[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Akramo city.]

"…."

"Let me get this straight…. All… Every single one of the members of the intelligent gathering squad had been slain?" – asked Emperor Erun.

"Yes…. We investigate their base as you instructed…. But upon arrival…. We confirmed that their entire base of operation was raided and all the members of the organization had been slain." – said the knight.

"…."

"Was it Garog kingdom?" – asked emperor.

"We don't know…..Their entire base was completely wrecked in specific intentional way to make it impossible to tell what exactly happened." – said the knight.

"We tried looking though the old documents and reports, but we couldn't find any. It seems they were all stolen."

"…."

"What about Kamil?" – asked emperor.

"Dead. The same goes for the head of the organization Tomasz." – replied the knight.

"…"

(The hell had happened?) – though emperor Erun.

(Our entire intelligent gathering squad had been wiped out?)

(How?)

(….)

(Did Amelia tipped them off?)

(Out of the three triplets, her maid was one of them.)

(The second, Kamil, he was with me. And finally, the Tomasz who remained neutral and took the position of the chief of the organization after his grandfather Ocelot death.)

(There were only few people that knew location of the main base of the intelligent gathering unit.)

(Those people includes me, Amelia as well as the two siblings serving us.)

(Amelia should known the location of their base.)

(Did she tipped Garog kingdom and they had send some of their elite assassins to destroy the information gathering squad base?)

(.... That is what I would believe in, if it wasn't for the fact that they had just moved just in case Amelia had really tipped off their location.)

(So, it couldn't had been Amelia…. The only logical explanation would be that there was an traitor among the squad. It couldn't be anybody from my faction, since only I and Kamil, and I send this guy to talk with the information gathering squad in order to gather informations regarding the humanoid monsters…. But now he is also dead, meaning that I'm the only one who knew their base location. That means that there was definitely some traitor within the squad.)

(But…. The squad was watching out for the Garog kingdom movement and if there was really an traitor…..Hm…. Does it make sense?)

(…. I mean, the most highly suspect in this would be the Garog kingdom, but is it really the true?)

"…."

(Could it be so called master of the humanoid monsters doing? The one who controls these humanoid monsters and had this grey skinned elf as their servant?)

(From the reports, that person army had appeared near the capital out of a blue…. And was barely noticed in time by the Apollo scouts.)

(However, how did they even bringed these amount of soldiers?)

(The best option would be an teleportation, but even that would take some preparations?)

(…. However, wouldn't the intelligent squad be looking around the incident?)

(…. They may had found something…. If so, there is an chance that the one that attacked them wasn't the Garog kingdom, but the that "person".)

(And if there were really an traitor and they had also stolen all the reports and data…. This won't be good.)

"There is an chance that the one that attacked the information squad wasn't the Garog kingdom, but instead master of these humanoid monsters." – said emperor Erun.

"Order my agents to investigate different part of empire and see if there were any case of the people going missing."

"Report anything out of place or something that doesn't look like Garog kingdom doing. I want to make sure that we are not dealing with another humanoid monster army."

"Yes sir." – replied the knight while saluting.

"…."

(I don't like where this is going one bit… And I don't even know who did it yet as well.)

(Dammit. This will give me an headache.)

[Meanwhile: Garog kingdom.]

"So… You managed to get rid of the cursed seals?" – asked ClownFrog while being in the laboratory alongside Blueberry and Lil.

"Yeb." – said Blueberry while tossing an ring to the ClownFrog.

[Ring Of The Sabath] – [Rarity: Unrated]

[An special ring that shows your membership as the member of the Sabath.]

[When worn by the witch, the left side of the ring will turn green.]

[When worn by the member of the organization, the right side will turn purple.]

[This item cannot be dropped upon death.]

"Sabath?" – asked Lil while looking at the item description as she looked at black ring with an cat symbol that had two grey colored gem eyes.

"It's an gathering of the witches. That what Sabath means." – replied Blueberry.

"Put it on Blueberry."

"Em… Okay?" – said Blueberry as she took the ring and put it on, and exactly moments later, one of the cat eyes turned from grey to green.

"Oh. The color changed of one of the eyes." – said Lil.

"Yeb. This is probably because of your "WITCH" class." – said Blueberry.

"Still, the second eye, the one that supposed to turn purple had not been activated."

"Okay…. But this item doesn't have anything like an stat bonus or any sort of ability on its own. Is it just eye changing color thing?" – asked Blueberry.

"I think this ring is for the identification purposes alone." – said ClownFrog.

"This isn't all." – said Blueberry.

"I used the high tier appraisal and other stuff and found that the item has an secret effect as well." – said Blueberry.

[This item can be detected by the holders of the [Smiling Cat Ring Of Sabath]. This function will be only functioning if the witch wear this ring.]

"This item can be tracked by the connected item."

"In order words, if somebody has this Smiling Cat Ring Of Sabath, they will be able to detect this ring."

"Not only that, but I think that the cursed seal placed on the ring had also made it impossible for anybody to detect it."

