[VRMMO] Dead One

[A day before the execution of the third prince.]

"Anything?" – asked ClownFrog who was in the room alongside 5 people, with 4 vampires guards.

"Unfortunately, no." – said Hera.

"The contract that this guy is being affect... It’s not something like an demon lord from hell would be able to break."

"This isn’t an normal contract either. I cannot feel holy, demonic or dragonic energies at all."

"And somebody used THAT kind of contract on him? Even if we were to kill him and enslave his soul, it wouldn’t work."

"...."

"Sirius." – asked ClownFrog as he turned around towards the dark elemental undead.

"Sorry, but I already told you everything I told you." – said Sirus.

"Look. It’s not like I’m even holding any loyalty to this fucker."

"I knew that bastard was doing an shady job, but the pay was far too big for me ignore, I needed to accept it and the contract only stated an year... But the fucked up things I saw later on? Those experiments... Hell, I’m glad that you turned me into undead!"

"When I tried making an run for it, that bastard captured me with his monsters and forced me to write the contract or I would die."

"And by die I mean I would get turned into those creatures."

"However, once I died and you turned me into undead, I didn’t had to worry about the contract killing me, since it already disappeared the moment I died."

"He probably used the contract on the most strongest soldiers like this if I were to guess." – said Shri.

"Yea, he did that. I could tell once some of the strongest guys that guy hired starting bit weird upon meeting him." – said Sirus.

"I think it may have been that middle aged man doing, since he talked around us as if we weren’t there."

"He was aware that the third prince put collars around our necks that would explode the moment we would betray him or the guy he was working with."

"But you seriously have no clue who the fucker was?" – asked Oron.

"We had integrated every single person that was in charge of the research or creation of these monsters, but all of them said the same thing."

"[The third prince gave us the methods]."

"There is also the good chance that the whole experiment thing was nothing more than fake."

"Wait, you are saying they did those fucked up test for no reason?" – asked confused Shri.

"I think so." – said Oron.

"Maybe it was something like an cover up? Make it look like they are still developing it while in reality they could already use it?"

"It would explain why the hell they went from those useless mutated humans to those produced humanoid monsters. The difference is way too big."

"But the question is why? Why the hell they pretended to not know?"

"Maybe it was that ’benefactor’ doing?" – said Shri.

"What if he pretended to conduct those ’experiments’ in order to deceive the third prince?"

"You said that you overheard prince talking about ’benefactor’ guy, cursing his name and mentioning something about the ’STAFF’, right?" – asked Shir as she turned towards Sirus.

"Yeb. I don’t know what it was, but I think those people that work with the third prince in order to acquire that ’STAFF’ and that its. I don’t know anything else." – said Sirius.

"But we didn’t find anything like the ’Staff’ in the third prince vault." – said Oron.

"We did found mage staffs that either looked pretty or we strong spellcasters weapons, but that it. We even double checked and anything we found did not held any secret value."

"Well, maybe the third prince didn’t had it?" – said Shri.

"What if the one of the factions had the ’staff’ the ’benefactor’ talked about?"

"Maybe he knew he wouldn’t be able to make an deal with the factions leaders, so instead he turned the third prince faction into an weapon."

"Well, this is the most likely scenario." – said ClownFrog.

"But still, there are way too many questions and no answers."

"Like, why the hell ’benefactors’ would be stalling with the informations?"

"Maybe they wanted to make it look like the third prince faction invented those monsters?" – said Oron.

"It would make sense if they went with this option, wouldn’t it?"

"True.... It would make some sense.... Maybe the reason why they also did those experiments in the black markets was to leave the traces? To make it look like they were developing it?" – said ClownFrog.

"Oh... Yea, that is smart.... But too smart for that dumbass. It must have been his ’benefactor’ idea." – said annoyed Shri.

"...."

"Tch."

"We are wasting time." – said Shri.

"This guy is nothing more than expendable pawn in the end of the day and he would definitely spill the beans ages ago by now if it wasn’t for the contract."

"I agree. There is no way we can acquire any informations out of this guy and even if we break the contract, this guy was an pawn, so I doubt he will hold any important informations." – said Oron.

"An lizard tail, eh?" – said ClownFrog.

"Well, the only thing we learned from him is about why our armies were able to beat his army so easily. He was lacking in the monster, with would result in him not being able to make the perfect humanoid monsters."

"So instead of quality, he went with quantity and started hunting people down in order to build up his army." – said Oron.

"That is why he started hunting his own people so suddenly and trying to capture as many people as possible. He was desperate for more power. But in the end, this greedy move was stupid, since the monster parts were crucial for creating these humanoid monsters and the humanoid monsters that were born without using monster parts or had barely any, resulted in these humanoid monsters being all bark but no bite."

"Apparently the researched warned the prince about it, but he didn’t cared and even killed on the researches that said that the plan was stupid."

"He killed all these people for no reason. He straight up killed ALL of his people only to create an army that couldn’t been used in the real battle." – said Shri.

"Welp, that also explains why the hell he was desperate to beat us. He needed the monsters corpse from the Bloody Mountains badly."

