《Bugs》Book 2 Chapter 3
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Droso PoV
After entering VLO online and leaving Debbie the message in her lab I go into the Holy Land for some mediation. I set the alarm for 2 hours of meditation and then I wanted to work on cultivating my bugs.
Currently I lack some bugs in tier 2 which is easy enough to reach simply by feeding them well. The stronger the monster meat they eat the better.
Besides the Elemental Fire Fly group that will ultimately be feeding off the magic crystals as their main food source, I have put them to breed in large numbers. The bugs are all high potential bugs since they were made with my strongest Flare flies so I have no hesitation to make them breed until their life span reaches 1 day and they die at the end of the day.
Now the bugs I want to reach the point of tier 2 are Bullet Ant, Mantis and Dragonfly.
Bullet Ant is already something I solved before. They are already becoming stronger and larger in size compared to before due to the feeders work at breaking down the food and properly distributing it. The fatter they are the more food they can disperse so the larva gets bigger but unlike the other bugs the ants grow as one so I can’t have one or two growing faster at one time anymore.
But very unlike them the dragonflies and mantis are different.
Dragonfly place their eggs in what I have taken to calling, Birth ponds, because these are safe areas that are protected by enclosed thorny vines with small exits that only fit the dragon flies and no other bugs. Water Skid Blinkers place their larva eggs in trees so they hide theirs in safe spots.
Now to feed the young ones, dragonflies are easy. I simply tell the drone to gather meat and chop everything up and toss it inside. I do that 5 times a day. The number of nymphs at the moment are around 500 split in five ponds of 100.
I noticed that dragonflies have a slow level up process unlike other bugs and you need a constant amount of food for them. It’s really rough on the hunting bugs like spiders since every 5 corpses, 1 is taken for them.
Now the mantis, they are a bit annoying, they come inside an egg case and number around 25 each case. In the real world that number is around 100.
Anyway it takes 3 days of incubation and then 5 days before adulthood.
To feed them is tricky because their nature as an infant is to find food and shelter. If food is low then they may attack siblings.
Anyway the meat is grinded almost into paste for them and left in a pile in the forest and I use my biting Midges to carry these baby mantis over to it and drop them in the pile.
The ones that have around 2 days can still be used to make something ranked higher because mantis have a slow leveling speed as well.
Anyway with the pile filled with them we leave them to eat.
The three bugs in question are giving lots of food so that they can grow faster.
As i was watching over it i felt for the first time what a call for help from the hive mind. My head travelled to the source and saw Flor and the topaz royal guard.
Flor PoV
I had a lot of success. The weapons were okay and I could sell some swords and most of my bows which are the best weapons I make.
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On the other hand, I didn't have enough potions to sell. I literally hit a jackpot here. It seems there are lots of poisonous monsters here because it's near a swamp.
There are lots of fish based monsters and some lizard kind as well and most are poisonous in one way or another so my potions were a blessing.
After finding this out, thankfully on the first sale when the guys blurted it out, I was able to give the potions proper pricing for the value they have here.
It goes without saying that my potions are high quality. I can guess how the npc antidotes were made. Get either a herb or the poison of a monster and mix it with healing herbs. That is the normal direction it takes.
Anyway the total I got was around 24 silver coins. Going with the 10 remaining silver coins I have after purchasing the rare herbs, I gained over 34 silver coins in a day. I guess demand and supply is a good thing. I can rack in a lot of cash here.
With most of the potions sold but not many weapons, I store up the weapons and start packing up.
The Topaz Spider walks over after being gone a while.
It walks on the ground and makes a circle and two lines and begins poking holes all around.
"So that group is camping the village huh. This is going to be a pain." I mutter.
Muscle heads and dickheads normally always hold a grudge. In larger groups they simply wait and attack someone leaving a town.
I don't know if Droso has finished his meditation but he did say notifications and messages were off so even then he wouldn't receive it since he turned them off.
"Might as well run back." I mutter and begin getting things read.
As I reach the village gates I already see a man waiting while leaning on a tree.
"Climb on Bink." I tell the spider and he crawls up onto my back.
I then take out a potion I made with dead gale strider wings and powdered wind crystals.
