Chapter 815: Chapter 816 – Chaotic Clock.
<<It has been already sometime since the hunt for the Forgotten World Fragments has started.... And well?>>
<<It is still big mess.>>
<<As expected, the moment GreyHunt was forced reveal himself to the public to stop the "benefactor".... Welp, it didn’t took long for the internet to erupt.>>
<<Post online about saying "secret of Garog empire’s power" or "how did Purple Hyena became so powerful".>>
<<Honestly, it is no secret at all that the Forgotten Fragments provided a "OP loot", everybody found out about it pretty quickly when the game was still somewhat young.>>
<<But people are saying some stuff that WE and the "BENEFACTOR" found out the secret about the Forgotten Fragments, a secret power up that made us who we are today.>>
<<Obviously that is a blunt stupid talk.... But many people do believe in that stupid shit.>>
<<So yeah.... We got fucking sudden increase in a competition.>>
<<Many people are now actively hunting for the Forgotten Fragments.... But it isn’t just greed.>>
<<Curiosity.>>
<<The top guilds in the game are also making their moves, aiming to uncover the secret that we and "benefactor" know about.>>
<<So, we have greedy bastard and curios bastard.>>
<<To top it all off? "Benefactor" is still in play.>>
<<He ain’t slowing down at all.>>
<<If anything, he is still taking extremely risky moves, showing off his strength, his weak point and strong point to the public... Which is beyond stupid.>>
<<I mean, I get that he wants to get those Forgotten Fragments and Forgotten World’s items at any cost, but dude? The way you are doing it now is straight up stupid.>>
<<The only reason why I think he would do something like that.... Would be because he just doesn’t care anymore about holding back.... Or he wants to obtain the as many Forgotten World items as possible.>>
<<Either way, he is still one of the most dangerous and mysterious opponents we barely know anything about.>>
<<The only thing we recently found out about him, is him using brand new monsters, which didn’t really seemed like chimeras of any known monsters... They look 100% man made, just like his fusion chimera monsters he had been using so far.... But their design are way different... We honestly don’t think they are chimeras, but instead something completely brand new.>>
<<And there is also that new race.>>
<<A weird living armor race that has a black smoke filling up their bodies.>>
<<They are elemental beings, but they are not undeads.>>
<<They are members of the mystic race and from what I was told, they specialize in light magic while also possessing absurd high HP pool or powerful regenerative ability.>>
<<There was also their weird death animation where their bodies would just melt.>>
<<True, there are special death animations in this game, which usually end up with the regular death animation that results in the body turning into data like particles.>>
<<But what was the deal with their death animation?>>
<<Living armors nor dullahans don’t have that kind of death animation.>>
<<When Dullahan’s dies, their flames goes out.>>
<<When lich dies, their bones have their colors fade away.>>
<<When vampire dies, their bodies dry up almost instantly.>>
<<Special death effects are common here, and they are not special at all.>>
<<HOWEVER! Their death animation is confusing, since neither living armor or dullahan has anything like that, meaning that it could hint at them being completely separated race from theirs.>>
<<And there are also these players.... Who are they?>>
<<How did they came in contact with "benefactor"?>>
<<Not only that.... How did their leader, a player who has slain the demon lord Abigail, had in his possession that fucking Excalibur when I should had been destroyed?>>
<<...And there is another thing.>>
<<Forgotten Mist.>>
<<According to GreyHunt, he is saying those bastards would have no chance at beating the dungeon.... Yet at the same time, it did looked like they had SOME information on that dungeon.>>
<<...I don’t get it.>>
<<And that fucking pisses me off.>>
<<Did they had some kind of secret weapon that can deal with any Forgotten Fragment?>>
<<Or maybe they really lacked information?>>
<<But they did made extremely fucking big commotion....>>
<<Ah.... It is fucking annoying.>>
<<....>>
<<Speaking of that Forgotten Fragment.>>
<<It seems GreyHunt discovered something.... Something so massive and terrifying that he straight up decided to start living in Japan... And that isn’t good.>>
<<I mean, I still don’t have bloody idea what fucking scared him so much!>>
<<I did somewhat helped him find a place he can live and he is already doing stuff to move over here.... Still... What the hell did he discovered?>>
<<I’m terrified to say the least myself, considering how he was acting so far.>>
<<Still, even though he himself was shaken up, he was able to secure the Forgotten World items and even return Caliburn to my hands.>>
<<...>>
<<Sloth still didn’t made her move.>>
<<Nor True Virtue Of Love, which I had made deal with.>>
"God fucking dammit." – said ClownFrog.
