MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 281

Chapter 281: The Rematch!
“You’re really leaving?” Otis asked as he watched Adam pack some food from the kitchen and stuff into his backpack.

“Yeah,” Adam replied. “The things are heating up in the New World, and I need to be there to help my guild.”

“I see…” Otis nodded and reached out his hand for handshake. “Thank you for everything.”

With a smile, Adam shook the hand and headed out, exiting through the back of the castle, and entered fog-shrouded streets.

Through one of the crimson castle’s windows, Raquel watched as he walked away.

“Not even a proper goodbye, huh…” She turned back to her throne, and sat down with slight awkwardness.

Now that he was gone, she became more nervous because it was now up to her to keep this kingdom safe from any harm.

She wasn’t sure whether other Originals would accept her as their new ruler after what happened with Calamity.

Perhaps they didn’t want anyone to rule over them ever again.

“Sigh, what to do…”

She wished she had Adam to give her some guidance, but she knew that he had his own things to attend to.

She felt troubled, but at that moment, she became more comfortable in the throne, and she felt like someone touched her on the shoulder.

When she turned her head around, she didn’t see anyone, but it felt strangely comforting.

‘Weird…’ Raquel slapped herself in the cheeks and shouted. “Alright! I need to focus! What should I start with? Right, the food. Moon food fields should be ready for harvesting by now…”

She then rummaged through her pockets, and found a small piece of paper. It was the only thing Adam left behind for her.

Apparently, if she ripped the paper, Adam would find out, and he would come immediately back to help.

‘I hope I don’t need to use this…’

…

Click, click, click!

The Singing Skeletons clicked their teeth together as they danced together in the eerie hallways of the underground crypt.

At that moment, they all heard footsteps, and turned their skulls to see who was approaching.

It was a young man, a backpack slung over his right shoulder, and he had greatsword strapped to his back.

At first glance, he looked like an ordinary adventurer, but the Singing Skeletons felt that something was terribly wrong with this young man.

It was like he was not entirely human.

However, still, the Singing Skeletons clicked their teeth in a song, and launched themselves at the young man.

Adam waved his hand, and all of the Singing Skeletons got sent flying across the hallway in a whirlwind of bones and dust.

Soon after that, he came across the heavy-looking double doors of the boss room.

He’d arrived by the boss room to challenge Xerxus one more time!

With a strong push, the double doors swung open, and Adam entered the boss room with long steps.

The blue flames surrounded the platform like a fiery barrier, casting an ominous glow across the room.

At the center of the platform, Xerxus twirled his wooden cane around, and slowly stood back up. Its back arched, but then it straightened as he let out a sigh.

“You’ve returned. I didn’t think you would.” Xerxus said and narrowed his eyes. “However, something has changed within you. I wonder what that is.”

Adam suddenly pointed his hand at Xerxus, and formed a fist with it.

The fist slightly moved forward as if he threw a punch. However, there wasn’t any swing behind it, so in theory, it should’ve been harmless.

However, Xerxus’ eyes suddenly widened, and he got hit in the stomach by something.

With a grunt of pain, he crashed down on his knees, and seemed to have plenty of difficulties with breathing.

“?!”

“Chi Strike…” Adam whispered under his breath.

Realizing that something was horribly wrong, Xerxus whirled his cane around him, and summoned nearly three dozen of his undead minions.

The undead minions took a protective stance right in front of their master, and eyed Adam with an increasing hostility.

“I don’t know what you did, but you won’t succeed again.” Xerxus wiped the blood off his lips, and waved his hand. “Attack him!”

The undead minions only took one step, but then Adam retrieved his greatsword and swung it only once right in front of himself.

The sword swing created an air slash that smashed through the undead minions, and approached Xerxus with deadly force.

However, at the last possible moment, Xerxus lifted his wooden cane, and blocked the air slash, but his legs kept sliding backwards.

Soon, his feet reached the edge of the platform, but luckily for him, the air slash’s strength faded away before completely disappearing.

“Huff, huff!” Xerxus panted heavily and waved his cane to restore the undead minions to their former condition, but suddenly, Adam leaped across the room without using his wings.

He moved so quickly that he crossed the gap between them in half a second!

“The Chains of the Despair!” Xerxus lifted his wooden cane, and chains made out of the bones shot out like snakes, trying to wrap themselves around Adam.

Adam moved his greatsword and, with an effortless swing, parried the chains away, but it helped only for a short period as the chains turned around in the air, and headed straight back to him.

However, it gave him enough time to leap forward, and he arrived right in front of Xerxus.

Xerxus lifted his wooden cane to block the greatsword, but Adam didn’t plan to use his weapon, and instead slammed his left fist deep into his gut.

“Chi Strike!”

The strike broke through Xerxus’ defenses and wreaked havoc deep inside his body.

“Cough!” Xerxus coughed out blood, and fell down on his knees.

The chains came falling down, but with a swing of the greatsword, the chains got cut into pieces.

The shattered bones fell back to the ground with a sickening crunch.

“Huff, huff!” Xerxus breathed heavily.

At that moment, something inside him started to change.

The blue flames turned golden, and the room started shaking like a violent earthquake.

Xerxus’ skin turned scorched black, as if he were on fire currently, but it didn’t seem to hurt him as his grin kept stretching wider and wider.

[HP: 50%]

He had reached the second phase!

‘Now the proper fight begins.’ Adam thought with a calm look.

He didn’t consider the first phase as a fight even. It was going to be easy for him to beat the first phase Xerxus without any effort.

However, the second and third phases were different.

Yet, Adam didn’t look worried, as he just smiled and raised his greatsword high.

“The Fire of Corruption!” Xerxus grinned, and his right arm started to burn with golden flames.

With a swing of his arm, the golden flames shot forwards towards Adam, who was standing only a few meters away from him.

Adam opened his mouth wide and shouted. “Ice Breath!”

The cold, freezing breath slammed against the golden flames, and shockingly enough, he was able to stop it!

The freezing cold and scorching hot elements collided in a dazzling display of power.

Another half of the platform turned into a hellish landscape of ice, and the other half became engulfed in golden flames!