VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"Hello there…"

They didn't knock on the door but on the window before they just broke it down with the sheath of their sword.

-Craaaak!

"Anyone here~?"

They entered through the window as they had done until now, but unlike how they had experienced until now, they were not attacked by curses or tools of the people.

There wasn't any screams as there were in a few of these places and there also wasn't any security trigger that appeared when they entered.

"What the hell?"

When they were inside, the only thing they saw was a bunch of dolls and a few stuffed animals… and by stuffed, it means creatures killed and then stuffed with cotton.

Taxidermy as they call it, was a process in which the stuffed creatures were made into toys… and there were a bunch of small ones present in this room.

"Is anyone home?!"

Alex was shouting since there didn't seem to anyone present here, but as soon as she shouted, they all heard footsteps coming their way, and got into their position.

Elio even cast a grace spell on Odin just in case they have to directly engage in battle.

-Step. Step. Step.

[{ "Be prepared…" }]

They were tired after those last few hours of killing and wandering around.

This place wasn't too big, there shouldn't be more than a few hundred people present and they had already disturbed a few dozen of them.

-Click!

They were after a black joker, someone that either wore something like a black joker outfit or had something that would relate to the black joker.

That was at least what they were looking for, but they did not know what their target was.

"Who's there?" It was an old voice.

"If you're here for something, I don't have anything of worth in this room! Please go away!"

It seemed like a very old voice.

And, from how this person was holding the door without opening it, it was clear that they were afraid of whatever or whoever was behind those doors.

"Hello?"

Odin put his hammer down, and Alex lowered her guard as Elio called out to the old voice.

"Apologies, looks like we ended up in the wrong place. Can you help us, mister?"

The voice they were hearing was an old voice of a simple sounding person.

"Why are you here?"

The door crack opened and an old man, with wrinkled face, a short stature, with a cane in his hand walked inside.

He was looking at the intruders that broke his window and were standing there with weapons in their hands.

And, seeing this, seeing the shattered glass on the ground, he couldn't help his anger!

"Do you people know just how costly these things are these days!"

The old grandpa shouted at them, and looked at each one of them one by one!

"How are you going to pay me back?!"

The old face of the grandpa became red, and red, and it continued becoming more and more red as a second passed.

"Something's wrong!"

A face as red as that wasn't biologically possible, so Alex knew something was definitely wrong with this thing.

She can tell there was something very wrong with this place as well since each one of the dolls that they were seeing right now to each one of the taxidermy dolls that they were seeing seemed to be looking at them.

"How will you pay me back!"

The red face became so red that it couldn't be more red than what it already was and… popped like a balloon!

{ "How dare you destroy my property!" }

Then a Mana voice reverberated all throughout the room and, all them knew something was very wrong with this place.

"Get out of here!"

Mana volume of the entire room skyrocketed in an instant, Elio was almost freezed into his place.

-Oooooooooooooong!

The things that they were seeing in the room, including the headless body of the old grandpa stood up and glared at them with a strange light in their eyes.

[{ "It's a Marionette!!" }]

Alex shouted as soon as she dragged Elio out of that place!

-Boooooooooom!

The body of the old man that had been growing red until now exploded as well, but unlike the head that popped like a balloon, this one exploded like a bomb!

{ "How dare you?!" }

Soon, out of the blue, the dolls that were glaring at them also jumped outside the house and started changing into something else.

-Oooooooooooooong!

"It's dangerous! Odin! Get away!"

Elio cast a speed boosting spell on Odin so that he could get away from these strange creatures and dolls, but he was late.

-Swish…!

"Ugh!"

The simple human dolls were turned into tall full sized human mannequins!

The animals turned into creatures that had an unnatural number of eyes and limbs, and that wasn't even the worst of it!

{ "Did that viscount send you?! That viscount sent you didn't he?!" }

A strange thing walked out of the floor door of the house… a thing that they couldn't call a human or doll or something inanimate.

{ "That bastarddddddddddd…!" }

It seemed like those strange dark monsters that doesn't have any definition to their bodies, a black shadow that only had strange red eyes and a white mouth with two rows of sharp white teeth.

A body that seemed to be made from a dark energy… a dark energy that Odin recognised well.

"Looks like this is it!"

He was on a quest to find a being that was not human, not demon, not spirit, and not something like the dwarves or elves.

This was a being that was born of darkness, a being that had lived a simple human life until now, and a being that had forgotten its true origin.

"Is that the joker, Alex?!"

"Are you blind?!"

By outline, it seemed like a joker without a hat, and by color… it was as fucking black as the void!

And, there were red threads coming out of his hands!

[{ "Scatter! Elio! You're on your own!" }]

Out of the blue, the enemies they were facing had become ten times what they had been fighting until now, and that wasn't even the end.

More were coming out of the house, and turning into creatures that seemed to be from the deaths of hell!

-Booooooooooooooom!

This wasn't what they thought would be the scene when they meet a 'Joker'! That creature wasn't even human! …technically.

[{ "What do we do now?!" }]

The creatures that were turning into multi-eyes multi-limbed beings of hell were simply the interpretation of various emotions of their creator.

The one operating them was the puppeteer in black!

And what they were fighting against… was a field Boss ranked creature of (Level-112).

[{ "What can we even do, fuck?! Start Running for now!" }]

Just a single target would have been fine as well, but with all these things that weren't even creatures that give Exp but simple Tools of the puppeteer… this wasn't a battle anymore.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

It was a one sided chase that they knew was wayyyyy beyond their current levels!