Chapter 3.1: Part 1

『 Information Engraving Complete. 』

The paper that began to blur soon became blank.

Only then did I tear my gaze away from the paper.

Then I recalled Adel's talents and traits that were engraved in my mind.

I closed my eyes and organized the information.

'So these are Adel's traits and talents.'

Adel's traits were clearly fraudulent, but there was something sinister about them.

Traits and talents that were specialized in 'assassination' alone.

After all, he was a character that was set to fit the code of an assassin from the very beginning.

[ Arsene Adel ]

: Race - [ Half Demon ]

: Tendency - [ Chaos ]

: Talent - [ Position Exchange 'Ⅰ' ]

: Trait - [ Interest ] [ Absorption ] [ Killing Intent ] [ Darkness ] [ Mana Manipulation ]

: Mana - [ 341 ]

I stared at Adel's status window.

I seemed to know how to use the traits and talents that I had vaguely felt.

First, the most basic Mana Manipulation.

"Hoo."

I slowly drew up the mana that was crouching in my lower abdomen as if exhaling it.

An unknown aura that spread out around me and flowed through my blood vessels.

With this, I succeeded in 'Mana Manipulation'. I felt a surge of energy throughout my body and twirled my arm around.

As expected.

A small amount of uncontrolled aura was trying to burst out.

Swoosh.......

I moved my index finger to add color to the mana that was flowing out.

The black color that was applied to the mana.

The manifestation of [Darkness], one of Adel's traits.

"Success."

My eyebrows twitched with a strange sense of excitement.

The manifestation of a trait that was so difficult to sense, no matter how hard I tried to handle it.

But with just one 'engraving' from the paper, I succeeded.......

"Is it too vague to call it a success?"

Originally, the Darkness trait is one of the strongest traits for assassination.

Normally, it would be able to deprive the opponent of their five senses just by spreading it out, but.

But I could only paint a darkness the size of my hand, let alone spread it out.

"Even so, it's not bad."

One thing was for sure, it was not a bad situation.

It was enough to cover the tattoo that proved my succession to Arsene.

Slash.

The moment I fused Mana and the Darkness trait, a black water drop formed on my index finger.

I lightly spread it over the tattoo on the back of my neck, covering it perfectly.

A tattoo that was perfectly hidden by being painted over with black mana.

"This should do it."

I turned my head away with a satisfied smile.

With this, I had acquired the usage method for the 'Darkness' attribute.

All that remained was how to apply the Darkness attribute.......

But I didn't have enough time to practice that right now.

The Six Families' Knights would reach me in just a day.

For now, I should practice using the other attributes first.

"Let's start with Killing Intent."

Killing Intent is a natural aura that emanates from the body.

It's something that those who have killed numerous lives and mastered killing intent possess.

However, Adel was able to use Killing Intent as a trait.

I looked in the mirror and glared.

".........!"

Ha, a snicker escaped my lips.

A young child who hadn't even reached adulthood yet, glaring.......

If it were anyone else, they would've been laughed at, but this was my face.

Thud, thud.

For some reason, I felt a sense of self-loathing as I slapped my cheeks and opened my eyes sullenly.

Let's try again.

"Like scattering mana......."

I split the mana that was gushing out into a powder form using [Mana Manipulation].

Soon, the mana that had been transformed into powder spread out in all directions.

Cringe.

A creepy aura that made my flesh crawl.

My eyes, which had been gentle, transformed into those of a wolf hiding its fangs.

Of course, it wouldn't be useful in an actual battle with a strong opponent.

But against ordinary people who hadn't mastered mana and swordsmanship.......

'It's worth a try.'

If I polished my [Killing Intent] trait, I would definitely reach a level where I could subdue a knight with just my aura someday.

I remembered it because it was something I had written myself to show off Adel's strength.

Of course, right now, I couldn't even defeat a single trained soldier, let alone a knight.

"Now there are only two left."

I stared at the Status Window while suppressing my Killing Intent.

There were many attributes in the status window that I hadn't tested yet.

Two attributes that I didn't necessarily need to use. And one very important talent.

[Interest] and [Absorption]

Attributes like these were like a personality, so I didn't need to test them separately.

Then, the one I should practice first is.

- [Position Exchange 'Ⅰ']

The 'talent' that put Adel in the position of the strongest villain.

An ability that was not inferior to the main characters of the novel.

'Even I think this is ridiculously fraudulent.'

Adel's talent, [Position Exchange 'Ⅰ']

When used, it can exchange the location of a designated object with its own.

The explanation ends here.

It was a very simple ability.

Simple, yet an ability that one could immediately notice was fraudulent.

No matter how one imagined it, it was ridiculously overpowered in actual combat.

A power that an opponent with no prior information about the ability could not even react to.

It was clear that it was an unparalleled assassination technique.

'Seeing is believing.'

I got up from my seat and used Position Exchange.

"Designation."

As I muttered the incantation, dozens of arrows shot out.

Whoosh.

I stared at my feet and saw the arrows starting to shoot out.

'It's about five Pyeong in range, I guess.' [T/N: Pyeong is equivalent to approximately 3.31 square meters]

A slightly disappointing performance.

Compared to the range of several thousand steps that the original Adel had displayed, it was a very short distance.

It must be because the Position Exchange's proficiency was still at level Ⅰ.

As I grow, the range of the arrows will expand even further.

Then I will be able to apply this talent in more diverse ways.