[VRMMO] Dead One

[Sometime later.]

"…"

"Your majesty… Where exactly are we?" – asked Aworia as she rode on ClownFrog back.

"You mean this desolated lands? Dwarven kingdom." – said ClownFrog.

"This place… Well, to say simple, the noble and royalty of the dwarven kingdom were beyond corrupted."

"Because of their sole focus on the wars and mechanical development, they ended up completely destroying their entire kingdom."

"Pure greed."

"Like pretty much all of the kingdoms of this freaking continent."

"People are saying that we were the ones who started everything…. And in sense, this is both correct and incorrect."

"True, we were originally nothing more than terrorist in the eyes of the public."

"But what truly set things off was the death of the previous emperor of the Oin empire."

"After that things went straight to hell for the entire continent."

"Each nation got greedy."

"The holy nation despise telling the people they are doing this for faith, they just went around murdering civilians who couldn't fight back or were not even related to the war at all."

"They just fanatics that thing that every single sin of theirs was just."

"Just like that heavenly dragon god. He was exactly like them."

"Then there are the elves."

"They unleashed plagues and poison throughout the whole continent in order to exterminate all the lives in here in order to rule its ashes."

"And dwarves."

"They only cared about the war and power."

"They joined the war not only for their greed, but also for survival."

"Since you can tell probably from here what they had done to this place."

"After we had taken over there was some 'life' given to this place, but clearly not enough."

"It will take us years before this place revives."

"And more specifically, there are few dead zones."

"?"

"Dead zones?" – asked the princess.

"Simple put, dwarves ambushed a territory to the point no living being was capable of living inside of them."

"We pretty much given up on reviving these places, since they are beyond dead."

"But they are also good to conduct a shady experiments and rituals out in the open, since it won't bother anybody and even if accident occurs, no civilians will end up getting hurt."

"I see." – said the princess.

"So how long until we get to our destination?"

"Not that far." – replied ClownFrog.

"I know you can fly on your own, but it is for the best if nobody sees you flying around… Just for the safety reasons."

"Okay, we here." – said Blueberry.

"Oh? Already? I though we were bit further away?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Nah. I couldn't have too far away from our bases, since too far could result in some bastards noticing it." – said Blueberry as she started flying down alongside ClownFrog.

"Too far but not too close is a perfect way to hide some things." – said Blueberry as she alongside ClownFrog towards a mountain covered in boulders and dead trees.

However, as the group approached the mountain closer, they were able to realize that some of the boulders and dead trees were covering up something…. A ritual site.

"Huh. So, you used this place that is like a dumb site in order to hide the ritual?" – asked ClownFrog as he landed down alongside Blueberry and then put down the dragon princess on the ground.

"Not exactly." – said Blueberry as she snapped her fingers, which instantly caused the boulders to transform and reveal themselves to be a bunch of large humanoid monsters.

"Oh, the rock trolls?" – said ClownFrog as round headed creatures stared at the lich dragon.

(If I'm not mistaken, the rock trolls are members of the troll race that posses a special form of skin, which not only makes them as hard as rocks, but also gives them ability to pretend to be one.) – thought dragon princess.

"When did you managed to tame them?" – asked the dragon princess.

"Tame them? They work for us out of their own free will." – said Blueberry.

"We have many monsters citizens in our kingdom and the rock trolls are one of them."

"They were originally used as slaves by the dwarves, but after we taken over, they decided to work for us."

"Surprising these guys are good at many different jobs."

"Anyway, good job, all of you."

"You are free to go now."

"As promised, I will be sending the promised crates of food to your village."

The giant rock monsters tilted their heads before then leaving the area all at once, causing the entire place to instantly get desolated.

"…"

(Now that the rock trolls are gone, I can now see the ritual site properly…. But still… What is this?) – thought the princess as she looked around, noticing a ginormous ritual site, which blood like markings everywhere as well as pillars of bones and skins.

(This does look… Quiet "Evil"…. But this isn't all.)

(This thick necrotic mana in the air.)

(It is overwhelming.)

(How come I couldn't sense it before?!)

(Was it the trolls?! I know they should have…. No! Even with magic resistance, there is no way they could had hidden that kind of wicked energy.)

(Was it the empress doing?)

(Did she by any chanced constructed something to hid this ritual.)

"As per instructions, the ritual has been completed." – said Blueberry as she approached one of the pillars of skin and bones in her humanoid form and started checking it out.

"And to make sure it wouldn't go berserk, we placed on the seal barriers."

"?"

"Seal barriers?" – asked Aworia.

"I've told you. It exploded last time." – said ClownFrog.

"Honestly, we couldn't really contain the burst of energy even without safety mechanisms."

"The seals will keep ritual intact until it is finished, but once the ritual is over, a probably, very likely…. Em… Boom?"

"Eh?" – the princess stared confused.

"Pretty much, we are expecting a giant outburst of energy to occur that could completely destroy the entire area." – said Blueberry.

"So no matter what, don't leave my side."

"!"

"I understand!" – replied the princess as ClownFrog walked towards the middle of the ritual site in his true form, while also holding the giant glass jar that contains the ritual potion.

"Okay. So, I just stand here. And active this part here, right?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Yea! Once you do, wait until all of the shit start glowing and being activated." – said Blueberry.

