MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online

Chapter 302: Mankind's Trickery



"My god!" Nerezza backed off, but soon she backed into another Crazed Angel.

She was surrounded from all sides, and all she could see was those creepy, eternal grins that didn't have any sense of mercy or compassion.

The Crazed Angel at the front leaned forward to her and said, "Your blood is far from pure. A murderer. However, we're hungry!"

Nerezza looked up at him and suddenly started grinning as well. "You think I will cower in fear? You shall learn to fear me!"

"Arrogance of mortals never ceases to amaze me." The Crazed Angel formed a fist with his right that soon started burning with dark flames.

'How can he hold conversation with Nerezza without ears?' Oldman wondered. 'Is there another way they can hear? If I can find how, maybe I can still use my music Magick.'

"I know what you're thinking." Lionel walked next to him, looking like one of the Crazed Angels.

"These Crazed Angels aren't able to hear anymore. However, they've evolved to know what we're talking about."

"They immediately realized that without hearing, they had a large weakness that can be easily exploited. Thus, they evolved yet again, and they're now able to lip read."

"Lip read?" Oldman raised an eyebrow. "I see now. Therefore, we can't really talk our plans aloud without them knowing what we're after."

Sepheron walked over to them and crossed his arms. "With Nerezza here, it will be easier for us, but we still need Adam."

"Yes, what's up with him?" Oldman looked over to Adam and saw that he was still sleeping soundly on the ground.

"Crazed Angels aren't attacking those who can't fight back." Lionel said. "Sepheron, encase Adam in ice, just in case. When he wakes up, we'll need his help."

Sepheron nodded and lifted his finger up. "Ice Pod!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Around Adam's sleeping body, a thick layer of ice formed, sealing him inside some kind of pod-looking thing. It looked similar to the virtual reality pods, but made of ice.

"What about Akuji?" Oldman looked towards the mountain where he was thrown at. "Did he die?"

"I can't sense anything coming from there, so I don't know." Lionel sighed. "We'll must focus on this fight ahead."

"Nerezza!"

"What?" Nerezza looked at Lionel with a crazy look.

"Kill them already!" Lionel shouted.

"Hah, it's my pleasure!" Nerezza grinned widely and spread her arms wide. "You Shall Not Touch Me!"

The Crazed Angel punched forward with his fire-coated fist, but when his fist neared Nerezza, it was met with an impenetrable force field that knocked him back.

"What?" The Crazed Angel frowned.

"Those Who Think Of Harming Me Will Die!" Nerezza finished, her voice booming with

power.

All of the Crazed Angels near Nerezza coughed out blood and collapsed in heaps. It was such a sudden thing that the rest of the Crazed Angels, who didn't have much of fear in their bones, felt a chill run down their spines.

"Voice Magick?" Oldman frowned. "No, these Crazed Angels shouldn't be able to hear her, so is it reality-shaping Magick?"

"It is nowhere that powerful." Lionel said with crossed arms. "She is tricking their evolving powers."

"Tricking?" Sepheron looked over with a curious expression.

"These Crazed Angels think that she has some kind of reality warping power. They believe she can kill with a word, but it is all trickery."

"Then how..." Oldman rubbed his chin. "Her ability is foreign to me."

"First, You Shall Not Touch Me." Lionel raised a finger.

"A mere barrier Magick. She created a thin layer of barrier in front of her. It's a very basic skill, and in ordinary circumstances, Crazed Angel would be able to punch straight through her.

"However, she used some extra mana to make the barrier stronger. It was all to trick him. The Crazed Angel began thinking that she was able to stop him with just a word.

"Mental warfare."

"What about killing them all?"

"They were already injured." Lionel said. "Nerezza has a unique ability of sucking away the life force of her opponents. She is basically a human vacuum."

"Those Crazed Angels were already low at life force." Oldman nodded in understanding. "She can only take away a limited amount of life force."

"Can't the Crazed Angels evolve to the reality-warping powers and make themselves even more powerful?" Sepheron asked.

"No." Lionel shook his head. "After becoming Crazed Angel myself, I now know more about them than before. They can't evolve based on their beliefs. Their powers are limited, and thus, to evolve, they have a few restraints."

"Those are?"

"First of all, the power they're evolving against must be true. In this case, it isn't. I am sure Crazed Angels will understand that soon, but they will only think that she is using other variants of reality-warping powers.

