Chapter 814: Chapter 815 – The fear’s reappearance.
[2 in real life days later.]
"Still nothing?" – said Yosuke to himself while looking at the guild chat and communicating with the people who were part of GreyHunt’s group.
["Nope."] – replied Lilium on the chat.
"..."
"What the hell is going on?"
(According to them, the dungeon has been cleared.)
(From what I was told, GreyHunt was the last one standing... And none of the servants of the ’benefactor’ entered the dungeon... That means GreyHunt must had cleared the dungeon.)
(The others also obtained EXP reward from cleaning the dungeon.... That means GreyHunt’s party was 100% the one who cleared the dungeon.)
(But why did he went suddenly silent?) – thought Yosuke as he picked up his phone.
(I tried calling him several times.... But he isn’t answering his phone.)
"..."
"Did something happened to him in real life?"
"..."
(But something is still not right.... The timing is worrying.) – thought Yosuke... Before few moments later his phone suddenly started ringing.
[Luis]
"!" – Yosuke without hesitation picked up the call.
"Hello? Luis?" – asked Yosuke.
"...Hey.... Yosuke." – said Luis with somewhat tired voice.
"Luis? Is everything alright? You suddenly went quiet for two whole days." – asked worried Yosuke who could tell that something was wrong from the get go based on the man’s voice.
"Yeah.... I just.... Fuck.... I have a lot of things going on... Problem with some small dick trouble."
"?!"
("Small Dick Trouble"?!) – thought Yosuke who instantly went on the high alert upon hearing these specific words.
(The code.... That means he....)
"..."
"Look. If you want some rest, you don’t even need to log into the game.... Just tell me some stuff and I will explain it to everybody." – said Yosuke as he tried staying calm.
"Well.... I think I maybe gone for few weeks... Maybe a month." – said Luis.
"I kind of want to move out and relocate to Japan, if possible."
"?"
"Relocate? You mean you want to live in Japan?" – asked Yosuke.
"Yeah... Honestly speaking, I think Spain became somewhat boring for me... Or more exactly, I realized that I hate this fucking place.... I really.... And I mean, really want to leave this fucking place and start somewhere a new."
"You know, just how we talked about."
"Hm.... But you said you would do it like somewhat later... Did something happened?" – asked Yosuke.
",,,,Honestly.... Those fuckers’ death anniversary is coming.... And its kind of.... Well, it just made me snap... Okay? I really don’t want to talk about... Not now at least." – said Luis.
"Still, could you help me out? Is there any place near you that I can use.... Honestly, I really want to live somewhat quiet yet noisy... You know...."
"..."
"Sure." – said Yosuke.
(What the fuck is going on?) – thought alarmed Yosuke.
(He is running to Japan? Why?)
(He also used code.)
(Not just visit, straight up relocation?)
(What the hell happened? What did he discovered to make him panic so much to the point he now wants to live here?) – thought Yosuke, as he then talked for sometime with Luis about moving in as well as stuff regarding his absence.
"Well, I will look into it. Once I find something I will give you an info." – said Yosuke.
"...Thanks... Bro." – said Luis as he ended the call.
"..."
(What the hell happened to you, mate?) – thought worried Yosuke.
(I could tell based on his voice alone that he was extremely exhausted......)
(Did by any chance... He discovered something?)
(....)
(Or maybe.... He experienced "it" himself?)
(The "reality".)
"..."
"Can’t say... Still..."
(The only way to get anything from him would be to talk with him privately.)
"..."
(Honestly, I do wish that we all were gathered in a single place and all, since we could then talk in private.... But still.)
(If we are really being "observed", having all of us move and live in a single spot would be way too dangerous.)
(...And yet, Luis is taking the risk of moving to the Japan now of all the times?)
(It is too early... And yet he is still aiming to go with it?)
(Why?)
(Are things that bad that he is taking a risk?)
(...According to him, he beat the dungeon and even obtained items.)
(Two new rare legendary and legendary.... Still, that bastard did not sounded overjoyed one bit.)
(If anything, it does sounded like he... Completely ignored their existence?)
(Seriously? What the hell happened to make him act this way?)
"..."
"No fucking way."
(Did he encountered that "monster" by any chance?)
(It would explain his reaction.) – thought Yosuke as he was growing more and more nervous with each passing moment after realizing the truth.
"Fuck."
(If... If that thing made its appearance again... Then this confirms it.)
(It is preventing the "truth" from being found out.)
(But how did Luis encountered it exactly? Did Sloth got involved?)
(Or maybe it was Wrath’s doing?)
(.... I don’t know.)
(The only way to get any real confirmation would be for that guy to speak himself.) – thought Yosuke as he activated his capsule.
(However, for now, I should act normal.)
(If that "thing" is really watching us, then I cannot do anything too weird now.)
(I should be "normal".) – thought Yosuke as he logged into the game.
