[VRMMO] Dead One

[After respawning and finishing up their preparations, the entire Silver Tiger guild once again began exploring the Dead Land and heading straight towards the 'Corpse Sea'.]

"Em….. Okay…. This is…. Yea, I need to contact them." – said dark elf player named Amilia as she opened up a guild menu.

[Player: Amilia is requesting a video chat request.]

"?"

[You have accepted the request. Connecting.]

"What is it Amilia? Why are you suddenly calling me?" – asked Alamin as the Silver Tiger guild just finished fighting a group of undeads.

"Yea…. We have problem….. I've just went ahead like you wanted me to, but I may or may not encounter a bit of…. Problematic situation." – replied dark elf as she hid behind a giant boulder and used a telescope.

"The entire corpse sea thing is surrounded by monsters."

"?"

"Wait, what do you mean it is surrounded by monsters? That place is usually somewhat safe…. Well, in a way, since undead monsters don't usually go near that thing." – replied confused yet alarmed Alamin.

"Because the place isn't swarming with not just undeads."

"There undeads, but also demons and elementals."

"There is over thousands monsters in here!"

"There is no mistaking it, those are ClownFrog monsters!"

"!?"

"Wait, do you see him there?!" – asked Alamin.

"No…. There is just…. There is straight up too many monsters for me to spot that giant fucker. Like literally I can't see shit!" – replied dark elf.

"…"

"Everybody stop." – said Alamin to his guild.

"We have a problem." – said Alamin before then starting to explain the current situation to his guild members.

"Wait, he is guarding entrance to the dungeon?" – asked the female dragonewt player.

"This is indeed problematic….. We can't beat the dungeon if he won't even let us enter…. But what is he doing that?" – asked confused female dwarf player.

"Well…. By the looks of things, I was correct about them failing to conquer the dungeon in a single day…. But him guarding the entrance of the dungeon?" – said confused Alamin.

"I didn't expected him to do it….."

(What is going on?) – thought alarmed Alamin.

(Purple Hyena like us are aiming to conquer the dungeon as soon as possible before the other one would reach the goal and claim the rewards….. And yet, instead of being inside of the dungeon, he is instead waiting outside? Blocking the entrance?)

(Maybe he is already inside of the dungeon and….. No…. No, no, no. This isn't it.)

(ClownFrog is definitely on the surface.)

(So does that mean that the rest of Purple Hyena are in the dungeon?)

(No…. This wouldn't make sense either….)

(Would they be even able to conquer the whole dungeon without that monster bastard help?)

"…"

"So…..What do we do?" – asked female knight player named Baron.

"Do we go and try and beat the demon lord?"

"I mean, we have our entire guild here and stuff."

"Yes….. But what about rest of Purple Hyena? Where are they? Are they amongst the monsters?" – asked Alamin.

"Are they inside of dungeon?"

"Or maybe they are currently respawning?"

"Until Amilia confirms any of these details, we really can't do anything."

"But this is far too odd." – said Alamin who still tried to analyze the situation.

"Why isn't that bastard moving?"

"Why is he switched from offence to defense out of a blue?"

"…"

"?"

"Ah."

"Say, what if he realized he cannot beat the dungeon?" – asked Baron.

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked priestess player.

"I mean, we know how hard that place is and trying to eliminate all for the monsters in that place is far too risky." – said Baron.

"We tried and we got fucked, didn't we?"

"And right now they are maybe trying to do the same thing?"

"But they got fucked the same way we did?"

"So obviously they are calling for the back up?"

"…"

"This is stupid." – said dwarf player.

"The Garog empire is nowhere near this place."

"It would take days for the reinforcements to come here, maybe even weeks depending on their method of travel."

"There is no way he would wait for the reinforcements to come here."

"…"

"No….. She is right." – said Alamin.

"ClownFrog is definitely waiting for something or someone to come…. Maybe he really did called reinforcements to support him in beating the dungeon?"

"…. But that still doesn't make sense." – said the dwarven player.

"No matter how we look at it, if he knew that the dungeon was so important yet dangerous, why didn't he just came here in a large group, instead of just 5 players?"

"…..He is emperor." – said the female dragonewt player.

"I don't think ClownFrog can easily move around, since not only he is famous, but he is also a emperor of a whole empire."

"Maybe something like political reasons? Or the people that he needed had their own job?"

