[VRMMO] Dead One

[current location: Garog kingdom capital city – Main Base – Meeting hall.]

"Hell, demon lord?!" – shouted Shri.

"Yea. According to the Oron, the emperor Erun had betrayed the church and used their people, including the son of the angel dragon god as sacrifices to summon the hell demon lord." – said GreyHunt.

"All other members that were not there at the time, such as priest, summoned angels and the angel dragons, all had been captured and probably sacrifices later to the demon lord, resulting in the church getting completely wiped out."

"...Brother.... What did you done?" – whispered worried Amelia that stared in disbelieve.

"He looked weird. Animal fur legs. Fish tail. Wings growing from head. Human muscular torso and some weird stick arms as well." – said GreyHunt.

"His name was apparently Ka’guran."

"!"

"Ka’guran? Shit. This bastard." – said Hera.

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"You know that guy?" – asked Shri who sat right next to Hera.

"Yea. I heard about him." – said Hera.

"Ka’guran. Hell demon lord that is also known by the different name, Ka’guran the master of demonic beasts."

"This bastard is also known as Ka’guran the hell hunter."

"Anyway, as his first title suggest, the master of the demonic beasts, he controls and wields an army of the demonic beast under his command."

"He is known for looking weird, but the fact remains that he is strong."

"So he is an tamer?" – asked Tail.

"Yes. He is an tamer... But even without his beast he is still extremely formidable foe." – said Hera.

"This guy is extremely dangerous. Even in hell itself he often leaves the entire areas devasted after this "Hunts".

"I remember even an demonic city in hell.... Only for it to be next day be completely destroyed by Ka’guran himself, without even his demonic beasts."

"Do not look down on him, at any cost."

"He is an savage beast that will ravage everything in his path.... And he will hunt down anything "Entertaining" at any cost."

"...."

"Still, you said that Oron destroyed the gate while he was getting summoned, yes?"

"Yes." – replied GreyHunt.

"Good.... Then there is an good chance that this bastard wasn’t properly summoned in the end, resulting in him not being at full power." – said Hera.

"There is also the fact that without the gate, the hell demon lord will have hard time summoning any of his beasts.... Still, with him being here personally, the beast summoning should be much easier."

"....."

"...."

"We can probably guess what sort of deal the demon lord and the emperor did." – said Ampi.

"I summon you, and you deal with my enemies."

"Yea.... This most likely scenario." – said Shri.

"Shit...."

"...."

"Anything else?"

"Well. According to the Oron, it seems that the unknown mage who was the demon in the disguise may had been working with the demon lord of hell for long time." – said ClownFrog.

"...."

"Amelia? You got to anything to say?" – asked ClownFrog as he looked at pale Amelia Erun.

".... No.... Honestly.... I don’t know what to say." – said Amelia.

"This is completely different compare to the Simon case."

"When it came to the Simon, HE WAS the traitor of the Oin empire and the enemy of the Oin empire, however he was still the prince and was the heir."

"We did not took into consideration about the human experiments and stuff, so he used it as an loophole in order to produce the humanoid monsters. He was attacking the enemy soldiers, just as it was allowed to and there was no rule against him attacking his own soldiers. He was playing by the rules!"

"He was also allowed to attack the Oin empire, since the contract was allowing it and it was an war time."

"However, I was an different case."

"The Garog kingdom were the enemies of the Oin empire and by joining forces with the Garog kingdom, I would end up being labeled as the traitor."

"So.... The prince used the loophole in the contract, but you couldn’t do it since we were already enemies, yes?" – asked Wretch. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Yes.... Honestly, we couldn’t attack Simon directly when you guys showed up either." – said Amelia.

"Simon was still an heir at the time AND he had a lot of the corrupted nobles and merchants still supporting his claim to the throne. If he didn’t had them, his status as heir would instantly be removed and we could freely attack him."

"However, since he still had heir status, we had no choice but to instead attack you."

"But obviously we did something like fake attacks and defending our territory, using the loophole of "Defending the Oin empire"."

"So, we decided to protect the Oin empire, while letting Simon defend his part of the empire, simple."

"There was also that one rule called "Allies"."

"You were allowed to get allies, but those allies in questions cannot be enemies of the Oin empire nor they cannot be the people that wishes to conquer the Oin empire. You also needed to innocent your allies and make it visible to everybody, so no joining up with terrorist or some bastards. Solid alliances only."