"But even so, it was his greed and useless pride." – said ClownFrog.

"He could have focused on gathering monsters corpse from somewhere else, but because he wanted to take an "Revenge" on us so badly, it had cause him to get destroyed that easily."

"He was an stupid motherfucker through and through."

"He was no leader. No warrior. And no tactician. He focused solei on his greed and that led to his downfall in most stupid."

"And that stupid greed of his would may have caused the destruction of the Oin empire and the death of all of its people... If it wasn’t for us."

(Well... Even though we found out why the hell we won so easily as well as managed to capture the third prince, but couldn’t extract any informations out him regarding the ’Benefactor’ or anything connected to him. Even the contract breakers doesn’t work on him.) – though ClownFrog.

(Shit. Any hopes of gaining any leads regarding the ’benefactor’ ended up in smoke.... Well, expect four things.)

-As theorized, there was really somebody backing up the third prince.

- ’Benefactor’ uses an middle aged man for communication.

- ’Benefactor’ wanted to make it look like the third prince developed the humanoid monsters, while in reality the ’Benefactor’ had already necessary knowledge and research to make them from get go.

- ’Benefactor’ aim was something called ’Staff’. The third prince was an means of getting it and that confirms that the ’Staff’ IS somewhere in the empire. Maybe other faction leaders has it.

(We answered barely any questions we had and instead got few more question.)

(For example: Who exactly is the ’Benefactor’? We couldn’t answer this question and instead got even more questions now attached to this question.)

(And now what is the ’staff’?)

(The third prince knows about it, but the contract straight up shuts him up.)

(Or more exactly "CAN’T BETRAY".)

(....)

(The third prince and his faction is out of the game, but what about the ’benefactor’? Will they still stay and try to claim the ’staff’?)

(But if they would try that, they would end up possible revealing themselves.)

(So, would they instead leach on the other factions? Trying to make them stronger in order to get the ’staff’?)

(But would that work? The other three factions leaders are not total idiots like the third prince.)

(The three factions cannot use the same methods like the third prince, since the scandal is already spreading through the empire and we are also helping it spread far and wide behind the scenes.)

(.... But if we want to find out anything, we need to find what ever this ’staff’ is and claim it.)

(And this maybe force those rats out of the hiding.)

The next day, the third prince execution done and the news about his execution spread outside the Garog kingdom.

This includes the Oin empire who had heard the informations regarding the third prince execution and not only that, but the new informations regarding the humanoid monsters.

[The people that were used in creating these monsters were conscious.]

It was obvious that that the Garog kingdom was the one who spread this informations, but even so, that new pieces of informations had caused an even bigger scandal in the whole empire.

Not only bodies but also their souls were defiled when creating this monsters?

People are aware that its was all the third prince doing, but the fact remains that the people of the empire had started losing their trust in the Oin empire.

Not only that, but the neighboring kingdoms opinions of the Oin empire had started to get worse with each day.

However, it did not stopped the second and the first prince armies from attacking the Garog kingdom, as they launched their attacks.

The two factions did managed to steal some of the Garog kingdom newly acquired territory.

However, the people and the villages that were taken over, they straight up attacked the soldiers of the Oin empire, calling them the ’traitors’ to their people, to the point the people living in the villages that were rescued had willingly decided to leave behind their homes and go to the Garog kingdom.

The actions of the third prince had left behind an deep scar on the people of the Oin empire, especially for those that originally lived in the third prince territory.

Not only that, but both the first prince and the second prince armies were stopped by the Garog kingdom armies, causing them to stop in their advance and even causing the two armies to do an temporarily retreat upon receiving the too much damage.

With this all recent events combined, all three factions had started losing more and more of their supporters or be hesitant, causing the three factions to lose the trust of their people.

While all of that was happening, the war continues.

The three factions ended up doing an temporarily Ceasefire between themselves in order to deal with the enemy of the Oin empire, Garog kingdom.

The second prince and the first prince armies were on the offensive, but beside their first attack, all other attacks were repelled.

The soldiers and those who were loyal to the third prince were all turned into undead monsters, filling the Garog kingdom forces, while also having the black markets and other left over corruption of the third prince be destroyed and be replaced with the monster factories that would create undeads or golems, resulting in the Garog army forces increasing and with their already big and powerful armies, the first and second prince armies could barely made any progress or any progress they would make of taking over Garog kingdom territory would be only temporarily as they would soon reclaim these territories.

Not only that, but the Garog kingdom forces consist of undeads, meaning that any of the fallen soldiers on the opposite side would end up getting resurrected as an undead slaves, causing Garog kingdom army to not decrees over time too much, while the first and the second princes armies were decreasing with each attack they tried to do.

This had caused the morals of the first prince and second princes armies to rapidly decrees, with did not made things great for either of their leaders.

However, while those attacks were happening, an letter came to the Garog kingdom.

An letter written by non-other than the third princes of the Oin empire. Amielia Oin.

And the letter itself, was delivered to the king of the Garog kingdom, ClownFrog.

["I request an meeting."]