Artjem POV

I was finally done with looting the entirety of the 3rd floor. It had some nice dresses and a few gold coins. If I should be honest, not worth the effort of looting at all.

Normally games make it so that it would be worth it. Only the elder scrolls would make you open a master lock to only find some trash inside, no, games always make it worth to go out of the way to search every little corner for something valuable.

But well, this is more real life like, so of course there was barely anything of worth here. Fuck.

I made my way to the floor below me and saw the gold tier boss still sitting there. Just like that I made my way past him like before and came to the stair to the ground floor.

Still there was the guard that seemed like he got over my little prank and was back on his position. He also did not look like the main boss punished him or anything. Well, would have been one less nuisance for me, but whatever.

I was not sure if I would be able to sneak up to him in my normal body and used my [Shadow Clone] ultimate.

I also used my [Poison] and applied some additional damage over time that would hurt the enemy. This is actually something that I do before every fight, I mean this is an utility skill after, it is meant to be used. There would always be 10 seconds after the 30 seconds use time where I would be without it, but I would still use it, always, there was not even a cast time or something like “move your hands over the dagger as if you apply the poison”, no, I just activated it and the dagger glowed dimly in a dark green.

With a barely physical body I made my way towards him, making next to no sound and having no presence.

I positioned myself behind the nothing suspecting man and moved my hands in synchronization with my real body as to position my dagger right at his throat. My shadow body was as quiet and unnoticeable as possible, the man was still just standing with a bored expression as I swapped my position with the clone instantly and slit his throat, [silencing] him. Unfortunately he was not a mage, so it was nothing game changing, but he would at least not call out for his comrades.

It took him a second to notice what was happening and I used my time wisely as I used [Shadow stab] and got invisible for a fraction of a second to then ram both of my daggers in his back, dealing massive damage.

With horror written all over his face, he turned around and tried to take his weapon, but I would not let him do that. I put my foot behind his and pushed him down to a wall. Before he even hit the wall, he was dealt two additional hits.

As he stood there, with barely 20% of his hp left, I just used his open chest as to stab him in his heart, dealing a fatal strike and killing him on the spot.

Before that, there was no one near here and other guards were positioned far enough for them not to see me right now. I took his corpse and pulled it into an empty room.

As I walked outside, I saw the rail of blood leading to the room. Yep, this is one thing I did not consider.

“Fuck it! I will kill them either way...”

For the next 12 minutes I cleaned the whole floor of all the soldiers. 10 in total, not counting the common enemies.

I wanted to see what I should do next and so I used my still active clone to look unnoticed outside.

As I saw what was there, I knew instantly that I would be dead the moment I walk outside, there is just no way I could assassinate any of them without others, probably the dogs, noticing me and killing me on the spot.

I just watched them when I saw the gold tier mage slowly standing up and walking my way, inside of the castle. Without being noticed, I slipped away and prepared for what I was about to do next.

Assassin type classes are really the banes of squishys...

The mage walked inside and was still reading the book, not minding anything. However I was sure that he would be above the rest and his senses would be very sharp and as such I acted with high speed and precision.

I slipped out of the shadow and moved in the split of a second behind him, positioning my hand behind his throat and changed places instantly. I slit his throat and made him absolutely fucking useless since he was a mage. No chanting- no problem.

He dropped the book and tried to cover his wound with his hands, but uh uh, I was already slashing at him vigorously. He was twice as tanky as a normal silver tier, but 5 times more squishy than a normal melee gold tier. Am I glad I do not have to find out how he would have overcompensated for that flaw with raw attack power.

I dropped all my combos on him, not giving him a chance to respond with his awkward melee skills.

Then when his health reached below a third, he reached out for a tattoo on his left arm and touched it, poring some azure and shiny mana into it. Next thing I knew, he was teleported away from me but to my delight, it was only about 10 meters back.

The heavily bleeding mage held still onto his throat and gave out some gurgling sounds as he ran back outside after using another rune on his body and throwing a giant fire sphere at me and tried calling out for help.

I just threw my left dagger at his back, right through his sphere and [Blink], next thing he knew I was behind him again and butchered his ass without mercy. The sphere behind me did not explode, lucky me. It just burned for a minute before going out.

10 seconds later I had to carry the corpse away from the entrance and headed back up, cleaning at least the castle on my own.

First floor had exactly 5 guards on it, which was deal with quickly and without any problems.

Easy.

Second floor... another gold tier.

Something in me, I think others call it the voice you should never listen to, called out for me to just attack him for the lulz and see what would happen. But after careful consideration I decided against it.

Then a genius idea hit me and I developed a 101% idiot safe plan.

All I had to do for that was to clean the other rooms on this floor.

In total there were 3 sleeping so I quickly dealt with them. Then I used my [Shadow clone] skill and waited for my energy points to regenerate, and ...

