In day 85 of the Death simulation we entered the 4th part of the maze. The 4th part of the maze was a desert, we fought various types of mutated desert animals to get to the dungeon. By the 6th day we got to the dungeon, after an several hours of hiking while clearing mobs we finally reached it. The outskirts of the dungeon was like an Egyptian ruin, the ruins of a civilisation. Pillars made of stone everywhere, some still standing, some which have fell, some which have cracked in half. Whatever it was, it sure as hell didn’t make me feel safe. Surrounding the dungeon, there was several types of stealth mobs, such as Ruin Snakes, which had poison effects that would make you feel unpleasant, and sand scorpions who’s sting has a AOE effect. In the middle of the dungeon, there was a door. However unlike other dungeons, instead of going up it led us to go down. Inside the dungeon were various types of mummies, a variation of the sands scorpions which were larger and more fierce named the Dungeon Scorpion, dungeon dwellers which were made out of stone and had green air flowing out of them and other creepy monsters that you would only see in horror movies
This is day 104, the Crimson Vigilante’s haven’t been back in our inn ever since we first arrived inside the dungeon 9 days ago. The path back to the nearest town to the dungeon would take us an average of 5 hours to get to, while also looking out for the stealthy mobs outside of the dungeon door. So we decided to stay here, until we found the boss room. As we walked through and mapped the last floor, we found the boss room. Inside there was a enormous tomb, the tomb was golden and blue, it was enormous. We couldn’t even tell what was inside, so we decided to head back after all we were already level 180+ and had the highest grade weapons and armour we could get from here possible. We were positive that we were far ahead of everyone else, and perfectly ready for the boss fight. We wanted to get a rest for one or two days, then tell everyone to raid the boss, however something unexpected happened..
A child ran up to us, once we exited the teleporter and cried out: “Crimson Vigilantes! Please help us!” I was confused, what could possibly happen in the lower level floors like the second and third floor? I ventured on and asked: “What happened?” He replied: “Ever since we entered the 4th part, there has been reports of players being killed by other players. I’ve always thought that no one would want to kill others in this simulation. But I was wrong, it appears those people do exist, and a society named the Dark Fist has appeared killing players. There has been over 2000 players killed already by the Dark Fist.” Said the young child. For me, I would use to think player killing was fun. It was joyous sometimes to kill other players then laugh about it. But in this simulation, where death is actual death I would never imagine to even kill others. He then said: “None of the guilds have helped us because they thought it was a waste of their time.” I asked: “Do you have any evidence?” He then took out a crystal and a video began playing. It was horrible, Hailey and Rosie were both in tears after he shown us. He then said: “That was my group of friends.. we were farming in the third part dungeon and then.. They came and only I escaped.. Please! I don’t want this to happen to anyone else!” Hailey while in tears and stroking the young boy’s hair said: “We’ll help you.. It’s horrible that they’re doing such things.”
As we all returned to our inn, Rosie was in tears as Searing allowed her to hug him as he comforted her. Hailey was sobbing, but not as much and she seemed more determined to stop this than to cry. I said to everyone: “Tomorrow, we follow a group of vulnerable players and hit part 3, we’ll find some of these Dark Fist and get them to tell us their secret hideout. Since they are player killers, according to the manual, player killers are not allowed in safe zones as a invisible wall will not let them in. Killing player killers will not make us player killers. To know if someone is a player killer just check if there is the word “PK” above their name coloured in red, if there is then they’re a definite player killer, since if it’s yellow then they probably only did it once or twice and it will come off eventually. Since they’re not allowed in safe zone their hideout must be in a place outside of the towns. We’ll hopefully make them surrender, and realise that what they’re doing is wrong. So everyone get some sleep.” Everyone nodded as we all headed towards our respective rooms.
As morning approached, the lousy alarm came along and I managed to get up in time. After I did my morning activities, I got out of my room and went to Hailey’s room for breakfast as usual. We had breakfast, then started to move out. We waited at the teleporter for a guild, and we eventually that had 12 people, 8 boys and 4 girls and semi good gear which was from part 3 of the maze, enough to sell for alot. The guild were kids that ranged from 12-14, and we all didn’t feel good for stalking them, but we had to. We closely followed the kids, while heading in the bushes whenever the looked back. The kids had fun, something we didn’t have being the clearers. They were carefree, and were leveling up normally. It was almost like they forgot that this was a death simulation, not a standard VRMMORPG. But, I dared not lecture them in this bush for we were waiting for the PKers to come out. As the hours passed by, we slowly began to give up hope for waiting for the PKers to come out and fight. However, at around 4pm after the 12 kids finished fighting a Kobold outside the dungeon 25 people which were at least level 90 by my assumption leapt out and told the kids to drop their weapons. By my guess, the PKers were mostly 18. After the kids dropped their weapons, they were chained up and bought away.. Strange, why would they do that? They had no way to know that we were here..
