[VRMMO] Dead One

[First Tournament – Second Phase].

Unlike the previous phase of the event, this one had the attention of many players far better than the first phase.

The clips from the tournament of the people competing got the people got both excited and interested in the game.

Even players that had failed got extremely excited and were looking forwards to the future events.

Some were still sulking or were annoyed that they got eliminated, but that had also motivated them.

It could be said that the [First Tournament – Second Phase] was an 100% success. Both in the eyes of public as well as company owners.

However, this isn’t the end.

A week.

A week from now on will be held the finals of the tournament where 64 players will compete in 1vs1 matches.

"The list of the participants as well as the rules have been completely revealed to the public." – said Oron.

[Current location: Purple Hyena base.]

"The information states that the players will compete in 1vs1 matches." – said Oron.

"The players will be assigned an random opponent in each match and the people that survive the first round will be qualified to the round two, but again the opponents they will face will be randomly selected, meaning that you won’t know who you will fight in any of the rounds."

"The player you will face off against will be only announcement made right before the round takes place."

"The fights will be livestreamed and there will be no time limit in the fights."

"The first, second, third rounds will have all matches be held at the same time while having the rest of the rounds being held one by one."

"And that is pretty much all important stuff."

"So.... We do know who will be taking part in the tournament, but we won’t know who we will be fighting until the very last moment?" – said Rampage.

"Pretty much." – said ClownFrog.

"Hm.... Well, this is quite interesting." – said Rampage while smiling.

"They have announced all rules, information as well as who is taking part in finals.... We have some days, but before the finals starts, but not that many." – said Rampage calmly.

"Should we focus on only getting stronger or something and forget about chaos right now?"

"Well, pretty much yes, since considering our current situation, we cannot attack the empire without good reason or preparation." – said GreyHunt.

"Pretty much, we cannot attack empire anyway and we are also focusing on expanding our base and stuff, so honestly none of our plans are hindered one bit."

"True." – said ClownFrog.

"We can focus on growing stronger while also pushing forward with our plans."

"However, focus on resting up and preparing as well, you need to be in top condition when you will fight in finals."

"Speaking of finals.... What happened to you guys?"

"Why only us 7 managed to get to the finals?"

[Members of the Purple Hyena guild who got to the finals.]

[ClownFrog]

[Oron]

[Blueberry]

[GreyHunt]

[Shri]

[Rampage]

[Lil]

"...." – the members of the guild that failed said nothing.

"...."

"Look."

"I’m not mad or anything."

"I won’t punish or something, but we need informations."

"The clips of the tournament were only showing bits and stuff, and that is obviously not enough informations."

"Just tell us what happened and that will help us out."

"..."

"Well, I will just say it from get go since my information is useless." – said Wretch while holding his hand up.

"I got surrounded and killed. Not by some newbies, but by some stronger bastards. I killed few of them, but got killed by poison in the end before I could finish them off."

"...."

"I run into the guild master of the Scarlet Gryphons, Hawk." – said Cave.

"!"

"You ran into him?" – said Oron with interested look.

"Yea."

"That bastard was using a sword and shield simple combination."

"And from the skills he used, he was some light and holy paladin build.... But he wasn’t going all out on me and if anything, his stats were absurdly high as well. He easily overpowered me in terms of fire power as well as physical strength."

"It was one sided fight where I couldn’t beat him at all. I did took him by surprise two or three times, but that bastard can also take some hits."

"I don’t know if it was because he was light and holy paladin class build user or it was because of his equipment. Maybe both."

"Either way, I can say with confident about that guy not being just all talk."

"...."

"Well, even if he didn’t went full power on you, you still managed to get some information about him." – said Shri.

"Still, Cave isn’t some weakling."

"He is dark and demonic paladin that focuses fully on offense."

"Its true that the holy and light paladin as well as the dark and demonic paladin are complete opposite to each other, but they can both hinder each other and annoy each other."

"There is also the fact that Cave build is focused on the reckless fight and he has some classes and equipment focused on defense and survivability as well."

"Cave isn’t some nobody, but that guy beat him without going all out... This is solid piece of information."

"...."

Ampi slowly raised her hand.

"Em.... C-can I say something?" – said Ampi.

"Sure. Go ahead." – ClownFrog.

"...."

"The member of the Red Lions named Lilium got me.... She is also one of the people that had qualified to the finals."

