[VRMMO] Dead One

"Great. Then let's sign the contract right away." – said the demon lord.

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"Contract?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well, yes. I mean, I need something to keep you in check since we just met and all. We are total strangers to each other." – said the demon lord.

"…"

(Well, she isn't wrong. I would honestly do something like that as well, with that kind of upfront payment.)

The demon lord once again opened a dark space and took out a sheet of paper before putting it on the table.

"This is the contract. You need to sign here, here and here." – said the demon lord while pointing her fingers on several spots.

"…"

[Demonic Contract]

[A special type of contract that affects parties involved souls.]

[The special punishment will be involved to the party that breaches the terms of the contract.]

(Huh… So, it's like one of those demon contracts where you sell your soul?) – though ClownFrog.

(Anyway, lets first read what is written here.)

(The upfront payment she gave is way too good. There must be a catch.)

[After the party B sign the contract, the party B will officially become a temporarily subordinates of the party A.]

[The party B will receive upfront payment of: [Dragonewt Ritual Potion] x2 and [Demonic Aspect Potion] x3.]

[The party B will have to fallow the special job assigned by the party A. The party B will be forced to do any job assigned by the party A and will be rewarded accordingly and fair based on the job. The party B can issue an complain regarding the job assigned by the party A and can declare.

However, the party B cannot issue the complains or not willingness to do the job, if they don't have a solid argument or they posses' ability to do the job.]

[The party B will work for the party A, until the stability inside the Liefay Kingdom becomes high enough and most of the dangerous problems INSDE the kingdom has been dealt with.]

[The party A is forced to pay for any job they assigned to the party B as well as how much they helped in stabilizing the kingdom.]

[The party B will breach the contract if they betray the party A or run away and abandon the work all together. If in the case of the breach, the party B will be forced to pay 3 times the original price of the each [Dragonewt Ritual Potion] x2 and [Demonic Aspect Potion] x3.]

[The party A will breach the contract if they betray party B or give them job that is beyond their abilities and forcing them to do it over and over, even though the results were obvious. If the case of the breach, the party A will have to rewards the party B for all the jobs they done so far with a rewards with 2 times higher value than the original reward.]

[The party A consist of the one person.]

[The party B consists of the guild of adventures.]

"…"

(Huh…. Its… Fair?) – though ClownFrog.

(I don't see any hidden details or something suspicious.)

(I… Wasn't expecting that?)

(She cannot scam us and has to give us an appropriate reward for our deeds as well as for how much we helped in stabilizing the kingdom?)

(…)

"Okay… I got to say… The upfront payment is good and the contract seem 100% fair." – said ClownFrog.

"But. It's too good."

"Can I ask you few questions regarding the contract?"

"Sure. Go ahead." – said the demon lord.

"First question."

"You said that your kingdom is currently is at war with the empire. Is the empire attacking the demonic kingdom itself? Does that mean we will have to join the war?"

"No. I want you to focus on the matters INSDE my kingdom."

"We are at war with the empire, but you will be mostly send to the deal with the matters involving the problems we have inside the country."

"However, if the empire invasion gets too deep into our kingdom, I will have to order you to join the war and rebel the invasion force."

"…Okay. I understand."

"Second question. What will happened if our guild recruit a new members? We are currently in the process of expanding our power and we may end up recruiting new members while working for you."

"Will these new members be a part of the contract?"

"Hm… Yes. They will be. However, you will have to inform me about every and single member, so they can be included."

"However, I will not include a huge group of people suddenly joining your guild, just to get rewards. I get one or two, but if too many people join so fast, I will have to test them out." – said the demon lord.

"…"

(Hm… Is there any other questions I should ask?)

(She did said the reason why she recruited us, since she need some stronger adventurers to do more specific work.)

(We are also fine with recruiting the new members while we work for her and we are not forced to fight the empire, unless there is no option.)

(No hidden details or anything.)

(This contract…. Is for real? It's perfect for both parties!)

(…Others are not complaining or anything. So, I guess they are fine with the contract as well.)

(Still, I was not expecting anything like that.)

(Is there any other important questions I should ask?)

(…)

"Any of you have any complains or anything?" – asked ClownFrog.

"…"

"…"

"No?"

"…"

"…"

"Well, I don't find anything wrong with the contract and some most important questions were answered." – said ClownFrog.

"So, we can now sign the contract?" – asked the demon lord.

"Yes."

Both me and the demon lord signed the contract after the discussion was over and as soon as I signed the contract with the demon lord, a system winddown appeared.

[You have sign a demonic contract.]

[You can check the details of contract at any moment.]

[If you breach the contract, you will suffer penalty.]

(So, even the system is warning me? I guess there is no way to avoid the penalty if I break the contract.) – though ClownFrog.

(Still, how much money we are talking about here when it comes to these potions cost?)

(I mean, sometimes rare type items are way harder to find than epic rarity items, depending on the item type as well as their function.)

(I don't know much about race changing items, so there is a chance the epic rarity one could cost same as legendary rarity weapon.)

(…)

(Maybe I should save up some money just in case.)

"Well then. The contract is signed." – said the demon lord.

"And now, these belongs to you." – said the demon lord while pointing at the potions.

"Thank you." – said ClownFrog while taking the potions and handing them to his party members.

"Questions. We need to do some stuff and take some of our belongings from our temporarily base."

"Is it fine if we will be a bit late? The queen will also ask questions where we are going, so it's better if we say our goodbyes with her."

"I understand." – said the demon lord.

"Then here. Take this." – said the demon lord.

The demon lord handed over a disk shaped object with a symbol of 3 spears and demonic horns.

