My Emperor's Sword

Chapter 33: Skill Successor

After Shesmu found out about the wolves' hideout, he immediately turned back to the direction of where he left his comrades.

Same as before, Shesmu jumped from one tree to another until he reached the clearing. He deemed this method of traveling to be faster as he wouldn't aggro the monsters that roamed below him.

The wolves' corpses have already disappeared and the only one who sat on the clearing under the moonlight was DepressedRyan.

"Hey, Shesmu. Did you find anything? I searched for half an hour and couldn't find the dungeon, so I gave up and came back."

"Yeah, I found the cave."

DepressedRyan's eyes turned wide before he exclaimed.

"For real?! For a second I thought that no one will find it. It's night and not many monsters are active, so I assumed that it will be hard to find their cave."

"Well, I found two wolves bringing back meat in their mouth, so I just followed them."

"That's lucky. Well, if we got to find the dungeon then everything is well. Now, we just need to wait for Leo before we raid the dungeon."

DepressedRyan became irritated before he continued, "But what the heck is wrong with Omega9. We are in a party but we can't send messages to each other, what kind of bullshit is that?"

Ah, that. Well, we are in the tutorial after all, and it's not like we're actually a party recognized by the system. We need to wait until we reach the tower before unlocking that feature.

"Maybe it's just a tutorial thing," Shesmu explained. "It would be pretty dumb if we lose contact with each other every time someone is lost or died in a raid."

"Yeah, maybe," DepressedRyan responded. He then pondered for a few seconds before he asked, "We don't know when Leo will come, so we'll just be wasting time if we wait here indefinitely. Rather than just waiting, can you please help me train that Empowered Slash Cancel you always use?"

Shesmu was surprised for a second by DepressedRyan's question before he just smiled.

"Sure, but are you certain about that? I thought that you were going to be an assassin."

"Well, I do want that, don't get me wrong, but- I think that the ability to chain my normal attack to skills that fast would help me even as an assassin."

"Hmm, sure then. Let's do that." Shesmu unsheathed his sword and got into a battle position before continuing, "get ready."

DepressedRyan nodded his head at Shesmu and unsheathed his dagger before readying his stance.

"I'm going to do it once, so look attentively. Imagine that there is a creature in front of you that you want to kill. Materialize it in your head and then perform the technique. Do you understand me?"

"Yes, I do!"

"Good."

With these words, Shesmu closed his eyes for half a second before he reopened them. In front of him, the same white humanoid misty creature that he fought at the tutorial building appeared. Shesmu raised his sword and performed Empowered Slash Cancel, successfully hitting the white shadow twice.

After making a successful attempt, Shesmu breathed out and the misty creature disappeared.

"Now, do it!"

DepressedRyan closed his eyes like Shesmu did, and reopened them again. Even though Ryan's eyes looked at Shesmu, the latter knew that they weren't focusing on him. Ryan's eyes saw a world of his own, separate from the real world.