The Extra Villain's Second Chance: A Hero's System-Chapter 46 - 45 - Hexaesthesia Skill

[+200 Heroic points successfully added.]

[Start counting the additional rewards...]

[You have successfully survived the torture for 55 days.]

[You get an additional +100 Heroic points.]

[You get the Mental Barrier skill.]

[You get the Hexaesthesia skill.]

The mental barrier skill may be easy to understand, but what does the hexaesthesia skill mean?

From the name, hexaesthesia skill seems like a god-level skill.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand the name of the skill, but was it truly possible for him to enhance his bodily senses, including his sixth sense?

If it lived up to its name, then this was exactly the skill he needed in his current blind state.

[Hexaesthesia skill – Activated.]

His guess was correct—his five senses felt drastically heightened.

His sense of smell sharpened dramatically, as did his hearing.

His nose could now detect scents from afar, and his ears could pick up distant sounds. From the smells and sounds he perceived, he realized that the place he was in wasn’t the only torture room.

The muffled screams of tortured people, which he couldn’t hear before, now reached him as if they were right beside him.

’It seems the Hexaesthesia skill consumes mana attributes.’

Lev decided to increase his mana attribute using the heroic points he had obtained.

[Converting 332 heroic points into mana attribute.]

[+3.03 successfully added to mana attribute.]

[Mana: 3.24.]

Finally, his mana attribute reached a standard value.

Based on his analysis, his 3 mana points were equivalent to those who had awakened a low-level Mana Pool.

With legs still trembling violently, he stood up and followed a newly arrived soldier. Just as the executioner had said earlier, he was being dragged to the courtroom.

***

[You have successfully endured 55 days of torture.]

’Have I really been receiving torture for only that long?’

His perception of time, which was normal before, now felt a little troubled.

He did not think that he had only received torture for two months.

He didn’t feel like two months had passed because every hour he spent in the torture room felt like a whole day. She felt that time had already passed by several years.

His white hair, which was originally short, now felt long enough to touch his shoulders.

At first, he wondered why the hero’s system gave him so many rewards. Three skills and 300 heroic points were rewards she had never received before. However, considering how much time he spent in torture, the rewards he received felt worth it.

It took a long time for Lev to be able to stand steadily. Just standing was difficult, let alone walking.

The soldier who came to lead Lev to the courtroom ran out of patience. However, when the soldier wanted to use force, he aborted his intention and turned his face forward.

How did Lev know all the movements of the soldier guiding him down to the expressions shown by the soldier?

The reason was because of his hexaesthesia skill.

His brain was able to capture every image around him very clearly as if his eyes were already open. However, the images he captured had no color, only manga-like black and white.

"Why does this guy look so pitiful?!" Even the small murmur of the soldier guiding him could be heard. If it was before, he wouldn’t have been able to hear it.

Lev expanded his range of perception.

The image he could capture widened even more.

From there, he was able to understand the map of the location he was in so well that it surprised him.

The torture room he was in turned out to be located under the Dragomirov royal palace, where the royal family was located.

Although he did not manage to capture an image of the entire palace, he knew about the existence of the palace on the mountainside. novelbuddy-cσ๓

The splendor of the royal family’s palace was well-known among the people of the capital Frostgard. Although the location of the palace was not within the Frostgard capital, all citizens living in the Frostgard capital could definitely see the splendor of the royal palace.

Just turn your head to the north of the capital, and you can definitely see the splendor of the royal palace because the royal palace was located on the slopes of a snowy mountain located not far from the capital of Frostgard.

Eira’Volen Palace, that’s the name of the palace where the Dragomirov Royal family resides. The name means the sacred snow keep. Perhaps it was because of the location of the palace in the snow mountains, hence the name.

The size of the palace was very enormous. Therefore, it was visible from a long distance. Poles the size of old mahogany trees were scattered around, supporting the high ceiling of the palace.

With his legs still trembling, Lev pretended to stumble so that he looked completely blind in front of the soldier guiding him. If he followed the soldier who guided him smoothly, he worried that the soldier would become suspicious.

After all, looking weak when the trial started would work in Lev’s favor. He already had a plan to take advantage of the situation.

Halfway through, just as he was leaving the underground room where many torture chambers were located, someone was seen leaning against the corridor wall.

Lev had lost his color perception, but he could recognize who the person leaning against the corridor wall was.

Although not precise, a simple description would be that Lev took into account the friction of the air hitting the objects around him. Through the movement of the air and the smell around him, he was able to identify the distance, shape, and movement of the person.

"Princess Harlequeen, why are you here?"

The soldier who guided Lev asked respectfully.

The person waiting on the corridor wall was Harlequeen.

When she saw Lev and the soldier, Harlequeen walked over and said to the soldier, "Let me guide this person. You can go back to your original task."

Hearing Harlequeen’s order, the soldier immediately replied, "Yes," and hurried off to who knows where.

"Use this cane." Harlequeen handed a cane to Lev. "I don’t want to see you fall down in the middle of the way and slow down the trial schedule."

From Harlequeen’s tone, Lev realized something.

There was no longer the tone of a madman like the one Lev had always seen in the past. Harlequeen’s expression also seemed very cold.

The childlike style of speaking, the prancing behavior, and the harsh words were no longer on display.

Does Harlequeen have multiple personalities? That was the question that came to Lev’s mind.

’It seems like she really bears the title of the princess of the Dragomirov kingdom.’

Honestly, Lev hadn’t known that Harlequeen was the only princess of the Dragomirov kingdom.

Harlequeen appeared in the novel as the boss of Nightfall Organization so there was no explanation about her identity as the princess of Dragomirov kingdom.

As a noble child, Lev should have known important people including the princess of Dragomirov kingdom. In fact, Lev was the noble son of the Dragomirov kingdom itself—yet he hadn’t.

The reason? Harlequeen never appeared in public. Even when other nobles invited Lev to a party, Lev never saw Harlequeen’s presence.

In an era where there was no social media like on earth, it was not strange for someone to not know another person’s face. Moreover, Harlequeen was not a social person like the other nobles.

"Why is a princess here?"

"Can’t you see that I’m meeting you?"

"Why? I’m just a person who is considered to have committed a crime. There’s no way the princess would come to see me."

"...Don’t say that. I just want to confirm something. Why do I always feel strange whenever I see you?"

"How would I know, Princess. I can’t feel what you feel."

"Hmmm."

Harlequeen’s face drew as close to the face of Lev as possible.

Seeing that she had shed tears earlier when she saw Lev, perhaps Harlequeen really felt confused, even to the point of meeting him personally like this.

"Even though I lost the ability to see, I can still feel your breath if you get this close to my face, Princess."

Lev smiled as he told Harlequeen.

The fragrant odor of Harlequeen’s body was smelled very strongly by Lev’s nose. Thanks to his hexaesthesia skill, he could sense Harlequeen’s breath and smell very well—so much so that it made Lev want to cover his nose.

"Is your right hand not working either?" Harlequeen asked.

Lev received the cane Harlequeen gave him with his left hand, probably because she could tell that Lev’s right hand was also disabled.

Lev nodded in response to her question.

"It seems like it was useless for me to meet you personally." Harlequeen retreated as if resigned to the strange feelings she felt towards Lev. "Follow me well. Although you can no longer see, you can still hear the sound of my footsteps, right?"

In the end, despite feeling that it was a waste to have met Lev, she was still willing to guide him.

While walking behind Harlequeen, Lev asked a question, "If I may ask... did you get any memories that you never had before?"

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