[VRMMO] Dead One

[Border check point between Umil kingdom and Liefay kingdom.]

"So, as I was saying, it may be a good idea to – Hm?"

"Hey, who are these guys?" – said a player that was trying to enter the demonic kingdom.

"Isn't this ClownFrog and the Purple Hyena guild?"

"Hm? Wait… But doesn't he…Look different? Is he really him?"

"Yea… He is much bigger and he really do look different? Maybe it's somebody that made themselves look like him?"

"But anyway, what race is he? Is he really unliving lizardman?"

"Wait, what about the others?"

"The guy that look like GreyHunt has a grey horn, but is there a demonoid race with grey horns?"

"Yea, and that girl that look like Shri, isn't she… More demonic?"

"Yea… And that girl…. Wait! That is Rampage!" – said the shocked player.

"?!"

"Wait, then who the heck are these guys then?!"

"…"

"ClownFrog. We are standing out a lot." – said GreyHunt.

"Well, we would stood out no matter what we did." – said ClownFrog.

"Still, there are a lot of players trying to get to the demonic kingdom." – said Shri.

"Well, I told you that people are trying to get to the demonic or Umil kingdom every day since they think they can get special rewards there." – said ClownFrog.

"Anyway, it seems people have mixed reaction with our current appearance?" – said Oron.

"Well, us 3 are demons right now while the other two are dragonewts now. We have also 4 new people walking with us and wearing a special equipment made by Blueberry with our guild logo on them." – said GreyHunt.

"Some people think that we are the real members of the Purple Hyena guild, while other seem to think we are fakes."

"Well, people will probably realize that you guys are weird, since your appearance doesn't match any races that the players can pick while picking their characters." – said Lil.

"Meh. They will probably understand that it's us. They had already realized that the Rampage is vampire after he she was drinking blood from people bodies left and right like a freaking leach." – said Shri.

"There were already post discussing why Rampage is a vampire. Honestly, people are already suspecting the race change thing to be real in the game."

"Well, it doesn't matter if people believe us to be real or not, since as soon as people will see us fighting, they will realize that it's us or when we post any video on our channel, they will definitely realize it's us, but will wonder why we look so different." – said ClownFrog.

"So, it doesn't really matter what they will talk about behind our backs since sooner or later people."

"Hm…. If you say so." – said Lil.

"By the way, I did some digging about the demonic kingdom and there were some interesting things online."

"Apparently, beside the war happening with the empire, there are a lot of quests and hard but very rewarding hunting areas."

"Things seem very chaotic inside the kingdom for many different reason."

"There were even fight breaking out between some players like you said, but if I'm being honest, there was a lot of fights."

"Huh…. You know… I kind of see more of the picture why she wanted to recruit our guild…." – said Swim with nervous look.

"…Well, we already got our upfront payment part and we signed the contract as well, so we have no way of backing away from this." – said ClownFrog.

"Anyway, let's go already. The sooner we get to the capital city the better."

The members of the Purple Hyena guild walked towards the checkpoint alongside the others players that were heading to the demonic kingdom and before long, the group had finally entered the territory of the Liefay kingdom.

"…"

"Huh…. I thought I would…. You know… Have something like a creepy vibe or a demonic like appearance…. But all I see is grass?" – said Shri.

"Well, we only just entered. So maybe we will find something more "Demonic" as travel away from the checkpoint." – said GreyHunt.

"Anyway, we should go down the road and find the nearest settlement so we can ask questions and find out where the capital city is located."

The party rode on their sand running lizards and began traveling on the road.

Thanks to their mounts, the party managed to ran past some players with ease and after a while, they managed to arrive at the city of the demons called Drum.

"Huh… I city from get go? Not bad. I guess finding the information where the capital city is will be probably very easy." – said ClownFrog.

"Yea. Anyway, look around. I see a lot of demonoids as well as some demons walking around. I also see orcs, goblins and ogres." – said Oron.

"… Say, are we standing out? I don't think I see any humans beside players?"

"Well, this is demonic country, so it kind of make sense that the majority of the residence are non-humans." – said Lil.

"Honestly, I think I'm the only one standing out, since I'm a human."

"Well, maybe wear the hood that the Blueberry made you? Well, even if you would wear one, people would still stare at us. Even now players are staring at us confused with a look "Are they them? Or are they some wanabes?"." – said ClownFrog.

