In front of the mansion door, Quinn opened the system shop:
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99470 G[2.75X G]
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273542 G
All Equipment Consumables Materials
Blank Note Of Wonder 100 G
Zero-point Rapier 34000 G
Exclusive Healing Potion 1500 G
Steel-thread Dagger 29000 G
Demon King's Black Blade Of Eternal Fire[Locked]
18799380 G
Short Sword Of The Exiled Guardian 173810 G
Legendary Alchemist's Potion Of Eternal Life[Sealed]
999999999 G
...
"What."
'What is it?'
"The insane amount of money required to buy those two items is what I'm talking about. The legendary potion needs what seems to be the maximum amount of G I can hold," Quinn said with a baffled tone. "And the amount of G I had also jumped up... I had just a bit under 100k"
'Use inspect on them if you are so awe-struck by the items.'
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[Demon King's Black Blade Of Eternal Fire]
Item Rank: Transcendent
Type: Colossal Sword
A black blade made from the Singular eye of the 22nd Demon King and its inflammable blood of Eternal fire which was said to be covering the Demon King's whole body, tormenting it for its entire life until the Goddess of the vampires killed it, ending its tyranny and freeing the spirits and relocating them into her Demonic Heaven.
A wandering Divine Smith later found its charred corpse almost entirely burnt to ashes, with only a Singular eye left behind, and forged it into a unique weapon that could slay the weakest of the Gods with just one swipe.
[Legendary Alchemist's Potion Of Eternal Life]
Item Rank: Transcendent
Type: Comsumable
Maleek Zegnir was the famed Alchemist of Zegnir who sought the Child of the World Tree Thalkuli which was said to be visible to the Gods of other worlds. The tree received the blessings of thousands of Gods and Goddesses and finally became undying. Before the corruption of the world of ---. Maleek drilled to the roots of the eldritch World Tree and plucked the deepest root which resembled a human child.
He brought the root back to his research centre and combined the root with what he thought would make an Elixir of Life. Though he was but an Alchemist... the ones who fail countless times to make wonders happen. He failed the ratio and multiple other conditions to make the Elixir and caused an explosion of the scale of a continent which would cover 40 percent of his realm.
Before the realm could fall apart, the thousands of Gods who gave their blessings to the World Tree, made an effort to keep the world together and retrieve the Elixir, although the fall of the realm of Maleek Zegnir was inevitable.
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'The wikipedia page description goes crazy~. I wonder from how long ago this happened; and where.'
"Why's the part after the world blank? Is it because the name is lost or they don't want me to know?" Quinn questioned. "And the title I got from the new skill... and, of course the title system."
[Assassin Of The Eternal Darkness]
Rank: Ex
Effect: 20% buff to attack power and 30% movement speed buff in the dark. The effects grow stronger with the darkness(Maximum 50 percent boost in both respectively in Skill Eternal Darkness).
Ex Effect: 20+ Dexterity[Dexterity unlocked]
A stat exclusive to the Assassin Of The Eternal Darkness. This is a permanent effect that stays on even after the title is changed.
[The final job change has been initiated. The user's new and final job will be:
Assassin Of The Eternal Darkness]
[Previous titles which were locked will be given to the user:
Breakneck brute
Mercy killing
Merciless
A first step
Devourer I
Soul extraction novice
Precise]
[Breakneck brute]
Rank: E
Effect: +7 Strength
[Mercy killing]
Rank: D-
Effect: +7 Agility, +5 Strength and Precision
[Merciless]
Rank: D+
Effect: Onslaught after 5 consecutive kills
[A first step]
Rank: B
Effect: +10 all stats and 1.25x EXP multiplier
[Devourer II]
Rank: B
Effect: None
[Soul extraction novice]
Rank: Ex
Effect: +5% chance to extract soul core
[Precise]
Rank: D
Effect: +7% crit chance
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'A new stat now? Well, its high enough to the point where I don't have to worry about allocating AP into it for now...'
Strength: 78 Agility: 83
Intelligence: 64 Sense: 64
Stamina: 71 Dexterity: 70
AP: 18
[Inspect] Lvl 4
Dexterity: Increases the affinity of the user with melee weapons. Makes the user's body more flexible. Simultaneous actions can be performed easier with more Dexterity.
'The description is simple and vague,' Quinn sighed, 'Well, whatever. First off, more intelligence will definitely be of use now. My Skills use quite a bit of Mana...'
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Intelligence: 82
Mana: 780
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"Since it's a Race-exclusive skill, do most of the Shadows have this skill?"
'We cannot possess Abilities. We can innately control shadows and their Energy but outside of that, learning other Magic, Anergy manipulation or Abilities is not possible'
"Guess I'm an exception 'cause I'm part human."
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[Blank Note of wonder]
[Exclusive healing potion]x5
[Smithing scroll: Black knife]
78050 G
[Gauntlets of bloody briars]
61000 G
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[Gauntlets of bloody briars]
Item Rank: C+
Type: Gauntlets
Strength +18
Stamina -8
HP -150
Defence +22
Effect: a small chance to inflict BLEED on the target with an equal chance to inflict BLEED on the user.
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'I'll be giving this scroll to Andre. Get me a new cool looking dagger~!' Quinn contained his excitement, 'Let's focus for now, though...'
Quinn gazed into the abyss as he opened the doors.
