"Lord Chita, what should we do?" Sitting on a throne, a cheetah sat. he had the same pattern as a cheetah but was humanoid. he had a balanced body, not too muscular, but not too slim. he was bigger than something like Dracula but shorter. Dracula was 6'1, but this guy was 5'8. this man was Chita, a player.
below the throne was a Lion, who was on one knew. this lion was an NPC... well, the child of an NPC. It was rare to have an immortal beast-type NPC, but Chita was special, he had unlocked a unique race called The Immortal Cheetah. It is similar to how Aureole Omega was an Immortal Human.
"I'm lost... Ainz Ooal Gown should not be a player. Dracula should have been banished, he should also have been a player. but everything is flipped over its head. years it took me to rule the beast man nation, and we were so close to whipping out all other races..." Chita said while sighing and sorting,
back on earth, things were... shit, most of the animals had died off. his favorite animal the cheetah had disappeared a long ago. this guild, the Beast Empire was a guild that only took in players who played as beasts, players who loved animals as much as he did. He disliked humans, how could someone destroy such beautiful animals? humans were the true danger to this world. so for the past 300 years, he had been working to conquer this world.
but luckily realized quickly that players had come to this world, this forced him to back and act in the shadows. his guild wasn't the strongest, amongst the players in YGGDRASIL he wasn't much of a fighter, he tried to build his character to be fast, extremely fast. which he managed to do, unlocking the Immortal Cheetah, a race that is said to be able to outrun death.
but all he was was fast and had spent these fast 300 years not only strengthening the power of the beast nation but strengthening his hold over the nation. how? it was cruel, but he had those soul eaters appear and cause huge damage to the beast. after, he came in, overwhelming all of the soul easts and winning the hearts of the beast race.
ever since he began building a kingdom and trying to train powerful beasts while trying to get his hands on the queen of the dragon kingdom to research wild magic. the elites of the dragon kingdom were all around level 50, the stronger ones being up to level 70. he even had some children, whose levels managed the upper 80s. but even so, he was careful,
it was just 100 years ago that he had begun to launch an all-out war, what the beast race had was its number which had reached the billions, and now it had strong leaders to lead them. he had just begun to overwhelm the dragon kingdom, even with the Slane Theocracy supporting the dragon Kingdom, they were winning while not showing any of their cards.
things were going smoothly, then this Ainz Ooal Gown popped up, claiming the whole world for himself without giving anyone a chance to say no. Chita of course would not roll over, he was trying to get as much information. this king, the Beast King was just a cover for him.
"but my lord, you're sure this is the Dracula you remember right?" The Beast King asked to which Chita nodded slightly. he rubbed his chin for a moment before speaking.
"but that can't be... if you were the strongest person, would you lower yourself to such a level as him? Or it could be a trap, or maybe it was an NPC they created based on him. but how would an NPC have the items he was banished with, along with a skill only world champions should have? everything points towards him being the real Dracula." Chita said while rubbing his forehead.
"What I have seen and heard, is that Dracula would be destroyed before you father. What's so impressive about him?" A young half-cheetah, half Lion humanoid asked while stepping forward. this was one of his many sons, he looked at his son for a moment before shaking his head.
"I have seen the real Dracula before, after becoming a world enemy, one of the 7 deadly sins, he went on to kill 100 level 100. I'm fast, but he is faster he even has a world item that boosts his speed. on top of two swords which could also boost his speed. I might only be faster than him if he stood butt-naked." Chita said softly, making everyone in the throne room go quiet out of pure shock
"He was a monster, a walking disaster. the only way he was even banished was because a world item affected him when he had his world items all off. Once those 3 world items were off, he should have been banished for 3 years and not forever." Chita said softly, world items canceled each other, but some world items' effects couldn't be canceled out by another world item.
for example, world times which affect a person who is holding it. these are world items effects are much harder to cancel out. Dracula had 2 such world items, such as the space-time swords, and the Shoes of Apoll.
but the shoes of Apoll effect of making others unable to target him would find themselves being canceled out if someone was locking onto Dracula using a world item that specializes in targeting you.
