[VRMMO] Dead One

"…."

"So, what are you saying is, that the Crumbling Earth tribe plans to launch an full scale invasion on our base in their mad religion?" – asked ClownFrog.

"But, weren't the brown antman army crushed? I mean, you even killed the princes and kings as well." – asked confused Apple Juice who was healing red antman.

"Yea. They have send an huge army after us and they got annihilated." – said ClownFrog.

"They even send an huge army after our base, but the forces that have been left to defend the base managed to defeat them."

"So shouldn't these brown antmans be lacking in troops right now?"

"Or do they want to throw what remains at us in some last ditch effort."

"Wrong. Wrong." – said red antman Pa.

"Forces. Still. Many."

"You. Didn't. Fought. All. Antmans."

"There. Is. Still. Many."

"Not. That. Only."

"Brown. Forced. To. Improve. Evolve."

"Browns. Ability. Adapt."

"Eat. Corpse. Ability. Eat. Lot. Cause. Better. Reproduce."

"Numbers. Increase. Fast."

"Danger."

"Not. Small. Group."

"Big. Group. Will. Come."

"Reproduce. Grow. Attack."

"Not. Only. That."

"One. More. King. Left. And. Maybe. New. Princes. Born."

"Danger. Come."

"…."

(So… From what I'm getting here.) – though ClownFrog as he tried to organize informations.

(The brown antmans can reproduce much faster thanks to the ability of eating corpse, causing their number to increase much faster.)

(Not only that, but there was one more antman king?)

(Fuck me.)

(So these antmans aren't finished yet and are still hiding.)

(And as more time passes, their numbers grow?)

"…Hm…. Yea. That does sounds…. Wait."

"What about your people?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Will they use your people as slaves to fight against us?"

"No." – replied Pa.

"They. See. No. Worth."

"Slaves. In. Eyes."

"Will. Eat. Us. To. Produce."

"…"

"Did they did that before?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yes." – replied Pa.

"…."

"I understand the situation." – said ClownFrog.

"So, is your request something like this."

"You will lead us where the Crumbling Earth tribe of antmans is, where we will exterminate them before they are ready and save your people."

"And what in exchange?"

"Your loyalty?"

"Yes." – replied Pa while bowing its head.

"We. Weak. Can't. Survive. Need. Help."

"Beg. Me. Us."

"We. Fallow. You. If. Rescue."

"…."

"Hm…."

(What do we do?) – though ClownFrog upon hearing the antman reply.

(Honestly, these guys were definitely slaves considering their current state.)

"…."

(Let's say they are lying and they work with the brown antmans, then what? We will crush them or possible find an lead that would point us to their real nest.)

(Risk is worth it.)

(Not only that, but if his story is true, then we will need to do an total extermination of these brown ants or they would be annoying throne in our side.)

(And if we rescue the red antmans and recruit them, we will have an second intelligent monster tribe working for us.)

(…...)

(WAIT A FUKING SECOND!)

(Didn't he said that they were in charge of crafting and producing stuff?!)

"…."

(Oh, my fuking god. Now we definitely need them.)

(There is an risk there and they could be possible lying. But the benefits we would have obtained form all this could be extremely huge.)

"…."

"I understand." – said ClownFrog.

"We will save your people in exchange for your loyalty and service."

"!"

"You. Will?!" – said Pa.

"Yea." – said ClownFrog.

"But if this is an trick where you plan to betray us and work with these Crumbling Earth antmans, then you should be ready for what would come after your betrayal."

After the whole unexpected encounter with these red antmans, I instantly called an quick meeting with the main members of the guild like Blueberry, Oron, GreyHunt, Shri, Lil and Ampi as well as me.

I explained the whole situation to them and they did consider the whole "Extermination and rescue" plan as an great plan, even if does carry an possibility of the red antmans betraying us.

However, there was also the fact that the brown antmans may have really have an ability to increase their reproduction rate via consumption of the corpse.