Walking Into the mansion, he was greeted with blue flames on the chandeliers and a sudden voice, seemingly coming out from all directions:
"I must thank thee, foul trespasser, for cleansing my backyard of the filth... my subjects of rule, maddened by the soul-shattering vermin wandering about, they raid homes of wholesome families, kill women and their children."
'It's a monster that can talk? This is a first... how curious.'
"They spared no one... unable to recognise their own people, their own family, they killed and killed and killed... and finally reached my noble mansion." the voice grew unsteady and filled with more rage.
"They cursed me, they cut me, they hung me, they burnt me, they minced me, they twisted me, they fed me to the dogs so that I could feel every single muscle of my body be bit and mangled and torn off by the crude, uneven, filth manifested fangs of the accursed creatures...!"
"THEY! SHALL PAY!"
"OUR ENCOUNTER WAS SHORT-LIVED! BUT BE WARNED, FOUL TRESPASSER! YOU NOW STAND AGAINST RODRICK MANBANE, BORN OF THE ABYSS!"
A huge wave of white transparent energy gushed out and paralyzed Quinn. What seemed like the soul of the voice, materialized into a horrid abomination of clumps of flesh, compressed into a small human shape.
[Inspect]
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[The Cursed Anima]
Difficulty Rank: D+
Type: Demon
The soul of Rodrick Manbane, the Duke of the forgotten city, has lost all reasoning and succumbed to his hatred and grudges, and has transformed into a demon.
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"A god damned demon, huh..." Quinn said in a shaky voice. 'It certainly has been a long time since I have seen a demon,' Void spoke.
'Hey, hey, what the hell do I do now?!'
HEHEHEHEHE-EE
It cackled as it raised its hands, revealing flesh shaped into a sharp scythe in both of its hands.
Quinn, out of instinct, dodged sideways and avoided an invisible slash. 'This one's on another level even though it's two ranks below the Spectres... . Is it related to the fact that it's a Demon?'
'Quinn, Demons cannot die. Not unless you find and destroy their core—an arcane mechanism that powers thei whole being with Energy,' Void explained, highlighting the fact that they can also recover from physical attacks to a certain degree with their core still intact.
'...I beg your pardon?'
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After half an hour of chipping away at the Demon and slowly tearing it apart, Quinn finally got a glance at a yellow shine coming out from below the Demon's shoulder.
He immediately pierced its flesh and grabbed the core and crushed it.
Although it was supposed to be over, out of nowhere, a jet-black fist punched him, launching him back a few dozen metres.
"Gha-!"
[-1290 HP]
"I THOUGHT THAT THE CORE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ITS LIFE?!"
'It must have been a fake...' Void deduced, 'Do not give up hope, boy. There cannot be more than 3 fake cores inside of a body. Proceed with caution.'
The Demon let out an unpleasant and loud screech followed by a flash that Quinn just nearly avoided by covering his eyes and turning away for but a split second.
'WHY DO I KEEP GETTING FLASH BANGED?!'
Removing his arm that was blocking out the light and looking around, he found himself to be in complete darkness. It seemed like the Demon's tactic was to trap Quinn inside of an area which it considers its playground.
[Sight of the Assassin of the Eternal Darkness]
Now, with the help of his newly acquired Skill, Quinn could see as well in the darkness as well as in day-light.
"HEEHEEHEE... YOU... ARE NOT..... ALONE~" the Demon's eerie and down-right unsettling, cold whisper resounded from all directions.
"Sorry to say, but I'm with a friend—although he doesn't have a physical form; so I'm technically not alone..."
'Man, I've been waiting to say this ever since I got this skill...'
"...But, you are," Quinn raised his arms up to his sides, as if welcoming the eternal night and the despairing, overshadowing darkness that his Unique Skill procured.
[Eternal Darkness]
Depressing darkness overshadowed the already existing darkness and cloaked Quinn as he stepped back and out of the Demon's vision.
'I might not be able to experience the dark but if it is as powerful as the system describes it to be... then, there's no way that I can lose'
Quinn stretched his hand out, into his inventory and grabbed a [Berserker Blood Vial], and consumed it, dropping the vial after he was done with it. As it hit the ground, the vial made no vibrations—and thus, no sound—and the Shadows beneath seemed to absorb the vial into another dimension.
[-40 Mana]
[Gained status effect: Berserk
All incoming damage will be increased by 10%. Damage dealt and movement/attack speed will be increased by 20%]
"If you are as dumb as you look and sound, you squeaky, squishy-toy sounding fuck..." Quinn's voice echoed in all directions and confused the Demon. "Then I can end this in an instant without wasting too much time"
[-40 Mana]
Quinn appeared behind the demon and cut its neck off and continued to slash away at it with his clawed Briar Gauntlets, cutting off its limbs as it kept on regenerating.
[-40 Mana]
[-40 Mana]
[-40 Mana]
[-40 Mana]
[-40 Mana]
[-40 Mana]
And finally, a golden glow flashed from inside of the demon. Quinn immediately grabbed and tore it off of the Demon and crushed it once more.
A petrifying screech followed the disintegration of the Demon which stunned Quinn a final time.
[Level up]
[Level up]
'Just two level, huh...? Well, considering how easy it was, I guess it's not bad.'
'It is not that the Demon was weak. All Demons have destructive power. It is just that you have received such a Skill that lets you imitate us Shadows... . I suppose, it is not much of an issue since you are basically one of us—and the only one remaining at that.'
[The User will be returned to their world...]
'I still don't understand... are these Dungeons different dimensions as the system suggests by the notification?' Quinn asked.
'...I wonder,' Void spoke with indifference.