Chapter 24 – No luck.

(No matter what option I can think or the course of action, it will end up in failure.) – though Phantasia while hiding inside his base.

(I though the materials I got from the new monsters would give me something…. But nope.)

(The only good thing I did was to make potion that restore HP and MP using the woodman materials.)

(Fuck me…... I thought that I would at least get something by now, but nothing came up…. I even wrote down any good ideas' downs…. But nope.)

(To make matters worse, the weakness became public, well it was obvious, but soon the plague will disappear completely in the matters of hours or maybe minutes.)

(Fuck me.)

(I mean, I still have time, since they need to recover and all, but still, I have zero clue what I should do now.)

(Using plague again is out of question, since it would be both not effective at all and would expose me to the danger.)

(I leveled up a lot and even increased my skills levels as well AND even class levels.)

(But am I strong enough now?)

(With the entire day of griding and murdering people, I managed to reach level 45.)

(I could have probably reached higher level, if I other people didn't hunted in that area before me.)

(The current situation is extremely shit and I've still did not discover any means of overcoming my dire situation.)

(I'm straight up FUCKED.)

(Maybe I thought of impossible.)

(I did got stronger, but there is no way a newbie like me can destroy the city even though I started playing only recently like all others people.)

(Let's face it.)

(I lost.)

(The only thing that could harm the city was my plague.)

(But because I cannot create anything powerful yet, the plague can be easily gotten rid off.)

(The situation is…. Fucked up.)

"…."

"Let's think bit more."

There is gunpowder in the city, right? Then what if I stole it and make a bomb?

….

Nah., I doubt I would have enough explosives or something.

Can I somehow use the monsters around the city?

….

Nope.

Even if I were to increase my [Taming Mastery] and the [Necro Mastery], there would be still a limit of what I can do.

Inject the water source and food?

Also, nope. I'm not some master assassin or something, I will get find out instantly.

How about selling potions that are injected…... No. This one is straight up stupid. It would say "Hey. I'm the "Doctor" bitches. Come and murder me while I'm exposing myself like a total idiot!"

Fuck me….

"…."

"Nope."

"I lost."

(I may have my special class, but the problem with it that I need to level up my other classes in order to level it up and finish the research.)

(Because I was forced to split my leveling up process into the multiple classes, I ended having lower class levels.)

(But it's not like I can change it now.)

(Beside, necromancer, summoner, tamer, blacksmith, I needed all of those classes badly. The poison mage and the alchemist alone weren't cutting it.)

(But fuck me…. I really can't do anything.)

(I though of every possible outcome and plans, and it always ended up in failure.)

(I may have succeeded if I waited patiently, leveled up like a normal person, but instead my stupid ass though I was ready and fucked up everything.)

(Fuck me… I'm a villain…. But one of those completely dumb ones by the look of fuking things.)

(….)

(So what now?)

(I fuking failed.)

(There is nothing I can do now.)

(None of my cards will work.)

(The only hope I would have would to max out the research and start the second research, maybe gaining something…... No, it wouldn't work.)

(I'm still low level and I don't have enough materials.)

(I fucked up way harder than I though.)

(Now not only I'm fuking wanted criminal, but I also didn't archived my goal because I got over confided like complete idiot.)

(What do I do now?) – though Phantasia while spinning on his chair.

"…"

(Should I abandon this place?)

(Just being here will put me in danger.)

"…."

(No.)

(I would need another spot to hide.)

(This is my workshop. The heart of my base.)

(Unless I would have another base that is well hidden AND I would also need time to move my things.)

(The current situation is way too annoying to me.)

(I cannot leave this place! I invested my money and time in order to repair and turn it into "MY BASE".)

(But this place sucks!)

(There is no high enough monsters left in this area nor a lot of different materials.)

(I reached the limit what I can do with this place.)

"…."

(Fuck me…... Do I really don't have any choice but to leave?)

(I can't take the fuking furnace and some stuff…. That would mean I would have to leave it…... FUCK ME!)

(Everything crumbles!)

"…."

'I guess I'm the real loser here…..."

"…."

(Lets'…. Let's just pack things up….)

Okay… I fuking admitted it.

I'm the fuking loser.

I lost.

The city is standing.

And I can't do anything to it.