<<...But it won’t be easy.>>
<<Still, I was not expecting for us to encounter THAT thing so soon.>>
<<... There is also that what Sloth said.>>
<<How exactly did Luis obtained the information?>>
<<Was it truly a doing of Sloth or Wrath?>>
<<Or something else?>>
<<Either way, it seems GreyHunt had obtained some "truth" because of this hunt.>>
<<...But if that is the case, then who the fuck is "benefactor"?>>
<<And HOW did he knew that the way to obtain some truth will be in that dungeon.>>
<<Again and FUCKING again! This fucking mysterious bastard.>>
<<What does the want?>>
<<Does he also want to obtain the "truth"? Or does he want to prevent the others from reaching it?>>
<<Either way, things are bound to be chaotic from now on.>>
<<I’ve logged in and explained somewhat made up stuff to the others, about the real life problem that GreyHunt had, and that the dungeon items are on his account.>>
<<As for the other stuff?>>
<<Well, the talk with other nations regaling the "benefactor" and Forgotten World was held several times.>>
<<....I also had some of my people try to look into the "benefactor".... But again, nothing... Or more exactly, the way he is doing things now is the same as before.>>
<<Even though he failed in conquering that Forgotten Fragment, he is still straight up acting like a terrorist.>>
<<Still, we will have to pay extra attention to him from now on.>>
<<There is good chance he may lead us to other dungeons like that.>>
<<...>>
<<And there are also these players.>>
<<Who are they?>>
<<I mean in real life.>>
<<We tried using data that we had obtained to try and figure out who these players were.>>
<<There was a good chance that they may had changed their races, but were originally some named players.>>
<<But, even after the days of searching, we found nothing.>>
<<Especially about that bastard who was wielding Excalibur.>>
<<There are some suspects that we thought were him, but they are still active while still having their original races.>>
<<So does that mean that man was a nobody?>>
<<...>>
<<*Sigh*>>
<<This is beyond problematic.>>
<<....Not only that, but nobody is having any reaction.>>
<<No True Sin nor True Virtue are doing anything.>>
<<WHY?!>>
<<Or maybe they already did something?>>
<<This is getting fucking complicated.>>
"Why the hell things can’t be bloody easy?" – said ClownFrog as he was stuck in his office, doing a large amount paper work.
(Things are.... Let’s not beat around the fucking bush.) – thought ClownFrog as he was checking different documents and signing them one by one.
(Things are already out of control.)
(We are trying to somewhat stabilize our nation.... But things are moving way too fast now.)
(To make things even worse, we cannot just fully focus on the Forgotten Fragments and "benefactor", since if this nation falls, then our chances at obtaining the "truth" may straight up nose dive straight into volcano.)
(....Not only that, what Lilium told me worries me.)
(The dungeon’s difficultly level, as well as the power of the Forgotten Murder.)
(It was problematic, even for GreyHunt.... He must had barely beaten that dungeon.)
(And if other Forgotten Fragments will be that difficult, but may contain the "truth".... Then we need to get even stronger.)
(...And wanted to beat that Tomb Of The Lich Lord somewhat later, but by the looks of things, I will have to do it NOW!)
"..."
"But first fucking first thing.... This fucking paper work.... Why the hell there is again shit tons of it out of a blue? Weren’t things finally calm?!"
(And this isn’t the first time this shitty situation happens.... Maybe I should think about retiring about being emperor already?)
(I mean, for fuck’s sake....)
(....Still.... There are other problems.)
(Other nations.)
(Our "allies".)
(Players.)
(Things will get mixed more and more.... Which in turn will get birth to even bigger and way more unstable madness.)
(Protecting this empire will be harder as the times goes by... And we won’t always be here, with how chaotic things are.)
(So, the only way to do is to develop the shit out of this place until it will be able to properly defend itself, even if most powerful people of the empire wouldn’t be present here.)
<<Things are chaotic.>>
<<While at the same time calm.>>
<<....But most importantly.>>
<<They are mad.>>
<<We still have countless questions and not even a single answer on our hands.>>
<<Not only that, but it is obvious that this is only just beginning.>>
<<There are only few dices on the table.... But as the time would go by, more and more dices will be thrown, causing more and more chaos.>>
<<Who is the enemy?>>
<<Who is ally?>>
<<Who knows the truth?>>
<<Is the power only answer in this?>>
<<Even now we still don’t know what we are searching for, nor where we need to go.>>
<<But we will keep exploring.>>
<<This chaos of unknown.>>
<<We need to discover it.>>
<<But did we even started yet?>>
<<...>>
<<Fuck me.>>
<<I can wonder over and over about this.... But this will never end.>>
<<All I can do is just "question" something.... But that is it.>>
<<....And how long it will take us to even get a single answer?>>
<<Months?>>
<<Years?>>
<<Decades?>>
<<...>>
<<It doesn’t matter.>>
<<What matters is that we don’t give up.>>
<<Because if we did?>>
<<Well, that is the tough question, since I don’t have blood answer to it.>>
<<....>>
<<But still, there is one thing I can say about this.>>
<<The moment we give up on searching the truth.... Then we may as well be inviting the doom to our real life.>>
{{{{End of volume 12}}}}
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