[VRMMO] Dead One

[Few days later after the Garog kingdom had accepted Amelia and people of Oin empire.]

[Meeting room.]

"According to our intel, the empire had finally managed to organize their forces." – said Tail.

"Not only that, but they had also managed to recruit an huge amount of soldiers that were originally part of the first prince faction, including the Red Lions guild."

"Red Lions? But didn’t they hated the Scarlet Gryphons? I honestly doubted them joining forces together." – said Shri.

"It appears that they made an temporarily cease fire. I guess Conquest and the Red Lions really wants their revenge on us." – said Tail.

"Huh.....I though.... Wait, no. It does make sense." – said Shri.

"Anyway, what about the other rankers? Like the Long, Bullet.... That dark elf guy and werewolf guy?"

"Well.... It appeared that both the Long and Bariv had retreated, however Bullet and Headshot guild as well as Leonidas and Iron Will guild had also stayed." – said Tail.

"The Headshot guild is obvious, since they are mercenary guild and they get paid."

"However, Leonidas is an different thing... It seems they just.... Well... They just want to take revenge on us?"

".....Wait, what?" – asked confused ClownFrog.

"I.... They are just hired merceries in this conflict. The fuck is about the revenge?"

"Well.... I looked it up a bit.... And I think Leonidas wants to the strongest ranker player in the game.... And to do that, he needs to be the player that currently holds the title "Strongest"." – said Tail.

"He is aiming to beat you and take away your title."

"Ha! Really? I mean, I easily fuking destroyed him when he was going 1 vs 2 when he teamed up with Long!" – said Rampage.

"I admit. Long got WAY stronger than he was in tournament, but that Leonidas guy? He was strong, but in ranker terms. He got easily crushed by me."

".... So.... Is he just greedy then? Too prideful bastard?" – asked Ampi.

"Well.... I guess so?" – said Tail.

"Still, we cannot ignore the fact that he is an ranker and his guild is strong, so they will be annoying. The same goes for the Headshot guild. They are good at informations gathering."

"Well, we defeated both of them twice already, so I don’t think they will get in our way." – said GreyHunt.

"Not only that, but two of the ranker guilds that were with them decided to back away upon realizing that they are fighting an losing battle."

"Still, I say that but it doesn’t look like that new emperor see it this way. I think he still think that the empire can still turn things around."

"Welp.... From what we had gathered, that bastard Erun is definitely planning something in secret and we still don’t know jack shit."

".... Then can’t we just.... You know *Phew* in the head? We have one of the best snipers in the whole games named my brother." – said Shri.

"Nah. We can do this, but we shouldn’t." – said O’a.

"Its about showing off the power."

"If we take the easy way out, people will look down on us."

"We need to crush Oin empire with our two hands head on, showing off the people how powerful we are and stuff."

"He is right. If we want to have an big impact on the world, we need to show the world our strength." – said ClownFrog.

"The emperor needs to die from our hands directly if we want to send the message."

"Still.... There is another problem."

"The ’benefactor’?" – asked Hera.

"Yeb." – replied ClownFrog.

"We still didn’t found any weird movements or anything, of those son of a bitches." – said pissed Bella.

*Sigh*

"Well... These fuckers were able to pop up out of thin air out of a blue one day.....Damn this is annoying." – said ClownFrog.

".... Should we increase our territory defenses then?" – suggested Wretch.

"Yea, we need to in case these bastards do show up." – replied ClownFrog.

"Still.... Did anybody found anything regarding that weird grey elf?"

"...."

"Nothing?"

"Well, I guess our only bet right now would be contacting the demon lord Abigail or queen Arrianhi." – said Hera.

"They may know something regarding that grey elf race."

"Yes. I will contact them later on." – said ClownFrog.

"...."

"Anything weird out of ordinally? Something special we need to talk about?"

"Well... Our army is getting slowly ready and even if the prince would attack right now, we would be ready to defend ourselves." -said O’a.

"Okay. That is good to hear." – said ClownFrog.

"Beside that, was there anything like an big incidents that we need to focus on or anything?"

"If not, then this meeting will end since everything most important stuff was discussed."

"...."

"...."

"Nothing? Again?"

"Well... I guess the meeting is ended." – said ClownFrog before moments later all people in the room began going their separate ways, expect for ClownFrog and Lil who stayed behind.

"...."

"You okay mate?" – asked Lil as she approached annoyed ClownFrog.

"No..." – said ClownFrog while holding his face.