Even if I make new plague, it will not work since it would be pathetic weak and easily exploited weaknesses since I'm still low level player and don't have any materials that would create plague deadly enough

So, yea… I'm the loser.

Well, not exactly.

I messed up the city completely and the people will have hard time growing in levels and skills, considering how much I fucked the city.

So pretty much I may have still some upper hand since I can go away now and start hunting on the higher level areas, getting ahead of other players.

So, it's not that all…. Well, it's terrible, but I still have something?

But still…. Fuck me. I liked this base.

This was like my "Villain Hideout" and stuff.

But, its not like have an ability to turn this thing into some sort of mechanical golem monster and have it walk…. Huh…. Hey this is honestly good idea…. But is it worth it using one of the research?

…

Well, I can't do it anyway now, so lets just forget it for now.

I began taking the most important stuff I could.

I didn't taken any blacksmithing tools and instead only took the alchemy ones, since they are the most expensive and I don't know how long it would take for me to find another ones.

I also took the broken ones I haven't fixed yet, since maybe in future I will repair it.

But while I was panicking things up, I found something.

"Hm?"

(Oh…. Its one of those books that the crafter has written.) – though Phantasia while picking up the book that fallen off the shelf.

(Honestly, I was so busy nonstop that I never had time to read any of this.)

(….)

(Some of the book pages are ripped off. I guess he must have did that when he had that panic rampage thing when he completely lost it.)

(….)

(Yeb…. It's no good.)

(The book contains some stuff about crafting and all related to the alchemy…. But I don't think I encounter any of the materials that are listed here, so pretty much this I useless for me.)

(Well, he was a high class and high ranking item maker and I'm still at the bottom, so it kind of make sense that the stuff here wouldn't be much of use for me…. It seemed like he had stash of the materials before coming here and he used the illegal means of obtaining stuff he didn't had.)

(….)

(Well it was worth a try.)

(Still, lets just look he has here anyway and decide what to take and what to leave.)

(Let's see what we have here….)

(Dark cave mushroom found in the deep…. NOPE. This book is about some high grade materials that I don't have any access to.)

(….)

(This one is about the alchemy basics and some advantage stuff…. He probably kept it because of his poisoned memories…. Its probably good idea to take it with me.)

(…. Hm….?)

(?!)

"MOTHERFUCKER!"

"He fuking researched the monsters here?!"

(FUCK ME!)

(If I fuking knew that, I wouldn't fuking spend hours doing the research and all…. Fuuuucckkkk...)

(….)

"Anyway, he probably wanted to see if there was anything that could have helped him…. He though that the woodman materials could have been used for the antidote, but by the look of things it was nowhere near enough to even help him slightest."

(The overall research is the stuff I got if not the same.)

(I thought I would learn something new. Like how he could create some poison or special equipment using materials….)

"…"

"Also miss."

"Honestly I was kind of expecting something like an info about a monster that nobody knows in this area and only he did knew that that monster would have some materials that would save my ass."

"Well… More like I hoped desperately that one of these books would have something…. Honestly why the fuck I even got my hopes up?"

"What about this book?"

"…. He tore all the pages…...Okay…. Trash." – said Phantasia while throwing the book to the side.

(What about this one?)

(Magic circles making for dummies…. Huh. I may use that…. Maybe?)

(…. Never mind. Half of the pages are gone…. NICE.)

(For fuck's sake. Please don't tell me that beside destroying the most important alchemy tools and expensive ones, he also destroyed the most important and most expensive books as well?)

"…."

"Well, maybe I will find- "

[Few moments later.]

"FUCK!"

(There was really nothing that could have saved my ass!)

(For fuck's sake! I wish I had one of those random main character moments where they stumble onto something randomly that would fuking turn the situation around.)

"…"

(Well, I'm a villain and not the main protagonist…. Why the fuck I would though I would have a moment like that?)

"…." – Phantasia leaned back on his chair.

(Welp.)

(I hoped, but it failed.)

(I checked the books that guy had, but I found nothing that would have saved me.)

(NOTHING!)

(….)

(Welp.)

(I tried thinking of the way where I can win and tried also going through the previous owner of this place stuff and see if he had some sort of secret weapon that would blow up the entire city or something, but nope.)

"…."

"I guess I will be just a loser that has to suck it up and accept the reality."

"…."

"What did I ever done to deserve this?"