[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Real life: Guild chat]

"Sorry, I fucked up." – said Wretch.

"There is nothing to apologize for mate, we saw the fight and you used every single trick you had." – said GreyHunt.

"Exactly, don't let it get to you." – said Tail.

"Still, I've got to say."

"None of the videos of the Mug we found on the internet had never depicted him that powerful."

"He is definitely as strong as Paintjob." -said Wretch.

"He was able to take few of my overpowered attacks head on and survive."

"Not only that, but that water magic of his annoying like hell."

"He can use it at the close combat when using his trident or long range combat to blast the entire area."

"And honestly speaking, I don't know if he was even going full power against me."

"I've tried to force him to reveal as much informations as possible, but I don't know if I forced him enough."

"Don't worry, you gave us enough informations to at least draw an rough sketch of the Mug." – said Oron.

"Still, we will be not facing them in the semifinals."

"The SCIENCE team will be our opponents in the semifinals…. And in the finals we will definitely fight the Drowned team."

"But for now lets focus on the SCIENCE team."

"This team is another combination team made out of 2 different teams."

"The Cyber eye guild, an guild made out of mechanical players like cyborgs."

"And the Mister guild, an craftsmanship guild that is known for selling their equipment and most importantly, for using their own private golem army to fight."

"Honestly…. We should be able to deal easily with them, but the main problem is the guild masters from both teams."

"Handle and the Morok. One is an giant cyborg monster while the other is known for piloting an mechanical golem like an mecha."

"And beside that, there is no other problem."

"…"

"So do we even need to study them?" – asked Rampage.

"I mean, we all know that the Drowned will be far more dangerous."

"Better if we don't look down too much on them Rampage." – said Blueberry.

"These guys are production focused guilds, but they somehow managed to get to the semifinals and the "luck" as an answer would not cut it."

"We should probably be wary of them a bit, since there is an possibility they had made some special equipment that are aimed at us specifically."

"Well, we will see if these guys really have skills or did they really just gotten lucky tomorrow." – said Shri.

[Next day.]

"GOOD EVENING TO YOU ALL!" – shouted Ande.

"Team SCIENCE and the team Purple Hyena!"

"These two teams will be taking part of the first match of the semifinals!"

"Lets welcome both of the teams on the stage!"

"In the left corner we have an black horse of the race, an team that many people though that wouldn't last long but instead shattered all of their expectation!"

"SCIENCE TEAM!" – shouted Ande as the first team made their way to the podium.

"And in the right corner, an guild that had made one of the biggest achievements and shocked the entire world of the game."

"The rulers of the empire in the game that rules the empire!"

"Purple Hyena team!" – shouted Ande as the second team made their way to the podium.

"Now, that the both teams are present, its time for the map selection."

"Unlike in the first, second and third round, the semi final rounds will have each own their map and both matches will be held separately."

"Now! Lets see what we get!" – shouted Ande she snapped her fingers and several pictures appeared above, before then they started shuffling.

"…"

Ande snapped her and the shuffling ended, with one of the pictures of the map being shot out and appearing in front of the players.

"And the selected map is…. Swamp type map!"

"!"

(Oh? An map with an advantage to us? Interesting.) – though ClownFrog while also noticing the worried expressions on his opposing team.

"Well then, lets the preparation phase start!" – shouted Ande as she snapped her fingers and the players started being teleported to the battle area map.

[The preparation phase has started.]

[Once you are ready, please announce your [READY] status.]

"…So…. Isn't this like extremely advantageous to us or something?" – asked Rampage while having her movement restricted by the spawn boundary.

"Yeb…. Honestly, I wasn't expecting that…. Oh well, you could say we got lucky." – said GreyHunt.

"Still, we shouldn't expect the enemy to have complete disadvantage in here."

"I wouldn't be surprised if they have some means of dealing with the swamp."

[Both team had signaled their ready status.]

[The match will be starting.]

…

[3]

[2]

[1]

[FIGHT!]

As soon as the match started, the SCIENCE team began deploying their golems, covering an large amount of ground.

"…. Do you really think they will take an bait?" – asked orc cyborg player named Handle.

