The Author's POV

-klank!

Arriving at the entrance of the vault, a compartment opened up.

-Place the skill inside of the box

Soon, a cold voice rang in my ears, to which I followed as ordered and placed the book inside the compartment.

Looking at the book which was inside of the compartment, I couldn't help but look at it carefully. It had lumpy leather bindings, and its pages were of golden color. The cover of the leather book was empty, with no title nor pictures on it. Although it looked like a book, when I tried opening it, I couldn't. No matter how much force I exerted, the book wouldn't budge.

...Fascinating

-Krrrrrr

After placing the skill book inside of the compartment, the vault door rumbled, slowly opening up. Waiting for me on the other side of the door was Thomas accompanied by the two red-clad individuals.

"All good?"

Walking up to me, Thomas took a quick peek at the vault.

Seeing that everything was alright, he urged me to follow him, and we were soon back in the waiting room.

"Wait here while I'll go and check if everything is alright"

"hm"

Nodding my head, I watched Thomas leave. Ignoring the fact that I was once again alone in the room that felt like millions of eyes were watching, I excitedly thought of my soon-to-be skill.

Now that I thought about it, this skill was basically tailored-made for me.

As someone who was not exposed to a society where superpowers and no morals existed, a skill like this was what I needed to help me adapt against situations that would require me to do things I wouldn't have otherwise ever thought of doing back in my previous world.

Things such as killing or witnessing gore were not something I could get used to immediately. This was partly one of the main reasons I was so overwhelmed by Baron of Everblood's presence before. Had it been Kevin or any of the other protagonists, such a thing wouldn't have impacted them as hard as much it did me.

As I was deep in my thoughts, with a complicated expression, Thomas walked back into the room. Soon, with my skill book in his hands, Thomas arrived in front of me and asked

"Are you sure about this?"

"Positive"

Lightly smiling, I nodded and took the skill book from his hands.

"...alright, suit yourself"

Although it seemed like he wanted to say something, Thomas stopped himself midway and just waved his hand in resignation.

Not noticing his reaction as I was too engrossed looking at the skill book, I immediately placed my hand on top of the book and circulated my mana.

Soon a white glow enveloped me, and the book magically disappeared.

Closing my eyes, a flood of information instantly transmitted itself in my mind. It took me a total of five minutes to digest all the information. Opening my eyes, a satisfied smile appeared on my face.

Checking my status, I was pleasantly surprised by its changes.

===Status===

Name : Ren Dover

Rank : F -

Strength : F

Agility : F -

Stamina : F -

Intelligence : F -

capacity :

Luck : E

Charm : G

--> Profession :

[Swordsmanship lvl.1]

--> Martial Manual :

[★★★★★ Keiki style]

five-star module that focused primarily on reaching the apex of swordsmanship and speed. Upon mastery, the sword art becomes so fast that before an opponent could even think about their next move,

--> Skills :

[[G] Monarch's indifference]

users to erase all emotions, and act as a supreme monarch that

increased from G + to F

seems like

time I spent killing monsters and nearly dying against

my smile which wouldn't leave

wipe that smile off your

"hehehe"

was looking at me with a disgusted face,

knew that it was inappropriate. Moreover, with my current mana capacity, I could only use the skill for approximately thirty minutes. Though it was not long, thirty minutes should be

as I improved my mana capacity the time

"Alright, let's go..."

the room we were in. Soon we were at the entrance of

"Here"

"?"

Thomas looked back at me and handed me a small card.

reward. You've

"R-really?"

only chose a G rank skill I felt a bit

"...Thanks"

card with a golden VIP sign engraved on it,

me access to the black market without the need to go through the hassle of remembering the password, but it also allowed me to get priority on all dungeons as well as the fact that I wouldn't need to pay a deposit in

alone was enough for me to become happy...yet the VIP card had one other feature that made all the other perks

allowed me to have access to any dungeon available. Yes. Be it C rank,

to help me train my mentality. Although I wouldn't do any killing inside of a D rank dungeon, just being there could help me adapt myself to the pressure exerted by D rank creatures. This was extremely advantageous as it would help me not panic once I encountered a stronger

learned when fighting against Baron of Everblood, in a fight, 90%

you were as good as done. However, if even in the face of a stronger foe, you managed to retain your composure, the likelihood of you winning would increase drastically. That's

skill nor potions could train your mentality. Only when you were in the face of true danger would you

a really good skill to help me with regard to mentality, but I couldn't

I relied too much on a skill then when the time that my skill no longer worked came, either because I was out of mana or for some

"Alright, I've said enough."

his pocket, Thomas put his

the back of the card,

"Sure, thanks!"

[Dungeon seekers] and went to Smallsnake. Although no core was found, I managed to make a whooping 100,000U. 50k U from my loot, and 50k U as a fee to keep everything that had happened

me and a couple of people, a total of 39 people had died. Five of which were the ones that

know how these people disappeared, I could only sign it as refusing

people would constantly disappear without someone ever knowing how...the death of these 39 people wouldn't have that much of an impact on society. I just felt

only lament at the fact that this world's morals had completely twisted since the appearance of the demons and

Though I almost died, this experience was more frutious than I had expected. With the money I had to