MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 218

Chapter 218: Strange Strength
Victor watched as three of his friends heads rolled down the floor.

It didn’t make him angry, but instead disappointed.

“You must’ve followed Ishaan here, didn’t you?” Victor touched the back of his head.

The father of the family rushed to his family’s side, removed the binds from their wrists and ankles, then helped them up.

“When you leave so many corpses in your wake, it is only a matter of time before someone tracks you down.” Adam said. “Don’t you agree, Victor Vash?”

Victor nodded and then, out of nowhere, threw his dagger towards the family of the four that were cowering by the corner.

However, before it could reach them, Adam’s longsword smacked his dagger out of the air.

With a quick lunge, Victor retrieved his own sword from his inventory and brought his sword down at Adam.

Adam sideways parried the slash and countered with an overhead slash towards Victor’s shoulder—the attempt behind the slash was to hack off Victor’s sword-wielding arm.

“The Dance of the Blade.” Victor evaded the slash with a dance move and then swiftly twirled around, making his sword dance in the air with very unpredictable motion.

However, no matter how unpredictable those strikes were, Adam’s Kiryoku was one step ahead, and he deflected each blow effortlessly.

While in level 1 of Kiryoku, Adam had to react to attacks based on the opponent’s attacking intent. Now, with level, he could use the attacking intent and also their aura to predict their movements.

It worked like a film reel.

In his mind, he would see Victor’s aura make the move before he did it or even thought about doing it.

It was close to seeing the future, but not at that point yet.

When one’s Kiryoku became strong enough, real future seeing became a possibility.

The sword in Victor’s hand turned black. He used his Kraft!

Adam reacted, and the sword in his hand also turned black, like it was absorbing all the darkness in the room.

Then, both moved at the same time and clashed swords at the center of the living room.

‘Cursed. Our base strength is similar. His Kiryoku is stronger, and our Kraft is equal. What about Magick?’

Victor jumped backward and then shouted. “Multiplication!”

Around him, a dozen swords of the same length and type appeared out of thin air, surrounding him in a protective circle.

With the wave of his hands, he sent the swords flying.

Half of them went towards Adam, and surprisingly, the other half headed straight to the family of the four.

“Why are you bothering them?” Adam frowned.

With the back of his shirt ripping open, eight-petaled wings sprouted from his back and blocked all the flying swords before they could reach the family of the four.

Those swords harmlessly fell on the ground and vanished like the avatar’s upon death.

“Wings?” Victor asked in shock.

“Wings…” The father of the family whispered. “Angel wings…”

The rest of his family was equally amazed. Those wings looked exactly like the ones they used to see on the picture books they read every night before bed.

Apparently, the author of those picture books managed to catch a glimpse of an angel, and that inspired him to make his illustrations as accurate as possible.

Victor took a step forward, planning to make his move, but then he heard sounds coming from outside. It sounded like metallic footsteps.

‘The guards are here?’ He clicked his tongue.

Adam retracted the wings back to his body as those were too big and would make moving inside this cramped house impossible.

With a long step, he swung his sword at Victor. It got blocked. He accepted the defeat in that clash and tried a different tactic.

Instead of going head-on, he circled around Victor to attack from behind and stabbed his sword towards his back.

With backwards slash, Victor parried the attack and brought his sword towards Adam.

But then Adam’s sword changed trajectory and made a small cut on his waist.

It was a small but significant wound.

“…” Victor silently backed off. ‘He doesn’t have any attacking intent.’

Victor’s level of Kiryoku was only level one.

While he hadn’t done his promotion test, he was of Grandeur rank level of strength. He wasn’t as powerful as he would become in the future.

As Adam rushed forward with his sword swings, he pushed Victor back with each clash. He was suffering greatly, with more and more scratches appearing on his arms.

“Go, kill him!” The family of the four cheered him on.

Yet, even though he was clearly losing, Victor’s expression didn’t change. He looked bored, cold, and impassive.

“Are you done?” Victor asked.

“What?” Adam’s brows furrowed, and when their swords clashed, the sword surprisingly slipped off Adam’s hand and flew across the room.

Victor placed his sword by his throat and said, “Your swordsmanship is rudimentary.”

Adam jumped backwards and pulled his longsword back to his hand.

That short clash made Adam’s back drenched with cold sweat.

‘It looks like he didn’t slowly evolve into the monster that he was in the future. He was already a monster at this very moment.’

Victor was the strangest person to have ever played Mortal Online. It was because it was impossible to gauge his strength.

When one reached Royal Mercenary, the leveling up system changed to percentages, and that system was pretty perfect in telling how strong the player was.

However, when it came to telling Victor’s strength, the system was confused.

In the end, he was at the peak of Prime Mercenary during the Second Great Guild War, but he was able to easily fight against Royal Princes and give Grand Lord’s run for their money.

So, why was he only Prime Mercenary when his strength was greater than that?

It was because his strength was ever-changing.

At one time, he could defeat even the mightiest of foes, but the next day he could struggle against minor opponents.

“I would like to end this fight, but I guess we’re out of time.” Victor saw people moving outside the house.

He then sheathed his sword, looked at Adam, and said, “We’ll have to continue this another day.”

With that, he jumped inside the hole where he came from and, like a shadow, disappeared.

Adam slowly sheathed his sword and frowned deeply.

“Thank you, sir, for saving my family.” The father of the family shook his hands with tears rolling down his face. “Without you, my daughters would’ve been…”

His wife and the daughters were crying by the corner of the house, relieved, but still in a fear. It didn’t feel like they were out of harm’s way yet, knowing that one of them escaped.

“The guards are here; tell them what happened.” Adam said and started to walk towards the hole.

“Where’re you going, good sir?” The father of the family asked curiously.

“I am going to go chase him, of course.” Adam said. “I know a person that needs avenging.”

“You’re going after him?!” They exclaimed.

“Yes, this world will be in a way better place with him gone.” Adam said, then nodded towards the family before hopping down to the hole.

With that, the door of the house slammed open, and guards entered with their weapons drawn.