Martial Online.



[You killed a Player!]

[900 XP Earned!]

'It seems that a level 41 player gives 900 XP.' Ambrose thought. 'It gets harder to level up because the distance between XP required and earning from kills is growing wider.

'It's going to take a lot more grinding to reach the next levels.'

He then opened the recording interface and made the camera float back to him.

After the camera appeared in front of his face, he smiled and said.

"Thanks for watching."

He then covered the lens with his hand and used his other hand to stop the recording via the interface.

He then sent the recorded content to his real-life PC.

After that, he took a deep breath and made the recording camera disappear.

"That went better than I expected." Ambrose laughed, feeling a sense of accomplishment.

At the spot where Olympos died, a small item appeared from thin air.

It was a half-cracked pearl.

Ambrose crouched and snatched it from the ground.

When he saw its cracked surface, it reminded him of a certain item.

"Teleportation pearl?" Ambrose thought out loud in shock.

It was indeed a teleportation pearl, but based on its cracked surface, it also had only one use remaining.

'Last time, this saved my life.' Ambrose thought and stored it inside his inventory. 'I wonder why Olympos didn't use it. Maybe escaping would have been humiliating?'

As Ambrose thought about logging off, another item appeared from thin air, which he had completely forgotten would appear.

It was a brown pouch, and it was bulging like a pregnant lady.

'Oh, he actually kept his silver with him?' Ambrose thought strangely and opened the pouch.

[You acquired 19,845 silvers!]

'That's nearly 2k crowns. That must hurt him.' Ambrose grimaced slightly, imagining himself in Olympos' position.

He would be absolutely gutted.

'I suppose I am done here.' Ambrose then opened his interface and pressed the logout button.

After his avatar disappeared from the narrow alleyway, the blue blood trickled down the pavement and mixed with the dirt, leaving behind a faint trace of the fight.

...

At a random household in a neighboring country, Sicilia.

Olympos held his forehead as if he could still feel the sensation of the sword poking through it.

'T-that bastard... I-I lost all my hard-earned silver.' Olympos thought in frustration, regretting every decision that led him to this point.

'I-I won't let him get away with this!' Olympos then turned his gaze to his PC and angrily walked over to it.

He went straight to an app called ForeverChat.

It was a place for everyone to build a community where they could chat, talk, and stream videos between themselves.

Olympos also had its own community with over 50,000 users.

He angrily began writing about the announcement, and once it was over five hundred words, he pressed enter and sent the announcement, which tagged every single user on the server.

The sudden announcement shocked the users, and they went to investigate it out of curiosity. 

They couldn't believe what they saw.

...

Tap, tap—Jesse's fingers danced across the keyboard as he sent a message to the artist, Mello.

He was asking for another thumbnail for her, as he was very satisfied with the previous one.

After sending a message, he went to the ForeverTube website to finish pre-uploading the video.

He had finished editing, which didn't require much editing. as the video was fine otherwise.

After he finished pre-uploading, he cracked his knuckles and left the chair, then walked over to his bed to start his meditation training.

However, then his cracked phone on top of the bedside table vibrated.

He curiously opened the phone and saw a text message from an unknown number.

That phone number seemed familiar.

Jesse curiously opened the message and realized who it was from.

[Unknown: You seek death, and you will soon find it]

The message also contained a picture.

It was a picture of a long paragraph from a person called Olympos, taken straight from his community's server.

'What the hell is Cerberus saying now?' He frowned and started reading the paragraph.

It didn't take long for him to let out a deep breath.

"I am in trouble."

...

Ding, ding—89John, after leaving the shower, took a phone from his table and answered the call.

"What is it?" He asked while drying his hair with a hair dryer.

"It's urgent; check the forums." The voice at the other end of the phone said.

89John frowned and put his hair dryer down on the table, right beside the PC, and typed Martial Online Forum's website name and then pressed enter.

When he saw the front page, he saw a message from his good friend, Olympos, which was trending.

'What is it now?' He curiously opened the post and read it silently.

After reading it all, he frowned. "Just what the hell happened when I logged off?"

"This could be your chance!" The urgent voice said. "Olympos' fame was mainly because of his Daggerwielder class.

"If you get this reward, you will rise in the ranks.

"89 rank is not safe enough since there are hundreds of popular streamers popping up every single day!

"You have to take this chance!"

89John silently listened to his manager's words and nodded.

"I understand." He said and then disconnected the phone call.

"I didn't expect Olympos to have another Upgrade Class token." He looked at the screen. "Whoever manages to capture Ambrose and bring it to him will receive it."

89John closed the PC and scoffed. "If he had another Upgrade Class token, why doesn't he use himself?

"Maybe it's not possible to use twice?

"Also, why didn't he tell me that he had another one?

"I would have purchased it from him!"

He was rather angry about that, but now that there was a legit chance of acquiring the token, he had to put all his effort into that.

'I need to increase my rank. I have already been losing a few ranks, and it might take less than a month for me to drop off the top 100.

'Even if we again sabotage others from reaching the top 100, it won't work against someone with an explosive rise to fame, and those are very common these days.

'I have to capture Ambrose and get the Upgrade Class token.

'It's my only chance to keep my fame!'

...

At Rothsmith Estate.

Ding, ding—a new email appeared.

Jesse sat down on his gaming chair, still thinking about the new bounty that had been put on him.

He felt like he was making new enemies every day.

Now, half of the player base might be hunting him down.

Olympos also told everyone his location.

That meant Zahhak was now aware of where he was.

'Whatever, Warhaven is not a place where they can get me easily.' Jesse thought.

He then opened the email and saw that Mello had sent him another thumbnail.

Without further ado, he put the thumbnail to his new video, and he only needed to put the title.

'Well, now that everyone knows that I must've angered Olympos somehow, I have earned the attention of all the players.

'This video will blow up.'

He cracked his knuckles and typed a title, then uploaded the video.

The second video appeared on Ambrose's channel, and it was a video that took the world by storm!