[VRMMO] Chaos Doctor-Chapter 426 - 425 – Madness VS Betrayal VS Faith – Part 2.

(Okay….This isn't going great.) – thought alarmed Thanatos as she and Maparapara were now facing both of the daughters of the holy emperor.

(The Justice attack power is already problematic enough, but there is also the Mercy joining in? Her defense and healing will make Justice completely unkillable.)

"…"

(Phantasia shattered the main ritual crystal and it is just a matter of time before the barrier is completely eradicated.)

(These bastards are on the time limit and they know it.)

(Honestly, we had already won.)

(The city will fall regardless of what we will do.)

(But…. We there is a Daughter Of Mercy.)

(She was our second target.)

(But that bastard Arthur gotten in our way and stalled us for way too fucking long.)

(Honestly…. I don't know if we can even kill her.)

(It is only us two.)

(Phantasia isolated himself with holy knights and Arthur…. So….We... Oh god, we really have to take on both of these bullshit bosses on our own?)

(The Son Of Glory wasn't the strongest one, but he was still a shitty boss that it took us a while to defeat.)

(But now we have to deal with the second strongest NPC of the holy empire, who is also supported by possible the best supporter NPC in the whole empire?!)

"Yea…. This is bullshit." – said Hunter out loud.

"…"

"What do we do?" – asked Maparapara while Daughter Of Justice was keeping her guard up, waiting for the duo to make their first move.

"Honestly speaking? We can't do anything." – replied Hunter.

"If the Daughter Of Mercy was out of commission, like she was knocked out or something, then maybe…. But right now, it will be physically impossible with both of us."

"Relay my order. Retreat."

"…"

"Welp, if you say so." – replied Maparapara.

"ALL FORCES!" – shouted Maparapara on top of her lungs.

"RETREAT!"

"!"

The vampires suddenly stopped in tracks upon hearing these words, confusing both the players and members of the holy empire.

"…"

One of the vampire knights looked towards Shri past the players and saw her nodding her head, giving the signal to the vampire.

"…"

"Fallow the order." – said the vampire knight before he and several other vampires started throwing down a smoke bombs around them, unleashing a giant cloud of smoke right at the players.

"!?"

"What the fuck is this stuff?!" – said one of the twin fox girl players.

"!"

"Wait, plague! Get away from this thing! It is plague smoke!" – said the second sister who had noticed her infected status.

"…"

"So, you are running away? Do you really think I will allow that?" – asked pissed off Daughter Of Justice as she manifested a scythe made out of light.

"Yes…. Yes, you will." – replied Hunter as she started walking away.

"Your goal was to protect your little sister."

"If you like, you can chase us and attack us."

"But who is to say that the moment you start going after us, we wouldn't just go around you and after that little girl behind you?"

"Be a smart and think for a moment."

"You can protect her if she is close to you."

"But not if you are even few too many steps away from her."

"…" – the Daughter Of Mercy did not replied to Hunter words….. All because she knew. She knew that Hunter wasn't wrong. If she were to try and give a chase after them, then the chances of the Daughter Of Mercy dying will only end up increasing.

"…"

"Good call." – said Hunter as she approached the hole in the ground alongside the slime girl, before then the duo jumped down.

"?"

"What are you doing here?!" – asked confused Phantasia as he was still fighting the holy knights.

"I've ordered a retreat." – replied Hunter.

"We are leaving." – said Hunter as she and slime girl just casualty opened up the door, completely ignoring the presence of the holy knights.

"!"

"And-"

"Let them go." – said the Daughter Of Justice from above, ordering her knights to stand down.

"…"

"Huh." – Phantasia and the knights stopped fighting, before moments later the monster player ran towards his two comrades and left the corridor.

"…May you explain what is going on here?" – asked Phantasia as the trio started running away.

"It was straight up impossible." – replied Hunter.

"The Daughter Of Justice was way too tough of a opponent to deal with and the Daughter Of Mercy has already recovered."

"Honestly, their combination was way too much for us to handle."

"Even if we had dealt with Arthur's guild, we would had definitely still struggled."

