Chapter 18: Causing Trouble

After returning to his lair, Old Xie lay comfortably on the bed and began to flip through this book called Assassin Skills Encyclopedia. Soon, he was attracted by the content inside.

According to the book, Assassins mainly had three types of skills: Martial Arts, Shadow, and Traps. Among them, the Martial Arts category surprised Old Xie the most. Because Old Xie himself was considered a martial arts master, but he had never seen such a strange martial art. This discovery undoubtedly made him very excited.

The biggest highlight of the Assassin’s martial arts skills was charging energy. Everyone knows that when we hit someone, we will definitely receive a reaction force. If this force is too strong, it might even injure our own wrist. However, the Assassin’s martial arts skills can use a special technique to extract this reaction force with the Magic Power in the body, forming a light energy ball floating around the body. This light energy ball can accumulate up to three, and the power of each one is twice that of the previous one.

That is to say, the power of the first ball is equal to the person’s full-strength strike, then the power of the second ball is equal to twice the first ball, and the third ball is equal to four times the power of the first ball. After accumulating the power of three balls, you can use another method to punch them all out in one breath, plus the body’s own attack, this is equivalent to hitting with eight times the body’s own attack.

Of course, in the beginning, the accumulated power definitely won’t be too high, but even if each ball only accumulates 30 to 50 percent of the power, that is still very terrifying. Moreover, because this power accumulation is converted by Magic Power, there is no upper limit. As long as your Magic Power is high enough and your skills are good enough, you can completely accumulate ten times or even dozens of times the power. That kind of terrifying strike, I’m afraid even a dragon could be instantly killed.

Moreover, accumulating ordinary power is only the initial stage. Besides accumulating ordinary power, Assassins can also convert this accumulated power into various familiar elemental energies, so what is punched out are various Spells. Of course, generally speaking, they are mainly ice, fire, and electricity.

Only then did Old Xie understand why the Old Mage said this technique was most suitable for him. Because Old Xie himself had four arms, and the Assassin’s martial arts from charging energy to the final strike with the greatest power happened to require four attacks to complete. That is to say, Old Xie could completely use three arms to charge energy, and then use the last arm to punch out the final strike, thus bursting out the strongest damage in a short instant. While other people with two arms could only charge once and punch out in one attack, far inferior to Old Xie. Just thinking about the terrifying scene of Old Xie launching the strongest eight-times attack every time makes one unable to stop feeling excited!

In addition, the main weapons of Assassins were claws and rapiers, suitable for those with agile bodies and long arms to use. Old Xie was undoubtedly a leader among them. His body was as agile as a monkey, and his arms were ridiculously long, reaching his knees and the soles of his feet. Could they not be long? Moreover, his Behemoth Arm also came with Behemoth claws, so he didn’t even need weapons. So, he was simply born to play the Assassin!

Besides martial arts skills, the Assassin’s Traps were also liked by Old Xie. Their traps were not the garbage kind that relied on materials to slowly set up, but Magic Traps completely constituted by Magic Power. With a wave of a hand, they could be created, not only fast but also considerable in power. If combined with the Alchemy Technology Old Xie had learned over the years, as well as his own understanding of war. Hehe, I’m afraid the Otherworld version of the Landmine warfare would be staged soon.

As for the last item, Shadow training, Old Xie was also interested. Because this skill could create a substitute exactly like himself, and could even use his own various abilities. With this, if Old Xie wanted to do something shady in the future, it would be much more convenient!

In view of this, adhering to the principle that stones from other hills can attack jade, Old Xie immediately began to learn the Assassin skills. Of course, the first step was to learn the techniques of charging energy and exerting force in martial arts skills.

Actually, Old Xie had always been fond of close-quarters combat and had practiced hard for hundreds of years, so he had extremely deep attainments in martial arts. Although the Assassin’s martial arts skills were somewhat different from what he had seen before, after all, they were all in the category of martial arts. So after exploring for a while, Old Xie quickly mastered the secrets among them, and carried out transformation and development according to his own understanding.

Old Xie became obsessed with this learning. It took almost three whole days before he finally figured out the mysteries within. Then, he couldn’t wait to start his first experiment in his own residence.

Old Xie bent his legs slightly and stood on the ground like a stake. Then, with a soft shout, he struck his two Behemoth Arms against each other in the middle. A soft “pa” sound was heard, and two pale green Energy Balls appeared out of thin air beside him, spinning around him constantly. This was Old Xie’s own invention. He didn’t need to hit others; as long as his own palms struck each other, he could directly borrow two “Qi”. However, these two Energy Balls were elementary. Plus, Old Xie was a beginner, so he only borrowed 30% of the energy.

Then Old Xie struck his hands together again. Sure enough, two more Energy Balls appeared this time. The energy was doubled compared to the previous ones, reaching 60%. It seemed that striking them together like this could actually accumulate double the Qi at the same time. Seeing this situation, Old Xie’s eyes immediately lit up. He impatiently struck them together a third time. Suddenly, two more pale green Energy Balls appeared. The color of these two Energy Balls was deeper, and the power contained within was obviously much greater, reaching 120% of Old Xie’s single strike power.

Seeing this, Old Xie immediately laughed excitedly. Because if he followed this line of thinking, he could double his final explosive power again. And there was no need to hit others in advance to store Qi. As long as it was stored, he could launch the strongest attack directly and kill the opponent with one hit.

Thinking of this, Old Xie was also a bit impatient to test the power of this strike. But there were no targets around, and he couldn’t use his own Underling to test the move, right? Helplessly, Old Xie had to raise his fists and smash them hard against the ground. A loud “boom” was heard, and then Old Xie felt the ground beneath his feet give way, and he fell down.

Old Xie was startled at the time. He didn’t expect the place below to be empty. Fortunately, his reaction was extremely fast. With a light lift of his Qi, he landed steadily on the ground without suffering any harm. After landing, he looked around. Good heavens, he saw piles of supplies everywhere like mountains. There were weapons and Armor, food, and many devices whose names he couldn’t tell. It seemed they were used for defending the city. Old Xie was puzzled in his heart, not understanding why so many supplies were hidden here? Could it be that the Old Mage had bad intentions and wanted to start a Rebellion?

Just as Old Xie was wondering, he suddenly heard the angry roar of the Old Mage from above his head: “You damn bastard! Do you want to tear down my Mage Tower?” It turned out that the Old Mage was just looking for Old Xie to discuss the teleportation matter, but unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, he saw Old Xie raise his hand and smash the floor, creating a large hole three or four meters in diameter in the floor. The Old Mage felt heartache, so he ran to the hole and started cursing.

Old Xie also felt a bit embarrassed when he heard this. But what kind of person was he? He was a Great Demon Lord by origin; even if he knew he was wrong, he wouldn’t admit it. So he curled his lips and said: “Damn, you didn’t say the broken place you gave me to live in was unsafe. It’s a shoddy project, and you still have the nerve to say I’m making trouble?”

“Damn it!” the Old Mage shouted angrily: “Look for yourself, this floor is a full two feet thick, all Stone Slates reinforced by Magic, allowing Magical Beasts weighing several tons to run around on it. You actually have the nerve to say it’s unsafe? Hell, do you think you are a Behemoth? Your butt is that heavy?”