[VRMMO] Dead One

[Next day.]

"So, we came back." – said ClownFrog as he and GreyHunt had came back to the green antman nest.

"Yes...." – said the tired looking antman king.

"......Is... Is everything alright?" – asked ClownFrog upon noticing the current state of the antman king.

"Yes.... Yes...." – replied the antman king.

"...."

"I have talked with my people."

"And we decided to remain with the decision from before with joining your forces."

"..."

ClownFrog and GreyHunt looked at each other with suspicious.

"May we at least know why?" -asked GreyHunt.

"Why do you wish to join us?"

"Sure. We did told you about benefits and other stuff, but last time you said you wanted to join us, before we told you any benefits."

"Could you at least tell us why do you want to join us?"

(Honestly, this guy looks stressed. Even more than before.... What the hell happened to him?) – though GreyHunt.

(The antman princes there are also somewhat tired looking.) – though GreyHunt as he looked at the antmans nearby.

(Are they by any chance mind controlled?)

"Boss." – said GreyHunt as grabbed ClownFrog shoulder.

"?"

GreyHunt began whispering something into ClownFrog ear.

"...."

"Excuse me Apapara. But can I ask you something?" – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"What it is?" – replied the antman king named Apapara.

"[Curse Devour]." – ClownFrog manifested an dark energy from his body that attached itself to the antman king and the princes, alarming them, but not really harming them.

"Done." – said ClownFrog as the cursed energy disappeared.

"Sorry for that. But I wanted to check if you are not under some mind control or anything like that or had some sort of curse."

"But, you are not?" - as ClownFrog said that, the expression on the GreyHunt face changed.

"...."

*Sigh*

"No. We are not mind controlled, nor we are working for anybody." – said the tired antman king.

"Its just.... Well, its quiet an big deal for us and we are worried that you may not accept us."

"?"

"Why is that?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Strength." – said the antman king.

"In this place, you need strength to survive and you need to grow stronger or the beasts of this place shall devour you."

"If the tribe is weak, the tribe will die."

"If the leader is foolish, the tribe will die."

"If the tribe doesn’t have any means of securing food, the tribe will die."

"If the tribe doesn’t have anything they can call the home. The tribe will die."

"There are many things our tribe need to survive, but one of most important needs is the strength above everything else."

"We may end up joining your alliance, but will that make us stronger?"

"We don’t want to become an prey."

"If we want to survive, we need to be "Hunters"."

"You have proven your strength more than enough."

"And we wish to use your strength to ensure our tribe survival in exchange for our loyalty." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"...."

(He does make sense....) – though GreyHunt as he looked at ClownFrog.

(Lets just do it. But keep your watch.) – though ClownFrog as he looked at the GreyHunt.

Both men nodded at each other, as if they communicated without saying any words.

"Fine." – said ClownFrog as he extended his hand towards the antman.

"Welcome to the Purple Hyena."

"Thanks. Please take care of us." – said the antman king as he shaked ClownFrog hand.

[Green Burrow tribe had official became part of Purple Hyena.]

"I’m sorry if I’m rushing this, but I would like to know about the current situation." – said the antman king.

".... You sure?" – asked bit confused ClownFrog.

"Don’t you want to hold some sort of ceremony to somewhat inform your people or something else to make them aware of the current situation?"

"We already did that yesterday after you left. I had informed my people about the situation." – said the antman king.

"So don’t worry about it and please instead tell me about the current situation. I need to know if we need to prepare our forces now or not."

"...."

"Well, the current situation... Is progressing." – said ClownFrog.

"The settlement will soon become the village if had not already."

"And with this in mind, we will need to start preparing soon."

"Like I said before, we don’t want to put your people in too much danger, so we will need to start preparing now."

"As I had promised before, we will give your people support of many different kinds."

"Ranging from supplies such as food, to weapons, armors as well as additional troops that you can use as part of your cavalry."

"Understood." – said the antman king as he got up.

