Epic Of Vampire: The Crippled Vampire Prince Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 144 Chapter 142: Strange “Friends”

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As Heracles revealed all the information he knew about Ausberth, suddenly, Gofumina talked about something else as well, something only she saw and something not even Heracles knew.

"I do know something… Ausberth, that guy. He has got some strange friends," said Gofumina. "It was a strange thing I saw a while ago."

"Strange friend?" Vlad asked.

"Wait, when did this happen?" Heracles wondered, joining the conversation.

"Ah yeah, well you weren't there, chief; I saw him talking with him… or her some time ago," said Gofumina. "I think they didn't see me, but… Well, that person looked like they were straight out of a sci-fi game or movie. Like some Master Chief type of guy, it was hilariously ridiculous. I never thought this game went so hard for the whole cross-genre type of stuff."

"What?" Vlad wondered.

"Huh? Master Chief?" Asked Heracles. "Is there a chief of higher authority than me?!"

"Yeah, I mean it was definitely fucking weird, but if you want to know I can tell you, it was certainly not someone from this Realm… or any other Realm that is out for the public I think," Gofumina said. "And don't worry about it, chief. It's just Player talk."

"Huh…" Heracles crossed his arms, listening attentively.

"Anyway, it was a huge person… woman or man, I don't know. But they were like three meters tall, wearing futuristic-looking armor, like some sort of full-body mechanical spacesuit. They also held a huge laser gun thingy on their back and had a long blue cape with a crown floating above their heads. It was the weirdest shit I've ever seen in this game ever!" Said Gofumina.

Paul quickly began to imagine the person in question, and he simply couldn't understand how someone like that existed in this game.

It felt more like they came from a whole different game altogether!

Fantasy Story Online wasn't the only VRMMO game out there, and there were several others on the market.

However, this game was special due to its incredible and interactive gameplay and A.I.

Paul could easily remember a lot of Sci-fi games for VR though, and they were all over the place.

Some were great, others complete garbage.

As the proud owner of a VR Capsule, he of course made it worth its huge price, so he tried and played multiple games.

But nothing has come closer to the incredible feeling of playing Fantasy Story Online and how great and real it all felt.

"Tell me more about this guy," Vlad said. "Anything else you know?"

"I don't know who he was or what they wanted, but Ausberth talked to them as if they were allies…" The goblin girl said, crossing her legs as she sat down by Vlad's side. "The astronaut-looking fellow talked about bringing the "products" he had requested in exchange for "magic fuel" or something…"

Vlad fell into silence for a moment as he had a realization. If this was truly happening, then…

"Could it be? Are they from another Realm? Or maybe… if they had a spacesuit, it could even be the damn outer space between Realms?!"

Out of nowhere, Paul learned about a completely unknown game's content, something that could encompass an update much farther into the future.

Perhaps "updates" by themselves, and the content they brought, always existed within the game world, and it simply unlocked itself as players explored it?

This was something always within his mind, as he thought about how the invasion from the past era events were triggered, and all those annoying Boss Raids.

Strangely enough, though, that huge green slime didn't count as a Raid, so he didn't get any special reward from it, aside from the strange, cursed armor that was broken into pieces.

And a huge green jewel that seemed to possess powerful acid and poison within, which he was going to inspect a bit later.

Whatever the case, Paul couldn't help but wonder how sci-fi technology could even fit in this fantasy setting.

"Well, it's not like it hasn't happened; there are also a lot of MMOs that just merge all genres together: fantasy, urban fantasy, robots, sci-fi, aliens, mythical monsters, gods, and so on… Anything is possible for MMOs that need to be constantly creating endless content anyway. In a way, it's the perfect outlet for creativity."

But at the end of the day, with so many different realms everywhere, perhaps it was intended from the beginning for this game to be multi-genre.

He couldn't help but imagine himself piloting a huge spaceship and traveling between Realms through it, having battles in outer space, conquering planetoids, and extracting resources from asteroids while fighting aliens.

But at the same time, he quickly imagined a giant green slime, a massive mass of burning rubies, and a cloud of dark shadows, and then he felt completely scared.

"Wait a second, isn't Outer Space where those bastards are?! How can anybody travel through it?"

He suddenly ended saying his thoughts out loud, making everyone there stare at him awkwardly.

"A-Ah, my bad, I didn't mean to say that…"

He felt slightly embarrassed, but…

"There's nothing to apologize for, my son; you're right. It's strange, right?" Teressa wondered. "Either those Outer Gods in space don't attack just anybody, or they ignore those strange people completely. Do they have an alliance of sorts? Maybe even with the other Cultists. There's the Templars of the Desecrated Shadow and then the Knights of the Emerald Maiden to worry about now after all, but could there be a correlation?"

"Based on what Gofumina said, I think there might not be one," said Chris, interrupting Teressa's train of thoughts. "She said they were purely doing business with that vampire dude because they wanted something in exchange. They weren't sharing interests or were evil, villainous allies either. Just an exchange of products. It's dangerous, yeah, Ausberth probably has a laser gun or something now, another dumb thing to worry about, but… I think we should scratch the idea they're allied with the cults."

"Great point," Vlad nodded. "For now, let's go back home; we need to do a lot to prepare for what's coming."