Black Online

The woods quieted. All the wildlife ran off. It was like they were able to sense that the woods were no longer safe.

Hacker Paul smiled with a wicked look.

"Strength Buff. Durability Buff. Speed Buff. Health Buff."

He injected himself with four major buffs with the help of the Helper class, and it increased his strength severalfold.

Usually, Helpers wouldn’t be able to stack the buffs like Hacker Paul just did, but he didn’t have such restrictions with his hacked account.

[HP: 5000/5000]

"I’ll also just copy your legacy too."

Hacker Paul said with a smile, and as he snapped his fingers, he suddenly transformed into an angelic creature.

It was the legacy transformation of the Archangel Legacy!

"..."

Leon’s expression did not change.

"I feel... strong..."

Hacker Paul flexed his arms, and he let out a loud moan as he felt like he could destroy entire cities with a single punch.

Strength flowed in his veins!

It was an addictive feeling!

"You did not earn that strength. You do not deserve that strength. I am taking it away from you, faker!"

Leon, with anger in his eyes, sprang forward like a coil that had suddenly been released.

"Bring it on, haha!"

Hacker Paul revealed his hacked sword—one of the Twelve Mythic Weapons—a weapon that no player had gotten their hands on before.

Players didn’t even know about Twelve Mythic Weapons yet, as they were only available above the 70th floor.

There were twelve of them.

And they were all currently in the hands of twelve hackers, as they were the strongest weapons in the game.

Hacker Paul’s weapon was a mythic sword—Dealbreaker—a sword that was forged from the flesh of a Cheater God!

This was why Hacker Paul was so confident.

This sword was strong. It was much stronger than Leon’s sword. They weren’t even close to being equal!

"I’ll break your shitty sword!"

Hacker Paul screamed, lifted the Dealbreaker high above his head, and then brought it down with full force!

The ground quaked as if it were trembling in fear of getting struck by the Dealbreaker.

"Archangel’s Infinite Parry!"

Leon waved his white katana, and it didn’t even hit the Dealbreaker’s blade, but still, it was enough to deflect the attack.

Dealbreaker swooshed its blade through the air, but it missed its target and struck the ground instead.

CRASH~!

The ground shattered under the force of Dealbreaker’s blow, and the woods trembled as the trees started sinking into the hole created by the blow.

At that moment.

Leon jumped backwards, and then his blade started shining with white light, and he slashed his sword through the air.

Beautiful white petals shot out of his blade and headed straight for Hacker Paul with frightening speed.

The petals moved as quick as bullets fired from a gun!

"Archangel’s White Petal Storm!"

Hacker Paul reached into his inventory and pulled out an expensive-looking shield and then hid behind it just in time.

"BRING IT ON!"

The white petals smashed into the shield, but it held strong under the pressure, and Paul emerged unscathed.

"There is nothing you can do to me. I have stronger weapo—"

Hacker Paul was about to say, but then Leon suddenly vanished, and he was only able to see the wind rustling through the trees.

In that moment.

A blade cut through the side of his neck—it started bleeding immediately—and Leon appeared behind Hacker Paul.

The white katana was the first one to have a taste of blood!

"?!"

Hacker Paul was shocked.

’What the hell is that speed? Why does that look like speed hacks?’

He asked himself and quickly put his hand over the bleeding wound and used Helper’s powers to quickly heal it.

"Godspeed..."

Leon whispered under his breath, and then he turned back to Hacker Paul and looked at his health bar.

[HP: 4565/5000]

[+50 HP]

[+50 HP]

It was recovering quickly.

’To kill him, I would need to attack him so fast that he wouldn’t have time to use Helper’s powers to heal himself.

’I am sure he has stronger Helper skills that would be able to recover all of his health in an instant if he were in danger, but it takes time to use that kind of spell.

’If I just attack him fast enough so that he doesn’t have time to activate that spell, I can kill him.’

Leon quickly thought.

[HP: 5000/5000]

Hacker Paul was back at full health.

"Haha, not an issue."

He said with a smirk and turned back to Leon with a confidence oozing out of his body.

With these hacks on his side, he didn’t think there was a chance in hell that he would lose to this bastard!

"Are you a high-ranking officer of the Reality First group?"

Leon asked.

"...Excuse me?"

Hacker Paul frowned.

"What is your position within the Reality First organization?"

Leon asked.

"..."

