[VRMMO] Dead One

"Oh? So, you decided to become my herald? Why say?" – asked Sloth.

"Simple." – said ClownFrog as he approached Sloth.

"You say entertainment, but I can tell that you have some different goal beside that."

"However, I don’t mind getting roped into your schemes if that means I can get stronger."

"So I’m than willing to shake the hand of this devil." – said ClownFrog as he extended his hand.

"Oh boy. I’m not devil." – said Sloth as she grabbed ClownFrog hand.

"I’m something way worse!"

As Sloth grabbed ClownFrog hand, he could feel something entering his body and piercing through as it travels as well as spread through his entire body before then dispersing and disappearing.

"...."

"?"

"That’s it?" – said confused ClownFrog.

"No chant. No special effects or anything?"

"I though something.... You know... "Special"?"

"Well, the effect will show itself for real once you leave this place. But if you like I can just wipe out some fireworks and make it look like "YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THE GOD’ type of effect. But there is really no point." – said Sloth as she walked towards her bed and sat down.

"Both the lesser sins as well as the mark or blessing, what ever you call it. Anyway, my symbol will manifest on you once you leave this place."

"Anyway, any questions or something?"

"Before I snap you out of here."

"...."

"Well, its more regarding the whole "Summoning me thing here"." – said ClownFrog.

"I can only get here if I you invite me or something and I accept it, yes?"

"Yea, but it sometimes depends on the circumstances and I could summon you here for moment." – replied Sloth.

"But those circumstances are sometimes very annoying and rare, so I can’t summon you every second if that is the thing you are wondering about."

"I see, but then is it possible for instead of having "you" request the meeting, instead "I" could possibly request the meeting?"

"Hm.... Well, it is possible." – said Sloth.

"You request for my request and then you accept my request. It would work like this."

"However if you think I will I will accept your every request then dream on."

"I maybe an "Sloth", but because I’m not accepting each and request of the meeting and other beings like me will be the same."

"And honestly, as my name suggest, I’m "Sloth", so I have an good excuse as well to take up even less calls."

"Unless I find request interesting, special or important in my eyes, then otherwise I will just flip you off."

"Anyway, we talked more than enough." – said Sloth as she snapped her fingers and moments later ClownFrog body began slowly disappearing, alarming the lich.

"Don’t bore on our next encounter."

"And you don’t act like some annoying brat next time." – said ClownFrog before disappearing.

[You have logged off.]

"...."

The capsule opened up, as the man walked out of it.

After getting out, the men looked around and realize he was back in his house.

"..."

"I guess I’m back this time." – said the man as he began stretching his body.

"...."

(Amadeus story.)

(Unknown secret of the Forgotten World as well some different version of the Greek gods history and tale.)

(And now true sin of sloth straight up called me over, we talked, she turned out be little sassy brat that tried to provoke me as much as possible.)

(And I also became her herald.)

(And there is also possibility that she and other beings like her are tied to the Forgotten World.)

(....)

"What the actual FUCK?!"

"Why the fuck they are showing so much lore and other stuff at once?! Hello?!"

(This is way too much information showed into my mouth all at once!)

(How the hell I will tell others about it?!)

(And this isn’t all, but the information alone would cost an fortune!)

(There are guilds that focuses on history and lore, and those guys would definitely pay solid amount of money for ALL of the stuff we found out.)

"...."

"Did she told me the part about Forgotten World fluffing one of the conditions on purpose?"

(She transformed into Blueberry. Into her cyborg dragonian form no less.)

(She was observing us entire time as she said.)

(So did she also heard about our plan to try and seek out more Forgotten Fragments?)

(Is she trying to push us further towards that idea?)

(If so, why?)

"...."

"Is she.... Is by any chance being from the Forgotten World?"

(She did said that I didn’t met necessary qualification to hear her name.)

(Maybe she is like an Forgotten being?)

(Each Forgotten beings don’t have names and instead some sort of title related to their life, like "Bride" or "Executioner".)

(Maybe she is something like "Survival" of the disaster that befallen the Forgotten World or something?)

(If so, then what is her name?)

"....."

The man turned up his PC and began browsing through internet regarding the seven deadly sins as well as each demon that represent them.

[Lucifer: Pride.]

[Mammon: Greed.]

[Asmodeus: Lust.]