"…."

"So… This is an tracking device and somebody may be already aware that we have it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Pretty much." – replied Blueberry.

"However, this ring is specific."

"It says that this ring only will track witches, in order words if somebody else who does not posses the witch class would wear this ring, there would be no reaction what so ever."

"…..Wait… So why the fuck would I wear this thing if it will just going to reveal my location?!" – asked confused Lil.

"…. Well, it may be useful." – said ClownFrog.

"Maybe some witch will come and find you."

"And when they do, we can ask them questions."

"True…. But Lil, could you take off the ring for the moment?" – asked Blueberry.

"Em. Okay." – said Lil as she took off the ring from her finger, causing the green eye to turn back to its original color.

"The item description says that it will only change colors AND will only track the location IF the one wearing the ring is the witch." – said Blueberry.

"In other words, if you put it into your inventory, nobody will be able to track your location."

"However, once Blueberry or anybody else who has an witch class wears the ring, it will become detectable."

"…."

"Wear it Lil." – said ClownFrog.

"If somebody is looking for these rings, they may end up showing themselves to you on their own."

"Not only that, but it seems that those rings are part of some sort of organization, so its even better idea for you to act like the bait."

(And I may end up contacting the demon lord again.)

(She knew shit about the moon and sun elves, but I remember meeting some witches when we were in the demonic kingdom.)

(That place was filled with a lot of different people and stuff, so seeing witches there wasn't rare.)

(There is maybe an chance that some of these witches were the part of that organization.)

"…."

"What about the book?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Well… I should be able to break the cursed seal." – said Blueberry.

"It will take time, but it will be cracked open."

"Good." – replied ClownFrog.

"However, please focus more on the golems right now and only deal with this book when you have free time, if possible that is."

"Eh? Why golems?" – asked Lil.

"Well, did you forgotten we are in the middle of the war?" – asked ClownFrog.

"I'm also having my hands full with the fuking paper work if not creating undeads."

"We are still preparing for our attack, however the kingdom forces should had recovered by now and be ready for the fight."

"At any point, we could end up being attacked by them."

"There is also the fact that we still don't know anything about the new emperor plan."

"We had to retreat most of our agent and vampires in hiding as well, since that bastard was set on making sure that there wouldn't be an vampire epidemic."

(Honestly, we did prepared our forces somewhat and we can attack…. But the problem is that we cannot do that.)

(If the 'benefactor' decide to show himself or some random kingdom decided to attack when we are out, then we would end up sustaining some nasty damage.)

(Not only that, there is also an chance that some kingdom could attack us as soon as we defeated the empire, meaning that we need to have enough forces, EVEN after we had finally finished off the empire.)

(But the question is right now about the next battle.)

(Will the empire attack us now while we still can't launch attack on them? Or will they wait for us?)

(….)

(From the logical point of view, the empire would be the ones launching an attack this time.)

(However, that guy Erun must had realized that his empire army won't be enough, especially after the majority of the soldiers had already died and before we even started fighting them, they had the whole succession war happening.)

(…. So, they would be only attacking IF they have some sort of secret weapon that may give them an chance at winning.)

(But what if they would be waiting? If that would be the case, then that means that they are preparing something special.)

(….)

(The best I can think of would be summoning something and we do know they are summoning angels and the angel dragons, that is for sure.)

(But what else they could be summoning?)

(….Angelic beings borrowed from other heaven gods?)

"…."

(Nah. That narcissistic bastard [Dragon angel god] wouldn't allow it.)

(The same goes for the demons, the church would not allow anything like that and it may end up causing conflict to erupt within the empire.)

"…."

[Player Oron had accepted the video call request.]

["Yea? What's up?"] – asked Oron.

"Hey Oron. Quick question. Any weird movements or anything from the empire?" – asked ClownFrog.

["Nope… So far they had been mobilizing their troops and moving them around, but it doesn't look like they are planning on launching an invasion yet."]

["I'm even right now in one of their settlement and so far? Things are normal…. Well as normal as "war times" are in the towns."]

"Really? Nothing at all?"

["Nope mate…. However, something is definitely going on."]

"?"

"Did you found anything?"

["Not exactly…. But there were weird movements among the church servants and some high ranking mages."]

["The empire even tried concealing their movements, but I managed to catch an traces of it."]

"…."

(Mages and priest?) – though ClownFrog.

(If you combine the two and think about it, you will come up with the "Summoning" option.)

(Are they really trying to summon something?)

(But what?)

(…. I looked up the summoning and there is an chance that the church could possibly summon an high ranking angel or high ranking angel dragon.)

(But that would be only possible if the church of the divine dragon was strong.)

(In the recent years it was weak and I doubt that they have either resources or energy to summon something…. If that is the case, then what?)

(What are these bastard planning to summon that could be related to the priest and mages, but not be some high ranking angels?)

"…."

"Oron. Continue the investigation and get to the bottom of this. Understand?"

["Don't worry. I will find what ever these bastards are planning."]

["Just leave it to me."]