If we leave those bastards alone, we could have an throne on our side that could possible keep popping up over and over again, until we exterminate all of these antmans.

If we can exterminate now these Crumbling Earth antman tribe before they grow too much and spread around, then everything will be fine. But if we don't do anything and we let them do that, then we will definitely have very big annoyance later on.

So, with all that consider, we have rounded up our forces and prepared to assault that consist of the army of the undeads, demons, core guild members me, GreyHunt, Shri and Rampage as well as regular members like Orange Juice, Apple Juice, Litle Manica, Howl, Swim, Wretch and Lil.

The others are staying in the base to oversee our base and its development while also making sure that they are ready in case of an possible monster army ambush. Those brown antmans did managed to get apparently very close to our base without them noticing until they were very close.

Even when using trees and terrains to hide themselves, our people were both on watch and on guard.

These brown ants specialty seems to be earth magic and ambushes. An nasty bastards to have around if they plan on pestering us.

Honestly, Oron would have been perfect for those kind of ambushes detection, but he would be more dire needed in our base, in case we would get attacked in some critical locations.

However, Shri and me could do the work, since she has multiple monsters that specializes in tracking and my detection ability got an huge power up after evolving. So, we will probably do the job.

Anyway, we had the red antmans lead us to the nest of the Crumbling Earth tribe that was located right next to the mountain where apparently their nest is digged into it and then underground.

Honestly, the location of their nest is extremely well hidden, so it was no wonder we couldn't find it. It was located near the mountain border instead of anywhere near locations where we encountered the antmans or Amadeus slaves and servants.

These ants had the same idea as us and honestly, their location was way more dangerous than we had though.

With their nest, they could go down, onto the lower parts of the Bloody Mountains, hunt weaker monsters in order to feed themselves using their corpse and grow in numbers.

And here comes the news.

It was truth.

It was indeed the antman nest we were looking for.

"Exterminate those fuckers!" – shouted Shri as she led a charge alongside her monsters and demons who started attacking and massacreting any of the brown antmans they found.

"…."

"So, you were telling the truth." – said ClownFrog to the red antman named Pa.

"Yes." – replied Pa.

"But. Watch. Out."

"Don't worry." – said ClownFrog before aiming with his staff and firing an giant blast of fire that completely swallowed and devoured all of the brown antmans in front of the red antmans.

"You should know that already. But we are the real monsters here." – said ClownFrog to the antmans that were visible scared of ClownFrog power he just displayed.

"Let's go."

The invasion party had managed to successfully find and launch an attack on the real nest belonging to the Crumbling Earth tribe of the antmans.

The Purple Hyena had shown completely no mercy to their foes what so ever and not only that, but any of the fallen antmans were instantly turned into undeads, joining the march of death as the underground corridors of their homes were now being filled with demons and undeads while the members of the Purple Hyena guild were going on total rampage without stopping.

"…."

(The information is also correct.) – though ClownFrog as he walked around the corridors of the antman nest while using his humanoid form in order to travel much easier.

One of the antmans burseted out of the wall and tried to attack ClownFrog, but was quickly grabbed by its face by ClownFrog who then slammed the antman against the ground and then using wind magic to rip apart the monster, leaving behind its torn to shreds body behind as he walked past it alongside the red antmans who saw the gruesome scene.

"…"

"I won't kill you." – said ClownFrog to the antmans while they were walking, confusing and scaring the antmans who have heard ClownFrog words.

"We made an deal."

"We will save you, but you will serv us."

"However, we will obviously also heal your wounded and feed them, since we don't want to use them the same way these bastards did."

"However, I think you do understand the situation if you were to betray us after we gave you our trust and this whole situation turned out to be an scam where in reality you are working with them."

"Got it?"

"….Y-yes." – said nervous Pa.

"Good."

"Then let's continue."

"We won't stop until every single one of those Crumbling Earth antmans are nothing more than extinct."