[VRMMO] Dead One

"How is the situation with the antmans?" – asked ClownFrog as the red antmans were getting threated by member of the Purple Hyena guild.

"Good. Some of them did received some heavy injuries, but they will live." – said Apple Juice while using healing magic on the antmans.

"However, there is also the fact that they are extremely exhausted."

"They won't be able to move anywhere for a long time."

"Like physically."

"And if we even help them recover to the point, they can do it, they won't have enough strength to defend themselves."

"Their situation is far worse than ox man's original situation, as you can see."

"…."

"How long would take the full recovery?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well… Definitely not some one or two days, I can tell you that." – said Ornge Juice who approached the pair.

"They will need a lot of time."

"Master." – said Pa as he approaches group.

"We. Problem. Have."

"Fallow. Please."

"…."

"Okay." – said ClownFrog as he began fallowing the antman through the crowd of the injured red antmans before then arriving at the locked room.

The Pa opened the door for the ClownFrog and upon entering it, he saw the giant injured antman with an sack sticking out from it.

"Brown. Abused. Forced. Reproduce. Increase. Numbers. Increase. Sacrifices." – said Pa.

"Last. Queen. Die. Soon."

"Healing. Save. Won't."

"Antmans. Reproduce. Rare. Special. Females."

"Without. No. New. Antmans. Born."

"Wait. New. Princess. Born. Time. Take."

"But. Without. Princess. Time. Lot. Need."

"But. Problem. More."

"No. Queen. No. King. No. Prince. No. Princess. No. General. No. Capitan."

"Antmans. Worry. Scared. Problem. May. Appear."

"…."

"Shit." – said ClownFrog.

(So, we managed to secure the red antmans, but the queen is beyond saving, eh?)

(Not only that, but we lack anything like leader among the antmans? That does sounds problematic.)

"…."

ClownFrog splashed a blood magic onto the queen, trying to heal her, but even so, that wasn't enough.

"Tch. I tried healing her, but it didn't worked." – said ClownFrog.

"Sorry."

"…."

"Queen. Die. Try. Won't. Work." – said Pa.

"But. Different. Method. In. Mind."

"?" – ClownFrog looked towards the antman.

"Your. Tamer. Shri. Name."

"Ants. Different. But. Strong. Tough. Poetical."

"Use. Essence. Ours. Feed. It."

"Use. Essence. Of. Red. Queen. And. Blood. Of. Our. Kind."

"Evolve. Force. Adapt."

"New. Queen. Special."

"Ants. Happy."

"!"

"Wait, you are saying that you can turn Shri ants into the red antmans?!" – said shocked ClownFrog.

(But wait…. How the does that work? Do antmans have an ability to turn other species of ants into the antmans?)

"…."

"How does that work?" – asked ClownFrog who couldn't hold back his curiosity.

"Do antman posses an ability to turn other ant type species into antmans?"

"Complicated." – replied Pa as he began leaving the room while leaving the room with ClownFrog and having the two red antmans to attend the queen.

"Antmans. Originally. Spirits."

"!?" – ClownFrog stared confused and shocked at the antman upon hearing

"Created. Weapons."

"Abuse."

"Rebel."

"Antmans. Free."

"Settled. Here. Core. World."

"Time. Change. Body. Change. Need."

"Breed. Ant. Monsters."

"Transform. Birth. Antman. Born."

"Weren't. Antmans. Before. Now. Anatmans. Are."

"Origin."

"…."

"Wait a moment. You are saying that the antmans were originally spirits, but they were made as weapons, until they rebelled against their masters, before they made this world into their homes and were forced to change, causing them to stop being the spirits and become…. Antmans?" – said ClownFrog who was trying to sort down the informations.

"Yes." – replied Pa.

"Originally. Not. Antmans. Become. Antmans. Later. On."

"…."

"Huh…."

(Okay…. So, I think accidently discovered possible some sort of big lore…... Em… I did not expected this kind of discovery… I mean… How do I say it?) – though ClownFrog as he tried to process the informations.

(I though they were just random monster tribe!)

(I mean, nothing about them seemed extremely special or anything like that, but it turns out they have some juicy lore?)

(This is…. Well…. Interesting and surprising?)

(Still, I had heard about something called spirit warriors.)

(They are an nameless spirits. An spirits that are just…. "Things".)

(But these guys are definitely not spirit warriors. They can think and feel emotions. They are not "Objects".)

(Then what were they originally?)

(I honestly though the spirits were somewhat most passive ones, but turns out that we maybe find out some of their dirty little secret???) – though ClownFrog as he wonder on what to do with the found out informations.

(Well, Hera did warned me that no realm is really pure.)

(Hell, heaven, spirit realm. All of them are unpure and she warned me whenever I would be doing business with any of these realms.)

"…."

"Question." – said ClownFrog.

"If the new queens would be born, would the antmans somewhat calmed down and won't be so much scared?"

"Future. Secured. Less. Stress." – said Pa.

"No. Secured. Antmans. Scared. Panic. May. Problem. Come."

