[VRMMO] Chaos Doctor

"?!" – Upon hearing Phantasia statement, princess suddenly got up from her sofa.

"You have informations regarding the Doctor?! You?!" – asked the princess as the sudden mentioned of it confused everybody in the room, but also visible alarmed.

"How the hell do you know about him?! No wait! How the hell did you obtained informations about him in the first place! Tell me now!"

"I won't be telling anything, until both the contract is signed and I will have something in case you people betray me." – said Phantasia with serios tone.

"All I can tell you that is that I'm not working for anybody and this decision was made on my own."

"I'm not messenger, nor I'm part of yours or other prince factions."

"I'm still alone and independent."

"However, depending on how things goes, both sides would benefit from this. You and me, if only you agree to the contract."

"So, how about it? Will you, do it?"

"…."

"…."

"Regarding the arrangement of the punishment... What are we talking about here?" – asked the princes while holding the contract and reading its context once again.

"The punishment is regarding exposing some informations about me. The punishment will be either items or money, depending on what you chose." – said Phantasia.

"…."

"Let's go with money. Gold coins."

"!"

"But- "

The knight tried saying something, but princes raised her hand, shushing him and making him shut up.

"However, it said here something about "Permission", so the punishment can be went over, if I ask you first if I can say something publicly."

"Correct. However, only for good reason. If you convince me, then the punishment will be completely null." – said Phantasia.

"However, if you say before asking me for permission, then punishment will happened either way."

"The gag also includes the things regarding me and my name. Meaning that don't expose my name at all cost, unless you want to suffer way stronger punishment. I mostly care about my name and identity not being mentioned at all cost."

"I don't want that fuking Doctor to go after me and have some "Revenge" on me, because of me giving you informations."

"…."

"Hm..."

"Fine. I will sign it."

"…. Are you really trusting him?" – asked visible concern duke.

"Well, it's worth a shot."

"There is no upfront payment, right?" – asked princess.

"No. Only punishment payment and its heavy one at that." – said Phantasia while writing stuff in the contract.

"Here."

"…..."

"Fine. This will do." – said the princess while checking the contract that now had written what kind of punishment would happened upon breaking it.

"But before you sign it, I need to ask others about this and you all present in this room." – said Phantasia.

"I won't tell the others about this, the other people in this room, unless you also sign the contract as party B and that also means that each of you will share the same punishment. If you don't sign it, then leave the room."

"…."

The knights looked at each other while the duke grabbed the contract and read it.

"…."

"Fine. I'm also fine with all this." – said duke while reading the contract.

"We will be fine as well." – said the private knight.

Moments later, princess, the 3 knights as well as the duke had written their names on the contract.

"Here., We write down our names on the contract." – said the princess while handing back the contract to Phantasia.

"But he warn."

"If you dare to deceive us or something like that, I hope you are ready to suffer and I promise you, you will suffer if you do."

"Don't worry." – said Phantasia while checking the contract.

"Anyway, you want me to start now?"

"Yea. Just get over with it and tell us everything you know." – said the annoyed princess.

"…. Hm…... Okay."

"First thing first. I think I have led who Doctor maybe is."

"!"

"Wait, what?! You know who is that pshycho?!" – asked the knight.

"Please calm down. I don't know who exactly, but I have a lead." – said Phantasia, trying to calm down the knight.

"Let me explain."

"In Orca city, one of my…. Well, not really in friend but more of a client was killed in the Orca city. He was an adventurer and was personally killed by the Doctor."

"However, what he told me was something I wasn't expecting."

"[Metal Reinforcement]."

Phantasia entire hand turned metallic right in front of the people in the room.

"?"

"What is it? Magic?" – asked the duke.

"Your arm look like it has been turned into…. Metal?"

"Yea…And apparently the Doctor can also do it."

"Wait, you are saying, he can also turn him hands into…. That?" – asked duke.

"Not only that, but he could also wield other form of metallic magic."

"That guy posses the special class called [Metal Mage], just like me."

"…."

"Continue." – said the princess.

"Well, I originally obtained my [Metal Mage] class from my master from the Dawn city, an dwarf named Evilin."

"He originally received two copies of the [Metal Mage] from the royal family as an gift and after I had passed all his trails and proven myself to him as craftsman, he gave me the second copy he had on himself."

"However, I'm not the only one with the [Metal Mage] class."

"There was an auction going on recently among the adventures where two copies of the [Metal Mage] class books had been sold and not only that, the details regarding the class were posted on the auction."

"But the question is, where these class books came from and who was the person who sold it anonymously."

"There is also the fact that the Doctor had apparently attacked and killed the king of Agion kingdom, so it wouldn't really surprising if he had stolen the [Metal Mage] class books."

"…."

"So…. What you are saying is this." – said princess.

"The suspect who could be possible the Doctor, posses the [Metal Mage] class and the [Metal Mage] isn't really a class you can easily get?"

"Correct." – replied Phantasia.

"However, there is problems."

"Nobody knows who bough the [Metal Mage] class books or who sold them."

"All 3 people involved could also not be the Doctor, but they could be still possible suspects."