but what would happen if a world item is in your storage? what happened to Dracula, he was banished, but not for good. the effect of the world items affected him, but not as powerful as it should have been. its effects were greatly limited, in fact, it would have been a few months if not for the second-world item which was used to enhance the effect of something. a one-time-use world item. During those 1 to 2 months Dracula should have been banished for turning 3 years
Dracula couldn't have been blamed, a new guild member pops up, asks for help and he agrees. there was no risk, after all, there was no friendly fire, so there was no way Dracula would have been on guard against his guild member having 2 world items. it came out of nowhere,
"Plus, we lost our world item to that Deep Darkness Dragon lord... we need to get it back, we got a new one. it doesn't make it better." Chite said softly, his heart heavy. The player of their guild had stepped out and bumped into the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord. he had a world item, and tried to use it on the Dragonlord, but it was immune. he ended up dying. How were they to know that wild magic made the dragon immune to world items?
to make things worse, that damn Dragon was level 92. It was just him and that other player who came to this guild along with the guild. but he went out to explore, he was an ape with unmatched defense. at the sword, it sounded right that he would go. but a dragon saw the world item on him and moved to take the world item for his own. the poor player just arrived and didn't know the way of this world just yet, or how to fight... he was defeated soon after the dragon took the world item from him.
"what should we do then?" his son asked with an uneasy look, his cane was Leo. he didn't have the best naming sense, but this was his strong son.
"for now... nothing. remain in the dark, collect information, and wait for the best moment to attack. in another 100 years, new players would appear. either we team up with them or wait another 100 years for another player. we would wait, and find the best opening to fight and win. than the demi-human would rule the world." Chita said to which everyone bowed slightly.
At that moment, the screen appeared before Chita, revealing a masked man who was with Honyopenyoko. Chita's heart dropped for a moment, his mind raced thinking of what was happening here.
'how did they find us? did they have ways to track us when we were spying on that battle? did they follow the beast king?' the mind of Chita raced, not understanding how they were found. they were hidden pretty well, so this should have been impossible.
Honyopenyoko entered through the barrier after Dracula, her eyes scanning the place before they both headed toward a door.
"Have everyone turn... they cast an Anti teleportation spell around the guild. pro pair for battle," Chita said causing everyone to instantly put on battle faces. Chita watched as Dracula and Honyopenyoko entered the first floor of the mansion, which inside was a jungle filled with all types of animals that attacked them.
"Dracula deals with them," Honyopenyoko said calmly, Dracula stepped forward his sword flashing and cutting apart all of the incoming beast. but using pure instinct alone was too much for him to deal with so many, so Honyopenyoko had to act from time to time.
"You dare? I'm in the floor garden on the first floor of the great mansion of Mount Suma." A large ape roared while walking toward Dracula and Honyopenyoko with burning rage. it looked like an ape, but in truth, it was a stone golem. it was summoned for guilds to reward golems after clearing a dungeon and making it their guild. the same was true for Nazarick
its fist slammed towards Draula, who moved to dodge the level 100 golem before jumping up, at this moment his instincts were extremely sharpened, allowing him to move well. feeling this, he didn't move to kill the golem but instead used it to train, its movements were easy to lead, and all it had was overwhelming physical strength.
Honyopenyoko just watched from the side, it was an interesting scene seeing a person whose senses were all useful fighting as if he could see the world perfectly. yes, Dracula was not as good as he had sensed at this moment, after all, he couldn't dodge all of the attacks aiming towards him, with his senses that would have been as easy as breath with how easy the golem's movement was to read.
'I have to be careful, one move might do great damage... this sense of danger, only heightens my instincts even more. with the necklace of wisdom, I'm just improving 1,000 times faster.' Dracula thought while moving his blade, praying the golem's fist, before flipping forward, over the incoming fist, which he kicked off to jump up to dodge the other incoming fist,
'too easy, too simple,' Dracula thought seeing how easier things were coming for him, but he kept playing with the golem, and after 30 minutes he could his instincts were relaxing, at this point Dracula found himself not even needing to think or focus to dodge any of the Golem attacks.
