[VRMMO] Dead One

"Damn. The castle is really in the messy state. Was it Oron's doing?" – said Wretch as he alongside Shri and Tail had arrived in front of the castle.

"No. Look." – said Tail while pointing at the giant claw marks.

"It wasn't Oron. We need to hurry. The benefactor forces are probably already inside."

The trio quickly rushed though the destroyed gate and quickly found themselves in the castle that was devasted. Corpse and claws marks everywhere and as they progressed further, an spots that were made with something akin to blades, explosion and acid could be found.

"…. Where is everybody? Did all of them got wiped out?" – said Shri as she looked around.

(Was it Oron doing? I can see some things melted, so I think it was his Oron's fire and poison doing…But this is not all)

"There was an big fight here….?"

"?!"

"The hell are those?!" – said Shri upon encountering one of the weird monsters.

"What in tarnation is this thing?"

"HEY! I FOUND AN BIG HOLE HERE!" – shouted Wretch as he stared at the hole in the floor created by the grey elf [Earthquake].

"Coming!" – said Shri as she quickly ran though and got to the Wretch location.

"…. Okay…. This place looks… Pretty?" – said Shri as she noticed the massive amount of destruction and damage that was caused by the Oron and the grey elf battle.

(The hell Oron fought in here to cause so much damage?)

"…"

"Wretch. Tail. Head to the vault. I will look for the prince." – said Shri.

"Got it."

Shri alongside her monsters splitted up and began looking through the castle for the prince, while Wretch and Tail began heading down towards the vault.

"…."

"Yikes. This entire place is in ruins. Is it Oron doing?" - said Wretch while running alongside Tail.

"It doesn't look like it was his doing alone. That floor where there was that giant hole, it did not looked like it was completely Oron doing."

*BOOM*

"!"

"You heard that?!" – said Tail.

"Yea, it came from right underneath us." – said Wretch.

Tail and Wretch quickly ran though the entire castle at the top speed, before then arriving in the giant space with an metal gate that had an melted hole alongside with countless remains statues.

"…."

Tail and Wretch took out their weapons and began slowly approaching the door.

"…."

Tail gave an hand signal to the Wretch while he himself turned invisible.

Wretch quickly ran though the hole in the metal gate

"!"

"Oron?" – said Wretch as he saw Oron right in front of giant wall door.

"…Oh, its you two." – said Oron as he turned around, while Tail undone his stealth skill.

"…. The hell happened here?" – said Tail as he looked around and saw the Red Sword knights laying around dead, including the giant Red Sword knight that had his entire head missing.

"Red Swords, as you can see." – said Oron.

"As soon as I managed to break though that stupid gate, these guys suddenly came here in large number and attacked me."

"Anyway, since you both are here, I guess the reinforcements arrived?"

"Yes. Our army is slowly gaining ground and Shri is here with us, she is looking for the prince right now." – replied Tail.

"Anyway, why are you here? What about the prince?"

"I don't care." – said Oron.

"With the current situation, securing the 'staff' has taken much higher priority than security the prince."

"I encountered already some weird grey elf that was able to put up the fight and I don't even know if she came alone or not. There could be still some servants of the 'benefactor' still in the castle."

"That weird elf was also using some strange cloak that was able to hide her mana and presence, even from me. Meaning that things are annoying." – said Oron before aiming with his crossbow and opening fire at the vault, hitting it, but not destroying it.

"Tch. It will take time, eh?" – said Oron.

"Tail. Go and help Shri. Wretch. You stay here and keep watch. There is an chance we may end up having an surprise boss fight."

While Oron was trying to breach the empiric vault and Shri was looking around for the prince, the situation outside the castle had slowly started calming down somewhat.

The exhausted forces of the first prince had barely any strength left to defend themselves, causing them to become easy targets.

However, out of a blue, the forces of the first prince had started retreating and running away, this obviously made them even easier targets now, but thanks to the city not being completely conquered yet, many of the remaining soldiers managed to flee with their lifes.

And as for the 'benefactor' forces, the undeads were able to hold on their own, even after Blueberry started blowing them up nonstop, but upon arrival of the Garog kingdom, giving her the support, Blueberry group was able to vanquish the benefactor forces after enough time had passed.

