[VRMMO] Dead One

".... Shit." – said the hooded figure D as he observed the orc monsters wondering around.

"This place is crawling with monsters everywhere! And we just entered this place!"

"No kidding.... And if there are so many monsters here, way more than we had originally through... Then what about the inner parts?" – said the hooded figure B as he stood on top of the tree branch.

"I know we are supposed to be sneaky and stuff, but with that many monsters wondering around, it will be impossible."

"Then what do you want to do? Alarm all the monsters here and have an horde of them after us?" – whispered the hooded figure A.

"This isn’t an underground and our paths aren’t limited." – whispered the hooded figure B.

"This time we will be able to escape and avoid monsters way better than we did in the Dead Hive."

"He is right." – said Ocelot as he quicky appeared and decapitated two orcs monsters instantly.

"Hiding all the time will be physically impossible, we will be forced to break through the monsters from time to time, but even so, we will need to keep our watch when doing that and we cannot make too much noise. We also will need to watch out if there are too many monsters after us."

"So keep yours eyes in all directions and be ready to run if worst comes to worst."

The group of the hooded men’s began traveling through the forest of the Bloody Mountains located in the outer ring of the great danger zones.

The group obviously didn’t had easy time traversing through this place, even when they were able to use their stealth abilities to easily ran past any of the weakest monsters of this place, they were not able to conceal their anxiously.

"?!"

"Stop!" – said the hooded figure D as he hid behind the tree.

"What? What is it?" – asked hooded figure A.

"Look. An rhino monsters.... I think those are one of those monsters from the report that destroyed that village."

"...." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Are they alone? Do you see any of those ant creatures?" – asked Ocelot.

"...."

"...."

"No.... We don’t see anything." – said hooded figure C as he looked around from the top of the tree before then coming down quietly.

"There are only those rhino monsters here... I don’t see any other monsters from the report."

"So, does that mean those are wild ones?" – asked alarmed hooded figure D.

"I think so.... But I suggest that we shouldn’t get anywhere near them for the safer side. What if those are really ant monsters pets?"

"Hm.... No. I don’t think that is the case with those ones." – said Ocelot.

"Still, there could be an chance that they maybe hunted and forceful tamed by the ant creatures, so it’s better if we stare clear away from their preys just in case."

(Still... According to the reports, those monsters easily torn down enchanted stone wall. It wasn’t an normal wall but an make shift one with earth, however it was enchanted, so it shouldn’t have been destroyed that easily.) – though Ocelot.

(.... We are encountering those kind of monsters even though we are still in the outer ring? Shit. That doesn’t boost well.)

The group managed to carefully go around the max rhinos without being spotted and continue traversing the Bloody Mountains outer ring.

The struggle obvious continues as they travels through this dangerous land, but now they would face even more problems as the group began approaching the mountain line, an line that stood between the inner and outer ring the Bloody Mountains.

"...."

"Shit. Its just like you suspected." – said the hooded figure A that suddenly appeared right next to the Ocelot.

"There are those ox people monster that had been spotted by the adventures in the past."

"They are hiding and they keep watch."

"Same results here." – said the hooded figure B as he also appeared out of the shadows.

"They are hiding and keeping watch... Probably as soon as they would spot us, they would rush us."

"And that had happened to the adventures that tried to cross this place... They were ambushed and killed by these monsters." – said Ocelot.

"Did you saw anything like an settlement nearby? Or anything that resembles an building? Or even simple tend or primitive hut?"

"No sir. There was nothing like that."- replied hooded figure A.

"...."

"Is it an outpost?" – said Ocelot.

"...No... Maybe.... Hm...."

"There is definitely an reason why these monsters are here.... And they seems to be an intelligent monster."

"Maybe the mountain line is their territory?"

"Then, should we try going around them? To the place that isn’t watched over them?" – suggested hooded figure A.

"No. There is an chance we would discover other monsters blocking our path and waiting for the ambush." – said Ocelot.

"Hell, maybe other location would be far more dangerous?"

"Not only that, but if we waste too much of our time and night comes, then what? What if more dangerous monsters pop up?"

".... Then what do we do?" – asked hooded figure C.

"You are saying as if our only option would be to go past these guys, but how?"

"Should we try sneaking past them or should we kill them?"

"...."

"Killing them could make things much worse." – said Ocelot.

"If we kill them and they discover the corpse, then they will definitely raise an alarm and that would mean things could end up extremely hard if not impossible."

"We need to avoid killing any of them AND we need to avoid getting detected at any cost."

"Try and spot as many of these ox monsters as possible and mark their locations."

"We need to find an opening in their line that will allow us to go past them."

"Meet up here after gathering data."

"Yes sir!" – replied each hooded figure before the entire group disappeared into the shadows.

