[VRMMO] Dead One

"So, how are the preparations going?" – asked ClownFrog.

["Good. The forces did took some time to recover, but we are again good to go."] – said Lil via video chat.

{{Info: Lil took over the command over the army after GreyHunt had died.}}

["Same on our end. The enemy didn't directly confronted us, but instead they rigged the whole settlement with explosives."] – said Oron.

["We did took some loses from that trap, however, since most of our forces are non-living beings like golems or undeads, we didn't took any real loses."]

["Still, it did forced us to hold off our march for an bit until we repaired all the golems, however thanks to Blueberry and the triplets being part of my group, the golems were quickly repaired."]

"Well, my side wasn't really undamaged either. I lost way too many undeads, these fuckers used war and siege weapons on me." – said ClownFrog.

"They even used specialized anti air war spells against the dragons in order to make sure that they wouldn't just fly and destroy their weapons…. Fuking prepared bastards."

"Still, I should be able to restock my undeads."

"Anyway, is there anything else noteworthy? Did you checked the area you were in and made sure that we aren't dealing with some more annoying traps?"

["Nope and if anything, I don't see any of the first or the second prince men anywhere."] – said Oron.

["Same here. Everything is quiet. I think there maybe some new traps further on or something? Maybe they are planning on changing their tactic completely and instead of direct confrontation they had started setting up traps in order to wore us down while also making sure that they wouldn't have as many human casualties as possible."]

["I doubt it."] – said Oron.

["First prince is an warrior and the leader."]

["If he planned on using those tactics, then he would had done them from get go."]

["He is also not stupid enough to not realize that this kind of tactic won't be effective against us."]

["He knows he isn't just dealing with some remote controlled corpse or undeads. These monsters are being led by other people."]

["He can probably set up one or two more traps, but that's it. He would realize that setting up anymore traps would be the completely waste of effort and time, since we would end up dismasting all of his traps."]

["It would make sense if he had left multiple mine fields on the undead army path, but that would only make any sense at all if the undead weren't led by anything with the intelligent."]

["There is also the fact that the first prince would be aware of the fact that we would be wary for any traps he would set up now."]

["So maybe instead of traps he would instead prepare something else."]

"Still, there is one thing we do need to consider." – said ClownFrog.

"First prince forces. They had diminished by a lot and has barely any soldiers left."

"According to our spies, only his higher ranking elite army, the Red Swords are left."

"We fought with them before, but that was an weakest squad that invaded the demonic kingdom. These ones that are by the first prince side are his elites and are in the large numbers."

"According to the captured soldiers, you said that their plan was to attack us the moment me and GreyHunt got hunted down, yes? They were planning on doing an surprise attack in order to completely crush us."

["Yes. That is correct."] – said Lil.

["Once they had dealt with us, the Red Sword would suddenly join in and catch us off guard, before then going around and catching Oron by surprise from behind while also sending the other Red Riders from the from, killing Oron forces."]

["Honestly, extracting the informations was… Quite easy? I'm being honest here, normally its takes sometime to get the informations out of the soldiers, but this time they gave up way too quickly."]

["I guess their spirits must had been broken. The first prince has been losing non stop and we had been pushing while also taking over their territory without getting stopped."] – said Oron.

["Some of the soldiers must had broken their will or straight up plumed into the despair after losing this fight to the point they stopped any form of resistance in order to not to suffer."]

["…. Huh…. So, what? Do we now have easy time conquering the first prince territory?"] – asked Lil.

["If these guys really given into the despair, won't they just start deserting or surrendering on their own?"]

["I mean, I also heard that the political situation within the empire is shitty and the trust they had in the royal family has plummeted."]

"Well, yea. We will have easy time taking over the first prince territory." – said ClownFrog.

"However, don't let your guard down. There are still 6 players on the table."

"Us."

"The first prince and his Red Swords."

"The benefactor."

"The second prince."

"The first princess."

"And the neighboring kingdoms."

"Right now, its better if we focus on the first prince, second prince, benefactor and the neighboring kingdoms."