"Anyway, we should try and look for the adventurer guild. They maybe have some information where the capital city is located and with route we should take to get there."

[Few moments later.]

"What the fuck is going on?!" – said GreyHunt.

In front of the adventurer guild, a long line of players were taking place.

"I heard that the people were looking for the quest in the demonic kingdoms, since they are hard but very rewarding, but this?" – said Howl.

"Yea… I think we should give up on the adventurer guild, since standing in this line will take too long." – said Wretch.

"Should we instead look for a library or something?"

"Nah. Let's just split around and ask around, maybe somebody knows the place or somebody who can direct us or maybe sell us a map." – said ClownFrog.

We decided to split up and look around the city for the information on how we could get to the capital city where the demon lord is waiting for us.

I ended up partnering up with Blueberry.

And I don't know why, but Rampage had a cheeky smile on her face.

What the hell is she planning? Some sort of prank or something?

Well, I didn't had time to care about that right now.

Honestly, we walked around the city for the bit and we found out that the city wasn't… Exactly peaceful.

Players were really going at each other throats. I think these players were part of the Adernul faction before and they ran to the demonic kingdom in order to escape from being hunted down in Umil kingdom.

Not only that, there were some NPCs arguing with each other or going… Bit crazy?

We got curios and asked around bit and found out some interesting information.

Currently, the demonic kingdom has some problems.

The fanatics of the Paimon. The remains of the demon lord Paimon army that believe in their own supremacy and believe that the current demon lord is a fake, even though she apparently 1 vs 1 him and killed him.

Anyway, these fanatics used the chance made by the empire invasion and are not trying to hide themselves anymore.

They are pretty much bandits and bastards. Pretty much, they are just a terrorist that just say they are doing this in Paimon name, but in reality, they are just bunch of thugs.

However, the weird thing about them is that they are too well equipment.

Not only that, I found it bit weird as well.

How the hell remains of the old demon lord army are still alive and so big in current age?

The answer, they are not.

Something is off about the situation.

The demon lord Paimon and his army were dispraised by their own kingdom and were hunted down by the new demon lord and her revolution army after the war was over.

I could believe if it was a small organization, but an organization that could cause so much chaos and had so many members?

Nope.

I don't even need evidence.

These guys are fakes.

Is this doing of an empire?

Or maybe there is something like a conspiracy traitor within the kingdom ranks?

I was getting more and more clear picture why the demon lord wanted to employ us.

And I was realizing that there was a lot of annoying work in front of us.

Not only that, we also found some other rumors and info about the demonic kingdom.

Apparently, there was a higher bandit actively since week ago.

There were also some conflicts among the vampires.

There were also the case with conflict between high ranking officials.

Fuck me… This kingdom is a real mess….

…

Well, I honestly would say fuck it, but the contract we signed with the demon lord stated that she has to rewards us fairy, meaning she cannot scam us or anything.

If there was no detail about this, I would probably already run away from this place.

Anyway, I and Blueberry didn't managed to find anything, but apparently Swim and Oron managed to find some info.

"…"

"Okay. I talked with the Oron and Swim. They said that they managed to buy a map and know where we should go now." – said ClownFrog while using a chat winddown.

"Oh. So, are we finally heading to the capital city?" – asked Blueberry while looking at some strange fruits on sale.

"Yeb. I already told the others to regroup at the city center so we can finally go to the capital city.

"!"

"Hey! Wait you! Giant bone lizard!" – said a female voice from behind.

"?"

ClownFrog looked behind him, but saw no one there.

"Down below you freaking tall bastard!"

"?"

ClownFrog looked down and saw a short female goblin staring at him.

The female goblin had an dark green skin and had an twin tail hair style with both tails being shaped like a drills.

"Em… Yes? Is there something you want from me?" – asked ClownFrog.

(She is shorter than Shri. By the look of things, she is a goblin.)

(NPC?)

(No. She is a player.)

"Yea! Are you guys heading to the capital city?!" – asked the female goblin.

"…Why do you care?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Hm! Allow me to introduce myself!"

"I'm none other than genius Ampi!"

"I have a proposition for you! How about we form a party?"

"…"

(What the hell is this brat deal?) – though ClownFrog.