[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Capital city of the Garog kingdom – Karon – Royal castle.]

"What is the current situation?" – asked ClownFrog while sitting on his throne in his humanoid form.

"As suspected, the forces of the Oin empire had reclaimed the majority of the territory that once belonged to the first prince." – said the female vampire servant.

"What about the Amelia and her people? Any trouble?" – asked ClownFrog.

"There were some.... "Minor" conflicts. But nothing big." – said the female vampire servant.

"Thanks to the prince Amelia, she was able to calm down the humans that were still scared and with your support, Amelia was given part of the ex-territory of the third prince, giving her and the humans peace."

"Still, there are still some vampires that does not like Amelia presence.... And it does not look good."

"Amelia is working for me and the Garog kingdom." – said ClownFrog.

"She is needed, so make sure she is safe."

"Got it?"

"Yes my king." – said the vampire servant before bowing and walking away.

"..."

*Sigh*

(Welp.... Things are somewhat peaceful for now.... I think?) – though tired ClownFrog.

(For some fuking reason the new emperor let us go?)

(From what spies had told me, the Erun is focusing on restoring his army while gathering the remains of the first prince forces. Just as we suspected.)

(The church are also on the move....)

(There is also no news about the whole "peaceful approach", meaning that the emperor still wants to fight.)

"...."

(And as for the ’benefactor’, there is still nothing.)

(We spread the news around about the ’benefactor’ and what he did as well as put an bounty on that weird elf.)

(Still, we found nothing.)

"...."

(Well, not exactly.)

(First is that elf.)

(An high elf based on the appearance, but not related to either forest elf or dark forest elves.)

(Should I ask the demon lord Abigail Neverend? We are in the friendly relationships and she is very old and powerful demon lord.)

(If not her, I could possibly try and contact the queen Arrianhi Umil? She lived long time ago as well, so she may know something about that strange elf.)

(Still, what is the deal with the ’benefactor’.)

(The ’benefactor’ had already shown that he is an dangerous individual that does not care if he commit an genocide or two in order to get what he wants.)

(Was his aim the staff? Or maybe the items from the Forgotten World?)

(Either way, the staff is currently in our possession and is guarded and stored in the special made vault.)

(Once the war is over, Blueberry will start trying figuring out what is up with this staff.)

"...."

(Still, we need informations.)

(About that weird elf race that fought with Oron in the castle, since that kind of informations could possible reveal some leads regarding the ’benefactor’ identity.)

(We also need to find out what the hell is going on with the Forgotten World and why the hell is it important now?)

(.....)

(We still have some of the Forgotten World items from the Forgotten Bride. We never sold them and now everybody is high level so nobody are using them....)

"...."

(Should I look through what we have?)

(Nah. Not now.)

(Either way, I think we need to put up some security around our items related to Forgotten World.)

(.....)

(True sin of sloth..... Should I ask her?)

(That brat loli may known way more than anybody else.... Still, it’s not like I call and she response, she already warned me that it all depends on her.)

(....)

(What do we do regarding the whole Oin empire anyway?)

(Our current strength is enough to crush it, but first we need to let our army to recover and replenish any created monsters we had lost.)

(Still, I don’t want to wait.)

(Erun had time to recover much faster while we were escorting the Amelia and her people.)

(There is also the ’benefactor’.)

(We still don’t know if he is still in the empire.... He managed to stay hidden without being found out before sending an large army to attack right underneath everybody noses.)

(There is way too many unanswered questions going on and many of those questions are putting us in danger.)

(Will ’benefactor’ attack us?)

(This bastard can stay hidden for long time and make us let our guard down.... Damn. This is annoying as fuck.)

(Beside the ’benefactor’ there is also the Erun who is also planning something behind the scenes and we still don’t know what.)

(I tried pressing Amelia for informations, but she didn’t revealed anything.)

(Does she really doesn’t know anything? Or she is just not telling me on purpose?)

(Should I use the seducers and get the informations out of her?)

(....)

(Nah. I can’t harm the relationship between us, it’s better if I don’t do it.)

*Sigh*

(There is the whole "kingdom ruling" thing as well.)

(We lack WAY too many people when it comes to paper work and control. There is also the fact that sometimes there are issues among different races, meaning that we need to assign some people in between.... Fuck me.... There is a lot to do.)

(There is also shit ton of political stuff as well.)

(Neighboring kingdoms. Sea routs that would connect us with the continent where we had originally started.)

(The construction of the demonic settlement and demi-human settlements cities as well as hybrid cities and even reconstruction as well as restoration of some settlements in order to make them useable.)

