Chapter 78: Kill Stealing Some Monster Bosses
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"How about you hunt some monster beasts for me?"
*DING!*
System: Congratulations! You have successfully found The Phantom Swordsman 'Kentas'.
System: Quest initiated. You are now undergoing a basic trial to take the right of getting the Phantom Swordsman Inheritance.
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Quest Name: Loffy Beggar's Test
Quest Type: Monster Extermination Quest
Quest Difficulty: S Grade
Quest Details: Kentas is acting as beggar with an alias of Loffy to find a suitable candidate for his Trial.
Quest Conditions: Loffy Beggar is asking you to prove your strength by hunting down some monster bosses in the vicinity around the Forbidden City.
Quest Progress (0%):
-Kill
Scarlet Salamander King 0/1
Shadow Wolf Commander 0/1
Dark Crown Lion 0/1
Quest Reward:
Right to proceed to the next Trial
Quest Penalty:
Failing your Phantom Swordsman Inheritance Quest
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Shin raise one of his brows before thinking to himself. 'It is an easy Quest at first glace, but base on the names of the monsters, I can tell that they are either a King Class Monster or an Overload one at the very least. What's more, I'm currently in my enemy's home turf, so killing these monsters might become a little bit troublesome.'
Shin raise his head to look at Loffy, but before he manage to open his mouth, he discovered that the beggar that is eating in front of him earlier suddenly disappeared without leaving any trace behind.
Shin can't help himself but to curse out loud. "D*mn It!!!!"
When the players walking along the streets saw Shin's action, they can't help themselves but to ridicule him.
"Look! Another victim by the scammer beggar!"
"Tsk, didn't you see him giving that beggar a bunch of money? Tsk, That was a huge lost"
"What more, he didn't get anything in return."
"Hahaha.... That way of wasting time and money is sure beyond idiocy!"
"Is that guy for real? Did he believe that that beggar will transform into some kind of fairy or something?..... Hahaha....."
Shin ignored them and search on the online forums to find the location of the monsters that he needed to kill, and sure enough, those monster bosses are in the maps that are being controlled by the HeadHunter Guild.
"Tsk, so how am I going to hunt these monsters down if I can't even enter their territory." muttered Shin to himself as he walk along the streets.
After few moments of careful thinking, Shin decided that he still going to those places. "Heh, I am already enemies with these guys so there is nothing to lose if I wreck more havoc with them."
Shin check the time on his digital clock before putting an alarm on when the monster bosses will respawn base on the informations that he got from the online forums. Then he went outside the City to grind some EXP.
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On Shadow Stone Forest there is a group of 200 elite players fighting against a huge wolf.
"Second Unit, get ready to replace the First Unit. Third Unit get in position!" An Archer Dark Elf that looks like the leader of the group is currently busy giving out orders as he pull back the string of his bow together with an arrow. Then he channels a lot of Mana on it before releasing it.
'Archer Skill (Tier 2): Magical Power Shot'
Swoosh!
Awoo!!!
The giant wolf release a enraged howl as it was hit by that powerful arrow shot.
The intense battle reach its critical point. The originally 200 Elite Players were reduce to 20 players only. At the same time, the giant wolf's HP fell on 10% and enter its critical stage.
"Go all out! We are almost there!" shout the leader as he release a bunch of skills consecutively, targeting the giant wolf. The remaining player of the group also started to throw all the skills that they can.
Unknown to them, there is a swordsman watching all of that to happen from the dark. When the giant wolf's HP reach 3%, a silhouette suddenly jump from the grass before disappearing once again.
Then a bunch sand started appear out of nowhere, blocking the other group's field of view. The Archer Dark Elf leader is gotten confused at what is happening, then he ordered his subordinates to step back a little. From what he had remember, the Shadow Wolf Commander don't have this kind of skill.
The sand screen settled down, and the Archer Dark Elf's group saw the headless corpse of the Shadow Wolf Commander laying lifelessly on the ground. As for the item drops? Well the is nothing left behind.
It took some time for the group to process what had happened. "F*CK!!! Someone Kill Steal the Monster Boss from us! Contact all the Units in the vicinity! I want you to find the culprit no matter what!"
