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Chapter 17 – Human Earning
I turned my back on the guy and escaped, leaving him alone.
“Huh?”
The guy let out a confused voice.
No wonder.
Five of the six men in his party had been killed, and the party was in a state of collapse.
I had already gotten rid of five of them in a matter of seconds, so there was no reason for me to run away from the last one.
Seeing that I was really ‘escaping,’ he finally let his guard down and came at me with a slash.
But my escape timer had gone off.
After a moment of darkness, I appeared a few meters away.
‘You managed to escape.’
‘No experience gained.’
‘No SP gained.’
‘You did not receive any mana coins.’
‘You dropped 5,971 yen!’
“But I still lost the money!”
But that wasn’t the important part.
I looked back and saw,
“――No way! So you lied to me about getting the elixir!”
The girl said a line that sounded familiar.
In response, the guys said the same line as before, and the flow went in the same direction as before.
I involuntarily looked at my smartphone.
The time on the screen was… not back.
Time had moved forward.
In other words, time had not gone back, only their state had been reset, and they were “replaying” from a short time before the battle.
I wouldn’t have to see the performance through to the end.
This time, I surprised them,
“Purple Electric Earth Running Jutsu.”
And I defeated three of the six.
But this time, I didn’t kill them.
‘Knockout.’
When a target is hit by an attack that reduces its HP to zero, it is left with only one HP, rendering it inactive.
With this skill, the three low-HP rearguards were suppressed first.
The remaining three vanguards probably had less than half their HP left.
Another shot of Purple Electric Earth Running with Knockout knocked out two of the three vanguards, leaving only one.
Tsk, weren’t those two clean shots?
“W-wait?”
I think he said something like that a while ago.
But once I have an idea, there’s nothing I can do about it.
Unlike monsters, I can’t get SP, money, or drop items from hunting these guys by respawning them with ‘Escape.’
So there is no point in earning from ‘Escape.’
But there was one element that could be used to earn.
“There might be a special condition.”
There might be a special condition like “Kill XX number of humans in a row.”
Unlike monsters, there should be rare opportunities to earn the number of humans killed in a row.
Or rather, I would be in trouble if it happened often.
Since knocking them out with one HP would not count as killing them, it is necessary to “kill” them properly, as in the first case.
Just like the special condition for the number of slimes killed, I know that resetting with ‘Escape’ will not restore the number of kills.
In other words, reset with ‘Escape,’ destroy (kill) five people, reset with ‘Escape’… Repeat this process to increase the number of humans killed.
However, the reset effect of ‘Escape’ does not extend to time, so the time will advance if I repeat the process.
If it takes too much time, the time of the report and the girl’s testimony may contradict each other.
However, as one of the superficial men said earlier, it should take no more than a few hours for the inspector of the Explorers’ Association to be sent after receiving the report.
“――Don’t think badly of me. I’ll use you to earn, scumbag.”
I smiled wickedly and muttered, turning my back and escaping.
After doing exactly 20 sets of 5 people at a time,
‘Confirmation of special condition completion. You’ve acquired the skill “Kill one, kill a hundred, it’s the same.”‘
“Good!”
I ‘escape’ while striking a triumphant pose.
Congratulations!!!────────────
Special Condition Achieved: “Kill 100 consecutive Race: Human.”
Reward: “Kill one, kill one hundred, it’s the same” skill set.
Acquiring “Kill one, kill a hundred, it’s the same” will grant you the following skills included in the set.
Assassination Technique.
Thought Acceleration,
Disguise.
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Assassination Technique 1
A special technique to kill people efficiently by using the structure of the human body and human psychology.
Race: Increases the damage and critical strike rate by (S.Lv x 5)% against a target that has a shape similar to a human. It also kills the target instantly at a rate of (S.Lv x 3)% if it hits a vital point.
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Skill───���──────────────
Thought Acceleration 1
Increases the speed of thought by (S.Lv x 3)% when danger is imminent.
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Skill──────────────────
Disguise
When others use a skill that allows them to read your status, they will receive dummy information. Dummy information must be set in advance.
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I’m glad the required number of consecutive kills was only 100.
If it had been 400 like the slime, it would have been difficult to achieve.
Now that my mind is completely in the earning mode, I must not forget the situation at hand.
A girl I saw in the shop earlier had been tricked by a group of scum explorers and was about to be violated.
Shallow playboy――no, it’s disrespectful to the well-meaning playboys to call them that.
I’ll call them scum again, but after killing 20 sets of scum, my pent-up anger has subsided to a reasonable level.
I make the respawning scum crawl on the ground with Purple Electric Ground Running.
The synergistic effects of adjusting the range of the Purple Electric and the Preemptive Attack, First Strike, and Surprise Attack allowed me to keep them all within one-punch range. The effect of the ‘Assassination Technique’ I just learned should also be on board.
Just to be sure, I’ll use ‘Appraisal’ to make sure everyone’s HP is at 1.
It seems they can’t talk when they’re incapacitated, so there’s no danger of them making unpleasant noises.
While these guys have given me some useful skills, this is what it is, and this is what it’s all about.
There is no reason to let these despicable criminals off the hook.
If anything, they should be grateful that I let them live even though I was granted the right to self-defense.
It would have been a hassle to bring them back to the surface, so there would have been no danger or consequences if I had killed them… What I should focus on now would be the feelings of the girl who was the victim.
“Are you okay?”
The girl stood there stunned. I called out to her in a way that sounded as gentle as possible.