Chapter 8
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Dorian was happy with his harvest as it would last him for three days. Taking anymore would have been a waste as none of the food he saw could last more than three days.
Dorian wished he could continue doing this for the rest of the month, but after seeing today's stealth the merchants would all tighten their defense and it would become impossible for Dorian to steal again.
But this was enough for Dorian. For the next three days, he would only have to deal with the hypothermia and would only lose a point of Agility. In three days, Dorian believed he would be able to discover the whereabouts of more gangsters.
Once he killed them, he would be able to take his food from them. What was harder was finding a hideout, because once he killed any gangsters, the others would come check his house.
But he would worry about that latter, now was time for hunting. Still, Dorian checked his status to make sure his negative effects were gone away.
Indeed, all of his attributes had gone back to normal except for his agility which remained one point lower than normal.
What surprised Dorian the most though was a new icon appearing next to his skills. It said:
[New Abilities!]
The text was shining, as if it wanted to attract Dorian's attention to it. Of course, Dorian was curious about it and focused on it, causing it to expand into a window.
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[You have discovered a new feature!]
[Through previous experience and practice, you are able to learn abilities without abilities books!]
[Warning! This may only apply within your first world. Those can only be Novice abilities.]
[You can upgrade your abilities to the next level with practice, but to upgrade the rarity you need an ability book of the next rarity. But for the time you are within the first Dream World, you may use experience to upgrade the rarity of a skill.]
[Tip: learning skills on your own is slower than with a teacher.]
Dorian didn't expect such things to be possible. That would make everything easier. But that also made him doubt about something. Back when he received the [Hitman] side mission, he had refused the other one.
Because the one he chose is more difficult, it must have better rewards. At first Dorian thought that the skill books were the reward, but now that he learned that skills can be learned, and it would even be faster with instructors, Dorian began wondering what would his reward be.
Dorian pushed that out of his head as he knew it wouldn't really matter in the end, as long as he completed the mission he would get to see.
He closed the message window that opened and finally discovered what his new abilities were.
[Basic Dagger Mastery (Level 4/10)]
[Basic Hand to Hand Combat (Level 2/10)]
As Dorian looked over the skills, he felt new knowledge enter his head, again. The way he stood began changing unconsciously and Dorian felt new moves enter his head. Also, he suddenly started becoming aware of certain fatal areas on the body he was unaware of before.
Once he integrated everything, Dorian looked at his levels. He now felt the difference between a level 1 ability and a higher leveled one.
Indeed, it wasn't the amount of knowledge that changed, but he always felt a little awkward with his sword and uneasy, but now Dorian felt his moves would be a lot smoother with his dagger.
Dorian closed the system and started working. He first put on the veil he had taken earlier, hiding his entire face except for his eyes and above. Then, he took out another cloth that included a hood with it, finally hiding everything except for his eyes.
Moreover, this cloth was good because it was bigger than Dorian's body, so it allowed him to hide his dagger easily, and also to maneuver his body easily within the cloth.
Most importantly, Dorian didn't look suspicious as he had seen many commoners clothed like this. So once again, Dorian became a nobody in the crowd, his enemies unaware of his hidden fangs.
This time, Dorian did not wander aimlessly in the city but headed where he had killed the gangsters the day before.
As he expected, he saw multiple groups patrol around that area as he arrived. He did not immediately attack but continued moving around them, analyzing their patterns and finding about their strength.
After close to half an hour, Dorian concluded that there were two groups of five useless thugs led by one elite, making them groups of six, as well as another group of three entirely composed of elites.
He also discovered and understood their patterns. Dorian had already chosen his target, it was one of the groups of six. For some reason there seamed to be some kind of conflicts between its members and they were quite spread out.
So Dorian waited another five minutes for them to be as far away from the two other groups as possible, and started his attack.
Dorian looked at the scattered thugs and made plans. He looked at the Elite leading the way, and decided not to attack him first because he had two others with him.
Sneak attack him would be easy and Dorian was pretty sure he would kill him, but then everyone would be alarmed.
And Dorian would rather face one elite in the end than five common thugs.
So Dorian walked toward the only thug who was on his own. The thug didn't expect himself to be attacked and only felt a sharp pain before a hand grabbed his mouth, muffling his screams and a cold blade slit his throat.
The hand disappeared, and the thug tried to cry out in pain, but nothing came. Then, he died.
But Dorian was already behind another thug by that time. 15 of agility wasn't a joke, he wasn't just 50% faster than the average human, just like 20 of strength isn't two times stronger than 10 of strength, the difference is much bigger.