Hacker Paul stayed quiet.

"That’s what I thought. You’re just some low-ranked goon of theirs, I presume. It’s because you’re weak even with these hacks. This is pathetic.

"I wanted to kill someone that actually mattered, but... a dead hacker is still better than none at all."

Leon said coldly.

"Haha... You sure like talking big. You have an inflated ego, you bitch, and it’s about time that I bring you down to reality!

"Players have no chance against us. We cannot die, you idiot!"

In that moment, Leon disappeared from where he was standing just now.

He activated Godspeed. He was moving so fast that he was invisible to the naked eye.

The girl tried to find him anywhere, but it was as if he disappeared completely from existence, and she could only hear a faint sound of "boom" whenever Leon took a step.

"Speed Hack!"

Hacker Paul activated his speed hacks and started running down the forest trail at an incredible speed.

And with the help of the Archangel’s wings, he was moving even faster than with just Speed Hacks.

He tried looking for Leon.

’Where are you bastard...’

He was moving so fast that he saw everything around him in slow motion, and he believed that he was also faster than Leon.

But at that moment...

A flash of white came from the left, and before he could even react, his arm got cut off from the rest of his body.

"What the—"

Hacker Paul tripped because he wasn’t looking ahead, and he rolled on the ground until he crashed into a tree.

"COUGH!"

He coughed out blood.

[HP: 3455/5000]

"Hea—"

Hacker Paul quickly tried using the "Heal" spell, but then, a white sword slashed his jaw in a way that his jaw broke in an instant.

"Ahhh!"

He let out a strange sound of pain.

His jaw was just hanging off from his face, barely attached by a thread of skin. It was a disgusting sight.

Hacker Paul couldn’t speak.

Therefore, he couldn’t use an activation word to use Helper’s skills or any other skill for that matter.

He reached for his inventory. There were some really powerful healing liquids there. They could help him heal back to full health!

’Inventory...’

Hacker Paul said inside his mind, as he couldn’t use his actual mouth, and then his inventory appeared in front of him.

The inventory was full of stuff that he had hacked for himself. All this stuff would go for hundreds of millions of gold coins.

In that moment.

A sword came again, as fast as lightning, and it cut straight through Hacker Paul’s inventory like it was nothing.

The inventory shattered apart, right in front of Hacker Paul’s eyes.

"A-a-aa..."

Hacker Paul was stunned beyond belief.

His inventory... got broken.

Leon reappeared near Hacker Paul, a cold gaze in his eyes.

"Maxima."

Hacker Paul, with a last-ditch effort, summoned his golden grimoire that he had also stolen with hacks.

He tried finding the strongest possible skill in the grimoire, which didn’t need an activation word.

But before he could do that, Leon slashed through the grimoire like it was nothing and shredded it to pieces.

The shredded grimoire poofed into thin air.

"You may be able to use all kinds of skills with your hacks, but it looks like Five Pillars of Power is beyond that of hacks.

"You cannot hack those because those are not creations of the game but the actual essence of life and reality."

Leon said.

Hacker Paul was scared.

He realized that he had lost his match, and he had no chance to win against him—not with his jaw broken like this.

He had to escape!

’Teleport!’

Hacker Paul crossed his arms to make an X, and he started teleporting away—far away from this place—far enough so that Leon wouldn’t be able to find him.

"You’re already dead. You just don’t know it yet."

Leon said coldly, and he turned around, not bothering with Hacker Paul anymore, as if he didn’t deserve his attention anymore.

’What does he mean by that?!’

Hacker Paul wondered.

But in that moment, he felt something in his chest, and as he looked down, he saw that white light threatened to burst out of his chest.

’What is this?!’

"Arrogance of a hacker. You think that you can just take a portion of the Archangel’s power and survive? You, hackers, are not at the top of the food chain.

"The gods of the higher floors are."

Leon said coldly.

In that moment, white light burst out of Hacker Paul’s chest, and before he could even do anything, white fire started burning his flesh off.

He couldn’t even scream.

[HP: 0/5000]

[You have killed Hacker Paul Forester!]

And in the skies, shown on every floor of the tower, an announcement that shook the entire player base to their very core appeared.

And hackers... were shocked as well.

[TOWER ANNOUNCEMENT: Player Leon D. Hart has killed a Hacker Paul Forester—he has been rewarded one million gold coins and the Mythic Sword Dealbreaker!]

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