“What is up my brothers?” I walked out of my hiding place and greeted the boss with his men. There were a total of 6 other men there, now standing with their weapons ready to kill and waiting for an order.

“What are you doing here? No... how did you come here?” The giant man mentioned for them to be on guard but to wait as he questioned me.

“Slipped past you. Killed a few pawns. The usual thief stuff...” I shrugged of.

“And now you are offering yourself to me? How nice of you..” He looked at me like I was a retard, a look I was very familiar with.

Again, I just shrugged. “Just thought you would want to do something fun...”

“Yeah, and that would be..?”

“Since I am alone here, how about we make it fair? Send 1 then 2 and then 3 of them against me. When I am done with the trash, we can go one on one.” Here it comes, the moment where my genius plan can go either very successful or make me get killed in the next few seconds.

The others were outraged but shut their mouths as their superior just laughed. “Sure, how did you call it? I will take the trash out and then go down to search for the rest of you haha.” He send one of his men for me and made himself comfortable as eh was about to enjoy the show.

The first man that was sent out against me was taken out easily, as I disarmed him and held him to the ground as he got the shit stabbed out of him.

The two follow ups were a little bit harder as I could not use the cheese strategy and had to fight them fairly. It still took only one minute and a few hits from them to finally send them into NPC hell or whatever.

The boss applauded and whistled, which made me concerned that someone might come here. “Bravo! You are at least not only talk, come on men, either finish him or give me the way to play with him!”

Three of them carefully approached me and the others tried to surrounding me. I knew that I could not allow them to do that no matter what and decided to take the initiative.

While my hands were still down I quickly raised my left hand as if I would throw my dagger, he expected me to first raise my hand fully and to then throw it, however what the soldier did not expect was that I threw it with a quick flick of my hand.

The dagger hit him in the eye and I used [Blink] and started to go ballistic on him. I started to make Swiss cheese out of him and used his body to block the other two from coming near me. Yes, he did try to resist, but I quickly broke one of his arms and held him hostage with my dagger on his throat.

“If this was real life.” I was breathing heavily but found a moment to give my opinion to them. “You would already be dead with 10 holes in your fucking body, but noooo, you still have 40% hp left... of course!” I kicked his knees from behind and did something that I wanted to try out for a long time.

Was it possible to decapitate? Just like that, without any kind of skill or anything like that.

I Put one dagger of mine into his throat from in front of him and the other on the opposite side of his throat. Then with some force I moved both daggers clockwise. It was bloody, but I achieved what I wanted to do, his head fell to my feet.

The more you know...

The other two soldiers looked with mild shock at me. One barfed, holding his vomit back. Bunch of pussies... Worst mistake of his life as I saw my chance and ran up to my next victim.

Long story short, two against one/me was easy enough.

“Whew!” I put my hands on my knees and was trying to calm my heavy breathing. “A few seconds, just let me regenerate my health and we can go on... God fucking dammit! It still counts as battle since you are here!” I noticed that my health was barely regenerating. “Okay, I will use my healing skill and we will wait till the Cooldown is up again. Okay?”

The man eyed me with very eager eyes. “Yeah, yeah, just hurry up already.”

I got invisible for a few seconds from my skill and saw that the mans eyebrow went up. Quickly canceling it, I still stood there. “See, no bs, all fair. 30 seconds and we can go on.”

We both waited like that.

“Soo..” It was awkward so I wanted to do some small talk. “What happens after we win or loose? Are you all stuck here, just waiting?”

He shrugged. “Dunno, we just reappear here shortly after again, some things change, some people get exchanged, sometimes I don't appear a few times and miss the action... Afterwards everything gets repaired and we just wait for you to do your first move as we have a few minutes calmness.”

“So, if you see that everything is repaired you automatically know there is someone there?”

“Yes, but we can not do anything unless you attack first. This is just... how it is.”

“Don't you ask yourself if there is more to life than that?” I was honestly curious.

“The real me is long dead. I am just a copy of him, stuck here for eternity and doing my job... Enough. Let's start already.”

By the way, I now had something I really wanted to try out. This something would be really epic and it was a shame that no one was here to see my awesomeness and as such I started to record everything from a third perspective.

What? Not gonna slip such a chance.

“Before that!” I raised my hand and interrupted him. ”Let me show you something.” I used my (Cut my life into pieces, this is my...) [Last Resort]. My body was surrounded by black smoke and I had to step aside to show him a dark copy of myself just standing there and mimicking my movements but not moving from its place. “See this baby right here?” I mentioned to my clone. “This is a skill of mine. I can swap places with it whenever I want and avoid all of your shit if I want so... However, it has one weakness. A percentage of the damage done to it, will be transferred to me and it can not move from place.”