ClownFrog on the other hand who assaulted the city had managed to destroy an large part of the city, while also killing countless knights belonging to the Red Sword order, resulting in the city losing an huge part of their defenses being taken over and getting turned into the undeads.

The forces of the first prince ran away while the 'benefactor' army was destroyed, resulting in the Garog kingdom victory and complete take over of the capital city of the Oin empire. Not only that, but with the conquest of the capital city, the territory around the city was instantly conquered by the Garog kingdom, resulting in the kingdom obtaining an large amount of territory from the empire.

And as for the leader of the first prince faction? Prince Apollo? Missing.

The search was conducted through the whole city and the territory around it, but nothing was found.

The prince Apollo had completely disappeared without an trace.

"Nothing? Again?" – asked ClownFrog who was standing in the middle of the throne room located in the Oin empire capital city.

"No sir. We couldn't find anything." – said the female vampire soldier.

"We are still conducting the search and we will inform you the moment when we find any possible leads."

"…. *Sigh*"

"I understand. Dismissed." – said ClownFrog to the vampire, before moments later the female soldier bower her head and left while Blueberry walked past vampire as she carried an giant metallic box with her.

"You have it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yea." – said Blueberry as she put down the box and began opening it, before moments later taking out an wooded staff with fangs and flowers sticking out of it that was completely wrecked.

"So, are you sure this is it?" – asked ClownFrog as he took the staff from Blueberry.

[Mage Destroyed Staff]

[Rarity: Common]

[An staff once used by the mage from the time that was lost. The staff itself has lost its power and identity, resulting in it complete loss of power.]

[Attack: 500 – 1000]

"It looks like some lost trash item though." – said ClownFrog.

"Yes, it does." – said Blueberry.

"However, I'm carted that this is the thing they were looking for."

"This is an mage staff, that does not provide any magic ability, an trash, but this weird trash was hidden deep inside the empiric vault? Doesn't it look suspicious as hell?"

"However… This wasn't the main thing that catched my attention…. When I was checking the staff, I noticed something…. Off about the item description…. Something very important."

"An staff once used by the mage from the time that was lost."

"This specific item description. "THE TIME THAT WAS LOST"."

"There is only one specific thing that this sentence refers to in this world."

"…."

"The Forgotten World." – said ClownFrog with his eyes wide opened.

"Yes. There is no mistaking it." – said Blueberry.

"This item is an item that belongs to the Forgotten World."

(The empiric family had an item from the Forgotten World?!) – though ClownFrog as he stared at the item.

(Did they knew its value?)

(But isn't this thing an complete trash right now? So why would…. Did they destroyed it? Or maybe they were aware that this item is an item from the Forgotten World.)

(They must had been!)

(But the princess Amelia did not knew…. Did the late emperor hid the truth behind the staff?)

(But why?)

(And why is this staff destroyed?)

(Did Oin empire wielded this weapon and they ended up accidently destroying it?)

(However, since they locked it up deep within their vault, would that suggest that the empire were trying to repair the staff?)

(Or did they forgotten about it?)

"…."

(Either way, this is scary.)

(I mean, the 'benefactor' send an mysterious elf from unknown race that was strong enough to give Oron a lot of trouble, by herself may I add.)

(And they even brough an entire army to attack this place….. All in order to get THIS.)

(But why?! How important is this piece of junk to the point they did all this?)

(By any chance, this item is OP like hell, if it would get repaired and brough back to its previous glory?)

(However, was it only that?)

(Something still doesn't add up….. Maybe this staff isn't only an powerful weapon, but also something else?)

(I mean, they fuking created these humanoid monsters and bringed along an giant army of the undeads without either us or the first prince finding out about them until they attacked…. And there is also that weird elf.)

(Was that elf the "Benefactor"?)

(But is there anyway of confirming that?)

(…..We need to look up about what she was.)

(About-)

[The item [Yellow Orb P.A] is trying to establish communication.]

"!"

"Sorry for the moment." – said ClownFrog as he gave back the staff to the Blueberry who started locking it up, while ClownFrog took out an communication orb from his inventory.

"ClownFrog speaking. What is it Amelia?"

["What happened? Was the capital city taken over?"] – asked Amelia as the panic could be heard in her voice.

"Yes. The city was taken over. However, there was an bit of situation on- "

["Why the hell you killed him!"] – said angry Amelia.

"?"

"What?"

["Why the hell you killed Apollo?!"]