"…"

"If you say so." – said Phantasia as the group caught up with the vampires.

"Well, even though we had not managed to deal with the Daughter Of Mercy, we still had archived our other goal."

"With the destruction of the main ritual crystal and with the fact that the portion of their army had already left the holy city, the results will be obvious."

"This city will be conquered."

<<And that is exactly what has happened.>>

<<The Great Barrier was shattered.>>

<<Without the main ritual crystal, the barrier ended up losing almost all of its power and not only that, but without it, the Daughter Of Mercy could no longer power up the barrier and allow it to quickly recover.>>

<<And there is one more thing.>>

<<Only the Daughter Of Justice somehow got back.>>

<<Her entire army? It was still away from the city.>>

<<So, as I've said before, the results were obvious.>>

<<The city did not have any means of defending itself against us.>>

<<The battle lasted for few hours…. But again, the results were obvious.>>

<<The entire holy city was conquered by the vampires.>>

<<And with that, one of the five holy cities had been conquered.>>

<<But we couldn't even get our hands on one of the children of the holy emperor.>>

<<All because of that bastard Arthur who got in our way.>>

<<From what we had found out, these bastards must had escaped…. And we don't know where.>>

"…"

"Fascinating." – said "Kid" while looking from the giant flying ship at the holy city.

"One of the main symbols of faith and power of the holy empire is now in our hands."

"Honestly, this was quiet way too easy, if I'm being honest."

"Well… It is to show how powerful we have become."

"…"

"But with that being said, I have one question for you."

"What the hell happened? Why is the Daughter Of Mercy still alive?"

"…"

"Arthur has betrayed us right as I was about to kill her." – said Phantasia.

"Hm…. So, your guts about him were right…." – said "Kid".

"Yea and he openly declared his rebellion against the organization, straight up declaring his war against us with his betrayal."

"But there was something off about it."

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked "Kid".

"He saved the Daughter Of Mercy."

"But he slaughtered every single one of the holy empire soldiers."

"Not only that, it didn't looked like the holy empire was even on his side, they attacked him even as the Daughter Of Justice came in."

"….So the reports about her being here was correct…. What is going on here? You said she was leading the army that has left the holy city." – said "Kid" as he turned towards the vampire who was shaking in his boots.

"I-I don't know! I swear! My men have reported that-"

"It isn't his fault." – said Phantasia, cutting off the vampire mid speech.

"…What do you mean?" – asked "Kid" as he glared at Phantasia.

"Teleportation." – said Phantasia.

"During the fight against one of the adventurers by the name of Iron Will, he was suddenly teleported away against his will out of nowhere when he was dueling me."

"From what I understand, it was some sort of a long range teleportation."

"And if I understand it correctly, somebody in the city must had used the similar way to call fourth the Daughter Of Justice to the city."

"…"

"Teleportation….Huh?" – said "Kid".

"There is no information whatsoever about this…. But it doesn't seem like you are lying."

"If anything, you wouldn't gain anything from protecting this guy."

"Hm…. Welp, this is really problematic."

"We really don't have any information regarding this 'teleportation' you has just told me about."

"…"

"Still, you said something about Arthur not working with the holy empire."

"Do you have any idea for whom he was working for?"

"No idea." – replied Phantasia as he shrugged his shoulders.

"But I can tell one thing."

"He wanted the Daughter Of Mercy at all cost."

"Alive non the less."

"I think he was forced to betray us back because I was about to kill the Daughter Of Mercy."

"But for who this traitor is working for is still unknown."

"We talked about it between us, between the people that took part in the operation, but we couldn't find anything."

"They didn't slipped up or showed anything weird that would point out their 'master'."

"…"

"Hm…. Well, there is also a problem that there would be a lot of benefits from just having obtain the living Daughter Of Mercy."

"And a lot of different kind of people would benefit from this…. Meaning that pointing out the culprit could be hard if not impossible."

"Hm…."

"Welp."

"It is still not that bad."

"There will be other opportunities to deal with the traitors and hunt down the children of the holy emperor."

"But for now?"

"We had won."

"And from now things will only keep going downhill for the holy empire."