Chapter 274: Another

Chapter 274: Another



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.

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!