seconds he was already up with a shortsword in each hand.
loucios was a man as short as his sword and also as sharp. he quickly ran to hil and right before he was close enough to strike hil. he dashed behind hil and tried to backstab him. hil didnt expect this but he evaded the attack by jumping to the side, he quickly replied to loucios with a swing of his own sword which cut his left arm.
blood dripped from loucios's arm but it didnt stop him from trying to attack hil again. this time he ran straight for his right arm that held the sword. loucios tried to disarm hil by destroying his arm. he threw one of his sword at his head which caused hil to tilt his head to the side while loucios still ran at full speed towards him. loucios then tried to cut off hil's arm but hil caught the wrist of loucios's arm with his left hand and caused him to stop the attack. hil then thrusted his sword to loucios's abdomen and after seeing the sword was out from the other side hil quickly backed off, taking the sword with him.
this caused loucios to let out a cry of pain while his blood flowed out from his abdomen. the man fell to the floor in a kneeling position while his hands were laid on his open abdomen. short after that the man's life left the body as his hands gave up and stopped holding his stomach, the man fell on his face after the last breath.
[ killed a human, +7 souls ]
'damn i dont think i ever got this many, wait can i level up?'
hil tried to check his system and realized he doesnt know how to level up by himself.
"hi luni? system? wake up! i wanna level up!"
hil kept shouting at the air for a few more minutes and then decided to do it by himself.
'so how did he say it was? just think? hmmm'
a red screen suddenly popped up in front of hil
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would you like to level up? (6 souls, currently have 24 souls)
[ Y / N ]
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'yep'
[ leveled up! -6 souls ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
'uh sure, why not'
[ nothing activated, nothing ]
'what? is that an event? did i just lucked out with my first 2 or is this one bad luck?'
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would you like to level up? (8 souls, currently have 18 souls)
[ Y / N ]
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'son of a bitch, YES I WILL'
[ leveled up! -8 souls ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
'fuck you and the one who created you, YES'
[ nothing activated, nothing ]
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"AGAIN YOU DICKLESS FUCKER"
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would you like to level up? (10 souls, currently have 10 souls)
[ Y / N ]
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'son of a bitch, YES I WILL'
[ leveled up! -10 souls ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
"you wouldnt dare..."
[ nothing activated, nothing ]
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH"
[ congrats! you have reached level 5! would you like to activate the exclusive event? ]
"in and out. in and out" hil tried to maintain his breath and temper as he read these words.
"ehm, in and out. indeed my good sir, i would love to activate the exclusive event you have blessed upon me"
[ the wheel of skills is being spun... ]
"oh?"
[ skill: {rend} has been obtained ]