[VRMMO] Dead One

[Sometime after the Ox town have been conquered and destroyed.]

"So, you are saying that there was a black market in here?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yes. To be more precise, it's also a laboratory." – said O'a.

"…"

"And captives? Were there any slaves?"

"…."

"We discovered female slaves…. But male…... They were…. Alive, but not really." – said O'a.

"Fuck…Did you killed them?"

"Not yet. For now we captured them like Hera wanted to see if she can somewhat change them back."

"…."

"Lead the way." – said ClownFrog.

ClownFrog fallowed O'a and entered the secret passage located in the town auction house.

After taking the passage, O'a and ClownFrog found himself in the large underground town size market.

"…."

(This isn't normal.) – though ClownFrog.

(This place must have taken a lot of efforts and money to make.)

(There is also the fact that according to the informations we had gathered from the captives, about this place being gathering place for merchants seems to have been correct and incorrect.)

(This place works for merchants, but it's also cover up for the black market by the look of things.)

(Or maybe merchants were aware of this fact?)

"…."

"Who are these people over there?" – said ClownFrog while walking around the black market.

"They are black market merchants that we had captured. They were trying to run away, but were quickly captured by the cruel knights." – said O'a.

"…."

ClownFrog walked towards one of the black merchants.

"Hey."

"!"

"I want information."

"Is it true that the black markets are currently working with the third prince?"

"…."

ClownFrog opened his mouth and began emitting light from his mouth.

"!?"

"WE DON'T KNOW!" – replied panicking human merchant.

"?"

"We really don't know!" – said the elf merchant.

"The black market does seem to have some connections to the third prince faction, but we really don't know if the third prince himself is working with the black markets or not! We swear!"

"…."

(These guys…. They are total cowards.) – though ClownFrog.

(Bastards like them would instantly spill the beans as soon as they are faced with death…. But by the look of things, they really don't know?)

(…. Is the third prince staying hidden out of this, so he would be catched in any trouble?)

(Third prince won't be responsible if any of his supports get catched, since he can say that they are part of his faction, but are not working for him. Some people could use the factions for their advantages to shield themselves, like corrupted nobles and other sort of bastards.)

"…."

"Well, there may be use for you later. So don't kill them yet."

"Anyway, where is Hera right now?

"In that building over there."

ClownFrog alongside O'a walked towards the massive building located underground and entered it together.

"Hiiiiii!!!!!"

"?"

As soon as ClownFrog entered the building, he heard something and when he turned around, he saw a group of young girls trembling in fear.

"..."

"I guess you are illegal slaves that were captured, aren't you?" -Said ClownFrog while facing the girls.

"..."

"Where are males?"

" They are, or what is left of them in there." - said Hera while walking towards ClownFrog and cleaning her hands.

'Sigh'

"Lead the way."

ClownFrog fallowed Hera though the illegal slave trading build.

Inside the basement of the building was an storage that was filled with many different human parts ranging from limbs to organs.

"...."

(It's just like that fat merchant said.) - though ClownFrog.

(Females are profitable slaves while males are profitable objects for experiment and illegal body parts selling.)

(I was hoping to rescue males, but I guesses that was wishful thinking.)

"Wait."

"Are all males dead?"

"No. There some who were turned into experimental subject while others beaten up badly. They probably tried to fight back or something." - said Hera.

"The girls are currently providing them some first aid."

"Good."

"Now obvious question."

"Where is the guys in charge? The one who manages the black market here and the mayor."

"....Mayor was captured when he tried to flee."

"But the guy in charge of this place was killed by something."

"?"

"Something?"

"Yes."

"It was some sort of curse that killed him as soon as he was captured."

"Probably it was placed on him to keep his mouth shut in case the empire had captured him."

"And the bastards we captured are some random nobodies, so there is chance they don't know anything very important." – said ClownFrog.

"…."

'Sigh'

"And now we even have more annoying questions."

(Is the third prince really unrelated to those black markets and the people are just using his fasciation and face in order to do illegal stuff behind the scenes?)

"…."

"Anway, help the captured slaves recover. They may know some stuff that may end up useful to us." – said ClownFrog.

"Ok boss." – replied Hera.

"…."

(Still…... This place doesn't look like normal laboratory where they rip a person apart.)

