[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Agiparariora City – Castle.]

"Are you sure about that?" – asked the maid in the glasses who was speaking with somebody behind the castle walls.

"Yes ma'am." – said the hooded figure.

"…"

"I understand. I will give the first princess informations." – said the maid in glasses before the hooded man disappeared into the shadows.

"…."

The maid disappeared in the shadows before few moments later she found herself in front of the large door that was guarded by the two heavily armored knights.

The maid approached the door and entered the room.

"…"

"What is Abara?" – asked first princess Amelia Oin that was sitting right to her desk and was filling out some documents while having an tired look on her face.

"…. My triplet brother contacted me." – said the maiden.

"He wanted me to rely you this message."

"There is an chance that the Purple Hyena guild may have been found."

"…."

"What?" – said princess as she lifted up her head and looked at the maid with her eyes wide opened.

"What do you mean!?"

"…"

"He isn't sure about the informations, but my grandfather, the Ocelot died." – said the maid.

"?!" – princess eyes went looked with disbelieve upon hearing the news.

(Ocelot?! He died?!)

"Ocelot, my grandfather, was on the mission to find out where the Purple Hyena could be possible hiding." – said the maid.

"Wait, Purple Hyena? We haven't seen them for months already?" – said the princess.

"Yes. But grandfather said that there is something going on behind the scenes and he said that the Purple Hyena were part of it if not behind it." – said the maid.

"He went and started looking around, through the empire, trying to find anything like the traces of the Purple Hyena or where they could be possible be hiding."

"He didn't find them… Until recently, right around the time before the emperor died, he though of an idea that the Purple Hyena could have or are using the one of the three great danger zones."

"The first investigation was done on the Dead Hive, but there were no results and instead some casualties…. But the Bloody Mountains could have provided an different results." – said the maid as she took out an piece of paper and unfolded it, before then putting it on the table."

"He encountered this." – said the maid as she put an sketch of the ClownFrog humanoid form on the table.

"This is the thing that killed the Ocelot."

"Well, to be more specific, my grandfather blowed himself up, trying to kill this thing."

"…Wait. If he dies, then how- "

"He replaced his eye with the artifact." – said maid, cutting off the princess.

"That artefact allowed the linked magic device to see everything the grandfather saw."

"Anyway, what my grandfather saw were three things worth noting."

"An monsters scouts, wandering around, making sure to hunt down any intruders."

"An well-developed giant wall in the heart of the Bloody Mountains."

"And this thing here."

"An never before seen species of monsters."

"However, the problem is this thing powers."

"It was an necromancer that was at least an high necromancer rank and not only that, but it could also wield an overwhelming demonic power that allowed it to even control an armies of the demons alongside the armies of the undeads at the same time, while on the very top also being able to summon those monsters almost instantly."

"There is also the fact that he was an powerful mage."

"All 3 of these similarities are somewhat the same as that of the terrorist ClownFrog."

"But… Wasn't ClownFrog an lich dragonewt? This thing doesn't look like an dragon or undead at all." – said princess while inspecting the sketch of the ClownFrog.

"Sure, this thing isn't an human and they do somewhat resembles that of an lizardman, but that it from his appearance."

"Could have his whole appearance changed that much?"

"However, we cannot ignore those similarities I just told you about." – said the maid.

"There is also that weird developed base."

"This creature here may not be ClownFrog, but it could be somewhat related to him."

"Honestly, this maybe our only possible lead that would let us possible find the Purple Hyena guild."

"…."

"But do you think I can do anything about it?" – asked the first princess.

"Sorry, but there is massive problem."

"And that the third prince."

"His faction is surrounding the Bloody Mountains."

"Even originally territory of the first prince was taken over by him with that whole brand new army and stuff."

"The first prince did kind of gave up on that territory and move away his forces, since he knew that defending that land there wasn't worth it, but now we have that fucker in charge of that place."

"And you are fully aware of what kind of bastard that guy is and how hostile he is to us."

"Lets say we spread the news that the Purple Hyena guild is hiding in the Bloody Mountains, then what?"

"Would any of the factions do anything about it?"

"I could call the emergency meeting option we had made when we signed the contract."

"This part forces us to stop fighting between ourselves and deal with the threat to the empire that can harm it or even destroy if the cooperation is declared needed."

"But the problem is evidence."

"We lack the evidence."

"We maybe be able to use that device connected to the artefact, but it's not enough."

"We don't have any direct proofs that the Purple Hyena is connected to this monster, nor any real evidence that the wall you told me about was made by the Purple Hyena."

"So right now, they will be able to say "NO" without any consequences and the contract won't affect them, since we don't have any solid proof."

"I can send my men, but the problem is the fuking third prince faction."