"…. I understand."

"Shri!" – shouted ClownFrog suddenly after leaving the room and finding himself in the underground room filled with red antmans.

"…What? Why the hell are you yelling for?" – asked Shri as she approaches ClownFrog and Pa.

"We need to talk and its important." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

ClownFrog and Pa took Shri to the side and began explaining the whole situation to Shri.

"Wait, hold up." – said Shri who was processing informations.

"You want to use. My bite ants. As sacrifices in order to speed up the red antmans recovery?"

"I get the whole picture that it will make antmans somewhat be less nervous and everything, but you know that its an lot to ask for?"

"These ants have saved my butt many times and I had straight up grown attached to the queen."

"…..."

"…"

"Pa." – said Shri as she turned towards the red antman.

"I can only agree to this deal, however I need some informations."

"If I don't have the informations I want or stuff related to it, then I may consider not agreeing to the deal."

"Do you understand?"

"…."

"Yes." – said nervous antman Pa.

"First question. Will they become stronger? My bite ants?" – Shri asked her first question.

"Yes. They. Will." – replied Pa.

"Second question. Will the turned ants will be forced to spend all of their days locked?" – asked Shri.

"No. They. Can't. Overproduce. Need. Stop. You. Can. Stop. Them." – replied Pa.

"So does that mean I can take them to the battles and stuff?" – asked Shri.

"Yes. But. Careful. Can't die. Or. Be. Too. Far. Until. Princess. One. At. Least. Born." – said Pa.

"…Understandable." – said Shri.

"…"

"Last question."

"Fine. I only wanted these two questions to be answers really. I have nothing else." – said Shri.

"I will turn my bite ants into red antmans."

"!"

"Thank. You!" – said Pa as he grabbed Shri hand and began shaking it.

"Don't worry. I will also get benefit from all this." – said Shri.

"…."

*Ekehm*

"I'm sorry about everything and stuff Pa, but we need to talk. Specifically, with your tribe about something." – said ClownFrog.

"?" – Pa looked at ClownFrog.

"Its regarding the brown antmans."

"!"

"Oh! Are we also recruiting them?!" – asked interested Shri.

"Not quiet…..." – said ClownFrog.

ClownFrog began explaining the situation to the two regarding the fate of the brown antman eggs.

"So here is the situation." – said ClownFrog.

"The one who decides and has any real voting in this situations is you and your tribe, Pa."

"Will you spare the brown antmans and have them join forces? Or do you want to exterminate every single one of them?"

"…."

"A…... A. Lot…. Need. Talk. Tribe…. Time. Will. Take." – said Pa who seemed visible worried and nervous upon hearing the situation.

"Don't worry. This is an important decision. So, take your time." – said ClownFrog.

"Will." – said Pa before bowing his head and walking away to attend the wounded.

"…."

*Sigh*

"What's up?" – asked Shri while starting to walk around alongside ClownFrog through the underground tunnels that once belonged to the Crumbling Earth tribe.

"Well… I may or may not discovered some big piece of lore where those guys are involved… And I wasn't expecting this." – said ClownFrog while walking around.

"Wait, really?" – asked curios Shri.

"Yeb. Honestly, I will probably press the red ants for more details and stuff, since it does seems somewhat important." – said ClownFrog while walking side by side with Shri and arriving at the breeding grounds where a ton of brown antmans eggs are located.

"…."

"Say…. Can't we just use these antmans? I mean the brown ones." – said Shri while stopping walking.

"We need two more monster types to create their nests, right?"

"Then why don't we use those guys? They won't work for us and will be wild monsters and everything."

"And you did told me that those ants won't be anything like the Crumbling Earth tribe."

"…."

"Well, the plan is good and everything." – said ClownFrog.

"But did you forgotten that we straight up slaughtered every single queen and princess?"

"Without them, it will be impossible to create nest."

"….Oh. Right." – said Shri.

"Kind of forgotten about that very obvious fact."

"We straight up just talked about antmans queens and you…. Never mind." – said ClownFrog to the Shri who was trying to avoiding ClownFrog gaze.

"…."

"So… Do we still look for some wild monsters nest or dungeon and capture them before throwing them to the lower levels?" – asked Shri.

"Yea…. But we also have other problems." – said ClownFrog.

"The other monsters in the Bloody Mountains are becoming more wary of us and that will obviously cause way more attacks than before."

"There is also that stupid fact that there could be possible other rulers here and from what we possible know, the rulers that are left could be an real pieces of work."

"There is also that Forgotten Fragment dungeon."

"It didn't do anything yet and that is big "YET"."

"We don't know if or when it would straight up "Explode", causing mass chaos and other problems for us."

"We need to deal with that dungeon not only for rewards, but also for our base safety."

"…."

"So…. We still have shit ton of work to do?" – asked Shri who seemed annoyed.

"Oh yea… We have still shit ton of work." – replied ClownFrog.

"And we still haven't finished with the whole monster moving plan yet as well."

"So yea…. We still have a LOT of work to do."