(Its kind of reminds of the monster factories in the demonic kingdom?)

(But we didn't saw nor encounter any weird or man made monsters while attacking this place…... Am I overthinking things?)

(Or maybe instead of monsters they are using the body parts of the captured people to create something?)

(….Either way, the third prince or his faction as whole will probably not like the fact about what we had did to his base.)

(But I wonder…. What the hell are they doing?)

(Is it only illegal trade to boost the amount of money the third prince faction has? Or maybe they have different goal in mind? For example, revolution and takeover of the empire?)

"…."

(Not enough evidence or informations.)

(…. Hm…. Should we reveal to the public what the third prince faction was doing?)

(It could end up making things complicated for the third prince and his faction…. But the problem is how we will post the info?)

(We definitely cannot post Purple Hyena, since people will definitely not trust us nor we can be anonymous.)

"…."

'Sigh.'

"Things just can't be easy."

["My lord."]

"Hm?"

"What is it, Morion?"

Morion was using communication device to talk with ClownFrog from long range distance.

["While scouting area we found out some forces hiding nearby and spying from afar."]

["As soon as we had discovered them, they had realized that."]

["We are currently chasing them and the undeads had engaged in combat with them, but they don't seem on the same level as the guys from before. Instead, they seem quite strong."]

["About half of them seems to be soldiers… But they are not wearing any special marking of colors so we don't really know if they work for any of those four faction. And the other half does not look like soldiers based on their equipment."]

"…..."

(Players?)

"What is the equipment they are wearing?"

"Like a mishmash?"

["Kind of…. But they don't appear to be adventures… I think they maybe mercenaries?"]

"?"

(Mercenaries?)

(….)

(The undeads seems to be dying right now just like Morion said…. But they are dying bit too fast….)

"I'm on my way."

"Hold them off or deal with them. I'm coming your way."

"Hera. I'm going for now. You take care of things here."

ClownFrog run out of the building and began quickly heading towards the entrance while right outside the city the demons and the undead under Morion command were facing off against the mysterious enemy reinforcement.

"Shit!" – said the soldier while trying to block the barrage of blows from the skeleton monster.

"What the hell is with those number of undeads?!"

"Fuck undeads! There are demons and also elementals in the mix?!" – said the mage soldier who was deploying barrier.

"STAND STRONG!" – shouted the noble man knight before rushing in and cutting several undeads with one slash using his sword.

"These undeads must have- "

"!?"

The noble man quickly shut himself up as a giant goat headed demon approached him.

(Gehenna Katsíka?! What the hell is that kind of demon doing here?!)

(No wait! There are few of them?!)

(I though that necromancer was all about undeads, but he can also commands that powerful demons?!)

"…."

"Well. You seem strong." – said Morion.

"I guess you won't mind if I tore off your arms." – said Morion before rushing at the noble man.

"?!"

The noble man create the shield of light, but Morion hammer easily send the noble man flying alongside his barrier and even managed to severally damage the barrier itself.

Morion rushed towards the noble and tried smashing his barrier again with his hammer, but then in the last second Morion stopped and stepped back as a giant slash of dark energy came flying by, barely managing not to hit Morion and instead destroy several undeads that ended up in the blade way.

"…."

Morion looked to his left and saw an eye patched man coming towards him.

"…."

(This guy…. He seems like bad news.) – though Morion while changing his target from the noble man to the eye patched man.

"…."

'Sigh'

The eye patched man looked around and saw the huge army of undeads, demons and the elemental monsters closing in.

(We weren't expecting the Ox town to be already destroyed, nor we had expected the necromancer to posses that kind of power…... His army is way stronger than the intel have given us.) – though Sirius Cruel.

"!"

"Capitan!"

"Look!" – shouted the mercenary mage.

"?"

Sirius alongside Morion looked up and saw a giant figure flying through the sky, straight towards the two.

It was ClownFrog who was flying at full speed towards them.

"…."

"Okay. We give up." – said suddenly Sirius.

"…."

"Do you want to die?" – asked Morion.

"Nope."

"In fact. We originally came here to talk with your leader."

"So, before we fight and everything. Let's talk."

"…."

(What is that bastard scheming?) – though Morion, unsure if wants to trust the man or not.