A Legendary Thief - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Evisceration and Backstabbing

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Backstab!

Xiao Yu did a 60-degree sideways rotation before he made use of the rotating force to thrust his dagger into the body of the sand salamander leader.

Now that he was fighting against a monster leader, which was an unprecedented challenge for him, Xiao Yu completed each attack with a great deal of care. The success rate was 91%, and the damage value stood at 35 points, higher than what he did during practice. He even gained one combo attack point.

The sand salamander leader turned around and charged at him. Xiao Yu took a step back to dodge its attack, then used the reversed backstabbing skill.

System: the success rate of reversed backstabbing is 100%, causing 300% skill damage; broken-armor effect is achieved.

He used the backstabbing skill to gain a combo attack point and used the reversed backstab to cause more damage than usual, which Xiao Yu had figured out during his practice.

Seeing 331 points of damage appearing over the head of the sand salamander, Xiao Yu was quite pleased, thinking of how he had actually achieved such a feat.

But the sand salamander leader still had more than 500 points of health left.

Plus, all of Xiao Yu’s skills were on a cool down; it would be impossible to finish off this sand salamander leader right now.

The sand salamander leader was enraged by Xiao Yu as it continued to spring at him. Xiao Yu relied on his agile body to dodge its attacks while staying close to the rear of the sand salamander and attacking it.

He waved his dagger in the air like a butterfly flying up and down, and it emitted light blood-colored rays of light.

Xiao Yu didn’t dare relax for even a second. He kept on jumping from side to side behind the sand salamander leader.

“It’s not working. This guy’s skin is too thick,” Xiao Yu told himself. He was currently level 4, and he could only cause approximately 10 points of damage each time he attacked the monster. But the sand salamander leader had more than 500 health points left, making his attacks nearly useless.

The leader shook his head once and shot out its blood-red tongue with a hissing sound, its greenish eyes glaring at Xiao Yu. All of a sudden, the sand salamander charged forward, its head darting at Xiao Yu as fast as a lightning bolt.

“It’s so quick!” Xiao Yu was startled and backed up a step to evade it, but the sand salamander leader followed on his heels like a shadow.

Hiss!!!

Blood splashed out. Xiao Yu’s health was reduced by more than 60 points. He was just a bit too slow, and so he was poisoned.

Xiao Yu merely had a total of 200 points of health left, and he would be finished if he were attacked four more times.

“That’s a very powerful attack!” In addition to having high damage, this attack was poisonous, which would greatly reduce his movement speed. If his speed was reduced, he would truly be in danger.

The sand salamander leader drew closer to him, but Xiao Yu couldn’t move as agilely as before. To evade the attacks of the sand salamander, all he could do was retreat backwards while slashing the sand salamander with the dagger in his hand. Still, Xiao Yu had a hard time evading the powerful attacks of the sand salamander.

His shoulder received a blow. Checking his health, he found that he had only 80 health points left. He would have to kiss the world goodbye if he were attacked two more times by the sand salamander leader.

Xiao Yu didn’t have time to regret the reckless decision he had made; he kept retreating and meanwhile drew a wonderful curve in the air with his dagger to assault the body of the sand salamander. His attack was meaningless to the sand salamander leader because it still had a lot of health left.

He could use the reversed backstabbing skill after 11 seconds. If he wanted to use the skill, then he would have to kill time. Unfortunately, time was something he didn’t really have.

Glancing at the skill panel, he found that it would take five more seconds before he could use the backstabbing skill; but the evisceration skill had already completed its cool down.

The sand salamander leader charged toward Xiao Yu again, this time at a faster speed. There was no way Xiao Yu could avoid this attack.

“I can take one more hit!”

Seeing the sand salamander in front of him, Xiao Yu was well aware that it would be futile to try dodging. Now that he was about to be attacked by the sand salamander, all he could do was strike back with all he had. Xiao Yu changed the direction of the dagger and thrust it at the head of the salamander. This time, he attacked the jaw of the sand salamander.

Evisceration!

Xiao Yu sliced the dagger downwards with all his strength while yelling loudly. The dagger cut open the soft tissue of the salamander’s jaw. He continued slashing the dagger downwards, changing the direction of the traveling dagger when it met a hard bone. In the end, he had sliced a gash of 30 centimeters on the body of the sand salamander, fresh blood gushing out like a flood.

System: the success rate of the evisceration skill is 100%, causing 100% skill damage and three seconds of paralysis.

Seeing 62 points of skill damage and a three-second paralysis effect on the notification panel, Xiao Yu was taken aback slightly, then felt ecstatic. He hadn’t expected that he would release the hidden feature of the evisceration skill! His opportunity had finally come!

He had unintentionally performed evisceration with a 100% success rate, which no doubt gave him a sliver of hope.

The sand salamander leader was paralyzed for three seconds, so it could neither attack nor move. Xiao Yu took the opportunity to go behind the sand salamander and strike it constantly with the dagger in his hand. The sand salamander only had 420 points of health left.

The cool down of the backstabbing skill had ended.

“It’s unknown if the backstabbing skill will have a special effect.” Xiao Yu came up with this thought swiftly.

One second and then two seconds had passed. As the sand salamander was about to wake up, Xiao Yu performed a 60-degree sideways rotation and held the dagger high. Then, he concentrated all of his strength into his right hand.

Xiao Yu was not the type of person who would lose his mind when he was stressed. Instead, the more nervous he felt, the more potential he would release.

Backstab!

His highly stressed nerves had already reached their limit. A person under such stressful conditions could often exert dreadful might. Xiao Yu could feel the swift contraction of muscles in his right hand. It seemed that the energy released from his hand almost surpassed the endurance of his muscles.

The moment he thrust the dagger Xiao Yu knew that he would succeed this time.

Hiss!!!

Both the dagger and its hilt went into the body of the sand salamander, making it scream in pain.

System: the success rate of backstabbing is 100%, causing 100% skill damage and 10 seconds of bleeding, gaining two combo attack points.

The backstabbing skill produced 83 points of damage and 20 points of bleed damage for each second in addition to the skill damage.