Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Ibro regretted his lack of beta stones, or else he could own these NPCs for good. He didn't worry, though, as he planned to use this city as a main point to rally all the other legendary cities in other worlds, and also he planned to link it to his empire.

"Show me the way to the teleportation portal."

Although Ibro gained control over this city, he couldn't control the portal himself as he wasn't actually part of the game here, so he needed the help of Remon who led the way to the teleportation gate. 

Throughout the way, Remon had sent many messengers to find his men and rally his armies, as he knew this chance wouldn't come easily. 

He heard about Ibro's fame and he knew someone as strong as Ibro wouldn't lack his followers, so he needed to work hard and use this chance to get as many benefits as he could. Once they arrived at the teleportation portal, Ibro then ordered:

"Search for a city named Gortan and ask for establishing a connection with it."

Remon was about to ask what this city was exactly, but he didn't. His status in Ibro's empire was still fresh, so it was wise not to risk anything for now. Remon then started to control this portal as he searched for a city with this name. 

The new links between worlds in this universe had made the list of available cities to be connected with very long, but as he had the name of the city, he found it quite easy and fast. Once he sent a connection request, it was approved in seconds, to find someone appearing from the portal.

"My king, it's you, my king. Lord Gorsag and Lord Erond were searching all over the place for you."

Once that man exited the portal, he recognized Ibro, so he knelt down and said this comment which piqued Ibro's interest. These two would never look for him for nothing, as he already told them about his moves away from his empire. Ibro then ordered:

"Go back and bring them here, also relay my orders to Rinobak, I want all the beta stones he gathered so far. Also send for my alpha death knight, I want him to come here too."

"Immediately, my king," the man replied as he re-entered the portal again and vanished there. Remon stood on the side watching all this, as his previous assumptions turned out to be true. 

Ibro already had his men in this universe, but he wasn't in contact with them so far. That made Remon feel anxious as he gathered his courage and asked:

"My king, May you send my men out to the gate world once I gather them?"

Ibro understood the intentions of this old experienced NPC, but he didn't have any objection for that except for the lack of his beta stones. As he would gain a lot of these stones, Ibro wasn't yet ready to let them go into the gate world now. 

As he was about to refuse, the portal flashed as a group of men appeared in it, they were his empire pillars. 

Ibro looked in surprise towards Gorsag, Erond, Rinobak, and his alpha death knight, as he didn't expect them to come with this speed. That meant only one thing, they were already gathered at the city, and that had only one meaning.

"What happened at my empire?"

Erond replied at once as he felt the worry of Ibro:

"Don't worry, my king, all the news we have is good."

Ibro felt some relief, but there still some doubt lingering inside him, so he asked:

"If so, then why were all of you gathered at Gortan city?"

"That's because we were facing a dilemma that we couldn't decide, so I gathered all of them to look for your news, my king."

Ibro was confused, so he then said to Rinobak:

"Do you have beta stones with you right now?"

"Yes, here are all the storage rings that had the entire stones that we produced in the last period."

Ibro took more than three storage rings that looked strange to him, as they were all bigger than the traditional storage rings he used to obtain. 

Ibro then looked into the content of each ring to feel more surprise, each ring didn't contain any stones, but they were all filled to the brim with storage rings. Ibro looked towards Rinobak who explained:

"We had huge amounts of cores that were sent to us from you, my king, before you disappeared. Gorsag moved to me a huge amount lately which I used to produce all of these stones."

Ibro recalled the three years he spent in Maya's world, as he kept sending the cores his skeletons gathered to Gorsag before going with Bilarn to this city to attend the auction. 

This was good news for him, as he had a whole universe he needed to control and a huge number of NPCs waiting for his orders inside his worlds. Ibro then asked Remon:

"How many men will you bring with you?"

Remon was hesitant as he was shocked like Ibro by the rapid response of Ibro's men, but when Ibro asked him he replied:

"I intend to bring the main army of the city, and if you may I can gather more armies from strong cities here in this world and other worlds as well."

Ibro smiled as he said trying to calm down the anxious Remon:

"Don't be this tense, I have no plans to control any village there, so don't think you are in a competition with my men, as you already became one of them already."

"Thanks for your trust, my king," although Ibro had explained the current situation to him, he couldn't be fully relieved as major things were on stake here. Remon then said:

"My men are ready to move, we are ready to follow your orders, my king."

Ibro noticed the appearance of huge number of NPCs through his divine sense. He felt admiration to the efficiency Remon here had, as he managed to gather all these troops in a very short time.