Ozwald The Legendary Sword Assassin

Black Eye Skill

I was about to choose scout when I heard the last skill. black eye, the eye of god, the killer’s eye, these were nicknames called upon this simple, yet effective skill.

Formally this skill belonged to a trash lifestyle class that would make the player able to look for treasures and excavate them anywhere. It was considered trash as after the rough beginning of the game, most of the treasure chests in the primary territories were already opened.

What remained were the dungeon treasure chests, which players preferred thieves and assassins to open them, and some rare chests out there in the wilderness beyond the limit of towns and cities. That turned a shining class like this worthless.

However not for me, as this skill, the black eye skill, was the crown jewel of this class. this skill when used will turn the world into black and white. The enemies were black, while everything else was white. Of course if there was a treasure chest it would sparkle in golden yellow like a shiny sun.

I didn’t want it for treasure chests alone, as this skill could provide me with a wider range of scouts than the range provided by the traditional scout skill.

Although the old scout skill can give me the exact topography of any place, what I really needed was to locate my enemies and determine their numbers. As for the landscape, I could handle this myself.

Without any second thoughts I muttered:

“I choose black eye skill.”

“System Notif: player chooses black eye skill. black eye skill is learned.”

“Black eye skill: active skill. it enables the player to search for his enemies in a range of one kilometere around the player. Any treasure chest in this area will be marked by golden yellow color. Any enemy will be marked in black color.”

It was really the skill I expected, and its range was somehow disappointing to me. what was one kilometer to myself? However I also knew it had a very wide range for an initial skill in the game.

So I had nothing else to do as I finished checking my rewards, so I started to listen carefully to the world above me. After a few hours I felt bored. Although I heard some voices every now and then, lying here in this pit was something unpleasant to me.

As I had nothing to do, I thought of checking my profile page.

“Show my personal page.”

“Player page:

Player name: Ozwald the just.

Player level: zero.

Player title: The pioneer title.

Player stats:

Vitality: 5

Strength: 10

Intelligence: 1

Agility: 20

Endurance: 1

HP: 50

Attack: 50

Mana: 5

Speed: 0.4

Defense: 5

Free points: zero”

My highest stat was Agility followed by Strength. That was logic, as the two were my strongest traits as a killer.

I knew from the memories of this kid that Attack was calculated as five times the value of my strength. The same was for Mana and Defense. As for speed, it was calculated by dividing Agility over Attack.

As a start I didn’t have any complaints, as these points were equal to gaining three levels. Each increase in level was accompanied by gaining ten free points for me to allocate at my stats.

After that I examined my weapon, a plain sword that was nothing like the sword I used at the assessment test.

“Novice sword: no grade sword. Be wary not to break it.”

It was a worthless sword, but I had no other choice here. I wielded that sword and waved it to feel more disappointed.

It was way lighter than any dagger I wielded before, and its edge wasn’t sharp enough to satisfy me. in my opinion, it wouldn’t last long before that blade would break apart and lose its function.

I had to find another blade then, and I needed to find two not one. After all I had a passive skill that helped me in wielding two swords instead of one.

The easiest way to find swords and other equipment was to find treasure chests. Although I now had a skill that would help me a lot in this, I knew that wasn’t a practical solution.

The lowest sword or equipment I would find would be level five at the least. That meant I had to raise my level first, and pray for my sword to hold all this period.

The fun part here was that each time I died I would be resurrected in the first point I appeared here. that was funny, as death suddenly turned from the worst nightmare to a mere play.

Death here had no value at all, except losing one level and some of your belongings in the Inventory.

When I checked my Inventory I found it nearly empty. The Inventory here was like the storage rings I used to have at my previous life, a limited space to store things inside.

My Inventory was only ten meters in length, width, and height. It wasn’t big but it wasn’t small either. It was fit for me for now.

Night here was ten hours as daylight was thirty hours, with a whole day was forty hours. There were a couple of hours before the night completely subsided, so I began to use my new skill.

“Black eye skill.”

The whole world changed in front of me. the pit that I was hiding in was gone, and the whole world changed color to form a milky white fog that stretched towards the horizon.

I felt small in front of this fog, which made my heart palpitate. Witnessing this magical scene made me feel like I returned to my old world, however I knew this wasn’t the case here.

This was just the effect of my skill.

Amidst all this whiteness, black dots began to appear clearly. Their number wasn’t big, as I counted twenty black dots, however that meant there were twenty monsters around me.

It was wise hiding then, or else I would have to face all of them and even more.

Just before I cancelled the skill, I noticed something shining in the distance. It was nearly outside the range of my skill, but its faint color was distinguished in this white and black world of mine.

It was a treasure chest! I found a treasure chest nearby.

I tried to focus on that treasure chest, however it was outside my skill range. I barely could see it, so I memorized its place and began to scan the area again in an attempt to find another treasure chest.

However I was destined to be disappointed, as there were no other chests there except the one I barely found. I cancelled the skill and sat down thinking about that treasure chest location.

According to its distance from me, it was either inside the forest or inside the lake. Both were risky for me, with the forest being more acceptable to me than the lake waters.

As far as I knew from that kid’s memories, no player ever entered the lake waters and managed to live. The lake was full of aquatic monsters, monsters that no player could face.

According to my calculations, this chest would be inside the lake waters. However I still cling to the hope and wait patiently for the night to pass.

Half an hour before the appearance of the sun again in this world, I felt strong tremors. They were accompanied by some loud roars. There was a fight nearby, and it seemed this fight was getting closer to me.

“Black eye skill.”