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Chapter 275: The Mourning Ceremony. Part 14

Chapter 275: The Mourning Ceremony. Part 14

[Please stand by the quest zone for 30 minutes until the system reboots]

[Reboot time left 29:56]

Adonis helped Shida to get back on his feet after seeing the red big screen inside the house. "You’re okay?"

"Y..Yes. I am fine, thanks."

"What about you, Inori?" Adonis asked but what welcomed him was a punch from Mahiko but he was able to stop him.

"It’s you again!! Why aren’t you dead yet! Weren’t you arrested for killing Kanna?"

He then noticed Shida so he approached him and yelled on his face, "Why aren’t you arresting him for killing her? He is a murderer!"

Ironi was upset by the behaviour of Mahiko. But she had other things to worry about so she didn’t mind and kept examining her surroundings as well as the kids who were inside a random room of the abandoned house.

"You still can’t take a hint, huh? I never killed any of you guys. But I will if you can’t control that temper of yours."

Seeing another punch flying at Futaba’s face, Shida stopped Mahiko and yelled, "Calm down, kid. Futaba isn’t the criminal here. You and your friends should stop assuming things on your own without proper evidence. It’s also a crime to falsely accuse someone of a crime he never did. More importantly, we should be worried about what’s going on right now."

Mahiko clenched his fist to calm his anger but seeing the timer counting backwards made him feel a little worried.

Adonis on the other hand was a bit excited because he knew the quest would be over soon since the bug again crashed. He then mumbled seeing a new quest in front of him,

’The bug is acting weird, we just got teleported to the quest zone without any heads-up and now, two non-player got included as well. There is no way the system suddenly got attacked by a bug. It’s the work of someone who doesn’t want me in Helsia soon. He wanted me dead or made my quest progress slow so he interfered with the quest after hearing my sudden leave.

It’s not Kobayashi or the work or Mors or Ifrit. Welis is off the chart so who’s the punk making a disturbance? Is he my master’s enemy? There are only a handful of gods and demigods who are aware of our identity because we are new arrivals of Helsia.

Is it Name’s underlings? Or Lucifer who’s just bored so he just poked me? But if they think they have successfully made me feel disturbed, they are wrong. They just showed me a way out of there with the best reward I could ever think of.

[New quest for the sudden cause of a bug’s interference:]

[Kill the 5 players in 30 minutes

Quest finishing reward: 2-stage Nectar potion.

Quest failing penalty: Repeat the game and lose 1 stage Divine Qi]

Adonis gave off a grin and said, "This is the best quest ever."

Shida, who was worried over so many things, saw Adonis giggling after reading something from the screen in front of him. He tried to read it from afar but the language it was written on wasn’t something he had never seen.

It was different and looked more symbolic than an alphabet.

So be asked, "Futaba, what is this language?"

"Oh, this? This is the language of gods. Stop forcing yourself to memorize it though. Mortals can’t even hold one symbol in their brains. If you concentrate too much, you might lose some of your memories. But it’s not the time for worrying about that. We got companies..."

Adonis took a huge sword out of his dimension pocket and rushed at an undead right behind Inori. His one slash from the blade cut through the undead’s body like butter and then, it finally disappeared before turning into pixels.

"So many dungeons have collided with each other due to the error. I don’t think I won’t be able to save everyone using this sword in this small room." Adonis explained and again killed another zombie-like monster that appeared out of nowhere.

The house was slowly getting surrounded by an army of undead as soon as the timer was ticking. Adonis wasn’t worried about everyone but his quest so he was holding back and looking for chances to kill Mahiko and the two.

Inori on the other hand almost destroyed the whole house by her flames but sadly, she couldn’t save Umiro who was taken by undead because of a leg injury.

Or course, the leg injury was from the protagonist who was wielding his sword.

’That type of kill is also acceptable because she was led to her grave because of my slash. Since the weakest one is being eaten by the undead I can concentrate on Mahiko and lastly, Ryoko. But I want to have a chat with him before killing him.’

As he mumbled under his voice, he ran towards the undead army’s leader with a red golden helmet and well-protective gear wrapped around his body.

It was the dungeon boss.

At first, Inori thought fighting some monsters wasn’t a big deal. But seeing how her flame wasn’t that effective against the monsters, she was having a hard time fighting against them while protecting Shida and those two kids.

She was mostly relying on Adonis’ strength but seeing him running towards the huge monster made her worry. She thought he could die so leaving them behind, she ran towards Adonis while catching other monsters’ attention to her just to save those three.

