SSS Awakening: I Can Steal Attributes-Chapter 15: Stealing Lexie’s Attribute

The trigger was pulled, and the revolver let out a resounding bang.

Desther’s gaze remained focused, not allowing the dungeon’s core to leave his sight.

Monitoring every bit of detail and awaiting its eventual destruction.

Ding!

The expected scenario where the dungeon core would break upon being hit by the bullet did not happen.

Instead, only a white mark appeared on the core’s surface.

Desther clicked his tongue upon seeing the scene.

This was the worst-case scenario that he had in mind.

In such cases where dungeon cores were hard to break, it usually meant that one needed to defeat the creature it bonded with first, in this case, the dungeon boss.

’Time for plan B,’ he thought while aiming the revolver toward the creature’s body once again.

Bang!

After firing the last bullet, Desther released the revolver from his hand. There was no use holding it anyway; he no longer had any bullets left.

Fortunately, it had already done more than enough.

The next moment, Desther created distance from the creature.

The wounds caused by the bullet were proven to be lethal for the creature as well. Especially the two bullets that sank in its eyes. Even at this moment, its eyes were still bleeding profusely, and it was feeling the severe pain caused by it.

At this moment, it was crashing around due to the immense pain.

Afraid that he would get caught with its violent trashing, Desther decided to move away first. At the same time, he wanted to reassess the situation as well.

He looked around and saw that the man had already stopped moving.

Further away, he also noticed that Lexie had somehow fallen to the ground. Leaning against a tree while clutching her injured rib. Blood dripped out of her lips, but her resolute eyes were still refusing to close, observing what was going on around her carefully.

Seeing her state, Desther could not help but frown.

His plan would need to be altered a little.

At the next moment, a notification screen flashed in front of his eyes.

[ Marked target eliminated! ]

[ Free Attributes: +15 ]

[ Theft Mark: 4/5 ]

Desther took a brief glance at it. From these three sets of text alone, he confirmed a lot of details regarding the skill.

’Finally dead. One less thing to worry about...’

’So when a marked target is eliminated, the fifty percent of attributes stolen from them won’t disappear?’

He came to this point because he still felt that he was still brimming with strength. The 30 Strength Attribute he stole from the man earlier was still in effect.

He also noticed that the Theft Mark he cast on that man came right back and could be used at any time.

He wondered if there was some sort of limit to this.

If he could cast it for an unlimited amount of times after every marked target was eliminated, that would be pretty overpowered.

If he plays it right, his free attributes would accumulate to a terrifying degree, and even before he could do his Class Ascension at Tier 1, his attributes would surely surpass those of Tier 1 Awakeners by a large margin.

’Now, that would be an effect worthy of an SSS-Grade Talent.’

It was unfortunate that he was unable to allocate his Free Attributes yet.

He would only be able to do that once he killed his first monster after awakening.

At that time, his ’Profile’ would be unlocked, and he would be able to view his basic attributes as well as allocate these Free Attribute points.

There was still a lot left to discover regarding his talent, but it was not the right time to experiment and learn all of them.

At this moment, the creature has partly recovered from its injury.

Whether it was due to its initial high Vitality Attribute or from a healing skill, Desther did not know.

What he knew was that it must be killed for him to destroy the dungeon core.

At this moment, what he lacked the most was an effective weapon that could deal with the creature.

He looked around, taking note of the dagger still impaled on the man’s chest.

Aside from that, there was no other weapon he could use.

Well, with increased Vitality and Strength, his body has become a weapon on its own might right now. But he could only do so much without an Active Skill.

Doing it with brute strength and pure punches would not be able to kill the creature effectively and might drag the fight on for too long, which he doesn’t want to happen.

Only a weapon like the dagger would do some lethal damage to the creature. He just hoped that it would be able to pierce the creature’s skin as effectively as it did with the Tier 1 Warrior.

The bullet earlier went effectively for both of them. But he could not compare his own strike to a revolver’s bullet, right?

Before doing that, though, he took one last glance at Lexie and finally cast a Theft Mark toward her.

[ Target Marked ]

[ Theft Mark: Attribute Theft ]

[Agility: +6 (30 Mins) ]

[ If Marked Target is eliminated: Free Attribute: +3 (Permanent) ]

[Theft Mark: 3/5]

’So she has a total of 10 Agility as of this moment? That’s kind of high. So what she awakened might really be a high-grade speed-type talent, huh,’ Desther thought upon seeing the notification.

With her actions earlier, he was already aware of her highest attribute being Agility. He just did not expect that it would be this high.

One must note that for teenagers like them, right after awakening, the average attribute points they have would be around 6 or 7.

An attribute with a value of 8 was already very rare, but according to the stolen attributes, she actually has a total of 12 Agility as of this moment.

According to statistics and data, this was already beyond genius level.

’A pity...’

With additional Agility, Desther moved even faster than before.

In no time, he arrived in front of the dead man and immediately took out the impaled dagger on his chest.

The creature, sensing danger, did not sit idly either.

It charged toward Desther with great ferocity.

At the same time, its tail began to glow with resplendent light.