MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 237

Chapter 237: Ambush, Blood and Fight
In a narrow alleyway, a group of mercenaries moved silently like ghosts and peeked over the corner to see the ongoings in the street.

It looked empty, but when they were about to move there, clashing weapons reverberated through the air.

A battle raged in the street.

Korazion and the Second Sister clashed weapons—spear versus dual daggers—it was a heated fight to the death.

With a flick of the spear, Korazion smacked the Second Sister across the face, leaving a deep gash. The Second Sister stumbled back, blood dripping from her wound.

“Five Spear Death Rush!” Korazion jumped to the air, and five identical-looking spears appeared around him.

When he pointed his very own spear at the Second Sister, those five spears shot forward in a lightning-fast attack, aiming to strike her down.

The Second Sister nimbly cartwheeled out of the way, but one of the spears grazed her arm, leaving a shallow cut.

Yet she didn’t seem worried as she cut through the air with her dual daggers. It created invisible air slashes that flew straight back at Korazion.

With his Kiryoku fully activated, Korazion smashed his spear through the air slashes.

The Second Sister threw one of her two daggers. It stabbed into Korazion’s shoulder.

“Mgh…” Korazion grunted with an uncomfortable look.

The Second Sister quickly did some hand signals that looked like her fingers were getting tangled with each other.

“Gravity Dagger!”

The dagger on Korazion’s shoulder suddenly felt like it weighed ton. He crashed to the ground while the dagger buried itself deep into his flesh, slowly cutting deeper and deeper as it was so heavy that his flesh couldn’t hold up against it.

Korazion yanked the dagger from his shoulder and dropped it to the ground. The pavement cracked once the dagger fell.

“Pull!” The Second Sister summoned the dagger back to her hand and then entered another round of close combat.

With her daggers, she had an advantage over Korazion, who was more of a long-range attacker with his spear that could change lengths at will.

However, Korazion wasn’t a bad close combat fighter. He twirled the spear around him while deflecting all the daggers that came his way.

In the nearby alleyway, the mercenaries noticed that the fight on the street was something they couldn’t participate in. It was leagues above their current level.

“Let’s continue moving.” One of them whispered. “Our goal is within the Children of Fair’s territory, after all.”

The backs of their robes had a symbol of a half cut face—a symbol of Zestruction.

They continued heading deeper into the alleyway that led straight to the enemy territory. They didn’t plan to fight over the Trigger Street, as even if their guild took control of it, they would be in the middle of Dying Star and Children of Fair.

It wasn’t a strategically wise move to do.

They were after something in the Children of Fair territory that was much more important.

However, when they came across an alleyway of weedy pavement, the leader suddenly stopped in his tracks.

“I sensed something…” he said and darted his gaze across the nearby roofs, but didn’t see anyone.

He was chosen as the leader of this mission because of his decently high level in Kiryoku. It had allowed him to escape danger several times before, as he knew how to accurately sense nearby attacking intent.

He could almost swear that he felt a tiny bit of the attacking intent. It was just a little bit before disappearing.

It’s like someone realized their mistake and quickly hid their attacking intent.

‘Someone who knows how to hide their attacking intent… That person must be pretty high-level.’ The leader thought to himself. ‘What to do? The attacking intent might’ve not been aimed at us if there’re other fights going on nearby.’

“Is something wrong?” A person behind him asked.

“I don’t know…” The leader gritted his teeth. “Follow me.”

They walked over the weed that was growing in the cracks of the pavement and headed deeper into the maze-like network of alleyways. The leader’s mind was racing with thoughts of potential danger lurking in the shadows.

At that moment, his heart turned cold as he didn’t only feel two or three attacking intents. It was dozens, coming from every direction.

Unlike the one who managed to mask their attacking intent, these ones couldn’t, but it was fine as they had already stepped into the trap.

“Run!” The leader screamed.

However, before any of them could make a proper move, the arrows rained down on them like a rain shower and stabbed through them like they were voodoo dolls.

With blood flowing down the cracked pavement, their corpses lay lifeless in the dimly lit alleyway. Around fifteen mercenaries died, just like that.

In the nearby roofs, the bow-wielding women looked over, and smiled with each other. The ambush was successful.

They were part of Battle Maidens, and since joining the guild, they’d been learning the ways of the ambushes and fighting.

It also included learning to mask attacking intents, but they were all just rookies, so most of them hadn’t learned it, but they were still very effective with their ambushes.

Knowing that it would be easy to find out their location since they couldn’t hide their attacking intents, they did their ambushes in these narrow alleyways.

It was to trick their own senses.

They couldn’t have any attacking intent because there was no one to attack. So, they chose a place to ambush, where they didn’t know if anyone was about to come, so they didn’t know when they would attack someone.

So, when one finally enters their trap, they immediately attack. That’s how, even if they managed to detect their attacking intent at the last moment, there was nothing they could do.

“Whew, good job, sisters.” A brunette-haired woman said with a smile.

“Whew…” A pigtail-haired woman touched her chest and took a deep breath. “That was a close. Who did accidentally let out their attacking intent?”

“T-that was me. I am sorry…” A shy-looking woman raised her hand. “I was too nervous, so I couldn’t help but think about the moment when we attack someone, so my attacking intent seeped out…”

“Stay calm with your thoughts, next time.” The brunette-haired woman said. “Luckily, you managed to erase those thoughts quickly. Otherwise, we would’ve all be in great danger.”

“I’ll do better next time around…”

“What’ll we do about that?” A sharp-eyed woman asked as she looked to the street. “Those two are still fighting out there.”

“That fight is beyond our league.” The brunette-haired woman said. “Guild master Athena told us to be careful with the fights we choose. We shouldn’t get involved unless absolutely necessary.”

…

The fights raged across the Imperium City.

It was frightening how fast things turned around.

Only an hour ago, it was still quiet and eerily silent.

Now, it would be strange if they didn’t hear any fighting for more than a few minutes.

The Originals hid inside their abodes, keeping their children and loved ones close. There was nothing any of them could do when the mercenaries fought.

It was like they were humans in the presence of the Gods.

There was nothing they could do except pray and hope that they would stay safe.