[VRMMO] Dead One

After the raid launched by the members of the Purple Hyena guild, the entire port had been completely turned into the land of the dead where there was not even single citizen left alive.

Only demons, undead and summons were roaming around and checking different area just in case they find anybody still hiding.

"…."

"Hey boss!" – said the red scaled kobold player with large horns and spiky tail.

[Cave]

"What is it Cave?" – replied ClownFrog while sitting on the ground.

"We checked this castle and there weren't many valuable items. There were few epic rarity items, but nothing unique and above."

"However, he did had stored huge amount of money and we had also acquired a 2 epic rarity ranks cannons."

"Huh. I see. Good work." – said ClownFrog.

"There was no problems or anything like that?"

"Nope. The entire castle…... Well… You left nobody alive after you went in." – said Apple Juice.

"So, we didn't encounter any problems or anything nor any guards defending the vault and stuff."

"…. Okay." – said ClownFrog.

"Just focus on doing your task and I will begin contacting the others to find their own progress."

"O-okay!" – said the kobold player before walking away.

"…."

(The plan is going way better than we though.)

[Sometime before the Purple Hyena guild had left their own continent.]

"Okay, it's time for our strategy meeting everybody." – said Oron.

"As per deal with the demon lord, we are allowed to take single empire ship and two transport ship."

"The ship we are taking isn't a large war ship, but the ship we got will be able to transport every single one of us, so there is no problems."

"We have also managed to get two transport ship that will allow us to transport some of our manmade monsters like golems or puppets."

"Our goal is to travel across the sea and get to the empire."

"However, considering our current relationship with the empire we are hostile, especially the first and third prince factions." – said GreyHunt.

[GreyHunt – Vice guild master of the Purple Hyena guild.]

"We did defended ourselves from the empire, but our guild were the ones responsible for their only means of escaping being destroyed."

"If we would enter the empire, we would become wanted criminals by the first and third price factions."

"And entering the empire territory alone will be bit problematic."

"Then we will have to just brute force our way in, right?" – said Ampi.

"Yea. This is the only way." – said Tail.

"But won't that immediately get our position away in the process?"

"Yea. It will." – said ClownFrog.

"However, there is a simple answer to this question."

"Sneaking in will be problematic, so it's better if we took head on approaches."

"Simply put, we will make so big of a mess that they won't know what exactly happened. A smoke screen if you say.

[Back to the present.]

(We did encounter some players, but we made sure that nobody revealed themselves and just had the monsters kill them.)

(I also didn't brough out Hera or O'a out and only brough out Zod for just a moment and also didn't used any of the special monster that may given me away.)

(The city was successfully taken over quiet easily.)

"…."

ClownFrog looked at his hand while smiling maliciously.

(Lich power! It's way more deadly than I had though!)

(The 50% increase in number of my monsters is extremely huge for me, since my army is already quite big.)

(Not only that, my [Necro Mastery] base stat got a multiplier 225%, meaning that one base point gives me 3.25 points instead. This is huge for me.)

(Not only that, but the newbies got way stronger. We provided them with new classes and items, making them now way deadlier.)

"But anyway, what do we do now?"

"Staying in this place is no go, since apparently to the captives this place was apparently some sort of popular and well known port city."

"We had also killed the lord of this territory."

"…."

(We need our own base.)

(And base of operation that will allow us to attack and hide from the empire.)

(Or maybe a location where the empire doesn't have much access.)

(Right now we have time since the total destruction of this place will slow them down and make them harder to find anything.)

[Guild – Chat]

"Everybody. Once you take anything of value, prepare for move out."

"Completely destroy the ships we used alongside the other ships in order to hide the fact that we came from the sea."

"Also set the parts of this city on fire."

The members of the Purple Hyena guild fallowed their guild master orders and completely destroyed all the ships in the docs and made them sink while also setting the entire city on fire.

However, before they did anything like that, they completely looted the city from any valuables it had, gaining a fortune in the process.

After completely destroying the city, the entire guild and their army had left the city and headed towards the nearby monster forest.

[You have slain: Wild Savage]

"Huh. The monsters here are way lower level than I though." – said Ampi.

"The monsters we encounter at the sea were much higher level than this. I thought that this place was some higher level hunting ground, but no?" – said Tail.

"Well, it's better for us…. But won't players come here? Since this is a hunting ground." – asked Lil.