"Second, they can't evolve against powers that they don't simply understand. However, they can become smarter to bypass this restraint, but without knowing that they're completely wrong about Nerezza's powers, they can't increase their intelligence either!

"Third, their lack of understanding of human nature. With their arrogance and ego, they're underestimating Nerezza, not thinking about the possibility that she is tricking them. Thus, they've dug themselves a hole that they cannot escape!"

"However, how did Nerezza know about their evolving powers?" Sepheron asked.

Lionel smirked. "I told her. With my telepathic ability, I conversed with her while she was meditating. It was hard to find her consciousness during her meditation, but when I did, I told

her to do this."

"It will give us a slight advantage over these monsters."

"I see, you've thought far." Oldman smiled. "Not bad."

Nerezza stood back up and patted the dust off her hands. She then walked forward, and all the Crazed Angels just moved out of her way.

It was like she was a walking plague, and they wanted nothing to do with her!

The trickery of her actions was powerful indeed!

Soon she arrived next to the other members of the party, and she asked. "So, what the hell

happened to my protector, Adam?"

She looked over and saw that she was encased in ice. She narrowed her eyes slightly, not liking about the fact that she was completely unprotected.

"Beats me." Lionel shrugged his shoulders. "As far as I know, he was protecting you against hordes of these Crazed Angels, but he suddenly passed out."

"What will we do now?" Nerezza asked.

"Fight." Lionel rubbed his neck. "Focus on healing us. Reserve your mana; we'll need it."

"Okay~" Nerezza looked towards the Crazed Angels and grinned.

When the Crazed Angels saw her crazy grin, they flinched and took a step back. They were utterly confused because they'd been trying to evolve but were unable to!

For some odd reason, they weren't able to evolve to overcome Nerezza's strange abilities!

They looked at each other with looks of confusion. Every single Crazed Angel was trying to evolve to different kinds of reality-warping powers but was unsuccessful in every try!

"НАНАНАНА!"

At that moment, the ground started shaking, and the four members of the party froze in fear. The Crazed Angels lowered their heads and knelt on the ground, bowing before their mighty

lord.

Rawkshawn was laughing so hard that his face turned red and tears streamed down his cheeks. "Nice, trick, haha, nice indeed!" He clapped his hands while laughing.

When he clapped his hands, the ground shattered, and the faraway mountains broke apart.

It was world-shattering power!

"..." Lionel's expression looked ugly as cold sweat rolled down his face. 'Did he figure out our trick? I thought he was just a muscle-headed freak. Did I miscalculate?'

"I've not seen my army being outsmarted before." Rawkshawn grinned. "Nice trick, but you

forgot about one thing-Me!"

"W-what're you talking about?" Lionel asked.

"Those who think of harming her will die." Rawkshawn said. "That's what that little lady

said, no?"

Nerezza's eyes narrowed.

"I was thinking about harming her." Rawkshawn grinned in amusement. "Yet, I did not die."

The Crazed Angels raised their heads, and they slowly turned to Nerezza with looks of

hostility.

While all of them believed that even if Nerezza's abilities were true, it wouldn't be able to kill

Rawkshawn.

However, now most of them realized that they also thought about harming her but didn't die.

It was only those that were already injured that died!

With their enhanced intelligence, they quickly understood what was going on.

Trickery!

Manipulation!

They became angry as it was the first time ever that they'd been tricked like this.

"Hah, the plan failed..." Nerezza chuckled. "The tables have turned."

"Hmph!" Lionel stomped the ground and shouted. "I am now Crazed Angel. Thus, I can

evolve. I will evolve to overcome this!"

With his human intelligence and enhanced intelligence, he was much smarter than any Crazed

Angels. Thus, he was able to think of hundreds of ways to evolve.

Yet he wanted to choose the best one.

"Evolve!"

...

In the dreamland, by the cliffs of the raging crimson ocean.

"It's done." Alastor said as he looked at the young man in front of him and laughed nervously.

"It worked wonders, better than I could have ever imagined."

His laughter was full of nervousness because he realized one thing. With this, Adam didn't really have any limits shackling him anymore.

'What have I done?' Alastor frowned as he looked at the young man.

'Did Adam play me? I've created a monster. A monster that will be a threat to me. I didn't

expect him to reach this level. Did he know he would? I feel like I was tricked, but one thing is sure: he might actually survive this mess.'