[VRMMO] Dead One Chapter 39 - 40 – Our Targets

We decided to strike a deal with Crushing Hooves tribe. We will help them out in their revenge.

"Still, we now have a problem. Are your people often going out to get food?" – asked GreyHunt.

"We have no choice. Minotaurs eat a lot." – said the female minotaur Uruni.

"Shit. Then this is bad. There is a good chance sobody will find you before your revenge gets done. If people saw you or your kind while trying to get the food outside, they maybe end up doing sothing like we did, fallowing you here and that would an ga over." – said GreyHunt.

"Isn't there any other hiding spots you can use?"

"…. No, nothing cos to the mind. Making this hiding spot myself already took quiet so ti to make. So even if we find another spot, it would take so ti until I made the hiding spot" – said the female minotaur.

"Wait, you made it? I an this place inside of the mine?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Yea. I'm quite good at making things and equipnt. Besides being the second strongest in our tribe after my sister, I was doing also blacksmith. I made weapons for our tribe and other stuff."

"Oh, wasn't expecting that." – said GreyHunt.

"Still, the situation is bad. We don't know how long it will take for people to find this place. It would the best if you stay hidden to make sure nobody spots you, but you need to go out and get food."

"Hm…. How about we get you the food?" – said GreyHunt.

"!"

"That is good idea! Nobody will pay us any mind, since we would just regular adventures just hunting around and we have a lot of money on us! We can buy food from the city and deliver it here." – said Shri.

"Yea. This maybe our only option if we don't want to get your people spotted. How much would we need to bring?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Hm…. There is about 24 of us all in here. We need to get at least 3-4 food portion that a human would usually eat day for each one of us. We can handle not eating for up to 2 days max, if we aren't doing anything. So, you would have to co every third day and give us food. We are fine with both vegetables and at, as long as it edible." – said the female minotaur.

"Honesty, we were quiet starving for quiet so ti, so it would be good idea if you bring at least 8-10 of those giants boars that live around here."

"The dense forest boars? Got it." – said GreyHunt.

(They are quite strong, but beating 10 of them shouldn't take us too long. Seem quite easy enough.) – though GreyHunt.

[The sub quest has been generated.]

[Sub Quest: Minotaurs Wrath – Food Problem]

[Minotaurs are struggling with a food supply because they need to stay hidden.]

[Make sure that the minotaurs won't starve to death by brining them food at least every third day.]

[Reward: Improve the rewards from the [Minotaurs Wrath] quest / Favorability with Crushing Hooves tribe increase.]

[Failure penalty: Decrees of the reward from the quest [Minotaurs Wrath] / Decrees Favorability with Crushing Hooves tribe.]

"!"

(Another quest?) – though GreyHunt.

(Sub quest? What is it? I never heard of anything called sub quest or anything. Yet another new thing we discover by the look of things.) – though GreyHunt with excited look.

"Don't worry. Its not like we have any option anyway since if we want you not to be discovered." – said GreyHunt.

"…Better keep your word." - said the female minotaur.

After the discussion ended, the Purple Hyena guild left the hidden dungeon before leaving the mine itself.

'…"

"Okay. Spit it out. Why do you want to work with them?" – asked GreyHunt after leaving the mine.

"…"

"Well, there are multiple reason. I was planning on telling you anyway, so listen up." – said ClownFrog.

"The first reason is allies."

"I realized that having connection with different people like NPCs can give you nice benefits and they themselves can offer a help. These minotaurs are VERY powerful and even their boss is on whole another level. Having sobody like them be on our side is worth it."

"We will fight sooner or later the people of this kingdom and having sobody as powerful as them would be very beneficial to us all."

"On top of that, what if we were to make a deal with another different species of monsters? Since we are the bad guys there is possibility, we will do that, so by having the minotaurs trust, we maybe have easier ti making deals with them."

"Hm… Make sense. It's like with that adventure guild leader we et. You had connection with her and that ended up giving us quest and even those powerful pendants." – said GreyHunt.

"Yeb. But this is not all." – said ClownFrog.

"The second reason is our targets. I know that Joshua Erald is the mayor as well as the well known rchant here. I found about this while trying to gather information about any good jobs we can do."

"This place, the Erald city is one of the main sources of the inco to this country."

"So, what do you think would happened if sothing were to happened to this place?"

