[VRMMO] Dead One

"Okay... ClownFrog. What. The. Fuck. Was. That?!" – asked Shri.

The entire group began walking towards the ClownFrog.

"Is that... that swordman O’a guy?" – asked the harpy with headband.

"Yea. That’s me." – replied O’a.

"?!"

Everybody quickly got away from the O’a and prepared for the fight.

"Wowowowow! Stop! He is on our side." – said ClownFrog.

"Yeb. I decided to pledge my loyalty to this motherfucker. So, from now I will work with you." – said O’a.

"..."

Everybody looked shocked and confused at both ClownFrog and O’a.

"...Em... ClownFrog.... What the fuck is he?!" – asked Oron.

"Yea! None of your undeads ever talked or anything!" – asked Rampage.

"Well... It maybe because of how powerful he is? Or maybe because he decided to work for me willingly? Don’t know really." – said ClownFrog.

"..."

"Wait. Did you said he decided to work for you willingly?" – said Oron.

"Yeb."

"...."

"Is that... true?"

"Yea. I decided to live my own life. I don’t want to be the hero anymore, I just want to me my true self and cut things for my own enjoyment! I don’t care what I slice, be it good or bad people. I just want to be myself." – said O’a

"Em... Is this normal?" – asked Shri.

"How the heck should I know?! I never heard of an intelligent undead before!" – replied harpy with headband.

"..."

"Em... So... He killed you and you are fine with it?" – asked Shri.

"Meh. I was kind of bored of my life. So being reborn as undead isn’t that bad since I can start a new life." – replied O’a.

"Honestly. I want a fresh start. I kind of wasted my entire life before, but now that I’m undead, I think I can start living for "Real" this time. So, I’m kind of mad that I lost to him. But he did offered me a new life where I can now be my true self and all. So, I kind of forgave him for killing me."

".... Okay?" – said awkwardly Shri.

"I have no bloody idea how to react."

"Same." – replied everybody present.

"..."

"..."

"So... Em... I wanted to talk a bit... Are you the leader?" – asked the harpy with headband.

"Yea. What is it? Is it about the letter?" – said ClownFrog.

"Yea! Is it true that you were send by the sand cobra tribe?!" – asked the harpy.

"Oh... Its bit complicated. Allow me to explain."

ClownFrog began explaining the current situation to the harpy.

"So... You weren’t send by the sand cobra tribe, but you do have tier sigil from them and you want to meet up with our leader?" – said harpy with headband.

"Yea. Sorry for deceiving you. But we had no choice." – said ClownFrog.

"We wanted to get here as soon as we got to the Green Sand city, but then we found out about the extermination squad." – said GreyHunt.

"And we also learned about this fucker."

"Hey." – said O’a.

"So we had no choice but to try to deal with the extermination squad instead of trying to contact you. Please understand. We had no choice." – said GreyHunt.

"... Well, I can kind of see him being a problem... Our sisters once encounter him and all, so honestly when I saw him, I thought about running the heck away." – said the harpy with headband.

"But... This guy seem to be even bigger monster if he managed to beat him." – said harpy while looking at ClownFrog.

"Hi." – said ClownFrog.

"...."

"Okay... Then one more question. What the heck do you want?"

"An alliance." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"We are planning on reviving the Umil kingdom and destroying the Adernul kingdom in the process."

"?!"

"Oh shit! You bastards are crazy!" – said O’a.

"And you are the crazy bastard that decided to serv me willingly." – said ClownFrog.

"True."

"So, are you having any regrets now?"

"...Hm.... Nope."

"Then you are a crazy fucker." – said ClownFrog.

"You are also a crazy fucker."

"..."

"Anyway, we are planning on recruiting the old tribes as well as humans that lived peacefully in Umil kingdom."

"We already recruited Sand Cobra tribe and currently are on the mission recruiting the others."

"We want to speak about this with your leader and tell everything what had happens so far and discuss the matter of the alliance." – said ClownFrog.

"..."

"Hm.... Fine."

"Normally I wouldn’t dare to bring an outside to our nest, but you did saved us and even have managed to obtain the Sand Cobra tribe trust."

"I will bring you to our queen, but I don’t promise anything. She will decide if we will join the alliance or not."

After having the harpy hunting party leader agree to our deal, we began slowly preparing for the departure while the harpies themselves began eating some of the extermination squad members corpses.

After everything was ready, we had Shri summon the sand running lizards before then departing together with the harpies to their nest.

The journey was quiet long. By the look of things harpies made their nest quiet far away from this hunting grounds.

