[VRMMO] Dead One

"Okay, so now what?" – asked Wretch as the group found a safe spot and used it to rest up after a nonstop fighting.

"Well, obviously first thing first would be to regroup with Shri." – said LM.

"Considering the fact that this thing was able to rip off her legs, it does somewhat proves how dangerous that thing is."

"After that, we should- "

"We should what? Chase after these bastards?" – said ClownFrog, interrupting LM mid-sentence.

"Forget it."

"They made sure we wouldn't try that."

"This place is crawling to the brim with high level undeads that are even putting pressure on us."

"Bigger group obviously more undeads would end up going your way, we had already experienced it above ground and in here."

"But that doesn't mean that going solo wouldn't be less dangerous."

"Hell, if they take a single wrong turn, they may end up walking straight into monster nest and that would be end of them."

"This was completely stupid move no matter how we look at it."

"And yet they did it."

"They were even prepared with special smoke bombs that would hide their tracks for bit."

"They were ready to split up."

"…"

"And the one leading the group of saboteurs turns out to be Silver Tiger guild and Harem Fucker."

"…"

"Are you worried?" – asked LM.

"Of fucking course I'm worried." – replied ClownFrog.

"Honestly, I can beat Harem Fucker, but the problem is that he is tactician."

"And good one at that, I have to give it to him."

"I still remember how he outsmarted the entire empire."

"If it wasn't for him letting his guard down and having me expose him, the war could had ended very differently back then."

"But now he is getting in our way again?"

"And this time he must had been completely aware of our movement."

"…"

"Which points out to a single thing."

"The guy he is working for."

"That bastard was planning on wrecking up the whole continent and destroying all the nations in order to reset the whole place, in order to start his own kingdom."

"But there is no way he could done it, since his entire reputation on our continent would just went straight to hell."

"In other words, somebody needed to support him in the entire thing and setting up the kingdom."

"And by the looks of things the same person maybe now having him disturb our plans."

"It was obvious that somebody would try and disturb us the moment they realize we are heading for the dungeon."

"…"

"And the timing….. It is way too weird."

"?"

"What do you mean by 'weird'?" – asked Wretch.

"Wouldn't they try and stop us as soon as possible?"

"Yes. That is the thing. They would." - replied ClownFrog.

"But then how did those people got here so fast before us?"

"I doubt they were nearby….."

"No."

"Even if they knew we were heading off somewhere, they wouldn't know 'where'."

"Unless they instantly discovered our destination."

"…"

"You think that the dragon king may have been snake?" – asked Rampage.

"Nah."

"No way he would do it." – replied ClownFrog.

"He is dead set on gaining this alliance."

"…"

"That means that the one who must had leaked the informations was other dragon king."

"That would be the most likely suspect."

"…."

"…."

"?"

"Wait, this is too easy." – said confused LM.

"Hm? What is?" – asked Wretch.

"The answer." – replied LM.

"I think anybody could come up with this answer with bit of thinking."

"Would the answer as plain and simple as that really be it?"

"Honestly, I would normally say straight up 'no' as well….. But based on the circumstances.... Yes." – replied ClownFrog.

"The answer would be 'yes' instead of 'no'."

"If another dragon clan were to found out about our deal, they would do whatever in their power to prevent it."

"It would also explains how they found out about our destination pretty much instantly."

"…"

"Well, we can worry about this later, for now we should focus on the current situation." – said Rampage.

"In the nutshell."

"We managed to find the dungeon and enter it."

"But as it turns out, the monsters here are extremely fucking strong, making even us have a hard time against them."

"Not only that, this place is combination of labyrinth and city, which makes traveler hard like hell."

"There is also a giant bastard over there that is pretty much 'death' in more than one sense."

"And on top of it all, we have competition inside the dungeon."

"So, with that said, what is our current course of action?"

"…"

"We are heading for the goal." – said ClownFrog.

"As much as it annoys me, we cannot go around hunting every single one of those bastards."

"There is also what Shri told us."

"They are here for a 'mission', meaning that they will also try to reach goal and stop us from acquiring what ever is hidden in this place."

"Probably we will end up fighting some of them in the end."

"They may also try and go assassinating us."

"So don't let your guard down."

"Got it?"

