MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 323

Chapter 323: Everything Is Not Fine
The inn at the Border Village had been strangely quiet today.

Behind the closed doors, the innkeeper was lying dead, a pool of blood spreading around him.

It looked like he had been killed not too long ago, as the warmth of his body had not yet completely dissipated.

Through the front door, a worried villager stepped through and dinged the bell at the front desk.

“The innkeeper?” She called out. “Where could he be…”

It was strange to her. She always expected to see the innkeeper standing behind his desk when she walked past the inn during her morning walks.

He was always there, for the past five years, but now he wasn’t, for the first time in forever!

‘Having dinner? Coffee? A nap?’ She thought, but she quickly shook her head.

‘It isn’t his break time.’

At that moment, one of the inn’s mysterious doors started glowing under, as if some kind of mysterious portal was opening on the other side.

‘Someone is coming from that wretched dungeon!’ She thought with wide eyes. ‘It must be a mercenary!’

Her heart started beating with excitement. She wanted to tell the mercenary about the innkeeper’s mysterious disappearance.

When the door opened, a figure walked—no, slithered through the doorway.

The villager was about to introduce herself, but then her expression turned into a look of disgust as she saw the centipede legs.

It made her skin crawl in disgust.

At that moment, her disgust was replaced by fear.

‘Chaosbeing?! Here?!’

As she was about to scream, King Moriarty looked straight at her and moved his hand. His fingers closed around the woman’s throat, crushing it with a sickening squelch.

The villager collapsed on the ground, also dead.

Without any change in look, King Moriarty slithered out of the inn. To him, killing the innkeeper and the woman was as same as crushing an ant.

It really made no difference to him.

…

A couple of minutes after.

The dungeon door again glowed, and through it, Adam emerged. He immediately used his eyes to scan the place for any signs of danger.

Instead of danger, he discovered a corpse with a crushed throat.

‘Moriarty’s handy work.’ Adam frowned as he kneeled down to examine the body further.

After closing the corpse’s eyes, he left the inn, and using his beautiful eight-petaled wings, he took flight and started soaring across the land.

‘I must take the recording to Uncle and make him show it to the other council members!’

After having an immense leap in strength, he moved across the air with a record speed. It wasn’t far-fetched to say that he was currently the fastest mercenary alive!

It allowed him to move between places at an incredible pace that no one else could match.

…

At the village that was currently acting as the Zestruction faction’s headquarters.

“Is there really no word about him?” Digby asked with his veins bulging around his forehead.

They were inside the big tent that was situated in the middle of the village, and their shouts easily reached the other members present in the area.

“No.” Zephyr shook his head. “I’ve contacted his phone, but no word from him yet. It must mean that he is still doing the mission.”

“A mission that takes this long?” Digby frowned. “I thought it was a mere investigation mission.”

“The communication is tight between other Ancient Guilds at the moment.” Zephyr said.

“If something had happened, such as deaths among other mission members, it’ll take a while before I’ll get a word about it.

“We don’t have any reason to panic just yet. Just calm down; I am sure everything is fine.”

“Why Adam, though?” Digby asked. “I’ve been thinking about it. Why the hell did you send him?”

“Wasn’t my call.” Zephyr said. “They wanted him there.”

“And you let him?” Digby asked. “It is obvious that other factions want nothing more than to see Adam dead!”

“I hardly believe that this mission was orchestrated between other guilds to kill Adam.” Zephyr said. “The relationship between them is horrible. They wouldn’t work together to accomplish something like that.”

“This mission wasn’t orchestrated by them, right?” Digby asked. “I received a word from my father. It was King Moriarty’s doings, was it not?”

“…” Zephyr sighed and nodded. “Yes, it was.”

“And are you sure that he wouldn’t like to see Adam dead? We all know that he can become a contender for the throne in the future!”

“King Moriarty is a great man,” Zephyr said. “A selfish, proud man, but great. I don’t believe that he stoops low enough to assassinate Adam.”

“Maybe you don’t know him well enough.” Digby said. “You really don’t think that King Moriarty will do everything in his power to keep the throne?”

“…” Zephyr tapped his finger against the stone table. “I don—”

Before he could say another word, there was commotion outside the tent, and soon, a person seemed to land in front of the tent with a loud tent.

“What is happening there?” Zephyr asked.

At that moment, the tent’s flap opened, and a man, they didn’t expect to see today, stepped through.

“Adam!” Digby’s eyes shook.

“Huff, huff…” Adam panted heavily with sweat dropping from his face.

“See?” Zephyr smiled and stood up. “Everything was fine, after all.”

“Whew…” Digby let out a relaxed sigh and smiled. “Nice to meet you—”

At that moment, their eyes widened as a wave of strength washed over them. They finally managed to get an understanding of Adam’s new strength, and it truly shocked them to the core!

“G-Grand Lord!” Digby’s teeth shook.

Zephyr was completely speechless.

“Everything is not fine!” Adam suddenly shouted and placed Recording Pearl on top of the stone table.

“Recording Pearl?”

Adam activated the Recording Pearl, and the scene started to play out. It was between King Moriarty and Rawkshawn.

The tent turned otherwise silent as the three kept watching and listening to the recording.

Slowly, Zephyr’s and Digby’s expressions started changing.

They were listening to something so shocking that they couldn’t believe their ears.

Every sentence was more shocking than the last.

“He is talking to Rawkshawn.” Adam said. “The monster that killed every other member of the party.”

“?!” Zephyr looked shocked.

“I was the last survivor,” Adam said.

At that moment, the recording reached the moment when King Moriarty talked about assassinating Adam.