Honyopenyoko seeing this, moved, her sharp claws cutting the golem into pieces. it wasn't that she was so many times stronger than the golem, but that the golem's attention was fully on Dracula, she only took an opening, and with time to prepare her attack, how could the golem stay alive?
"let's go to the next floor... or the leader of this place could come here, if I have to walk all the way up, I believe we might have to have an all-out battle," Honyopenyoko said lightly, causing Chita's heart to flinch slightly, Honyopenyoko words met she knew he was watching.
"I'm Chita, the guild leader of the beast EMpire... what do you want stepping into my guild?" Chito had no choice but to teleport over. yes outside he couldn't teleport, but within his guild, he could.
"my love would be happy if I offered him a guild belonging to a guild upon his revival, so give it to him," Honyopenyoko said while hugging Dracula's arm, Chita hearing her words frowned deeply,
"I mean no disrespect... but you can't just walk into my guild hall and ask me to give it to you," Chita said with a smile, to which Honyopenyoko's eyes turned sharp, which made Chita eyes narrow as he realized she was at level 100, and not a weak on at that.
"so... what would Ainz Ooal Gown do if he hears of a player secretly running something that belongs to him? What my husband wants he gets, don't worry, we would not force you to do anything. submitting yourself to my lord is good." Honyopenyoko's eyes narrowed, during this low life to give her husband something that rightfully belonged to him
"then we have no choice but to fight." Saying this, Chita summoned the guild item, the crown of the beast god. a divine-grade weapon that he and his guild member worked so hard to craft,
"I'm sure of it... thats not Dracula. the Dracula I remember seeing was a cocky loud mouth, I just don't see him lowering himself. Ainz should have only taken you in because you reminded him of him, by Ainz I mean Momon, or Momonga. which further makes me believe this is all an act you 3 are putting up." Chita said calmly, to which Honyopenyoko confirmed his words with her shocked look.
"he caught us," Honyopenyoko said, to which Dracula removed his mask. Chita's heart skipped for a moment while looking at Dracula.
"you really look like Dracula... but he had been banished, so it can't be you," Chita said softly, his heart racing, hoping to god Dracula would confirm this.
"you seem like you've seen me before... but sadly, I don't remember seeing you. I killed so many players, how am I supposed to remember an ant I crushed." Dracula said with a cold smile, causing the color in Chita's face to disappear. he cast many abilities to see through Dracula, and all he saw was the same master from back then... no, it was the slightest stronger
"you have 3 options, die. or kneel. I will count to 3, if you stand, you die. if you kneel you and everyone else here don't suffer. Dracula said with a smile, sending a chill down Chita. he lived for far too long to know when he was standing before a monster
"... I kneel," Chita said softly, he said while lowering his head. causing Dracula to click his tongue slightly. to think his name still held the same weight as in the game... oh no, this was bad, his ego might start growing.
"and here I was hoping to fight you... pass over the ownership to me, I will give it to Ainz later. I expect everyone to be obedient, or else the higher-ups will go through a makeover. understood?" Dracula asked calmly. to which Chita held out his crown towards Dracula, but as Dracula reached to grab it, Chita flashed at his quietest speed towards Dracula. before coming, he had cast many spells to support himself and was already wearing many gears
Chita who had gloves covering his hands slapped Dracula's chest, who didn't even try to dodge and simply looked at his chest as if nothing happened. Chita and Dracula both stood there, looking at each other and back at his chest.
"... so is something supposed to happen or what?" Dracula asked with a confused look, Chita's face twisted slightly. those gloves were world-class items. the Kingdom Shakers. Every blow he lands would cause the person to suffer from powerful vibration which would base past all immunities and defense, allowing for one to suffer the most damage with each blow
"... you don't have any of your world items on you," Chita said with a shaky voice before he began punching Dracula with everything he had, trying to land a blow. but it was all pointless, seeing this, Dracula sighed while patting his head.
"It's okay, you saw an opportunity and you took it... but sucks you would become my search subject." Dracula said softly, making Chita feel as if the devil himself was patting his head. his body froze, almost going paralyzed,
"Cheetah Rush!" He roared as he punched forward at blending speed, Dracula just shook his head, taking each brow without a brother to even dodge.
