Rioneed: VRMMORPG

"I want the classic heavy shield warriors in my army."

"But my lord they have many negative points."

"I don't care. I will make a special unit made of them and heavy cavalry."

They looked at Ibro who was speaking seriously. His old memories about these heavy shield warriors were deep in his bones. After all, he was one of them.

Ibro then started to buy a massive amount of soldiers' level0 tokens, balls, contracts, and scrolls. He spent over one billion gold coins to buy 100 different war units. He bought 100k from each unit.

That made him have 1 million from each unit. That made him have a 100 million army at his disposal. He felt really confident in facing whatever his enemy threw at his face.

He also added his special army units made entirely of 100k of heavy shield warriors and 100k heavy cavalry and he also added 100k lance cavalry and 100k archer cavalry. That made his entire army made of 4 million troops. He was feeling so excited so he said in a good mood:

"Let's go. I have arranged for a series of management meetings. After those new additions we had in all fields, I'm very excited and optimistic about the future of my village."

Both of Hoden and Mamor didn't say anything and just kept following Ibro outside of the market. They both knew that the happiness that their young lord had was just an illusion.

Once they got out of the market, Ibro suddenly had a notification. He looked at this hanged window which appeared in front of him and said smiling to the face that showed up in it:

"Finally you showed up. Didn't you say you will take a week to appear again?"

"It's not time for us to talk. There is a big crisis happening to your village and you need to find a way to stop it."

The sudden appearance of Sefiera in front of him caught the attention of the two old guys behind him. Ibro noticed the change in their facial expression at once. He turned to look at them and then said:

"It seems things are not as simple as they appear. Am I right Sefiera?"

"I told you there is no time for that. You are really in very deep trouble right now."

Ibro looked again at her directly in the eyes and then asked with calm expression:

"What is this problem you are talking about?"

"It's not just a simple problem, it's a real crisis. Didn't you have a huge amount of population a few days ago?"

Ibro felt weird. His old idea about being watched came to his mind immediately. He had his own doubts about these people, but he couldn't find any problem with them so he asked:

"I did. Is there a problem with them?"

"Problem? You were at your market trying to buy everything feeling secure. What do you think this is? Do you really think it is really a game?"

Ibro didn't like her lecturing tone of speech so he said in a serious tone:

"You are just an assistant to me. You don't have the right to lecture me."

"Oh, I'm sorry my lord. But while you were busy with your little toy, those new populations spread the disease into your whole territory."

Ibro felt confused so he asked:

"Hold on a second, what disease? They looked perfectly fine to me."

"You are totally mistaken my mighty lord. These people are cursed. They carry a plaque and that plaque has spread all over your territory."

"A curse?"

A sudden deep memory emerged into his mind immediately. He had gotten in touch with curses before. That Jognak curse had caused him massive troubles. He also entered the time loop curse and experienced its might. He felt deeply threatened.

"Yes, they were cursed and now they infected your territory with this curse. It's actually a mix of many curses and not a single curse."

At this moment, Mony appeared heading from afar. She looked strangely pale. Ibro felt that this curse had started to cause damage to his territory. But what was this curse exactly?

Mony had met Hoden and Mamor from before so she didn't feel astonished to see them. She felt surprise to see Sefiera. Her reaction was exactly like the two behind Ibro, a deep shock.

"Just tell me what those curses are?"

"Why don't you hear what your trusted aid has come to say first?"

Ibro looked at Mony and his mind began to lose his patience. If there was a disaster already then just tell him about it. He wasn't a weak man who would feel frightened from any trouble.

"There is a crisis my lord. I don't know what happened, but our food stocks have been partially depleted."

Ibro looked strangely at her before he asked calmly:

"How did this happen? Are there some people who try to instigate trouble in my village?"

"No, it's not that at all. For some unknown reason, our daily food usage has been raised by many folds in the previous days."

Ibro didn't get it. He looked at Sefiera who looked with a pity towards him and asked:

"Do you want to know the truth now my mighty lord?"

Ibro was feeling more uneasy towards this entire situation. He calmed himself as he replied:

"Sure. What is this curse or these mix of curses exactly? And who is this enemy who is fixed on destroying my village?"

"Oh, you have noticed him?"

Although she was using a mocking tone in her words, Ibro neglected it. He wanted to know the true identity of this enemy.

"Of course I have noticed him since my first battle."

"I will tell you who he is later. Now your full concern must be focused on how to extract yourself from this deep trouble.

This enemy has used three different curses towards you and your villagers. The first curse, which is the lightest curse, is a lock down curse. The two behind you know exactly what this curse means so I won't lose time explaining it.

The second curse is directed to your villagers PA. any villager will have his PA decreased by one grade each week till all becomes trash grade. Even these two mighty persons behind you are no exception to this curse.

The third curse which is your biggest nightmare is a food consumption curse. Each day your villagers' food consumption will be doubled till you have no more food to spare.

If you lose your food then your villagers and army soldiers will abandon you or die out of hunger. Today is the third day of the curse, so your subjects had their food consumption rate doubled three times only so your trusted Mony had just discovered it now."

Ibro's mind felt a strong shock that made it completely frozen. He took some moments to realize how dire his current situation was. He didn't need any explanation about the importance and the seriousness of the third curse specifically.

His food depended on the units he bought from the market. He can manufacture runes and use their money to gain food. But that wouldn't solve the problem though; it would only postpone the inevitable.

"Don't think about using your runes to amass money to buy food. Each player has a limit to the amount of rss he can get. As you didn't buy a lot of wood or stone or iron, then you can get another 100 million units of food. After that, you are totally on your own."

Ibro felt as if he was caught off guard. He couldn't buy food units. That was a disaster. His supply of food which will come from his farms will take one month to be ready.

Even if he managed somehow to wait for that month, that amount wouldn't be enough to sustain his village for a lot of time. There was only one option left for him.

"Tell me, how can I solve this curse?"

"Oh, you won't try to find any other food sources? You know there is a lot of food stored in the surface monsters strongholds."

Ibro looked deeply to her as he said:

"Finding more food resources will be an approach to alleviate the gravity of this situation, but it isn't the cure for this crisis. I want to know the way to cure this curse."

"Why are you so sure I know the cure of this curse?"

Ibro smiled and explained calmly:

"This curse isn't the first curse I met in my life. I have seen curses before. My last experience with curses made me understand that curses aren't totally immune or perfect. Each curse has its own weaknesses and also its own solution."

Sefiera just smiled while she looked at this young man's calm face. She then asked:

"What you just said is completely true, but you didn't tell me why are you so sure that I know the solution for this curse?"

Ibro smiled by his turn and looked backward towards Hoden and Mamor while saying:

"Just consider it a hunch."

He didn't need to explain anything. The two men behind him were no ordinary men. When he noticed their weird reaction and deep shock when they saw Sefiera, he knew that her true identity wasn't simple at all.

He didn't know anything about her, but he was absolutely sure she had the ability to know such an answer to his crucial question. He didn't delve deep into other unanswerable questions like why someone like her was here in this game?

Why did someone like her get assigned as his assistant? Or was there some hidden agenda for her? He knew if he let his brain go wild in these thoughts he wouldn't find any answer and got a ton of questions.

So he decided to be patient. One day he would know everything.

"Ok Mr. big lord, you guessed it right."