"I mean, everything regarding the kingdom is going well and all, but we still don’t have any fuking informations regarding the Erun plan or even ’benefactor’ that could just..... FUCK!"

"This is annoying....."

".... *Sigh*"

"Anyway. I’m going to contact the demon lord and ask her if she knows anything." – said ClownFrog as he stood up.

"...."

"Wait, I forgotten to ask something." – said ClownFrog as he turned around towards Lil.

"I was kind of busy and shit to the point I forgotten to ask the obvious question."

"Lil. Where did you gotten your first unique class?"

"Oh, Oron didn’t told you? He asked this question before and I told him everything." – said Lil.

"Em.... Yea, he was quiet busy for some time, so I had barely any time to talk with him." – said ClownFrog.

"Anyway, where did you gotten that class?"

"...Well, I know its related to that elf and stuff, so I may as well tell you." – said Lil.

"I gotten my unique class from the kingdom of Parkan. It’s an kingdom I originally started from."

"At first everything was normal.... Until I gotten to my third settlement if I remember correctly."

"I was just hunting around before I ended up getting ambushed and chased around by PK players, forcing me to run away."

"I ended up slipping off the cliff and falling down to my death.... Only to realize I somehow managed to lucky survive by having my legs get tangled up with tree vines."

"I ended up finding myself in some high level area and honestly I was fucked."

"Monsters there were too high level for me, so I just ran and ran away..... Honestly, I couldn’t even get anywhere near the entrance, since the area around it was straight up barricaded with monsters."

"So, I thought about going around, trying to find any opening to use to escape."

"However, then I got found out again by the monsters and I straight up ran away from the exit again."

"At that point, I was kind of considering just dying and respawning back to the base."

"...."

"But then I fuking fallen again off the cliff and I rolled down."

"When I rolled down, I found myself in some sort of destroyed village."

"Honestly, the area was weird and stuff."

"No monsters around or any sights of life around. It was quiet creep as if it was haunted."

"Still, it looked interesting and there was an chance of some treasure popping up, so I went and looked around."

"Honestly, I spend few hours, but I didn’t found anything.... I kind of though that there is an chance that somebody got here somehow before me and looted this place.... But then I noticed something weird."

"There were these weird metallic columns in the village."

"Honestly, I found them odd and investigated them and as I investigated, I found patterns and such."

"Before long I realize this was something like an puzzle."

"It took me quiet long time figuring it out and in the end I got something like map."

"At first I though it was an text or something, but instead it was the village map. The building there were places to confuse people and make it look like text."

"Anyway, I figured out how the map worked and fallowed the leads as well as some other stuff, before then finding myself in some random ass spot."

"At first there was nothing.... So, I thought maybe the treasure is buried, so I dug and dug, before finally I found an metal box."

"Inside of it I found the class book: [Witch Of Metal Thorns], an ring and the notebook."

"The ring is called [Rusted Metal Ring]. I though it was.....Huh..... I kind..... I kind of completely forgotten about it..... Wow."

"Hm? What do you mean? Is it something important?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well.....Yes? It’s an trash item, but it was hidden well, so I though it was some OP item, but I couldn’t get it appraised and stuff.... And then I kind of completely forgotten about it existence." – said bit embarrassed Lil.

".... Okay... What about the notebook?" – asked ClownFrog.

"I have it.... But I can’t read it." - replied Lil.

"I kind of.... Well, I tried reading it, but it seems its cursed or something?"

"Afterwords.... Well..."

"You also forgotten about it?" – asked ClownFrog.

".... Em.... Yes?" – replied Lil.

"Oh, for fuck sake... What if it was some sort of quest item or something like this?! Maybe even extremely important quest as well if you were given an unique rarity class from get go like that!" – said annoyed ClownFrog.

"HEY! I tried apprising those items at first, but nothing worked!" – said Lil.

"I tried and tried, but nothing worked."

"So, I maybe though I need some special high ranking NPC or some item that purifies stuff."

"There was straight up nothing in the city I was in and there was no reaction what so ever from NPCs when I interacted with them while showing off these items."

"...."

*Sigh*

"Okay.... But please tell me one thing. You didn’t gotten rid of them, yes? Like sold them or something like that?" – asked worried ClownFrog.

"Em.... No.... No, I don’t think so?" – said Lil.

".... Why did you didn’t sounded so sure?" – asked annoyed ClownFrog.

"...."

"I will go check my storage and see if I hid it there." – said Lil as she quickly ran away, leaving the room in the process.

"...."

