Chapter 249: Corrupted Original

Chapter 249: Corrupted Original



Adam started reading through the strange piece of paper that was just lying in the crypt. Since it was strange for the piece of paper to be here, he read it with some interest.

"I woke up and found myself in a place I didn't recognize.

"The crypt of the darkness and sorrow.

"Why am I here?

"I am not dead. I am just lost being.

"I have to find my way back home. To the land of the Old. I must find a way back, but for now, I am stuck in here.

"There's a door I tried. It was locked like a fortress. It didn't even budge. I had a feeling that would be the exit. However, for now, I'll have to find a way to live in here."

The text ended.

Adam folded the piece of paper and tucked it into his pocket..

'This floor is different from the previous floors. This floor's boss has a story. This piece of paper belongs to the boss of the floor-a very intelligent Chaosbeing.

'As intelligent as a human, if I may say so, but that also makes it very powerful. I am still too weak to challenge the boss, but I do hope of reaching level 25 before taking on the boss.'

Since there wasn't anything else on this particular stone chamber, he made his way over to the next room over. It was empty, thus he kept going until he reached a dead end.

He turned around, backtracked a few steps, and headed in a completely different direction. The dusty hallway led him to a dead-looking door at the end.

It had skulls as decoration, and the color of the door was a deep crimson red, as if someone painted it with blood.

With a small push, the door opened to reveal a hall lined with torches on either side, casting an eerie glow on the stone walls.

It looked like this hall was used as some kind of storage before because there were shelves filled with dusty boxes and old crates.

However, now this hall clearly hadn't been used for years, maybe centuries even.

"RAWR!"

At that moment, a strange creature tackled him behind, and they both rolled down the hall's floor.

The door of the hall slammed shut as if they were trapped here now.

Adam grabbed his sword and looked over to his attack.

The attacker was strange-looking.

"RAWR!"

The creature growled. It looked like a young adult, but short, and had a lion's hide wrapped around its body. It was also rotting from face down to its torso, with exposed bone visible in some areas.

'Lionborn.' Adam thought. 'However, I don't remember Lionborn's rotting. It must be the doings of the boss.'

'It looks like this underground crypt was used as someone's living place. It's not just a resting place for the dead.'

He'd been on the 50th floor before, but it was such an enormous place that he hadn't seen everything in one go.

He also didn't participate in the boss fight before then but had heard a lot about its difficulties. It was something he never expected to try, but now he was planning to do it alone.

The attic wasn't as comfy as Lady Yu's place, but a place that would be found inside of a horror movie.

Adam searched through the attic for more letters, but this place was clearly emptied some

time ago.

After not finding anything, he left the attic using a hatch and stepped down some stairs till he arrived back at one of the many dusty hallways.

However, at that moment, he saw a door at the end of the hallway. It was a guarded door.

A man was sitting by the door. A smoky cigarette between lips, and held three chains with his

right hand. A dog was growling at the end of each chain.

Those three dogs looked like hell beasts.

"Oh, look what we have in here!" Tobias said with a smirk. "Mercenary!"

When he said mercenary, his words were filled with malice and contempt.

"Corrupted Original." Adam said with narrowed eyes. "How rare."

"Corrupted? No, reborn!" Tobias stood up, towering over his three, menacing-looking dogs.

'Some Originals are desperate for power after seeing the might of the players. Out of

desperation, they turn to dark magic and forbidden rituals.

'In the end, they get corrupted and become Half-Original, Half-Chaosbeing.'

"You came at a good time, human." Tobias said and patted his dogs. "My pets have become

hungry!"

Growl!

The dogs began to snarl and bare their teeth.

"I concur." Adam lifted his greatsword above his head. "My sword's the same, y'see. I don't

know what's wrong with it, but when it doesn't get a taste of blood, it becomes restless and

temperamental."

Tobias let go of the chains, and the dogs started running towards Adam.