Into the darkness

Oliver's POV

"This place looks uglier than I expected."

I look at my surroundings in disgust. I walk towards a lake at a distance to look at my reflection. Under the moonlight, a tall and lean young man states back at me. He had crimson red eyes that seemed like deep pools of blood. His white bangs were parted sideway and his hair reached shoulder. When I smiled, so did he, a pair of white fangs sits on top of his lower teeth.

This is me. This form bears a striking resemblance to my previous one. Other than the pointy ears, fangs and red eyes, it is the same. If I say something like status, would my stats appear? I say it out and a status screen magically appears before me.

[Status]

Name: Oliver Smith [Participant 100]

Species: Vampire

Condition: Normal

Level : 1/100

Hp : 50/50

Mp : 100/100

Attack : 25

Magic : 30

Agility : 20

Defence : 5

[Unique Skills] :

[Skill Taker]

[Skills] :

[Call Lv-1] [Claws Lv-1] [Low auto regeneration Lv-1] [Vampirism Lv-1] [Anesthesia Bite Lv-1] [Mana drain Lv-1] [Life drain Lv-1] [Transformation Lv-1]

[Titles] :

What's this, [Skill Taker] has caught my eye.

[Skill Taker]

[Take away your target's skill as you take their life]

This totally suits me! I would even say it's the perfect unique skill!! Ahh I'm filled with great joy! Who shall be my first target? Ahh, I really want to test this out on the last participant! It's all because of it that I had to wait so long to have fun!

"Y... You there! Pre.. Prepare yourself, for you shall become eliminated!"

A quivering voice interrupts my thoughts. How annoying of it! I turn around to face the owner of the voice and a young man stands before me. He holds out both hands, with rings of fire around them.

So he plans to burn me to death? First he interrupts my sweet thoughts and now he demands a fight from me?! I shall teach this idiot a lesson! He is clearly asking for death!!

He launches two fireballs at me, but with my agility, I easily dodged them. At a state of shock, he freezes, showing an opening for me to attack him. I run behind him and kick him as hard as I could, making him fall face first to the ground. He groans in pain but that only made it more satisfying. No one is going to come save you idiot!

I sink my fangs into his neck begin drinking his blood. Before he drinking all of his blood, I lift him up by his hair and throw him to the ground. I allowed him to see my face clearly as I hold him by his hair once more. I couldn't help but smirk and laugh" It is you, who should have been prepared to be eliminated!"

Tossing him onto the ground, I step on his stomach and pierce his heart with my extended fingernails. Besides, it's not like I'm that hungry anyways so this would serve as entertainment after the meal. Once his screaming had stopped, I received a message.

Ding!

[Message:

150 EXP POINTS EARNED

Level : 1/100 increased to 3/100

[Skill Taker] successful

[Fire magic] [Low heat Resistance] obtained

Unique Skill [Status Check] obtained]

Hmphh, that idiot only gave me 150 EXP POINTS? What a waste of my time and energy! At least I managed to get some new skills, hmm [Status Check] sounds pretty self-explanatory. If that idiot had it and still dared to challenge me, he must have been the world's greatest idiot! No matter how strong you are, if your attacks can never hit your opponent then it is useless!

Now then, the good entertainment makes me feel all happy, I haven't felt this in forever! If I could paint this game's world in my vision, then perhaps it would look less ugly! I can't help but laugh as I walk in search of my next target, as I'm filled with thoughts of this world sinking into chaos.

Blake's POV

"Morning!! Rise and shine!!"

Followed by the voice, I hear the curtains opening. I immediately open my eyes to see that my hand that was closest to the window was burning. It hurts a lot!

"Arghh!" I yell in pain.

It looks as if My hand was being turned into ash!! I quickly close the window with my other hand and try to wait out the pain.

"Oh my goodness! So it's really true?! I'm so sorry I didn't mean that! I seriously thought you were joking last night!"

Alex covers his mouth with his hands and his eyes wide open.

"It hurts a lot but it'll most likely be fine, so don't worry about it." I say while trying to force a smile.

"Oh I know! You could use this so that you could walk outside!"

Alex exclaims, then runs out of the room. He shortly returns, with a large hat, a jacket and a pair of gloves.

"If you put this on, then the sunlight won't be able to reach your skin!" Alex says as he hands me the items.

"Thanks, I appreciate it."

Man, I just hope I won't look ridiculous in it or something, but hey if it works then I'm fine with that. I put on the items and head out of the room with Alex.

"So, why were you in there just now?" I asked.

"My father told me to wake you up so that I could show you around the village. If you really do consider staying here, getting to know your way around would be good for you." Alex replies.

Ah, so we're going on a tour. This is fine. I would prefer to find a monster to get more skills and EXP from but it wouldn't hurt to know my way around here too. Plus he must probably be taking time off just to show me around, so I should just use this opportunity to gather more knowledge about this game's world.

"This village is called "Lilac Village". It was named that as Lilac flowers would grow in the surroundings of this village." Alex says as he points at the various lilac flowers growing everywhere.

"This village used to be a popular tourist destination, as people from all over the country would come to admire the vast beauty!" He continues. "However, recently monster have been appearing in the woods, making it unsafe to travel here."

He makes sighs and says "We did hire some Rank 3 adventurers to come defeat them but they were defeated by those monsters. With lesser tourists, we could not afford to hire Rank 2 or Rank 1 adventurers. So as time went by, the monsters have increased and the tourists have decreased... "

He suddenly became silent and says" I'm sorry, I must have trailed off. I shouldn't have bothered you with such things. Let's continue the tour! "

The tour finished at night, by that time I was already famished. I haven't eaten anything today, but it's a good thing that it's now night time, I can look for a monster or animal to drink its blood easier. The blacksmith I had visited during the tour had given me a small knife as a gift. I hold the small knife in one hand, leaving the other free as I set off into the forest.

The villagers seemed quite worried about the monsters in the forest since they've resulted in less tourists. According to them, the monsters just suddenly appeared. The monsters dare not enter the village but the lurk around it and would attack anyone near it. I want to help them eliminate those, so that they wouldn't be so worried. Additionally, I could probably obtain some special skills too!

I try to search for anything that moves as quietly as possible since I want to eat something soon. Alright, I shall eat the first thing I see then! Just then, a mouse that was glowing appears in front of me. It's fur glowed brightly in the dark, lighting it's surroundings. It looks at me with its large beady eyes and let's out a squeak.

The mouse looks too cute to eat, I wonder if I could make it my pet? I bend down and pat it's head, the mouse did not attack me. It made me recall that I once had a pet mouse. I wonder how it managed to survive when it's glowing fur would give away its location. I decided to leave the mouse be and search for something else to eat.

As I was about to leave, I hear a creepy deep breathing sound from behind me. I turn around to face a monster boar. This time there were red patterns across its body that was glowing. It thumps its forelegs and charges at me with great speed!

I quickly grab the little mouse and jump to the side, barely avoiding getting hit. It seems it could only charge at one direction. I place the little mouse on the ground and watch it scurry away. At least it will be safe. The monster turns around and glares at me, preparing to charge at me again. No way, can this one see me? Does it not have [Low Aura Vision]? If so, at most I can only take one hit since I've used most of my Mp to heal my arm earlier.

Damn it, this would be a tough opponent! The monster boar roars in anger and two more monster boars appear by it's side. Those two resemble the one I fought yesterday, they lack the red patterns and are smaller than the one right now. They just appeared from thin air after the roar, did the bigger one summon these two? Nevermind that, now I have to fight three monsters?!