Chapter 23: D Rank and Sleight of Hand (2)
Tartarus, Night.
Elias curled his lips into a wide smile as he looked at his own hand. He could feel a soft, invisible energy cover his hand and fingers.
At that mont, a transparent blue screen appeared in front of his sight.
[Sleight of Hand — A legendary thief among thieves. A magician among magicians. Nothing can escape from your grasp. Attention and stealth is your forte, none can notice your thievery.]
[Requirents: 1,000/1,000 Steals (Complete!)]
[(Passive: In Effect) In any attempt of thievery, the target won't notice your actions. Your hand is nimble, swift, accurate and precise, like a legendary thief. Misdirection is your domain.
(Thievery Skills), (Trickery Skills), (Agility C when stealing), (Hand Mastery), (Finger Flexibility), (Misdirection).]
[(Note: The chances of stealing unnoticed is lowered if the enemy is stronger.) (If mana is not used, the effect is considerably lower.)]
At the sa ti, Elias found new information and knowledge about thievery and trickery suddenly appearing in his mind.
Furthermore, his control of his own hands were raised to an astounding degree. He could now freely move each of his fingers with flexibility and dexterity like an expert thief.
He even has so hidden sixth sense on how to use them properly and efficiently.
Examining the changes brought by the skill, Elias sighed in genuine admiration.
It was truly magical and wonderous.
With the thievery and trickery skills in his mind along with his newfound extraordinary mastery misdirection, Elias felt like he was so sort of fictional magician that could steal anything and conjure strange magic tricks.
Overjoyed and excited, he wanted to use it at once to test its effects, however his rationality told him there was a CCTV cara in the room watching his movents.
"I'll have a chance later…"
Elias sighed in regret as he cald his feelings down. It was strange. Although he was thinking of leaving this world, he was also genuinely attracted to its wonders.
After calming his feelings down, he started to think about where the skill ca from—the will of the world.
In the world of Aegis, there exists so kind of "will of the world", a mysterious formless will that allows people to gain skills easily and power up in advancents.
Very little was known about it and its existence was still in question. However people hypothesised that such a will truly exists, otherwise where did the skills that were gained through requirents co from?
As an author, Elias also knew little of it. Of course, his knowledge was still far vaster than the people in this world.
According to him,
'The World Will was awakened when mana and dungeons arrived. Upon its awakening, sensing the danger and extinction of its inhabitants, it helped all beings—whether human or animal—in the dark and gave them skills and advancents.
When Rankers advance to a new rank, the World Will silently give them help and evolve their bodies and mana to a whole new level.
When Rankers achieve a hidden requirent, the World Will would give them a new skill to reward them for their efforts.'
Elias had experienced both; when he advanced to low D-Rank and now when he accomplished the requirents for the Sleight of Hand skill.
"Speaking of advancents, it's ti..."
Elias muttered to himself in slight excitent. After working hard for weeks straight and engaging in intense training without break, his efforts finally paid off and bore fruit.
Although hewas still short of reaching middle D Rank, but he had sothing to solve that and make him advance at the mont.
Elias muttered "system" underneath his breath.
[Hero Creator System]
[Na: Elias Vito Castellano (Elias Roan)
Race: Human
Talent: Indomitable Spirit
Rank: D-
Level: 23
Unused status points: 500
STR: D- (77/200)
AGI: D- (77/200)
STA: D- (81/200)
CONST: D- (80/200)
INT: E (51/100)
MAG: E- (43/100)
GROWTH: D (0/200)
SKILLS: [Way of Castellano], [Ferocious Underdog], [Gaze of Intimidation]....]
Looking at his stats, Elias smiled widely for a mont beforee allocated his unused status points to strength, agility, stamina and constitution at the sa ti.
"Allocate."
[Unused status points: 500 -> 15
STR: D- (200/200) -> D (0/200)
AGI: D- (200/200) -> D (0/200)
STA: D- (200/200) -> D (0/200)
CONST: D- (200/200) -> D (0/200)]
At that mont, Elias felt a qualitative change occur within his body.
[Rank: (D-) -> (D)!]
Similar to when he advanced to low D-Rank, his body experienced great changes and upgrades. His strength, agility, stamina and constitution considerably increased!
Additionally, his mana shone brightly as its quality improved and increased in volu making him more powerful and stronger.
His long, intense hard work finally paid off!
Elias now advanced to middle D-Rank and acquired [Sleight of Hand] skill at the sa ti, completing his original goals.
'Although the change isn't as drastic when I advanced from high E-Rank to low D-Rank… this is still quite an increase.'
Elias thought as he examined his own body and tried out the changes himself. He estimated that if he fought Taurus now, he could now deal so additional damage and even block an attack.
Of course, that was only if Taurus was not using mana and letting himself get hit.
But regardless that was already wonderful enough!
Taurus was a veteran C Ranker, a strong and valuable force of nature in any organisation. In the Castellano Family, he was one of his father's best subordinates.
'Finally…'
Elias sighed quietly. His two goals were now achieved, now the only thing left is to plan for his escape and execute it…
Crack!
At that mont, a sudden crack snapped him out of his thinking. He snapped his head to the corner, spotting a hole suddenly appearing in space, leading to a void.
A hole in space appeared in the corner, and walking across the space hole was a small, dwarven-like figure with a ruddy face.
"I've finished your task, boss."
Goblin said slowly as he entered the cell. He let out a tireso sigh that made people have an impression he was being overworked.
In his chest pocket, there was a large paper scroll.
Perfect timing! Elias smiled widely as he approached the half-dwarven. When he was close enough, he waved his hand slightly.
Feeling sowhat strange, Goblin was wary of his boss' approach. However, his eyes suddenly widened in surprise.
In front of him, Elias was holding the large scroll he kept in his chest pocket.
Feeling disbelieving, Goblin hurriedly checked his chest pocket and found that the large scroll had indeed disappeared.
"You have a space related skill..?"
Goblin asked, slightly curious and largely alard.
However, Elias ignored him and opened up the large scroll instead. On the large scroll, a well drawn illustration of the entire facility was displayed.
There were all kinds of detailed observations and notes, pointing out which one was more dangerous and had more security and conversely which one had less security.
As Elias studied the illustration, his lips curled into a smile that kept getting wider and wider until it reached its limit.
'With these, It's ti to escape this hell hole of a prison.'
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