But thanks, the sand running lizards we were able to arrive to the harpies nest the same day we departure.

The harpies nest was located in valley and quite dangerous one where a lot of monster was living inside of it. But for harpies they weren’t a problem since they could just fly above them. But for us we had to break through them. Well, I’m not complaining. Free and good EXP.

After finally getting to the nest, we immediately were able to meet the harpies leader.

"So... You want to make an alliance?"

A giant harpy with black jet black feathers and red tips was standing right in front of a party.

[Ola – Queen Of The Dessert Vulture Tribe] – [Unique Boss]

{{Harpies Queen is evolved species of harpies and they are often one leading the harpies group or tribes.}}

"Yes. That is correct. We already had the Sand Cobra tribe join us and we even managed to have a tribe of a minotaurs join our side." – said ClownFrog.

"We are planning on resurrecting the queen of the Umil kingdom."

"We even possess a means of resurrecting her and even know her location. But we obviously need allies and strength. So, resurrecting the queen alone may not do when the war will broke out. We need allies. So, we are recruiting the old tribes of the Umil kingdom and try to rescue later on the enslaved descendants of the Umil kingdom."

"Hm...."

"My queen. A word." – said the harpy with headband.

"Yes?"

"These people helped out in dealing with extermination squad. And not only that but they defeated the O’a swordman guy."

"!"

"Is that true?" – asked Harpy queen.

"Yes. I even resurrected him."

"[Undead Record]."

ClownFrog summoned O’a right in front of the harpy queen.

"!"

"..."

"Is that really him?" – asked the harpy queen.

"Yes. Our entire group watched that happened. He was the one who slain him and even managed to bring him back as undead." – said the harpy with headband.

"..."

"Hm... I understand."

"However! Before we join you, we will need you to do something for us."

"Right now, a bunch of our eggs has hatched and we need to get food for our young. If you- "

"Em... My queen. There is no need to." – said the harpy with headband.

"..."

"What?"

"The extermination squad members they killed, we have their corpse. We have enough food."

"..."

"Reall?"

"Really."

"..."

"Em... Okay then..."

"..."

"Huh..."

"Well. You got us food. You dealt with the extermination squad. You dealt with O’a guy and even got approval from the Sand Cobra tribe."

"So I guess you are trust worth."

"Very well. We shall lead you our strength when the times comes."

[You have saved the Desert Vulture tribe from the extermination squad and received harpies trust.]

[Favorability with the entire Sand Cobra tribe increased.]

[You have received the title.]

[The Friend Of The Dessert Vulture Tribe]

[Rarity: Rare]

[You can now be called the friend of the harpies tribe called Vulture Tribe and will be known among the harpies as their friend.]

[Title Effect]

-Increase the favorability with the members of the harpies race.

-Receive 30 free skill points.

-Receive 30 free stat points.]

[The Umil Kingdom Tribes]

[Quest Rank: ???]

[Recruit:

-Sand Cobra tribe 1/1

-Melody Tail tribe 0/1

-Fang And Sand tribe 0/1

-Desser Volute Tribe 1/1 ß

-Free 10000 enslaved human desanders of the Umil kingdom – 0/10000]

"..."

(Huh... That was surprisingly easy?) – though ClownFrog

(I mean... I was thinking that they would give us a quest or something that we have to finish, but nope?)

(I guess they must have really feared that O’a guy if they decided to trust us after I killed him.)

(We even got a title.)

(2 more tribes to go and we can began thinking about resurrecting the queen.)

"!"

"By the way. Is it possible to gain your sigil?" – said ClownFrog.

"To gain the trust of the others? Sure.... Here."

The harpy tossed over a small token mask to the ClownFrog.

(Nice. It should make the matter of conniving the tribes much easier now.)

"Oh. And one more question. We do know the location of the Melody Tail tribe from the Sand Cobra tribe, but we do not know the location of the sobeks. Do you know where we can find sobeks?"

"Sobeks?"

"..."

"Yea... I do. But I don’t know if you will be able to convince them to join you." – said the harpy queen.

"?"

"Why is that?" – asked Oron.

"The sobeks.... I won’t be beating around the bush. The sobeks become kind of a cowards."

"They lived in hiding ever since the Umil kingdom fallen and decided to not to come out at all cost."

"And I mean like total hiding. They don’t ever come out from their hidden village or anything. They just hide."

"One of the chieftain sons even went out, thinking that humans are weakling alongside some of their tribe elites."

"But they died by the heads of that O’a guy and chieftain is kind of state of despair right now because of what happened to him."

