Is this really a Game?!

Reign and the others slowly make their way towards the territory. They speak to the group while walking through the town with leisure, their levels were now high enough to ignore most monsters that reside here and the depths of the town and the Ironbark woods they had previously gone through with a great deal of caution.

Neil and his party were one of the high-level parties in the town currently, as the inhabitants of the town could travel from the town to the castle from the territory it became easier to level up and hunt monsters. Most of the town’s inhabitants had joined the territory, there were only a handful of zones left, all of which were also housing a large number of people as not everyone was ready to leave and join Reign and the others.

The zones that had criminals and trouble makers were cleared out by Reign and the others as there was no need for any such people to exist in their territory. They already thought of the whole town as part of their territory as they were certain they would be able to take the last two anchor points after some time. Most of the townspeople simply lived in the territory while only occasionally leaving to hunt in the newbie forest to earn some coins to buy food and daily necessities.

A fair amount of students had also joined them and the castle was now only left with people that wanted to fight in the forest, it was easy to teleport there, but there was still nausea that came after teleporting that led some people to simply stay in the castle as the amount of S coins they needed to pay each month was low.

The strongest group currently was of course Reign’s. Right behind them was the group that Cameron, Lea, and Ronny had made. Each of them was already level 18 and they were close to leveling up again. Reign and the others were happy that a fair amount of people had decided to fight the monsters and become stronger as you never knew how dangerous the future might be. They weren’t going to force anyone however, it was their choice and they were going to respect that, of course, they weren’t going to simply hand out supplies and money to those people as they believed that everyone needed to at least pull their own weight in the territory.

“Alright, we’re back,” Reign says as they all look at the entrance to the territory. The old warehouse had changed as they had previously spent some coins to get materials and change the structure a bit. The building itself wasn’t protected by the system and wasn’t considered a safe zone, only the underground area was. Therefore they needed to guard it at all times as monsters would occasionally attack them.

The building was now even higher compared to before and the outside layer of the building was coated in some sort of metal that offered greater durability to the building. A total of six ballistae could be seen on the roof as people were patrolling the rooftop at all times as well. A group of soldiers could be found in front of the building, the number of soldiers had increased ever since the territory was founded and they provided security to the territory after paying them a small fee.

The soldiers were the biggest reason why the territory was so safe and why the building was still standing after being attacked a couple of times. Eldar and Jack were unable to leave the underground area, they could only do so if Reign or somebody else from the group paid a fee for them, but unfortunately, the fee was incredibly high so they refrained from doing that.

Spikes, barbed wires, and more could be seen around the building and some parts of the streets even had traps installed. The traps luckily only responded to monsters so everyone could go out and come back without any fear of getting killed by them. A big amount of coins was used to make all of this possible, the biggest part of the coins came from Reign and the others while a part was given by the territory inhabitants as they wanted the building to be safe as well as without it hunting in the town would become difficult.

They all greet the soldiers as they enter the building. Compared to before the ceiling now was actually lower because the building had two functioning floors now, both floors were mostly empty as nobody wanted to risk being there when monsters attacked. They make their way to the end of the building where the hole was located previously. Instead of a big hole in the ground what awaited them was a shining platform that could move up and town and functioned pretty much like an elevator.

As they all get down a long, wide tunnel was present in front of them. The tunnel was made after a lot of effort from Eldar, Jack, the soldiers, and the citizens and it took them about two weeks to finish it up. The tunnel led straight to the underground city while around the city people were working on digging and further widening the territory so that more people could fit in the future if there was a need for it in the future of course.

The city was full of life as a big amount of people could be seen moving around the busy streets. Some players were carrying monster parts towards blacksmiths and other people that were teleported here by the system. Only a small part of the players had the inventory like Reign and the others, and even when they did most of them only had it for a limited time while Reign and the others had unlocked the permanent inventory after taking the second anchor point.

Some player groups put their hard-earned coins together and managed to buy the spatial rings which could only store a small number of things inside of them. It was of course still better than carrying it all and allowed them to bring back more things to sell each time.

Some people decided to learn blacksmithing, sewing, and other occupations in hopes of earning money. That however was hard as they still needed to have a certain amount of strength or other stats to start. After starting however they were able to see a bright light at the end of the tunnel as it turned out that creating weapons, armors and similar things would actually award exp points.

The things made by those people were of worse quality compared to those made by the people brought there by the system, but they were of course much cheaper so some players would buy things from them. ．

Trading was flourishing and Reign was happy to see it. He hoped that some people would be able to improve their proficiency in their crafts so that all parties could be properly equipped in the future, he and the others sold all the things they didn’t need to other players for a low amount of money as they wanted more and more people to become stronger so that attacking large dungeons would be easier for them in the future.

For example, the place where the orc leader resided was a huge dungeon that could be done with 30 people, the sheer number of allowed participants was enough for Reign and the others to realize how hard it would be. Hundreds of orcs were roaming the town, there were probably hundreds in the dungeon as well, not to mention the orc leader that was probably a level 30 or higher boss tier enemy.

Compared to the other monsters they had faced the orcs were different, each of them was equipped with different weapons or armors, and their fighting styles and skills all differentiated from each other, making it hard to create an effective battle plan against them.

Reign planned on taking the dungeon after having more than 20 players above level 20 as they would simply be dead weight if they were at a lower level in the dungeon. For now, it was impossible as they were the only players in the town with a level higher than 20.

Each of them looked different as well as hunting down orcs and other strong monsters in the town while also taking down another dungeon where the second anchor point gave them a lot of different items. Their armors were completely different to before, they all went to the old blacksmith Adrian in hopes of changing the appearance of some armor pieces and fortunately, they learned it was possible, and it wasn’t even that expensive.

Each of their armor pieces matched the other pieces and looked like a set, of course, none of them were part of any set. Their weapons however had not changed as each one was still using the same weapons. The highest grade of weapon they managed to get so far was rank B, and all of them were already equipped with either the same rank of weapons or higher.

They all went inside the building in the center of the city. The building was the zone leader’s residence, and as Reign was the leader and the others were in the same group as him they were all allowed to stay there. Their rooms were quite different compared to those in the castle as they all customized them a bit.

They all sit down in the living room to discuss further plans and what to do next. The town was a good hunting ground, but they had recently found an area near the town that seemed to be more dangerous and full of high-level monsters. Their plan was to check it out tomorrow and hopefully, the area will be a future hunting ground.