Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Ibro kept jumping over from a place to another taking all the villages he could and made it his. Throughout this, Ibro stuck to his previous strategy, as he hit any village, annexed it, and then he ran away. 

That made his enemy couldn't be able to retaliate at once, but Ibro was sure this wicked enemy wouldn't stay still watching his actions without moving a finger. 

Ibro's intuition was right, as, on the fifth day, he went to attack a village as usual, but this village had some changes once he appeared. This time, there wasn't any demon gate around this village, which was weird. 

Ibro noticed this before he reached here via his divine sense, but that didn't stop him from jumping to this village. This wasn't done on impulse, as all the villages he found via his divine sense were void of these gates. 

That made him wonder about the scheme of his enemy, what would this enemy do? When he appeared above the village, he was surprised to find nothing there, not even a fly was there in this village. 

Ibro first made his system use the seal divine ability, as usual, then he entered cautiously into that lord's manor. His system finished moving the village into his world successfully without any traps of any kind, which was weirder.

'Are you sure there is nothing wrong with this village?'

'Yes, I triple checked it so far, do you want me to check it again?'

'Hmmm… that's weird.'

'Whatever your enemy is planning, it had nothing to do with this village.'

Ibro didn't lower his vigilance when he moved to the next village, which he obtained easily without a single demon standing in his face. The area around each village was free of demons as if these demons were trying to avoid them. 

Ibro had some clues, but he couldn't link them together. What he was sure of was that his enemy had started to act, and from the look of it this scheme seemed to be more profound. 

Ibro continued to take villages in the same old routine without any change at all till the next day when he received a memo from his search team. This was a strange message which made him hesitate.

'That's interesting, so this enemy had built a long huge wall of demon gates to surround the central area of this world? 

It even brought out some flying demons to stand guard in the air to prevent my search teams from knowing what was going on inside this blockage… that enemy is planning some fishy trap there.'

The system gave Ibro its advice as it said:

'I recommend to ignore this trap and continue taking the villages from here. you need to gain a certain amount of villages before you could control the gateway of this world.'

Ibro sighed as his system was wrong in its assumptions for the first time. He then explained to his system pointing out to this error:

'You are mistaken here, my partner, as these villages we took were separated from this universe's technology, so these villages had nothing to do in my trial to control the gate of this universe. 

The issue here lied in that trap this enemy is trying to complete, as I'm pretty sure it didn't finish it. if we continued to wander around here and gave that enemy the time it needed, then we might face greater calamity. 

I must invade deeply into this hostile territory and investigate myself. Although I will waste some time here, it's always better to be cautious than sorry.'

The system didn't reply immediately, as it went silent for a few moments before asking:

'Are you going to venture deeply alone?'

'Yes, after all no matter who I send, they will get killed with all these flying demons. So, it would be more practical for me to go deeply inside. I also have the ability to move huge armies to aid me in any stressful situations, so I should go alone.'

'…'

The system didn't reply as it was speechless from Ibro's recklessness. Ibro, himself, knew how risky this plan was, but he felt a vague danger every time he thought about neglecting this hidden scheme of his enemy. 

Ibro sighed, it was really hard to deal with such an intelligent foe, he missed the old days where the demons and fiends were straight forward in attacking him. 

This change of the pattern of this fiend thinking was weird, but Ibro guessed its cause. This all was related to that strange fiend which he met from before, that master of Gornat fiend. 

Ibro then looked towards the direction his search team provided, as he started to move out rapidly. All over the way there, he didn't use any curse, function, or divine ability to save his energy for the upcoming battle. 

He only kept using his instant teleportation function coupled with his divine sense divine ability. In less than one hour, Ibro had reached the outer regions of the enemy territory. 

As described in the report his search team sent, that vast endless area was surrounded by huge high demon towers. 

The situation was more complicated than mentioned in the report, as the whole area was filled by demon towers until the reach of Ibro's divine sense. 

Ibro knew why all the villages he met recently were free of all the demons' gates, as it seemed his enemy had moved them all to be clustered like this in this zone.

This wasn't all, as the land was completely covered by endless legions of demons and the sky was filled with guarding patrols of flying weirdly shaped demons. 

This seemed to be more difficult than he expected, but he didn't change his mind. 

What he was there made him more sure about his previous assumption, that fiend was trying to prevent him from delving deeply inside here as it wasn't yet prepared. Ibro clenched his fists as he muttered to his system:

'If we started to fight all these demons, we would take a long time to cross a couple of hundreds of kilometers. 

This won't work, so I want you to keep teleporting me from a place to another till we reach an area without any demon towers or these huge quantities of demons.'

The system suggested:

'This way is some way safer at the beginning, but if you get stuck somewhere in a fight or a trap, you will face a big danger. I recommend you take it easy.'

Ibro sighed as he replied:

'I know you are right, but again I'm fighting against time. I need to find out what that sneaky wicked enemy is planning and try my best to destroy its scheme. 

Send a message to all of my skeletons in my world, and make them ready for being teleported immediately and join a battle. Also send the same message to the NPCs and cultivators I have inside. If my enemy is going all out like this, then I will do the same.'

'Ok, crazy system holder, I will also keep using the seal function every time you move from one place to another. I hope your intuition is right, or else all this trouble will be for nothing.'

'I hope I'm mistaken, but I'm sure I'm not. Let's start, partner.'