4 New Title! (1/1)
”Give us the cash and no one gets hurt kid, nice and slow now,” About a minute after I came out of the Shadow Realm I was confronted by 3 people, all of them wielding knives about halfway through the alley, the place was secluded and in my opinion a perfect place for an ambush - unfortunately I was the one being ambushed..
”Okay..” I slowly moved my hand down into my pocket feeling around for the wallet I had stolen off the man I had just robbed - ”On the ground?” I asked, they failed to notice the small upturn of my lips in that moment, I stared at the ground - there were shadows everywhere here it was a perfect place to move freely.. but if I did that in front of them there were only two options for me, run.. or kill. I can't risk any news of my abilities being revealed, they'd be seen as insane anyway if they suddenly started raving that someone had ”Disappeared” in front of them, but it only takes one person to believe them for trouble to find me...
”On the floor you idiot kid, then turn around and walk away.” I grimanced slightly before deciding not to do anything, the Wallet hardly had any cash in it anyway I'd kept everything else in my other pocket it was lucky they hadn't asked me to empty my pockets or else I'd really be screwed. I placed the wallet on the floor before turning and walking away from them, ”Tch this kid was pretty poor Dave, we should try and get another couple..” I heard the sound of someone getting punched from behind me, ”You idiot! Get him!” I persumed he was talking to me - what an idiot calling someone by their name.. ”Meld” I pressed my hand against a wall and dived into the shadow realm almost immediately, I couldn't hear what they were saying but from their actions I could guess that they were pretty confused - after all they'd just seen a man disappear into nothingness.
”I order you to stop!” I shouted at the three 'shadows' in front of me, they instantly stood straight as if they had been caught in the middle of commiting a crime, which unironically they were, but they weren't caught. A cold smile crossed my face as I walked up to them and picked picked a knife from the hands of the middle one, this had to be fast I only had about four more minutes before I'd be thrown back into reality.. taking a deep breath I tried slicing the neck of one with the knife but I felt a cold sensation as the knife simply went through his body, I touched the shadow with my hand and it felt solid - it seems like I can only touch them with my own two hands, I can pick up objects off of them but I can't use an external object to hurt/touch them either..
Actually I had no idea if this even stopped them in the real world of if it only stopped their shadows, thinking for a second I passed my hand through a area without a shadow in the alleyway behind them to come back to reality. I was greeted to all 3 of them standing straight like they were in the shadow realm a second later they were moving forward again looking for me.. interesting.
From behind them I aimed my knife for the back of the middle guys neck, the same one I had taken the knife off - he was looking around in disbelief thinking he'd dropped it somewhere, it almost made me laugh revealing myself to them. Praying for this to work I sneaked up towards them and plunged the knife into the back of his neck, before quickly placing my hand on the ground.
”Meld.” I whispered again, I melted into the floor this time and ordered them to stop again, this time only two shadows appeared..
+10 Exp has been gained from killing Street Thug.
My hands were shaking slightly thinking about what I'd done but there was no going back now.. I quickly took the two knives from the other thugs hands and moved behind them in the shadow realm, I reached out with my hand to a piece of light on a corner near a dumpster instantly pushing me back into what I'll refer to as the Real Plane - with a lack of a better name for it.
”He's dead?!” One guy looked down at his comrade who was bleeding out in the floor and shouted, luckily we were still pretty deep into the alleyway so no one heard him but just to be safe I quickly plunged the other two knives into their necks and looked at the two new notifications I'd recieved, it was an easy way to gain 30 exp and level up.. but I didn't want to resort to murder if I didn't have to..
Sighing to myself I searched their pockets and found some cash, $334 in total, it seems they'd been doing quite well for themselves robbing people like this - it made be sigh again to think about how I was unlucky enough to have one of them be as stupid as he was. I looked at their corpses, they had no way of recovering from the stab wounds I'd given them - and I was smart enough to grab the hilts of each dagger with the sleeve of my clothing so not to leave any fingerprints but their own.. hah in a way it'd look like a suicide between three brothers.
I felt nothing looking at their corpses, I knew I should - this was my first time killing anything.. yet I felt nothing, it was if they were air - I had a hunch this was to do with my title as Ruler.. a ruler wouldn't feel a thing from having killed people who had tried to kill him would they? Maybe I was just overthinking things but I felt sure I was right.. then I saw it, out of the corner of my eye another line of text was floating in the air silently - I was startled that I hadn't noticed it before but..
Title Gained: Slaughterer (Level 1). A title awarded to the most cold-hearted of killers, you killed and watched without a hint of remorse, they had no chance to retaliate... you slaughter all that stand in your path.. (To level up this ability the Monarch should slaughter more people, in this case to slaughter means that you killed them mercilessly without a chance for them to fight back or retaliate.) This ability gives the following traits - Level 1: You can activate killing intent to pressure an opponent, this will not effect battle-hardened soldiers however please keep that in kind, additionally you have a mental resilience towards the impact murder has on your soul, you will gain no negative karma for the act of killing those that have offended you, all that offend the dignity of the Monarch must face punishment!