(There are also some fuking bandits appearing here and there that were once the members of the third prince faction and there will be probably more bandits popping up now after the first pierce defeat.... Fuck me..... And this isn’t even an end.)

(Also fuking food and sources of the income for the income as well as some sources of pleasure or entertainment for the people, like an area or people wanting to researching magic the mage towers....)

"Fuck me.... When the hell this list will end?"

(.....)

(Wait.... I just realized something.)

(If we win this war and take over the entire Oin empire territory.... Won’t our kingdom end up becoming an empire?!)

(Wait, how would that work anyway?)

(I mean, in order to found the kingdom you need the fully controlled territory AND specific amount of subject under your rule.)

(So what about the empire?)

(I mean, we did managed to increase the number of the subjects and there will be more as demi-human monsters that are usually hunted down decided to settle down here and live and once we establish connection with the continent where we were once in many of the people from there may end up deciding to move here..... So, wait, is there even an condition to make an empire the subject number?)

(Or is it just needed first for the kingdom?)

(....)

(Well.... Even... Even if we don’t become an empire from get go after beating the Oin empire, we would still end up in the future as an empire at this rate.... Fuck me.)

(I already have problems as an king, but you are telling me that I may end up becoming an emperor?!)

(This will be.... Annoying as hell.)

[Meanwhile: Akramo city – Erun office.]

"So.... This is the culprit, eh?" – said the emperor Erun as he gazed at the bounty of the greyish white elf.

"Yes sir. The Garog kingdom are spreading these everywhere so it was easy to find." – said the knight who was in the office alongside the emperor.

"Not only that, but we managed to extract the story from the nobles and officers that were in the capital city."

"All of them are talking about that weird man that met up with my brother?" – asked Erun Oin.

"Yes. It seems that the man entered the castle, only to later have his head leave the castle and be put on the pike." – said the knight.

"It seems that this man has made the proposition of using the humanoid monsters to the prince Apollo."

(So.... These guys wanted to make an deal with Apollo, but he got extremely pissed at them once he found out that they area dealing with humanoid monsters, resulting in the man execution on the spot.) – though emperor Erun.

(There is also this bounty posted of this weird elf..... I know many different kind of races, but this? I never heard of an elf with grey skin.)

(I doubt the Garog kingdom made an fake bounties, since it seems that they are also enemies with these people.)

"....."

(The preparations are going well and I had managed to gather up a lot of the forces.)

(But the problem is the opinion of the Garog kingdom among different kingdoms.)

(Honestly, they are looking down on us right now if I’m being honest and they are also now openly showing that they don’t trust us.)

(Apparently there are rumors going around that the attack done against the Apollo was my doing and these humanoid monsters were mine.)

(Obviously these rumors are fake and I was still bound by the contract.... But there are people stupid enough to believe those stupid rumors.)

(There is also the fact that our people morals are still at low.)

(Even after taking back most of the Apollo territory back, including the capital city, a lot of the people are still scared and unsure what to do.)

(There are also these corrupted nobles trying to boss around, thinking as if its an "perfect time to cause me an headache". Fuckers. Once this war is over, I will strip you all of your position and confiscation all of your goods, most of them will probably be doing something illegal and stuff, so I will have an excuse.)

(Still... The spies that we had send to the Garog kingdom had barely survived.)

(Some of the spies we mixed among the citizens had also yet to report in.)

(They either don’t have any windows of opportunity to make an report.... Or they were found out already.)

(Oh well. These guys were expendable in the first place.)

(.....)

(But there is something off.)

(I haven’t been able to contact the intelligent gathering unit that once served under my father.... Did they defected the empire?)

(No.... They can work behind the empire back, but they are making sure that empire will stay safe.)

(Then why did we lose contact with them?)

[Meanwhile: Location ???]

"D-dammit.... You really are an bastard. You know it?" – said the Tomasz. The new leader of the intelligent gathering squad and the grandson of the Ocelot, the previous leader of the squad.

The leader of the intelligent gathering squad was laying on the floor, covered in head to toe in injuries while also being surrounded by countless corpse of the intelligent gathering unit.

"You fuking bastard.... Do you realize what you are doing by wiping us out?"

"Why the hell are you even doing this in the first place?"

"What you are doing is no better than- "

Before the man could finish speaking, his head was cut off, rolling around before then getting underneath the knight in the black armor.

"Sorry. But I ain’t letting anybody to get in my way." – said the black knight.

"Nobody."