"Futaba!!! Are you okay? That sword..." she looked at the sword glowing blue hue so she again said, "I am not going to ask where that sword came from but since you’re helping, please help me kill those small brats."

"Tsk... what about them?"

"Umiro is dead. The others are alive. They are trying to defend themselves by using fire but I don’t think we have enough time. We need to finish them off."

"Don’t dump your work on me." Saying that, Adonis leapt and swished his sword horizontally.

Like butter, the whole monster became two prices and fell on the opposite side by making a loud noise. The body slowly turned into pixels and finally vanished.

*Huff...* "That was a nice warm-up." *Stab!!!*

Adonis wasn’t hurt at all, but the sharp wooden stick nicely pierced through his lower abdomen. Since he was an immortal, his organs were reverted to a small core like other monsters have.

So the stick was just sticking to a lump of meat that barely caused him any serious damage. But to the other’s eyes, Mahiko had committed a terrible crime and Futaba was seriously injured.

"Die, you monster!"

Adonis turned back with the wooden stick pierced inside his body and smiled, "I knew you’d do something after seeing my back open." He then leaned closer to his face and said, "I am Adonis North, the demigod of destruction and the knight of the demigod of all living records, Viktor E. North. I hereby imprint you, a mortal as a traitor of the celestial being who has wielded his weapon against a demigod. May you live the rest of your life in the deepest realm of hell."

It was the last time he had ever seen light. After hearing his declaration, his all senses went blank and then, he saw a woman in a red dress waiting for him. It was the angel of the god of Judgement.

But in reality, In front of everyone, Mahiko started to run as soon as he stabbed Futaba but got captured by the undead and got eaten by it.

All of them stood there, unable to do anything. But Inori who was fighting with the undead with her last bit of strength suddenly felt a push from her back.

She was dying to protect the two behind her but seeing how Ryoko pushed her in front of an army of undead, she bit her lips and yelled, "You!! I will kill you!!"

But what Ryoko did was a rational decision. There were 5 minutes left until the timer hits 0. So he thought sacrificing others to save his life wasn’t a crime. Stopping the army was his priority.

"Why did you push her!!" Shida screamed and pulled his gun out and pointed it at his head. "It’s a crime to harm an able user. Not to mention, you just pushed one of the best heroes of our country!"

"Who cares!! I just saved our lives!" But seeing there wasn’t anybody of Inori, both of them thought of two things.

She somehow saved herself or got killed and eaten so quickly that they didn’t even notice.

"Ryoko, you are a terrible person. Now can you push a woman in front of danger?" It was Adonis who rescued Inori but she wasn’t conscious. After Ryoko pushed her, Adonis was able to catch her and rush out of the army before getting captured by them. But for setting up the stage, he left one of his small undead near Ryoko and

She lost her senses due to overusing her ability.

"You’re... you’re alive?" Ryoko somehow hit Shida’s head to knock him out and snatched his gun before pointing it at Adonis. "Don’t come closer or I will shoot!"

Adonis’ orange eyes were glowing bright due to the fire around the destroyed house. But the fact that Ryoko was pointing a gun at him wasn’t serious enough to make him worry.

The house was burned down by the fire so the undead army wasn’t able to move swiftly. They were afraid of fire. So they had some time to argue between themselves.

Adonis then put down Inori on the ground and again said, "Ryoko, may I ask what made you create that huge dark pit on your chest? Did you kill someone?"

Hearing his question, Ryoko flinched a bit. "W..what are you talking about? Why would I kill someone?"

"I can smell lies, you know. Not only lies, I can see the shape of a person’s soul. Your soul is pitch black and it’s so deep that I can’t even find the bottom of it. I wonder how corrupted you are. I wonder what your flesh would taste like.."

Adonis gave a grin and magically, he appeared behind Ryoko after bending his gun into an iron ball. "You must have a deep wound in your heart and I am so curious about it. Tell me Ryoko. What kind of secret you’re hiding. I can erase all of your pain."

Adonis grinned and said, "Trust me, I can erase your pain once and for all." He then pulled him closer after covering his mouth. "Heheh.. thank you for the food."

Licking a side of his face, Adonis ripped his lips to open his mouth wide and with one bite, Ryoko’s head was gone. Blood started to drain out of his body but Adonis was devouring him so fast that not a single drop of blood reached the ground. In such a gruesome way, he ate Ryoko in excitement as the timer reached its deadline.

[System reboot complete...

Starting the system...]

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[Congratulation on cleaning the emergency quest]

[You have rewarded 2 nectar potions for cleaning the quest within 30 minutes]

[You can leave the quest whenever you command the system]