MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 126

Chapter 126: The Soul of the Dark God of Blackened Hearts
Adam whirled around to see who had just spoken.

His sword stabbed through a mass of black smoke, and he only saw a pair of white eyes and a mouth of sharp teeth within the smoke.

‘What?’

Adam frowned, backstepped, and went behind the crystal, his sword ready to slash down. It was almost like he was holding the crystal hostage.

He didn’t expect to meet some kind of smoke monster. After all, he was clearly touched in the shoulder just now, and he believed if he removed his sleeve, there would be a handprint on his shoulder.

“Who are you, insolent pig?” The smoke monster hissed, its voice echoing in the dark cavern.

It wanted to approach the young man, but he touched the crystal with his sword, scratching the blade across the smooth, jagged surface.

The smoke monster stopped.

‘Calamity never mentioned this smoke monster. Is it the guardian of the crystal?’

“Ha, ha, ha, ha.”

The smoke monster laughed irregularly. Its mouth, with its jagged teeth and forked tongue, opened wide in an eerie smile.

“You wouldn’t dare.”

“I wouldn’t?” Adam smacked the crystal with the blunt side of the sword, causing a crack in the surface.

The smoke monster flinched. Its black mass turned red, as if it had turned angry, and it let out a deafening screech.

“You don’t understand what you’re doing!”

“Then tell me what I am doing.” Adam grabbed the sword’s hilt with both hands and pointed the sword down.

With one wrong move by the smoke monster, Adam would just stab the sword through the crystal. He had the upper hand.

“That’s the soul of the Dark God of Blackened Hearts,” the smoke monster explained. “You’ll get cursed, your heart will blacken out, and you’ll become a servant to evil for all eternity.”

‘Curses are real. These kinds of threats are not to be taken lightly.’

Adam furrowed his brows, feeling troubled.

He thought about Calamity and whether there were any signs of him being cursed, but he was already a servant to evil—a murderer—so it was hard to tell if he was suffering from any curse at all.

It would be easier if the person who destroyed the crystal was kind-hearted, but unfortunately, that was not the case.

‘This creature is not Blackheart. It is Chaosbeing—Smoke Chaos Entity— and it cannot be trusted. Its level of intelligence is high, so its strength should be as well, but that’s the thing with Smoke Chaos Entities; they are actually not that strong.

‘They are often deceptive and rely on trickery to defeat their opponents.

‘If Chaosbeings had an army, they would be strategists and spies rather than brute force warriors.’

Adam didn’t know what to do. The smoke monster was most likely deceiving him, but he couldn’t be sure.

He had his Kiryoku activated. However, he couldn’t tell what the smoke monster was feeling.

It was nervous, that’s for sure, but also excited about something.

‘Excited about the Black Sun, probably.’ Adam thought.

The smoke monster kept its eyes on Adam. It was hesitant to make any moves. It didn’t have a lot of fighting prowess, except for a few Magick spells it could summon.

‘Destroying the respawn crystal. I wanted to do it so that Calamity wouldn’t get it, as it helped him to get a mass following and become a formidable powerhouse.

‘I have a good reason to find the crystal as well. Kory is able to back me up, so it wouldn’t look suspicious that this was my second destroyed respawn crystal.

‘The destruction of the crystal would help me cement my position as a genius at the level of the S-rankers. It’s important to keep up the role. If it ever becomes clear that I am not much of a genius, it’ll mean death of me.

‘Destroying a respawn crystal also gives experience points. 1500, to be exact. It would be enough for me to reach level 3. A level of Ordergiver.’

Adam was still hesitant. He wasn’t sure whether he wanted to risk getting a curse.

The curses were cureable. However, a curse from the Dark God of Blackened Hearts would definitely be difficult to remove.

It didn’t seem worth the risk.

Adam made up his mind.

“Fine, I’ll leave,” Adam said, and he pointed the sword at the smoke monster. “Back away, now.”

The smoke monster listened and flew to the other end of the dark cavern. It was smiling, but it was also nervous. The human could trick it, destroy the crystal, and try to quickly escape.

Adam looked at the dark ceiling where he came from. It was not too high, but it was closed, and the portal was gone.

Calamity mentioned leaving through the same place where he came from. He only brought the remnants of the destroyed respawn crystal with him to the outside world.

‘Now, how can I leave?’

Adam crouched a little bit and jumped as high as he could. He managed to touch the ceiling with his fingertips before falling back down.

Nothing changed.

The ceiling, filled with black rocks, remained closed just as it had before.

‘I can’t leave?’ Adam wondered with a frown and tried again.

Again, nothing happened.

He tried cutting through the ceiling, but it was too thick.

Adam frowned, trying to remember the stuff Calamity told others about this place. He was proudly telling his stories, hundreds of times even, so the most important parts he remembered.

‘After destroying the crystal, the ceiling opened up…’

Adam turned his gaze to the crystal with a heavy heart. It was an extremely difficult decision to make.

‘I can’t leave without destroying it…’

The smoke monster felt something was odd. It ignored the order given to it and started to move towards Adam.

“Get away from it!”

Adam swung his sword in a flat, wide arc and sliced through the smoke monster, but made no solid contact with its form.

The smoke monster flew through the blade, and two smoke hands emerged from its body. It was human hands, looking like they were covered in black gloves.

It was heading straight to the crystal. It was the only thing that seemed to matter.

“Pull!” Adam reached out his hand towards the crystal, and it flew past the smoke monster and into his hand.

The room fell silent for a brief moment.

Then, the smoke monster screamed and flew towards Adam in a rage.

“Give it back!”

Adam tossed the crystal in the air—it spun around in the air for a moment—then a steel blade sliced through the air, cutting the crystal in half.

The crystal’s brilliant glow vanished, and it fell to the ground in two pieces at first, but after making contact with the hard ground below, the pieces shattered into a thousand tiny fragments.

“Noo… ooo… ooo…”

The smoke monster’s voice trembled like a haunting melody, and then it slowly faded away into nothingness. It was somehow connected to the crystal at such a deep level that its destruction also killed it.

[You destroyed the soul of the Dark God of Blackened Hearts!]

[5000 XP Acquired!]

[LEVEL UP!]

[Level 2 → 3]

[LEVEL UP!]

[Level 3 → 4]

Adam’s eyes widened in shock. He didn’t have any idea that this would happen!

Usually, destroyed respawn crystals give 1500 experience points to the user. However, that was with the floor respawn crystals.

This crystal was more valuable.

It was the soul of the Dark God of the Blackened Hearts!

Within the depths of his body, power surged through him like a raging storm of strength. His strength had an immense leap; a whole two-level increase was a very rare instance.

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[Name: Adam Palestar]

[Level: 4]

[XP: 1677/2500]

[HP: 650/650]

[Rank: Mercenaryman]

[Weapon: Gladius Sword + Heater Shield]

[Shinecoin: 1601]

[——SKILLS——]

[—Little God—]

[—Basic Blade Handling—]

[—Ground King—]

[—Shield Charge—]

[—Pull—]

[—Push—]

[Inventory]

[Log Off]

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