[VRMMO] Dead One

"…"

The demon lord stared in silence at the ClownFrog after hearing his question.

"Are you not satisfied with your new form?" – asked the demon lord.

"It's not that." – replied ClownFrog

"True. Being dragonewt does make me stronger in many different ways."

"However, if I really want to be something fearful, I need to be a lich."

"But there is one thing I'm wondering about."

"That lich I fought before, he was a demonoid originally AND I saw his horns."

"When you turn into the lich, do you lose your racial features?"

"…."

"It depends."

"!"

"However, becoming the lich itself is quiet problematic."

"To become a lich you would first need to become an undead."

"Turning yourself into an undead willingly and not lose your sanity is one thing, but turning into a lich is another."

"For example, the holy being like an angeloid or winged angel would have their natural holy power weakened. Not only that, they would have to have a stronger ritual to turn themselves into liches."

"What about the humans, elves or dwarfs?"

"You would kept them."

"…"

"So it's possible to turn me into a lich and be still 100% dragonewt?"

"…"

"I think so." - said the demon lord.

"You are an unliving, a half undead, so there is probably no need to have you turn into undead. Not only that, your lizardman race was dark green scales, right? The race of lizardman that are related to the necrotic power."

"In theory, it is possible."

"!"

"But…. There are few problems."

"The first is the obvious, you being dragonewt."

"Dragon blood is extremely strong."

"Turning the dragon into undead is one thing, however turning the dragon and making it into the undead dragon is another thing."

"A lich? I honestly never heard of anything like a lich dragon ever."

"You are a dragon creature, but not as a dragon the dragon, but a dragonewt the dragon."

"Hm…... I honestly don't know…. I knew about the angeloid turning into a lich, dwarf, human, elf and even orc, one of the 3 liches that were the head of the undead clan was an orc…. But and dragonewt?"

"…"

"Honestly…. I don't know how to answer that question."

"…."

(So she doesn't know? But it doesn't sound like its impossible.) – though ClownFrog.

"…"

"Anyway, how does the lich ritual or process of making one works?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well, the one of the most important things when making an lich is that it depends if the target is intelligent undead or not."

"If you turn an normal undead into an lich, they will be way weaker than the intelligent undead."

"However if the person in an intelligent undead, then the process will require more power."

"For example, an ritual that requires tons of energy and the amount of energy depends on the target current strength as well as their race and maybe the other stuff like their classes and their power. For example, a holy power or maybe even dragonic power."

"Hm…...Man. This is really confusing."

"…."

"Then…. How does it work? I mean the ritual? Do I need specific ritual depending on how much power I would need to fuel it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well…. If I think about the power method where you need a power as a fuel for the transformation, then you need to add amplifying layer on top of the ritual circle over and over."

"But unfortunately, it's not that easy."

"You also need to connect each additional circle to every other circle."

"There are also other means of turning into lich…. But unfortunately, I don't know details. I did heard from that orc lich that he turned into a lich by his own power and used a special ritualistic tool, but I don't know the details of that either."

"…"

"!"

"Question."

"Does lich ritual can use the sacrifices?" – asked ClownFrog.

"?"

"Em… I think- "

"No wait. I think it can use it…. I did heard the stories that the mad necromancer once slaughtered countless people and used their lifes as sacrifices to turn himself into a lich."

"If so, then the sacrifices method may work."

"…"

"No. I will not give you the fanatics prisoners or the remains of the clans, I need them as slaves to work for me." – said the demon lord with the straight face.

"Well… I was thinking about…. Something else." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"Empire."

"?!"

"Oh you son of a bitch!" – said the demon lord while laughing.

"So, you will kill the empire while doing me a favor, but in return you want to get paid and even got turned into a lich?"

"Yeb. I mean I will be doing the work and all." – said ClownFrog.

"But this isn't all."

"?"

"An alliance or "Just friends"."

"I don't trust you a slightest bit or anything, but so do you with me."

"However, we would both benefit from having each other as "Friends"."

"…"

"Hm…. The proposition sound solid. Having somebody like you as allies may seem useful." – said the demon lord.

"But, is it all? I think you have more to say." – asked the demon lord with serious face.

"…"

"Well, we are planning on leaving this continent." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"Where would- "

"?!"

"Wait. Empire?!" – said the demon lord.

"Ping pong."

"Correct."

