[VRMMO] Dead One

"GAME! SET! MATCH!" – shouted commentator and announcer Ande.

"What a twist! What a revolution!"

"The final winners of the second tournament event!"

"With the final score of 8:1!"

"Purple Hyena team had emerged victorious!"

"NOW! LET US WELCOME THE TWO TEAMS!" – shouted Ande as the both teams were teleported to the same map as Ande, causing both groups to find themselves suddenly in the colosseum.

"…"

"You dirty little-" – said both ClownFrog and Dance after they got revived and teleported right next to each other.

"The fights were spectacular!" – said Ande.

"Some fights were monster like!"

"While some others were about guts!"

"Or some were about brains alone!"

"As for the city itself?! Completely in ruins!"

"Devastation, destruction and terror!"

"Both of these teams showed what it meant to be a monsters!"

"However! In the end the one who had succeeded and reached the very top is them!"

"The Purple Hyena!"

"…"

"So, how did you do it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Hm? Oh, you mean the whole that bastard revival? Well…." – replied Dance as she started remembering what had happened.

After entering the buildings to dodge Zod attacks, Dance had instantly stopped for a split moment.

"[Magical Girl Companion: Return]!" – Dance used her skill to revive her companion.

"I'm ba-"

"Shhh! Don't scream!" – said Dance as she instantly covered the mascot's mouth.

"Listen! He doesn't know that you are alive!"

"So here is the plan."

"I will try to make an opening, and while I'm at it, you will start casting the [Magic Hope: Rose Bolt] and charge it at max power."

"Once you are ready and when the opening is shows itself, shoot it and aim for the kill!"

"Don't care if I'm about to die, just focus on landing a solid hit without him even realizing what is going on! Got it?!"

"…"

(Honestly, I've thought that my plan would have worked back then…. But I wasn't expecting to get decapitated at the same time.)

(Still, I think tie with this bastard is far better than just losing on my own.)

"…. Now! Let us welcome to the podium the winners! Please step up! Purple Hyena!" – said Ande.

"…"

"Let's talk later, okay?" – whispered ClownFrog.

"Sure." – whispered back Dance.

"…"

Purple Hyena stood on the podium and took up a giant golden cup, signaling their victory.

"…"

And like that, we had won the second tournament.

Just like the last time, the Purple Hyena had managed to won the second major tournament hosted by the game developers.

Honestly speaking…. This event was far more successful than I had thought.

SunShadow.

They got humiliated and exposed.

Not only that, but we had made sure that they are aware of the fact that we want them DEAD.

And the topping on the cake? Us winning the tournament.

Yeb.

We look down on them.

And we wanted them to know that.

Those bastards' egos won't be able to hold it…. And they would definitely start planning something.

….

Drowned team.

Dance and Mug, as well as a team of nobodies.

They were far more dangerous than anybody could have expected.

Not only that, but those so-called "nobodies" were all ranker level players.

Some of us somewhat struggled while fighting them as well, which made things much more interesting since we had never seen or heard about these guys…. Just where the hell did they come from?

And there is also the Mug.

Atlantian.

A form that was never before seen in the game, but he already made the world aware of how strong that bastard was in that form as he just beat up GreyHunt.

GreyHunt himself said that he got only luck when it came down to defeating Mug, as he managed to outsmart him.

When it came down to physical strength, he was able to overpower GreyHunt, and every single one of his attacks were deadly as fuck.

Even without using any skills, his basic attacks apparently had more than enough power to kill players and monsters alike.

Simply put, that guy was a straight up monster.

And there comes the Dance as well.

She somehow became a magical girl…. Which is extremely weird in many different ways…. And she also said she had a third legendary class as well… Which made me question things like "how" or "why" ….. But that is for later.

The current situation.

She is a MONSTER.

Her attack were STRAIGHT UP BULLSHIT!

The only way I could even counter or overpower her attacks was to use my strongest ultimates…. And even so, she still had a lot of other bullshit attacks up her sleeve.

I've lost count of how many times she broke through my barriers and landed a hit on me.

If it wasn't for the fact that I'm her counter as a summoner and that the fact that both my regeneration and defensive stats are high as fuck, I would had died ages ago.

That summoner class of hers was annoying, but I could tell it wasn't developed, nor Dance have any summoning related classes, meaning that there was no way that class was high rank one or maybe she just lied to throw me off back then.

As for her second legendary class…. That magical girl of "magic hope" …. It was annoying like hell.

