[VRMMO] Dead One

WELP! AN ANNOYING SITUATION POPPED UP!

The holy kingdom is planning on waging war against us…. Nice.

A war right now is the best thing we needed, with our current unstable state of an empire.

Still, we should have more than enough power to deal with the holy kingdom…. If they were on their own.

There is no way that the holy kingdom would want to 1 vs 1 us.

They will definitely form alliances….. And this isn't all.

Many players may decide to join the holy kingdom alliance in order to "hinder us", since currently, we are the strongest guild in the whole game.

…

Some of the kingdoms that surround us are acting friendly towards us and stuff…. But once we started the investigation, we found out a few things.

"Greed"

"Fear"

We knew that some kingdoms feared us or wanted to be "friends" in order to get some power… But this is far worse than we had thought.

Still, we had some advantage.

Thanks to the duchess Amelia's political skills, as well as thanks to our achievements, we are in a somewhat "friendly" relationship with other kingdoms, meaning that they wouldn't just "stab" us.

…

But the fear and greed are other things…. And they may push some people to do something.... Even if you show some people kindness, it doesn't automatically mean that they would show it back.... Or maybe they would just "show" it like a mask.

...

And fear is the most annoying factor.

Our neighbors fear us.

It is both good…. But also, a bad thing.

Good, since they will think twice before crossing us… But also, bad since it could make them more easily to manipulate.

There are 6 kingdoms that are neighbors with us.

Kingdom of Maq.

Kingdom of Kor.

Kingdom of Palok.

Kingdom of Urop.

Kingdom Of Wqo.

Kingdom of Karraoi (Holy kingdom)

Each of those kingdoms are our neighbors and we are also located right next to the sea as well.

This is our situation right now…. And I can tell from get go we may end up fighting both the Kingdom of Maq and the Kingdom of Kor.

They may decide to join the holy kingdom.

They are somewhat weak and small kingdoms…. But the problem is their locations, they are right next to the holy kingdom, AND their borders also collide with ours.

Finding out how shitty their kingdom was…. It was quite easy if I'm being honest, to the point where we can be certain that they would join the holy kingdom side.

However, we should worry more about these three kingdoms joining in.

Kingdom of Palok.

Kingdom of Urop.

Kingdom Of Wqo.

Those are the three kingdoms we should be aiming for.

And the kingdom we should be most wary of is Urop.

They are located on the opposite side of the empire.

The history of a Urop kingdom is…. Well, it is war.

Their kingdom expanded through a war and they had been at odds with the Oin empire for a long time in the past.

They didn't liked the Oin empire and they wanted to expand their kingdoms, but because of the Oin empire presence, they couldn't focus on expanding their territory or they would get destroyed by the Oin empire.

However, the Oin empire is no more, which means that the pressure that kept the Wqo kingdom from expanding is no more…. Or so they had thought.

One empire replaced another, and a strong empire at that.

They must be foaming right now…..

…

And this is a shitty situation.

2 reasons.

Their military power is high.

And they are the biggest neighbors located right next to us.

It would be extremely annoying and problematic if these bastards decided to work with the holy kingdom…. They also have something to motivate them.

"A destruction of empire and taking their place."

…

Will we be able to stop them from joining the war?

"The answer is no." – said Duchess Amelia.

"A straightforward answer like that?!" – replied ClownFrog.

"Sorry, but these guys are way too greedy." – said Amelia.

"Even when I was doing a battle for the throne…. The political situation with them was pathetic."

"In return for helping out in the succession war and providing me with troops, they wanted a huge chunk of the empire territory as well as other stuff."

"They were TOO greedy, even more than this holy kingdom, and I've made an alliance with them before."

"These guys are far too unstable, they even had a whole civil war when the Oin empire had its own war."

"The current royal family there is also a big piece of shits."

"So straight up answer is NO."

"There is no way to communicate with those savages."

"This is right. These people will spread their territory by any means, that is why we even decided to migrate to your kingdom." – said the werewolf representative.

"This isn't all."

"Their nation mostly consists of dwarves. These bastards set up factories and other stuff everywhere, straight up demolishing nature itself."

"They call us savages…. But their actions have only proven that they are real savages here."

"And that is problematic." – said Amelia.

"Not only are these guys savages, but they are also extremely well equipped, which makes them…. Well, dangerous."

"However! There is one kingdom that completely despises these dwarves."

