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Life Before Death

This special skill is when obtained from the Title, Reincarnation.

The skill takes the Titles and skills you had in you last life and carry's them on to your new one.

This skill has no levels.

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" So that's where the Titles came from ... I'd like to see what skills I had in my last life ... ", he said as he looked at the skill on the Status Page ...

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Regular Skills : Dagger Mastery Lv 5, Stealth Lv 3, Pain Alleviation Lv 4, Butcher Lv 6, Bloodlust Lv 6, Cooking Lv 3, Sewing Lv 2, Magic Manipulation Lv 1, Dark Magic Lv 1, Night Vision Lv 5,

Resistances : Physical Resistance Lv 1, Cold Resistance Lv 10, Fall Resistance Lv 1

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" I have a lot of skills around killing people ... I'm glad my work didn't go to waste. Even a Butcher skill for when I skinned the body's and took their organs to cook with ... I wonder if I can still eat without a stomach. "

He then closed his Status Page and walked down the stone paved corridor until he came to a wide room with five other skeletons in it.

" In the novels I read you can get stronger by killing monsters and getting experience points from them to level up. But without a dagger how am I supposed to kill them ... lets test the waters first. ", he then grabbed a stone from the floor and threw it at the head of the closest skeleton, after being hit on the top of the head the skeleton look up for a second before rushing to where the stone was thrown from.

" It shore feels good to be getting back to work after all this time ... ", as he said that he too rush forward, keeping close to the ground as he went.

The skeleton swung with his left arm at him when he got just close enough to hit, but when the arm got close he ducked his head under the arm and then he reached into the skeletons rib cage, grabbing the skeletons spine and dragged it along with him as he stepped past the skeleton, snapping the skeleton in half.

As the top half of the skeleton tried to grab him he raised his right foot, stamped it hard down on to the skeletons skull, breaking the skull into shards.

" Ding ... Level up."

" So it does work.", he then grabbed the skeletons leg bone and broke it free from the rest of the skeletons body.

" Lets take care of the rest then ... ", he then walked to the closest skeleton and swung the leg bone at it's skull, braking it into pieces, " No level up this time ... guess I have to kill some more. ", he ran towards the last three skeletons.

The first one was already moving towards him as he swung the leg bone down on tops of its head, the other two were quickly killed, both of their skulls were broken into pieces.

" Ding ... You have obtained the skill, Hitting. "

" Ding ... You have obtained the skill, Sprint. "

" Two skills ... not bad, but no level. ", he then checked on his Status Page to see the change after the level up.

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Status Page :

Name : (no name)

Species : Skeleton Monster

Level : 2/10 HP : 20/20 MP : 50/50 SP : 1489/1500

Attack : 8 Defence : 8 Agility : 9 Magic : 5

Titles : Killer, Mass Murder, Reincarnation, Talking Monster, Bone Doctor

Regular Skills : Dagger Mastery Lv 5, Stealth Lv 3, Pain Alleviation Lv 4, Butcher Lv 6, Bloodlust Lv 6, Cooking Lv 3, Sewing Lv 2, Magic Manipulation Lv 1, Dark Magic Lv 1, Night Vision Lv 5, Hitting Lv 1, Sprint Lv 1

Resistances : Physical Resistance Lv 1, Cold Resistance Lv 10, Fall Resistance Lv 1

Special Skills : Life Before Death, Magic Amplification, Good Luck, Bone Manipulation Lv 1

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" Look's like my HP goes up 10 points each level up, it seems that my basic stats have gone up 3 points each with the level up, but my Attack and Agility went up 5 points each ... probable because of the two new skills. "

He then continued along the stone corridor until he heard sound of people talking in front of him, using his Stealth skill he climbed up the wall and hid in a dark corner of the corridor, completely concealed from outsides gaze, he then waited there for who ever was coming down the corridor.

Ready to kill who ever came down that corridor.

" Lets hurry up, my wife's waiting for me at home with a warm meal ... clearing this dungeon shouldn't take this long, there's only Skeletons after all. "

" Shut up, you don't think I'm tired as well ... were nearly at the end. "

As the two men walked along under him, he dropped down on to the one who looked stronger, if he got rid of the biggest threat first he would be able to take care of the other a lot easier.

Before he could even react to what was dropped down on to his head, he was already dead with blood splattering on to the surroundings, the other man was especially covered in a lot of blood as he was standing right next to him when his head exploded.

" Huh ... ", the man was taken by the shock of his partners sudden death, the blood on his face only helped to heighten his shock as he could feel the still warm blood dripping down the contours of his panicked face.

" Ding ... Level up. "

" Oh I levelled up, what a surprise, I'd thought it take longer. "

" You, you can talk ... but your just a Skeleton. How, how did you ? It doesn't make sense ! ", screamed the blood covered man.

" I can talk ... I'm not that different from you after all, well a little different but I can easily change that ... ", he then picked up the dead man's sword that was dropped when he died.

" Change ? How can you cha ... ", the man's speech cut off when he saw the Skeleton pick up his partners sword.

" I can change by taking your skin and wearing it as camouflage. Simple as that. ", he then swung the sword across the man's throat, taking his life for good.

Using the sword to then completely cut off the man's head, he then used the edge of the sword to skin off the face from the skull, with the level his Butcher skill was at, it wasn't difficult to do, even with a long sword.

" This will be a good mask ... shame I had to destroy the other one ... ", he said as his empty eye sockets gazed at the smashed up head next to him.

" Lets try this on to see if it will fit me ... ", he then pulled the skinned mans face over his skull, when it was on he then had to move it around a bit to get it comfortable on his skull.

" Just right ... "

" Ding ... "