Demon’s Cage

Chapter 3: Skills

Under Qin Ran’s charged attack, half of the dagger was stabbed into the pursuer’s back.

Blood flowed out the wound instantly.

“Ahh!”

The pursuer screamed, and his body instinctively moved forward.

Qin closely followed, with his left hand holding his right hand pressing down on the dagger. However, the dagger didn’t go any deeper.

“d.a.m.n, it’s stuck in his bones!”

Qin Ran subconsciously pulled out the dagger.

Poof!

Warm blood sprayed out, pouring in Qin Ran’s face and blocking his vision.

He became even more panicked with his vision blurred. He could only wave the dagger in the air crazily.

At that moment, Qin Ran only had one thought: he couldn’t give the man any time or he’d end up dead himself!

Supporting himself, Qin Ran waved the dagger with lightning speed!

Then, he heard the sound of metal puncturing flesh.

After throwing several swings with his dagger, Qin Ran was stunned to realize that he knew very clearly how to use the dagger now.

Its use wasn’t just for blindly piercing the skin!

It should be used to stab someone!

Avoiding hard bones and looking for soft muscles to stab!

Qin Ran’s body almost instinctively did that.

The next moment, Qin Ran slightly recovered from his blurred vision. He held the dagger and used his elbow as a makeshift spring.

Haha!

The dagger pierced the chest of the pursuer and was lodged down in it.

The pursuer was holding a double-edged kitchen knife and was ready to fight back, but then he unbelievably saw the dagger inserted into his chest. He fell straight to the ground.

To his death, the pursuer never understood how such a harmless guy had suddenly become so deadly.

Qin Ran was also surprised. He looked at the dead body on the ground. The pungent smell of blood lying on the ground from the man reminded him of what he had done.

Vomit!

Facing a real body, the red blood stimulated Qin Ran. As he thought of how the man was killed by himself, he couldn’t help throwing up.

After puking, he was weak and kneeled on the ground.

His runny nose seemed very embarra.s.sing.

“Have you thrown up enough yet?”

A husky voice sounded, and Qin Ran subconsciously looked up.

He saw a dusty face, and her shiny gray eyes had a look of indifference and attentiveness.

“I……”

“This trophy is yours. I won’t take it from you!”

Qin Ran wanted to say something, but she interrupted him. At the same time, the lady leaned close to the wall. Staring at Qin Ran, she walked step by step along the walls towards the exit.

She didn’t trust him!

Moreover, she was on full alert!

Looking at her actions, Qin Ran suddenly realized something.

Qin Ran didn’t say anything and made no moves. He was worried that she would misunderstand and cause unnecessary trouble.

In his current feeble state, Qin Ran didn’t think he’d be able to cope with such trouble.

Therefore, Qin Ran quietly watched her leave.

After she had completely disappeared, Qin Ran felt relieved and stood up.

“Although she’s seems cold, she’s a good person!” Qin Ran sighed.

Although the city was no longer in order, she didn’t try to take advantage of Qin’s hardships. Even though she was cold and careful, she was sincere and nice, which was at least several times better than those thugs!

After sighing, he looked at the system prompt.

It was this skill that turned him from a complete novice using daggers into an expert. This was how he killed his rival.

Qin became curious of these skills as he looked through the combat log.

……

(Label: key attack = actual attack damage X2)

“Three consecutive attacks?”

Qin Ran said to himself, then quickly turned to the skill bar.

The originally empty skill bar now had a new skill added.

As Qin Ran gazed at it, comments quickly appeared on the screen only visible to Qin Ran.

“Destructive force increased by 10%?”

Qin Ran looked at the notes, then compared the combat log with before.

He quickly went to the dead body and quickly pulled out the dagger inserted in the chest.

When he held the dagger, the familiar feeling instantly rose again in his heart, and he subconsciously stabbed forward with the dagger again.

It was like he’d practiced for thousands or even millions of times.

Whoosh!

The sound of sharp metal piercing the body could be heard.

Quickly, without the slightest tremble, the dagger was stabbed into the enemy’s chest just like in Qin Ran’s imagination.

The whole process was no different than when he had killed the pursuer.

It was totally fast, accurate and relentless!

“This is just 10%? Also, it’s possible to achieve this effect after only three consecutive attacks?”

Qin Ran whispered incredulously.

He couldn’t imagine that a 10% improvement would make such a great difference.

For Qin Ran, this 10% increase combined with strength, speed and experience. Without many years of training, it was simply impossible to achieve.

Moreover, after landing only three attacks, Qin Ran achieved a level that others would take years to reach.

Qin Ran didn’t think that he had more talent than others, or that he could be called a genius.

But in the present situation, even a genius couldn’t achieve this, right?

Qin was thinking.

Suddenly, he thought of something.

“The tip?!”

Qin Ran thought of the hint that he saw when he entered the game.

Immediately, he read through the system records –

(Hint: A new instance for players is a rare opportunity!)

At the bottom of the records, game tips were clearly visible.

Qin Ran’s eyes were drawn to the words ‘rare opportunity’ for a moment, and then he took a long breath.

“Despite this underground game being very realistic, some rules of the game haven’t changed. A rookie would never be immediately placed in extremely dangerous situations, but rather face experiences of increasing danger! If I’m able to take the opportunities, I’ll gradually obtain the power to tackle the crisis!”

Qin Ran thought.

But soon, he frowned.

He thought that if he didn’t carefully examine the corpse and search for weapons, then how would he end up?

Thinking of the possible outcomes, Qin Ran became scared.

“No wonder only one-tenth of the players survived in this ‘underground game’! I’m afraid that for those players, many of them lost their lives because they were reckless, right?”

While thinking, he leaned down and started checking the body.

Earlier when he looked at the combat log after killing the thug, Qin Ran found that he gained no experience points (XP), but he still had skills marked with the word ‘basic’.

Apparently he could enhance their level!

Plus, the game was very straightforward in its explanation: he had entered an instance.

Based on his previous game experience, he wouldn’t directly gain XP, but rather he needed to pa.s.s the current instance and complete the area to get points.

His point score would directly affect his harvest.

But how could he gain more points?

Besides side quests in the game, obtaining points relied on his performance in the game.

Also, according to Qin Ran’s understanding, his performance was determined by his monster kills, equipment, gold and so on.

For side quests, Qin Ran temporarily had no idea.

As for killing monsters, getting equipment and gold, etc., Qin Ran was very familiar with the process.

After all, shortly before he searched the thug’s body, he had already searched another one.

Moreover, he killed the second man!

The pungent smell of blood was still lingering.

Even after killing the man, Qin Ran still disgusted by the smell. However, he was getting a little more used to it.

At least now Qin Ran was no longer vomiting from it.

Moreover, he wasn’t afraid anymore.

The first thing Qin Ran picked up was the kitchen knife; as he touched it, the details of the knife appeared in front of his eyes.

He looked at it, then he put the kitchen knife in his backpack and continued the search.

Soon, Qin Ran found something new.

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