"I can send my harpies and inform them about you, so he would at least be willing to talk with you and all, but no promises."

(So, the story about O’a dealing with rampaging sobeks were about the sobek chieftain son and the tribe elites?)

(Hm... This is bad.)

(Sobeks were once a powerful and might warriors according to the books.)

(If they really did turned into the cowards, then we may end up not being able to recruit them and not only that but we will also lose a potential powerful allies.)

(We need to do something about this.)

"Hm... Okay. Please do send their messenge. But please wait a moment." – said ClownFrog.

ClownFrog took out the map from his inventory.

"Where exactly the sobeks are? Can you point on the map?"

"They are.... Here! Their village is hidden inside of a dessert jungle where a lot monsters live. You will have to break through them if you want to reach them." – said the harpy while pointing with her claw on the map.

"..."

"Hm... That’s quiet far." – said GreyHunt.

"Yea. And the Melody Tribe is here. In complete opposite direction." – said ClownFrog.

"Then it’s simple. We just split up." – said Rampage.

"No. We can’t." - said ClownFrog.

"Em... Why not?" – said Shri.

"Simple. There is a chance that the lamias and sobeks may also be facing some sort of danger just like Sand Cobra tribe or Dessert Vulture tribe. If we split, we may end up running into a problem that would be too much for 3 people to handle."

"It’s much better idea to travel together."

"But quick question. Did anybody ever manage to find the sobeks or like they know about their whereabouts?"

"No. Sobeks are staying completely hidden." – said the harpy queen.

"The last mayor sobek incident was with that chieftain son, but beside that, there was nothing."

"There are some sobeks living outside of the hidden village, but they are scattered everywhere. I think there are some rumors among the humans that sobek tribe is long gone. But it’s obviously not the case."

"Hm.... Then we should first go and meet up with Melody Tail tribe. Sobeks should be safe for now, so it’s better to quickly go and meet up with Melody Tail since we don’t know their situation yet."

"Sounds good." – said GreyHunt.

"I agree as well. However, now I’m curious about something. Miss Ola. I have a question. The Green Sand city is now aware of you and would try to find your location at all cost. Probably the other cities would to try and help them out as well."

"Even though we took down the extermination squad, there will be another one and if not, much bigger considering that the O’a was killed."

"O’a is now undead, so nobody will be able to find him, but what if the public declare him dead?"

"..."

"The kingdom would realize that they lost one of their most powerful fighters." – said Shri.

"Yea. They would end up investigating what would happened. And considering that he went out to hunt harpies, the people would end up thinking the harpies did it and considering that they managed to do that, they could even send a freaking army after you all."

"The harpies may now be in real trouble." – said Oron.

"Hm..."

"Well... People will probably not declare O’a dead so soon." – said ClownFrog.

"The extermination squad though that it would take them between 1 to 4 days to find the harpies nest. So probably they would not any action until 4 days passed and probably start taking action at the day 7?"

"Probably they would send an investigation group to find them or something."

"They will not find them and will obviously try to either keep the matter under wraps or announce it."

"They don’t want to spread panic among the people with announcing O’a death, but obviously it wouldn’t last long for the people to realize that something happened to him."

"Either way. A panic would broke out no matter the option they would chose and harpies would be seen as somebody extremely powerful and dangerous monsters."

"The kingdom may end up recognizing the harpies as a serious threat and may end up organizing an army to take them down."

"However, it will probably take some time before the kingdom will organize the search party, and then an army. On top of that, this place is quite well-hidden and there is a lot of monsters. So, if it would end up being discover. Harpies can just use the monsters as their sacrifice so they can have time to run away."

"However, it would be good idea to stop hunting in that hunting ground all together and maybe try and look for a new hiding spot in case the kingdom would try to send an new extermination force after you." – said ClownFrog.

"Do you have any place where you can hide?"

"No. But we have an alternative." – said harpy queen.

"We are friends with the sobeks so they will probably provide us with a shelter for a day or a two so we can try to find a new location for our nest. So, we should be able to somehow manage."

"Oh. We understand. But please, if anything were to come up, feel free to reach out to us." – said ClownFrog.

"And one more thing."

"Here. This is the spot where the lamias of the Sand Cobra tribe are hiding. It’s a cursed oasis and its only safe to get in and out during the night. Nobody knows what could happened so I’m just saying if something were to happened to the sobeks, you should go there instead. " – said ClownFrog while pointing on the specific spot on the map.

"I see. Well, thanks for the information."

We managed to successfully recruit harpies on our side and not only that, but we finally found out where we can find the sobek tribe.

