[ Skill: Stealth ]
[ Stealth { Passive } - Allows one to hide their traces; Used to hide from enemy's senses ]
[ Skill cost: 10 Mana / 1 Minute ]
Looking at the new skill Leo's eyes slightly widened. He read an article about a similar skill that was sold on an auction for millions. Leo's eyes caught sight of another skill he hadn't noticed before.
[ Skill: Lightning Slash ]
[ Lightning Slash { E } - Perform a slash as fast and as destructive as a Lightning bolt ]
[ Skill cost: 20 Mana ]
Seeing the mana cost of both skills Leo's face slightly contorted. He thought that the Mana cost was outrageous considering he had 128 Mana overall.
Closing the system window Leo decided to test out the new skills to find out their usefulness. Waiting for guards to walk past him he activated [ Stealth ] and slowly approached them from behind.
The skill's performance could be considered very good, because skeleton's didn't even notice Leo when he was a few meters behind them. Unfortunately as soon as Leo stepped into a 1 meter range away from them they noticed something's off.
Seeing the guard's being alarmed Leo instantly took out his dagger and performed [ Lightning Slash ]. The black dagger Leo was using left a shiny trail of white Mana behind it while separating guards head from the body in the matter of a few milliseconds.
The skill seemed useful and powerful, but Leo who still hasn't fully understood Weapon Aura instantly felt a backlash. His whole hand became numb. Not even pain was felt. Getting himself together Leo used the other hand holding a dagger and without any skill and stabbed the other guard's head.
[ Undead { Skeletal Knight } Defeated... { 2 } ]
[ Reward +150Xp ]
Using his one working hand Leo dragged two guards one after another behind the house's. After hiding his deed he circulated Mana into his numb hand. That was very painful, but sharpening his teeth Leo endured the pain. It felt like ants were crawling under his skin and biting his arm.
Taking a note to only use [ Lightning Slash ] in dire situations. He hid himself with stealth skill and once again prepared to ambush other guards.
[ Undead { Skeletal Knight } Defeated... { 6 } ]
[ Reward +450Xp ]
Guards fell one by one until none were patrolling the area. After hiding the remains Leo walked up to the gates for inspection.
As he walked closer and closer he noticed that the gates were made out of a metal that glowed even in the dark. Just to be safe Leo took a pebble and threw it at the gates to make sure it doesn't have corrosive properties.
Thud...
A rock bounced off the metal gates and fell on the ground without any damage. Sighing from relief Leo approached the gates and tried to push them open. Unfortunately the gates didn't give out and stood in one place. Looking around Leo noticed a small keyhole with a black skull symbol.
Going back to the ten remains of the guards Leo searched their bodies and found a black key that glowed similar to the gates. Putting the key in the keyhole huge gates let out a sound that indicated that they are very old. Slowly opening the gates revealed a huge garden.
Closing the gates behind him Leo locked them and quietly entered the garden. The first thing he noticed was that all the greenery was different from the one above. All the plants were mainly 3 colors: grey, black and white. Leo also noticed that they grow by getting Darkness instead of light.
While walking deeper Leo suddenly felt dizzy. Stopping in his tracks Leo looked around, but noticed no one. Circulating Mana across the body Leo felt dizziness slowly disappear when suddenly a system message popped out.
[ Poison detected... ]
[ Host resisted the Poison! ]
[ Reward: +Skill{ Weak immunity to Poison } ]
Not lowering his guard Leo retreated a few steps back trying to find the enemy. Checking his body Leo saw no wounds from where the poison could've entered his body.
Suddenly Leo thought that poison might've gotten into his body by him breathing it in. Leo held his breath and started closely inspecting the plants, when his eyes stopped on a strange black flower seemingly leaning towards him and launching almost invisible pollen towards him.
[ Ligma Flower Detected... ]
[ Ligma Flower - Uses pollen to poison the enemies ]
Not wanting to get too close to the poisonous flower Leo took out his sword and used it to slice the plant in half.
[ Ligma Flower Defeated... ]
[ Reward: +20Xp ]
Looking at the system notification Leo was a bit surprised to receive Xp for botany, but didn't mind it. He made sure to remember how the plant looks for the future.
' What if I take some seeds and make a farm ? '
Leo was contemplating while walking, but shook his head soon after. He didn't know in what conditions these flowers needed to grow or if they even had seeds, but he surely didn't want to touch them.
Walking through the garden Leo suddenly heard a low hissing sound. Turning his head towards the sound he saw two red like flame eyes glaring at him with an obvious intent to kill.
Clenching his sword Leo prepared for the clash, he hadn't seen the body of the beast, but knew that it was some kind of skeletal being. Slowly the beast emerged from the forest. A huge snake-like skeleton emerged from the garden fully showing its body length.
" Fucking snakes "
Leo cursed while cold sweat was running down his back. The two positive things was that Leo now had a sword and the snake didn't have scales that could protect it.
Not thinking about anything else, but fight Leo used [ Superior Enhancement ] and launched himself towards the skeletal being. Swinging his sword Leo tried to use [ Lighting Slash ], but the skill didn't activate. Contemplating why Leo came to a conclusion that it might be a skill only for daggers.
Fortunately even without the skill sword greatly hit the snake's body destroying some of its bones.
Crack... Crack...
A Sadistic grin appeared on Leo's face when he heard the snake's bones break, but couldn't enjoy the moment, because he felt a looming danger above him and raised his head. A huge mouth was quickly descending on him.
With a quick roll forward Leo evaded the strike, but felt aftereffects of the the snake's attack make his legs go numb, the ground nearby was vibrating and some smaller trees were even uprooted from the ground. Turning around he made a wide swing with the sword hitting the snake's skull and shattering its front.
[ Undead { Skeletal Snake } Defeated... ]
[ Reward: +40Xp ]
[ Level 7 Reached ! ]
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Here I've written all Skills / Techniques in Leo's possession ;)
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[ Skill: Lightning Slash ]
[ Lightning Slash { E } - Perform a slash as fast and as destructive as a Lightning bolt ]
[ Skill cost: 20 Mana ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Skill: Stealth ]
[ Stealth { Passive } - Allows one to hide their traces; Used to hide from enemy's senses ]
[ Skill cost: 10 Mana / 1 Minute ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Technique: Dragon's Mana ]
[ Dragon's Mana { Passive / Could be used Manually } - Allows one to circulate Mana like dragons, strongest Mana wielders in the universe ]
[ Technique cost: No Cost ]
[ Mastery: Beginner ]
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[ Skill: Superior Enhancement ]
[ Superior Enhancement { C- } - Evolved form of Mana enhancement. Allows user to envelop body parts to improve their performance ]
[ Skill cost: 5 Mana ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Skill: Draconic Eyes ]
[ Draconic Eyes { C } - Upon making an eye contact inflicts fear into the enemies. Enemies with weak will might faint ]
[ Skill cost: 15 Mana ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Technique: Lower Dagger Technique ]
[ Lower Dagger Technique { Passive } - Increases understanding of combat using the daggers ]
[ Technique Cost: No cost ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Skill: Weak immunity to Illusions ]
[ Weak immunity to Illusions { Passive } - Increases resistance to Illusions ]
[ Skill Cost: No cost ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]
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[ Skill: Weak immunity to Poison ]
[ Weak immunity to Poison { Passive } - Increases resistance to Poison ]
[ Skill Cost: No cost ]
[ Mastery: Newbie ]