It looked like a defense slash offensive oriented class that was extremely good at both of these things.

There was also that annoying ass mascot thing.

By the looks of things, it had its own set of skills, and when it combines power with Dance, she could unleash some bullshit power level skills.

And that last fucking attack! She fucking said that she just revived that bastard and told him to aim for the opening!

She fucking outplayed me!

If I hadn't outsmarted her back then by throwing my flag at her, she would had been the only one who would have survived our exchange.

…

Heh….. Well. I'm not complaining.

If anything, this was as hellish as the fight with the hell lord.

But this time it wasn't luck that caused neither of us to win….. And truth to be told, I think I enjoyed "murdering each other" with Dance.

Anyway, we kind of grew closer as the friends and we had also some connections with the Drowned team as whole.

….

Now…. For a bit bad, good or annoying news?

People are scared of us.

Purple Hyena, Garog Empire, us as a whole.

They are wary of us after our second victory in the tournament.

Not only that, but I wasn't holding back at all.

I've had shown my full power, even showing off my revival skill that I had only recently obtained.

Not only me, but also GreyHunt, Mug and Dance also showed off, showing what we would once we got serious.

Results?

The entire city was completely destroyed by our fight.

"Monsters"

We made people see us as even bigger monsters as a whole.

Some were fascinated.

Some were scared.

Some were jealous.

And some felt threatened.

This will cause some players to see us as enemies…. Or seek to become allies with us…..

And allies are one of the things we need.

That world, the world of the game is speeding up.

Mug, a guy that wasn't known at all and was only known for being "strong", had just popped up and straight up said that he wasn't "strong", but instead that he was a "monster".

And I'm doubting that he will be the only one…. There will be more players showing up or having a sudden burst of power ups nonstop, resulting in them becoming "monsters" as well.

…

That is why we need more players.

We need more players to join up our guild.

I've tried to recruit either Dance or Mug…. But they both declined, saying that they enjoy their current playstyle.

Shame…. However, there was one guild that decided to…. "talk" about an offer.

The Undefeated guild.

I want to merge these guys with our guild…. But I don't know if they would accept…. But would be these guys be enough anyway?

No…. I think we need to look for even more players.

And this isn't all, but there is also the problem with the game.

The witches, the organization, the neighboring nations, all of these problems are currently happening all at once.

…

Yeb… There will be a lot of work AND we will find ourselves in an annoying ass situation about now…. Just great.

…

Still…. I guess I've got the last laugh.

The only thing that I had wished to see was to gaze at these bastard faces.

"BASTARDS! SON OF A BITCHES!" – shouted the man as he threw around golden trophies around, smashing stuff, before then a tall black man grabbed the man throwing a tantrum by his hand.

"Calm down." – said the tall man.

"CALM DOWN!? CALM THE FUCK DOWN!? AFTER THIS!?" – shouted the man with blond hair and green eyes as he pointed at the screen of a laptop.

[Winners of the second tournament: Purple Hyena]

"NOT ONLY THESE BASTARDS HAD PUBLICLY HUMILIATED US, BUT THEY EVEN DARE TO FUCKING WON THIS TOURNAMENT!?"

"BASTARDS! BITCHES!"

"...."

"THAT WAS OUR STAGE!"

"We were the ones that were supposed to "show off" and make these, NO! All of them know their place!"

"But instead?!"

"We didn't even get to the finals and even got humiliated?!"

"This was not the plan!"

"..."

"And these bastards.... There is no way they didn't knew what she would do.... No!"

"These bastards targeted us, SPECIFICALLY!"

"THEY WANTED TO HUMILIATE US AT ALL COST!"

"..."

"I don't know what these bastards' goal is..... But they just made a big mistake."

"They fucking dared to declare war on US?!"

"Oh, no, no, no, no..... We are not playing their game."

"We will just play our game instead.... And crush these bastards."

"Next time we meet, be it in the tournament or the game, we will make an example out of them."

"Out of them and all of the bastards that look up to them."

"…"

"They won't get away with this."

"No!"

"They will be not left alone!"

"We will make sure that these guys will be nothing more than stairs for us!"

"We will make an example out of these trashes."

"The next time we will fight, I want to make sure that these guys suffer humiliation that they had never suffered before."

"You fucking hear me."

"I want them to be destroyed the next time they dare to fucking dare to pull that kind shit again."

[Rei Sasaki]

[In game name: SunMoon]

{{End of volume 8}}