Chapter Forty-Nine: Annan's Curse
【Ascension ceremony completed】
[Rising to the ranks——]
Annan saw a massive stream of data in front of his eyes.
The crimson sea around them suddenly began to boil uneasily, and large bubbles bubbled up.
At the bottomless depth, black silt suddenly began to leach. Whispers and chuckles rang out along with melodious and eerie music.
Eventually, the silt hugs each other and slowly rises. A bright red glimmer slowly shone in Annan's eyes.
It wasn't until it rose to eye level with Annan that the brilliance suddenly burst into flames. It was like an airplane passing by at low altitude, and Annan's mind buzzed, and his vision completely dissipated and became pitch black.
And in the dark and lightless world, three clusters of light emerged.
They are an emerald eyeball, a blood-stained kitchen knife, and an abstract drawing of a backstab.
At this time, a new light curtain crossed in front of Annan's eyes:
[Curse Manifestation——]
[Forever Lost Eye (Perpetual Type): Your left eye will occasionally have severe pain, as if someone has gouged it out with a knife. 】
[Note: After the interval between two pains is more than three days, the duration of the pain will gradually increase, with the maximum duration of pain not exceeding 12.4 seconds and the shortest duration not less than 2.4 seconds.] 】
[Butcher's Blade (Resolved): You must kill one person each month with a kitchen knife. 】
[Note: Deal at least 10% or more of the total damage.] The kitchen knife must have cooked human food normally within the day prior to the ceremony. 】
[Stabbing Oath (Forbidden Type): You must not sneak up from behind and kill someone who trusts you. 】
[Note: "Trust" refers to the moment when the other party is attacked by you, you don't think you'll kill him, and the two of you know each other's existence.] 】
The contents of the three spells are written very clearly, and they are placed in front of Annan's eyes by the system.
But contrary to the clear negative effect of writing, choosing what power each spell will give is not written at all.
"Three types of spell binding...... ? ”
Annan muttered.
In fact, at least as far as the bronze level spell is concerned, there is nothing too harsh.
Except for the first spell that is too fatal and very easy to drag on at a critical time, the remaining two are actually optional.
The second one is very simple, basically equivalent to hacking one person to death every month, which can almost be said to be no difficulty.
After all, Annan has a special identity in hand. It is not difficult to execute a prisoner on death row in a month. Even if he really can't find anyone to kill, Annan can issue a task to the player and ask them to pick one person to die again.
What about dying once and dropping one or two levels?
Annan directly compensated him for the experience of being able to upgrade to the third or even fourth level, and brought a personal favorability of five hundred, isn't this fragrant?
At that time, I am afraid that the players who come to send off the heads will definitely be gongs and drums, firecrackers and red flags, and there will be a sea of people.
And the third spell is not very difficult to avoid.
Although this cannot be betrayed, it is a bit difficult for Annan...... With Annan's way of doing things, it is easy to violate this article.
But fortunately, this spell is still very lenient in terms of "backstabbing". The so-called "the moment the other party was attacked by you, he didn't think that you would kill him"...... That is, as long as he declares that he will kill him before betraying again; Or you can avoid this by subduing the opponent instead of killing the opponent after backstabbing.
However, Annan thought about it and chose the second one.
Not because of anything else.
Just to pave the way for the next promotion.
After all, although the third article seems to have little impact now...... However, in subsequent progressions, you may receive a new spellbinding for each advancement. It is likely that they will hinder each other and further limit Annan's backstabbing behavior.
And the most important thing about the spell is secrecy.
It's best if no one knows about their spell except the Secret Keeper...... Or even if you know it, you can't crack it.
Then, once Annan began to act restrained, it would be easy for any one of his enemies to guess what his curse was after they had investigated Annan's behavior patterns.
Instead, it's a dissolving spell, and although it seems to be mandatory, it's better to resolve. It is also the least likely to conflict with other spells.
So......
As Annan's heart moved, the blood-stained bubble began to expand rapidly, quickly engulfing the other two bubbles, and the contents gradually turned cloudy red, then slowly turned black, and then turned into a small black sludge again.
Then, the sludge flew over and stuck to the position of Annan's right forearm, and began to flow slowly...... It's like something carved into the skin of your arm.
Wherever it flowed, there was a corrosive pain. and left a pure black scar visible to the naked eye.
It was as if the skin was naturally cracked and the interior was void...... There was not a trace of blood, dim and deep.
The shape of the scar is like an abstract broken sword, and it looks like a zigzag circuit.
And Annan's eyes once again flowed with new words:
[Butcher's Blade: Attached to a bladed weapon (blades cannot be longer than 1.5 meters), no maintenance cost, 30 minutes cooldown after contact]
[When attacking an edible creature (meaning that it does not die after eating), if an attack does hit and deal damage, and is not blocked, parried, or tilted on the way, the sharpness and hardness of the weapon are considered to be temporarily doubled when the target is repeatedly attacked.] 】
[This effect stacks infinitely, with a built-in cooldown of 2.4 seconds.] When two stacks of effects are stacked on other enemies, all other blessings are reset to zero. 】
…… It seems to be not bad.
Annan's eyes lit up.
This is a fairly practical ability.
This ability can be described simply as ......
…… A Flesh Unit Special Attack version of the Black Cutter?
For most enemies, as soon as Annan's weapon damages an enemy, the sharpness and hardness of his weapon begin to increase rapidly. As long as he can bypass the opponent's weapon or shield and hit the opponent once or twice, he will become significantly stronger.
Until his weapons are strengthened enough to cut through enemy weapons and sever enemy shields with a single sword.
This means that even if Annan is armed with two kitchen knives, after a few rounds of fighting, he can use a sword storm to shatter the enemy's weapons and armor.
However, it seems that this does not seem to be suitable for that kind of wide-open and wide-closing style of swordsmanship.
It's a bit of a good fit for the kind of light and nimble technique fencing.
The weakness of the blade of the Rapier or the Stabbing Sword can be completely compensated for by this weapon. As long as Annan can quickly damage the enemy several times, he can strengthen his weapon to a very surprising degree - even directly through the shield or armor, directly killing the enemy.
And the first thing that Annan thought of was his frost swordsmanship.
The trigger condition for this ability is "Deal Damage", not necessarily "Bleed". And the sword qi from the Frost Sword Technique cannot be blocked or deflected......
So if Annan starts to slash down with a sword frost swordsmanship, will he be able to trigger a layer of buff stably?
The only downside is that apart from the main target, which can stack infinitely, everyone else can only stack up to one layer.
It's a pity that you can't be monkeys in this way......
After being branded with black mud, Annan lost consciousness again.
When he woke up, he was back in the real-world Frozen Water Harbor.