[VRMMO] Dead One

"Okay. So, we are going to accept the princess proposal, but I think you are not forgetting something obvious here buddy." – said annoyed GreyHunt.

"One thing is taking first princess people in our care, but another is taking care of own people."

"And let me tell you something, we had obtained a LOT of people after beating the third prince faction."

"I'm sorry, but are you fuking hearing yourself right now?"

"We are an FUKING nation right now! And we need to take care of OUR people."

"And right now if you may not had noticed, we are bit unstable right now and things are chaotic."

"I'm in with recruiting the first princess into our kingdom, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW!"

"…."

"I agree with GreyHunt. We can't rush it." – said Oron.

"Even though we managed to push back both the first and the second prince forces, the things are still quite chaotic on our end."

"The new problems are keep popping up and stuff… And now we want to add even more trouble?"

"We can't do it or our kingdom would straight up fall from within!"

"But if we don't do it, then the 'benefactor' maybe do an move." – said ClownFrog.

"Yea, he maybe fuking do something, but think logically you bloody idiot! We can't fuking do it now or our kingdom would suffer in a lot of different ways."

"So you better make an right fuking decision you bastard."

After the meeting with Oron, GreyHunt and Bella concluded, ClownFrog returned back to the throne room and used communication mirror to reestablish connection with the first princess Amelia Oin.

"You are accepting the proposal?" – asked the princess Amelia though the communication mirror.

"Yes… But there are quiet few problem and if you wish to complete this deal, you will have to sign an demonic contract." – said ClownFrog.

"I know that if you would betray us, you would get fucked in many different ways and this also includes other way around if we were the ones who did the betraying."

"So, we need something that can provide people with 'trust'."

"Well, understandable." – said the princess.

"Then, when should we sight the contract?"

"As soon as possible, since I may or may not have some nasty news for him." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"What do you mean?" – said princes Amelia with serios voice.

"Sorry, but I straight up cannot say anything about it right now, UNTIL you sign the contract and prove that you are not the new bastards working with the third prince "Friend"." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

("Friend"? What is he talking about?) – though Amelia who was both concerned and scared.

(I don't think I will be liking where this is going.)

"However, before we do anything, we need to talk about…. Well, about your situation." – said ClownFrog.

"Do you want to announce that you are going to join us or something? If you would do something like, you do realize that your greedy siblings may attack you and your territories, meaning that before… Well, before you do anything, it would be an game over, unless you would join our kingdom from get go, however some of your people may see as betrayal."

"Not only that, but there is problem with your territory. Its blocked by the first and the second prince territories. Originally the first princess DID had an territory connecting this place, but that was before the announcement of our kingdom spread and the four factions were still at war with each other."

"The territory that was connecting us was conquered by the first prince, straight up erasing this connection we should had."

"In other words, we have to try and break through their line of the defense of both the first prince and the second, creating an opening that would connect our kingdom with your territory OR give your people an chance to run away to safety."

"…. About that… There is an problem." – said the princess.

"The contract of the dragon heaven and hell would straight up kill me If I allied myself with you, unless you stop being an threat to the Oin empire."

"So, in order to avoid the contract killing me, I will have to give up on my right on the throne and since these guys are also connected to the contract, they would get notified by my surrender."

(Shit. Then it does makes things complicated.) – though ClownFrog.

(They would ask questions and may possible find why she did that…. She won't have any choice but to announce the cease fire between us…. Wait.)

"If you were to become just an citizen of the Oin empire, wouldn't that make the contract protect you from your brothers? Not an royalty, but just an citizen?" – asked ClownFrog.

"In theory, it should work, however if they would find out even an hint of me being now the member of your kingdom, the contract protection would get negated." – said the princess.

"You would become the traitor of the empire with would result in your brothers havening no need to hold back and straight up steal your territory, while also hunting down your people." – said ClownFrog.

"An unfortunately this isn't all." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked the princess.

"…."

*Sigh*

"I can't really say it yet, since I need an 100% confirmation that you aren't working with somebody behind the scene." – said ClownFrog.

(There is an chance she is maybe using us and is already working with the 'benefactor', so to see if she is truly working with them, I will add an rule to the contract regarding them, with would either prove that she is innocent OR that she is traitorous snake.)

(But the problem is the first and second prince factions.)

(We had managed to push back their forces recently and force them to retreat in order to recover, while on our side we just continue making golems and undeads as well as summoning new demons.)

(But the second and the first princes does not have anything like that, expect for some golems they can produce, but overall, our numbers are increasing while theirs are diminishing.)

(However, the other thing would be us attacking them.)

(Unlike the third prince, these guys have way more solid line of the defense AND they have a lot of soldiers on the standby since they retreated.)

(If we would try to break through, we would suffer some heavy loses.)

(And there is also the question how we would do things regarding the attack.)