Since there was no quest or anything from harpies that we need to be done, we immediately left their nest and resumed out journey.

Our next target is second lamia tribe called Melody Tail tribe.

"..."

"Say... Why aren’t we heading to the Green Sand city?" – asked Rampage while riding the sand running lizard.

"We are literally part of an extermination squad that went to deal with harpies. Do you really think its smart idea to return back to that city while we are supposed to be on mission?" – asked Shri.

".... Oh.... So... Where are we heading?" – asked Rampage.

"We are going to the Silver Sand city. It’s a trading city located right next to the sea." – said ClownFrog.

"!"

"Sea? I think it’s a first time I will see in this world." – said excited Blueberry.

"Yeb. None of us saw sea one yet!" – said excited Shri.

"I wonder what is it like? Will there be pirates? Mermaids? Or maybe something like kraken? I’m kind of looking forwards to it."

"Me too." – said Oron.

"..."

"Guys. Could we stop for a moment?" – asked ClownFrog.

"...Okay? But why do I think you are planning on doing something weird." – said Shri.

"Nooo... Maybe? Just stop for the moment. It won’t take long." – said ClownFrog.

"For fuck’s sake. Fine." – said GreyHunt.

The party stopped at the ClownFrog request and moments later, ClownFrog get off from the sand running lizard.

"[Undead Record: O’a]."

"Hm? What up boss? Didn’t you said there would be no fighting for now?" – asked O’a right after getting summoned.

"Yea. There won’t be. But I have to talk about something."

"Guys. I will go there and have private talk with the O’a and could you please turn around and no matter what don’t try to look?"

"?"

"What the hell are you planning to do?" – asked GreyHunt.

"No telling. Just turn around for now."

"..."

The party looked away with bit confused look while ClownFrog and O’a walked away.

"..."

"Shri. I can see you."

"BITCH!" – said Shri after being catched trying to look behind her.

"...."

"Say... What do you think are they talking about?" – asked Rampage.

"I don’t know. Maybe some sort of information?" – said Oron.

"But wouldn’t the then share it with us?" – asked Blueberry.

"Yea. He would. Then this means he is talking about completely different. I wonder what- "

Before GreyHunt could finish speaking, a sound of a wind blowing could be heard coming from the O’a and ClownFrog direction.

"?"

"Hey! What was that? Can we turn around?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Not yet!" – replied ClownFrog.

"...."

"..."

"Okay it’s done." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

The party turned around and saw ClownFrog walking towards them.

"Hm? Where is O’a?" – asked Oron.

"In undead record."

"..."

"So... What did you two talked about?" – asked Shri.

"No telling. It will ruin the surprise."

"???"

"Anyways. Let’s get.... Oh wait... I still haven’t checked those out." – said ClownFrog.

"Those?" – said Oron.

"Yea. When I killed O’a and resurrected him, a shit tons of achievements popped up."

"And there is also a thing that I we need to talk about right now."

"?"

"Okay. What is it?" – said Shri.

"Well.... A god or maybe demon lord was observing our fight?"

"...."

"What?" – replied everybody.

"Okay. Let me explain."

"After I successfully resurrected O’a, a shit tons of achievement popped, but few seconds later after all achievement popped up. This appeared.

[You have been noticed by a higher being.]

[The true "Sloth" has noticed you and think you are quite interesting.]

[You have obtained the title: The One Noticed By The True Sin Of Sloth] – [Rare]

"Sloth? Like a pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth?" – asked Blueberry.

"I think so? After I was noticed by him, I ended up getting the title."

"But I still have zero idea what was that. What does "True Sloth" really mean?"

"But you said that "True Sloth" maybe a demon lord or a god? Right?" – said Oron.

"Yea. Honestly, it wouldn’t even surprise me if both are the answer." – said ClownFrog.

"But that is not got my interested the most."

"Something maybe watching us. Those "Higher Beings". What are they?"

"Well, it’s not like any of us know. Maybe we should as the queen after we resurrect her? She did lived long time ago so she may have some ancient knowledge or something." – said Shri.

"Yeb. By the look of things, she maybe our only lead." – said Oron.

"By the way, how many achievements did you get?"

"Well... I got 2 achievements from killing O’a and I got.... 13 for resurrected him and 1 more from that true sloth guy."

"1 common. 5 rares. 2 epics. 6 Unique and 2 legendries."

"...."

"You fuking what?" – replied everybody in shock.

[Served By A Monster] [Common]

- +30 skill points.

- +30 stat points.