"Please take one of my most trusted subordinate. His name is Apargon." – said the antman king as an green antman prince approached the group.

"He will serv as our representative in your base."

"I understand. We will take care of him." – said ClownFrog.

(Honestly speaking... I still don’t trust the green antmans yet.) – though ClownFrog.

(They made decision way too fast.... And I know the antmans aren’t some primitives.)

(And that guy, Apapara. He is definitely an smart guy.)

(I used the [Curse Eater] to see if he is affected by any debuff effect, but there was no reaction.)

(He definitely used some sort of skill on me and "Looked" at me.)

(I’m honestly curios about what he saw.... And I think I should ask.)

(But obviously not now.)

(Right now we will need green antmans cooperations.)

(But just in case, I will have some demons observe the situation in secret. Hera also recommended few interesting demons to me after I had become the herald of the sloth and I think one of them was good at spying or something.)

(We will see if the Green Burrow tribe is truly loyal to us.)

After officially recruiting the Green Burrow tribe into our ranks, we had immediately started, our preparations.

Obviously, the green antmans were still not trusting us too much, since we just came in and make them now serv us out of the blue, but I guess the king did something to them to make them surrender?

Honestly, I was thinking of having Hera and succubus extract informations from one of the green antmans.... But the timing could be somewhat bad and it could damage our relationship with the green antmans from get go if it gets out. They may find out that one of the green antmans that are working for us had "Mysteriously disappeared" and that would make things complicated.

So, no kidnaping and mind controlling for now.... "For now,".

Anyway, regarding the current situation with the first prince newly build settlement.

Its development have been sped up recently and not only that, it seems that the players are getting somewhat excited for that new settlement construction. Make sense, since they would benefit greatly from it.

However, this is an big problem for us, since as soon as that settlement would become functional for the players, then we will have a lot of players coming here. Especially the Red Lion guild.

If anything, according to our scouts and spies, they saw some of the Red Lions players in the village.... Its not like 50% or 25% of the guild, but only few guys.

However, the problem is that those guys are there.

Conquest must have send them by the order of the first prince to "Keep watch" in case something happens.

Well, we did expected this possibility and we are not changing our current plans. That place needs to go "NOW".

And if they dare to try and rebuild it over and over, we will just keep destroying it.

It may somewhat seem like stupid plan, since it will make the empire aware that the settlements near the Bloody Mountains are targeted for some reason, but that would benefit us.

They would think that making any settlement near the Bloody Mountains is too dangerous and the monsters there have grown more territorial after being left unattended for a long time.

They may think of an way to send an expedition to somewhat tin out the number of the monsters so they can make the settlement construction possible, but we are waiting for them in the case that would happened.

Once the settlement is destroyed and any future attempts made by the prince would get foiled, the rumors would spread around through the empire and people would get hesitated to go anywhere near this place and that would obviously make construction much harder.

Not only that, but we are aware of the current situation between the four factions. They are eager to fight each other and the prince cannot waste too much of his forces dealing with the rampaging monsters that he had himself "Provoked".

He will have no option but to give up on the Bloody Mountains, until the situation calms downs somewhat and allows him to deploy his troops in here. But then again, we are ready for that possible situation.

If nothing unexpected happens, the plan will work out.

But the problem remains with our own preparations for the war.

We had conquered multiple monsters nest or have recruited monster tribes into our ranks.

However, obviously none of these nest or tribes are ready for war yet.

But things are looking good.

We definitely won’t have an 100% control over the Bloody Mountains, since the monsters here are wild. But we can take over this place and once we do, our entire little kingdom growth will end up entering new "Speed".

And once we do enter this new speed, oh boy. We will have not only something like an city castle bastion thing, but we will be also be able to produce armies of many different kind of monsters.

And once we do have it all, the empire will be unable to look down on us and will be forced to come at us with everything they go.

This will be an nice stage for us.

An stage for the whole world to see our true selves.

They will know that we are the real villains here. All of them will know.

And all of them will fear us.

This will be FUN!