Is this really a Game?!

Shadow and the others open their eyes as the burst of light made it impossible to continue looking at Reign. After they opened their eyes they were surprised to see that nothing much had changed. The cave was still the same as before, even the vortex was still present inside of it. The only difference was the vortex which was no longer a deep purple color.

It was now shining with a bright white color while the center of it was pitch-black. It seemed as if there was a black hole surrounded by light that blocked it from sucking everything in.

Reign was standing next to it. His now black hair fell to his shoulders and forehead. The wet hair stuck to his skin and gave a certain charm to him, if any of the party members were girls they would probably blush.

Reign turns and starts walking towards the others. Before they could utter any words he starts speaking.

“Captain Eldar and the others should be arriving in the city soon, we need to get back.” Without waiting for the others to answer him, Reign breaks into a sprint as the others hastily run after him. They were worried about the ants attacking them on their way back but that didn’t happen. Wolf was the one that told everyone about a new function in the system.

[ Player territory]

The territory in question was, of course, the whole dungeon, Reign had managed to claim it as his after using the anchor point, it was still empty of course as no humans other than them inhabited it, but that would soon change as everyone smiles. They could already imagine all the zone inhabitants moving to their huge territory from which they could teleport to the castle and explore the newbie forest around it.

Their heads were already in the clouds as they thought of all the different kinds of things they would be able to do. Could they choose what to build in the territory?

Will they tax people and become rich?

Before their thoughts could go any more astray Reign shouts at them from the front. 𝒆𝙣𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝙚𝙩

“I know what you’re thinking about, we’ll see later, more running now!!” Reign uses his lightning as he suddenly speeds up without warning. The others channel mana to their legs in an attempt to follow after him. It was only after some time that they got to the city. Reign was standing in front of it as a huge vortex was unfolding in front of him. The vortex suddenly collapses before a huge portal was made. Eldar, Jack, and the others slowly come out of it.

“Yo!” Eldar smiles brightly as he looks at Reign and the others. Jack smiles warmly at them as he observes their surroundings.

“You boys became stronger,” Jack says while the soldiers came out of the portal. Shadow and the others could see some of the university students on the other side of the portal. They were looking at them while pointing their fingers, it seemed they recognized them so they were discussing something about them. Eldar slowly comes closer to Reign and talks.

“The soldiers will sweep the surroundings, me, Jack, and some of our elites will go at the surface, there’s bound to be some curious fellas coming here to check the area out if I don’t show myself they might think we’re easy prey ay?” Eldar turns around as he turns serious, compared to Reign and the others he and the soldiers knew nothing of the surrounding area so he was ready to go all out once he got to the surface. Luckily Reign and the others went with him and told him the information they had.

“I see, then we can be at ease, that Ape is probably either a level 35 or level 40 area boss.”

“Area boss?” Reign asks Eldar who smiles in response.

“Right, I never told you the rankings, alright, listen up.” Eldar turns his head around and tells Shadow and the rest of the party.

“As you already know there is a difference from monster to monster at the same level, some might be a lot stronger than others. You already know that variants are the stronger versions of such monsters, sometimes they are merely slightly stronger, sometimes they have similar power to bosses.” Eldar narrates while throwing a dagger that pierces through a wall of the dungeon, killing a huge insect that was camouflaged on it.

“So we got normal monsters, variants, elites, those are the monster you are most likely to encounter in the wild. After them come Mini bosses and bosses, the bosses can be normal ones or dungeon bosses which are usually stronger, and those would be the ones you have faced so far I presume.” Eldar takes out a toothpick and starts picking his teeth after his sentence.

“But there are stronger monsters at the same level, those would be the field bosses and area bosses. Field bosses control a small part of an area, in our case the different forests around the castle, area bosses are the strongest in the whole area, and not every area has them, like the newbie forest or the deep forest around the castle, for example, they are both devoid of area bosses.”

“And then we have something even above those. The raid bosses are the overlords of all the surrounding areas, usually, they will be in the highest level area, and they won’t leave it, but no monster in the surrounding areas are even close to its power, never challenge one before becoming much stronger than the area bosses.” Eldar says with a grave expression while looking at the party who had blank expressions on their faces. Reign suddenly speaks from the side.

“We actually met one at the lake.” Eldar’s face changes as he hears his words, with a shout he starts berating him.

“Didn’t I tell you not to go close to the lake?!” Reign and the others put their hands over their ears as they wait for the captain to finish his angry rant. After he calmed down Reign told him about how they came to the lake, and their meeting with the two so-called gods, he also told them about the others as well.

“They actually came to such a small planet, and not even the low-ranking gods, even Zeus and the like?!” Jack was shocked beyond thoughts, for Reign and the others, the power of beings such as Zeus and Miriam was still a mystery, but Jack and Eldar knew exactly how strong someone at that level was, destroying a planet the size of Earth was not a problem for them, especially not Miriam who was stronger than Zeus.

“Are they really that strong?” Reign asks.

“Alright, listen here.” Jack suddenly stops and faces Reign and the others.

“Right now you guys are at the leveling phase, after becoming stronger you will be able to transcend, that is the realm I and the captain are in right now.” Jack turns serious now.

“There are exceptions for leveling warriors, some of them are stronger than the weakest Transcenders, but they are rare. After one becomes a Transcendent the system changes, there is no need to explain how, if you become one you will see.” Jack waves them off before they could ask.

“Transcenders are divided into grades and only after reaching the pinnacle will you be able to evolve further, those are called Saints, a Saint’s power is enough to decimate every life on this planet in mere minutes.” Everyone’s eyes widened after hearing about that.

“After someone reaches the peak of Sainthood will they be able to go further, form their divinity and become a god. Gods are divided into a couple of tiers, Low, Middle, High, Peak, Ancestral and Supreme.” Eldar says while looking at them.

“Zeus and Hades are at the High tier, the one that marked Tank is a Middle tier, probably near the High tier, Beast’s contractor is a Low-tier God and Wolf’s, the Immemorial Dragon is at the Peak-tier.”

Everyone was still stunned by their words. They knew that someone that was at such a level they were called a God had to be incredibly powerful, but they had no idea there were so many ranks between them. Everyone suddenly stared at Wolf as he managed to get the attention of the strongest one.

“What about Ancestral and Supreme, who are they?” Reign suddenly asks as he remembers the white-clothed man from his memory, he didn’t know why he suddenly thought of him.

“We’re far below knowing about such powerful beings, normally Transcendents will not even know about the different tiers of Gods, the two of us are a special case, make sure not to tell anyone about this alright?” Jack tells them with a grave look on his face, everyone nodded as they understood how valuable such information was to them.

Before they knew it they were at the lake they fell into after jumping in the hole above. Eldar smiles at them before a wind starts blowing from underneath them. In seconds they were slowly rising in the air with him and the others. Slowly they made their way up to the warehouse.

After a minute or two they were back in the warehouse. In front of them was Lea who was shocked by the sight of them flying in the air. Next to her, surprisingly, was the woman that was controlled by the demon in their fight.