[Skeleton Knight Maker] [Rare]

-Slightly increase chances of successfully making undead variant: Skeleton Knight.

- +100 Necro Mastery.

[Dead Speaker] [Rare]

-Decrees cost of making or summoning undeads by 5%.

- +70 Necro Mastery.

[O’a Friend] [Rare]

- +70 skill points.

- +70 stat points.

[The Necromancer Noble] [Rare]

- +200 Necro Mastery.

[The One Noticed By The True Sin Of Sloth] [Rare]

-Increase affinity towards the sin of sloth.

- +40 skill points.

- +40 stat points.

[Elder Undead Maker] [Epic]

- +250 Necro Mastery.

- +100 Mana

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 2%.

[The Promising Necromancer] [Epic]

- +400 Necro Mastery.

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 2%.

[The Slayer Of The Living Tale (Solo)] [Unique]

- +250 skill points.

- +250 stat points.

[The First To Create Elder Undead] [Unique]

- +500 Necro Mastery.

- +200 Mana

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 4%.

[Master Of Undead] [Unique]

- +100 skill points.

- +100 stat points.

-Decrees Undead Mastery cost of your undeads by 5%

[The One Who Kills And Raises (Solo)] [Unique]

- +100 skill points.

- +100 stat points.

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 5%.

[The One Who Tamed O’a "The Twin Sword Of Journey"] [Unique]

- +260 skill points.

- +260 stat points.

[The One Who Made Undead Think] – [Unique]

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 5%.

-Decrees cost of making or summoning undeads by 5%

- +60 skill points.

- +60 stat points.

[The One Who Slain "The Twin Sword Of Journey" (Solo)] [Legendary]

- +500 skill points.

- +500 stat points.

[The One Who Made Undead Aware] [Legendary]

-Increase the stats of your undead monsters by 10%.

-Decrees cost of making or summoning undeads by 5%

-Decrees Undead Mastery cost of your undeads by 5%

- +400 Necro Mastery.

"..."

"Okay. What kind of bullshit is this?" – asked GreyHunt with straight face.

"YEA! WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS? 2 legendries titles?! What the hell is this! Can you even get this amount of titles from a single battle?!" – asked shocked Shri.

"Well, by the look of things, it’s possible. But some of these title by the look of things can only be obtained by the first person who did something. So, it kind of depends?" – said ClownFrog.

"Still, there is so many. People would murder you for the information if anybody saw this. Especially that one that literally gives you flat 500 skill points and 500 stat points. Its literally 50 free levels!" – said Oron.

"Yea. But honestly the other legendary title is far more broken. Stat increase, cost decrees and decrees of the undead mastery cost. All of those 3 things are extremely broken for me." – said ClownFrog.

"I have now 3 passives that each provide 5% Necro Mastery decrees and together its 15% decrees of Necro Mastery cost. So, I can pretty much have 15% more undeads on the freaking field! This is freaking broken like hell. On top of that, some of these passives provide small bonus to all stats to my undeads." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"It may be small, but you need to remember that I can have shit lot of them at the same time and all of them would get that buff."

"I’m may or not become broken right now."

"No fuking wonder you think like that! Fuck me... Its somehow feels unfair?" – said Rampage.

"..."

"Can you share some of this achievements with me?" – asked Shri.

"No."

"Bitch." – replied Shri.

"..."

"..."

"Anyway, this one title is kind of interesting.

[The One Noticed By The True Sin Of Sloth] [Rare]

-Increase affinity towards the sin of sloth.

- +40 skill points.

- +40 stat points.

"Increase affinity towards the sin of sloth? So... What does it? You can get a sin of sloth or something?" – asked GreyHunt.

"I don’t know."

"It’s not favorability, so it’s not bonus to relationship."

"Honestly. I’m quite lost with it. Is it like a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Maybe a good thing? I mean, none of the titles we have so far has gave us any negative effects or anything." – said Oron.

"True. But we still don’t bloody know how to use that title effect. Do I need to do some sort of ritual or something?"

"Well, we have to ask the queen if we want to find anything." – said GreyHunt.

"And honestly, I’m quiet interested now."

"I wonder if our group would get something like each of the sins?"

"Huh. That would be interesting. But there is only 6 of us. So, we would have to get somebody to join us or something to have 7 people for each sin." – said Oron.

"Yea. But we kind of don’t have time to look for the new members and we also cannot just recruit people blindly. Maybe when this is all over, we should think about getting new members." – said ClownFrog.

"But for now, let’s just try getting to the Silver Sand, I’m so fuking tired after everything just happened today."