I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills - Chapter 31:

The news that a team of intermediate expert level knights had been annihilated and that Velokin had died quickly reached the Valheim Family.

In this erosion of the world, anomalies occurred that caused the difficulty to suddenly rise to five stars. As a result, there was only one survivor— Krasue Valheim.

As unbelievable as it seemed, Krasue was now in the head manor.

‘I never thought that I’d come back here for this reason.’

Krasue had been accommodated in a spare room in the head manor and spent several days on bed rest.

The purification team and other knights found Krasue leaning limply against a tree, completely drenched.

He was barely conscious, so it was decided to move him immediately to the head manor, which was closer than the Green Pine Lodge.

That was how he came back here after a long time.

“This doesn’t make sense! How, how could Lord Velokin die, and his good-for-nothing younger brother survive!”

At that moment, a voice came from outside.

The voice belonged to Velokin’s personal butler. He seemed unable to accept the fact that Velokin was dead, so he screamed out of control.

“Watch your mouth. Like it or not, Krasue is a direct descendant of Valheim. You don’t want to get in trouble.”

‘It seems that he’s not in the same vein as those who praise Velokin for his excellent contribution.’

Based on the purification team’s reports, the erosion of the world became five stars, much more dangerous than it was originally.

When it comes to a five stars erosion, at least an advanced expert level veteran team is required to face the boss.

Velokin, who was a newcomer advanced expert, fought to the death despite such a disadvantage. He managed to severely injure the ‘Thousand-Faced Monster’ with his skill and defeated it.

However, he could not escape death. It was truly a laudable sacrifice.

He had been cursed by the monster’s last attack.

As a last resort, Velokin attempted to pierce his own face where his mouth was with his sword wrapped in ‘Ignite’ in order to breathe, but was unsuccessful due to his injuries and lack of oxygen.

He pierced his chest instead of his face and died of respiratory failure.

The one who told the story that helped attest to his heroic sacrifice was none other than Krasue.

‘It seems everyone believes the testimony, so I don’t have to worry about that anymore.’

Although they were half-brothers, Krasue did not feel any remorse for killing Velokin with his own hands.

From the beginning to the end, Velokin had hated him.

‘Velokin was destined to die at the hands of the family anyway. There’s nothing new.’

It was still fresh in his memory how he had been beaten to death by Charlotte.

‘Come to think of it, why did Charlotte kill Velokin?’

Due to the constant curses and injuries inflicted by Velokin, Krasue’s mind was scattered back then.

He heard that Velokin had carried out a plan against Charlotte. Probably to finish her off like he had tried to do to him.

‘In any case, I won’t have to worry about him later.’

While the preparations for Velokin’s funeral were underway, the Valheim Family had opened an investigation to study the anomalies of the recent erosion of the world.

Until this investigation was over, it was clear to Krasue that he could not return to the Green Pine Lodge.

Krasue, who suddenly remembered Bianca, scratched his head for a moment.

‘She used to be alone, so she should be fine.’

In fact, it would be normal for her to have already forgotten about him and to be absorbed in reading a book.

‘That’s enough.’

Krasue sat on the bed and raised his hand.

The moment he invoked its power, like he did with ‘Black Hood’, flames erupted on his palm.

It was the skill he had stolen from Velokin. Krasue, who watched it for a while, smiled with satisfaction.

He was confident that he would be able to steal the other skills that he wanted so badly.

‘The first skill I stole was Arthur’s regression, so this is the second one.’

When he used ‘Black Hood’, three conditions appeared for him to steal Velokin’s skill.

The first was to destroy his self-esteem.

It had fallen ever since he fled from the ‘Thousand-Faced Monster’, and collapsed once Krasue finished off the monster.

The second was to get the target to let him use ‘Ignite’ somehow.

Krasue received control of the flames directly from Velokin to face the monster. This met the second condition.

The third and final condition was that the target felt that he could take better advantage of ‘Ignite’.

When Velokin saw Krasue’s absolute sword at the end, he recognized within himself that Krasue was a much better user.

The moment all the conditions were met, the safe created by Krasue’s ‘Black Hood’ was opened.

Velokin’s ‘Ignite’ fell into Krasue’s hands in an instant. As a result, flames erupted from Krasue.

This was the whole story of how Krasue was able to steal his skill.

Krasue, who at all times took the situation to the point he wanted in order to meet the conditions, was really someone cold-blooded.

That also helped him successfully pass off Velokin’s death as a laudable sacrifice and, of course, so that no one would find out that he had stolen his skill.

‘It’s too early for everyone to know.’

There was no problem with curses, but as soon as people found out that he could steal skills, everyone would keep a distance from him.

‘I still have a lot to steal.’

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