(Please don’t tell me that she really gotten one fuking lead that we possible had about the elf...) – though worried ClownFrog.

(.... Still. According to Oron, that grey elf was able to use exactly same skills as Lil and not only that, but she was able to use an stronger plant metal hybrid skills that Lil does not possess.)

(He says that the elf may had possess an upgraded version of the Lil class... Meaning an legendary rarity class.)

(Still, there must be some connection between that elf and Lil if they are using the same class.)

(.....)

(Yea... I think I will murder her for real if she by any chance sold those two items.....For fuck sake....)

(Anyway, while she tries to find those items, I should contact the demon lord and the queen in order to ask some informations. Maybe they know something.)

(Maybe we will get any leads from them.)

[Few moments later.]

"I don’t know shit." – said demon lord as she used the communication mirror.

".... Really? Like, nothing "Nothing at all"?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Nope." – said demon lord Abigail.

"Honestly, these humanoid monsters... I never heard of anything like this."

"I would understand somewhat if they were undeads, but from what you told me, they are living beings.... The hell?"

"There is also the whole ’benefactor’ and his aim to gather the Forgotten World items..... This isn’t normal."

"If this is the true, then does that mean he knows something that nobody does?"

"Okay.... Then what about the elf?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Nope as well." – said demon lord Abigail.

"I met elves, many different kind and races, but I never heard of one that has an grey skin."

"Not only that, but their eyes are.... Weird."

"You said squares? Are you sure about that?"

"Yes. Oron can guarantee that." – replied ClownFrog.

"...."

"The diamond pupil is characters of the high elves. Be it high forest elf, high dark elf, high demon elf or any other high elf." - said the demon lord.

"All high elves have an diamond shaped pupils."

"But square ones? This is new."

"I can look it up, but I don’t know if I will find anything."

*Sigh*

"Well, thanks for at least picking it up and sorry for taking your time." – said ClownFrog.

"No problem. Anyway, once you take over the Oin empire, I may pay you an visit in the future." – said the demon lord.

"Be ready for me." – said the demon lord before ending the call.

"...."

(Well... I was hoping at least some informations about the humanoid monsters from her.)

(Her kingdom does specializes in creating monsters, especially undead type of ones, so it was an good approach..... Still, I ended up finding nothing.)

(Maybe Arrianhi Umil will know something?) – though ClownFrog as he approached the mirror and began activating it again.

Some time had passed upon the activation of the mirror and ClownFrog waited for some time..... And finally, the queen Arrianhi had finally picked up the call.

"ClownFrog! My dear friend! Its been ages since we last talked." – said the queen Arrianhi Umil though the communication mirror while sitting on her throne.

"...I mean, we last talked few months ago." – said ClownFrog.

"Sorry for not calling you."

"No worries, no worries." – replied the queen.

"If anything, I heard rumors from the adventures about you."

"Apparently you founded an kingdom, yes?" – asked the queen.

"Yes. I and my people managed to create an kingdom called Garog."

"And I’m the king by the look of things."

"King ClownFrog Opspteryx. That is my royal name." – said ClownFrog.

{{Info: Opspteryx = ṓps + pteryx. This is an combination of words from Greek. ṓps = Eye. Pteryx = wing.}}

"Huh.... Well.... Well, that is interesting." – said surprised queen while smiling.

"You were once just an noble from my kingdom and now look at you. An king, HA!"

"You went far, my boy."

"Thank you for the compliment." – said ClownFrog while smiling.

"...."

"Anyway, sorry if I’m cutting right though the chase, but it’s important." – said ClownFrog.

"Don’t worry friend. Just speak." – said the queen while smiling.

"Well. Its about....." – ClownFrog began explaining in details stuff regarding the Forgotten World, the humanoid monsters and the grey elf.

".... And that it."

"Honestly, I already called the demon lord Abigail about it, since she may had knew something about the humanoid monsters, but even she did not knew anything."

"Honestly, the whole information gathering was problematic and I still don’t know anything else beside the stuff I just told you about."

"....."

"Honestly.... Regarding these so called humanoid monsters, I won’t be able to give you any hand." – said the queen with serios expression while also thinking about something.

"The same goes about Forgotten World.... I also don’t know much about it."

".... But the description of the elf..... No.... But maybe?"

"?!"

"You know something?!" – asked ClownFrog.

"...."

"Yea.... I think I do...." – said the queen.

"I think the grey elf that you had encountered."

"The elf with the square shaped pupils?"

"I think it was an moon elf."