MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 277

Chapter 277: The World Announcement
Inside a bar, it was mostly empty except for a few regulars scattered around the room. The bartender wiped the counter while one customer drank his sorrows away.

“One more…” Rafael raised his whiskey cup.

“You’ve drank enough.” The bartender said. “You’re leaving for the frontlines tomorrow. You should go get some sleep.”

“What are you, my mom?” Rafael slammed the cup down. “Give me one more drink!”

“Sigh.” The bartender poured him one more drink and said, “That’s the last one. You better leave after this.”

Rafael gulped down the drink and then slammed the cup down on the counter.

“Fine, fine. The drinks here stink either way.”

The chair toppled over as Rafuel stood up, and he stumbled out of the bar, cursing under his breath.

However, when he walked down the street, he saw that everyone was staring towards the sky. It seemed like they were frozen in time.

“Huh?”

Rafael raised his gaze to the sky, and to his shock, there was holographic message—immensely big—hovering in the sky.

“World Announcement…” Rafael read what it was about, and slowly his eyes widened in shock.

He quickly took off his coat and checked the symbol on the back. It was a Nightshade symbol, as he was one of the foot soldiers of the Nightshade faction!

Their faction had just lost one of their most valuable assets!

Across the village, the mood dipped to all-time low numbers.

After joining the Nightshade faction, most of them held arrogance and pride about their strong faction. They believed that Ambrose had strong chances of becoming the next king.

However, losing one of their most valuable assets this early in the war was extremely detrimental to their chances of success.

‘The big guys must be furious,’ Rafael gulped.

…

Shock, disbelief, and panic spread throughout the Nightshade faction as they realized the impact of their loss.

They could barely believe their eyes.

By the center of the village, a large tent had been set up, serving as a center of headquarters for the Nightshade faction.

Currently, at the entrance of the tent, everyone was staring up at the skies.

The first-ever world announcement was already shocking enough, but why it happened was even more shocking.

“Send a raven to Mauricio!” Ambrose screamed and stormed inside the tent, where he took his seat at the fur-covered throne.

The Raven Master headed out to deliver the message.

Inside the tent, the strong members of the faction and strategists had gathered. It was a solemn mood within them.

‘How sad.’ Akuji Dark crossed his arms. ‘Calamity wasn’t that strong, but in a couple of years, with his talent, he would’ve surpassed me easily. Oh well, I guess there is someone more talented than him~’

Persephone didn’t look at anyone. She had her eyes closed. It was unclear what she was feeling, but everyone could sense the tension in the air.

The flap of the tent opened, and a man stepped inside, his presence commanding attention from everyone in the room.

He wore a heavy, black cloak that seemed to be drenched from rain. However, strangely enough, it hadn’t been raining near the village for the last week.

“Nishimura!” Ambrose said sternly. “You’ve come at last!”

Nishimura took off his hood, revealing black hair that seemed to swallow the surrounding darkness.

“Now that all my Hands have gathered here, we’ve got serious decisions to make.” Ambrose pointed to the ceiling of the tent. “The world announcement.”

“Whenever S-ranker is killed, a world announcement will happen.” Nishimura, the First Hand of the Ambrose, said.

“Are you sure it’s only that?” Akuji asked with a grin. “What if it only happens when S-ranker kills another S-ranker?”

“That’s fine for us either way.” Ambrose said. “We need to get our revenge. We can’t let our enemies think we’re weak. We must make Mauricio kill Adam to restore the honor of our faction!”

‘Will that bring honor to Nightshade or Death?’ Persephone sighed and rolled her eyes.

…

The cheers erupted in a certain village, the mercenaries laughing and raising their cups in celebration.

While dancing like drunken fools, they pointed the glasses towards the sky at the world announcement and laughed at the absurdity of it all.

“Haha, the war’s first proper victory is ours!”

On the garden roof, Morial kicked his legs up to a table and laughed. “Atta boy! Haha, what a fucking crazy guy!”

Lucette giggled and spread her arms wide. “How the hell he managed to do that?!”

Digby sat on the railing, enjoying his drink while looking towards the world announcement. However, even he cracked a smile, and shook his head because this felt absurd.

It had only been one year since he came to the New World!

One year!

In one year, he crossed the three year gap between him and Calamity.

Calamity was also S-ranker, and considered one of the most talented ones to have ever stepped on the New World’s soil!

Yet, it only took Adam one year to cross the gap.

While the S-rank was the highest level of talent anyone could achieve, something like this made Digby wonder whether there should be an even higher rank.

Only reserved for those with god-given talent.

So far, he’d only thought that only King Moriarty could be on a completely different level of talent, but now perhaps even Adam could be considered for that rank.

A few floors below then, Knoxx, Hana, and Alan stood at the balcony, looking towards the world announcement with their eyes full of wonder.

This was an absolute shock to them!

‘In only a year.’ Knoxx wryly smiled. ‘I thought I maybe could keep up with him, but who am I kidding? S-rankers are different from common people like us.’

…

Zephyr poured himself a drink. He filled the cup only half-way and then closed the bottle, placing it back on the shelf.

He returned to the cup, took it into his hand, and sat on top of the table, looking out of the window towards the sight in the sky.

After raising his cup, he gulped it down and let out a soft sigh of contentment.

“First done, many left to go…”

…

A wheelhouse rolled down the dirt, bumpy road, its creaking wheels echoing in the silence of the night.

The knights of the Imperial Order rode on horseback beside it, their armor glinting in the moonlight.

However, their attention was on the sky as the holographic image created a light bright enough that made it very visible in the darkness of the night.

‘So, killing S-rankers will create a world announcement.’ King Moriarty sat inside the wheelhouse, looking out of the window towards the light in the sky.

‘Bothersome news.

‘Calamity dead, huh. I expected him to come challenge me one day, but for his journey to end like this is quite a disappointment.

‘Adam, however, in just a year has reached this level. A dangerous young man.’

…

Mauricio sat on top of a hill, his lifeless gaze looking up to the announcement.

At that moment, a dark raven landed on his shoulder, a note tied to its leg.

However, without doing anything, the raven gasped for air before dying right on top of his shoulder. It looked like the life got sucked out of it.

“Calamity…”

A cold voice.