"This is my sigil. If you show it to some guards, they will understand it. But if you lose it, prepare for some punishment."

"As soon as you get to the demonic kingdom, head straight to the capital city and meet up with me."

"Anyway, I think that is all I wanted from you."

"I will go and talk with the queen bit more and then I will go and return to my kingdom. I will be waiting for you." – said the demon lord before getting up and leaving the room.

"…"

"Say, she was… Not that scary?" – said Lil.

"Yea… She also offered the proper deal and contract. Her reasoning were also good and all." – said Wretch.

"But did you forgot what she said before? She doesn't want heroes of justice, but a people that can do a dirty work mercilessly." – said GreyHunt.

"She will definitely do us a dirty job."

"But I'm fine with that. We will get paid."

"Yea. Not only that, she also gave us those things!" – said Shri while holding the potion.

"And just working alone for the demon lord may give us some good rewards, maybe more of these potions for these guys or maybe some other better stuff." – said Oron.

"Well… The plan was for you to guys train in the Umil kingdom, until you level up a bit. But it may be a way better idea to bring you guys along."

"Yea. It's definitely way better idea." – said Howl.

"Say, ClownFrog. Were there any special classes you could get from the Umil kingdom?" – asked Swim.

"Yes. There was." – said ClownFrog.

"There were some related to the desert and there were some special Umil kingdom ones."

"Probably the demonic kingdom has a few special classes on their own that are pretty special in their own way or just straight up strong."

"Oh, I forgotten about something."

"Adernul kingdom also has a special classes called [Cruel Knight]."

"And we kind of stole few class books when we raided the capital city." – said ClownFrog while taking out something from his inventory.

"Wretch. Howl. Take it. You are both warrior types and this class is pretty much good with any fighter type classes." – said ClownFrog while handing over class books.

"Wait, you for real?!" – asked confused Howl while receiving the class book from ClownFrog.

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"Oh. Right. We did had some left." – said Rampage.

"By the way, how many of those we have left?"

"Let me check…. There are 5 left." – said ClownFrog.

"Wait, 5? Huh… I thought there would be 1 or 2 left. But with those 2 you just gave, that means we had 7 left." – said Rampage.

"Well… We did robbed the capital city and their armor as well as kingdom vault. So… You know." – said ClownFrog.

"There are probably more, since we gave her most of the treasure for her kingdom and the minotaurs also took their share of the treasure. So, they definitely have those class books and the queen probably has a most of them in her possession."

"Huh." – said Shri.

"Anyway, let's go." – said ClownFrog while getting up.

After signing the contract with the demon lord and taking our upfront payment, the demon lord went to the queen and talking about some stuff before then returning to her kingdom.

After the demon lord left, we had a little chat with the queen.

We told her about the situation and as well as the fact that we will be leaving the Umil kingdom and will head straight to the demonic kingdom.

We also told her about the contract.

She didn't stopped us or anything. If anything, she kind of saw that coming.

We just said our goodbyes and thanked each other for taking care of each other.

After saying our goodbyes with the queen, we immediately began heading back to the Silver Sand city.

After we got to the Silver Sand city, we immediately began packing some of our stuff we left in our temporarily base and saying goodbyes to the maids that worked for us.

Honestly speaking, the plan was for us to stay in the Umil kingdom for some time and try and look for some poetical recruits, even after we recruited these guys to join us.

But I guess it can wait.

Or maybe we will find somebody interesting in the demonic kingdom?

Well, time will tell.

For now, after all the preparation were done, we began heading straight to the borders between Umil and demon kingdom.

Our route was to go from the ex-Adernul kingdom territory and enter the demonic kingdom from there. We are taking this route since we don't want to be anywhere near where the war is happening.

We headed to the border check point between two kingdoms, but before we crossed it, we headed to the nearby forest and made a short stop there.

"Say, why are we stopping now? We are finally getting near the border." – asked Lil.

"Well, we made a short stop so we can finally use these things and evolve." – said ClownFrog while taking the potion he received from the demon lord.

"Hm? Why now?" – asked Shri.

"Why do you think? It's because we are fuking celebrities." – said ClownFrog.

"Do you know how public known we are right now? We are one of the most known players in the game right now as well as our guild itself."

"Not only that, each border check between two kingdoms is flooded with the players every day."

"Well, no wonder. The players had no access to the demonic kingdom because the Adernul kingdom was blocking the access to them. But now that they are gone, people are rushing into it." – said Shir.

"People are flooding into the Umil kingdom, since it was an ancient kingdom that got recently revived and it may have some special treasures and special classes."

"And the demonic kingdom is a place where the players didn't had access to before because of the Adernul kingdom."

"So pretty much, people are in rush to get ahead of each other in the race or something in a nutshell." – said GreyHunt.

"Huh. Wait. By any chance we will have to fight players?" – asked Wretch.

"Probably. The people can be greedy and we are no exception to this rule." – said ClownFrog.

"Anyway, people will definitely see us and will post shit online, informing the people about our presence in the demonic kingdom."

"Not only that, they will question you guys."

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"Us?" – asked Swim.

"Well, yes. I mean, how do you think would react if a unknown faces were accompanying the members of the well-known guild."

"People will ask question and maybe realize that you are our new members."

"Hiding it and making us split up will not do, since sooner or later people will discover you guys."

"So we will get attention no matter what we will do."

"Not only that, those special evolution potions that the demon lord gave us will definitely make people too much curios."

"I mean, they will see us look different and all."

"So, it's no use hiding it or anything as well."

"So, just screw it and evolve?" – asked Rampage.

"Precisely." – said ClownFrog.

"So, bottoms up?" – said ClownFrog while holding the potion in his hand.