"What? Is something wrong?" – asked Blueberry as she and ClownFrog who were both in their human/humanoid forms were walking through the castle grounds, just taking a stroll.
"Well... A freaking lot, if I’m honest." – replied ClownFrog.
"More and more questions... While also other bastards are doing random shit or spouting some conspiracy theories regarding us."
"I know we are making progress, but at the same time it feels like we are walking in circles, while also having to deal with additional bullshit on the way."
"Not only that, but several nations are somewhat wanting to ’talk’.... Which is just a bullshit and they want to put some political pressure on us."
"I wouldn’t be surprised if they are right now painting us in the bad light and what not for their advantage."
"Well, they are maybe looking also for excuse to destroy us."
"We are one of the empires that appeared way too quickly and grew way too powerful under everybody noses."
"..."
"And the system barrier is straight up over already."
"It has only single month left."
"The moment it disappears, shit may as well go down."
"Honestly speaking, I’m surprised that it is already over.... 3 years... I mean, time here moves way faster, but the time here is still freaking 3 years." – said Blueberry.
"The times.... Well? It flew before we knew it."
"Still, the empire somewhat stabilized, didn’t it?"
"But not completely." – said ClownFrog.
"There are still people trying to rebel and we still have large number of bandits on the loose."
"We are managing a whole fucking continent which was once filled with greedy and over prideful nations."
"We needed and still need to show our cruelty in order to deal with those bastards from rampaging, which somewhat worked.... But again, there are still a lot of freaking idiots."
"We maybe consider ’evil’ because of what methods we are using to somewhat stabilize this entire nation and continent, but fucking still! We are straight up repairing everything those idiots did."
"..."
"There are only two explanation for it."
"Some idiots are doing stupid shit without really looking at the reality of situation."
"Or somebody is manipulating ignorant people to do their bidding." – said Blueberry.
"Yeah... And the fact that we haven’t caught anybody like that or found any hints would mean that they are good at their job.... And that they are either part of our empire or have somebody from our side helping them out."
"So we have already traitor problem?" – asked Blueberry.
"Pretty much." – replied ClownFrog.
"....And there is also the dragon empire.... Their movements has been somewhat weird for some time now."
*Sigh*
"What about.... The eggs?" – asked ClownFrog as he sat down on the bench after the duo arrived at the garden.
"...They.... Well? They should be soon hatching." – replied Blueberry as she sat beside ClownFrog.
"Both mine and Aworia’s."
"Heh.... I still honestly don’t know how to feel about this.... I mean... I will be a mom..."
"In game... But still..."
"..."
(But are we talking here about "in game children"? Or "real children"?) – thought worried ClownFrog.
(I still don’t know what this world is.)
(Avriones.)
(Is this really a world of a game?)
(Or maybe it is something different?)
(I’ve seen it.)
(This game influencing the "outside world".)
(I don’t know.)
(I’ve murdered millions at this point... Be it NPCs or monsters... I’m a murder.)
(...Still, I don’t feel bad about it.)
(Is this because I still don’t know if this world is real or not?)
"...."
(No....)
(It is just my humanity that is crumbling away.)
(Maybe I’m used to slaughtering people like livestock now?)
(...Fuck me.)
"?"
"Is everything alright?" – asked concerned Blueberry.
"Nope.... Just.... *Sigh*.... I really need to find a time to rest." – said ClownFrog as one of the maids suddenly appeared and approached the pair.
