Chapter 12
[Sight Sharing (Unique)]
Regardless of distance, you can share the sight and senses of your Retainers.
-No Cooldown
-No cost
The newly acquired Skill was, in short, a spectating feature.
Since it had no Cooldown or cost, didn’t this mean I could sit safely in My Room and watch Si-Yeon fight in real time?
A good Skill had appeared at the perfect time.
I immediately used the Skill.
‘Sight Sharing. Show me Si-Yeon’s point of view!’
At that moment.
My vision split in two.
One side was my familiar Studio Apartment room, and the other was unfamiliar outdoor scenery.
The night view of Seoul flashed with neon signs.
The perspective of someone sprinting through it at a fierce speed.
With their vision shaking roughly like a parkour video, they were leaping between buildings.
This seemed to be the sight Si-Yeon was seeing.
‘I-It’s this vivid?’
It wasn’t just seeing with my eyes.
The muggy air unique to a summer night and the loud noise of the city were there.
The impact of the concrete was felt on the soles of the feet with every large leap.
A floating sensation was felt as he lingered in the air.
All those senses were felt so clearly.
In other words,
‘Ugh… I’m so dizzy…!’
It meant the motion sickness was incredibly severe!
It felt like the motion sickness from trying a VR game for the first time multiplied by ten.
I was already extremely dizzy, but with other senses pouring in all at once, I couldn’t endure it at all.
“F-First, deactivate!”
I freaked out and quickly turned off the Skill.
Ugh. I definitely can’t watch it like this.
The blood I just drank almost came all the way back up.
I frowned and rummaged through the System Window again.
‘Isn’t there a setting or something?’
I looked just in case, and a detailed settings window really did exist.
[Sight Sharing Settings]
[Synchronization Rate: 100%]
[Shared Senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch]
‘No way. It’s really there?’
I didn’t actually expect much, but this was surprisingly user-friendly.
It felt a bit like an options window for adjusting graphics or sound in a game.
I lowered the Synchronization Rate to 50% and limited the Shared Senses to just sight and hearing.
This should be enough.
Once again.
“Sight Sharing!”
Paat.
This time it was very clean.
Only the sight and sound came through clearly, and I didn’t feel any dizzying motion sickness or unnecessary touch.
Besides, this thing: I could move the vision screen around as I pleased according to my will.
So I tried floating it in the air in a rectangular shape.
Doing this made it feel like watching a high-definition game streaming broadcast.
“Ooh, good, good.”
It was when I was feeling satisfied with my monitor setup.
“Liege Lord! Your eyes are shining as if burning red!”
Katarina, who was standing beside me, was startled.
Oh, really?
Does using this make lights or something come out of my eyes when seen from the outside?
“Fufu. It is merely one of the True Ancestor’s authorities, so there is nothing to be surprised about. I am grasping the situation by borrowing my Retainer’s eyes.”
I roughly told her that I was in the middle of Sight Sharing.
“Ah… My Liege Lord’s authority is truly great, to look down upon the World even while sitting in your room!”
Katarina marveled once again.
Letting her praise flow in one ear and out the other, I focused on Si-Yeon’s screen floating in the air.
After a brief moment of movement, Si-Yeon reached a certain building.
‘Oh, is this the guys' Headquarters?’
They live in a really nice place for criminals.
It was a top-tier mansion that some chaebols might live in.
Moreover, tough-looking Gangsters acting as guards were spread out at every entrance.
Strict security that made me wonder if it could really be breached.
However
Si-Yeon hid in the darkness, then silently snapped the guards' necks or stabbed their vitals to Subdue them in an instant.
‘Wow, awesome. She’s a total Assassin!’
It felt like watching a stream of a first-person Stealth assassination game.
Every time Si-Yeon moved swish, swish in the darkness, the Gangsters collapsed thud, thud.
Having entered the interior like a ghost, Si-Yeon searched the rooms one by one and began slitting the throats of the sleeping syndicate executives.
Repetition, and more repetition.
She continued to kill enemies with accurate and merciless hand movements like a machine.
‘How many kills is Si-Yeon at? She’s going completely crazy.’
Anyway, while watching the screen in admiration, I suddenly felt something strange.
“Huh? But why am I so fine?”
No matter if the opponents were irredeemable trash criminals, it was still a murder scene where people were dying.
Even if I could excuse seeing four people die in My Room earlier because my own life was on the line.
Watching a live video of dozens of people being slaughtered like this should be enough to shake my mentality…
I was perfectly fine without any repulsion, such as nausea.
