[VRMMO] Dead One

(Well, no surprise there.) – thought ClownFrog who was sitting in his office.

(Considering the current circumstances, things are truly beyond chaotic.)

(If we don’t do this well, we could not only get freaking blown up, but we could also suffer somewhat nasty wound in the process.)

(I don’t doubt Oron, Tail and LM’s abilities.)

(But again... Things are bound to get complicated.)

(The only good thing about the current situation is that the ’benefactor’ started somewhat calming down since the surge of the Forgotten Fragments had stopped... But again, there are still new ones appearing here and there.)

(We also had a new one recently emerging in the elven territory, the Forgotten Mine.)

(I also didn’t heard anywhere about the ’benefactor’ making such big mess, since the Forgotten Mist incident.)

(Things should be somewhat good for us to move around... But again, we don’t know how other nations will act.)

(Not only that, the distance between Garog empire and the Mawoak empire isn’t something you can easily cross.)

(It is long ass distance.)

(And if we were to be forced to deploy an army... It could be somewhat problematic.)

(I mean, we did increased our military strength by a lot... But again, what if the enemy makes a move?)

(Probably me and large number of soldiers could end up going.)

(Should I ask Sabath for help?)

(They already did helped out in creating the memory restoring drug.)

(But if I ask them to help me in this, it could been seen as asking them to join the war.)

"..."

"And we are fucking dealing with heavenly dragon on top it all." – said ClownFrog.

["Well, we are still not sure about that."] – said Oron via {Chat – Video Call}.

"I know, this information wasn’t confirmed yet."

"However, I can’t say I’m not worried."

"If anything, it could be said I’m scared."

"The enemy is far too annoying and problematic."

"Mind controlling."

"Corruption."

"Manipulation."

"And also knowing how to do what, a fucking intelligent enemy."

"If we don’t move correctly, we will be playing like a puppet on the strings."

"..."

(We can’t let dragon empire fall.) – thought ClownFrog.

(No.)

(We must form alliance with them.)

(Honestly I was fine with just Pyrgos clan.)

(But now?)

(With how nations are moving and how "benefactor" is acting?)

(Fuck no!)

(We need strong allies!)

(If we make the dragon empire as a whole, own us a favor, we could make a powerful alliance, which in turn could help us in not only dealing with the ’benefactor’, but also possible help us locate much easier the Forgotten Fragments.)

"..."

"But then again... We are forgetting something."

["Eh? What are you talking about?"]

"Don’t you remember?"

"Sabotage at the Lich Lord’s Tomb."

"The dragon ruler who did this maybe not the same who is the part of the current conspiracy."

"But what if they are?"

"I mean, the Pyrgos clan became much stronger both in military sense and political sense after they established alliance with us."

"...Honestly, the alliance with the whole empire may somewhat deal with this problem... But then again, there are... Other problems to be dealt with."

"..."

"Just continue investigation mate."

["Got it boss."] – said Oron as he ended the call.

"..."

(Still, he ain’t wrong.) – thought Oron as he started wandering the streets of a city.

(Things are starting way too messy and if our empire really end up getting involved, we will have involve ourself big time.)

(But... Fuck.)

(The current situation is already fucked more than enough.)

(But the fact remains that we still haven’t found anything weird yet is truly annoying.)

(Tail and LM investigated that freaking allies of the Pyrgos clan, but they said that they couldn’t find anything like super-secret facilities.)

(That means we confirmed it.)

(Pyrgos clan and the Pindon clan are innocent.)

(They are however preparing for the possibility of the war.)

(Just like Wo’won clan who spread around their agents throughout the whole empire.)

(Was the reason why Pyrgos clan suspected Wo’won clan in the first place was because he discovered the information gathering network and realized that the main suspect maybe Wo’won clan, but didn’t had solid enough evidence to shout out their name out right in public?) – thought Oron as he left the city.

(Things are truly bothersome.)

(There are also these dark elves.)

(Honestly, they could had been nothing more than red herring.)

(They can use brainwashing and what not.)

"..."

"But where the hell do I go now?" – asked Oron himself as he walked on the road.

(At the rate things are going, I will have to reveal my presence here.)

(Not fully, but still... People will know that there is somebody is aiming to gather information at any cost, be it even with force.)

(However, I need to choose my target correctly.) – thought Oron as he opened up the friend list and quickly made a group call with Tail and Litle Manica.

"Please tell me that some of you had found something." – said Oron.

["Sorry mate. But nothing on my end."] – said Tail.

["Same here mate. I did investigated the Muwi clan bit further... But by the looks it was pointless."] – said LM.

["It seems they were really just planning on having two clans fight each other."]

["But by the looks of things, it won’t work anymore."]

["The joined investigation was made between Wumi clan and Muwi clan, which seemed to somewhat repair the bond between the two clans."]

["I think they may soon restore the alliance between the two clans."]

["Still... I think the enemy may strike here."]

["I doubt it."] – replied Tail.

["If they were to try and manipulate either of the clans now, it would only end up wounding if not possible fucking over big time the culprit."]

["They cannot touch either of the clans and they also should had made some countermeasures to deal with brainwashing too, meaning that it wouldn’t be easy to have these two clans fight each other again."]

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["Then why not use them?"] – asked Tail.

["If that is the current situation, why not we just expose ourselves to the Pyrgos clan and have them as well as their allied Pindon clan support the two clans’ claims?"]

["We could also use the Muwi clan too, since the relationship between them and Muwi clan was somewhat restored to its original state."]

"..."

"It could work." – said Oron.

"It could allow the dragon empire to launch a full-on investigation on the Kai’ku’dan clan, which could put pressure on the traitor heir."

"But are we REALLY sure that one of the possible heirs of the Kai’ku’dan clan are truly the traitor?"

"That is unfortunately our biggest annoyance and problem."

"We need more confirmation about at that specific part."

["So we will be launching a joined investigation on the Kai’ku’dan clan?"] – asked LM.

"Yeah... But this time we will need to be forceful about this... And both of you know what will happened because of this." – replied annoyed Oron.

"..."

["Yeah. I see the problem."] – said LM.

["But still, do we really have no choice but to do it?"]

"...Nope. We really have no choice." – replied Oron.

"However, just normal investigation of the Kai’ku’dan clan won’t be easy."

"They are the strongest of the dragon clans in the dragon empire."

"Not only that, but their security is top notch as well."

"We will definitely end up exposing our presence there extremely fast."

"But we have also another thing."

["Who do we target?"] – asked Tail.

"Exactly." – said Oron as he grabbed his head.

["Hm... Yeah, that is problem."] – said Tail.

["There are 7 dragons that are direct children of the dragon king, which also includes 38 children of their own."]

["That means we have freaking list of 45 possible suspects."

["Jezus."] – said LM.

["This... Wow... We are really fucked here, aren’t we?"]

"Unfortunately, we are... And again, we have still that problem." – said Oron.

"Time limit."

"We still have no fucking idea how much time we have left in the first place."

"In other words... We may really end up being forced to make way too big of a mess in our investigation."

(And that... Is something that may end up fucking us in the ass later on.) – thought Oron.

"..."

(Yeb.)

(This mission is really fucked.)