The Earth After Rebirth

He checked his character sheet and couldn't close his mouth at how strong he had become, especially the skills he had gained.

Name: Nikolai

Level 40

Race: Demihuman

Class: Assassin

Subclass: Shadow King

HP: 8000/10 000

MP: 9000/9000

Attack: 1000(+500)

PDEF: 800 (+300)

Strength: 70

Vitality: 40

Dexterity: 80 (+90)

Stamina: 60

Intelligence: 50

Constitution: 30

Equipment: Epic rank Armour robe and boots.

Skills

Dual Wielding (A ranked can't evolve): Wielding two weapons gives you an edge, the wielder does much better when both their hands are. occupied. The skill is passive.

Killing Intent (B ranked can't evolve): Allows the wielder to turn magic into a poison cloud that can chok anybody at close approximate. Uses 200 mana per second.

Shadow Step (A ranked can evolve): Allows the user to move in and out of shadows at will, making it look like they're teleporting from one shadowy place to another.

Stealth (SSS Ranked can't evolve): A great skill that was taken from the Squito King, it was originally so strong that it even eluded the system, but it's been nerfed. Uses 500 mana per second.

Death Stare (S ranked can't evolve): Thanks to the user's true blood, his eyes will cause paralysing effects on their foes. Uses 100 mana per second.

Poison Dagger (C ranked can evolve): A skill that allows the user to tap into their basilisk bloodline, and transfer poison into the daggers wielded. Careful, if the dagger is less than a legendary weapon it could be corroded depending on the rank of the skill.

Deadly Ballad (B ranked can evolve): The user's whistles are deadly to any enemies that hear it. The skill can only be ranked up through fear. Enemies should be scared of your shadow before they set their eyes on your physical body, they should writhe in hopelessness as soon as they hear your whistles. It causes internal bleeding, as its a sound that vibrates their very being.

The extremity of injuries depends on the rank. Uses 50 mana per second.

Nikolai was at a loss for words at the skills he obtained.

He hadn't even come out of his shock when he heard foot steps coming from deep within the ruins. So he took out his daggers, and hid in the shadows.

"Come out intruder, I can smell your filth."

The monks didn't even look human. It was as if they were awaken from the dead. They were skeletal, eyes burned crimson with robes that didn't fit them anymore.

"It's amusing you'd call me filth, have you looked in the mirror?" Nikolai scoffed from the shadows.

He could sense well over 5 of these things. He had a myriad of skills now, he could attack from afar with deadly ballad. So he tried it. He whistled, using his song of death.

The sound came out beautiful and almost lulling, but the damage it would cause was the opposite of how it sounded. Unfortunately for him, they didn't have much of insides to be crashed. So he didn't know how well it was actually doing.

"You dare to try and crash our souls." The voiced spoke closer than he had anticipated, then it looked straight where he was hidden, with a twisted grin or what it should've been, it continued, "found ya."

It used the same technique that almost crashed him when he entered the ruins, luckily the ruins were riddled with shadows as startled as he was, he was able to jump from there to another place.

He decided to start his attack now, hiding wouldn't do him any good. He activated the stealth skill, and walked up to them, using poison dagger he started slashing indiscriminately.

His daggers felt like they were slashing metal and not bone, he couldn't completely cut them.

"Come out you treacherous intruder and receive your punishments for the sin of desecrating this holy land."

Nikolai had no choice but to oblige, this skill used an insane amount of mana and he wasn't planning on running out.

The moment he showed himself, he was bombarded by punches and kicks that made him cough out blood.

"So, this is why it was ranked A," he said drowning his insides with a health potion.

They didn't wait for him to digest it, as they closed in, in unison. Two of them aim for his head with punches, while the others went for his legs, there was another at his back.

Their synchronised attacks were truly ironclad, they must've trained years together to be able to read each others minds without doing so. Nikolai couldn't be mad at that, he admired it.

He dissipated into darkness using shadow step, he was moving so fast that he created darkness as a tail. The monks were too slow for the shadows, their eyes followed and attacked the tail that trailed behind him.

Nikolai moved behind the ones who handled the frontal attack, he used poison dagger to scratch them, on the surface it looked like his scratching was child's play but since the wounds weren't deep the poison worked slowly to corrode them.

"You guys can have a perfect match up, what's the point if you can't catch me."

Just as he was about to embed his dagger on one of the monk's eye, it held his arm firmly blocking the attack.

"You think just this—"

Nikolai however had already lifted his other one to destroy the other eye. The eye exploded in its socket, black goo came out of it.

"I have two, dumbass."

The monk was immediately out of commission, so Nikolai attacked the rest with one goal in mind, destroy their eyes.

It was not exactly easy to take out multiple enemies, with a single tiny weakness which was their eyes. But he did it, not without damage, he receive plenty of his own. He sat there drinking potions and recuperating.

Ding!

[Congratulations, you've cleaned the lost temples of their shame. The monks thank you profusely for your mercy and ask that you take the remains of their leader back to his family.]

Nikolai walked back to the capital, he was glad the remains weren't an actual corpse. He was holding an urn that had the leader's ashes, he had been cremated. He was grateful for that.