"Empress Bluberry. The time has come." – said the vampire maid.
"Oh! Right! I straight up forgotten about heating up the eggs!" – said Blueberry as she stood up in panic.
"Sorry. But I need to take care of eggs! We will talk later! Bye!" – said Blueberry as she quickly left the garden.
"..."
"Your majesty? Are you ill?" – asked the maid.
"Again. I’m just... Never mind." – said ClownFrog who didn’t knew what to say as he gotten up.
"Is there anything else? Do you have some message for me?" – asked ClownFrog as he turned towards the maid.
"No... There is nothing that requires your direct attention." – replied the maid.
"I see..." – said ClownFrog as he walked past the maid while patting her on her shoulders, before then ClownFrog headed right back to his office.
"..."
"..."
"Emperor... Huh?" – said ClownFrog as he approached his desk.
(Why I’m even here?)
(At first, I just wanted to have fun.... Then I wanted to let lose, realizing that my good nature was straight up brining me nothing but suffering....)
(But then.... This game straight up became way of getting revenge.... And I needed to take it beyond serious in order to crush SunShadow.)
(The Garog kingdom and then Garog empire.... They were made as the tools to bring the revenge.)
(But then, the mystery of this world.... The mystery of this whole reality.... It should attacked us.)
(We have no choice but to discover the truth... )
(But what about fun?)
(What about "going lose"?)
(Or about fucking revenge?!)
(THOSE WERE OUR ORGINAL GOALS!)
(WHY THE FUCK ARE WE NOW FORCED TO DO SOMETHING WE DIDN’T WANTED TO DO?!)
(We wanted to be fucking villains!)
(WE WANTED TO BE THE FUCKING PURE EVIL!)
(THE REAL BOSSES OF THIS FUCKING GAME!)
(WE WANTED TO HAVE FUN!)
(THAT WAS IT!)
(SO WHY THE FUCK ARE WE STUCK DOING THIS SHIT INSTEAD?!)
(And the worst fucking part?)
(WE ARE FUCKING SMART!)
(Even though I knew I sounded completely crazy back then, everybody trusted me and put two and two together, realizing that I was speaking truth!)
(AND THAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM TOO!)
(WE KNOW THIS ISN’T SOME KIND OF SCHEME FROM COMPANY! SINCE WHAT WE SEEN SO FAR WOULD BE ENOUGH TO HAVE THAT ENTIRE FIRM STRAIGHT UP BE CALLED WORLD WIDE TERRORISTS!)
(We fucking realized that the company that made Avriones isn’t messing with us. It is not their doing.)
(Because we are fucking smart, we realized that we are fucking stuck in some fucked up paranormal conspiracy!)
(...And there is also that thing.)
(We don’t even know what it is.)
(It appeared when Sloth was revealing stuff to me.... And I think it may had appeared again while GreyHunt was obtaining some information.)
(That thing.... It could had killed us.)
(Not just in game, but in real life.)
(I could straight up tell that.... MY BODY COULD TELL THAT!)
(But is that thing only in game? Or maybe it is also in reality?)
(We did suspected somewhat company to behind this, and because of that we are wary of any electronical devices that could be hacked and made to overhear us talking.... But at this point? I don’t know.)
(Maybe we never had to worry about it in the first place.... But again, what was that monster?)
(Is company that made Avriones the ones behind that thing? Maybe they really can hack our electric devices?)
(I don’t have any blood clues regarding that bullshit.)
(And it is better if we play it safe for the time being, until we confirm that we are truly safe.)
(And for that, we need to play Sloth’s puppets and collect the Forgotten World items.)
(GreyHunt obtained some truth from fallowing her words... But still, we don’t know if we can trust her or any true sins and true virtues.)
(...Not only that, we need to get stronger in game if we want to obtain the truth.)
"..."
"Fuck me."
"I really didn’t wanted to do it now of all the freaking times."
"But based on how things are going.... I really have no choice but to do it."
"Its time to try beating that Lich Lord’s Tomb once again."
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