So although he wasn't yet a superhuman, 15 was already nearing the limits of humans. To kill that thug, he had used knowledge from real life. The first strike to the kidneys, which would be extremely painful, then grabbing his head to muffle his screams and raise his head, before slitting his throat, destroying both his vocal cords and about anything that transmitted blood in there.
Right after doing that, he had jumped over to a group of two common thugs who hadn't heard their colleague die. Dorian stabbed the heart of one of them, twisted his knife, shattering his heart, and used his other hand to put it over the other's mouth.
The other one acted on instinct and used all of his strength to hide his neck, not even trying to bit Dorian's finger. But he felt a cold blade go through his side, reaching his heart, before shattering it too.
Dorian, who had just killed three of the group, began running toward the last three. At the same time, someone finally realized what was happening and cried out in horror. Those people may be used to bloody scenes, seeing three people getting murdered on the street still wasn't easy.
So before Dorian could reach them the three final thugs turned around and saw their dead comrades. But fatally for them, they didn't associate the running Dorian with the killer. After all, many other people were running out of fear.
Dorian thus reached them easily, and jumped at the elite. Then, Dorian was simply too quick for the elite who didn't have the time to unsheathe his sword as Dorian's dagger went through his eye.
The two thugs hurriedly retreated, but one of them wasn't quick enough and got his guts opened by Dorian's sword. The last thug looked at Dorian like he was looking at a demon and started running, crying out for help.
But Dorian was way faster than him and he caught him before he could even make ten meters, ending his life.
Dorian then hurriedly went to pick up his dagger, searched through the corpses and left.
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Dorian was happy with his harvest as it would last him for three days. Taking anymore would have been a waste as none of the food he saw could last more than three days.
Dorian wished he could continue doing this for the rest of the month, but after seeing today's stealth the merchants would all tighten their defense and it would become impossible for Dorian to steal again.
But this was enough for Dorian. For the next three days, he would only have to deal with the hypothermia and would only lose a point of Agility. In three days, Dorian believed he would be able to discover the whereabouts of more gangsters.
Once he killed them, he would be able to take his food from them. What was harder was finding a hideout, because once he killed any gangsters, the others would come check his house.
But he would worry about that latter, now was time for hunting. Still, Dorian checked his status to make sure his negative effects were gone away.
Indeed, all of his attributes had gone back to normal except for his agility which remained one point lower than normal.
What surprised Dorian the most though was a new icon appearing next to his skills. It said:
[New Abilities!]
The text was shining, as if it wanted to attract Dorian's attention to it. Of course, Dorian was curious about it and focused on it, causing it to expand into a window.
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[You have discovered a new feature!]
[Through previous experience and practice, you are able to learn abilities without abilities books!]
[Warning! This may only apply within your first world. Those can only be Novice abilities.]
[You can upgrade your abilities to the next level with practice, but to upgrade the rarity you need an ability book of the next rarity. But for the time you are within the first Dream World, you may use experience to upgrade the rarity of a skill.]
[Tip: learning skills on your own is slower than with a teacher.]
Dorian didn't expect such things to be possible. That would make everything easier. But that also made him doubt about something. Back when he received the [Hitman] side mission, he had refused the other one.
Because the one he chose is more difficult, it must have better rewards. At first Dorian thought that the skill books were the reward, but now that he learned that skills can be learned, and it would even be faster with instructors, Dorian began wondering what would his reward be.
Dorian pushed that out of his head as he knew it wouldn't really matter in the end, as long as he completed the mission he would get to see.
He closed the message window that opened and finally discovered what his new abilities were.
[Basic Dagger Mastery (Level 4/10)]
[Basic Hand to Hand Combat (Level 2/10)]
As Dorian looked over the skills, he felt new knowledge enter his head, again. The way he stood began changing unconsciously and Dorian felt new moves enter his head. Also, he suddenly started becoming aware of certain fatal areas on the body he was unaware of before.
Once he integrated everything, Dorian looked at his levels. He now felt the difference between a level 1 ability and a higher leveled one.
Indeed, it wasn't the amount of knowledge that changed, but he always felt a little awkward with his sword and uneasy, but now Dorian felt his moves would be a lot smoother with his dagger.
Dorian closed the system and started working. He first put on the veil he had taken earlier, hiding his entire face except for his eyes and above. Then, he took out another cloth that included a hood with it, finally hiding everything except for his eyes.
Moreover, this cloth was good because it was bigger than Dorian's body, so it allowed him to hide his dagger easily, and also to maneuver his body easily within the cloth.