"If it like the last time, the you need to drink this potion at the exact timing when the ritual full power is unleashed."

"Anything else?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Nah…. I don't think so." – said Blueberry.

"Well, there is good chance the whole thing will blow up, but you can revive yourself thanks to your skill, so it should be fine even if you do die."

"?"

(Revive? Skill?! So, the rumors are true!?) – thought alarmed princess as Blueberry then took her away from the ritual site.

"OKAY! YOU CAN START OFF NOW!" – shouted Blueberry from afar as she quickly returned back her true form.

"…"

"Well then…. Here we go." – said ClownFrog as he put down his claw into the middle of the circle…. Before moments later the symbol of blood started activating. Causing a blood and corrupted light to flow through the circle that surrounded ClownFrog, before then connecting and activating all the other circles.

The blood flew as it connected to the pillars of bones and skin, absorbing it and the corrupted light.

The pillars of corpse began screaming like the souls of the damned, before moments later runes began pouring out from the skulls, forming and fusing together and wrapping themselves around the columns.

"…"

"Welp." – said ClownFrog as he began drinking the potion as ritual potion as the corpse columns fully activated at the same time.

Right as ClownFrog finished drinking the whole content of the giant jar, the pillars fully activated, before then firing off a beams of necrotic light straight towards the undead dragon, hitting it and instantly exploding.

The explosion of the necrotic light fused together, forming a pillar of the necrotic energy as the screams of the damned as well sound of bones cracking snapping could be heard.

"…"

"Huh… I guess it is good thing I've made extra reinforcements to this seal barrier." – said Blueberry.

"?!"

"Why did you suddenly mentioned that?!" – asked worried princess.

"Oh, well it seems that the fire output is much higher than we had-"

Suddenly to column of the necrotic energy burst out once again, transforming and growing in size while the corrupted light flew higher into the air.

In that instance, the barrier seal activated, forming barriers around each of the totems, reinforcing them and protecting them from the rampaging necrotic energy.

After that a second barrier was formed around the edges of the ritual site, protecting both Blueberry and the princess from the rampaging outburst of energy.

"Stay behind me." – said Blueberry as she took out her shield from inventory.

As the necrotic energy continues going on the rampage, the silhouette of the ClownFrog inside column of massive necrotic energy began changing.

Shape and size went on the rampage as the roars of the beasts could be heard coming from the column.

And before long, the silhouette of ClownFrog started calming down, starting to now take on the proper shape.

The giant humanoid dragon started growing in size.

"…"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey." – said Blueberry.

"I know you were already big, but isn't this overkill right now?" – said Blueberry as the giant silhouette grew up in alarming rate, before moments later the entire column of necrotic energy straight up blew up, completely devasting everything around the ritual site as Blueberry quickly stepped in to protect the princess from any harm that came her way.

"…"

"Did…."

"Did it failed?" – asked the princess after the explosion that came towards the duo has dispersed.

"Dunno." – replied Blueberry as she unfolded her wings and stood up.

"…"

"Hey ClownFrog! You okay?!" – shouted Blueberry at the massive cloud of dust and smoke where the ritual site was.

"Did it worked?"

"…"

"Yea." – said ClownFrog as two sets of glowing eyes pierced right through the smoke…. Before moments later another set of eyes emerged.

The smoke and dust dispersed as giant gust of wind blew up where ClownFrog was standing, removing all the dust and smoke in one the ritual.

"Ah… Now I can breath properly." – said ClownFrog as his brand-new form was revealed to the two woman.

The size of the creature also grew exponentially, to the point it now easily towered over his empress.

His 4 grew expediently in size, straight up covered the entire skies while with them, while his four eyes stared down at the two dragons in front of him, who then noticed a rune like symbol.

The horns on his head grew and multiplied, forming 4 sets of horns: A set of goatlike horns, a set of horns that grew below its jaw in a form of spears, a set of horns pointing backwards in a form of hook and another set of hooks that were pointing out from the sides of its face.

The dragon formed another tail, which as the originally one also evolved together, not only growing longer, but also much more deadlier as countless hook like blades emerged everywhere on them, including a giant hook like end on the end of each tail.

Not only that, but the tails and eyes weren't the only things that multiplied.

The creature grew another set of arms grew out, connecting themselves into shoulders just like the previous arms.

To top it all off, ClownFrog body looked… Mutated to say the least.

The bones of the creatures looked like combination of flesh and bones, melted and fused into one… Or more exactly, its bones themselves evolved into something more "living" yet dead.

Their entire surface wasn't normal either.

Like before it was covered completely in draconic scales, but this time there was also something different in the mix.

A symbols.

A lines of dark golden colored runes that were fused all throughout the undead body, giving ClownFrog's appearance as around 1/3 of his entire body from head to toes were covered in tattoos.

Not only that, but beside his bones taking on more skin like appearance, his bones grew sharper, straight up becoming blades in several places or straight up forming new hook like spikes.

And besides his regular dragon horns, there were also a bones made out of bones just sticking out from his head, forming a crown of 6 separated bone blades.

[Race Change Successful]

[High Lich Dragonian] -> [Elder Death Dragonian]

"Ah…. This feels…"

"Nice."