Crooked Dagger

**Crooked Dagger** is a class that Tatiana gained in chapter 574 with Nathan's help.

**Number of new skills:** 9.

**Class skills:** Unpredictable Steps (Un), Unassuming Strike, Rapid Slash, Deft Hands (R), Produce Dagger (R).

## Rewards

**Reward per level:** +9 Health, +11 Mana, +15 Stamina. +1 Perception, +4 Agility, Reaction, Resistance or Control (these points may be distributed between 4).

## Skills gained for class levels

**10th** level: Numbing Touch, Predict Dodge (Un).

**15th** level: Feign Death.

**20th** level: Poison Brewing.

**25th** level: skill Dagger Mastery evolved into the skill Dual Dagger Dance.

**30th** level: Watchful Eyes, Vicious Execution (A).

## Related notifications

* Warning, changes occurring within your Soul. This is highly dangerous. A mistake could lead to death or loss of self. Please-
* Skills have been applied to your soul. This is highly dangerous. A mistake-
* Warning, your Class is being adjusted.
* Warning, there are abnormalities in your connection to your Village. Warning-
* You have lost the Class Cutpurse. All Stats gained through Leveling in the Cutpurse Class have been lost. Warning, losing so many Stats at once may adversely affect your body. Please proceed directly to your Village Spirit in order to rectify the situation.
* Warning, your Soul is currently being exposed to-
* Recalculating-

## Creation

From Tatiana, Nathan felt patience and determination. He felt her proclivity for decisive action and shadows. The rustle of silk. A door slowly opening. A blade rubbed in soot so there was no refracted light off the metal blade. Drawing slow, leisurely circles with the tip of the weapon. Under the influence of these images of Tatyana, Nathan began to think, that if in some cold night he would alone with something that would try and kill him, he would fight and survive for as long as he could. Tatiana was insidious, that was the world, and subtle. Her violence was ideally neat, but if forced, it would be violent.

Then one image appeared that began to dominate others. A woman with a smile so sharp and twisted that its jagged edges resembled that of a knife wound. Her class shook soundlessly, then began to melt like a snowman in sunlight, which made it more pliable to changes. Tatiana began to get caught up in that image of the woman with the crooked smile. That smile began to dominate everything. Sometimes the woman was whistling, sometimes the woman was waiting, sometimes she was walking down the street with a basket in her hands. But all the while, her eyes were sharp. She did not wander, she approached always. There was a target, and she would have it dead by the day’s end. A legendary killer that-

The Class seemed to shiver as threads of Aether wove themselves into it. They destroyed, but they also created. The Class seemed to be melting, but as Nathan upped the amount of Aether he was donating, the Class could regrow itself around the newly acquired parts.

Skills used by Nathan: Investigate Aether (checking Tatiana's class and sensitivity to changes in Aether around her), Revert Energy (softening the class structure for further changes), Spark Evolution (strengthening the image of a woman with a crooked smile), Donate Aether (investing Aether in the class).