[VRMMO] Dead One

(Where did I go wrong?)

(Was it when I've inherited the crown?)

(No, that wasn't it.)

(Was it when I've made friends and helped them get a high ranking positions…. Only for them to betray me?)

(No. This isn't it either. They also earned those positions as well.)

(Then was is it during the empire civil war? Or when the Garog kingdom showed up?)

(No. They would had instead attacked us….. And the holy kingdom would also launch their own attacks on us.)

(There were also elves, we knew that they would possibly attack us.)

(….)

(Then it was back then, when I let him speak to me.)

(That man in the robes.)

(The one who claims to work for the "Story Chaser" …. Who is known as the "benefactor".)

(I heard what he did and I've seen some of my captured people that were saved by the Garog empire.)

(I knew he was pure evil.)

(I've killed him…. But then he came back.)

(I've got scared…. But I wanted to kill him again.)

(However, he said that there was no point in killing him over and over, since he would always come back.)

(But why he came to me in the first place?)

(That was the question I've asked him.)

(…)

(He said that the "story chaser" wanted "treasures" ….. The items from the Lost World.)

(I didn't knew how he found about them, but I once again killed him on the spot…. Only for him to came back once again.)

(Again, he said that he wanted to make a proposition.)

(Obviously I knew already that killing him at this point wouldn't stop him….. So, I've agreed to him.)

(And that was the worst possible mistake I've could had made.)

(He told me the words of the "story chaser".)

(He told me that this continent would be swallowed in a war.)

(That each and every kingdom out there would destroy each other, trying to take over the entire continent….. Since the nation that kept us all in check, Oin empire is no more and the new empire that had replaced it is still weak and unstable.)

(This will be their only and last opportunity to do anything like that….. This also included us.)

(Either we would be swallowed by that war…. Or the empire in future could swallow us.)

(Obviously….. No. He was stating facts. I couldn't laugh at his words.)

(If anything…. As the time went by, his words only solidified.)

(My... My spies confirmed his words and worries.)

(Obviously I've tried to also make contact with the empire, opening up a friendly relationship….. But…. I've saw their strength. My agents reported how powerful is that empire…. And this is their weaken state!?)

(I know they are weaken and unstable, since not only they were just recently made kingdom, but only few months ago they became an empire!)

(What would happened if that empire would managed to take control of itself? How powerful would it be then?)

(Not only that, but that snake words were always correct.)

(He always told me facts about the future that would come…. And they did.)

(I've grown in fear…. Fearing the future.)

(Even without that man whispering to me, I could see the future.)

(I've could see our kingdom being no more.)

(And that war he told me about.)

(A war that will swallow the entire continent will happened.)

(And it won't end until there would be only one winner.)

(Alliances means nothing.)

(We could had taken on the holy kingdom before, before they summoned those angels, at that time we were stronger.)

(But taking on the other kingdoms at the same time and the empire?)

(No.)

(It would be physically impossible.)

(I knew it... The moment the Oin empire was no more, we would all just tear each other apart.)

(And at the rate things were, we would also be ones that would get torn apart.)

(There was no way we would survive this... And so, I've took his hand.)

(I've took his hand and made a deal with him.)

(He will set up factories and I will use them to produce the man made monsters.)

(In exchange, I will give him items from the Forgotten World.)

(…..But…. I can now tell that I was deceived.)

(Even when keeping his word by being bound by the contract, he fucking knew we would still lose.)

(Did he knew my people would turn on me?)

(Did he knew how that war would turn out?)

"…."

(It was not worth it.)

"…"

"Leonidas…. Please…. I'm begging you. Stand down." – said general Axe as the beastman king was surrounded by the rebellion soldiers from all directions, while the king himself was covered from the head to toes in injuries.

"…"

"…"

"Are you going to say anything?" – asked GreyHunt while pointing his gun at the beastman king.

"Or are you just going to keep up with your mind set and just die a foolish death?"

"…"

"Heh…..Hehehehehehhehe."

"HAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Beastman king started laughing like madman.

