Scout had just discovered that he wasn't the only Eliminator around. He was now being mentored by Sterling, which Scout knew nothing about. Scout decided to ask a few questions to better understand the Eliminators.
"Sterling can I ask you a question?" Scout asked while him and Sterling were walking to a place
"Go ahead"
"What are the Eliminators?"
"Us? Were nobody, we don't exist, but in a way we do exist. We are deliverers of justice, we choose our targets carefully. We choose those who have wronged in a really bad way. We don't go after those who robbed a little fortune, or those that murdered one person. We go for the ones that had affected the well being of the people. We however review and study our targets. If we have a corrupt noble ruling a city, but the citizens are still happy, we leave that noble alone, but once the citizens are starting to suffer, that is when we move in. We do not do our jobs for coin, no one pays us to do anything. We do not do it for glory, we do it for the people."
"I see, so how do you guys survive?" Scout asked
"Being an Eliminator is like our alternate life, but we still have our original ways of living, some of us are storekeepers, some of us are farmers, there are even some of us who are part of the army."
"In the army? I thought you guys only killed for justice?" Scout asked confused
"That is if we play the part of an Eliminator, everything else is fair game, but even though we kill if we don't play the part of an Eliminator, we kill for a cause, we will not go on random killing sprees just because we want to. But most of the Eliminators don't kill outside of being an Eliminator, most of the people that kill are the ones in the army."
"That makes sense. How does the Hierarchy work within the Eliminators?"
"There isn't one, we are all equal. but that does not mean that we all have the same strength, we have a structural power, but being the strongest does not make one a leader of the Eliminators. You will better understand once we arrive to our destination.
"But how about those 5 people in the balcony? They look like they were the leaders." Scout asked even more confused
"Those are the council, each month we rotate members that are readily available, so if you are frequently available too, you will be a council."
"One last question, how many Eliminators are there? And are we only in Chronos?"
"Ill answer your second question first, all of the Eliminators come from Chronos, yes, but our jobs might take us to other kingdoms, also our members in the army only represent Chronos, and I'm pretty sure you do too. For your first question, theres only so little of us actually with you included, theres only 50 of us, and we hardly have jobs, we individually get jobs almost only once a year."
"I see, thank you for all of the information." Scout said
No conversations happened after that, they continued walking towards a destination, after a few more minutes of walking they had finally arrived. They arrived at an open field.
"What are we doing here?" Scout asked
"Im here to teach you a new skill of course." Sterling replied while taking out a dagger.
Scout was happy, he finally had the chance to get a class skill.
"Okay calm down, now watch carefully." Sterling said.
Sterling suddenly threw his dagger at a practice dummy, upon impact Sterling disappeared from Scouts side, and immediately reappeared in front of the dummy while holding the dagger that he threw. Sterling immediately disappeared once more and re-appeared at Scouts side.
"Did you see what I did there?" Sterling asked
"You just threw your dagger and shadow stepped in front of the practice dummy, but I already know shadow step." Scout asked scratching his forehead.
"But did you not find it weird I shadow stepped immediately back beside you?" Sterling asked
"That was weird, are you going to teach me how to shadow step two times in a row?" Scout asked with a smile
"Close to that, but it is a little bit different, the skill I'm teaching you is the shadow throw." Sterling said while twirling his dagger.
"Sounds cool, so how are you going to teach me?"
"Well I won't be technically teaching you, I'm just here to tell you how to acquire it."
". . ." Scout was confused
"Don't worry, you'll get it soon enough, first of all, you need to practice throwing your daggers, I have prepared this area for you to practice. There should be a bucket of daggers their for you to practice, hit that target at 5 yards for practice, once you hit 50 times, hit the one 10 yards out, once you hit that one 50 times, do the one 15 yards out, then hit the one 20 yards out 50 times, then lastly hit the one at 25 yards 50 times. Well go on then, good luck." Sterling said as he started to walk towards the exit.
"Wait! Where are you going?!" Scout asked
"Im going to my real life, don't worry, ill come back every few hours to bring you food and water. Good luck and have fun." Sterling said as he had left the field.
*SIGH* "I guess I better get started if I ever hope of getting a new skill" Scout said to himself as he walked towards the bucket full of daggers.
Scout grabbed the bucket full of daggers and grabbed a dagger and threw it towards the target 5 yards out. He miserably missed.
"Ugh, that was throw" Scout told himself
Scout threw another one, but this one also missed the target. He threw and threw but not one out of the 10 he threw hit the target. Scout finally realized that he could not just half ass throwing the daggers. Scout took a little break to calm his mind. After his break, he stood up, grabbed a dagger and focused on the target. He threw the dagger, it missed and went over the target.
"Getting closer now, I just threw that one a little bit too hard." Scout said as he picked up another dagger.
Scout threw another dagger, but this time a little less power, this time his dagger did not reach the target, he did not put enough strength to it. He picked up another dagger, and this time he finally hit the target.
"YES! FINALLY!" Scout celebrated a little bit before trying again once more.
Scout could now hit the target with precision, but his dominant arm got tired, so he decided to practice with his non dominate arm. It took a little bit longer, but he managed to actually hit the target. After an hour of trial and error, Scout could now hit the target 10 out of 10 times using both arms, he had gotten the skill Dagger Throw Mastery.
