"Your prey committed suicide in terror and despair, and you gained 1200 points of Fear Points."
Shen Hao heard the system notification.
He looked at the woman on the ground again; blood was everywhere, and she was now completely dead.
This woman is quite self-aware.
She was so decisive, slitting her own throat with a single stroke. This required utter despair and a certain amount of courage.
It's quite interesting to drive your prey to the brink of despair and watch her choose to end her own life.
It's a pity that this woman was the last prey; the hunt is now over.
He can choose to stay here for a short time, or he can leave immediately.
There's no point in staying, because he can't gain Fear Points from those villagers who have gone mad.
Shen Hao chose to leave immediately.
The scenery before him gradually blurred, and a moment later, he found himself in his home.
He then entered the position he had before the game started.
He entered the Instance at night, but it's already dawn now.
He spent over ten hours in the Instance, and over ten hours also passed in the real world.
This is completely different from Instance below S rank; no wonder it's said that the location of S rank Instance is a real world.
In fact, only those who can enter S-rank Instance can be considered true gamers.
Shen Hao immediately chose to match into a new Instance. He loved this game so much that he wished he could stay in the Instance forever.
He then began to examine the spoils of his trip.
He was still level 10 at this moment, with no change in his basic attributes, clearly indicating that he had not inherited the Headless Knight's basic attributes.
But this is a good thing.
He wanted to inherit the Headless Knight's abilities, such as the Soulfire or Mental Perception.
If he inherits the basic attributes, he might not be able to acquire the Headless Knight's abilities.
Since he did not inherit basic attributes, this means he will at least inherit one of the Headless Knight's special abilities.
He eagerly examined his abilities.
He was pleasantly surprised to learn that he had gained two new special abilities.
I thought it was only one of the two options, but I ended up with both.
"Mental Perception: You can perceive everything within a 50-meter radius, but it consumes your mental energy."
The more you perceive, the faster your mental energy is depleted; it consumes at least 10 points of mental energy per minute.
He only has 130 points of Mental Attribute, and if he uses them all, it will only last for 13 minutes.
Of course, Mental Attributes cannot be completely depleted; once they reach zero, a person would probably go insane.
Mental Attributes will slowly recover when the mind is not affected by external factors, but it takes at least 12 hours of rest to recover to 100%.
When he transforms into the Headless Knight, this ability is not subject to such limitations.
Perhaps it's because his ability is a pirated version; it's definitely not as useful as the genuine version.
It's not bad, though, even though it can only sense things within 50 meters.
But within 50 meters, he can hear all the sounds he wants to hear and see all the scenes he wants to see.
If you have the ability to kill, you won't have to worry about not being able to find the person.
The second ability is Soulfire.
"You have seen the Soulfire, which has rekindled the embers that had been extinguished in your Demon Eyes."
Your Demon Eye can now unleash Soulfire, igniting all souls within your field of vision.
The Soulfire uses souls as fuel; it will not go out unless the fuel runs out.
Consumes 1000 points of Demon Power.
In other words, the Demon Eye originally possessed the ability to unleash Soulfire, but it temporarily lost this ability for some reason.
Now, the flame has been rekindled, and the Demon Eye has regained this power.
From this perspective, his Soulfire is the authentic one, Headless Knight's Soulfire is a bootleg.
He can unleash the Soulfire simply by seeing it, making him clearly more powerful than the Headless Knight.
In addition to these two abilities, he also gained a lot of Fear Points.
His total Fear Points now 10100 points.
He had 4300 Fear Points before entering the Instance, and he gained a total of 5800 Fear Points during the Instance.
Not many.
He gained 5000 Fear Points simply by killing the Bloodied Sovereign's clone.
Therefore, 5800 points from a single Instance run is indeed not much.
The Fear Points is now consumed very quickly; just using the "Gaze into Death" ability once consumes 10,000 points.
His Fear Points disappeared after just one Gaze into Death.
Demon Eye's inherent abilities could not be upgraded, Shen Hao consumed 1000 points of Fear Points to upgrade his Mental Perception ability.
Now, Mental Perception can detect things within 75 meters, but the mental energy required has also increased to 12 points per minute.
He still had 9100 Fear Points left, and he didn't use them anymore.
It's better to save it, since there are so many things he'll need it for, and he's still too poor.
If he weren't worried about attracting attention, he would have loved to create panic in the real world.
After doing all that, Shen Hao left home and went out for a meal.
In the Instance, he is Headless Knight, a ghost, who doesn't feel hungry even if he doesn't eat for a day.
But once he returned to the real world, he was a human being and needed to eat.
After he finished his breakfast, he received a phone call from Xia Bing.
Shen Hao was reluctant to answer, because he had a feeling that the woman definitely had some trouble to cause him.
But there was nothing he could do; after all, the leader was in charge, and he had to obey his orders to infiltrate the enemy.
"Where are you now? Come to the guild first, there's an operation coming up soon that requires your participation."
"Didn't you say you wouldn't assign me any quests before I reached level 10?"
Xia Bing had no idea that he was already level 10.
All player information is kept confidential, especially attributes and abilities. Unless the player discloses it, no one else can know it.
Although guilds have special items that can display a player's level, these items are only used when a player joins a guild or in other special circumstances.
Therefore, Xia Bing couldn't expose his lie.
"We've encountered a bit of a problem. One of our group members ran into some trouble in the Instance yesterday."
He was once a level 21 Soul-type Ability User and was the main combat force of our group.
However, he died in the Instance.
Strangely, he revived, but the game system deducted 90% of his experience points, and he is now level 4.
We have never encountered anything like this before, and we have already reported it to the organization.
But he definitely won't be able to go on the mission.
"What a coincidence?" Shen Hao had already guessed who Xia Bing was talking about.
It was the Soul-type Ability User he killed in the Instance.
Even if someone is incredibly dedicated to grinding, it would still take at least a year to level up from level 0 to level 21.
Of course, this is an ideal situation where everything goes smoothly, which is impossible for most people.
It must be really tough to suddenly drop from level 21 to level 4.
If you've offended someone before, it's even more painful.
"Yes, what a coincidence, it just so happens when there's a mission."
The "skill" he mentioned is completely different from the "skill" Xia Bing mentioned.
However, Xia Bing never imagined that this matter was related to him.
"Okay, I'll be there in thirty minutes," Shen Hao replied.