"…That includes you." – said princess.

"Unfortunately, yes." – replied Phantasia.

"However, the reason why I haven't told anybody is that is simple."

"He could just not use the [Metal Mage] and hide."

"So don't do anything stupid like spreading the news far and wide, since it will obviously alarm him."

"…."

"Hm…. Well, at least we have some info about him…... Is that everything?" – asked princess.

"…."

"Well…No…. But well…."

"Oh, for crying out loud. Spit it out." – said princess.

"…."

"I don't want to point any fingers or anything like that…. But…. The first prince or the second prince maybe somewhat connected to the Doctor."

"…..."

"Hey…. Are you fuking kidding me?" – asked the princes with serios tone.

"You do know what kind of consequences your words could have right now. So, mind your words carefully now."

"I know! I know! Fuck…. Look, hear me out."

"When I started my business in this kingdom and opened my shop in the Wolf city… I was invited by the second prince to meet up with him."

"Honestly, it was quiet recently when I started gaining popularity, so his invite came with by surprise and all."

"However,…. Well, I wasn't supposed to talk about it, but the circumstances changed."

"The second prince wanted to recruit me into his faction."

"But I declined him, since he had proven himself to be a scammer and untrusty worthy person."

"However, the way he tried to recruit me…. Well, let me explain."

"The second prince was worried about the unknown and sudden growth in power of the first prince and his faction, to the point he apparently made an investigation on him and his faction."

"Apparently, the first prince is doing an illegal business, starting from making deals with the black market, to illegal slave trading and to the illegal monsters trading."

"…."

"What? He said that?!" – asked confused duke.

"Right in my face." – said Phantasia.

"But it wasn't all."

"He suspect that the whole people and the monsters who were apparently bough were bought by the people who use the Doctor as their servant. He apparently catched the first prince men handing over the bough monsters and people to some shady figures."

"He says that he suspects the first prince working with the Doctor and the people supporting him behind the scenes."

"…."

"You do- "

"No disrespect or anything, but I fuking know what I'm talking about." – said Phantasia, not letting the princess finish talking.

"However, let me please finish first the rest of the story and then you can judge."

"….."

"As I was saying, the prince told me all that in my face and he suspected that the large battle would take place in the kingdom with the first prince planning an rebellion and forceful take over."

"He was strengthen his forces according to him and his plan was to recruit me, or have me sell the mana gun production method to him."

"However, I decline either recruitment or selling my mana production gun method to him and in the end just left him without accepting any of his deals."

"…."

"But why?" – asked princess.

"Why did you declined his offer?"

"…."

"Simple. He was trying to deceive me." – replied Phantasia.

"There were few things that didn't add up with this whole story, but most importantly, he didn't had any real evidence to show me."

"And even if he had evidence, he could just bring it to the king or the whole kingdom, exposing his evil or he could have joined forces with you in order to crush the traitorous first prince."

"But no. Nothing. He did not took any of those actions and instead approached me for some reason and wanted me to be forcefully in the picture."

"No matter how I look at it, it was WAY too fuking suspicious."

"He was acting way too greedy, too friendly and was hiding way too much."

"Simply put, I couldn't trust him."

"What if he was the one that was the real terrorist? What if he wanted to forcefully take over the kingdom?"

"What if he wanted to recruit me, before then revealing that I'm now his "Partner in crime" and would be forced to do his dirty work no matter if I say yes or no."

"He straight up couldn't be trusted."

"…."

"Are you by any chance saying that my brother Aban, is working with the Doctor?" – asked the princess with serios tone.

"Well… That is the problem."

"His story about the first prince working with the terrorist that are part of the same organization as the Doctor would make some sense, considering current situation. There is also the fact that the first prince was really getting more power way too quickly and way too much in short amount of time."

"But then again, he was trying to manipulate me while also lying and he also did not have any evidence, nor he took any actions regarding the supposable betray of the first prince."

"So honestly, both of them are extremely suspicious and its unknown if the second prince was telling truth or not."

"But, there is one thing that I noticed recently."

"Princes Elizabeth. So far, only places that are part of your factions have been attacked."

"Neither the first prince or the second prince have been attacked."

"?!"

"Wait, is that true?!" – asked the duke as he turned around to the shocked princes Elizabeth.

"…He is right…. Only my faction territory have been attacked so far." – replied princess with concern look.

(How did I not noticed that?!) – though the princess.

(Was I too focused on stopping the Doctor to the point I didn't realized something so obvious?!)

"?!"

(Wait, does that mean that one of my brothers are really working with the Doctor?!)

(According to the knights, somebody who hid their identity had destroyed an entire village just like Doctor are doing!)

(Did by any chance these people are the people working in the same organization as the Doctor?! Or maybe these masked people were people working for either of my brothers?!)

(And what if either of them are providing a hiding spot for the Doctor and his monsters?! It would explain why I can't find them!)

"And its pretty much all I know." – said Phantasia.

"He definitely possess a special class called [Metal Mage] that specializes in metal magic, as well as the fact that the either first or second prince could be working with him."

