Chapter 31 – Skill Book

After getting to his house, Yone didn’t waste much time. He ate noodles, drank water, sent the 400 dollars that he received through Eclipse Online, which Ano sent his way based on their contract agreement inside the game, put on his helmet, and dived into the game.

As for Amy, he had already assured her that he got the job and she shouldn’t worry much about him anymore, he even told her that they could meet from time to time after solidifying his position inside the guild.

Amy happily agreed and left the office, she was so happy that Yone couldn’t help but be amazed by her acting skills, totally unaware of her internal struggles.

Back at the stall, Yone closed it through the administrative village building and paused for a moment, thinking about his next move,’ I have invested in Guardian Angels and that alone is already enough to secure the future if nothing changes much from my past life. I have given them the information and that would make them trust me even more, now I need to get stronger and grind again. It’s time.”

With that thought, he sat inside the Adventure Association and fell into deep thought, the memories of the first year were a bit blurry given how far they were, and he needed to focus way more in order to recall specific quests, items, and other important things.

After several minutes of deep thinking and recalling certain podcasts and interviews and even playing documents that he browsed through when he was a squad leader, a group of assassin friends sent by one of the weak guilds entered his vision.

‘That’s the one,’ Yone sighed in relief as he checked his panel to plan things out and instantly placed the five free stats on the agility stat again.

Player Name: Requiem

Class: Assassin

Starting Town: Crystalized Stone Town

Level: 5 (0020/3000EXP)

Health: 180/180 HP

Title: None

Attributes: Strength (STR): 8

Agility (AGI): 27

Endurance: 7

Intelligence (INT): 5

Dexterity (DEX): 11

Luck (LUK): 4

Free Attribute Points Available: 0

At the business district where NPCs had their shops open, Yone entered a potion’s master NPC and spent a whole silver purchasing 10 ‘Hazy World Potions’ each costing ten copper coins, instantly shrinking his wealth down to 1 gold coin and 6 silvers.

However, he still spent it, all to level at the speed of a rocket and especially since the place he going to, he cannot survive without the hazy world potion.

Yone took the Hazy World and left Crystalized Stone Town, running westward.

At that moment, all players were at Level 1 some were at Level 2 and peak Level 2, and all of them were killing Level 1 to 3 monsters around Crystalized Stone Town. There were also several parties of top guilds leveling in more dangerous spots killing the likes of level 4 or 5 crabs and other monsters in a party.

Someone tanking at the front and a damage dealer and healer behind, fighting together in an orderly manner. Although the EXP was shared between several people, the efficiency was a lot higher and there were fewer competitors.

This is the reason that their highest level was still at the peak of level 2, If they were like Yone and grinded for EXP solo, it wouldn’t be surprising if their level shot up to 4 or even 5 by now. Unfortunately, no one in the initial phases of the game could level up alone, at least not before Requiem existed.

‘Hmm, someone is following me?’ The moment he felt eyes locking into him from behind with some bushes moving out of the ordinary here and there, Yone went to stealth and sped up towards his destination without looking back

Right after he vanished, a young man poked his head out of some bushes, he scratched his hair awkwardly,” Is this the difference in level and stats? In End World, no one can detect my position no matter what they do whether be it first-rate guilds or above.’

The young man didn’t dwell much on it and headed back, the plan was to take things easy and just observe him for now, he would just report what he saw and that’s pretty much his job and sole order.

After running for over ten minutes, Yone arrived at a range of mountains and hills. He didn’t need to be wary of his surroundings as he was sure with his maxed-out agility none could catch up to him with his full speed, hence he just looked around.

Several mountains stood over a hundred meters, located in a god-forsaken spot inside of Crystilized Stone Forest. The top of the mountains were so empty that one would feel creeped out by the eerie silence and leave this leveling spot as soon as possible.

This was also the reason why the skill book he was looking for was only found after said assassins reached level 9. They came here by chance to check if any monsters were worth killing but found none, only to spot a run-down temple built behind a cliff.

The temple is abandoned, covered with moss in its every fiber, and inside is a statue of a blindfolded assassin.

It was then that the assassins noticed a weird spot in the shape of a dagger hole at the statue’s base, curious, one of them placed his dagger inside of it only for it to reveal a stairway leading underground.

In his past life, the assassins stated in their livestream that an extremely broken assassin skill was found inside after killing the boss. In fact, thanks to that skill their leader rose the arena ranks once reaching level 10 and took the throne of PvP, only falling from that place after a few levels and around level 13 when the guilds adjusted to the game and gold became abundant thanks to the auction house and several other things like currency exchange.

“Finally arrived.”

Yone looked towards the towering hill and its surroundings. He followed their words and walked behind where he discovered the temple they spoke about, he walked towards it without a second thought.

‘They said any uncommon dagger can work to open the statue and without the Hazy World Potion you cannot defeat the boss, let’s do as they instructed,’ With that thought in mind, he placed his dagger into the hole at the statue base.

Buzz!

Bam!

In a few seconds, the statue began slowly moving and it soon revealed a stairway underground,’ They weren’t lying…seems like these assassins are trustworthy.’

As he finally descended the staircase with ease, a system message appeared:

“You have discovered a Forgotten Path: Assassin’s Trial. You cannot enter with anyone and only alone. Danger Level: High.”

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