[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Akramo city – Throne room.]

"How are the preparations going?" – asked the emperor.

"…"

"…"

"Hey."

"!?"

"Y-yes?" – replied the knight.

"I asked about the preparations. Was the church dealt with?" – asked emperor.

"Y-yes sir… All of the church members, including angels and the angel dragon had been captured and handed over to the hell demon lord…. Just as you instructed." – replied knight.

"…. Speak." – said the emperor.

"?"

"I said speak. I want to know what is on your mind." – said emperor.

"…"

"Its…. Its about the church…. And the hell lord." – said knight.

{{Info: The demon lords of hell are referred to either as hell demon lords or hell lords.}}

"I mean, its hard to understand any of this!"

"The church of the divine dragon were planning on destroying Oin empire and conquering it?! How does that make sense?!" – asked the knight.

"Well, if you don't believe me, then think about this." – said emperor calmly.

"Do you remember the contract of the heaven and hell dragon? I has started those preparations long time ago."

"If the church wasn't the Oin empire enemies or they were member of the Oin empire, then the contract would had killed me long time ago." – said emperor.

"The contract itself is an proof that the church were indeed the traitors and they were the terrorist that aimed to destroy the Oin empire."

"I'm the living proof of the church betrayal and as well as proof of their evil."

"…."

"Well…. Still, this is way too sudden." – said the knight.

"You do have an proof and everything… But still, many people are confused about the situation and everything turned chaotic."

"Myself included."

"Some people said that you went mad with power."

"But I did made an deal with the demon lord and signed the threat publicly, saying that both of us will be at peace and the hell lord won't be allowed freely raise his hands against us." – said emperor.

"If I really went mad with power, then instead I would go around, murdering all of my people and summoning demons left and right."

"Or join forces with the church and sell this empire alongside the souls of all of my people."

"THAT would be the madness of power." – said emperor as he stood up and walked towards the knight.

"Let me tell you something, knight."

"So far in this entire war, I had yet to murder an single loyal person of the Oin empire, or even an civilian. I had not murdered even an single innocent person."

"And so far, all these bastards I sacrifices to summon that demon lord? They were nothing more than fanatics and murders."

"If you had option of either killing innocents or instead killing murders, with one would you chose in order to save your people?"

"I don't care if my people won't understand my actions or if they will calm me traitor."

"I will still protect my nation and my people."

"And I will deal with all of the traitors and enemies that dares to destroy us."

"Do you understand that? Do all of you understand that?!" – shouted emperor.

"YES SIR!" – replied all the knights in the room.

"Good. If all of you understand. Dismissed. And do something about the security. I don't want another assassin going past everything like last time." – said emperor before moments later all of the knights left the room.

"…."

*Sigh*

"…. Are you alright sir?" – asked the tall knight with brown long hair.

[Kamil Korok – Right Hand of the Prince /Emperor Erun Oin]

"Do you think I'm?" – asked annoyed emperor as he walked to his throne and sat down.

"Everything…. Shit."

"…."

It has been years….. Honestly, I was only 12 years old when I found out the truth regarding the angel dragon church…. It was just pure accident as well.

I found this old notebook when I once curiously scavenged though old empire treasure…. I was obviously yelled at later on, but I couldn't stop myself and the curiosity.

I looked and looked…. And then I found this old coat. The coat itself apparently was once an memento of the first emperor or something that was given to him by the Alexander Karoga, the first pope of the holy dragon that came from the Oin empire.

At first I though it was something…. Well, as ragged piece of cloth, but then I accidently found an old hidden note that was hidden within hidden pocket.

In that note there was an data about some location.

Honestly I got confused… But also, curios.

I though it was just some treasure, so I secretly took the note and used the date on the note to find something…. It was an box.

Inside the box were the two things. The ring and the notebook.

The notebook itself belonged to non-other than the Alexander of the holy dragon church.

"This was an treasure!" I though…. And it was….. It was also something I would had never expected.

I…..The information I found within the notebook completely shattered everything I knew about the empire.

The divine dragon, the one who had supposal helped in creation our nation was instead our destroyer. He wanted to enslave the whole Oin empire.

And in reality, our true god, Amadeus, he was betrayed by his father, the god of the angel dragons.

The Alexander himself was apparently betrayed and poisoned by the fallowers of the mad god. All because he wasn't fallowing the angel dragon god, but instead Amadeus.

However, before he died, he recorded everything. All the sins, all the madness. The entire truth of the Oin empire and the truth behind our true god.

However,…. At the time the current emperor of the Oin empire was corrupted to the core and so were his children's. He knew that they couldn't their hands on the notebook, so instead he hid it, hoping somebody would find the notebook and learn the truth.

