The Town of Thieves

I take off toward the door. I swing it open and all of a sudden the atmosphere changes.

You know that feeling you get when you're home alone, you're minding you business then you get this creeping tingling feeling?

That's what I felt, the once kinda decent inn was now dark, and dilapidated.

The dragon murals that once gave the inn a semi sense of pride were now blood stained, decrepit, depictions of skeletal dragons.

The walls were cracked and a pale sickly gray color. I rushed down the stairs and was heading out the door when something caught my eye.

I skidded to a stop, and seen a creature hunched over making wet smacking sounds behind the main desk!

"Scan" I thought, and the monster's information popped up before my eyes.

Info: Thief, these creatures use humans as their main source of sustenance, They steal, as the name implies and excel in illusion magic.

LEVEL: 25 EXP to next level. 6000

HP: 400/400

MP: 188/188

EXP: 15434

ATK: 45

AGI: 45

DEF: 48

MAT: 19

MDF: 15

INT: 20

LUK: 11

"Holy shit!" these guys are strong.

I said out loud, Too loud the Thief too notice of me and as soon as it did.

It used it's incredible agility to launch itself at me at such a terrible speed, I didn't even have time to think!

"Damn I feel kind of bad for raising my agility to 99, I can only imagine what those things felt!" I thought. It was hunched over when I first noticed.

But these things where about the same skin tone as that Evolved Goblin, but darker in color. That spine tingling feeling I felt was worse now than ever.

I find that this monster is giving off such hatred and bloodlust, that you could feel it a mile away!

The Thief is landing multiple hard blows in quick succession.

The blows aren't very damaging and the monster will probably run out of energy before it takes away from my health.

But if it continues, it absolutely will harm me. I raise my hips and turn hard to the right to escape from it's clutch.

I'm successful, I quickly jump back realizing, how much easier it is to control my current AGI.

"God Engine on" I say. Thinking about how to best deal with my current situation.

"MDF,ATK and I should grab some skills also to get rid of this guy from a distance" I say panicked.

I go with the normal starter skills and magic.

Fire, Ice, wind, light, dark and Earth spells.

As for skills since I'm unarmed at the moment.

I choose Force Fist, (seemed long range) Flash fist (cause it sounded cool) and something Called Nova Crusher Shockwave.

I confirm my stat changes and I'm bounced back to reality.

Thief welcomes me properly by slamming his Fist into the side of my head knocking me back a few feet and giving me one hell of a headache.

HP: 36/39

"Ugh! Even though I have 99 defense here must of got me with a critical taking me down a bit."

Not much but it did hurt, while I'm slightly staggered, The creature pulls a dagger the freaking color of poison off its waist belt.

Ok poison isn't a color but the best way to describe this to you is what you think poison would be if it had a distinct color.

I was a swirling faintly glowing black and purple.

"Too bad I can't check equipment stats from a distance" I think to myself.

Knowing that I shouldn't be touched by that dagger instinctively, I raise my agility to 99.

"Force Fist!" I launch an attack, the skill released from my knuckles looked almost identical to a certain street fighters quarter circle forward attack skill.

The main difference was, this looked like I shot a visible fist made of strong winds out of my fist.

CRACK! It makes contact with the Thief and sends him hurling into the inn was near it's entrance!

I quickly scan it's HP

HP: 220/400

DAMN! this thing is tough!

Debris and dust go flying wildly, as it connects.

"Haste!" The creature screeches in an inhuman shout

To my surprise it is not dead and to my horror it gets up moving faster than I anticipated!

It lunged at me fiercely poison dagger drawn!

I jump back a few feet barely dodging the Slash which just missed my chest!

"Flash Fist!" I unleash a brilliant light and a thousand consecutive blows within one punch, just like my favorite saint although not as powerful.

The punches connect with it's face and chest multiple times.

The Thief, clutches itself in pain and jumps back several feet. It lets out a loud ear piercing roar. Suddenly it's dark and for a moment I thought it hit me with something and I went blind.

I rub my eyes and blink rapidly, still dark. Then I see a sliver of light, I see the Thief ragged and crumpled body wretch the entrance door open and limp out.

still slightly confused, I take in my surroundings, "it must of cast a spell" I say trying to make sense of what's happening.

"God Engine on" I say. "I need to find some curing or antidotal spells otherwise I'm screwed on these type of enemies."

"Holy shit that's cool!" I exclaim, "this world has Dispel which dispels all magic effects And Esuna, this relieves all status effects."

I reset my MP which was sapped by the two martial skills I used. Cast Esuna and reset my MP again to prepare for the oncoming battle.

Not only did Esuna clear my eyesight but it got rid of the scars I got from fighting the Cryerwolf yesterday. "Wow!"I said amazed. "I wouldn't of guessed Esuna had such an effect." Hoping to better equip myself before I went outside to finish off the thief. I looked behind the counter where the creature was originally found hunched over.

There with his clothes stripped was the older man who led me to my room. Breathing very shallowly. With a hole torn in the man's guts. It's a wonder how he survived this long.

I heard him rasp out some words. "She wasn't real, that thing killed my wife." "It used an illusion spell to mimic her looks."

He exhaled one final time and the light faded from his eyes.

Making a cross sign on my body and saying a little prayer I knew what I need to do next.

Shamefully, I don the man's stripped clothing feeling way less makes and more prepared for a fight.

I head outside the inn to confront the monster. I only get a few feet outside before I realize the current state of the town.

If you ever had a mental picture of a curse village, This is what would come to mind. Dark grey cloudy skies.

No sunlight could penetrate, buildings once turn off the century modeled. Now all rotted and torn asunder.

"Gross!" I said as I shuddered. The Thief, 30 yards out, limping in pain, ahead of me. I catch up to it quickly "Force Fist!" it collapses dead a indentation of my fist from where the skill hit.

I level up!

LEVEL: 13, EXP to next level 2234

HP: 250/250

MP: 121/121

EXP: 3209

ATK: 99

AGI: 99

DEF: 99

MAT: 28

MDF: 17

INT: 41

LUK: 11

Of course slightly edited by the God Engine.

I hear a door slam! No multiple doors opening, from almost every single build. "Holy Shit!" all around me there were Thief monster coming from the dilapidated buildings.

"I'm surrounded!"