"This rule is the main reason why I couldn’t join up forces with you while I was still an heir, since you as "Allies" were enemies of the Oin empire."

"Honestly, in theory I could keep my status as an heir, if the Garog kingdom were..... Wait, this doesn’t add up." – said Amelia.

"How did Erun did not got killed or lost his status as an heir?!"

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"What do you mean?" – asked confused Shri.

"I mean, think about it." – said Amelia.

"Even though he did the whole summoning AFTER the contract had ended, he was still planning on committing an mass genocide and he was making preparations."

"If he did the preparations and summoned and used the demon lord as an weapon, he would be labella as an traitor."

"Eh? Why would he though? Wouldn’t it be the same thing that prince Simon did?" – asked Rampage.

"No! It would be far different thing!" – said Amelia.

"With Simon case, he was the one wielding the gun, but in the Erun case, the one wielding it is the demon lord!"

"The demon lord "ATTACKED" the Oin empire by devouring lifes of the people of the empire and those people were the priest of the church!"

"The demon wasn’t recruited yet as official ally, an ally that needs to be introduced into the wall by the effect by the contract. We added this rule so we wouldn’t have anybody pulling an sneaky support behind the scenes."

"The demon lord wasn’t introduced by the ally and those preparations alone had made the demon lord being the "enemy of the Oin empire".

"The contract should had threaten Erun life if not had ended it already!"

"So why the hell he kept his status as an heir though the end?!"

"The contract should had killed Erun if not exposed him!"

"So how the hell did he do that that without breaking the contract?!"

"...."

"Wait, this is an good question." – said GreyHunt.

"The preparations for the ritual must had taken a lot of resources AND time to prepare."

"...."

"Hm?"

"Wait a second." – said Ampi.

"You said something about geocoding people of the Oin empire, yes?"

"Em... Yes?" – asked Amelia.

"Then what about the people that are not part of Oin empire?" – asked Amelia.

"Well... In theory.... Wait, where are you getting at?" – asked confuse Amelia.

"Well... I was just thinking... But what if... The church wasn’t part of the Oin empire?" – asked Ampi, confusing people in the room.

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"What are you talking about? The holy dragon church ARE part of Oin empire." – said Amelia.

"But does that includes terrorists or bandits?" – asked Ampi.

"That....!"

"Wait... The contract allowed us to deal with stuff like bandits and terrorist, even during the war or some crisis. However, if it was an crisis or dangerous foe, then the contract wouldn’t force the heirs to act up." – said Amelia as he eyes went wide opened.

"Shit."

"But wait, that doesn’t make sense." – said Wretch.

"If they were really terrorist and bandits, wouldn’t the whole contract force Erun to cut ties?"

"No. If the church were nothing more than traitors but not full blown terrorist, then no." – said Amelia.

"If the theory about the church betrayal was real, however they were not exposed yet or anything like that would only make them appear like bandits type threat."

"And the church by itself wasn’t strong enough to be consider as the threat to the Oin empire itself."

"The church has betrayed the Oin empire and they were designed as bandits or small fly terrorists."

"However! They were not designed as the high danger terrorist or the threat!"

"This allowed Erun to work with them while also allowing them to work with the Oin empire, gaining some sort of level of loyalty, with caused contract to partially acknowledge them."

"However, they were still terrorist bandits, meaning that Erun was allowed to prepare getting rid of them."

".... To make matter worse, the one that suggested that idea of the rule was Erun himself.... The rule idea was solid and understandable, so there.... There was no point in denning it... But that is what he wanted. We played right in his hands from the very beginning."

"...."

"Okay, let me get this down to the nutshell." – said ClownFrog.

"If I’m understanding this correctly, the church had betrayed the Oin empire in secret and only Erun knew about it."

"However, since the church wasn’t at its best, they were not consider an real threat... This made them nothing more than bandits level threat."

"However, this also allowed Erun to work with those said bandits, while also preparing an summoning sacrificial ring, since he wouldn’t be killing people of the Oin empire, but instead of bandits that he is allowed to kill."

"In theory, the hell demon lord would not had come here originally as an enemy, and that would allow Erun to register the demon lord as ally, yes?"