"!"

"You want to fuck them over, fuck over this country." – said GreyHunt.

"…. Oh…. So, if we by any chance doing this quest will make the city suffer or sothing, then this country will take damage. Since we are planning on fighting this whole country in the first place, then stabbing them like that would be worth it." – said Oron.

"EXTACTLY! Besides, I really want to fuck this city myself. The people here are total greedy bastards that tried to scam us over and over, even the fuking weapon shop owner and the alchemist shop, so we will kill 2 birds with one stone." – said ClownFrog.

"…Yea. They are fuking greedy. The prices of those freaking potions man…. Fuck . Okay, lets fuck them." – said Shri.

"And that is not all!" – said ClownFrog.

"The third reason. If we make a big ss out of this city, then players besides us maybe be left with no other choice but to go to the capital city." – said ClownFrog.

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"Wait but wouldn't that….Oh. You fucker. The lowest level monsters near capital are level 100 and the people who got here are around level 85. If they don't have any proper settlent or shops where they need to buy necessary stuff, then they will have no option but to go sowhere else, even it ans entering the area with monsters with level 100 and above.

And those monsters with level 100 and above are where the difficulty gets higher. The average player would end up dying multiple tis over and over again while trying to hunt there."

"The growth of the players that would co here like us would end up unbearable for them."

"You mother fucker. If people would find about this, they would so fuking hate us! I like this plan very much! You bitch!" – said excited GreyHunt.

"I knew you would like it you bastard! So, are you up to it?" – said ClownFrog.

"Of course. ssing up the city, getting new friends and trolling other players. This sound devilish like hell." – said GreyHunt.

"I'm up to it as well. I really want to screw up those shitty rchants!" – said Shri with devilish smile.

"Wait, I how do we ss up the city in the first place?" – asked Oron.

"Well, that is the part we need to figure out. Honestly, this idea just popped up to my mind. So, I'm not still sure about if we can even do this." – said ClownFrog.

"Oh, I see. I kind of though you already has sothing in mind." – said Oron.

"NOPE. But hey, this place is total shit hole, so we may be able to exploit so things here and there to cause so chaos. However, we also need to be careful not be catched or anything, since we are still not ready to take on this country by us four."– said ClownFrog.

"…Well, honestly it maybe worth trying to find the way to fuck this city in one way or another. I'm down for it." – said Oron.

"Good. Well then, ti to get to the work ladies." – said ClownFrog.

As per our agreent with the minotaurs, we hunted down the 10 dense forest boars and gave their at to the minotaurs.

After words we decided to head straight back to the city and gather the info about our targets as well as info about that Joshua Erald guy.

We pretty much spend rest of the day gathering info and even the half of the next day, trying to find the info.

Here is what we found.

First is the Joshua Erald.

The Erald City was originally a small town, however over ti the settlent grew bigger and bigger.

Reason?

It was the mine. The amount of riches the mine could provide, ranging from tals to rare jewels manage to not only get attention of the king but the many different rchants.

The riches that could be found in there were beyond any ordinally mine. The small town at that ti ended up becoming a center of trade of not only valuable jewels but the spot where many different rchants would end up conducting their trades.

Thanks to the support from the king and the rchants, the town quickly grew in size and beca city.

The mine ended up drying up after the 50 long years, but the Erald city ended gathering a lot of rchants in the end. Many of these rchants decided to open up their business in there and not only that. The city it self beca a very important place for the rchants to et up, since many different rchants were doing their business there, attracting people and other rchants as well.

Even after the mine dried up, the rchants stayed since that place beca popular place for the rchants.

After the mine was dried up, the new form of inco for the city were rchants.

Before anybody noticed, the city it self beca the city of rchants.

By the way, the mine in question is the sa mine that minotaurs use as their hiding place.

Anyway, the Erald family was the family in the control of that place, even before it beca a city and to this day, the Erald family are the ones still in control. Nobody ever replaced them or anything.

Joshua Erald was apparently both respected noble as well as rchant. He handle many different business himself.

Thanks to him, the amount of wealth the city was able to gain increased ever since he took over as the mayor.

Not only that, but thanks to him, the city began once again growing.

He not only had respect from his people but also their support, an ideal leader for so.

"Ideal Leader" my ass!