Then all the HeadHunter Guild members at the Shadow Stone Forest were mobilized to hunt down the so called culprit, even though they don't have any idea on who exactly is it. But base on the description that their colleagues have told them, it is a swordsman that can use a bunch of sands as a smokescreen like skill.
And when their higher-ups heard about that, a single person enter their minds. The Nameless Swordsman!
"F*CK! That guy really have some guts. Don't tell me that he honestly believe that we can't do anything to him?"
"We should send some of our Hunting Groups to teach this innocent guy a lesson."
"Looks like we have gone too easy on him. Should we teach him a lesson that he will never forget?"
"It looks like that this guy become too full of himself just because he defeated Sorrowful Leaf and his group. Let us show this kid that he shouldn't mess with a Powerhouse Guild."
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On the other hand, the man in question have no idea on what those guys are thinking. Well, he don't care even if he knew about it anyway.
Shin is currently walking towards his last and final target. He use different methods when Kill Stealing the first two monster bosses at his quest.
When he KS(Kill Steal) the Scarlet Salamander King, Shin used the 'Spirit Release' skill of his [Nephilim's Gemini Mask] to make it appear like 'they' are three people stealing the boss. Then he use his Sun and Moon Clones to hold the HeadHunter Guild guys while he is busy collecting the loots.
Of course Shin is aware that he already alerted the HeadHunter Guilds Higher-Ups because of what he have done. "Looks like I need to be more careful on the next boss. I'm pretty sure that those guys will really be on guard against me now."
When Shin arrived at his destination, what he see is a party of twenty players going against an entire group of one hundred players, and not far from them is another group of one hundred players battling the Dark Crown Lion.
Shin become curious at the first battlefield, so use one of the stealthing abilities of his [Nightwalker's Cloak] and walk stealthy at the battling groups. "These guys are quite gutsy for provoking an entire squadron of elite players of a Powerhouse Guild. Well at least, they are quite skilled."
(Are you praising about yourself?)
On the other side, the smaller group of players are being force to keep on retreating.
"Captain, They outnumbered us too much. We should give up on that Monster Boss for now." said a Human Shield Warrior(Tier 2 of a Knight) of the group as he block another bunch of arrows with his shield.
"F*ck! We are the ones that found that Dark Crown Lion! What are their right to steal it from us. Let us teach these arrogant guys that they can't be a Tyrant anywhere, Captain." said by a Human Guardian (Another Tier 2 Class of a Knight) as he send the player in front of him flying backwards.
"Stop chatting for now. Just get ready yourselves, we are going to breakthrough their defense and forcefully make our way out here. As for revenge, will think about it later." said by a Tier 2 Berserker WolfKin as he brandish his saber at the Knight in front of him, and killing that guy in the process.
Shin watch what's happening in the dark as he mutter to himself. "Hmm... Should I help these guys up? At least I can deal some damage at HeadHunter Guild if I kill some of their Elite Players, right?"
Then Shin look at the other end of the battlefield and saw that the Dark Crown Lion is almost reaching its critical point. "But before that, let us deal with that big guy first."
Shin retreated at the woods, before secretly summoning Blackie there. Once Blackie was summoned, it immediately entered stealth mode by using 'Shadow Melding'. After that, Shin circle around the battlefield and position himself behind the Dark Crown Lion, where there are few number of HeadHunter Guild members.
When the HP of Dark Crown Lion reach 8%, Shin make his move. He dashes forward as he transform his body into bluish-white light. At the same time, he pull out the [Yamato] from its sheath and slash it forward as he pass through the bodies of the HeadHunter Guild members in front of him.
Swoosh!
'Class Fighting Style: Moonlight Splitter'
Shing!
The HeadHunter Guild members didn't expect that there is a person that have the guts to steal a monster boss from them, so they are gotten off guard when Shin made his move, and resulting for them to have some casualties.
When Shin arrived at center of his enemy ranks, he immediately create another havoc. He summon Whitie who directly change at the enemies' back line.
Naturally, the leader of the group give an order to intercept the White Tiger. Unfortunately, those melee players that want to get near Whitie were repelled by a bunch of sword waves that are coming their way.
