Chapter 93 – Unveiling Weakness

“Is it the effect I imagined?”

Lu Yuan blinked.

Once again, there was no skill description, requiring him to figure it out on his own.

Thinking for a moment, Lu Yuan walked to the mirror on the wardrobe in his room and activated the skill.

[Eye of Doom]!

The moment the skill activation occurred, Lu Yuan clearly saw the blackness in his pupils rapidly spreading.

In less than a second, his eyes turned completely black.

There was no distinction between the pupil, iris, and sclera—all merged into one uniform blackness.

In the midst of this pure darkness, a faint, straight white line could be seen, as if someone had sliced through the center.

It was eerie!

It reminded Lu Yuan of the eyes of possessed characters in some horror movies he had seen.

However, he didn’t feel any discomfort, and his vision remained unaffected.

The scene before him hadn’t changed, except…

Wait!

There was a difference.

When Lu Yuan looked down, he noticed wisps of faint black smoke swirling around him.

It was so thin that it was almost invisible if not observed carefully.

These tendrils of black aura curled around his fingers, traced the surface of his skin, and appeared in various parts of his body.

Upon closer inspection, Lu Yuan confirmed that they were emanating from within his body.

“What is this?!”

Lu Yuan immediately thought of the black aura surrounding the Divine Servant of the Crow Deity—they were very similar.

However, the black aura of the Crow Deity’s servant was so potent that it could corrode flesh with a mere touch, whereas the black smoke emerging from his own body had no such effect.

Once he deactivated the skill, the black smoke vanished instantly.

“So what can this [Eye of Doom] do?”

Lu Yuan pondered as he walked out of the bedroom.

The living room was quiet, carrying the unique stillness of a summer afternoon.

The only sound was the gentle whir of the electric fan.

Lu Xinghua had gone out, and his grandfather was napping in his room with the fan on.

Lu Yuan activated the [Eye of Doom] and stood at the bedroom door, secretly observing the sleeping Lu Yueping.

He saw that Lu Yueping’s body was also surrounded by many wisps of black smoke, but it was much denser than his own.

In fact, it could no longer be called black smoke; it should be called black aura.

Lu Yueping was completely enveloped in a thick black aura, especially around his head.

“Whoa—”

Lu Yuan quickly turned his head after a few glances.

He was afraid that if he kept looking, he wouldn’t be able to resist rushing in, pulling his grandfather out of bed, and dragging him to the hospital for a thorough checkup.

“Let’s check on someone else!”

Lu Yuan returned to his bedroom and found a pair of sunglasses in the desk drawer.

These were bought during a family trip to the beach in his third year of middle school and hadn’t been used since.

Lu Yuan tried them on and found that they barely fit, though they squeezed his temples a bit tightly.

It didn’t matter; he just needed them to cover up the strange appearance of his eyes.

Wearing the sunglasses, he walked to the window and opened a slit in the blinds, carefully observing the pedestrians on the road below.

Everyone had black aura swirling around them!

The only difference was the amount.

In twenty minutes, Lu Yuan observed one hundred and twenty-three pedestrians and thirteen cats and dogs on the road below, and he summarized several patterns:

1. Any living being had black aura around them, and the older they were, the more black aura they had.

2. Those who appeared strong and healthy had less black aura.

3. Although the black aura covered the whole body, it often gathered more densely in certain parts of the body.

“So, does the density of the black aura represent the distance to death? In other words, life expectancy?”

Lu Yuan pondered.

Considering the name [Eye of Doom], he thought of a more fitting term for the black aura—death energy.

“The denser the death energy, the more apparent the sign of doom, and the closer one is to death.”

Furthermore, the areas where death energy gathered on a person’s body should correspond to the relatively weaker and more deteriorated organs.

Just like Lu Yueping, who had recently undergone brain surgery and hadn’t fully recovered, so a large amount of death energy had gathered around his head.

There was also a neighbor Lu Yuan knew well, who was widely known to have a heart condition. The death energy was concentrated around his heart.

For the rest of the pedestrians, the majority had the death energy concentrated in their chest and abdominal areas.

These areas corresponded to the vital organs.

Out of the one hundred and thirty-eight reference subjects he observed, Lu Yuan himself had the least amount of death energy.

It was even thinner than that of several infants.

Lu Yuan speculated that this might be related to his 15 constitution points.

Fifteen constitution points might have significantly extended his natural lifespan to some extent.

“The effect of the [Eye of Doom] is to see the death energy on living beings and the patterns of its flow and concentration.”

Lu Yuan lightly rubbed his chin, where some stubble had appeared, and immediately thought, “Can I use this to identify the weak points in a person’s body?”

In a fight, targeting an opponent’s weak spots would naturally yield greater results.

“The [Eye of Doom] can somewhat help in discerning weaknesses.”

Or, before engaging an enemy, he could take one look at them and dramatically declare, “I’ve already foreseen your death!” or “In my eyes, your end is near!”

Such a line would make for a pretty impressive opening before a fight.

Lu Yuan entertained himself with these idle thoughts as he removed the sunglasses and stopped exploring the new skill.

Now, on the [Death Messenger (Extraordinary)] professional panel, there was only one basic skill left unlit.

Lu Yuan didn’t expect his luck to be this badhe had a two-thirds chance, yet he hadn’t unlocked any skills related to extraordinary death energy.

“Oh well, it’ll just take a few more days. I’ll unlock it sooner or later.”

Lu Yuan glanced at the other three professional panels.

The experience bar for the [Student] profession hadn’t moved much since summer vacation started, so he ignored it.

The [Ancient Language Expert] was now Level 3 (24/400).

The [Martial Artist] was Level 5 (1280/1600).

Both professions were not far from leveling up, and with a bit of effort, he could break through soon.

When that happens, he would have extra skill points to light up the last skill.

In the afternoon, Lu Yuan continued training his crow assistant.

He mixed in some practice of the crane stance, [imaginary enemy] consciousness battles, and occasionally relaxed by studying ancient languages.

By 11 PM, close to bedtime, Lu Yuan had trained over two hundred crow “scouts,” establishing an initial crow intelligence network unique to him within Jiaoyan City.

The next morning.

Lu Yuan didn’t go out for his usual morning exercise but sat at his desk, quickly browsing the information displayed on his computer screen.

It was the local news website for Jiaoyan City.

He was trying to find some news reports related to the Crow Deity sect incident.