Dagger Throw Mastery (Passive):Deals dagger weapon damage to target, range increases as skill proficiency levels up.
Dagger Throw Mastery:15% (Beginner level 1)
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Scout finished the 50 hit mark test on the first dummy, he decided to take a rest before moving on to the next one. As Scout was taking a rest underneath a tree, Sterling came back bringing over food and water.
"Hey, hows the dagger throwing going?" Sterling asked
"Im getting used to it a little bit, finally finished the first dummy."
"Thats a surprise, you are better than I thought, here I brought you some food and water to replenish your energy."
"Thank you" Scout said while gulping down the food and water.
"I will be back again later, good luck" Sterling said as he once more left the area.
Scout decided to sit down a little bit longer, after he had finished resting he had move on to the next target. But this time he managed to hit the target fairly easy. He hit his target 50 times and moved on to the next. Scout was getting better at it, he would hit his targets one after the other, and soon enough he managed to finish the test in just one day, Scout decided to go to sleep, he gathered a bunch of leaves and started piling them up underneath a tree. He slept on the leaves and awoke the next morning. As he opened his eyes, he was surprised to see Sterling beside him roasting a rabbit in an open fire.
"Morning" Sterling said as he roasted a rabbit
"Morning" Scout replied while rubbing his eyes.
"How was the training?" Sterling asked
"Finished" Scout replied as he was standing up
"Oho? Really?" Sterling asked with disbelief
"Yeah"
"Alright then, ill check to see if this is true, but first, breakfast." Sterling said as he gave Scout a part of the roasted rabbit
"Thanks" Scout said as he started eating.
A few minutes had passed and they finished eating breakfast, Sterling stood up and said.
"Alright, time to show me the fruits of your labor."
Scout stood up and grabbed a dagger, he then threw the dagger at the 5 yard target.
"Good, now the next target." Sterling said
Scout threw the dagger at the 10 yard target, then the 15 yard target.
"Oho, you don't wait do you?" Sterling said with a smile
Scout then threw daggers at the 20 and 25 range targets.
"Whew! You did finish it in one day, good job, lets move on to the next phase of the practice shall we?"
". . ." Scout stayed silent and just nodded.
"This time you will be hitting moving targets, our practice dummies are imbued with magic, which allows them to move, they will be running around with no pattern, of course they will be only staying in this area, you won't be given a goal, there won't be a way to pass the test, but the only way to end the test if you think that you are confident enough to move on to the next test." Sterling said
"I see, well then, let the targets move so I can start practicing." Scout said
Scout fully understood what Sterling meant, the only way to truly learn the new skill is if he masters hitting moving targets, that way, he can fully utilize it.
"Okay then" Sterling said.
Sterling then pointed his hand towards the field where the practice dummies were and started a chant, after the chant had ended, the dummies came to life and started running around the open field.
"I will be going now, I will come back to bring you lunch, good luck" Sterling said as he left the area.
Scout started to practice, at first he had troubles because he did not throw his daggers in advance. But after a few tries he finally realized that he needed to throw the daggers earlier to compensate on where the dummy would move too. It took Scout a whole day to perfectly hit a moving target while he was just stationary.
Scout went to sleep once more and woke up the next day practicing with the moving dummies, this time, he himself started moving too. It was more practical in game like that, throwing daggers at moving targets while he was moving about too. It took him another day to completely master it.
The next day, Sterling had come and woke Scout up and to check up on the fruits of Scouts labor.
"How is the training going?" Sterling asked
"I think I'm ready to move on."
"Looks like your pretty confident, The final phase of the training isn't all that hard actually, its pretty simple. All you have to do is that while your dagger is out of your hands, you imagine yourself shadow stepping while grabbing the dagger."
"Alright, let me try it."
Scout then threw a dagger and imagined himself grabbing the dagger while shadow stepping, since Scout was already very proficient with shadow step, he easily managed to do it, but it did not create a new skill right away.
"WOW! Good job! That was perfect! Now keep repeating the process until you finally master it. You should be able to acquire the skill by the end of the day. Good luck, by tomorrow I will come back for you to let you out of this place.
Sterling left, and Scout continued to practice and practice, numerous hours had passed and night had fallen. Throw after throw and shadow step after shadow step, Scout finally acquired his new skill.
Shadow Throw(Active):Throw your dagger at your target, upon contact you will be immediately teleported towards your target holding your dagger. If you miss your target, you will be teleported to your dagger after maximum distance is reached, Maximum distance is increased as skill level increases.
Mana Cost: 100 mana
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Shadow Throw:Beginner level 1 (0%)
Scout sighed in relief after finally finishing and acquiring his new skill, he lied on the ground and logged out of the game.
Ray stepped out of the 'Egg' and went to bed.
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Hi guys, sorry for the late chapter, since I'm out of school, I have been working a little bit more so I've been a bit busy, but I've been working on my chapters everyday, but i really don't get that much time. Hope you guys enjoy
BTW This skill is inspired by a Guild Wars 2 skill, not Naruto :p
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