(If we wish to get to the first princess, we would need to create large enough path for her and her people to possible escape, however if we were to create that kind of path, we would end up getting attacked from two different sides by each faction and that would be not good.)

(…..The best course of action I can think of is to steal a lot of territory, creating an wide path that would connect our territories and would slow down somewhat the first and the second prince armies…. No, that alone wouldn't be enough.)

(We would need to move an large army do it all, however as an side effect we would end up leaving open several locations for the enemy attacks…. This is troubling. There is also the whole chaos we haven't dealt with within our kingdom.)

(…. Fuck it. They are right. Oron and GreyHunt are right. I can't see any other way. We can't move even if we want to. Its too risky and we cannot put our kingdom and our people in danger right now with all that chaos going on, or we would straight up self-destruct like complete idiots.)

(We can't move too hasty now or we will be in way too big trouble…. I guess I will need to do things this way.)

"Princess Amelia. I know that we are supposed to do it as soon as possible, but we cannot rush it. I need to take care of my own kingdom and my own people." – said ClownFrog.

"Pretend that you are our enemy for sometime and only declare that you are giving the right on the throne whenever you want or when you feels you need to do it."

"And…. Okay, fuck it."

"I shouldn't be telling you this, since I can't trust you yet, but I'm going to fuking gamble it."

"You may or may not know it, but the third prince wasn't working alone….." – said ClownFrog as he began explaining in the details about the third prince being nothing more than puppet, about the humanoid monsters secrets and even about the 'staff'.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold the fuck up." – said the princess.

"You are FUKING telling me that somebody did ALL OF THIS BULLSHIT for an ONE ITEM?!" – shouted furious princess.

(I did suspected that the Simon was getting an support from somebody, but we never got any direct evidence so far, but now? He fuking straight up confirmed it all! He confirmed almost all theories I had.) – though the annoyed princess.

(But it also made me realize how badly things are now….. Shit.)

"Yeb. That was the thing they did…. And now we don't know if the 'Benefactor' is currently preparing his move or not." – said ClownFrog.

"Or is there an chance that he is currently using another faction as his puppets in exchange for power."

"…. Tch. I can see that. These guys are growing desperate…. Or if what you said about them preparing their forces in secret… Now I can see why you don't want to do the merge now."

"There maybe an new enemy coming here that is hostile to both the Oin empire and Garog kingdom."

"Yeb." – replied ClownFrog.

"So, in order to make sure that these bastards don't get what they want and possible expose them to the world, we need to find the 'staff' the 'benefactor' is looking for."

"So, any ideas what it could be?"

"…."

(Hm…. Honestly, I can't say I trust ClownFrog yet…. But based on the current situation, my hands are tied.) – though concerned princes Amelia.

(If I don't do something, then things could get ugly…. And if either Apollo or Erun joins forces with the 'Benefactor'? They are greedy, but they are not complete idiots like Simon was, meaning that they won't be easily manipulated…. But there is still an good chance that they would make some sort of deal…. And it would be nightmarish if either Apollo or Erun gets their hands on these humanoid monsters.)

(There is also an good chance that they had already struck the deal AND are already producing the humanoid monsters.)

(….)

(Shit. We really do need to find the 'Staff' before it's too late.)

(I don't know if I can't trust ClownFrog or his people yet, but right now the 'staff' cannot be anywhere near the Oin empire or it would end up horrible… It's for the best to hand over the staff to them, even if does leave an possibility of them betraying me later on after they got it…. It's an risk I have no choice but to take.)

(Who ever these fuckers are, they must really means business if they are willing to go so far to secure some 'staff'…. I need to find it.)

(But what exactly are we talking about here?)

(The empiric family staff maybe?)

(…. Nah. This thing is just an cool looking mage staff that its very basic and its only make to look fabulous. I even once held it and confirmed that it's just mediocre mage staff.)

(Maybe they are looking for something "SPECIAL"? But if so, then what?!)

(I don't think I have any special staff on me…. Could either Apollo or Erun has it in their possession, making them either possible partners or targets of the 'benefactor'?)

(Think you idiot! Think!)

(What could be this 'staff' possible be?)

(Maybe something that doesn't look like much but the empire has in its possession?)

(Something like historical item maybe?)

(But what it could-)

"?!"

"WAIT! I THINK I MAYBE KNOW SOMETHING!" – shouted the princess.

"!"

"You do?" – asked curios ClownFrog.

"Yes! It's the empiric vault! There is something weird broken staff in there that was kept through the ages! We don't know what it is, but it was kept in the highly sealed case!" – said the princess.

"It's in the empiric capital city, in the castle vault!"

"…"

"Are you sure about it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yes… It maybe it… But there is an problem." – said nervous Amelia.

"The capital city of the empire is currently control by the first prince faction… You will need to break through them in order to claim the capital city."