".... In theory.... No.... He would be able to do that just fine." – said Amelia.

"Fuuuucckkkk.... The succession war was rigged. He would fuking won it no matter fuking what."

"Not only that, but he would be also be dealing with an terrorist group of.... Wait, what the hell were the church of the dragon even doing?" – said confused Amelia.

"We can investigate this later and stuff, since by the look of things the entire church of the angel dragon had been completely wiped out by Erun." – said ClownFrog.

"We don’t have to worry about the church or what their goal was, since they are out of the game."

"And instead we should worry about the new alliance of the Erun and the hell demon lord Ka’guran."

"Erun must had traded his alliance not only for the contract that Ka’guran couldn’t break, resulting in him being loyal, but also traded weaker ally for an stronger one."

"Yes. This is problematic." – said Shri.

"Should we attack? I mean, if what Hera said is true, then this guy must had been weakened after Oron destroyed the gate."

"Hell! We should attack NOW! We can now crush the Oin empire AND they had lost the church support, meaning no more angels or any holy beings."

"They are weakened and they are nowhere near recovering."

"...."

*Sigh*

"Honestly, I do agree with this plan... But you are forgetting something." – said GreyHunt as he held his head.

"We have forces ready for invasion, but not for defense of our kingdom."

"And now there is the whole hell demon lord descending here."

"It will be matter of news just spreading."

"Once they do, neighboring kingdoms will act.... And we may end up finding ourselves in another war from get go while our own territory is in danger."

"So what?! We are not going to attack?!" – shouted Shri.

"ITS NOT LIKE WE DON’T WANT TO, ITS BECOUSE WE CAN’T YOU IDIOT!" – shouted ClownFrog.

"If we attack now, then other kingdom may see that as an opening and attack our territory."

"Lets say that we defeat hell demon lord and conquer the Oin empire, but then what about our own kingdom? Just let it be destroyed!?"

"As much I don’t want to do it, we cannot attack...We still need to boost our own kingdom forces to make sure it will be able to defend itself, even if our main army would leave the kingdom."

"And with the chaos that this fuking hell demon lord had brough, many of the kingdoms will now pay even close attention and chances of them taking actions are now way fuking higher."

"We straight up cannot leave our kingdom ungrounded, or this may end up having one or more kingdoms taking actions."

"They are FUKING waiting like hyenas, wanting to take an FUKING BITE."

"We can fuking destroy them, hell! We have power to do that! But then what?! Destroy everything we build over and over?! Do you know how much time and resources were used?!"

"We cannot our fuking kingdom be wrecked if not fuking destroyed!"

"...."

"But.... But if we don’t attack, then won’t that hell demon lord have sometime to recover and possible summon his pets?" – asked O’a.

"And do you have any other idea on how we can do things that wouldn’t put our entire kingdom in danger?"

"We don’t have fuking option but to keep waiting for our kingdom to get stronger before we can even launch an attack."

(Fuck, this got way too complicated!)

(I wasn’t expecting the fuking bastard Erun to just betray the church out of a blue and even have an plot twist about the whole hell demon lord!)

(How the hell none of our spies found anything?! Hell! We didn’t even knew that the church was going to betray the Oin empire!)

(.....)

(Did that bastard Erun covered for the church? Is that the reason why nobody knew? Motherfucker!)

(I knew that bastard Erun was dangerous, BUT FUCK ME! THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!)

(I mean, he and us were aware of the fact that he had no chance at winning, so we did expected him to summon something.... But who the fuck would had though that his original summoning was nothing more than sacrifice in the first place.)

(There is also the whole ring that the Oron told us about.... Where the fuck did he.... No.)

(When exactly did he started planning all of this? When did he summoned that demon noble?)

(It wasn’t us he was preparing for.... That is what I think. I think he would summon that demon lord regardless of us showing up or not.)

(Oron had bough us sometime by destroying the gate before the demon was perfectly summoned and he had also lost an way to bring his beast in with him.... However, how many sacrifices Erun has left? He summoned a lot of angels and angel dragons.... He can use them as sacrifices.)

(Fuck me...I though the things were already chaotic enough, but now I have to deal with the FUKING HELL DEMON LORD ON TOP OF IT ALL!)

(JUST FUKING PERFECT!)