'Slayer Skill: Crescent Cleave'
'Slayer Skill: Half-Moon Slash'
'Extra Skill: Flame Burst'
'Self-Created Skill(Combined): Eclipse Cross'
The Bishops, Oracles and other support type players of HeadHunter Guild want to help their frontline. But before they manage to raise their wands and scepters, a huge silhouette pass through them, killing a bunch of their colleagues.
When the leader of the group notice what's happening at the back line, Blackie already killed a considerable amount of support type players.
"D*mn it. Third and Fourth Unit, focus all your attention on the swordsman! I want him dead!!! That guy should be the Nameless Swordsman!"
But when some their firepower shift to Shin, the later suddenly disappeared from his current location and reappear behind the Dark Crown Lion.
Shin swiftly put the [Yamato] back on its sheath, before pulling it out once again and slash it at the back of the giant lion.
Shing!
'Class Fighting Style: Quick Draw'
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Then Shin immediately enfold the [Yamato] with a blazing flame, before slashing it downwards powerfully.
'Slayer Skill: Hell Execution'
And it looks like Shin is quite lucky this time because he triggered the special effects of his 'Hell Execution' Skill.
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Roar!!!
Shin immediately activate his 'Eclipse Pulse' Skill to ward off the bunch of arrows, bullets and spells that are coming his way. Then he ignore the incoming attacks and immediately cut off the head of the Dark Crown Lion and put it in his inventory bag, together with the other loots on the ground.
When the leader of the HeadHunter group saw what Shin is doing, he become enrage even more. "Kill That B*st*rd!!!! He steal our boss and taken all the loots!!! Don't let that guy get away no matter what."
But from the looks of it, Shin don't have a plan of running away. Before the duration of the 'Eclipse Pulse' come to an end, Shin immediately use two types of movement skill consecutively.
'Slayer Skill: Sun-Ray Dash'
'Slayer Skill: Moonlight Steps'
In just blink of an eye, Shin already appeared in front of the Squad Leader. And before the later use his lifesaving skill, Shin already click his thumb and middle finger, detonating the purple barrier around him.
'Slayer Skill: Eclipse Counter'
BANG!!!
The barrier made of eclipse power suddenly exploded, inta-killing all the HeadHunter Guild members that are five meters away from Shin.
Then the entire battlefield suddenly become frozen. It is as if the time is stop moving while everyone is looking at Shin dumbfoundingly.
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Chapter 79: Battling The HeadHunter Guild People Once Again
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Shin don't give a d*mn at his enemies' reaction. He immediately sheathed back the [Yamato] and hop a few times forward, before pulling out the sword once again, and sending a blazing crescent shape sword Qi towards his front.
'Class Fighting Style: Solar Flare'
Shing!
That is the only time when the players on the other group regain themselves. Some of the melee players in front want to block Shin's skill by using their lifesaving skill, unfortunately the sword Qi is too fast for them to react, so they were devoured by it unprotected.
Shin flick his left wrist to change his grip on the sheath into a forehand grip, then the sheath transform into a semitransparent longsword that is releasing a chilling aura.
'Legacy Skill: Mondi's Style: Meteor Form'
What comes next is Shin running around in the middle of his enemies while brandishing his swords left and right. Sometimes he is deflecting some of his enemies' skills and redirecting it to those guys' colleagues.
'Quasi Epic Combat Technique: Parrying Stance'
Shin is like a Reaper of Death that is ripping off a bunch of life in the battlefield without making much of effort on it. In addition to that, both Whitie and Blackie are like killing machines that don't have any plan to stop until they kill into their hearts' content.
Those two pets are Legendary Pets that have the Life Rating of Sacred and Demonic creatures respectively. Together with that is the growth rate of these two tigers are in worshiping 110 points, so even though the levels of those two tigers are only in 60s both of their stats are almost the same as a Level 80 King Class Monster.
That is also reason why the HeadHunter Guild guys are having trouble at holding of the two gigantic tigers. And to add in the fact that their Squad Leader just have died, it is natural for the enemy ranks to currently fall in a state of panic and chaos without someone that is capable of giving out orders.
And when the second-in-command on the another battlefield discovered what's happening on the other side, he can't help himself but to become shocked at what he saw. Immediately after that, he send some of his men to help out their guild-mates.