If…. If the father would had found out about it, he would instantly wipe out the church…. However, the current state of the empire at that time was unstable and if he did the extermination or tried it…. Chaos…. Too much of it… There was also neighboring nations…. I knew the truth but couldn't use it…. I was scared.

If I were to reveal that information when the empire was recovering, an chaos could possibly result in countless people deaths.

I may had been an coward…. But I really had no choice but to do it. I though of many different things of option, like talking to my father… But how do I know he would take any actions?! The church was weak in the recently years and they are not the threat. The reason being the empiric family and the church getting distance with each other with each passing year… They were fight for power, simply put their greed tore them apart, but the ones that really suffer through all of that was the church as they ended up losing way too much power and not being able to recover, resulting…. He may leave them be since he wants to focus on recovering the empire…. But these guys are dangerous. However, we cannot deal with them right now, or the chaos will break out! That was the problem! We could ignore them, but we don't know for how long, but we also can't deal with them right now, since chaos would end up erupting.

may had been an coward…. But I really had no choice but to do it. I though of many different things of option, like talking to my father… But how do I know he would take any actions?! The church was weak in the recently years and they are not the threat. The reason being the empiric family and the church getting distance with each other with each passing year… They were fight for power, simply put their greed tore them apart, but the ones that really suffer through all of that was the church as they ended up losing way too much power and not being able to recover, resulting…. He may leave them be since he wants to focus on recovering the empire…. But these guys are dangerous.

The notes also had information about secret information as well as meeting spots of the church… I used those spots to find out what was going on…. And I found out that these guys had never changed… They wanted to destroy and conquer the Oin empire. They were ticking bombs.

Leave them alone and they would blow up…. And they had also the support of the mad god of the heavens…. This isn't good…. However, its also not bad. The church is weak and the father did not trusted them, they would have no time to recover right now and I will be able to deal with the safety before they blow up! There was no problem!

I was relived, realizing I have more than enough time and that the church will be fucked.

But….. I can deal with them…. That is what I thought, until I started growing and time went by…. This continent was an ticking bomb.

Kingdom left and rights were in the unstable states, it wasn't just our own empire. Rebellions, succession wars, greed, vengeance, all sort of things were happening all at once to the point it was too much…. This wasn't joke, the chaos was erupting everywhere!

…However, nothing big had happened yet thanks to our Oin empire. With our presence and might alone, we were able to hold back the kingdoms from turning "Chaotic".

And this was perfect! We could stop other kingdoms from going chaotic and let them deal with their own problems on their own, resulting in that chaos dispersing on its own AND PEACEFULLY!

IT WAS FUKING PERFECT.

…..

It…. It was supposed to be…

Corruption…. It started remaining withing the empire once again…. And it wasn't just one or two, but an large scale corruption that needed to be dealt with…. But then worse had happened.

The corruption within empire had started popping up once again everywhere and even worse, our emperor ended up sick…. We did not knew when he would end up dead.

He had best healers and doctors assisting him…. But what? He could drop dead at any moment.

Week, moth, half a year, year, two years. The time went by, but it could still happened at any moment…. And the true heir was not named… Resulting in the empire splitting apart into four faction with each one supporting each heir… Greed for power, that's it.

Hell. This wasn't about church anymore; us four siblings would straight up tear the empire apart and have the neighboring kingdoms finish us off.

EVERYTHING STARTED GOING DOWN HILL!

Church. Neighboring nations. Corruption within empire. Empire splitting into four. Emperor slowly dying.

IT WAS TOO MUCH! AND ALL OF THAT WAS HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE!

To make matters worse, both neighboring kingdoms and the church realized the situation, with in turn allowed them to slowly gain strength… This will speed up things way too much!

This isn't…. FUCK! THIS DONS'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL!

WHY THE HELL ALL OF THAT IS HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE?! I EVEN LOOKED AROUND SINCE I THOUGH SOMEBODY MAY HAD MANIPULATED THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES, BUT NOTHING! I FOUND FUKING NOTHING!

…This isn't funny…. All of that chaos…. All at fuking once…. Forget the Oin empire, this chaos will destroy the whole continent.

….

The ones keeping the peace under control is the Oin empire…. Nobody is acting up because of the Oin empire as well.

If the Oin empire falls…. This entire continent will end up entering age of chaos…. I can't let that happened.

If I don't do something about it, not only Oin empire, but this entire continent will be destroyed.

However, what could I do?!

….

The Oin empire cannot fall at all cost. If it does, the other kingdoms will be able to act up and their current situation isn't the best… And some of the kingdoms grown greedy. I can't let the Oin empire fall or they will have an chance to destroy everything around them.

I need power. I NEED THE POWER TO ENSURE THE OIN EMPIRE SURVIVAL AND MIGHT AT ALL COST.

The war between us four will be unavoidable. If not the church will act or some of the nations will ignite something in the future.