"Kingdom of Palok. The kingdom of elves."

"A kingdom where both forest and dark forest elves live in harmony."

"And their kingdom is located right next to the dwarven kingdom."

"And oh boy…. Let me tell you this. THESE GUYS ARE HOSTILE TO DWARFES!"

"They even had a war that lasted over 100 years, until recently, until the Oin empire stepped up and stopped it all, since their war was also at that point even hitting the Oin empire itself."

"The elves wants to destroy dwarves while the dwarves want to destroy the elves."

"These bastards had such bad blood between themselves that they are just waiting for any excuse to start the war."

"There is no way these bastards would work with each other in alliance."

"Since there is a high chance of these dwarves joining the war, wouldn't it be better to approach the elves and talk with them regarding this?"

"They may even decide to form an alliance with us."

"…"

"Hm…. This is a good idea, if I'm being honest." – said GreyHunt.

"However, what about the beastman kingdom of Wqo?"

"There are still these guys left."

"Actually, they are extremely friendly towards us." – said Amelia.

"In fact, they despise the holy kingdom."

"We may be able to have them also join the alliance."

"…"

"Huh…"

"So it would be 3 vs 3? I like those odds." – said GreyHunt.

"Agree." – said ClownFrog.

"Well then, arrange the meeting between both the beastman kingdom and the elven kingdom."

"We will need to pay them a little visit."

And so, our own alliance preparations had started.

Arranging the meetings with both kingdoms did took us some time, but in the end we were able to set it up.

Representatives?

Me, GreyHunt, Oron and werewolf chieftain Borkaw.

Me and Borkaw will be going to the beastman kingdom, since the elves may not really like my…. "Undead dragon presence", so yeah. GreyHunt and Oron will be going to the elven nations.

Originally, I said that Amelia should go to the elven nation… However, she said that it may cause some problems, since she originally failed to deal with them before when she was actively fighting for the throne.

While we are gone, Blueberry and Oron are in charge.

…

And so, we headed off to meet up with the rulers of each nation.

".."

"Em…Your majesty? I have a question… Are we just going to fly the entire way?" – asked the werewolf on the ClownFrog back.

"Nope. We can't. We will need to go through the legal way in order to not make any problems." – said ClownFrog.

"!"

"Ah, there is the border."

"Hold on tight. I will be landing."

"…"

"?!"

"What is that?!" – shouted the beastman soldier as he saw a giant monster flying towards the border wall, before moments later the giant landed right in front of the soldier.

"!"

"Attack!" – shouted the beastman, alarming the border soldiers.

"No. Calm down." – said ClownFrog as he stood up.

"I'm ClownFrog, ruler of the Garog empire." – said ClownFrog before then he turned into his humanoid form.

"STAND DOWN!" – shouted the voice behind the soldiers.

"?"

ClownFrog looked past the soldiers in front of him, spotting several tiger beastmen approaching, causing other beastman soldiers to back away.

"Greetings, emperor ClownFrog." – said the beastman.

"I'm Waound Wuo." – said the tiger beastman.

"We had been waiting for your arrival. Please come this way."

"I understand." – said ClownFrog before moments later he and the werewolf followed the group of tiger beastmen, before then arriving at the location where a prepared caravan was waiting.

ClownFrog alongside werewolf chieftain boarded the carriage, before then the carriage itself started moving.

"…"

(So far so good.) – thought ClownFrog.

(They are not showing any hostility towards us…. But I can tell that some those border soldiers were scared when they saw me….)

(However, these guys are not scared at all. If anything, they are keeping their cool and they are also well equipment.) – thought ClownFrog as he looked outside and saw the beastman riding a giant war horse.

(By the looks of things, they are showing some "respect".)

"…"

(But what about the king himself?)

"…"

(According to Amelia's information, that guy is apparently annoying to deal with, to the point where she had a hard time making any deals with him.)

(….I should probably watch out….)

(But still, it would have been great if we had formed an alliance with this nation.)

(Overall, our first interactions with their country was…. Friendly to say the least. We even had merchants going in and out from both sides.)

(Not only that, but many beast type monster races, such as minotaurs, werewolves and lamias live in these lands.)

(Werewolf chieftain was the best pick for this talk as well, since he is used to dealing with other monster species as well as beastmen.)

(…)

(Still…. What I'm worried more about than this king is the elves.)

(We had talks with them and have some trade set up with them…. But….. Would they really work with us?)