I could see a mischievous smile on his face and moved a little bit to the side.

Next thing the idiot stormed to my clone and shouted. “Thanks for the info, moron!” His big silver sword slashed right into my clone, dealing very low damage to me.

“Gotcha...” As the idiot was busy with my clone, he seemed to forget that I was still there and would not just let him take advantage of this little mechanic. I rained all my combos down on him, stabbing in every weak spot of his plate armor and silencing, and crippling him. Laughing I continued. “Idiot, only because it is there, why would you choose to attack the clone that does very low damage to me while I am still here and can take advantage of you leaving your back open?”

The man was bleeding from the throat and could not answer me. This did not sop him from giving me the death stare however... Why I silenced him? Dunno, for the lulz.

This was one of my concerns against a capable enemy. They would not just let me go near their weak spots so I had to do something like that.

I then remembered my fight against the gold tier wolf and got concerned about something. “Hey.. you would not use AoE inside a building, would you?”

He just smiled.

Beneath my feet I saw the ground getting red and I knew something was coming. As fast as possible I jumped back and saw the red area starting to go crazy as heavy winds came together and formed a mini tornado that trashed everything.

I was just starting to feel secure when the fuck jumped right trough his own spell and swung his by heavy winds surrounded weapon at my head. I was still mid air and as such would have suffered massive damage. Having no other choice I used [Last Resort] and avoided the one hit kill. I still suffered 8 % of my life though...

Even after his hit, the clone remained for a few seconds and I went down another few percent.

Now preparing for the worst I tried to get my hiding [Shadow Clone] to get out here so I could swap places a few more times when needed, the problem is that my control over this skill was still shit at best, so without full concentration, the clone just awkwardly came out of the corner and almost tripped as he came near enough for me to work with.

The boss did not notice it still, so I had a trump card.

We continued our battle as I tried my hardest to survive and evade all of his shit while also dealing as much damage as I could. I was rolling and jumping left and right, paying attention to the AoE and to his actual weapon.

When he used his empowered sword swing, it was always very accurate and deadly and I had to evade, which happened two times now.

I was invisible half the time and back stabbed him so often that there should no longer be a place that is not a wound.

He swung another hit right at my face, which was deflected by my left dagger and I used my other to immediately slit him some more. This was a common recurrence, I used my left dagger for utility mostly and used it for my skills and to parry while the right was damage only.

I also went often for his neck, it now looked like only the bone swirls were holding his head in place and the whole neck was covered in deep cuts.

It was finally time...

While we had some distance between us, I ran right up to him, as if I was going for a deathmatch, no longer using my hit and run tactic.

Before we collided, I quickly swapped places with my clone, using my last remaining use. While I was now to his side I saw him blocking my shadow and saw confusion on his face.

Quickly I threw my dagger in his neck while doing something that only I would understand.

I jumped in the air and rotated my body so that my head was now face towards the ground, one hand was gripping something that was not there right now, while the other was ready to stab something. As my body was still mid rotation, I Blinked towards my left dagger with my hand prepared to grip it. I was now above him, with both daggers and ready to do something fun.

Now where I wanted to be, I stabbed the other dagger in the opposite side of his neck and with my body still rotating, I used all my might to force the daggers to cut the flesh and bones and decapitated him.

Still above the dead body, I rotated further and fell to the ground, landing on one knee and holding both my daggers behind my body in an epic position.

(For reference, Guild wars 2 thief skill, death blossom. But more of the deadly.)

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I send the others a quick message to notify them of my accomplishments.

And because I was about to do something stupid. Even more stupid than before hehe.

After I took my time and regenerated all HP, got all Cooldowns up. I used the same strategy as to summon my [Shadow Clone] before I went there and recover my energy points. I went for one place in particular that I was told to avoid at all cost unless we would finish everyone else.

On the ground floor I went to a big and extravagant looking door. I opened it and saw inside.

There he sat on a throne, befitting of the end boss.

The Over lord of this dungeon: Champion Arthur.

If normal gold tier is dangerous, then a champion should be impossible to beat without an expert group, at least this is what I have been told by Ben and Daisy.

Pff, as if...

He did not even look up as I entered inside. “After I was kind enough to let you go, you are stupid enough to come here? By yourself?”

I grinned smugly. “I bet you are overrated, bitch I will be more than enough.”

“A few successes and you get so overbearingly arrogant, brat? Let me teach you why you strangers are supposed to fight in groups against true powers of this world such as myself.” He stood up and took his one handed sword in his right hand, the left was still empty. “Before we begin though... I was told by my darling that you have flirted with her... you fucking piece of shit.” He now showed me some emotions on his face which made me only smile in response as I was sure I would be fine.

“You are free to try, bitch.”

AN: 100.000 Words BITCHES!

Meh...´