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As we followed these men towards their lair, we found out that they were hiding in a cave where there was no monsters.. Jingxi silently said: “Strange, I never knew there was a monster free cave in these parts..” Terry replied: “Yeah.. What’s going on?” I shrugged, as we walked through the caves we noticed a mass array of.. Clothing and Armour? But.. if you die the armour and clothing you wear on you disappears along with you.. And all of those clothing and armour were female only.. Not to mention outside safezone there was no [NSFW Restriction]. Peaches seemed to catch on as she said: “Those bastards.. I’ll get them for doing this to young girls..” As arrived to where they stopped began to observe what they were doing. All the children were made to go down on their knees as the 25 males began to lick their lips. I heard one, which was probably their leader say: “Nice catch, we got 7 of em. Dispose of the rest.” Right after that, the entrance closed and he looked at our direction and said: “You should surrender, you’re screwed. There’s 9 of you and 50 of us. We got you trapped, you may be higher levels but there’s no way one of you can take on five of us. At that moment, I saw 25 more players come from behind us, surrounding us. Revealing ourselves, I shouted out: “I’m the leader of the Crimson Vigilante’s, Jason Gantic.” The man who seemed to be their leader, took off his hood to reveal a face with a scar, and dark red spiky hair. And said: “Aren’t you guys the head guild for the clearers, or are you just posers. There’s no way a clearer guild would be all the way out here.” I replied: “There’s only one way to find out.” After that the Hooded Dark Fist men took out their weapons and fought us. We were constantly fighting one on five, or one on six. Exhausting our energy constantly by using sword skills. They were fighting like bloodthirsty creatures, with their lust for blood guiding them to fight us. I said to everyone: “EVERYONE! DON’T HOLD BACK, THESE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING WITH THE INTENT TO KILL, OUR ONLY CHANCE TO BEAT THEM IS IF WE FIGHT WITH THE SAME INTENT.” After I yelled that, their numbers continuously began to lower as we started to clear them off one by one. As I cleared my final opponent I looked over at Hailey’s direction, she was fighting her last one as well. As she used her sword skill Infinity Slashes to take on the last opponent she had, the leader of the enemy revealed a two handed great sword and attempted to use a sword skill to kill Hailey. If she was hit, I knew she would die. So I yelled: “HAILEY! WATCH OUT!” However, it was too late.. The temporary movement restriction penalty of her skill restricted her from moving. As if acting by natural instinct, I charged in and took her to my arms while blocking the sword skill the leader had unleashed. As he backed down, I put down Hailey to the ground, she was scared.. After all, it was like her life flashed back on her eyes as the sword skill came towards her. I broke her out of the trance she was in by saying: “It’s alright now, I won’t let him hurt you.” After that she began to sob as she cried out: “Gan.. Tic.. Qian.. Bei..” As I took my stance, the leader said: “Trying to show off to a girl ain’t gonna do you no good. Drop your weapons or Imma going to make sure you have a painful death.” I replied: “I’m not showing off, I’m only doing whats right for all the kids you killed.” He then said after that: “In my days, I heard a lot of them kids who stand up for girls say that. But guess what, everyone of them that did.. Got a good punching from my fist. And you’re going to be no different.” After he said that, he charged towards me. I skilfully dodged his attack, and used the in game skill “Energy Slash” and got his hp down to nearly zero. He dropped down to the floor and cried out: “PLEASE! I DON’T WANT TO DIE.. I’LL DO ANYTHING.” After he begged us I said: “Drop your weapon, we’re going to escort you towards the 3rd floor rental prison in the 3rd town there. Where I’m going to lock you up for your crimes. Don’t worry I’ll pay for all your food and you won’t starve to death. But you won’t be leaving there until the end of the simulation.” Luke said: “I’ll escort him there, and I’ll sell his weapon for money.” Peaches then spoke up and said: “I’m going too, I want to see this pedophile creep locked up myself.” We all nodded as Peaches took his great sword and Luke put his sword on the man’s neck. I then went to the children and asked them.. Are you alright? It’s going to be alright now, you can take any weapons you want from here and go farm.” After I said that their faces brightened up as they chirped: “Ok mister!” I pointed them to the exit of the cave as they all happily ran off with all the weapons they could carry. I decided to take the remaining weapons here and take them back so we could sell them. As I told the remaining of the Crimson Vigilante’s to do whatever they wanted with the rest of the remaining weapons, something happened. The leader managed to trip Luke and then grab his greatsword back from Peaches’s hand. He then proceeded to point the sword at Peaches’s neck while disarming her as he said: “Nobody move, or else this woman dies.” We all stood still… As he said: “Ha, you’re foolish enough to not know how to sacrifice a comrade. You all are going to leave here and leave me and this young lady to our own business, that is unless you want her to die..” I shouted out: “Damn you..”