"Fool…. Yea. I'm one." – replied the beastman king.

"I've got manipulated like a child and became monster that would just doom his own kingdom."

"I gave into my fears….. And listen to that bastard words."

"Ha….. I really deserve to die."

"…"

"Are you fucking kidding me?" – asked general Axe.

"YOU NOW ONLY REALIZE THAT?! WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE KILLED?! YOUR OWN PEOPLE!?" – shouted general Axe as he started walking the beastman king, before then getting stopped by Rampage.

"…"

"Out of my way." – said bloodthirsty general.

"Make me." – said Rampage.

"…"

"I don't know if you had a stupid change of heart in your dying moments or whatever, so I'm just going to ask you this." – said GreyHunt.

"What kind of deal did you made with the "benefactor"?"

"What did you gave him in exchange for the monster army?"

"…."

"…"

"I'VE GAVE HIM ITEMS FROM THE FORGOTTEN WORLD THAT- "

"!?"

The beastman king started speaking at rapid speed, trying to say something as soon as possible….. But as he was about finish his sentence, he stopped…. Before moments later a black ink started pouring all over his body, alarming everybody around the king.

"LEONIDAS?!" – shouted worried general Axe as he also tried to rush towards the king.

Everybody tried to rush towards the king with the empire priest trying to heal him, only for the black ink to reform, becoming random letters that wrapped themselves around the king like bandages, straight up mummifying him.

(Ah…. I'm sorry dad… Turns out I was failure, like I've thou-)

*Crack* *Snap* *Squish*

Before then crushing and snapping the king entire body….. And when his body fell on the ground, it dissolved completely as a black ink.

"L-Leonidas?" – said the general Axe, as everybody just stared at the black ink.

"…"

"Contract penalty." – said GreyHunt.

"He was speaking so fast because he knew that he would breach the contract, resulting in his death."

(But what the hell is this black ink?) - thought GreyHunt as he stared at the black substance.

(Normally when you breach the contract, it kills you in specific way or curses you.)

(I've even saw some people breaching their own contracts in the past…. But this is the first time I've seen anything like that?)

(…. There is also no body, so even if we were to bring ClownFrog here, we wouldn't be able to resurrect the king as undead.)

(Maybe he was turned into ink to prevent him to be even revived?)

"…"

(No.)

(What he said is more worrying.)

("I've gave him items from the forgotten world".)

(That confirms it.)

(The "benefactor" goal is 100% collection of the Forgotten World items.)

(I will need inform everybody about this.)

"…"

(And…. It also fucking explains why we haven't seen "benefactor" moving anymore.)

(He has already what he came for…. And so, the beastman king has become expendable to them.)

"…"

"General Axe." – said GreyHunt as he approached the shocked general who just stared down at the black liquid.

"I know you are shocked and everything."

"But you need to tell me now."

"What kind of Forgotten World items did your kingdom had?"

[King of the beastman kingdom – King of Wqo – Leonidas War – Has been killed.]

[Control over kingdom Wqo territory:

[-Wqo – 4%

[-Garog Empire – 51%]

[-Karraoi kingdom – 45%]

[Current lack of dominance.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has lost its king.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has lost most citizens.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has rebelled and declared their merge with Garog empire.]

[Control over territory has fallen below acceptable amount.]

[Authority has declined.]

[Kingdom of Wqo critical status expanded.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has failed fluffing multiple markings – Several critical problems.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has failed too many conditions.]

[Kingdom of Wqo has officially fallen.]

And like that, the kingdom of Wqo, the kingdom of beastman has officially fallen.

The king of beastman? Dead. Killed by the contract he had signed with the "benefactor".

Most of the beastman kingdom citizens ended up siding with the empire, but obviously there were still in corrupted power that wished to remain with their position.

Half of the kingdom territory was taken over by the Garog empire, while other half was still under control of the holy kingdom.

And now?

There are only 2 kingdoms left in this whole war.

Garog Empire vs Holy Kingdom Of Karraoi.

The war will now enter it finally stage where only one winner will remain.