MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 251

Chapter 251: Game of Chance
Adam looked at Tobias’ corpse and had some conflicting thoughts, but in the end, he had to die.

Corrupted Originals were balance breakers. They were monstrosities, and when left unchecked, they were greater danger to the New World than any ordinary Chaos being.

Sure, if a level 50 boss appeared in the New World, there would be immense casualties, but in the end, mercenaries would eliminate the threat.

However, corrupted originals were far more dangerous with their ideals.

They were able to create more corrupted originals; thus, when they arrive at the New World, it wouldn’t only be one corrupted original that mercenaries needed to worry about. It could be thousands.

Thousands of Tobias.

Because of their ability to corrupt, corrupted originals couldn’t be left alive.

Click!

A strange click sounded.

Behind Adam, a strange door opened, and laughter echoed from within.

Adam turned his head around, looked at the slightly ajar door, and approached it.

When he stepped inside, he was greeted by a small room, a knee-high table in the middle with a strange creature sitting across the table.

The creature was big-headed with round eyes, short, and had skinny, long limbs like a stick figure.

It was also floating above the ground, as if it were hanging from the ceiling with an invisible rope.

“Ke ke ke!” The creature laughed. “Take a seat across from me, mercenary!”

“I would rather just kill you.” Adam threw his greatsword across the room, but before it could hit the creature, it stopped and just hovered in the air.

“I am protected by the powers of reality.” The creature said with a cackle. “You can only kill me if you beat me in a game!”

“A game?” Adam pulled the sword back to his hand and sheathed it on his back before taking a seat across the creature.

He realized what this was.

While most Chaosbeings were killable in ordinary methods, there were some unique Chaosbeings that needed certain requirements to be filled to be killed.

The creature put down a strange wooden pipe on the table. It almost looked like a flute, and he then put two darts next to it.

One of the darts was green like poison, and the other was black.

“A game of chance,” the creature said, and snapped his fingers.

The two darts vanished to a mist and seemingly entered the flute-looking thing.

“Three lives each. Our bodies can handle three doses of poison. We shoot the blowgun after each other until the last one standing wins.

“The green dart is poisonous. The black dart is harmless.

“You may shoot yourself. If the black dart hits you, you won’t lose any health, and instead you get one more turn to shoot.”

‘This is a worthless risk to take,’ Adam thought. ‘My survival depends on stupid luck; it’s stupid to take that chance, but unique Chaosbeings often give valuable rewards when defeated.’

Slam!

The door slammed shut.

“And before you think about leaving, you’re trapped here with me.” The creature laughed. “You can only leave if you kill me!”

‘Fuck.’ Adam sighed and asked. “Who starts?”

“Mm, I let you do the honors.” The creature said with a laugh.

Adam picked up the blowgun, but instead of pointing it at the creature, he pointed it at his very own neck and activated the blowgun.

It was Magick activated; one didn’t need to necessarily blow into it.

With a soft force, a dart flew out of the blowgun, and landed on Adam’s neck.

It was a black dart.

Adam removed the dart from his neck and tossed it aside.

When the black dart landed on the ground, it vanished into a mist.

The creature looked slightly stunned.

“I didn’t expect you to shoot yourself first. Interesting.”

‘These kinds of games are always rigged in their favor.’ Adam thought. ‘This creature is cheating, as well. It expected me to shoot at it first, so I did the opposite.’

Since there was only one dart left in the blowgun’s chamber, Adam turned it to the creature and blew into it.

The green dart flew out of the blowgun and landed on the creature’s big head.

The green poison filled its veins, but it wasn’t a lethal amount yet.

“Ah…” The creature let out a long sigh and then snapped its fingers.

This time, four darts appeared—three green, one black.

“You can go again.” The creature gave the blowgun to him and smiled cheekily.

Adam looked at the blowgun and frowned.

‘It’s in my favor. Three green and one black dart. Good odds. I should shoot the creature, but this game is rigged, and I feel like the odds are way too obvious.

‘Could it be that if I shoot, it’s black dart?

‘Let’s see. If I shoot at it, and it’s a black dart, I’ll be hit by a green dart for sure next turn. That makes our health the same, but then it is my turn, and I can lower the creature’s health again. It will only have one health left.

‘However, the blowgun will have one more green dart left, and it will definitely hit me. We both have one health, but the next round, it’ll probably be the creature’s turn to shoot first, and it will most likely make it so that the green dart will be the first dart!

‘I would die.

‘If I decide to shoot myself first, and it is a black dart, I will definitely win this round. However, if it is green, I’ll be in a shitty situation.

‘For shooting myself, I’ll lose one health. The creature knows what dart will shoot, so if it is green on its turn, I’ll only have one health left.

‘If the creature doesn’t shoot the black dart on its turn, I’ll have fifty-fifty chances for either black or green. It’s just flipping a coin. If I choose wrong, I would die, and if I choose right, I would only be able to lower the creature’s health to one as well.

‘Then the next turn will be its turn to start, and I’ll just die.’

Adam frowned as he contemplated his next move.

The creature just chuckled like a broken recorder as it seemed to take pleasure in Adam’s troubled expression.

It liked to crush its opponents mentality.

The creature was well aware that Adam must be thinking about how the game was rigged.

Obviously it was rigged.

The creature had been facing many mercenaries before.

Unlike ordinary Chaosbeings, Unique Chaosbeings only have one life. It didn’t matter whether there was respawn crystal nearby.

Thus, if it hadn’t rigged the game long ago, it would’ve been long dead.

It didn’t want to die, obviously!

Without Adam knowing it, the creature was hiding its hand and was snapping its fingers. The color of the dart in the blowgun continued to change.

If Adam decided to shoot himself, it would make the dart green. If he decided to shoot the creature, it would make the dart black.

It was a loss situation, no matter what!

“Sigh…” Adam just sighed and pointed the blowgun against his temple.

The creature smirked and snapped its fingers.

The dart turned green.

Adam closed his eyes and took a sniff of the air. It was very gentle sniff.

However, he smelled something in the air that made him stop.

‘Poison dart…’