"We still don't know if the neighboring kingdoms would join the war, thinking that it's their opportunity."

"There is also that bastard 'benefactor', he could also be making an move, so we cannot waste any more time."

"Continue moving, but also watch out for the first prince and the second prince, since they are not down to the count yet."

After recovering their strength, the Garog kingdom forces continues their advance and conquer of the first prince territory and before long, around half of the first prince territory had been conquered.

However, even though the first prince was losing the territory, no sort of self-deference, counter attack or anything was done to stop the Garog kingdom.

It may be seen as the first prince has given up, but in reality he did not.

The first prince has issued an mass scale evacuation of the civilians, moving away all the non-combaters away in order for them to not be anywhere near the battlefield, while also strengthening the area around the capital city.

An evacuation and defense. The first prince decided to create an last line of the defense that would protect the people behind.

An noble act, an act of sacrifice some people may call it. "I die protecting my people", could be the first prince message.

[Current location: Capital city of the Oin empire – Throne room.]

"…."

*Sigh*

"How is the situation?" – asked the first prince while sitting on the throne while looking completely exhausted as he held onto his Halbert and wore his armor.

"The Garog kingdom is steadily taking over our territory…. We did managed to evacuate all the civilians in the time in order for them to be not anywhere near the battlefield…. And as suspected, the Garog kingdom did not even tried chasing them or attacking them." – said the knight.

"…."

"How much time we have left until they get here?" – asked the first prince.

"Well…. It seems they are wary of the traps, so it will take some time for them to get here…. So, we still have time to set up the traps near the capital city… But I don't know how long it will take for them to get rid of the traps or how much damage it will did." – said the knight.

"If what we are suspecting is true, the three splitted forces will reunite and attack the capital city together…. So, as we disused before, we should probably set up traps in these three locations in order to harass them to the highest efficient before they regroup."

"Explosives only." – said the first prince.

"We lose men, they gain- "

"MY PRINCE!" – shouted the solder as he burseted into throne room.

"Trouble! An army suddenly appeared near the capital city and is approaching our location!"

"!"

"Garog kingdom is here already?!" – said the panicking prince as he stood up.

"NO!" – said the soldier.

"It's not Garog kingdom!"

"An army of undeads is marching towards the city!"

"Buts its not Garog kingdom undeads."

"Then whose?!" – asked the prince.

"We don't know! But we saw these things among undeads! The humanoid monsters! They were present within that unknown army!"

"?!"

"What?!"

"The humanoid monsters? Is Garog kingdom using them?"

"No! Even they did not stood so low to use these creatures, besides, they are the ones that exposed the prince Simon."

The room was filled with many question and worries of the knights and nobles upon hearing the soldier report.

"Silence!" – shouted the first prince Apollo, effectively silencing the entire room instantly.

"…."

"Are you sure that the things that were reported were indeed the humanoid monsters? Not some undeads that looked too much human?" – asked the prince.

"N-no sir! We confirmed it using telescope! They were indeed the humanoid monsters! The exactly the same ones that the prince Simon used!" – said the nervous soldier.

"Tch. Its those fuckers." – said the annoyed first prince.

(I cut off that bastard head off in order to give the message… But by the look of things these bastards did not backed down…. No wait.) – though the first prince.

"Are they heading towards us or Garog kingdom forces?" – asked the first prince.

"Towards us sir! They appeared out of blue without us realizing in time!" – said the soldier.

(So…. I was right not to trust them. These fuckers planned on betraying me later on, eh?) – though annoyed first prince.

(But why they are attacking me?)

(They are definitely not with Garog kingdom… These bastards would never work with each other and if anything, we can definitely assume that they are enemies.)

(…..)

"These bastards are attacking us while we are dealing with the Garog kingdom and we are at our weakest." – said the first prince.

"Those fuking hyenas."

(I don't know what these fuckers goal is, be it my head or something else, but they are not getting it!)

(I rather have the Garog kingdom have my head than hand it over to these inhuman bastards fuckers!)