Chapter 223: Upstairs

Chapter 223: Upstairs

Looking at his sword Lake was happy with how clean it was and put it back in its sheath. He had noticed his sheath smelled kind of bad a few days after he had started to kill bandits and realized it was because he never cleaned his blade off before he put it away. He then looked at his stats because he had leveled up to level nine of Swordsman during his battle with the Demon Worshipers and he wanted to see how far off he was to maxing it out.

Race: Human Lv.14 ( 9/10 ) Continue reading on No_veLbIn

Job: Swordsman Lv.9 ( 1789/2560 )

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 4/5 )

Stats

Health 140

Stamina 140

Mana 570

Strength 125

Endurance 15

Agility 107

Dexterity 121

Perception 101

This could be an opportunity for him to blend in if he was able to get them without alerting anyone else but he didn't know if there was anyone else that could see this guard or maybe notice the small amount of time they would be gone before he replaced them. Lake decided he should just take a while to watch to see if anyone moved pass or if there was some kind of rotation that was happening.

After a while Lake saw the movements seemed to be kind of random and realized most of the people here were just milling about and very few of them were guards. He could also tell almost everyone here was in bed. The few that weren't were most likely undead because he was pretty sure they didn't sleep.

That wasn't something he knew for sure but he felt like it was accurate because he didn't think they needed to eat either since he had seen the ones under the Alchemist guild survive in barren tunnels. This made him think they were probably fully powered by Unholy mana.

It was a very interesting difference between them and normal people and it made him wonder if Undead were the Demon Lords version of the God of Metals dwarves. He felt it was possible that a lot of the gods had their own type of people with their own special abilities.

If he was right undead were pretty powerful with them not needing to eat or sleep and them being harder to kill. He wondered if dwarves had their own awesome abilities that come from their race and if regular humans like him had any he hadn't noticed yet. He was probably taking them for granted because he didn't realize they were special.

Seeing the person he had been watching for the last few minutes start to move he realized they were about to come into the room so he moved back into the staircase and closed the door. He guessed checking the stairs every now and then was part of their job as well and the time had come.

He felt this would be his best chance to get them in place no one else would notice and just hoped they came to come down the stairs so he could hide them here. Seeing them reach the door, Lake was already a few loops down the spiral staircase and was getting ready to attack them once they started to descend when they turned and started to walk away.

It seemed all they planned to do was look into the stairs and return to their post. Activating Mute Lake rushed up the stairs and grabbed them before they were able to leave the small room he had been hiding in. Lake sunk his dagger into their neck but he was pretty sure they were undead so he didn't think they would die from this.

Getting them into the stairwell Lake finished the decapitation then watched the arms flail for a while before he went for the core. While cutting out the core he couldn't help but think about the fact the body had continued to move after he had cut its head off, which would be impossible for a human, and that he still hadn't received any Exp meaning it was still alive.

When he saw the core he remembered the undead under the Alchemist guild again. They didn't really have a core because they were young so this was the first normal sized core he had seen come from an undead. He didn't know if that meant they had been alive for a long time or if this was an undead they had been made from a corpse that already had a decently sized core.

Thinking about the core some more made him wonder what would happen if he tried to use Impersonate with this core. Reading Impersonates description Lake didn't get much from it other than that it would probably work.

Impersonate (U) Lv.1

steal target's identity and add it to your collection.

(Uses targets core.)

He also felt that the Insider would stop him or that it wouldn't work at all if it was dangerous so he shrugged and activated Impersonate. The core disappeared from his hand and Lake took that to mean it had worked. Opening his stats Lake saw that he was indeed a different person but it said he was still human.

He didn't know if that meant he had become the person the undead had been made from instead of the undead but decided this should be enough to get to where the humans were sleeping to get a better disguise. Putting the black robe on he looked at the blood stain from where he had cut their head off and decided he needed to make his way to the humans right away.