[Leviathan: Envy.]

[Beelzebub: Gluttony.]

[Satan: Wrath.]

[Belphegor: Sloth.]

(The demon of sloth, Belphegor.)

(Is this her name?)

"...."

(No.... It’s definitely not that easy.)

(Her existence is unknown and the developers had definitely not made the answer so easy to find out.)

(Not only that, but the Executioner was an child of an god AND an titan!) 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

(He seemed like somewhat important character, and yet there is nothing like that in myths or anything.)

(I’m even looking at the informations related to Artemis and that titan guy, but nothing.) – though the man as he searches through the internet regarding the goodness Artemis as well as the unknown titan.

"Nothing. Nothing at all."

"There is no myth or anything regarding that child nor anything regarding the titan himself."

"I guess relying on the myths version of the Olympus won’t work."

(Then what about the Forgotten Bride?)

(From what we know based on the items description, she was an twin.)

(Her sister was getting married and so she killed her and ate her body in order to replace her.)

(But I doubt I will find anything regarding her on the internet.)

(She wasn’t also sane and was straight up an mindless animal going on the rampage.)

"..."

"Should we only aim at high level Forgotten Fragments?"

"But then again, how can we be sure that only high level ones will have any clues?" – said the man as he began spinning around in his chair.

"This guy was an child of an god and titan.... So maybe that is the reason why it was able to keep its mind somewhat to this day?"

"But what if there was something else involved? Maybe Zeus cursed the Executioner to keep its sanity in check no matter what unless the chains activated?"

"...."

"In the end we will have to find as many Forgotten Fragments as possible, eh?"

(Still, we have our main goal that has yet to be fulfilled.)

(The Oin kingdom who we are at war against is still standing.)

"...."

"Not only fuking that, but Tail straight up gave me some annoying news."

(The first prince faction is trying to create an new settlement near the Bloody Mounties.)

(Right now its just an camp, but players are slowly gathering there.... Shit.)

(It doesn’t look like they know about us.... So that can only mean one thing.)

(Hunting grounds.)

(Shit.)

(The first prince objective is to probably strengthen his own faction soldiers and players, ad there is apparently rumor going around that the king health has recently worsen.... I guess those rumors must be true.)

(So maybe the first prince is preparing for something?)

(Either way, his plan could accidently expose us.)

(Especially the Red Lions.)

(They are greedy bunch and they will definitely jump to the new hunting grounds.)

"Especially the ones that haven’t been touched by players for long time.... Shit."

(We need to urgently destroy that newly build settlement.... But we cannot appear directly.)

(We need to use monsters to attack that place.)

(But what would happened if we DO destroy it?)

(How will the first prince react?)

(Will he send his own forces to deal with "Rampaging monsters"? Or will he reconstruct the settlement and this time have many troops situationally there?)

(If we make an too big of an mess with the monsters, we could alarm the entire empire and make it look like an "Emergency" occurred that needs to be dealt with immediately.)

(Since they would definitely would like to avoid an stampede of monsters.)

(We just fuking dealt with the Forgotten Fragment and now an new problem have popped up?!)

(There are also monsters of the Bloody Mounties that are starting to get more active in recent times and now that the Forgotten Fragment have been eliminated, the monsters will sooner or later try to claim the empty territory.)

"...."

"Shit."

"At this rate the real war will start way too soon."

(The main reason why we revealed ourselves like that in that stupid manner was simple. Confusion and panic.)

(We wanted the empire to spend their money for no reason as well as resources in order to strengthen their defenses.)

(And that strategy worked.)

(The people panicked and they were now forced to strengthen their settlement, even though we are not attacking.)

(They are wasting resources left and right and people are getting annoyed. Especially nobles since we are not appearing.)

(We had made people of empire have an internal conflict when there was already an succession war going on between the four factions.)

(With this, the chaos will erupt even more.)

(And not only that, but the increased security also needs to be managed, meaning that overall taxes through the empire will increase.)

(And that won’t make people happy.)

(However, since we are not making any moves, people will think that their money is taken away for no reason.)

(I heard that some parts of the empire have it rough with some small rebellions.)

(But this isn’t enough.)

(We need to hold out bit longer for the chaos to spread around bit more and then we could possibly start the war.)

(But how the fuck do we deal with that newly build settlement?!)