MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 249

Chapter 249: Corrupted Original
Adam started reading through the strange piece of paper that was just lying in the crypt.

Since it was strange for the piece of paper to be here, he read it with some interest.

“I woke up and found myself in a place I didn’t recognize.

“The crypt of the darkness and sorrow.

“Why am I here?

“I am not dead. I am just lost being.

“I have to find my way back home. To the land of the Old. I must find a way back, but for now, I am stuck in here.

“There’s a door I tried. It was locked like a fortress. It didn’t even budge. I had a feeling that would be the exit. However, for now, I’ll have to find a way to live in here.”

The text ended.

Adam folded the piece of paper and tucked it into his pocket..

‘This floor is different from the previous floors. This floor’s boss has a story. This piece of paper belongs to the boss of the floor—a very intelligent Chaosbeing.

‘As intelligent as a human, if I may say so, but that also makes it very powerful. I am still too weak to challenge the boss, but I do hope of reaching level 25 before taking on the boss.’

Since there wasn’t anything else on this particular stone chamber, he made his way over to the next room over. It was empty, thus he kept going until he reached a dead end.

He turned around, backtracked a few steps, and headed in a completely different direction. The dusty hallway led him to a dead-looking door at the end.

It had skulls as decoration, and the color of the door was a deep crimson red, as if someone painted it with blood.

With a small push, the door opened to reveal a hall lined with torches on either side, casting an eerie glow on the stone walls.

It looked like this hall was used as some kind of storage before because there were shelves filled with dusty boxes and old crates.

However, now this hall clearly hadn’t been used for years, maybe centuries even.

“RAWR!”

At that moment, a strange creature tackled him behind, and they both rolled down the hall’s floor.

The door of the hall slammed shut as if they were trapped here now.

Adam grabbed his sword and looked over to his attack.

The attacker was strange-looking.

“RAWR!”

The creature growled. It looked like a young adult, but short, and had a lion’s hide wrapped around its body. It was also rotting from face down to its torso, with exposed bone visible in some areas.

‘Lionborn.’ Adam thought. ‘However, I don’t remember Lionborn’s rotting. It must be the doings of the boss.’

Lionborn lunged at him. It didn’t have claws of the lion, but its nails looked sharp nonetheless.

Adam flashed past him, his sword swinging during the swift movement, and appeared behind Lionborn. He moved so fast that it looked like he had teleported.

Spurt!

Lionborn got cut in a half, and its body fell to the ground in two pieces.

[You killed Reborn Lionborn!]

[15 XP Acquired!]

Adam then sheathed his sword on his back and looked around the hall for a way to leave, but it looked like the door was the only exit and entrance.

He headed to the door and tried opening it. It didn’t work. Tried kicking it open. It didn’t work. Finally tried to slash through it, but that didn’t work as well.

‘This is not the boss room yet, so why am I stuck in here?’

At that moment, one of the hall’s walls started shaking, and from its small cracks, water started pouring in.

The wall couldn’t hold the water and collapsed under the pressure.

A massive ceiling-high water wave suddenly surged into the hall and headed straight to Adam.

It was like a miniature tsunami, but if more water poured in, there would be no place to breathe air and would eventually drown.

It looked very bad!

“Push!” Adam screamed and stopped the water wave that threatened to engulf him.

The water wave was frozen in place, but Adam started sweating as it was very hard to keep it contained.

The mana ocean inside his mind was also emptying at an alarming rate, as if someone had pulled out a plug and caused all of it to rush down the drain.

“Ice Breath!”

A gust of freezing cold air left his mouth and froze the water wave that soon looked like a big wall of ice.

He finally lowered his hand and saw that the ice wall was blocking the rest of the water from coming at him.

Adam, coincidentally, looked to the ceiling and saw a small trap door. It was right above the ice wall that he had created.

‘A way out.’

He then climbed up the ice wall, pushed the trap door open, and jumped through it.

As soon as he escaped the hall, the ice wall cracked and shattered, and the hall got filled with water.

Adam closed the trap door and looked around for any signs of danger.

It looked like he was inside some sort of attic. It was dimly lit, with cobwebs in the corners and boxes stacked high against the walls.

‘It looks like this underground crypt was used as someone’s living place. It’s not just a resting place for the dead.’

He’d been on the 50th floor before, but it was such an enormous place that he hadn’t seen everything in one go.

He also didn’t participate in the boss fight before then but had heard a lot about its difficulties. It was something he never expected to try, but now he was planning to do it alone.

The attic wasn’t as comfy as Lady Yu’s place, but a place that would be found inside of a horror movie.

Adam searched through the attic for more letters, but this place was clearly emptied some time ago.

After not finding anything, he left the attic using a hatch and stepped down some stairs till he arrived back at one of the many dusty hallways.

However, at that moment, he saw a door at the end of the hallway. It was a guarded door.

A man was sitting by the door. A smoky cigarette between lips, and held three chains with his right hand. A dog was growling at the end of each chain.

Those three dogs looked like hell beasts.

“Oh, look what we have in here!” Tobias said with a smirk. “Mercenary!”

When he said mercenary, his words were filled with malice and contempt.

“Corrupted Original.” Adam said with narrowed eyes. “How rare.”

“Corrupted? No, reborn!” Tobias stood up, towering over his three, menacing-looking dogs.

‘Some Originals are desperate for power after seeing the might of the players. Out of desperation, they turn to dark magic and forbidden rituals.

‘In the end, they get corrupted and become Half-Original, Half-Chaosbeing.’

“You came at a good time, human.” Tobias said and patted his dogs. “My pets have become hungry!”

Growl!

The dogs began to snarl and bare their teeth.

“I concur.” Adam lifted his greatsword above his head. “My sword’s the same, y’see. I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but when it doesn’t get a taste of blood, it becomes restless and temperamental.”

Tobias let go of the chains, and the dogs started running towards Adam.