Thanks to the minotaurs we know that he did a dirty business. On top of that, there is a good chance this wasn't his only dirty business he did. So of the stories about him sounded too good to be true.

There is a good chance that the face he showed to the public was fake, but we have yet to find out the whole truth.

Anyway, he is dead right now, but digging up the information about him maybe useful. It may end up sothing that we can even use for our advantage.

Next is the Joshua Erald friend and ally.

Hjin Sun.

He is also a noble, but not only that, but as it turns out he is also in control of the adventure guild.

He apparently handles very many different things, but the most note worthy thing he handle are rcenaries and escort services. Many different rchants often hire the rcenaries or/and escort for their safety.

On the surface he may seem like an honest guy, but sothing seed off.

After a bit more investigating, we found out that sotis the people that didn't hired the escort were attacked and killed the next day when they were on the road.

On surface it may seed like they were unlucky, but so people say that it was doing Hjin Sun.

Apparently, his man approached one of the rchants and asked if wanted to hire them, but the man refused. The next day, the man was ambushed and killed.

There is a good chance that this story is true, but there were no witness or evidence left behind.

He is very suspicious fella that we have to watch out for.

The other ally of the Joshua Erald was a famous rchant that lives in the Erald city called Marcel The Golden rchant.

That guy specializes in handling many valuable jewelries, gold, old relicts and all other valuable stuff.

Pretty much, he deals in high tier goods.

As of right now, he is the richest rchant in the whole city.

At first, we couldn't find anything about him either, but then we found out sothing off.

He was growing too fast in power. He was gaining too much money in abnormal rate. Even if he was dealing with high tier goods, his inco was bit too big.

No matter how you would look at this, there was sothing off about him.

There is no good explanation for his abnormal gain. No matter how you look at this, there is a very good chance he was doing shady and/or illegal business behind the scene. He even worked with Joshua Erald when hiring the minotaurs to do their dirty work, so we do know that he already did sothing shady.

Marcel The Golden rchant, Hjin Sun and Joshua Erald are all partners and everybody knows that.

A good people in the eyes of many.

But in reality, these people maybe the straight up bastards.

…

Huh.

Wouldn't taking them down make us good guys then? I an, they maybe a very evil people just pretending to be good and all.

Huh. We maybe unexpectedly doing a good thing? Well, we will still ss up this city if we good a chance, so it doesn't really make us a good people and all.

Anyway, our last target, the daughter of the Joshua Erald.

Ellise Erald.

Honestly, we were at lost with this one.

A beautiful noble with kind hearth and even talented rchant just like her dad.

We couldn't find anything wrong about her. Not even a bad rumor or sothing that could tell us anything if she was doing sothing "Evil".

Was she really "Good Person"? Honestly, I was bit confused about her.

Well, we will kill her anyway, no matter if she is "Good Person" or "Bad Person". She is already our target.

We gathered so basic info about our targets and I can say definitely, that the quest will be hard.

The quest rank is B -???.

We don't know how hard the quest really is. This quest rank could be just B or A or even sothing higher.

This is not only the problem.

Our 3 targets are well known people, aning that getting to them and killing them without being catched will be extrely hard.

But, it's nice.

We haven't had any real challenge for a long ti, so everybody is excited, even .

However, we obviously need to prepare, aning leveling up like crazy and continue gathering info about our targets.

So, once we are ready, we will make our move.

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[Minotaurs]

Minotaurs are half man half bull monsters.

Minotaurs are consider as demi human monsters.

Minotaurs stands at least 4 ters tall with the female standing up to at least 5 to 6 ters tall.

They boost in great strength and durability, making them extrely formidable opponents that are not only hard to kill but can also kill you.

Usually, this race mostly consist of the males, but sotis a female is born.

The female minotaurs poses hooves and horns like regular minotaurs, but unlike them, they do not posses a head of the bull but instead a human like head and face.

Female minotaurs are much stronger that regular minotaurs. Males minotaurs usually couldn't even stand up to the females at all.

Usually, the strongest minotaur lead the others and often the one who leads them are the female minotaurs, since they are usually the strongest in the group.

The ratio of the females and male minotaurs in the groups.

Males: 85%

Female: 15%

Sotis there are the groups of minotaurs that doesn't have a single female in the group since most of the ti the males minotaurs are born.