Is this really a Game?!

“Mine mine mine mine!!!!” Shadow lunges at the daggers while everyone laughs at his reaction. The daggers were truly a spectacular sight. The olive green metal was twisted at the handle and smoothened out for the blade. The two blades were quite different from each other, both by design and size.

One looked like how you would imagine a dagger to be, a short handle with a blade a bit longer than that of a kitchen knife. The sharp edge looked menacingly under the light as the green color gave it a bit of an evil aura. The back of the blade was thicker than the edge by about 1mm and had beautiful engravings on it.

The other dagger however was shorter and had small serrations on the edge that were similar to shark teeth. The serration would make it difficult for foes to remove the dagger once it was stabbed as the pain and damage it could cause while coming out would truly be great.

“What?” Shadow suddenly exclaims as he looks at the daggers in his hands. Before the others could ask him what the problem was the daggers shone with a dark green light as they disappear. Everyone was surprised but once again before they could ask Shadow what had happened the same light shines on both of his hands as the daggers once again appear.

“Shadow, what just happened?” Reign asks Shadow who had a silly smile on his face. 𝒃𝒆𝙣𝒐𝒗𝙚𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝒎

[Answering the player.] The system suddenly spoke.

[Every item of rank A and above has a soul bind function where the item and the user will merge. With a simple thought, the item will be stored in the body of the user via a mark that will appear on a body part. The bonuses given by the item will be present even without taking the item out.]

Everyone widened their eyes at the system’s explanation. That was actually something they had all worried about before, what would happen if somebody ever stole their items, now they had the answer as higher tier ones could simply be stored inside of them, making theft impossible.

“But still, the bonuses and everything is nice, but why don’t these have any skills?” Shadow looks down on the daggers while spinning them around. The poison they would inflict on an enemy and the debuffs sound great, but without knowing how potent they are it didn’t seem like the rank A weapons were that great.

Shadow slashes down at the floor and a gash was immediately made, he didn’t even feel any obstruction from the iron as the dagger cuts it. The cut even had some green liquid around it that slowly corroded the iron and made it smoke. Looking at the daggers he channels mana in an attempt to see how they would respond to it. Immediately the green liquid oozes out of it. It was the poison, well it was better to call it acid as it immediately made a hole in the floor after falling a bit fell down. Shadow gulps as he imagines his enemies that would face such a terrifying weapon. Even blocking his attacks should be hard as their weapons wouldn’t last long right?

“Damn, that really is lucky.” Reign clicks his tongue as he looks at Shadow who was now laughing maniacally.

“Don’t you talk about unfair mister!” Shadow immediately stopped laughing and pointed at Reign. ” You’re the one that has an S rank ability and a broken S grade sword, you’re the luckiest out of all!”

Reign scratches the back of his head as he starts whistling while looking in the air. He turns around and slowly walks towards the other items, ignoring the angry rant of Shadow behind him.

“The bracelet is the only thing really useful to us, you guys can decide who gets it, I don’t really need it as both my Willpower and Spirit are strong enough,” Reign says as he passes next to the items. Right now there was only one thing on his mind. Why did his Willpower increase by 10?

“Was it because of what happened in the illusion, not only that, even my race stat has changed, seems like the system doesn’t recognize me as a human anymore, but then, what am I?” Reign asks himself even though he already had an answer in his head. Beings that controlled both light and darkness, there’s not a lot of them in stories and mythologies, but perhaps he was wrong as the universe was an enormous place, who knows how many different races and species exist?

Everyone picks up the items as they slowly go down the stairs. Reign was still feeling the mana pull and he was confident that that’s where they will find the anchor point. Before doing that however Reign remembers one thing and asks the system.

“System, why don’t I see any stat bonuses for Greenie?”

Ding!

[The player didn’t state they would like to see the subordinate’s complete stats, would the player like to see the subordinate’s full status from now on?]

“Seriously, are you sure you simply didn’t forget to put the bonuses in?”

[Negative player 06, would you like to see the subordinate’s full status from now on?]

“Yeah, like I believe you, yes, the answer is yes.]

[Affirmative.]

Name: Greenie

Level: 18 ( 4 230 / 11 000 )

Race : Vajra Ogre (variant) (more info in the race menu)

Strength : 42 (44) ( + 2 from item )

Agility :34 (37) ( + 3 from item)

Endurance : 26 (29) ( + 3 from item )

Vitality : 26 (28) ( + 2 from item )

Willpower : 15

Spirit : 14

Proficiencies:

Pickaxe Proficiency C

Sword Proficiency B

Hammer Proficiency B +

Two-Handed Proficiency B +

Hand to Hand combat B +

Skills:

Shattering Punch

Dominating Slash

Crescent Kick

Shattering Stomp

Ability:

Vajra Might

Vajra Blood

Special :

Blessing from a tribe leader

[Monsters are different compared to players and as such the stats improved by their ability will not be counted separately.]

