[VRMMO] Dead One Chapter 772 - 773 – Forgotten Mist – Part 4

"…Well… We finally reached what appears to be a wall…. But." – said GreyHunt as he stared at the massive brick wall that stretched towards the skies.

"We still didn't bloody found a single motherfucker from our team." – said annoyed Lilium.

"it's been like what since we entered this dungeon? A half of an hour?"

"I think so…. Dammit." – said GreyHunt.

"We may really had missed each other several tis…. Or maybe we are in completely different parts of the map." – said GreyHunt as he shown his self-writing map to Lilium.

"!"

"Fuck ! If I'm guessing this correctly, then this freaking place maybe way bigger than we had thought." – said annoyed yet scared Lilium.

"Yeah… But still… There is sothing we may had confird."

"First."

"The doublegangers are not evolving. They can only copy our appearance and abilities, but not our character."

"The second part is that we haven't encounter extrely massive of them."

"That ans one thing."

"Each being gets their own doubleganger." – said Lilium.

"They can respawn, but there can never be more than one at the sa ti."

"Or, at least we had that kind of situation."

"Maybe there is really more than 1 of our doublegangers out there, but they are instead focusing on other party mbers?"

"There is also that question." – said GreyHunt.

"Are they alive?"

"This dungeon is restring the usage of the system, so I can't even tell if they are in the ga or not."

"We are seeing their fakes out here."

"But can it really ans that they are alive?"

"True…. There maybe a chance that they had been killed…" – said Lilium.

"Dammit! We can't even mark spots for other people!"

"We can't use monsters that would give directions."

"Or we can't leave massive damage on the ground that would serve as land mark."

"This dungeon is really making sure that we will have as hardest ti as possible to find out allies."

"I've tried using these instant deploynt thorn walls that Blueberry made…. But they were torn down by the doublegangers." – said annoyed GreyHunt.

(We fucking used several thods already, but all had failed.)

(The only way to fucking really FIND anybody is to split up!)

(But the mont we do, we may end being surrounded by the doublegangers.)

(We can et at so specific spots that the map had already written down on us… But again, are each group harassed by the doubleganger of each person? Or is there just single doubleganger for a single being?)

(We can place ourselves in the crossroads and just fire long range skills in each directions, trying to get sobody's attention.)

(But here is a problem.)

(THIS MAP IS TOO MASSIVE!)

(We may straight be shooting for 10, 20, or even more than half an hour before sobody encounters us.)

"To make matters worse, summoning monsters may straight up betray us…. So, we are on our own…." – said GreyHunt.

"…"

"Hey." – said Lilium.

"How about we give up on searching for the others and instead try to reach the end of the dungeon by ourselves?"

"…"

"As much as it annoys to admit it, I think you are right." – said GreyHunt.

"But still… I don't like this."

"Finding the end of this dungeon may take us an hour…. But at the sa ti, we also don't know what the boss of this dungeon is?"

"Won't it be sothing like those doublegangers?" – asked Lilium.

"Don't make assumption yet. It wouldn't be surprised if the boss isn't related to the doublegangers one bit. I've been to several Forgotten Fragnts already and I can tell, that the bosses don't always share the sa gimmick as the being that rules the dungeon."

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"If we put our map here and use the curve to make a prediction about the whole map…. Then it should be this big." – said GreyHunt as he was using Caliburn to write sothing on the surface of house.

"…Are you fucking kidding !?" – asked Lilium.

"If this really as big as you shown here, we barely even made 1/4 of exploration rate of this place! And we had been already in this dungeon more than an hour by now!"

"Yeah… This dungeon is beyond massive." – said GreyHunt.

(This is a straight up repeat of the Lich Lord's Tomb, isn't it?) – thought GreyHunt.

"…"

"Still, I think we should thank ourselves that we figured out the gimmick of this dungeon as soon as possible, if we didn't, we may end up have non stop army of doublegangers after us."

"Well, you say that, but is it good enough with the monsters we have on hand?" – asked Lilium as she stared at the group of demonic and blood monsters that the two players summoned.

"Well, we can't really risk it and summon more, until the very end where we would finally reach the end." – replied GreyHunt.

"Anyway, we should start moving. The doublegangers should be respawning again soon."

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(I'M REALLY GETTING MIND RAPED BY THIS DUNGEON!) – thought GreyHunt as he suddenly stopped walking.

(We now both know how this dungeon works, but why the hell my mind is still acting… THIS WAY!)

(Lilium is real! She isn't fake!)

(But why is my mind telling that she could be possible be a fake!?)

(I've already confird that she was real!)

(But…. What if she… What if SHE is the boss?)

(What if the reason why she was acting so well was because she was a boss?)

(…Yes…. Yes… There is good chance that is truth.) – thought GreyHunt as he got ready to fire his gun.

"!"

(NO!)

(WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!)

(SHE IS INNOCENT!)

(I'VE CONFIRD IT!)

(SHE SPOKE ENGLISH!)

(SHE ISN'T FAKE!)

(SHE IS REAL LILIUM!)

"…"

(This dungeon is straight up driving insane, isn't it?)

(I'm starting to overthink every single thing.)

(Doubting every action I make….)

(And now I'm also seeing my own monsters and Lilium as enemies.)

(Fuck …. I'm really not acting like myself right now.)

(It honestly feels like….)

"Like….Wait." – said GreyHunt as eyes went wide open.

"…"

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"GreyHunt?" – said Lilium as she noticed GreyHunt stopping, leaving the vampire mage behind.

"Hey! Why you stopped?" – asked Lilium as she began approaching GreyHunt.

"…"

"Hey." – said GreyHunt.

"Honest question."

"Do you believe that I'm fake?"

"???"

"What is up-"

"DO YOU BELIVE THAT I'M FAKE!?" – shouted GreyHunt at Lilium.

"…."

"No…. I'm sure that you are real… Why do you… Are you loosing your mind?" – asked worried Lilium.

"…"

"Maybe I'm…. But…" – replied GreyHunt with pissed off expression.

(Sothing isn't right.) – thought GreyHunt as he stared at Lilium, realizing that the mage wasn't acting in the sa way he was…. Nor was any of his monster.

Only GreyHunt was feeling this "paranoia".

(But isn't a freaking "paranoia".) – thought GreyHunt, rejecting his own thoughts.

(No… This isn't it.)

(Those aren't MY thoughts!)

(This can't be right…. NO! IT IS RIGHT!)

(THOSE ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS!)

(WHY I DIDN'T NOTICED THEM BEFORE!)

(THEY ARE USING MY VOICE! BUT I WASN'T THE ONE WHO THOUGHT ABOUT THOSE THINGS!)

(WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!)

(IT FEELS LIKE SOBODY PUT THEM INSIDE!) – thought GreyHunt as he looked away from his monsters and Lilium, avoiding his face which was consud by panic and fear.

(This isn't normal…. This isn't normal one bit!)

(My mind is being affected by sothing?!)

(Sothing is trying to tell sothing and I didn't noticed it?!)

(…)

(Don't fucking tell .)

(The dungeon isn't just ssing with my mind ntally, like playing tricks on .)

(But it is directly doing sothing to my mind?!)