"Don't worry. We will be only staying here only for today." – said GreyHunt.

"The expendable golems and puppets we made alongside the undead and abominations will be left behind in the city, giving the enemy bit more trouble and creating a distraction for us."

"While the empire will be investigation what happened to the city as well as dealing with our monsters, we will quickly leave this place in order to find ourselves better location."

"However, we need to operate in secret. Especially me since I'm straight up a freckling dragon at this point." – said ClownFrog.

"I'm freckling 4.5 meters tall!"

"Hm? 4.5? I thought you were over 5 meters tall?" – asked Tail.

"Yea, I thought that as well, but by the look of things my wings make me look way bigger."

"Oh…. I get it." – said Tail.

"Anyway, with how big I look, even if we somehow cover my entire body with rags that would cover both my tail and wings, I would still stick out like sore thumb."

"But it's not only me."

"Most of the races in this place are human, elves, dwarfs and beastmans. People of our group would stand out a lot."

"Pretty much, we will have to avoid any settlements for now and focus on hiding while scouting." – said Oron.

"Yea." – said ClownFrog.

"Before we can attack the empire for real, we first need an real base of operation."

"We need an place where we can produce and store our army of monsters."

"We have three options right now."

"First option is to find an allies that are hostile to the empire that may work with us and provide us an hiding spot."

"The second option is to create our own base."

"The third option is ally ourselves with an kingdom that is hostile to the empire."

"The first and third option may sound the same, but they are different."

"The ally in question regarding option 1 need to have an way to hide us, but if we took the answer 3 then our existence could be very well be easily discovered in process."

"The discovery of our presence won't harm us that much, but the problem is that they would know that we are working for "That" kingdom and would also keep watch over us."

"Honestly, in my opinion the option two is the best one."

"We did bringed a lot of construction tools and even have construction related golems with us."

"However, the question is where we would build our base?"

"…."

"Should we make an underground base?" – suggested Oron.

"Just like the fanatics, a hidden underground base that we can use to launch surprise attacks."

"No." – said Rampage.

"We may have tools and labor to make it happened, but not as big scale as the Paimon fanatics."

"Not only that, but Paimon fanatics had an underground system that allows them to attack from point A and then point B, confusing the demons."

"However, the underground base is also a great option, since we will be able to hide our forces in there." – said Blueberry.

"But the problem is location." – said ClownFrog.

"Before we even decide what kind of base we want to build, be it an building or the underground, we need to find an perfect location for our base."

"I say we need an location that is either extremely hard to access to the empire OR that they don't have access to that location at all."

"The best place would be an high level hunting ground where people are struggling a lot."

"HOWEVER!"

"This place cannot be near some of the more powerful or influenceable city belong to the empire since it may give us more than one problems in long run."

"…."

"Still, I'm wondering." – said GreyHunt.

"Our enemies are not only the empire but also the four factions belonging to "Them"."

"We are indeed hostile with the empire, but how about we join one of the successors factions and help them win before then betraying them? It will make them suffer huge damage in the process and we may have an ability to destroy the empire."

"…."

"No." – said Tail.

"Right now, the empire is in bit chaotic situation because of the succession war between factions."

"It's honestly better for us if the situation stays bit chaotic like that instead of helping the empire to calm down."

"…."

"Yea. Good point." – said Shri.

"Also, we are enemies with the first and third prince factions."

"That means that our only possible allies are the second prince and the first princess."

"But the second prince is off the list." – said ClownFrog.

"He has Hunter Hawks who are known as Crimson Gryphons."

"I know these bastards and they are smartasses; they may find something off about us or keep an eye on us."

"Bocuse of the Crimson Gryphons, the second prince isn't a possible ally."

"And as for the first princess, I don't know. All we know that she is gaining power via connections and trades, but will she even accept us as allies?"

"…."

"In short, the successors factions are out of the picture, right?" – asked Rampage.

"Unfortunately, yes." – said Oron.

"However, Tail just said something that IS benefiting us."

"It's the chaos that these bastards are causing."

"We can help out the losing faction or hinder the winning faction to slow down the race and make it last bit longer."

"It will make the chaos last bit longer."

"…."

"Good plan, but even if we wanted to do that, we can't." – said ClownFrog.

"Before we can even take any real big actions or actions behind the scenes, we need a base of operation."

"The sooner we get our own base, the sooner we can start being the real problem to these bastards."