Ocelot and his men began observing in the secrets the oxman’s who were on the watch duty without them knowing, showing off their skills at staying hidden and gathering the informations.

After sometime had passed, the group had reassembled back to their meeting spots.

"Hm... So, these are all the locations?" – asked Ocelot as he and his group have created an pseudo map on the ground that have marked the locations of the oxman’s.

"Yes sir. Those are all of the locations where these monsters hide at." – said hooded figure A.

"By the look of things they sometimes wonder around and that make things easier and harder."

"..."

"I see what you are getting at." – said Ocelot.

"There maybe an chance where some of these monsters would move away from each other, giving us an window of opportunity to slip past them."

"...."

"These two locations. Are they accurate?" – said Ocelot while pointing at the two marked locations on the ground.

"Yes sir. I even watched them bit longer just to make sure." – said hooded figure D.

"Good job." – said Ocelot.

"We will use this spot to go past them."

"Observe these monsters here and as soon as we receive all the signals, instantly GO. Do you understand it?"

"Yes sir." – replied all hooded figures.

"Good. Then get ready." – said Ocelot.

Ocelot and his men instantly moved to their destinated location and instantly hid among the trees while observing the hidden oxman’s who were on their watch duty.

"..." – the oxman looked around, but not finding anything in the sight before then getting up and stretching his body.

After stretching a bit, the oxman picked up his weapon and began slowly walking around.

In the instant this had happened, one of the hooded figures signaled the others who were also hiding behind the trees and exactly moment later, the second hooded figure signaled the group and as soon as both signals were shown, the group without any hesitation had instantly made their move and ran quickly.

*Rustle*

"!"

The oxman quickly turned around and threw his axe at the nearby bush and hitting something right behind it.

"...." – the oxman silently approached the bush while holding his second axe as he extended his grab towards the bush and quickly moved it away while the oxman himself got ready to swing his axe.

"...."

The oxman found his axe stuck against the tree.

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"Hey. Is something off?" – asked the oxman with the spear.

"No. Must have been an wind." – said the oxman with an axe as he reached for his other axe that was stuck and took it back.

"I think I need an rest from the guard duty. I think I’m growing paranoid."

"Heh. I can see that." - said oxman with the spear.

"...."

(HOLY SHIT!) – though the hooded figure A who was right behind the tree that was just hit and almost shited his pants.

The hooded figure A quickly left the area as soon as he saw the opening and moments later regroup with the rest of the hooded figures as soon as they got as far as possible away from the oxman’s.

"HOLY SHIT! They almost got me in the last second!" – said the hooded figure A as he was shaking from the fear.

"Yea, I saw that.... Shit. That was way too close." – said hooded figure C.

"Still.... There are no ox creatures here... So, I guess we can have an moment of peace?"

"No yet." – said Ocelot.

"We have not crossed the mountain line yet and that could possible encounter another patrol of these ox creatures."

"...."

"Em... Boss... I have something to say." – said hooded figure A as he started to calm down.

"Those creatures... They were talking to each other."

"!"

"What? Are you sure about it?" – asked Ocelot.

"Yes. I understood everything they said." – said the hooded figure A.

"...."

"Hm.... Well, that confirms they are not some mindless demi human monsters.... But that is also bad." – said Ocelot.

"We need to be even way more careful now."

"Quickly eat and catch your breath while you have an chance, since we don’t know when we could end up getting another chance like this."

Ocelot and his men made an quick rest upon confirming their safety.

After resting up a bit, the group had once again began traveling the mountain line, finding and hiding away from the wondering oxman’s that were patrolling the area.

Ocelot and his men did not wanted to take even the slightest risk and used as much as possible to safely go around the oxman’s, even if it would mean even waiting possible even half of an hour or were even prepared to wait an entire hour if they wanted to go unnoticed.

"Shit! This is killing me!" – said hooded figure B as he looked around, trying to spot any oxman’s around.

"How long until we fuking cross those fuking mountains?!"

"Not so long. Look." – said the hooded figure D.

"Look." – said the hooded figure D as he pointed at the giant forest that covered everything in sight below the group.

"I think this is an inner ring of the Bloody Mountains!"

"!"

"Wait, are you for real?!" – said the hooded figure B as he quickly walked towards the hooded figure D.

"...Fuck me! Finaly!"

"Man. How many fuking hours we had spend while trying to reach this place?"

"...."

"But.... All I can see are trees?"

"Shit. Does that mean we were wrong?!"

"No. We need to get down." – said Ocelot.

"Those trees are extremely big and they are covering everything from above."

"In order words, it could be an perfect hiding spot."

"We need to get down there and see things from there where those trees won’t be- "

"SHIT! WE HAVE PROBLEM!" – said hooded figure C.

"The ox people! They are coming our way!"