"?"

"Lilium?" – said Rampage, not recognizing the nicknames she knew.

"I heard about her." – said Howl.

"She is one of the three best players in the Red Lions guild, right?"

"Yea.... And she was overpowered as fuck." – said Ampi.

"When she was fighting me, she was only using fire magic.... But that fire power of her was extremely scary."

"She straight up blew up rock boulders and melted their remains."

"I had managed to cut off her hand with my last ditch effort, but that bitch has also some healing skills with her fire magic that allowed her to just take her arm and just reattach it."

"She has also an ability to fly around as well while also firing spells while still being in air."

"She has also some special class as well, a class that revolves around fire magic, her healing ability probably came from that class as well."

"However, the most thing that stood out were the sphere of fire she had hanging around herself."

"It seems she is using them as some sort of boosters to buff her fire spells performance."

"Sometimes the fire skill used one of those sphere, while some others used more than one."

"Honestly, she was extremely deadly.... And she beat me like that even though my build has advantage over fire elements."

"She just brute force her way through everything with ease."

"And yes, I used everything I had. I even tried to take her down with me., but that failed considering that she managed to get to the finals."

"...."

"So, a fire mage user overpowered you?" – said GreyHunt.

"You who have huge advantage against fire element users?"

"Y-yes." – said Ampi while trying not to make eye contact.

"Hm.... Then that girl maybe a problem." – said GreyHunt.

"......"

"Oh, while I’m at it, I should say that I had murdered the vice guild master of the Red Lions."

"Oh. Nice. I was wondering why I haven’t seen his name on the list." – said Oron.

"Nah. It wasn’t anything big."

"If anything, he was very weak and he was more of a support type of guy instead of main fighter."

"Honestly, he may not have gotten to the finals even if I didn’t murdered him."

"But I messed with him a bit by pretending to have some trouble while fighting him and making myself look bit weaker."

"I wanted to mess with Red Lions a bit."

"...."

"You do realized that you may need to go all out in the first round and that would force them to revealed the fact that you haven’t been going all out?" – said Blueberry.

"Meh."

"Even if I do end up being forced to expose myself, it will still mess with them a bit."

"Besides, it will also make it look like we are bit weaker than we look and that will straight up mess with all of them."

"True."

"It’s known fact that the GreyHunt is the second strongest member of our guild as well as the fact that he is vice guild master." – said Oron.

"It WILL mess with Red Lions a lot... And that proves the fact that you are an asshole." – said Oron while turning towards GreyHunt.

"Heh... We all assholes here." – replied GreyHunt at Oron comment.

"True. We all are bastards." – said Shri.

"...."

"Anyway, can we continue our main conversation just now? We need any useful data regarding the other players that we may end up facing, considering the fact that we may end up into some big monsters like ourselves." – said Oron.

"Oron is right." – said ClownFrog.

"We need information. The other players are definitely doing the same thing as us if not are asking some of the players that had been killed by us in order to gain info from them."

"Should we also do something like that then? I mean getting info from the other participants that got eliminated?" – asked Swim.

"But would they talk with us?" – asked Rampage.

"They maybe would.... If we show some money." – said Tail.

"Yea, but there is also the fact that we are terrorist and stuff in the eyes of public, so they may end up getting scared from just doing any deals with us." – said Kitty Paw.

The members of the Purple Hyena guild began discussing among themselves about the plan of obtaining information.

Some wanted to use simple method while some others wanted to use more straight forward method where they would pay for information.

The argument lasted for few hours before then concluding.

"Okay. So, some of us will log out and look for the info, while the rest of you will just focus on the base development and growing stronger and stuff, right?" – asked Howl.

"Pretty much." – said Wretch.

"Having all of us gather information would be bit problematic and some of us need to be in base from time to time to help out in developing it."

"True.... Well then, I’m logging off from get go. I also haven’t eaten anything yet as well and I’m itching for some sushi." – said Howl before logging off.

After the Howl logged off, several other members of the guild had also logged off while some others got up and left the room.

However.

"Wait." – said ClownFrog suddenly.

"?" – the members turned around and looked at ClownFrog.

"Shri, Oron, GreyHunt, Rampage and Blueberry."

"You all stay here.... Me and Lil.... We need to talk with you all for second.... And it serious."