The sudden decease of the number of the enemies is immediately noticed by the Captain of the team of 20-players. He take a quick glance at the other side of the battlefield and discovered that Dark Crown Lion is nowhere to be found, and what replace it is a pair of gigantic tigers that are slaughtering the members of the HeadHunter Guild left and right.
Naturally, some of his teammates discovered what is happening too. At first, they thought that those two tigers are new monster bosses. But when they look at the battle more carefully, they notice a swordsman killing off a bunch of HeadHunter Guild Elite Players in an effortless manner.
"Eh!? Who is that guy? Have he gone insane? Going against the HeadHunter Guild alone?" said the Human Shield Warrior.
"Tsk, don't you see what's happening? He has the strength to back it up, so what's the deal?" rebutted by a the Human Guardian.
The Captain of the group observe Shin a little more before saying to his team. "Alright, put yourself together. We are going to breakthrough these guys now."
"Eh!? Are we really going to leave that guy here?" said by a Female Human Bishop (Tier 2 Class of a Priest) of the group.
"Don't get carried away, Maple Leaf. That guy will be fine even if we don't help him." said by the Female White Elf Elementalist of the group which is also in Tier 2.
"And we can't stay on this place any longer because this guys reinforcements are going to arrive here anytime now." added by the Captain of the group.
Moment later, they started to charge through the HeahHunter Guild members that are surrounding them. And successfully break through them.
The second-in-command of the HeadHunter Guild people ignore the 20-man team and focus all of his forces on attacking Shin. He didn't even bother to send some of his troops to chase after them.
And because of that, Shin started to feel some pressure. 'Tsk, these guys are really not easy to deal with. And they are starting to get annoying.'
Shin took a quick glance at where the 20-man team is battling and saw that they have already broken though their enemies' encirclement. 'Oh... So they are already out. Then I guess I also need to get out of this place too. If I continue to linger here for a little bit more, these guys' reinforcements might arrive here.'
Then Shin release a bunch of sand that surrounds him and extends up to 5-meter radius around him.
'Equipment Skill: Sandstorm'
Then he do some silent chants to unsummon Whitie, while Blackie use 'Shadow Melding' and disappeared at the sights of HeadHunter Guild members.
After that, he channels the power of Eclipse at the [Yamato], before brandishing the sword forward, and sending powerful sword wave towards his front.
'Slayer Skill: Eclipse Slash'
Swoosh!
All the HeadHunter Guild members in the path of the sword wave are devoured by it. The second-in-command guy become even more enrage after seeing that. He gave an order to the range players to throw all of their skills at the sand screen.
And when the sand dust settle down, what greeted the entire group is an empty space. No corpse and no items, there is nothing there at all.
"F*CK!!! We have been tricked! Contact the other groups, and tell them that the Nameless Swordsman is here!"
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Shin is dashing in the woods under the 'Undercover' Skill of his [Nightwalker's Cloak]. He look for a secluded place, before taking out a return scroll for Forbidden City.
But before Shin manage to rip the scroll, he suddenly felt that there is someone enters his 'Sensing Circle'. He immediately disregard the idea of using the scroll, as he take a cautious look at his surroundings.
'Hmm.... A Thief related Class? What race could this one belong to?' While Shin is checking out the surroundings, he suddenly felt an intense killing intent that is coming from his back.
Shin immediately hop forward before spinning his body around midair, as he throw powerful kick with his right leg at whoever is coming. At the time, he hold his sheathed sword in a reverse grip manner as he raise it in front of his chest.
'Equipment Skill: Paralysis Bite'
Pa!
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'Dual-Wielding Style: Sheath Wielding: Defend'
(First appearance Chapter 38)
Kling!
Shin's kick successfully landed at his assailant's body, while the sheath of his sword blocked the dagger that is targeting his heart.
'What the!?' A male Specter Assassin suddenly materialize right in front of Shin, as he look at the later with astounded gaze. Then he immediately use an anti-CC skill to remove the stun effect of the 'Paralysis Bite', and escape his current predicament.
'Assassin Skill: Shadow Escape'
Bwoosh!!!
The Specter Assassin's suddenly exploded into a bunch of black smoke. Shin on the other hand, jump backwards as he trying to locate his assailant.