Should I say it just felt like characters dying in a game?
Objectively speaking, it was a very cruel scene, but to me, it just felt like watching a frag movie.
“Could this also be the effect of the Exalted Dignity Skill?”
Since the description said it granted complete immunity to Mental Attacks, I deduced that the system might also be blocking all the Mental Shock or PTSD from such cruel scenes.
‘Well, there’s nothing bad about it.’
As I was thinking positively and continuing to spectate, it was then.
Si-Yeon on the screen entered a narrow, dark ventilation shaft on the building’s exterior wall to find her next target.
…I ended up seeing it.
Skitter, skitter-skitter!
The sight of huge cockroaches that had been swarming near the ventilation entrance scattering in all directions was startling!
“Aaaaaaaagh!!”
Flinch - - !!
I unconsciously lifted my butt off the chair and freaked out.
No, crazy, this isn’t right!! It’s so gross!
You make me numb to people getting slaughtered, but you won’t block a cockroach Mental Attack…!
At least pixelate things like this, please!
“Liege Lord?! Has something happened to your noble body!!”
When I flinched greatly, a startled Katarina approached my side urgently.
Perhaps because I was too surprised, it seemed even [Exalted Dignity] couldn’t completely block it.
I barely calmed my pounding heart and forced my expression to stiffen.
“K-Ahem. It is nothing, so do not worry.”
‘I can’t say it. I can never say that I flinched because cockroaches popped out on the screen…’
It would be something that drops a Master’s dignity to the floor.
At times like this, it was truly fortunate that I could maintain a shameless and arrogant expression without my face turning red Thanks to [Exalted Dignity].
Katarina still looked worried, but she stepped back again at my calm attitude.
Si-Yeon on the screen entered somewhere along the ventilation shaft as if bugs were of no concern to her.
Then she came out of the bathroom, headed to the bedroom, and instantly killed a man who was snoring on the bed.
The man who died in his sleep without even being able to scream.
“Huh? I think this guy was someone on the Class 1 Wanted Persons list in Heon-gael.”
So this guy was the boss of the Black Cow.
I heard he was a massive big shot that even the Government couldn’t handle and had a headache over, but in front of Si-Yeon, he was just Extra 1 who got brutally murdered in his sleep.
Anyway, are there still targets left?
This time, Si-Yeon traveled for quite a while and was heading to a different location.
The place she arrived at was an old detached house in an unfrequented area.
The interior of the house, which she infiltrated quietly by crossing the wall and window, was incredibly gloomy, contrary to the mansion from earlier.
Yellowish bones and unidentifiable occult tools like talismans were scattered on the floor and walls.
“The guy here must be the Sorcerer.”
I got the feeling just by looking.
The other guys live in such nice places, but why does this guy live in some haunted-looking house when he’s supposedly the Mastermind in power?
“Oh, the light is on.”
Unlike the other places where everyone was sleeping, the Sorcerer’s room was lit up.
The moving vision paused for a moment.
It seemed Si-Yeon had stopped to grasp the situation.
“Why is there still no report…? Are you saying even the Black Calf couldn’t handle them?”
The sound of someone nervously muttering to themselves could be heard from the lit room.
The other executives were sleeping peacefully, but it seemed this guy had been waiting up all night for the Assassination Squad’s contact.
Just as Si-Yeon said, this guy definitely seemed like the real Mastermind who practically ran the organization.
The guy was completely off Guard.
Swish - !
Si-Yeon cut through the air without delay and rushed behind the Sorcerer’s back.
“Wh-What!!”
But this Sorcerer’s reaction speed was unusual.
He was different from the other Executive-level Gangsters who were brutally murdered without even being able to react.
He was flustered, but he responded immediately as soon as Si-Yeon attacked.
Bang - !!
A deep red flame flew over. Si-Yeon lightly twisted her body to dodge it, then gripped her dagger in a reverse grip and aimed for his neck again.
Clang!
This time, the tip of the blade was blocked by a translucent shield.
But that was only for a moment.
As several exchanges of offense and defense went back and forth, I could start to see the Sorcerer gradually being pushed back.
Crash-!
Along with the sound of the shield shattering.
Slash - !!
Si-Yeon’s dagger mercilessly slit the Sorcerer’s throat.
Dark red blood scattered in the air.
“Keugh…!”
The Sorcerer tumbled on the floor.
Step, step.
Si-Yeon approached him.