Most importantly, Dorian didn't look suspicious as he had seen many commoners clothed like this. So once again, Dorian became a nobody in the crowd, his enemies unaware of his hidden fangs.
This time, Dorian did not wander aimlessly in the city but headed where he had killed the gangsters the day before.
As he expected, he saw multiple groups patrol around that area as he arrived. He did not immediately attack but continued moving around them, analyzing their patterns and finding about their strength.
After close to half an hour, Dorian concluded that there were two groups of five useless thugs led by one elite, making them groups of six, as well as another group of three entirely composed of elites.
He also discovered and understood their patterns. Dorian had already chosen his target, it was one of the groups of six. For some reason there seamed to be some kind of conflicts between its members and they were quite spread out.
So Dorian waited another five minutes for them to be as far away from the two other groups as possible, and started his attack.
Dorian looked at the scattered thugs and made plans. He looked at the Elite leading the way, and decided not to attack him first because he had two others with him.
Sneak attack him would be easy and Dorian was pretty sure he would kill him, but then everyone would be alarmed.
And Dorian would rather face one elite in the end than five common thugs.
So Dorian walked toward the only thug who was on his own. The thug didn't expect himself to be attacked and only felt a sharp pain before a hand grabbed his mouth, muffling his screams and a cold blade slit his throat.
The hand disappeared, and the thug tried to cry out in pain, but nothing came. Then, he died.
But Dorian was already behind another thug by that time. 15 of agility wasn't a joke, he wasn't just 50% faster than the average human, just like 20 of strength isn't two times stronger than 10 of strength, the difference is much bigger.
So although he wasn't yet a superhuman, 15 was already nearing the limits of humans. To kill that thug, he had used knowledge from real life. The first strike to the kidneys, which would be extremely painful, then grabbing his head to muffle his screams and raise his head, before slitting his throat, destroying both his vocal cords and about anything that transmitted blood in there.
Right after doing that, he had jumped over to a group of two common thugs who hadn't heard their colleague die. Dorian stabbed the heart of one of them, twisted his knife, shattering his heart, and used his other hand to put it over the other's mouth.
The other one acted on instinct and used all of his strength to hide his neck, not even trying to bit Dorian's finger. But he felt a cold blade go through his side, reaching his heart, before shattering it too.
Dorian, who had just killed three of the group, began running toward the last three. At the same time, someone finally realized what was happening and cried out in horror. Those people may be used to bloody scenes, seeing three people getting murdered on the street still wasn't easy.
So before Dorian could reach them the three final thugs turned around and saw their dead comrades. But fatally for them, they didn't associate the running Dorian with the killer. After all, many other people were running out of fear.
Dorian thus reached them easily, and jumped at the elite. Then, Dorian was simply too quick for the elite who didn't have the time to unsheathe his sword as Dorian's dagger went through his eye.
The two thugs hurriedly retreated, but one of them wasn't quick enough and got his guts opened by Dorian's sword. The last thug looked at Dorian like he was looking at a demon and started running, crying out for help.
But Dorian was way faster than him and he caught him before he could even make ten meters, ending his life.
Dorian then hurriedly went to pick up his dagger, searched through the corpses and left.
Dorian was happy with his harvest as it would last him for three days. Taking anymore would have been a waste as none of the food he saw could last more than three days.Dorian wished he could continue doing this for the rest of the month, but after seeing today's stealth the merchants would all tighten their defense and it would become impossible for Dorian to steal again.But this was enough for Dorian. For the next three days, he would only have to deal with the hypothermia and would only lose a point of Agility. In three days, Dorian believed he would be able to discover the whereabouts of more gangsters.Once he killed them, he would be able to take his food from them. What was harder was finding a hideout, because once he killed any gangsters, the others would come check his house.But he would worry about that latter, now was time for hunting. Still, Dorian checked his status to make sure his negative effects were gone away.Indeed, all of his attributes had gone back to normal except for his agility which remained one point lower than normal.What surprised Dorian the most though was a new icon appearing next to his skills. It said:New Abilities!The text was shining, as if it wanted to attract Dorian's attention to it. Of course, Dorian was curious about it and focused on it, causing it to expand into a window. Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting. You have discovered a new feature!Through previous experience and practice, you are able to learn abilities without abilities books!Warning! This may only apply within your first world. Those can only be Novice abilities.You can upgrade your abilities to the next level with practice, but to upgrade the rarity you need an ability book of the next rarity. But for the time you are within the first Dream World, you may use experience to upgrade the rarity of a skill.Tip: learning skills on your own is slower than with a teacher.Dorian didn't expect such things to be possible. That would make everything easier. But that also made him doubt about something. Back when he received the Hitman side mission, he had refused the other one.Because the one he chose is more difficult, it must have better rewards. At first Dorian thought that the skill books were the reward, but now that he learned that skills can be learned, and it would even be faster with instructors, Dorian began wondering what would his reward be.Dorian pushed that out of his head as he knew it wouldn't really matter in the end, as long as he completed the mission he would get to see.He closed the message window that opened and finally discovered what his new abilities were.Basic Dagger Mastery Level 4/10Basic Hand to Hand Combat Level 2/10As Dorian looked over the skills, he felt new knowledge enter his head, again. The way he stood began changing unconsciously and Dorian felt new moves enter his head. Also, he suddenly started becoming aware of certain fatal areas on the body he was unaware of before.Once he integrated everything, Dorian looked at his levels. He now felt the difference between a level 1 ability and a higher leveled one.Indeed, it wasn't the amount of knowledge that changed, but he always felt a little awkward with his sword and uneasy, but now Dorian felt his moves would be a lot smoother with his dagger.Dorian closed the system and started working. He first put on the veil he had taken earlier, hiding his entire face except for his eyes and above. Then, he took out another cloth that included a hood with it, finally hiding everything except for his eyes.Moreover, this cloth was good because it was bigger than Dorian's body, so it allowed him to hide his dagger easily, and also to maneuver his body easily within the cloth.Most importantly, Dorian didn't look suspicious as he had seen many commoners clothed like this. So once again, Dorian became a nobody in the crowd, his enemies unaware of his hidden fangs.This time, Dorian did not wander aimlessly in the city but headed where he had killed the gangsters the day before.As he expected, he saw multiple groups patrol around that area as he arrived. He did not immediately attack but continued moving around them, analyzing their patterns and finding about their strength.After close to half an hour, Dorian concluded that there were two groups of five useless thugs led by one elite, making them groups of six, as well as another group of three entirely composed of elites.He also discovered and understood their patterns. Dorian had already chosen his target, it was one of the groups of six. For some reason there seamed to be some kind of conflicts between its members and they were quite spread out.So Dorian waited another five minutes for them to be as far away from the two other groups as possible, and started his attack.Dorian looked at the scattered thugs and made plans. He looked at the Elite leading the way, and decided not to attack him first because he had two others with him.Sneak attack him would be easy and Dorian was pretty sure he would kill him, but then everyone would be alarmed.And Dorian would rather face one elite in the end than five common thugs.So Dorian walked toward the only thug who was on his own. The thug didn't expect himself to be attacked and only felt a sharp pain before a hand grabbed his mouth, muffling his screams and a cold blade slit his throat.The hand disappeared, and the thug tried to cry out in pain, but nothing came. Then, he died.But Dorian was already behind another thug by that time. 15 of agility wasn't a joke, he wasn't just 50% faster than the average human, just like 20 of strength isn't two times stronger than 10 of strength, the difference is much bigger.So although he wasn't yet a superhuman, 15 was already nearing the limits of humans. To kill that thug, he had used knowledge from real life. The first strike to the kidneys, which would be extremely painful, then grabbing his head to muffle his screams and raise his head, before slitting his throat, destroying both his vocal cords and about anything that transmitted blood in there.Right after doing that, he had jumped over to a group of two common thugs who hadn't heard their colleague die. Dorian stabbed the heart of one of them, twisted his knife, shattering his heart, and used his other hand to put it over the other's mouth.The other one acted on instinct and used all of his strength to hide his neck, not even trying to bit Dorian's finger. But he felt a cold blade go through his side, reaching his heart, before shattering it too.Dorian, who had just killed three of the group, began running toward the last three. At the same time, someone finally realized what was happening and cried out in horror. Those people may be used to bloody scenes, seeing three people getting murdered on the street still wasn't easy.So before Dorian could reach them the three final thugs turned around and saw their dead comrades. But fatally for them, they didn't associate the running Dorian with the killer. After all, many other people were running out of fear.Dorian thus reached them easily, and jumped at the elite. Then, Dorian was simply too quick for the elite who didn't have the time to unsheathe his sword as Dorian's dagger went through his eye.The two thugs hurriedly retreated, but one of them wasn't quick enough and got his guts opened by Dorian's sword. The last thug looked at Dorian like he was looking at a demon and started running, crying out for help.But Dorian was way faster than him and he caught him before he could even make ten meters, ending his life.Dorian then hurriedly went to pick up his dagger, searched through the corpses and left.
