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Chapter 274: Another
Chapter 274: Another
Chapter 274: Another
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At a small bar, in the corner table, a group of mercenaries filled their throats with the finest ale in the land.
They didn't mind wasting their money now before the war, as they might just die in the war and lose all their money either way!
"Alright, I got one!" Vidar shouted in a drunken manner. "Who will win in a fight, King Moriarty or Mauricio Slaughter if they're on the same level?"
"Easy, King Moriarty." Sigmund said. "I can't see him ever losing, and as we all know, he'd never lost a fight!"
"I don't know. Mauricio is one tough sonovabitch." Randel said with a grin. "However, if I had to gamble on one of them, it would always be King Moriarty!"
"What about Sapphira or Arkham?" Vidar asked. "Sister versus brother!"
Randel and Sigmund looked at each other before answering. "Arkham."
Not a single inch of hesitation.
It was widely known that Arkham was one of the greatest fighters in the entire world. There was no doubt in their minds.
Sapphira was a charismatic leader and would definitely be a contender for throne in the future, but when it came to battle power, Arkham was the sword and shield of Sapphira.
"Mauricio or Calamity?" Vidar asked a slightly harder one. "That could be an amazing fight to watch!"
"Ouch, tough one!" Randel said. "Mauricio was the second S-ranker to have ever existed, but he had to fight extremely hard odds to become one."
"Yeah, definitely." Sigmund said. "King Moriarty showed the world the requirements to become an S-ranker. To follow in his footsteps was an extremely difficult challenge."
"Yet, Mauricio did, and he proved to everyone that he was truly worthy of the title."
"I would say Mauricio wins the fight," Vidar said with a shrug.
"I don't know~" Randel said teasingly. "Calamity is truly a special person. When he fought Mauricio in the tutorial, he shocked the world by not getting knocked down even once!"
"He couldn't land that one hit against Mauricio, but not to get knocked down even once is an amazing feat by itself." Sigmund said. "Calamity is truly special."
"You guys have to choose one of them!" Vidar said with a laugh.
"I would still say Mauricio," Randel said.
"I will go with Calamity," Sigmund said.
"Alright, final one!" Vidar grinned. "Calamity or Adam."
"Ouch." Randel laughed. "We've not seen much from Adam, honestly. He is quite lackluster, I would say."
"True." Sigmund said. "All the S-rankers did something shocking in their first year in the New World, but not Adam. Instead, he'd been very quiet."
"However, he did defeat tutorial's caretaker, the first one to ever do it." Vidar said.
"Yes, but it was against some Grandeur mercenary." Randel said. "Calamity fought S-ranker Mauricio. That's a whole different beast compared to what Adam had to face!"
"Yeah, this is easy. Calamity wins hundred times out of hundred." Sigmund said.
"Agreed." Randel nodded.
"Yeah, I am with you on this one." Vidar said. "Maybe the council of mercenaries made a mistake. Maybe Adam isn't really S-ranker."
...
With a large grin on his face, Calamity slammed his fist deep into Adam's gut.
Like a cannonball, Adam crashed through several buildings before finally coming to a stop in a pile of rubble.
"Cough!" Adam coughed out heavily and felt like his whole ribcage broke from impact.
His health bar also had a drastic drop.
[Adam - HP: 275/1500]
From the air, hundreds of falling arms started raining down on him.
Adam desperately shielded himself behind his beautiful wings, but the falling arms began to overwhelm him as he struggled to block all of them.
Calamity stepped over the rubble, slowly approaching him with a grin.
His health was looking better than his opponent.
[Calamity - HP: 555/1650]
"Argh..." Adam grunted in pain, and for a split second, a beautiful face of Lady Yu flashed by across his eyes.
At that moment, he remembered that if he died, she would die as well!
'Should I escape? I've done everything I can...' Adam thought for a moment. 'No. I haven't done everything!'
As he struggled to stand back to his feet, one of the falling arms bypassed his defenses and punched him across the face.
Because the falling arms had velocity from dropping from the sky, it hurt more than usual punch.
His health kept dropping further and further down!
"You've lost." Calamity said with a grin and created more arms that immediately started pummeling Adam down to the ground.
"To be honest, not a bad fight. You fought valiantly. However, I am special, y'see."
Calamity stepped even closer to him and laughed. "I won't start belittling your accomplishments in this fight. You've become incredibly strong in such a short time, but you were never going to beat me."
Adam stood up enough to fall back to his knees. He couldn't properly stand up because the
falling arms kept slamming against his wings.
Again, a flash of memories flashed by his eyes.
He again remembered his death.
After one year, the pain of the death had never left him but only grew stronger while laying
dormant inside him.
The anger was something he'd never forgotten.
...
Previous timeline.
One second after Adam's death.
"Haah, haah..." Calamity breathed heavily and laughed. "That's it, I suppose."
As he looked at the beheaded head, he just kicked it away and scoffed. "Who is pathetic now?" "Calamity..." Amelia touched him intimately and said, "That's enough. Don't bother with the
dead."
"We did as you asked!" Liam said. "You will fulfill your end of the deal, right?!"
"Yeah, yeah." Calamity wrapped his arm around Amelia possessively and grinned. "You did
your job well, but it isn't over, y'see."
"What do you mean?" A rough-looking Nikholas asked.
"Haha, nothing for you to worry about." Calamity said with a grin. "Once I have received confirmation that the job has been completed on the other world as well, you'll get your
reward.'
'On the other world?' Amelia frowned.
Lisa went, and picked up Adam's head, looking into his dead eyes, and then carried it back to
his corpse.
"What're you doing?" Calamity asked.
"I wanna bury him." She said with a soft voice. "He was still our father."
"Leave it. He'll just turn into pixels either way in a moment." Calamity said coldly.
"B-but."
"Lisa!" Amelia screamed. "We're listening to Calamity's orders now. If he said to leave the
corpse, you'll leave it!"
Lisa sighed and placed the head on top of the corpse's stomach, then she closed his eyes and
walked away.
With Calamity in front, they left the chamber and left the corpse behind that slowly started to
turn transparent.
...
Back in the present.
STAB!
"Argh!" Calamity groaned in sudden pain as a knife stabbed through his back.
He turned around and saw teary-eyed Raquel holding a bloodied knife.
"You bitch!" He screamed and grabbed the knife from her hand.
As he was about to stab it through her face, Adam suddenly screamed like an inhumane
monster, used his wings to jump forward with insane speed, and tackled Calamity down to the
ground.
"Raquel, leave!" Adam screamed in anger and punched Calamity in the face!
Raquel stumbled back, but then turned around and started running away with tears running
down her face.
She didn't look behind.
She kept running and running down the destroyed street.
'Please, finish him off!' She begged in her mind.
"Cough!" Calamity coughed out blood.
Another punch landed in his face.
Then another.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another!