"!"

"What?!" – said Ocelot as he turned around.

"Bad news here as well! There are some ox people coming from this direction as well! And I recognize them! They are ox monsters we encounter at first!" – said hooded figure A.

"!?"

(Shit! Are they changing watch?!) – though Ocelot as he quickly and quietly moved around, noticing the two groups of oxman’s.

(This isn’t good! There is too many of them!)

(Should we try and hide?!)

(But can we?! There is straight up too many of them! And they are also the beast demi human type monsters, so maybe their sensing abilities are enchanted...We maybe have an stealth skills and stuff, but there is limit of what they can do!)

(Hell, that guy got somewhat lucky back then, but now?! There are way too many of them coming our way and if even single one of them notices something off and notices us in turn, then we all are fucked!)

(Still, it’s too risky and hide here or anywhere nearby! We need to move!)

"...."

"!"

"Shit. We are going down. Now!" – said Ocelot.

"?!"

"What?!" – said hooded figure A.

"There is no time! We need to move before they got here!" – said Ocelot as he quickly ran, not giving the other members times to stop the old man and forcing the other members to go after the Ocelot.

"...."

"Hey man." – said returning oxman.

"Hey. Change in watch?" – asked oxman with an scar.

"Yeb. The replacement just came. And you?" – asked oxman with axes.

"Just got dispatched. Want to grab something later after me and the boys are done?" – asked oxman with the scar.

"Nah., I need to spend time with my wife." – said oxman with the axes as he and other oxman’s who ended their turn as watchers were now returning back home.

While the oxman’s were in the middle of the discussion, Ocelot and his men took an drastic action in order to avoided the oxman’s detection by going down the slide of rocks, causing them to lose balance and roll down before then hitting the ground.

"Ow.... Did we really needed to do that?" – said the hooded figure D as he was getting up.

"Well, either that or we.... Em..."

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"What is it?" – said hooded figure C as he noticed hooded figure A acting strange.

"Em... Look!" – said hooded figure A as he pointed with his finger at something, causing everybody to look in the direction he was potting at.

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"?!"

"W-what?!" – said Ocelot.

(Is that... An wall?!) – though Ocelot as he saw an well developed wall in the distance.

(This isn’t some primitive wall or anything like that! Its an solid fortress like wall!) – though Ocelot as he got up and began slowly approaching the wall.

"..."

(Did.... Did those ox creatures made it?!)

(Wait! How long this wall stretches for?!)

(Are we dealing with some huge army of the demi human monsters?)

"...."

(Wait.... Wait, wait, wait.)

(Isn’t this.... Shit!)

(I don’t know if I’m overthinking it.... NO! FUCK IT! We need to check it!)

(There could be an good chance that this place maybe an hidden base we were hoping to find!)

(This maybe an place that is an home of those ox people, but there is also an chance that is the thing we were looking for.)

(We need to check it out!)

"Everybody. This could be possible it." – said Ocelot.

"We need to get closer to this thing and- "

As soon as Ocelot was about to give out his order, all of the members of the group had felt an chilling touch of the corpse surrounding their bodies.

"!?"

[WARNING! You are being affected by detection skill.]

(W-what?!) – though Ocelot.

[WARNING! You have been detected.]

"?!"

"B-boss! Somebody had found us!" – said the hooded figure A as he began sweating.

"Shit! Where?! Who?! What?!" – said the hooded figure C as he looked around in panic, trying to find the being that had used the detection skill on the group.

"?!"

(A-all of them were detected?! How?!) – though confused and scared Ocelot.

(Their stealth abilities are top notch and yet they were detected that fast?!)

(Shit! At this rate I will be detected as well! I need to-)

Suddenly, an sound of the wings flapping could be heard, alarming everybody as they took out their weapons and quickly hide while also causing them to look around, trying to spot their enemy.

(S-shit! Where is it!?! Where is it?!) – though the hooded figure D as he looked around in panic.

"...."

(Stay calm, stay fuking calm!) – though Ocelot to himself as he tried to stay hidden behind an tree.

(The enemy haven’t detected you yet, so I have still time.... BUT WHAT DETECTED US?!)

(Is this an ox creature?!)

(No! We heard an sound of wings flapping! So, it cannot be it!)

(Then what is it?!)

Ocelot raised up his hand and making an hand gesture, giving an signal to his men to ’RETREAT’.

(What ever this thing is, we need to run away for now and get out of detection range of what ever thing is detecting us!) – though nervous Ocelot.

(Firs we-)

"Who the fuck are you?" – asked voice from unknown direction that caused chills to run down everybody spines upon hearing it.

"Who? The fuck are you all?"

"And don’t bother running away, or I will butcher you where you stand."

"..."

(Shit.) – though Ocelot.