"We can send army to break through the third prince forces and head straight towards the Bloody Mountains, but then what?"

"They would end up being trapped in there. Hell, third prince faction forces may end up leading an hunt after them while they would be doing an search."

"And in the first place, they would need to break through the third prince forces and head straight there, meaning that they would arrive at the Bloody Mountains already exhausted somewhat."

"And that place is called one of the three great danger zones of the empire for the reason."

"I'm…. I'm sorry Abara."

"But my hand are straight up tied. I can't do anything."

"The risk is far too great and we lack any solid evidence."

"I can't send any of my men here."

"I know about your other brothers, I know their job, and I can kind of realize why they told you to tell me about what they had found."

"However, what they discovered is not enough."

"And the only person who should be able to use forces there- "

"The third prince. He can only investigate that place, since his forces are surrounding that place." – said the maid.

"Exactly." – said princess.

"If the report came somewhat earlier, before that buffoon Apollo declared the war, then we would have been forced to do the whole search, but now?! Now of all the times?!"

"Shit. We straight up can't do it!"

"…"

"The best we can do is to spread rumors about the Purple Hyena being there…. But there is another problem as you may have already realized."

"There are shitty rumors going around the third prince faction, about him being an culprit behind the kidnappings and the fake Purple Hyena attacks and he had also been doing illegal human experiments."

"Honestly, we don't know how the informations was leaked about him being the culprit, it could have been the first prince faction…. But they weren't aware of the human experiments and so were we."

"Hell, we didn't even knew if those human experiments are real yet."

"Until recently…. Some of the third prince men we had captured were not humans… They were only made to look like humans, but they were just monsters. Their insides were completely changed…. Those soldiers are not humans. They were made using humans as materials and that is it. "

"We still don't know what exactly those creatures are and that bastard Simon does not care anymore if he gets exposed or not."

"Hell, it would not be surprising at all if other factions knew about it already and the rumors are already spreading about it."

"…."

*Sigh*

"I'm sorry. But I cannot do it. I just can't."

"I know, Ocelot death cannot be made meaningless, but I straight up don't have any physical option of doing anything, please understand."

"I'm sorry, but I just can't."

"…."

The maid bowed her head before then turning around and leaving the room.

"…."

*Sigh*

(She is definitely angry… Who wouldn't be?) – though Amelia.

(Her grandfather died just like that and I straight up cannot do anything to honor his sacrifice.)

(The best I can do is spread rumors using my connections, but that is it.)

(Fuck me…. First the whole Simon pulling out an army out of a thin air that then turned out to be that some of the members of that army are some monsters that were made to resembles humans and it won't be long before the whole empire finds out about that the rumors regarding the human experiments were real and the kidnapped people were used to create those human looking monsters.)

(I mean, what the hell?! I knew that this bastard was greedy, but he straight up went, and did it?! Does he not care if the entire empire will declare him as number one enemy?!)

(With the current situation, Simon won't become an emperor, even if he were to defeat all opposite factions and get me and other two executed.)

(The empire won't accept him and the method he had used to take over the empire…. Meaning that revolt will take place and the only way for Simon to take over the throne would be to conquer the entire empire.)

(As soon as the third prince makes enough mess, the other two factions will have no choice but to join forces in order to deal with the threat that threatens the empire existence.)

(However, is Simon really working alone?!)

(Hell, how the hell he knew how to make those monsters? There is somebody working with him and I think they are nasty bastards.)

(This won't be pretty.)

"…."

"And now the fuking Purple Hyena possible getting mixed up in this?"

"…."

(Is it possible that the third prince and the Purple Hyena guild are working together?)

(Nah. If they were, then why would he pretend to be them, instead of just using them?)

(And is it really the Purple Hyena there?)

(The monsters that the third prince created are not purely made out of human bodies….. Shit.)

"Bloody Mountains. That guy plans on using the monsters from there as either soldiers or materials to create monsters!"

(So that is why he focused on taking over the territory around it! He want to use monsters there!)

(Shit! This isn't good!)

"Fuck…. Things got way worse."

(Considering how he aimed to take over the territory there as soon as possible would suggest that the creation process is ready for use, but all he needs now are either corpse or the living materials.)

(Shit! He plans on growing his army even more!)

(Forget an possibility of the Purple Hyena being there, I just fuking found out that fuking bastard goal!)

"HEY! GET IN HERE!" – shouted princess, causing the two knights who were outside to quickly enter the room in hurry.

"Princess?! Is something wrong?!" – asked worried knight.

"Get the general Arok. NOW!" – shouted the princess.

"We have quiet fuking annoying problem at our hands that needs to be dealt with immediately."

"And set up the communication room up as well. I need to talk with my allies about it."

(Shit! What the fuck are you playing at, SIMON?!)