NEW SKILL

LUO YAN scooped cream from the big parfait he ordered and ate it.  He held his cheek and indulged in the sweetness.  "Ah, eating sweets is really the best.  Aren't you glad we came here, Ah Jin?"  

He looked at his younger brother who was sitting opposite him.  Luo Jin, who was just about to bite into the slice of red velvet cake, stopped.  Put down the slice of cake, used a fork to slice a part of it and then ate it.  

"It's not bad," he said.

Luo Yan glanced at the three empty plates stacked at the side of Luo Jin.  [Not bad, huh?  And yet you're already on your fourth plate of cake, you tsundere.]

They were on a café called 'Sweet Haven'.  Luo Yan pulled Luo Jin here after they finished buying weapons.  Since eating a VR meal with Shen Ji Yun yesterday, he'd wanted to try eating desserts next.  Because he had to follow a strict diet, he couldn't eat anything in excess.  That included any kind of sweets.  But here in Arcadia, he could eat as many kinds of food as he wanted without thinking of any consequences to his health.  Ah, this game was really just like heaven.

He scooped a big strawberry and ate it.  

Earlier at the Weapon's Shop, they bought weapons with the highest specs available.  He chose twin daggers with dark purple blades to match his costume.  While Luo Jin chose a pair of long-barreled silver pistol.  Because of the high-specs, both weapons were quite expensive.  But that's really not something he and Luo Jin should worry over.  With the amount of crystal coins they both had, buying expensive game items would never be a problem for them.  Having a lot of money for playing games really had its advantages.

But crafted weapons would still be better than the expensive ones they bought.  Because they would have even better specs, especially if the one who crafted them was a particularly good Blacksmith.  Since both he and Luo Jin already got core materials for making weapons from their respective Origin Village, they only had to search for other more that would go well with what they already have.  Those could be found in dungeon raids, dropped by dungeon monsters and the dungeon boss.  The higher the level of the dungeon, the higher the quality of the materials would be.

But before they go dungeon raiding, it's more important to raise their level first.  That's why they planned to go to the Task Hall after this.  It's the place where different tasks were posted.  The tasks taken there would give more EXP for players which would allow them to level up much faster.  Sometimes, they could even unexpectedly give good rewards, which was much better than killing monsters aimlessly.

Speaking of rewards, Luo Yan still hadn't checked that skill book he got from that class application task.  He might as well do it now.

He opened his Items Tab where the skill book was.  On the description, it said that he only needed to open the book and he would automatically learn the skill written inside.  And so he did.  He took the skill book out of his Items Tab and opened it.  

A light went straight from the book to his forehead.  A series of movements suddenly appeared inside his brain, his body instinctually remembered how to do it.  For some reason, he knew that if he did those movements, he would automatically trigger the effect of the skill corresponding to it.  After that, the book just disintegrated into tiny lights. 

So, was this the purpose of skill books?  To engrave the movements of the skills inside the player's brain?  Maybe it also served as some kind of trigger, so the game's system could recognize it as the player's skill and not just some random movements.  Then this could mean that a player couldn't just copy the movements of a certain skill and expect for it to show the same effects.  

Luo Yan sighed.  And there went his plan of just doing the moves he remembered when he was still playing the PC version.  Looked like he still needed to get those skill books.    

He then checked his Skills Tab after.  Under the Active Skill column, he saw a new addition.

Strike Kill

- A one hit move that could deal a lot of damage to a single enemy.  If their levels were 10 levels lower than the player, then they would be instantly killed.  Unlike other skills that needed to be used by the players to increase its level, the power of this skill increased as the level of the player increased as well.  With this skill, the player could potentially outclass the firepower of others.  But all of these still depend on whether the player was able to land that hit.

Cool Down: 5 minutes.

This was a pretty good skill.  But that could only be the case if the player had enough skills to execute it properly.  

He looked at the cool down, only five minutes.  It was so far off from the cool down of his Unique Skill – Shadow Walk.  This one could be considered a pretty normal cool down time. Well, quite normal compared to the five hour cool down of Shadow Walk.  Maybe it was because Shadow Walk was not an attack or defensive skill.  It couldn't even be considered as some kind of support skill.  

Not to mention, every time it increased a level, the time he could enter the shadows also increased by a minute.  And since the maximum level of a skill here in Arcadia was a hundred, that meant that its possible for its effect to last for an hour or so.  Which was already kind of an overkill.  So, a five hour cool down was justified.

"What was that just now?" Luo Jin asked.

"Oh, I just opened the skill book I received as a reward on my class application task.  Did you also receive one?"

Because of his second brother's question, he suddenly remembered again that damn task.  He no longer acted cool and ate the remaining half of the red velvet cake slice in one bite.  "I didn't."

"Then shall we buy skill books before we go to the Task Hall?  I think they're selling those at the General Store," Luo Yan suggested.

"Okay," he said, since he did need it.

"But before that, how about we order another dessert?"

Luo Jin looked at the empty plate in front of him.  He did want another serving.  "Suit yourself," he said in a voice as if he didn't care.

Luo Yan only chuckled.  "Then let's order tiramisu for the both of us this time."