"Yea, they will definitely, but you need to focus on your detection skills in case we are dealing with the assassins." – said the dwarven player Morok who entered his own giant golem and then closed its stomach, activating his golem.

(Purple Hyen will 100% go on the offensive… So, all we have to do is to go on the defense and wait for them.) – though Morok as he started operating his giant humanoid golem that was equipped with thick metallic hammer fingers as well as miniguns attached to its shoulders.

(Honestly, this map isn't so bad for us.)

(We can set up an perfect traps inside the mud and they wouldn't notice it.)

(But we should watch out for both the GreyHunt and Oron, since they could possibly assassinate us.)

(However, thanks to this terrain, Oron won't be able to use his long range assassination, since these thick trees are blocking his sight.)

(He will be forced to get closer and that is where Handle will detect him, allowing us to jump on him.)

(And once he is taken down, we will-)

Suddenly, an bolt of light flew past Morok mechanical golem, before moments later hitting and blowing off the head Handle.

[Player Handle has been eliminated.]

"…"

"What?" – said Morok.

"…"

"Got him?" – asked ClownFrog who was flying in the air while carrying Oron as the mist around the two began dispersing.

"Yea. I've got him." – said Oron while using his demonic eye to see though the tree branches and then firing another bolt enchanted with multiple elements, burning through the branches and then headshoting another player from the SCIENCE team.

"!?"

"SNIPER! FROM ABOVE! TAKE COVER!" – shouted Morok.

The SCIENCE team was completely catched off guard by the assassination of one of the guild masters, causing panic to instantly spread and shake up the players, but they didn't had time to morn as another and another shot were fired, resulting in the team numbers dropping to 5 extremely quickly.

However, while the snipping was happening, another problem started happening.

The bombs that the SCIENCE team had set up started going off one by one…. Getting closer and closer, alarming Morok who activated his miniguns and started firing at the being that triggered the explosions.

But it didn't stopped.

More and more explosions were occurring, before then the final trap had been activated and from the explosion, Rampage leaped at Morok, colliding with his mechanical golem, before then using [Blood Eruption] to blow herself up with her blood, hitting the golem with explosion at point blank range.

"!"

However, the golem easily endured the explosion, before then punching Rampage, pushing her away.

"Huh, you didn't even flinched from that? I wasn't expecting that." – said Rampage as she stood up while having her wounds start already healing.

"…"

(No fucking way. She just ran though the entire minefield and even took both gatling fire as well as punch from my golem…. And she is still in one piece?!) – though scared Morok who began firing at the Rampage with his miniguns, forcing Rampage to deploy an barrier, blocking the barrage of the bullets.

But while Morok was distracted, the ground behind him splitted, risen and attacked the players behind him, killing some of them.

[Your teammate has died.]

[Your teammate has died.]

"!?"

(WHAT?!) – though Morok as he used his golem back vision to see the earth, swamp and plants attacking the players and golems.

"Huh…. Why the hell people forgetting about us?" – asked Lil.

"Dunno. Honestly, it's their fault for straight up forgetting about us…. And about the fact that we are unbeatable in the swamps." – said Ampi before moments later the elemental and undead monsters started rushing in, forcing the golems to confront the monsters.

However, the undeads were suddenly send flying as Shri on her giant snake burseted through the army, before then tacking the golem and pushing it away, and exactly moments later all of her other monsters started joining in, attacking and taking down the golems.

The crafter type users tried using grenades to blow up the monsters, directly hitting them…. But moments later Shri whip and GreyHunt bullets flew by, hitting and killing the players.

"!?"

(Oh shit! I get it! She acted like meat shield, activating the traps and making the path for -)

"Hey. Pay attention to me!" – shouted Rampage as she launched herself as an missile at the giant golem, hitting it and pushing it back.

"!?"

(She pushed me back!?) – though alarmed Morok.

"Huh… Even after this, it is still okay? Damn. What did you used to make this thing….." – said Rampage.

"Fancy testing it out? Blueberry?"

"!?"

Morok looked up and saw flying Blueberry who then landed.

"Yeb." – replied Blueberry.

"If you don't mind, let me test it out."