"Everyone should know I only fear holy, darkness, or light attacks... for everything else you have to get through my natural defense and resistance. don't forget about my recovery speed. those small damages you manage to make are quickly healed before you notice it. I could stand here forever and you will never be able to harm me... I'm a world enemy, did you forget?" Dracula said while Chita's legs went weak as he fell to his legs helplessly.
"wait, you have no Bludgeoning Vulnerability?" Shalltear asked in shock, undead had 4 main vulnerabilities, good, light, holy, and Bludgeoning,
"I do, but it's the same as yours. it just increases the damage I take by 2 times, not 5 times like holy, good, and light. All damage he does is gone by the time the next fist is thrown... You should have put some stats into phy. Atk. It's so small." Dracula said calmly, while two gloves appeared in his hands, which were connected to cheetah arms. Cheetah's eyes widened at such speed, that she didn't even see Dracula move. truly someone worthy of the strongest player
"These would be perfect gifts for Sabes on his wedding night," Dracula said with a nod of his head, ignoring the cries behind him. but after a moment, he turned to look at the Cheetah, who had shockingly already grown his arms. Dracula looked towards the cheetah arms he had, and they were gone. this caused his eyebrow to raise as this cheetah's healing speed rival might be faster than his... of course, in his base no gear stat.
"I will give you a second chance, only because you're a player... lick my feet, and your suffering will end here," Dracula said calmly, the Chita's body shook in fear seeing Dracula's cold and unfeeling eyes.
"w-will you spare the beast man nation and my family?" He asked in a shaky voice, biting back the pain, at his words Dracula just shrugged
"give me a reason not to," Dracula said calmly, with a shaky body, Chita looked towards Dracula's shoes, and slowly licked them through some tears. Dracula seeing this shook his head, before pulling his head back.
"for that, I guess I can respect you. people from Nazarick will be coming over soon, along with Ainz, please by all means do not force me to stop by. until we meet again, hopefully as a part of the same team. As a player, you will have some power to speak, and as the first player to kneel, the power you have to speak would be above others. so enjoy it." Dracula said calmly, while Shalltear waved goodbye at Chita who was just crying on the floor, but soon Albedo appeared with Ainz and Cocytus, only to be speechless by this scene. All but Ainz,
"As I said Cocytus, you worried for nothing. Dracula alone is capable of defeating dungeons on his own. much less a guild, that has one player." Ainz said softly, to which Cocytus lowered his head in shame
"It shames me I can't be of use to Lord Dracula, we should be going out and doing the work, yet here you and lord Dracula are working... this is shameful," Cocytus said with a downcast look,
"Dracula doesn't see it like that, you're our children. and for that, it's the father's job to make it worth living for his children." Ainz said softly, making Cocytus cover his eyes as he almost began crying, no he began crying. ice drops fell to the ground, leaving Albedo and Anz at a loss for words, so Ainz just turned his attention towards Chita.
"Dracula is soft, I would have just killed you and taken you back to the guild where I would have brought you back and tortured all of the information out of you, before doing my experiments on you," Ainz said calmly, sending a chill down Chita. the fact he could feel the disappointment in Ainz's tone only made him more fearful,
"Are those gloves Dracula took the only world item you have?" Ainz asked calmly, to which Chite shook his head slightly.
"We used to have one, the Horn of the Beast. world item which could either take control of nearby beasts or summon a large amount of them. but it was taken by the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord 300 years ago. he tried to use it against the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord, although the dragon lord wasn't a beast, the horn allowed for those none-beast types to be paralyzed... but it didn't work." Chita said quickly, to which Ainz nodded in slight understanding
"dragon lords all have wild magic, so it was immune, you didn't know this. we will talk more, later." Ainz said calmly while looking at the Chita, who lowered his head. these were undead, even if they were players he was sure they had lost their humanity. the same as for him, he felt nothing having his army eat humans alive, or whatever. all he saw were disgusting things that should be killed.