“Fine,” Reign says as he shuts the status window down. After a while they all exit the building, only to find hundreds of hobgoblins surrounding it. Everyone immediately gets into a fighting stance before calming themselves down once the hobgoblins start shouting and running away in fear. It seems that the monsters didn’t expect them to kill the boss and now they were truly afraid.

Reign goes forward as everyone follows after him. He was moving opposite of where they previously came, the mana pull was there. As Reign was walking his head suddenly felt dizzy, immediately he stopped and went down to a sitting position, the feeling was familiar and he knew what was about to happen. His consciousness goes away as he suddenly falls asleep, but only for a second. He opens his eyes and only darkness awaited him

“It’s… different.” Says Reign as he looks around, it was dark around him and he couldn’t see anything. Suddenly there was a small ray of light coming in front of him. He was able to see his hands moving as they pushed something away. More and more light was present and before he knew it he could see where he was.

“H-Hell?” Reign asks as his mind was in shock. After all how else could he describe the scene in front of him? Mountains of corpses littered the surroundings as rivers of blood were flowing between them. He now knew what the person he was inhabiting was pushing around, they were corpses as now he was standing on one of the many mountains around.

The corpses wore two different sets of armor. One was blues like the sky with ornaments on them, Reign could only imagine how grandiose the army was when they marched into battle. The other one was pitch black with many spikes and skulls on it. The army was definitely a dreadful one as the sight of something like that would put fear deep into the hearts of their enemies.

The soldier looks down as he inspects his blue armor. Blood was flowing through the gaps as he was injured from the great war he took part in before. Suddenly Reign was able to hear the soldier talk.

“Dead, all dead.” Tears slowly start falling down the soldier’s face as he takes his helmet off. In a fit of rage, he throws it down at the river of blood.

“And for what, FOR WHAT?!” He roars at the blood-red sky as his nails dig deep in his palms. Falling down on his knees he sobs as he looks at the battlefield around him.

“We fought for you, for what we believed in.” The soldier slowly takes his gauntlets off as he talks.

“And then you just leave us here to die huh?” The soldier asks in bewilderment as he looks up at the sky again. His tears had already stopped as he closes his eyes.

Drip.

A droplet of water falls on his face as he opens his closed eyes again. Drip by drip water fell on his face. A weak rain started falling down as the soldier suddenly starts laughing.

“Hahahaha, look my brothers, look.” His voice stops as he swallows the pain he felt deep inside of him. There was no one to answer him.

“It’s alright, you left us, decided we were trash that should die, laughing in your golden thrones as we die to protect you and the people we hold dear.” The soldier starts tearing the armor from his body as he speaks in a sorrowful voice.

“But look, you bastards!” He shouts.

“You laugh without care but look, here, even the heavens weep for us, for all that were foolish enough to believe you, to fight for you, to die f-..for you.” His strong voice becomes lower and lower as he talks, suddenly he looks in front of his, at the mountains made from the corpses of his enemies and comrades.

“It’s fine, if you don’t care then I won’t either, I will become a demon if that is what I must do to avenge them.”

A weak wind starts blowing on the battlefield as the soldier swears. The wind slowly picks up as it starts spinning around him, in mere seconds the weak wind was now a strong tornado that was destroying the mountains of corpses around the soldier. The soldier was in the middle of it as he was floating in a fetal position while a pitch-black ball of mana was surrounding him.

Bam!

An earthshaking explosion could be heard as the ball explodes and with her the tornado and the whole battlefield. The whole area was now a deep, pitch-black crater.

“Haaaaa!” Reign takes a deep breath as he returns to the dungeon, Shadow and the others were looking at him worriedly as he calmed himself down.

“Reign?” Shadow calls to him worriedly.

“Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad, it’s my ability, sometimes this happens.” Reign waves his friend’s worry off as they still look suspiciously at him.

“Alright, it’s not the ability, I’m not sure exactly what it is, but it’s nothing bad, I’m not lying about that.”

“Alright, we trust you, but if there is anything-”

“Don’t worry bro, I’ll always tell you guys if there is something serious happening, it’s just that this, I’m still not sure what it is, once I do, I will tell you guys everything ok?”

Everyone nods to Reign’s words as they resume their walk towards the anchor point. They were finally so close to finishing the quest that took them on such a long journey. To say they were excited would be an understatement.