<<Honestly….. Situation became chaotic from the get go.>>

<<We knew that the dungeon may be a bit challenging, but this?>>

<<Hell, when was the last time we struggled against monsters like that?>>

<<They were proper strong monsters that did put pressure on us.>>

<<Countless different undeads, each one being strong in their own way as well.>>

<<True, there was a lot of EXP and items involved as well….. Honestly, I'm even considering->>

<<Nah. Conquering the Dead Land and claiming it as my own may end up provoking way too many people.>>

<<Maybe we can come here once or twice to level up…. But for now, mission.>>

<<The problem?>>

<<We don't have any bloody idea where the "end" of this place is located.>>

<<Like seriously. There is no makings or maps anywhere.>>

<<We are just wondering in this place and fighting undeads over and over again.>>

<<And to add even more to our problems, we are not bloody alone.>>

<<Silver Tiger guild is here and we don't know where.>>

<<Their goal is obvious.>>

<<Prevent us from reaching our own goal.>>

<<So yea, we are having a race.>>

<<And beside those bastards?>>

<<There is also the tomb watcher.>>

<<A giant bone monster that is wondering throughout the whole dungeon.>>

<<Shri said that she tried fighting it once, but it ended up quiet badly.>>

<<That thing has not only high defense and HP pool, but it also has a high tier regeneration skill.>>

<<It could end up closing up any wounds it had received pretty much in just short spawn of time.>>

<<When we regrouped with Shri somehow, that bastards ended up finding us, forcing us to fight him.>>

<<And after fighting him? Yea, I can confirm that Shri wasn't kidding.>>

<<That bastard wasn't going down one bit, even as we started throwing all sort of skills at him.>>

<<We were able to wound him and destroy parts of his body, but he just regenerated.>>

<<Not only that, but the longer we fought him, the more undeads nearby would spot us and join the fight.>>

<<In the end we were forced to break through the hostile undeads and get away from the giant.>>

<<It did took us sometime to get away to safety, which did wasted a lot of time... And that is our lesson.>>

<<Don't fight with that thing.>>

<<He will just waste your time and have you surrounded by armies of undeads.>>

<<Honestly speaking, I wish we could deal with that bastard, but he is too big of annoyance.>>

"FUCK!" – shouted Rampage as the group found themselves in the temple like building, filled with the remains of the destroyed liches.

"This will take bloody ages!"

"…"

"I have to agree with Rampage on this one." – said Wretch.

"Not only travelling alone this city eats a lot of time, but we also have undeads to worry about AND also we need to hide from the big guy." – said Wretch.

"At this rate it will take hours, maybe even days before we reach the end goal."

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Hey….. Are you going to say anything?" – asked LM.

"Nah."

"They are right." – said annoyed ClownFrog.

"Shri used some of her monsters and I've used up some of my own familiars to scout the place, but in the end all of them ended up dead."

"We couldn't even find traces the Silver Tiger guild either."

(Thanks to the [Dead Eater] skill from my [Elder Necromancer] class, I'm recovering bit of MP whenever undeads dies near me.)

(But that doesn't mean I can just randomly blast my strongest skills non stop and make a huge army of undeads.)

(Hell. There are also strong bastards here as well.)

(The lich we just killed wasn't just high leveled, but it also had a group of powerful liches supporting him.)

(There are boss type monsters wondering in this dungeon as well.)

"…"

"What about the map?"

"Eh….. Not good really." – said LM as he took out a self-drawing map.

"The [Explorer Map] isn't covering up enough ground for us to take our guesses and stuff….. If we wonder around bit more than maybe we could somewhat….. Nah."

"I honestly don't know if we could guess where the center of this place is located." – said LM as he approached the window.

"I mean look at this!"

"This place is way too bizarre! The view is easily blocked by the building here and there, straight up blocking anyway of scouting the terrain."

"And if I were to try and scout, I may end up being spotted by him."

"I said we shouldn't depend too much on the Explorer Map."

"Honestly, it would had been better if at least that big guy over there would go in some pattern or something, but nope."

"He is 100% wondering around randomly, just patrolling the whole tomb."

"…"

"Fuck me." – said ClownFrog.

(Things are not looking good.)

(We had already been in this tomb for hours and we barely made enough progress.)

(Honestly speaking, things are not looking bright right now.)

(And neither is the fact that we know where the Silver Tiger guild member are.)

(….)

(Fuck me.)

(There is no plan we can make as well either with what we have.)

(We will just have to continue exploring the dungeon….. Until maybe we find something.)

(I just hope we find some lead at least before they find one themselves.)