Smiley Goes Offline

The black scythe swung without warning, its blade aimed straight at Smiley's neck!

Smiley, who had been stiff as a corpse a second ago, suddenly opened his eyes and scrambled to his feet.

"Fuck!"

The scythe swept past, grazing his back.

Smiley staggered several meters away and crashed into a patch of dead grass, then quickly pushed himself back up.

Not far away, a Joker doll with an exaggerated grin lay tilted beside the roots of a tree.

The doll was now completely tattered, with a huge tear across its chest and the white stuffing inside spilling out. One of its eyeballs had disappeared somewhere.

Besides allowing him to switch places with it, Smiley's Decoy Doll had one final life-saving ability hidden within it.

To die in his place.

When its owner suffered a fatal injury, the doll could take one death in the owner's stead.

But only once.

The instant the Death Domain had completely drained Smiley's last Health Points, the Decoy Doll had automatically activated and taken that fatal blow for him.

The price was that the doll had been utterly destroyed.

Though Smiley had not died, his Health Points had fallen to single digits. Looking at the ruined doll on the ground, his heart bled.

His last life-saving trump card was gone. If he died again, he would truly be dead.

Mortus looked at him and raised his scythe again with a faintly mocking smile.

"You're quite hard to kill."

Smiley's scalp went numb. Mortus clearly had no intention of stopping. As he watched the scythe about to fall, his mind raced to its limit.

Fate's Gate had been sealed, the Decoy Doll had been destroyed, and he did not even have a single Life Potion!

Was he really going to die here?!

Smiley suddenly looked at