Chapter 137 A Fast Attacker - Part 2: The Thief [1]
*slash*
*slash*
Many wounds were being left on Shin's body. Although his dash skill got disabled the same way as his All Seeing Eyes did, he was still able to dodge vital attacks.
Of course, he was barely able to match the speed of the attacker, however unfortunately the attacker just kept on going faster.
Shin could neither see what was happening, neither could he react properly.
But the biggest question was – Why wasn't he using the skill Heal to heal his wounds?
Wouldn't that make him faster if he were to be in his top form?
While that was true, it seemed like Shin wanted to try and do something.
Of course, something was revealed to him when he could no longer use the skills or when they got disabled.
He had a skill that could prevent his active skills or other skills from being sealed or inactivated.
He doubted that due to the low level of that skill, his other skills ended up being sealed, however, that wasn't the case.
He came to know that when he took a good look at the notification that popped up the moment the skill Dash was disabled.
'Ding'
[ Your skill Dash has been stolen ]
Yes, this was the notification that popped up.
His skill had been stolen and this was the reason why he was totally shocked and could hardly think anything straight.
The same notification popped up earlier however he failed to understand and read them because he was alerted by his instincts.
[ Your skill All Seeing Eyes has been stolen ]
[ Your skill Aero Slash has been stolen ]
Three of his skills had been stolen leaving him with only a few others.
Of course, the remaining skills were good, but the skills that were stolen were something he had gained after working hard and had developed them with a lot of hardships.
They were pretty high level after all so it was no joke to see them vanish.
He doubted so he took a peek at his profile and indeed, they were nowhere to be found.
Anger, Agony, Frustration, and many other sorts of emotions started to accumulate in his heart all of a sudden.
He knew that he couldn't do anything foolish because his skills other skills could get stolen too that was why he had to think carefully about everything before doing it.
'A way…'
'I have to find a way to become faster than this bastard!', was what he said to himself.
However, until now he had used only two things that made him faster during various situations – Dash and Wind Run.
Other than these two, he had no more skills that could actually boost his speed or something. Also, he couldn't use his skill Wind Run because that could get stolen.
He knew not how his skills were being stolen. Though, he guessed it to be a skill that allowed the attacker to steal his skill.
Also, the attacker about whom he was thinking about wasn't someone large. He or she was the same height and size as that of Shin, though, he seemed powerful and faster than Shin.
And he was capable of stealing the skill and utilizing it for himself. No wonder the attacker kept on getting faster.
Yes, when Shin heard the 'rawr', at the very moment he knew what kind of beast he was dealing with.
Though, he wondered what was such a beast doing at the place where the witch lived.
Whatever, the beast continued to attack him and if it were to continue, then Shin would be left in a bloody state.
Well, at this point, Shin was wondering if he had some clue about the beast's skill and indeed, he had a clue about it – the glow of white light. In fact, he caught up a few more things.
Whenever the beast used that skill, there would be a flash of white light from one of its eyes.
Earlier too, when Shin looked via the walls in the room, the beast was lying down when suddenly a white light flashed and his skill was gone.
The same happened when he used dash and aero slash.
However, he was able to use Dash twice, once when he closed the gap between him and the hut, and the second was when he dodged the attack from the beast and tried to increase his speed.
This was odd because if the beast was able to steal abilities even from a far range, then why didn't it steal the dash when Shin used it for the first time.
'It's because when the beast uses his skill, then it can steal only one ability at a time.'
'Since it stole my All Seeing Eyes, it had to wait before it could use the skill again…'
'Like a cooldown timer perhaps…', was what Shin concluded.
That was why Aero slash was stolen from Shin when he used it after some time. Of course, he then immediately didn't use the dash.
There was a gap between him using Dash and Aero slash so without a doubt, the beast stole it during the latter.
'Now it all makes sense…'
*slash*
*dodge*
*slash*
Shin was doing his best to prevent himself from suffering serious injuries.
'I think there is something else to his skill too…'
'It cannot steal the level of skills…'
By this Shin meant that when a skill will be stolen, the beast would gain that skill however the level will be one no matter at what level the stolen skill was with the previous being.
How did he reach this conclusion?
Well, Shin had used his skill – Dash – tons of times so he knew how much his speed would increase after using it with just his instincts.
But when he took a look at the best that without a doubt was using the skill Dash to boost its speed, he found that its speed had increased but the rate was too less.
He understood that the increase was not caused due to a level 9 skill, instead, it was caused due to a level 1 skill!
These were two main things that Shin caught onto.
However, did this mean that he lost his skills forever?
Dash had reached level 9 so it was a great loss. Well, if he had the skill he could level it up again, unfortunately, he didn't even have that anymore!
So what would happen to him now?
What would he do?
"…"
To be continued…