"Everybody, out and don’t even dare to come in."

"This is an fuking order and I dare for anybody to barge in.... GOT IT?"

"?"

The members looked at each other in confusion, but instantly realized that something felt off and serios based on the ClownFrog tone of voice.

"...."

"You heard him. Get out now." – said Blueberry, realizing something.

"NOW!"

"!"

The members suddenly rushed out of the door as soon as Blueberry suddenly shouted.

"...."

"Okay......?" – said confused Shri.

"What is going on? Is it related to the finals or something?"

"...."

"Not exactly...... Right boss?" – said Blueberry.

"Yea...... Sit down. All of you." – said ClownFrog with serios voice.

"...."

"Just do as he says." – said GreyHunt, noticing that something is about to happened.

The core members of the Purple Hyena guild sit down on their chair alongside Lil who was also in the room.

"..."

"I’m going to say this from get go, but I’m sorry." – said ClownFrog while bowing his head.

"?!"

"Where the heck that came from?!" – asked shocked and surprised Shri.

"...."

"Boss.... No.... ClownFrog. What is going on?" – asked GreyHunt.

"...."

"I......"

"Fuck it." – said ClownFrog while grabbing his head.

"I didn’t wanted to ask you about your personal lifes, nor I wanted to talk too much about myself, since I wanted to respect your private life.... But I’m also sorry for not telling you about myself."

"You are bastards and son of bitches.... But are also bastards I can trust with my back."

"...."

"You are going to tell them the truth about yourself, right?" – said Rampage.

"?"

"Wait... What truth?" – said Oron.

"Seriously, this is kind of turning ominous for some reason."

"Don’t worry.... Just listen." – said ClownFrog.

"I didn’t wanted to originally tell you this, but you had gained both my trust and respect."

"And you also need to know it."

"But promise me this."

"Don’t tell anybody this. Even your family."

"I don’t want to spread this information too much."

"But if you by any chance instead of spreading information straight betray me after you hear what I’m about to say, I will deal with you."

"However, what I’m about to tell you all, is all truth... Bit disturbing as well...."

"I want you to trust me and I want to trust you all."

"I want to tell you guys, but I also need to know if you want to know."

"The decision is yours."

"You can leave this room and just go."

"Or you can just listen what I’m about to say and just either just listen or completely ignore what I’m about to say."

"I just want to tell you guys, but it depends on you."

"So.... What do you guys chose?"

"......"

GreyHunt, Oron and Shri looked at each other confused, but then Shri noticed something off.

Both Blueberry and Rampage were just sitting quietly.

"...."

"Wait... You two know something?" – asked Shri.

"...Yea, we do.... Me and Rampage. We do already know that guy secret, but it’s not like he trusted us more than you.... Its bit complicated and we will explain it." – said Blueberry. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"But...." – said worried Blueberry while looking at ClownFrog.

"I’m fine. Blueberry." – said ClownFrog.

"It will be explained why they know my secret before all of you did, so don’t take it wrong or anything like that."

"...."

"Tch."

"Fine." – said Shri.

"I know you are bastard that cannot be messed with, but I can also say that you want to trust us even more." – said Shri.

"You already trust us enough and stuff, but it seems that what ever secret you are holding is big enough to the point you have not told any of us yet."

"Don’t worry."

"I won’t betray you and if I do, you can strangle me to death in real life."

"Same here. We had each other back already for long time and I can say I can trust you." – said Oron.

"And I’m also worried, since I can tell that the situation is somewhat serios."

"...."

"Welp."

"As for me?" – said GreyHunt.

"I know we started as enemies and everything, but you have my full respect and everything."

"You can also murder me if I dares to betray you."

"And I’m also way too fuking curios to hear about your so called big secret to the point that you are only revealing it now."

"You have each

"...."

".... You are fuckers.... All of you.... But you are also bastards that we I can trust." – said ClownFrog.

"Thank you...."

"...."

’Sigh’

"Okay.... It will be quiet a long story and everything and I’m also sorry for causing any inconvenient as well as revealing details about my real life that may bother you, but please listen to this all."

"First of all, let me say this."

"Hello."

"You know me as ClownFrog now, but before I was known as somebody else under completely different nickname."

"My previous nickname was [Road] and I was an Ex-Esport players as well as the member of the SunShadow."

"And this is my fuking stupid retarded story."