The Extra Villain's Second Chance: A Hero's System

Schwing!

The captain's sword made a loud sound as it was drawn.

Slash!

With a confident look in his eyes, the captain slashed his sword horizontally toward Lev's throat.

He probably thought that Lev was just being stylish as he gripped the sword and entered a defensive stance. It was only natural that he looked so confident that his attack would not miss, proved from one full swing with no thought of defense at all.

Unfortunately, Lev took advantage of the captain's confidence—that he could not see—to make a surprise move.

Lev bent his knees so that his upper body automatically dropped downward.

At the same time, he positioned the hilt of the sword he was gripping tightly with his left hand right against his chest, while the tip of the sword pointed straight ahead—a posture ready to stab the opponent.

Neither the sword Lev was holding nor the sword used by the captain was a double-edged sword that was usually circulated in the Dragomirov Kingdom. The sword the captain was using was a single-edged sword, so when failing to land an attack, it would take a while to launch a follow-up attack—unless one was extremely proficient.

Slash!

The captain's slash only cut through the empty air above Lev's head because Lev had already lowered his body down at the same time as the captain slashed.

Stab!

Lev stabbed straight at the captain's stomach.

As a result, the captain's stomach was pierced by Lev's sword.

The captain's eyes widened as if he couldn't believe that he had just received a precision attack from a disabled person. As if his body control disappeared along with the pain from his stomach, the captain let go of the sword in his hand, and he also dropped his body to the ground.

The sword in Lev's left hand automatically slipped out of the captain's abdomen as his body fell to the ground. "Kuheok!" He spewed blood from his mouth while his perforated stomach spewed intestines and other internal organs.

Honestly speaking, the captain he was fighting was not a weak opponent by the standards of the strength of people in this world.

If he had to guess, perhaps the captain was almost a knight.

Especially his perception, where he could detect Lev's attack when using the One with the Shadow skill—despite the One with the Shadow skill decreased a lot in its effectiveness, the captain deserved a thumbs up.

The reason Lev was able to land a lethal blow was not just because the captain was very confident of landing a strike on Lev's neck, but because the captain occasionally looked back as if to watch out for a surprise attack from an unseen person.

'If I had to compare, Gallios would probably lose to this captain.'

There was also another reason why Lev was able to end the fight as if he was taking a walk in the park.

He had felt that his stab had almost missed the captain's abdomen—even though he had been aiming for the easiest part of the body to target—but, suddenly, he felt as if he was being assisted by someone in aiming his stab in the right direction.

'Could it be the effect of the Swordsmanship skill?'

He had used the Swordsmanship skill several times, but when he only used the sword in his left hand like this time, the effect of the Swordsmanship skill was very clear. It was different from when his right hand was normal.

'Two people left, huh.'

[Battle Sense - Deactivate.]

He wanted to feel the same sensation again through the remaining opponents, so he turned off the Battle Sense skill this time.

This time, Lev didn't wait for them to attack like he did when facing the captain.

No matter how stupid the remaining two people were, they must have realized that Lev could fight well even though he always kept his eyes closed.

"Hey, let's focus on defeating that guy. Whether he has mysterious guards hiding or not, we'll die if we don't focus on fighting him first."

"You're right."

After they tried to convince themselves, they charged at Lev with confidence. If they were trained warriors who often carried out stealth assassination missions, they would definitely send one person to run away to inform their superiors that Lev was not completely blind.

However, what they did was fight back all out.

The two people whose upper arms Lev had already injured also joined in attacking Lev from behind, none of them had the will to retreat to convey a scrap of information to their superiors.

'As expected, they're just suicide soldiers.'

Clash!

Swing!

Thuck!

Lev danced to the rhythm of the fight.

He sometimes parried attacks from above with his sword.

When it came to strength, he did not lose to them.

It was just that, when attacks came simultaneously from above, the sides, and stabs from behind, he would take a few steps back.

While dancing to the rhythm of the battle, he didn't just defend. Sometimes he launched basic swordsmanship attacks—horizontal slash, vertical slash, and stabbing. Lev did not do much footwork. The fight took place only in a small circle.

He realized that his agility attribute was weak. If the battle took the form of running here and there, he would be at a huge disadvantage. Even so, Lev managed to take advantage of their uncoordinated attacks.

There were also several occasions where Lev could have ended the fight, but Lev did not end the fight yet.

"Let's play a little longer."

"Kik, kek. How can a blind man parry all our attacks?!"

"Is that such a strange thing?"

"Of course, it's a strange thing, you anomaly."

Lev continued to launch various attacks.

Sometimes, his attacks would send them flying backward until they fell over.

When they seemed unable to fight, he waited for a while until they got up and then launched the next attack.

Over time, Lev's left-handed sword movements, which were awkward and ridiculous at first, slowly became fluid like river water.

Moments later, a system notification appeared in front of Lev's black-and-white world.

[Detected maximum utilization of non-dominant hand.]

[Swordsmanship skill is ready to advance to the next level.]

[Detected that your main attribute is still too low.]

[In order for the Swordsmanship skill to advance to level three:

All basic attributes of your physical body must be at least 10 points.]

[When the Swordsmanship skill has reached level three, you will be able to use Sword Aura.]

Lev stopped for a moment from attacking the four people he was training with.

He placed the sword over his shoulder while reading the notification system.

"Phew~ Looks like we can't play any longer," Lev spoke to the four people who were already slumped listlessly on the ground.

In the end, Lev made their hands and feet detach from their limbs. The safest way to make them unable to rebel.

"I'll ask as a formality. Who told you to kill me?"

"Kergh! Did you think we would tell you?!"

Lev crouched down to question them.

Since they were novice warriors—a suicide squad—he thought that they would easily open their mouths. He didn't expect that they would close their mouths even though their limbs had been cut off.

Not stopping there, something even more astonishing happened next. They all suddenly bit down on something—whether it was their tongues or the pills they had placed inside their mouths—one thing was clear, they suddenly lost the ability to breathe instantly.

From the first people he knocked down with the Mana String and lost their legs, to the captain whose stomach had been pierced by the sword in his hand earlier, they all died instantly.

It seemed Lev's opinion that they were untrained warriors was not entirely correct. They had clearly been trained to kill themselves when they failed their mission.

"Are you done yet? It was quite an entertaining show."

When everything was over and silence filled the air, Astaroth, who had been watching from a distance, suddenly came over to Lev.

"What? Why aren't you answering? Hello?"

"Button your lip!"

"What? Why are you angry?"

A frown formed on Lev's forehead.

He slightly knitted his eyebrows together in annoyance.

Ignoring Astaroth, he walked back to the carriage parked in the middle of the road. He entered the carriage and found the palace messenger still writhing like a caterpillar.

Lev pulled at the cloth covering his mouth. Before he could utter a single word, the palace messenger was already haranguing him with many words.

"Seeing that you were able to return here safely, it seems that those people have failed. However, looking at the annoyed expression on your face, did you not get anything from them? Hahaha—"

"If you just want to talk nonsense, then goodbye."

"W-waittt-Urk!"

Stab!

Without waiting for the palace messenger to finish his sentence, Lev had already thrust the sword at his throat. Lev did not withdraw the sword even though it had pierced the palace messenger's throat through the surface of the carriage floor.

"Hey, why did you kill him? Don't you want to interrogate him and find out who's behind them?" This time it was Astaroth who asked in a curious tone.

"I already know who's behind them. I originally wanted to give the palace messenger a chance to say his last words, but I didn't expect him to be so annoying."

The reason Lev looked so annoyed was because he failed to get any kill points.

If they all died without killing themselves, he would get ten kill points.

[You get 1 kill point.]