I need an power to stop them all and make sure none of them will bring the age of chaos…. But how do I do that?

…..

Demons.

Angels and heaven cannot be trusted. I'm not talking about the angel dragon god only; I'm talking about all heavenly gods. They cannot be fully trusted… Especially after what the angel dragon god did and yet he was not named evil god for his acts.

They proven that they care only about worship and their false pride.

However, when it comes to the demons, you can force them to be loyal via contract…. You can also do it with heaven members, but too many of them are too prideful in taking contracts, since they think it's an "barbaric method', yea right.

Anyway, I needed to have an demon on my side…. But somebody strong and somebody that would be loyal…. However,…. Shit. It couldn't be ANY strong demons.

It needed to be strong enough to the point it would allow me to easily strengthen the empire after any sort of war that would happened, until the entire continent will deal with the chaos…. But what could I even….. Hell Lord.

This is was the only thing that could possibly deal with the chaos….. However, the hell lord would bring chaos in as well... However, there was an way.

If I managed to bribe the right hell lord and give them enough payment to make them "work together" for the peace, in this continent at least, then it could all work out!

I will use the chaos to destroy the chaos in order to save this continent!

And I have something that can help me out…. The ring of the pope Alexander, he was the first pope that came from the Oin empire and he was the only loyal one… He knew that he better get rid of that ring than let the corrupted church get their hands on the ring.

…. But now I can use this ring as an weapon against them.

However, this won't be enough…. I would need to "fatten them up". Make the members of the church "fat" enough to the point they would be perfect sacrifices.

And do that, I joined hands with those snakes. I helped them grow in power and make not be an shadow of their formal selves…. But that obviously made them even far more greedier than before.

They were conducing already behind my backs about betraying me and taking over the empire… Their goals did not changed at all, even after getting an "member of empiric family on their side" … Fuking disgusting bastards.

Still, they were so greedy that they did not realized I was setting up traps while also taking notes and proofs of their treason and acts of madness. With it, I had straight up church on my leash, without them even knowing that. I could completely crush them at any moment and they could do nothing about it.

The other preparation was also being made. I summoned an demon noble by sacrificing the high ranking members of the church that had "Accidently died in the monster stampede recently."

I also made contract with the hell lord…. He was known as trouble maker, even inside the hell, but I was able to make him make an contract with me that will make this works!

The… The only problem being that this guy needs to be physically summoned here and I'm talking about full summon….. Still, I need him to be powerful if I want to complete my plan.

"…."

"Everything was going according to the plan…. And the entire continent would had been saved…. If only that fuking Apollo and Simon did not poked an fuking sleeping bear." – said the emperor while sitting on the throne.

(Purple Hyena guild. An guild of the adventures that had decided to move here and had suddenly gone missing for over an year… Only for them to reappear and with an whole ass kingdom as well.)

(If only those greedy fuckers did not tried expand in different continents…. IF ONLY THOSE BASTARD FOCUSED ON ATTACKING NEIGBORING KINGDOMS! All of that would had never had happened!)

(But no! They needed to fuck up everything!)

(…. There is also Simon madness and so called ally of his who commanded and created humanoid monsters.)

(Still, by the look of things Garog kingdom isn't attacking…. And I know reason why.)

(They are wary of the neighboring kingdoms. They probably realize that if they are "weakened" after beating us, their kingdom may end up being destroyed….. And this gives us time for the demon lord to recover and summon some of his servants here.)

(…)

"Well… Tell me honestly mate… Do you think we will be able to defeat the Garog kingdom with the help of the hell lord?"

"The enemy kingdom has an demon lord of their own and he had already proven himself to be not some small fly demon lord….. I want an honest opinion."

"…."

"Honestly…. I don't know." – replied the worried knight.

" There is no denying that the hell lord is strong… But so is the ClownFrog. And not just him, but the 5 core members of this guild alongside him."

"Prince Apollo needed to use an strategy against GreyHunt where he would separate him… But even this failed as not only he killed most of the army that was send after him, ALONE. He had also awakened the power of the sin."

"Not only that, but the enemy has demons and undead on their side, things that they can replenish."

"The Garog kingdom…. Honestly, I though it was just some kingdom founded by bandits… But now? Hell, I can't deny the fact that they are dangerous."

"There is also that unknown enemy that we still don't know identity off nor we know what their goal truly is. Is it an conquest of the empire? Or maybe something else?"

"Things…. Things are way too chaotic for me to say anything…. But if I were to say something, it would be this."

"We have an chance at winning and an solid one at that."

"And unfortunately, that is all I can say."

"…."

"Well… I though you would say that something like that." – said the emperor.

"…."

"If I were to become an monster that would destroy the Oin empire…. Kill me without hesitation." – said Erun.

"…As you wish. Your majesty."