Gale Wing Potion
A potion made from parts of a wind affinity bug. The wings of this bug represent speed and the magic of the wind element further strengthens this. This potion will temporarily coat the drinker's body in a wind element aura and wind resistance will decrease as well as increasing agility.
Increase agility by 5% duration 5 minutes.
Decrease air resistance by 15% duration 5 minutes.
One of the gems of my work. The bugs don't have a long life span, especially those used for breeding so when the bugs die, after I requested it, the bodies of the bugs were unloaded for me to use.
Some bugs have magic properties so their body makes great alchemy ingredients and the result is this beauty.
I start walking towards the place the hive would be and I see the man follow.
At once I start running and get ready for another potion I discovered.
Stamina Potion
A potion that recovers the stamina of the drinker.
300 stamina
I run at top speed and very quickly my stamina drops down to lower levels. The man starts catching up and a few others begin appearing.
As I drink the potion and store the bottle I shout "Now!". On cue the spider on my back shoots his web at the chaser.
It hits one of them but there are more and they are now alert.
I drank the Gale Wind Potion then another stamina potion because now scouts and rogue class players had appeared.
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I feel the wind flowing easier around me and my speed increases as the weight of the wind decreases.
For five minutes I am able to keep pace with the agility based classes but suddenly an arrow flies from the woods and hits my thigh making me crash on the ground and throwing off the spider who used his web to catch a nearby branch and stabilize itself.
It quickly dropped down and shot a web above me, catching an incoming arrow.
Finally he jumped in front of me, hissing at the men.
"So the shitty spider wants to fight. Come then webslinger!" One rogue says as he pulls out a pair of daggers.
What happens next leaves everyone dumbfounded.
The topaz spider lifts its two front legs and leaves them forward while fixing its six legs to support its body. The two legs begin glowing and change shape slightly. It was only after the glow vanished that we saw what happened. The two front legs had turned into two topaz colored scythe like blades.
The spider hisses and rushes forward at the rogue and jumps forward swinging its new blade arms at the rogue. Sadly the spider was by itself while it was a communal spider. The stats matched the habits making him weak by himself.
Still a loud clang rings out but the rogue simply pushes back throwing the spider away.
"Pff ahahahah is that all!?!? What a joke!" The man said but the next second he had to dodge because of an arrow that ended up in his right shoulder. I had taken the time he was distracted with the spider to fire a cruel shot.
I had taken poison of all types from Droso's bugs, that included the Scavenger wasp and this was the result.
The pain kicked in instantly and the man fell on the ground gripping the arrow.
I examined the poison and knew just how evil it is but you reap what you sow and fighting me will end badly.
Still that didn't stop the others. Seeing one man down and my bow, they were angry and began to rush but the spider jumped and shot a wide web to hit them all while barely slowing them down and at best only irritated them.
One or another fell from the webs and it bought us time. Time enough for the spider to land and do something really strange now.
Its blades returned to arms and then it's abdomen expanded and it let out a high pitched screech that had an almost complex series of hisses, high pitched tones and other noises. I was more than certain there was a heavy release of pheromones from him but i have no idea what he would have said.
[DEBBIE!! What the hell is going on!?!?] I suddenly heard Droso's message.
I connect quickly and reply.
[Group of perv players tried to pick me up in the village!! Please come help!] I shout back.
Most of my friends and colleagues know the result of people like these trying to ask me out. If they come gently I let them off gentle. If they are dickheads then they will see my fury.
The message didn't return but I knew he was coming now.
I start to try to get up while the spider starts shooting webs again.
He jumped forward to block one of the warriors getting close but was suddenly hit by the mace the man had and it flew into my chest knocking me back to the ground.
With the arrow in my leg I couldn't move, situations like this are what make VR games more unpredictable.
Dissections of limbs, penetrations like this that cross the entire leg and deep mortal wounds. Most of this stuff makes fights realistic and dangerous but thankfully the pain sensors were at 20% for everyone.
I looked down and saw the spider was injured and was trying to get up.
I started to drag my body back but my leg was stepped on by someone.
The person in question was dickhead.
"Well, well darling. Ready to join our group?!" He said with a disgusting grin on his face.