"We shall go on the rampage in that place and stop pretending to be heroes of justice once and for all and show the world our true nature."

"Being a friend of an "Evil Bastard" may harm your image, but considering that the empire was one who started it, your reputation will instead rise since you would have a friend who is fighting the "Wicked Empire" in your people eyes."

"And if we turn into real villains that may seem to your people as threat, you can cut us off, right? Since we would be only "Friends"."

"…."

The demon lord stare silently before then a giant evil grim appeared on her face that showed her real demonic nature.

"NICE!" – said the evil demon lord.

"Fine you son of a bitch! You have a deal!"

The two shaked their hands while smiling like straight up devils, forging their unholy "Friendship" in the process.

"We shall do things on our end, so just go wild and kill them all!" – said the demon lord while smiling.

"With pleasure!" – replied ClownFrog while also smiling.

With that, Purple Hyena and the demon lord Abigail Neverend became allies as "Friends".

A fragile alliance, but an alliance that will benefit both sides.

"Oh. By the way, I heard that your friend has the Paimon gun, right?" – asked the demon lord.

"?!"

(She knows that?!)

"No surprise there. I killed that guy personally, so I know about that bastard weapon."

"But. From what I know, I had destroyed it, however it remains were then stolen."

"However, the gun now belongs to the "Friend", so I won't ask to return it, but can I at least take a look to confirm its real?"

"…"

"Sure."

The demon lord deactivated the jamming device so I could call the GreyHunt over.

After some time passed, GreyHunt got to the castle and meet up with the ClownFrog and the GreyHunt.

"…"

"You won't take away my gun, right?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Nope. I just want to check something." – said the demon lord.

"…"

"Give it to her." – ordered ClownFrog.

"…"

"Fine." – said GreyHunt while handing over the gun.

"…"

"Huh…. Yeb. Its broken."

"?!"

"What the hell do you mean its broken?!" – asked angry GreyHunt.

"Calm down."

"Look."

The demon lord created a bright light and moments later, the completely undamaged gun turned into a gun that its extremely damaged and old version.

[Destroyed Devil Seven]

"?!"

"The fuck you did to my gun!" – said the GreyHunt after noticing the shitty state of his gun.

"Calm down. All I did was remove the illusion." – said the demon lord.

"?"

"Illusion?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yes."

"Honestly, my spy you met told me that this guy was using this gun during the war."

"However, the thing is, I don't think your friend over there was strong enough to wield that gun yet."

"Paimon was level way over 400 while yours was probably at the level 200 or 300, right? Then it would make no sense at all for you to even being able to use this gun."

"?!"

(Wait, if she what is saying is the truth, then the Paimon gun should have been much stronger and with much higher restrictions?!) – though confused GreyHunt.

"Tell me. How did you obtained this gun?" – asked the demon lord.

"…"

"All we know that the gun originally belonged to the company called Dreamvail." – said GreyHunt.

"They were transporting illegal goods, including the gun."

"But the 3 greedy bastards found out about it and used the minotaurs to attack the caravan before then trying to wipe them out."

"However, some of them survived and we encountered them."

"We decided to help them and forge alliance with them." – added ClownFrog, taking over.

"We kidnaped the traitors and handed them over to the minotaurs so they could exact their revenge on them."

"However, we found out they had some sort of secret safe house where they kept all the stole goods as well as the some of their illegal funds."

"We squished the info from them and that is where we found this gun." – said GreyHunt.

"…."

"Dreamvail?" – said the demon lord with a deep concerned look on her face.

"?"

"Demon lord?" – asked ClownFrog.

"…"

"Honestly speaking, I don't know who they are."

"They are…. Very mysterious and enigmatic group who are also fifty rich."

"They tried to do business with us once, but I denied them, since they were too unknown."

"But… They were the ones who stole the Paimon gun and tried to restore it?"

"Honestly, I'm both concern and extremely surprised."

"The first thing is that they managed to stole it somehow AND the second that they were able to restore some of its original power."

"…. I think they used the same method that was used for the gun creation to restore it…. But only partially succeeded."

"…."

"Those bastards may more dangerous than I though." – though the demon lord.

"…"

"Question." – said GreyHunt.

"The current version of the gun still has its power, right?"

"But then, is it possible to restore it to its previous state? To the one when the demon lord Paimon was using it?"

"…."

"I think it's possible."