The Cheat Seed - Chapter 77
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He had a smile that reached his eyes. Marcus G Orno’s hand was held up high and proud by the referee beside him.
Marcus had just a second ago scored his first official victory against the king’s son, his childhood enemy. The audience was the witness to the destruction of Gabriel Richard on that day.
There was no way the resurrected Gabriel could deny that he lost to Marcus, whom he used to overwhelm years ago.
Everything he wanted to do about the match was done. Especially the plan to act as if he was losing was the biggest success.
Marcus’s eyes were gleaming with pride while he stood on the elevated arena with people, the size of the entire city cheering him on.
But the voice that made his eyes sparkle was the commentator’s ricocheting voice through the microphone.
“VICTORYYYY!!!!”
“GIVE IT UP FOR MARCUS G ORNO PEOPLEEEE!!!!!!!”
The Entire stadium united. The ground shook and the air waltzed, playing with Marcus’s burgundy red hair as the chant commenced.
“MARCUS!!”
“MARCUS!!”
“MARCUS!!”
“MARCUS!!”
“MARCUS!!”
“This is unbelievable young man, what you did was a daylight miracle”
The referee whispered beside him, whose entire body was trembling with goosebumps.
“Thanks…for the compliment, old man. Pfft”
Marcus whickered and bent into two holding his stomach as he laughed.
“What… Err happened?”
An internal furnace flushed his chest and cheeks as the referee averted his eyes. He thought the way he pronounced his words was too cheesy for the youthful man.
Marcus found the dancing eyes of the aged man when he pierced them with his.
“The way you looked at me when I was being thrown around was totally funny!!. Your frown seriously made me think that you were sure that I died when he slammed me down.”
The Referee nodded with a chuckle of his own as he understood what he meant.
“Who wouldn’t young man? The wreck your body made to the toughest material was enough for proof…Tee hee”
“Hmm”
Marcus’s eyes went to his right, where he was body-slammed by Gabriel. This material was new to him. Maybe it was a newly discovered one.
But it didn’t feel right to him.
During his fall, his body had come in touch with the substance and the system had analyzed it with his Crafting skill.
The message that popped up in front of him made his forehead pucker and knead his face with concern. With a quick clap, His chasm domain unwrapped.
Not so long after, the system echoed inside his mind space.
[The Material is Graphene]
“What’s Graphene?”
Marcus asked with a quizzical smile. His right brow perched up like a crooked tree branch.
[Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. The name is a portmanteau of “graphite” and the suffix -one, reflecting the fact that the graphite allotrope of carbon consists of stacked graphene layers.]
Marcus racked up his brain and bit his lip. His unfocused gaze followed a tug on his earlobe.
The system condescendingly glared at him virtually. It was clear to the system, Marcus didn’t get anything.
[Bruv…You are impossible]
“Break it down to my level idiot”
The system sighed
[As you say, Boss]
[You know carbon right?. Graphene is an allotrope of Carbon. Allotrope – each of two or more different physical forms in which an element can exist]
[And this so-called Graphene’s one-atom-thick sheet is 200times stronger than steel]
“Woah”
Marcus’s exclamation came after his eyebrows raised and curved.
[Don’t Woah yet Marcus, you are forgetting something…That Carbon is one of the rarest material here in this world]
“Maybe the excavators found a new cave filled with them when we were in the dungeon?”
[No Marcus! The data I have right now is directly proportional to that of the carbon accumulated throughout this globe..and it’s screaming that making arena floors from the current accumulation is far from possible with the limited amount it is available right now]
Marcus was speechless. This was some major info dump. The system was implying something.
[And the data from two years ago proves that the carbon quantity was untouched. MARCUS!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS??]
He was tensed. If the carbon quantity was untouched for a whole 2 years then how did they concoct the floor he was standing on?.
[According to my universal data there are only a few planets where carbon is plentiful and what I fear the most is that one of them is the Alter Earth]
“Alter…Err Earth?”
[Remember I told you that you were the 250th person to partake in the Guardian trials??… The extraordinary man before you was from Alter Earth…And that’s also where that Old Geezer ran to]
There was no reply from Marcus, he was staring down at the ground and bobbing his head like a dummy.
[Ah Shit… Marcus, there are things that you don’t know yet… When that Old Geezer (The Flame Emperor) saw his performance on the trials he was seriously impressed, but that extraordinary human failed where you gained. The third trial was too much for him to handle that he..]
“Quit?”
Marcus interrupted, his gaze however unfocused.
[…No… The third trial was too much for him that he tore open the abyss and jumped out]
*Silence*
[He didn’t fail Marcus, He was disqualified because he broke the entire sense of how the Abyss was supposed to work…HE CRASHED THE ENTIRE SYSTEM!!!!!]
[The talented Man before you was so angry at his disqualification that his greed went leaps and bounds!!.]
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[HE ATTACKED THE FLAME EMPEROR FOR HIS POWER!]
*SILENCE*
[AND THE OLD MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED, If it wasn’t for Drako’s ultimate attack]
Marcus remembered that!!. The Abyss Dragon’s ultimate power was Void Break. His thought processed and he came up with the theory himself.
The System went silent as Marcus’s thought ran in the background.
‘The Ultimate Attack of the Abyss Dragon was so powerful that it sent the attacker back to his dimension when the void broke, which meant he was back to Alter Earth’
Marcus was silent as ever. His eyes were frozen open, his feature, pale and trembling, a rictus grin (involuntary fake smile) pictured on his twisted face.
[DID YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THE OLD MAN RAN OFF SO THAT HE COULD SPEND A PEACEFUL VACATION!!??]
‘No stop’
The thinking part of him screamed at him. Marcus squeezed his eyes shut and covered his ears.
‘No please’
It was true… The Summoner wouldn’t be able to kill its summon until the summoner killed it in it’s dimension. Which meant….
[THAT FUCKING GEEZER WENT THERE TO FIND THAT CRAZY BASTARD. TO KILL THAT CRAZY BASTARD]
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