"Pig dicks like you should die in the worst ways possible." I shout.
"A shame, still i will make sure you fall completely in love with me. Once we are done with you, all you will think of is..." he says grabbing my arm and lifting me up before putting his left hand in my shirt's collar and giving a strong pull. "...how much you'll want to spread your legs, bitch!!!"
RRRRIIIIPPP!!!
My leather chest armor and the bandages I use to decrease the size of bust completely rip revealing the full size of my bust.
All the men laugh and some whistle. The dick head holding both my arms up with one hand then grabs my pants and unbuckles it and shoves it down leaving me bare.
This is the second problem with the VR world... man's cruelty appears in full force.
"Fuck!!! I knew I was right to try and get you! You're the type that hides a banquet well!!” He said as he.
He was really tall and completely lifted me off the ground.
As his hands float it goes down towards my legs but thank the programmers.
You are about to engage in sexual activities. Do you accept?
"HELL NO!!" I shout, making the dickheads hand freeze by an unknown force.
"You bitch!! An overripe bitch still thinks she should be choosing!! You’re lucky us good men saw something in you or you would still be alone!!" He shouted as he pushed his hand against the force and finally got through and stabbed my lower mouth with his finger.
The player Fredrick has gained PK status for the accused crime!
Rape
"FUCK! Now I will make sure to relish this even more you bitch!! You made me gain PK status!!" He shouted.
"That is the least you deserve!" I said and spit on his face.
His eyes filled with rage and I looked and saw his eyes had turned red. This was the mark of the PK. It was a glowing red that character customization didn't do to distinguish PK.
He throws me to the ground naked before pulling back his arm and slapping my face making me drop further.
"Hey boss! Don't kill her or it will be a serious pain later." One man said.
"Yeah, i know! Let’s get off the road and enjoy ourselves." He said with that disgusting grin.
He grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back and pulled me into the bush. They had kicked the spider off me a long time ago and it was simply lying there barely moving.
When we were about a hundred meters in they threw me on the ground and the man pulled off his pants. Not only him but all of them.
It was like a nightmare, all of them were going to rape me!! Droso...
"DROSO!!!"
"Bahahahhaha!! Did she have a boyfriend! This is hilarious now shut up up bitch and take it like a good slut!" He shouts and lifts his hand to slap me but suddenly several dozen strings of spider web wrap around his arm and pulls it tightly away from him making it lift straight out.
"WHA!! More spiders!!" The dickhed shouted.
As he goes to grab his sword to cut the string several more strings hit his other arm and both legs. Suddenly a barrage of strings hit him and the other men who started to go on the alert.
The dickhead had both arms and legs locked and as soon as he felt them go tight his body was raised up into the air.
Several of his men also got caught like him while others were tied only by the leg and flipped upside down before the arms were locked in place.
"Let me go!! Shit you fucking spiders!!" The dickhead shouted.
"Shut… up!" A voice filled with malice said.
There was a low crunching sound from the leaves being crushed under someone's feet. He came from behind until he was standing over me.
My eyes were filled with tears as I looked up at him.
He crouched and lifted my head.
"I'm here so just rest now and forget this. I'll make sure to teach them a proper lesson." Droso said.
"Wait? Boss, didn't the bounty poster in the village say searching for some player called Droso?" One man said.
"Huh… oh right." The dickhead said.
"Wah!! Leon!!! You idiot come faster!!!! Look what that dickhead did to me!!!!" I suddenly broke down crying as I hugged Droso tightly burying my face.
"Tch, what a cheap soap opera." The dickhead said and spit on Droso. It actually landed on the back of his head.
Before the man could think another thought a swarm of spiders came from the trees hissing and shooting their webs and weaving it into a cage for the man's arms and legs. After a moment it became impossible to free himself from this cage of webs.
"Flor go back to the hive for now… I don't want you to see what I'm going to do." Droso tells me.
Droso opens a portal under me making me fall inside before I could say anything.
***
Droso slowly went up after that but his steps were uneven and his body rocked back and forth.