And while Shin is busy scanning his surroundings, a huge shadow cover Shin's body from the sunlight that is coming above. When he raise his head, what he saw is a huge gorilla descending towards him.
After the brief disruption, Shin continue looking for the Specter Assassin. Which also made the later to become confuse. 'Is this guy out of his mind? Did he think that he can withstand the impact when my 'Metal Armor Kong' descended at him?'
But when the huge gorilla is about the descend at Shin, a Black Tiger with a body size that didn't lose to the gorilla suddenly appeared out of nowhere and pounce at the descending Kong.
ROAR!!!
The Specter Assassin that is waiting for a right time make his move failed to hold his breath when he saw that. And that slight mistake is enough for Shin to pinpoint that guy's exact location inside his 'Sensing Circle'.
"Got you!" Shin immediately transform into a bluish-white light that dashes towards the Specter Assassin.
'Slayer Skill: Moonlight Steps'
Swoosh!
When the Specter Assassin saw the stick of light coming his way. He immediately use another retreating skill, since from the information that he got, this stick light is very dangerous.
Well unfortunately, this guy is unaware of the complete skill set that Shin have.
The Specter Assassin disappeared at his location and reappeared 10-meters away. By the time he materialize on that place, he saw the stick of light pause a little before continuing to chase after him.
'What the hell was that skill? And how the heck can he pinpoint my location?' The Specter Assassin was startled at what he are seeing. Then he want to retreat more when he discovered that a number of poison needles landed on his body. "Huh!?"
'Equipment Skill: Scorpion Sting'
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Shin used this Skill at the interval of when the 'Moonlight Steps' ended, and before he use the 'Moonlight Splitter' skill.
The Specter Assassin's stealth mode is remove after being hit by that attack, but the Poison status effect is ineffective against him, since he is an Undead which is immune with these kind of dark type status effects.
He want re-enter stealth mode, but unfortunately Shin who is in a bluish-white light form is already upon him. He is forced to dodge sideways, by doing a side-flip to his right.
Shing!
Shin cancel the skill and forcefully stop his tracks, before thrusting the [Yamato] towards the Specter Assassin's direction as he dashes forward.
'Extra Skill: Sword Rush'
Whoosh!
The Specter Assassin spin his body as he move sideways to dodge Shin's charge. At the same time, the former also throw a horizontal slash with his dagger at Shin's belly as the swordsman is brushing pass him.
'Assassin Skill: Shadow Strike'
Shin didn't get panic at the perfect counter, he just hold the sheath of his sword with his left hand as he position it diagonally in front of his belly.
'Dual-Wielding Style: Sheath Wielding: Defend'
The sword-sheath and the dagger collide briefly with each other.
Clang!
Shin immediately turn his body around to prevent the Specter Assassin to enter stealth. The later on the other hand, didn't recklessly use a Stealth Skill in this distance, since he can already guess that Shin have some kind of sensing skill or ability.
"Are you alone? Do you think that a single Potential Ranker is enough to handle me?" said Shin as he look at the Specter Assassin cautiously. From what he can observe, this guy is not simple as he seems.
"Heh! Don't put me on the same level as those guys that you have defeated. I am not an ordinary Ranker like them." sneered the Specter Assassin.
Then he pause for a moment to take a battle stance, before looking at Shin fiercely while saying. "On the other games, other people call me the 'Berserk Thief', so you should prepare yourself for I am not afraid of a head-on melee battle."
Shin smirked at the Specter Assassin and said after noticing the crimson skull emblem on the left side of his chest. "Heh, You HeadHunter people really like to talk a lot before having a fight. How about you ask us if we are interested at what you are about to say first, before taking about it? Well, I still don't care about it either way."
After saying that, Shin swiftly swing the blazing [Yamato] leftwards, creating a crescent shape sword Qi that is made of fire and fly towards the Specter Assassin direction.
'Extra Skill: Flame Burst'
"Heh, cheep tricks." sneered by the Specter Assassin as he spread his arms to the side, before swinging the both of them forward, sending a crescent shape energy wave of his own.
'Special Assassin Skill: Soul Breaker'
BOOM!!!
After the explosion, both Shin and the Specter Assassin simultaneously jump forward, planning to engage a melee battle with each other.
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Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
425 Power
stone 
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