"I don't have any evidence, but that is all informations I can provide you with."

"…."

"No." – said princess.

"We are not done yet."

"I still have a question for you."

"And it's simple one."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"…."

"Well, I'm greedy bastard." – said Phantasia.

"I honestly like doing my experiments, but I also open up a shop from time to time to sell my experiments and all other creations."

"I'm busies man in a sense."

"And that fucker already destroyed my business few times. Specifically, he killed me 3 times already."

"So I just want to prevent that kind of damage from happening again."

"And not only that, but that bastard killed my master, Evilin. The blacksmith that was teaching me."

"As soon as I FUKING left the city for one moment to help out my friend, I came back to the city and found it all in ruins and everybody dead!"

"So yea… I'm a scumbag and greedy bastard, but I ain't an evil and stupid guy, so I know that dealing with shady or dangerous people is bad thing and also bastards like the Doctor at the lose is bad for my own business."

"However, I know I will get fucked by the Doctor, since last time I tried fighting him…. I punched him in the face and in response he made me into kebab with his claws…. Yea… I'm not really weak, but I got my shit beaten out of by him one sidedly."

"And considering the fact that I cannot trust either first prince and second prince, nor their factions or even talk at all, since it could alarm the Doctor, that left me with only one option. You."

"And the reason for the contract was to keep you shut up about me."

"If Doctor finds out about who gave the informations, I will be fucked and if either first prince or the second prince are really traitors, then I will be fucked even more."

"So, here is my reason as well as my informations."

"Anything else? Do you have any other questions, you want to ask?"

"…..."

"Please wait a moment." – said princes.

Princes called over one of the knights in the room to her side, before then whispering something to him and then having him leave the room.

Moments later, the knight came back to the room and put down a punch with coins right in front of Phantasia.

"Here. A payment." – said princess.

"…."

"This wasn't the part of the deal, you know?" – said Phantasia.

"Yea. I know. But the informations you have provided us with is quiet valuable." – said princess.

"So, if you don't want to consider it as payment, just consider it at gift."

"…."

"Fine. I will." – said Phantasia while taking the pouch filled with coins.

"Is there anything else you want to talk about?"

"Hm…...No. But curios. Will you be staying in this city? Panter city?" – asked the princes.

"No…. Honestly, the plan was to go to the Orca city, since I wanted to get my hands on the water elemental magic gems and crystals…. But as you can see…The entire plan went to hell." – replied Phantasia.

"I will probably stay few days here, but out of sight, since I don't want anybody finding out me being here, since people may come to conclusion that I have somewhat came and join your faction or something."

"I want to quickly find a new location where I can find an interesting materials, like the Wolf city had and as soon as I find out, I will set off and probably won't say my byes when I leave this place, so sorry if I'm disrespectful."

"Don't worry." – said princess.

"I won't bother you for now, but check on the adventurer guild from time to time, since there is an option, we may consider using your name."

"Understand."

Moments later, Phantasia left the room before then leaving the mansion through the back entrance.

However, after he left, the entire room was filled completely with silence and nothing more than gaze that were exchanged between the people in the room.

"…."

"What do you think about it duke Magan?" – spoken up princess Elizabeth.

"…. Honestly, this is a lot to take it." – said the duke.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"We obtained some lead that could possible give us an suspects regarding the Doctor identity, but we cannot talk about it since it could result in him getting alarmed just like Phantasia said."

"There is a problem regarding the first prince and the second prince."

"They are both suspects, but we don't know if they are really traitors or not."

"And even if both them are not, then there is still good chance that somebody in our kingdom is if not is a part of either factions."

"However, his informations regarding the second prince theory and the way he acted has thrown a bit of stuff into the table."

"We don't know if the second prince said the truth or not, but the fact remains that the Doctor had really appeared in the kingdom."

"Not only that, but there is a fact that the prince was trying to manipulate Phantasia into joining him and that makes him suspicious, considering the fact that he didn't wanted to head on recruit him, but manipulate him and hide stuff from him."

"Unfortunately, both of them are way too suspicious and I can't tell myself who is more."

"Same…. Shit." – said princess.

"…."

"Still. We had obtained something finally!"

"We didn't exactly obtained a huge lead, but a small one, but still, we finally obtained something!"

"Not only that, but we confirmed that the Doctor isn't working alone."

"There is also the fact that either of my brothers could be the traitors to our own kingdom and this isn't some light matter that can be overlooked."

"If either of my brothers are really traitors…. Then this isn't good."

"A war may end up erupting at this rate…...We need to do something about it."

"Agree…Should we inform the king? He maybe be dying, but his world still caries power." – suggested duke.

"No. We don't have any evidence or anything like that." – said the princess.

"If anything, there could be a chance that there is a member of either factions among high ranking officers. What if they find about it and warn their factions who could possibly turn out to be traitors?"

"We cannot risk it…. We have to gather the evidence and prepare ourselves if we want to save this kingdom."

"Are you with me duke Magan?"

"Yes. You have my full support princess." – replied duke.

"Good."

"Then let's save this kingdom together from the upcoming chaos!"