Chapter 442: Dark Awakening - Part 6

[You cannot kill this player!]

The same holographic message appeared in front of every player in the vicinity of Leon—they had never seen this message before.

"What the fuck?" Rook mumbled under his breath.

By the computers in their rooms, the stream watchers looked at the screen of their computer with strange looks.

They thought that there must be some kind of glitch happening that stopped Leon from dying, but they had never seen a glitch like this before.

Leon stood with a cold look on his face. Then, he combed back his hair. He looked like a man that had nothing left to lose.

"Fuck it..." Leon gritted his teeth. "You all will die, mark my words."

Rook stabbed his sword through Leon’s chest. Then he pulled it out and chopped Leon’s head off his body.

The health dropped to zero.

[You cannot kill this player!]

The head flew back to Leon’s body. The health rose back to full.

"What’s going on?" Machary asked. "Why can’t he be killed?"

"I think only the admins like Kuroganehara Izan would have something like that, but why does Leon have that setting on?"

Della couldn’t understand either.

Rock frowned. The situation was becoming more mysterious by the minute.

"I know what is happening!"

At that moment, Fang Raon shouted, as all the oddities about Leon were finally starting to make sense to him.

"What is it, Raon?"

"When Leon was training under Rock, he wasn’t considered a good talent. Not even a little bit. He was, without a doubt, the worst student that Rock had."

Fang Raon said.

With a silent look, Leon angrily turned to look at Fang Raon.

"Leon was surrounded by such great talents day after day—and then he realized he was never going to surpass any of them.

"He considered them his friends. But they were all going to leave him behind. There is also something else..."

Fang Raon was reading through Leon’s face—as if he were opening a book to his mind, and he was seeing everything.

"A crush on Xiao Yue. He loved her. She never looked in his direction, and he thought that it was because of his lack of talent."

Fang Raon said.

At that moment, Xiao Yue walked over with her guild of Red Knights. She had been watching the fight for a while already.

When Fang Raon got stabbed, she thought about attacking Leon, even if it killed her, but then, he, somehow, seemed fine.

So she stayed at the sidelines, just watching.

"There is a lot of jealousy too. Towards Hermes. He was the best talent among all of Rock’s students. Everyone admired him.

"Hermes was also a very friendly guy, so he must’ve talked to Xiao Yue a couple of times, and you must’ve thought that there was something going on between the two of them.

"You were burning with jealousy. You wanted to become Hermes. No, you wanted to become better than him."

Fang Raon said.

...

Real life, somewhere in the world.

Hermes was sitting on his chair, looking at the screen in front of him, which showed the stream of the Grinder’s Day.

"There is no way..." He narrowed his eyes. "All this time... he was a..."

When the message appeared for the first time, he already knew what was happening with Leon. It shocked him to the core because for all these years, he had followed Leon.

Hermes had already given up on the title of the world’s strongest, as he didn’t think that he could ever reach Leon.

But all this time...

...

"But what could you do? You had no talent to beat Hermes. While lying on a bed one night, you knew what you needed to do.

"Cheat!"

Fang Raon pointed at Leon. His face was cold with a hint of paleness. He wasn’t speaking or doing anything.

"You got your hands on a hacked game card, and you used that to become the greatest talent in all of Black Online overnight.

"Rock told me about how surprised he was when one day, you were a mediocre talent, and then out of nowhere, you were as good as Hermes, if not better.

"And with that hacked game card, you stole the title of the strongest from Grimson Duke and Hermes, who would’ve deserved it more than that.

"That’s why Rook and Raizen failed to kill you. You usually keep your hacks hidden, only using them in dire situations, like back then.

"Now, you exposed yourself because of carelessness and anger. You activated a hack that stops you from dying."

Fang Raon said.

"What about with James?" Della asked. "He got beat, almost killed!"

"James was a hacker like him. But James is a better player than Leon. I am sure he hated to get embarrassed in front of everyone, but the only way for Leon to win is if he exposed all of his cheats.

"Then he would’ve lost everything.

"Thus, he accepted that loss, but he cannot accept the fact that Rook kills him. He cannot. He won’t allow that to happen."

Fang Raon said.

Everyone was listening to Fang Raon, and they were all shocked. All this time Leon was nothing but a hacker?

All his legendary deeds were done with his hacks?

"Hahahaha!" Rook laughed. "So all this time you were nothing but a fucking loser hacker? I knew it... Deep inside me... I knew you were just a fucking loser."

Leon angrily ground his teeth together, and then he grabbed Rook’s face and crushed it with inhumane strength.

Rook’s body turned limp, and he dropped to the ground—dead!

"Are you done talking?" Leon looked at Fang Raon. "I am going to kill all of you. I don’t fucking care about anything anymore."

"I am disappointed..."

Rock slowly walked towards Leon, a cold look in his eyes, as he was probably the most disappointed person in the world right now.

All this time, he thought that he had trained the world’s strongest player, but all along, he was just a scammer.

Hermes should have been the strongest player all this time, so Rock could only feel angry because that glory was taken away from him.

"You were a cheater all this time?" Collingham appeared from the fog. "You fucking piece of shit. I can’t believe I joined this loser’s guild."

Other members of Dead Redemption were also listening.

"I-I can’t believe this..."

At that moment, heavily-wounded Seonwoo Kim walked over. She was full of stab wounds and slash wounds. She had taken plenty of damage.

In that moment, Fang Raizen, in his Fox God form, walked behind Seonwoo Kim, twirling his spear around.

"A cheater..." Fang Raizen scoffed.

Every member of Dead Redemption, both old and new, was feeling an immense feeling of disappointment.

They all respected and feared Leon’s strength, but now that they remembered every time he was commanding them and acting arrogant, they couldn’t help but feel angry.

While everyone worked hard, day after day, to become stronger, Leon just cheated his way to the top.

And he became very wealthy doing so. Easily the wealthiest member of Dead Redemption. And possibly the wealthiest player in the history of Black Online.

He was standing on a hill of lies.

"Who are you all to judge me..." Large white wings came out of Leon’s back. "I am the strongest; don’t you dare look down on me!"

Hundreds of players stared down at Leon with disgust. They all brandished their weapons. They wanted him gone.

"You are dead..." Collingham said. "Everyone, let’s kill this bastard!"

"How can we kill him? What about the message that says that we cannot kill him?"

"Maxima can kill anything." Fang Raizen said.

Leon just smirked. Then he pulled out his hacker window. In that moment, he added more points to every attribute, and he made his level 10.

[Leon - HP: 1,000,000]

"What about now?" Leon smirked. "You pieces of shit."

In that moment, white clouds spread across the sky. The sky turned gold. It looked like there were gold flakes raining down from the heavens.

At that moment, ten golden lightning bolts rained down from the white clouds and struck the ground near Leon.

From those golden lightning bolts, warriors of heaven—about ten of them—rose with white-and-gold armor adorning their tall bodies.

They were all around ten meters tall. Packed with muscles. And they had white wings protruding from their back.

"What the hell are those?!"

The players were shocked.

"We are the Guardians of the Tower." The white-winged giants said. "We are here to kill those who do not belong here."

"It must be a new cheat-detection system. Now that Leon manually increased his level and health, the system was alerted!"

Leon just scoffed, unfazed by their threats. And then, he pointed his sword high towards the sky, and a golden lightning bolt struck his blade.

"I WILL NOT DIE HERE!"

He stabbed the sword forward, and a golden lightning bolt, with rage, shot out of his blade and shot throughout the air.

It came for one of the white-winged guardians, but he just twisted his body out of the way, and the golden lightning shot past him.

The golden lightning struck the massive centipede and killed it with an instant strike!