"You know… I have felt a very uncontrollable rage two times since I entered this game..." Droso said. "The first time was part of a quest to advance my class a bit and the second time I became too stressed. Both times I took beating up some monster or animals but for some reason..." he said and turned to the dick head.
The tied up man suddenly turned ghostly pale.
Droso's eyes that normally only shined a bit red when in a rage were completely different from any human eye. The white part of his eyes had turned pure black and his iris was shining a bloody red. His body released so much killing intent that half the men around him pissed themselves.
"...for some reason, my anger, I can barely control it you know." He finished.
His head fell a bit and slowly a grin showed up on his face and he began giggling.
"Heh… heheh.... hahahahahahaha... GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! This rage!! Leon you bastard you seriously shut down!!! Well that's better...'' The sudden change clearly showed a completely different person was standing there.
"W-who are you..." the dickhead said trembling.
"Me?" He said tilting his head before a slow bloodthirsty grin spread over his face appeared. "My name… I have none but to you bastards, I'm your worst nightmare."
The made glowing eyes shined more as a small portal appeared next to the man.
The sound of a wasps nest coming into action came from the portal and a swarm of 300+ scavenger wasps appeared.
"Let me tell you fucking bastards something. Though I'm not some lovey dovey fuck like the other guy who gets sentimental over small stuff but let me say the things I hate and the things ‘he’ hates are the same. And you guys we both hate down to our core." The man said.
At this time every last one of them was trying to log off but because of the spiders they were considered in combat and couldn't log out.
"Let me share some information with you. These wasps aren't deadly. You can't really die of poisoning from them. But they still do have poison." He said and with a thought, a single scavenger wasp flew to each man. They all tried to get free but to no avail.
The wasps flew and landed on each of their dicks and walked until they were on top with their stinger pointed at the head.
"You see..." he continued seeing as they were in place. "The poison they possess is purely a defense poison that causes excruciating pain. Not only that, these little bastards are sadistic in the fact that they don't sting once and are gone but sting dozens of times. Let me show you." He said and with a snap of his finger all the wasps that were on the men stung them.
The howls they gave off were howls of pain and anguish far worse than a pig when it is being killed by a butcher.
The men squirm in pain as the wasp stung them a dozen times before the man in Droso's body made them stop.
All the men were now in tears crying with snot starting to appear. They kept trying to move just to make their dicks rub to try and relieve the itch and pain but this caused more pain.
Slowly their entire dicks became swollen because the pain stimulated their dicks even if they didn't feel like it.
"As expected of a group of dickheads. You get off at being M and injected with poison meant solely for M." He said.
He wasn't even grinning anymore.
With another gesture two wasps went to each man's testicles, one each ball. At once they all sting the men together and an even worse sound came from all the men.
Before anything else could be done to them something appeared in front of the man.
A glow shined and a beautiful woman appeared. It was the GM that had appeared before Droso when he reported the stalking.
"Mr. Droso, please either kill these men or release them. Torture is a serious crime that can get you jail time in real life." She said.
‘He’ just looked at her and tilted his head.
"And what of rape?" He said in a frigid tone. "They were going to rape and get off easy after traumatizing my friend?" He said.
...
The GM couldn't rebuke his claim. All criminal actions are recorded by the system and processed. Theft and stuff aren't really worried about because rogue and thief classes do that. Same with player killing but rape causes players to gain a seriously high level of PK status and torture can even ban and get jail time.
She sighs and finally looks him in the eye and becomes scared.
"Y-you're not the player Droso! WHO ARE YOU!?!?" She shouted.
"So you finally notice. Let me see… I would say that I am every last speck of rage, hate and darkness inside this man. He shut down when I began to take shape and so, here I am." He tells her.
"Dual personality!! That’s...!" She began.
"Anyway, since I don't have a reason to imprison this guy let's get this over with." He said with a snap of his fingers.
The spiders all rushed forward and encased all the men while injecting a large amount of poison that rapidly depleted the dick head groups hp until they died. After that they were dragged into the hive for the two spider hives.
"You can go, I did what you said and let them off easy but make sure to correct this and make the punishment system stricter or much worse will happen next time." He said as the black eyes slowly turned white.
He opened a portal as he let himself be returned to the darkness and Droso came back out but still unconscious.
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