"…"

"If that is true, then maybe it would explain everything." – said Alamin.

(But if that would be the case, we won't be able to enter the dungeon at all.)

(If it was any other necromancer or lich, we could probably just break through or maybe just sneak by without being noticed.)

(But ClownFrog private army he can make on the spots consist of hundreds if not thousands monsters.)

(If he set them up in a ring like form around the 'Corpse Sea', we won't be able to get by unnoticed and even if we were to break through, we would end up being instantly chased by his monsters, which would in turn cause monsters in the tomb to go after us….. Pretty much this would end up in guarantee death.)

"…"

"Fuck me." – said Alamin.

"Okay. Here what we are doing. Find a hiding spot and wait a bit. Got it?"

"?"

"Wait, we- "

"Got it?!" – said Alamin as the female tank player was about to argue.

"…"

"Good…. Then look for anything that can hide us from any prying eyes." – said Alamin before moments later his entire guild started searching around for any good hiding spot, which was then fallowed up with the group finding a undead infested tower that was quickly conquered and cleansed out of undeads and quickly taken over by the Silver Tiger guild.

"Keep a watch." – said Alamin.

"We don't want anybody and I mean ANYBODY getting near us." – said Alamin as he took out from his inventory a helmet like object that resembles a dragon mouth.

"!"

"Wait, you are contacting them!?" – asked bit nervous priestess.

"Honestly….. I don't want to….. And it may not even work." – said nervous Alamin.

"But considering the current situation, we really have no choice, don't we?" – said Alamin as he put on the helmet that covered his entire head, before activating it and causing its eyes to glow.

"…"

"What is it?" – asked the voice.

"Is this about report about your progress?"

"Yes your majesty." – said Alamin.

"We had managed to finally reach the area where the end of the tomb is located."

"!"

"You did!?" – asked surprised voice.

"Yes. But we were eliminated." – replied Alamin.

"We were exhausted and we suffered loses along the way, but now that we known exact location where the end is located, we should be able to conquer the tomb."

"However, problem occurred."

"Demon lord ClownFrog has arrived."

"…"

"Are you saying he is also about to reach the tomb end." – asked the voice.

"No." – replied Alamin.

"Even if ClownFrog is demon lord and the emperor of the Garog empire, it would also take him days to even spot the end location of the tomb."

"We should reach the end of the tomb before him….. But there is now new problem."

"ClownFrog is aware of us and instead of trying to conquer the dungeon, he is currently locking it."

"?"

"What do you mean by 'locking it'?" – asked confused voice.

"He is trying to completely lock off any access to the dungeon, not allowing anybody into the dungeon."

"As much as it pains me to admit it, we cannot go into the dungeon anymore."

"If we were to somehow go past the demon lord army, we would end up being chased by them and be either hunt down by the monsters of the tomb that would be provoke by the demon lord army or we would just end up leading them to the end goal."

"…"

"So you are saying that the demon lord played you?" – asked the voice.

"Unfortunately, we have no choice."

"Not only that, but there is a strong chance that he had requested a assistance from his own empire."

"If a reinforcements arrives here, then we will truly have no way of beating the dungeon."

"…"

"What are you suggesting?" – asked the voice.

"…"

"This matter is already out of our hands."

"If we don't receive a support then ClownFrog will end up getting whatever is hidden inside of that tomb."

"…"

"You are telling me to send my own soldiers, my own forces there to fight off the demon lord army?" – asked the voice.

"…. Yes…. There is straight up nothing we can do on our own if the enemy has already sent their reinforcement this way."

"…"

(Honestly, I just say no.) – thought the owner of the voice.

(If I were to send my forces there, I would just expose my identity right there on the spot.)

(And that would put me and my entire clan in extremely problematic position…..)

"…"

(But…..No.)

(There is no point in even considering it.)

(If that monster were to acquire whatever is inside of that tomb and evolve, a monster that shouldn't be born would walk on these lands.)

(For the greater good of the world, we need to prevent that thing from being born.)

"Fine." – said the voice.

"I will send my forces."

"Use them to eliminate the demon lord and destroy his army."

"Do you understand?"

"You need to not let the demon lord get his hands on whatever in inside of that place, for not only your own good, but the good of entire world."

"We need to prevent the birth of 'it' at any cost."