“N-Number 13…?! Why are you here…!”
The Sorcerer trembled while blocking his spurting neck with both hands, looking up at Si-Yeon in disbelief.
“H-Has my spell been broken…? How on Earth…? That should be a Brainwashing you couldn’t break even if you died and woke up again…! How could you break a Special Procedure that even S-rank Hunters can’t touch!!”
Listening to the Sorcerer’s scream, I internally retorted.
“Uh, it actually broke when I made her die and wake up again, though?”
You didn’t expect that, did you, punk?
Si-Yeon answered calmly.
“…You’re wrong.”
“What…?”
“My name. You’re wrong.”
“Wh-What does that…”
“My name is not Number 13, but Yu Si-Yeon.”
“…!!”
Kuuu~~~~~~!!!
“Kya. Our Si-Yeon is so cool!”
That badassery of throwing away her past number and retorting with the name I gave her!!
This is totally a scene from a movie!
I went into fully immersed viewer mode and cheered for her internally.
Yeah! Si-Yeon, kill that wicked bastard right now!
Si-Yeon raised her dagger to completely finish him off.
Just as she was about to deliver a clean killing blow.
Suddenly, Si-Yeon hesitated and quickly backed away.
Because.
“Keke… Kehehe…”
The Sorcerer, who was dying on the floor, suddenly let out a bizarre laugh.
At the same time, his eyes suddenly changed as if pitch-black ink had been released into them.
“Huh?”
Black sclera, was it?
A form where the black part took up most of the eye, and the whites were bizarrely inverted.
“Arrogant for a toy… You don’t recognize your Master.”
Moreover, his way of speaking changed bizarrely in his voice tone and intonation, as if he had become a different person.
The Sorcerer fumbled with his gaping neck wound and looked at Si-Yeon with an annoyed expression.
“Tsk. It was a vessel I used well for quite a long time, but it’s ruined because of you.”
“What? Phase 2?”
By “vessel”, did it mean there was something else inside the Sorcerer’s body?
“Could it be that Sorcerer guy was a Demon Person?”
I had read about it in an information post on Heon-gael.
It was said that those who accepted the power of monsters were called by that name.
No, seeing him calmly spitting out words even with his neck half blown off and dangling, it seemed as if he might be in a state where his body was entirely eaten away by a Parasitic Monster.
Wasn’t the reason the Sorcerer could use powerful special spells or Brainwashing also because he formed a contract with that Parasitic Monster guy?
Are you telling me there was a real Mastermind behind the Mastermind!
At that moment.
“Die.”
Rumble-!
As the Sorcerer lightly swung his hand, a massive Shockwave was fired toward Si-Yeon.
“Ugh…!”
Si-Yeon crossed her daggers to block it, but she was pushed far back by the difference in power.
Swoosh!
Following that, black tentacles extending from the Sorcerer’s sleeves flew toward Si-Yeon like whips.
Si-Yeon quickly rolled her body to narrowly dodge them, then kicked off the floor to close the distance and thrust her dagger into his back.
Clang-!
However, the dagger was blocked by the Sorcerer’s hardened skin and bounced off in vain.
“Kekeke, how weak.”
The Sorcerer twisted his neck bizarrely to look behind his back and sneered.
Wow, gross…!
That was definitely a monster, not a human.
Si-Yeon continued her attacks without rest, but the aspect of the battle was different from before.
“That guy, his Physical Defense is too high!”
Si-Yeon’s weapons weren’t working at all.
“Hahaha. Did you think the attacks of a mere human could pierce my skin?”
Rather, her suit was torn and red scratches appeared on her white cheeks from the guy’s indiscriminate tentacle attacks.
I looked at the screen nervously.
This looks really dangerous.
“Should I send Katarina even now?!”
But it’s too far from here to there. Besides, I don’t even know the exact location.
No matter how fast Katarina was, it seemed Si-Yeon would be defeated before she even arrived.
Wh-What do I do? This is too unexpected!
Right when I was sweating coldly on my hands, not knowing what to do.
Ding!
[Your Retainer is in Life-Threatening Danger!]
[With the authority of the Lord of Blood, you can bestow a blessing upon your Retainer!]
[1. Blood-Red Claws: Mutates the nails sharply to enhance piercing power.]
[2. Shadow Step: Hides the body in shadows to evade attacks and move quickly.]
[3. Blood Veil: Condenses blood firmly to deploy a defensive shield.]
[Please select a blessing!]
Along with a red warning window, three choices appeared in the air.