Is this really a Game?!

Reign looked at the now-dead body of the Antoid before he started walking toward the Major Ants. Shadow and the others were still fighting against the monsters and even though they were nearly finished with their battle, he still wanted to help them out a bit.

Before Reign could do so however his eyes widened in shock as he could feel his instincts screaming at him, telling him to dodge to the side.

Swish

Without thinking further Reign jumps to the side as the Antoid suddenly appears at the place he previously stood, his two arms swiped through the air as a sharp gust of wind blew from the attack. Reign felt a cold chill at the back of his head, if he hadn’t moved previously then it would have been his head that would’ve gotten slashed apart by the fierce blades of the Antoid.

The monster was standing there as if nothing had happened, even if half of its head was gone it was still able to move and function like it normally did.

“Damn it, I thought that at least that would be the same as a human, but this creepy bastard doesn’t really have a brain huh?” Reign curses as he gets up from the ground, he had mostly attacked the head because he thought that once the ant had become an Antoid they would have the same weakness as humans did as well. Brain, heart… but it turned out that the Antoid had no brains in its head, it seemed that it had a head only for feeding and well for hearing and seeing and more things.

Since the opponent was a tough nut to crack, Reign decided to change his tactic a bit. First, he charged at the Antoid with great speed, the Antoid, as expected couldn’t see Reign now as the head was gone, but still, somehow the monster was able to know that Reign was charging at it and it attacked with one of its arms. The arm was used as a spear as its purpose was to penetrate through Reign’s chest and destroy his heart.

A grin escapes Reign as he jumps up and actually wraps himself around the Antoid’s arm. His legs were wrapped all the way to the shoulder while his arms held the Antoid’s hand. Immediately Reign uses his body weight and power to force the Antoid to go down on the ground before using his full strength in an attempt to break the Antoid’s arm.

The attempt was fruitful as a couple of seconds later Reign was able to hear the cracking of bones as the Antoid’s arm completely relaxed and offered no more resistance. Before Reign could do anything else however he felt a sharp pain on his side as the Antoid used his other arm to cut him.

Since it wasn’t considered a serious injury, the tunic didn’t activate to block the attack, blood immediately started flowing out from the wound as Reign let go of the now-broken arm and got up. He knew that this kind of an injury wouldn’t really do anything much to him, Laura was here and she could heal him at any moment, and even if she wasn’t there, Reign’s endurance and vitality were much higher than a normal human’s, other than increasing the strength and density of his skin, organs, bones… the 2 stats also provided an increase in healing. Wounds that would usually take people a week or so to heal would be fine after a day when it came to Reign and the others, Tank was even crazier as the two stats were his main ones.

Reign quickly gets up and gets into a boxing stance. The Antoid gets up as well and attacks him, even though the monster had a human body it had no experience fighting, and as such Reign was able to do the same he previously did, dodge and counter, especially since the monster only had 1 usable arm now.

Suddenly an idea struck Reign as he dodged a blow, with a smile on his face Reign quickly charged towards the Antoid before jumping above it. Before the Antoid could respond to his actions Reign quickly brought out the Shiverspine before he threw it with full force as his lightning covered it.

The spear penetrates through the head of the Antoid, well, from half of its head, and exits the body before stabbing into the ground. The Antoid looked like a shish kebab as a bit of the spear was still visible above the head. The Antoid struggles and tries to free itself from the spear but before it could do so Reign uses his lightning straight at the spear. As the lightning hits the spear it also continues to travel through the body of the Antoid, shocking it and frying the insides.

The monster shakes violently as Reign continues using his lightning with full force, the power and quantity of lightning being released were too much even as it started covering the whole body of the Antoid. In a couple more seconds Reign finally stopped as the charred corpse of the Antoid hadn’t moved for some time.

Smoke was coming off from the body as the smell of burnt flesh permeated through the cave. Reign lets the body stay as it is as he goes over to Shadow and the others. Only 3 Major Ants were left and with Reign joining the party it was pretty much over in a flash. Reign was the most tired of the party as they fight against the Antoid had truly made him use more than what he expected.

Of course, that was mostly because this was the first time Reign had fought against such an opponent, the Antoid cared not for pain or for its life, the only thing the monster wished to do was to kill and eat. Fighting such an opponent was always going to be hard, of course since Reign already had some experience fighting against it, the next time would be much easier as he now knew some patterns and weaknesses of the monster.

That unfortunately was exactly what he was afraid of. Since the ants hunted humans, there was no telling how many were already killed and used to create these things. If the ants had more people then soon stronger Antoids would be made and that would just make things harder and harder.

From what Reign and the others knew, there was a huge underground area beneath their city that stretched for miles and miles. The underground area was home to many monsters, one of them being the ants that Reign and the others just fought against. They learned that from the orcs that were at the second base from where Reign took the second anchor point.

The orcs had previously fought the ants here and managed to defeat and drive them off. In the end, the orcs closed all of the entrances that the ants had created and called it a day, but since so many had arrived here that meant that the ants were once again trying to come to the surface.

As Reign and the others sit down to rest, the battle outside of the tunnel had also come to an end. Out of the six ants that had attacked the players, only 2 were still alive, of course, they were the two that were surrounded by two bigger groups previously.

Neil and Cameron decided to stand nearby and let the other groups fight a bit, it was a good chance to get some more experience when it came to fighting these guys, and for some reason, they all had a feeling that they would need that experience.

Adam was panting as he was leaning against a nearby rock whilst staring at one of the ants. Both of the monsters looked bad as many parts of their bodies were cracked and blood was flowing through the many cracks. They wouldn’t live for much longer, that much was certain.

Adam held his spear, it was a gift from Reign and the others, a rank B weapon. Even though the weapon was strong enough to be used against monsters of the level that the ants were, Adam’s strength and other stats were simply too low, his level as well, being quite lower compared to the monsters.

Still, that didn’t stop Adam from trying, he lost count of how many times he had attacked the ant, his hands were shaking as he no longer had enough strength to even wield his spear properly. The webbing between his thumb and index finger bleed a bit as it got a bit torn from the attacks.

Adam’s eyes were no longer full of rage as they previously were. He knew that his strength was negligible when compared to the strong players in the territory. Reign, Wolf, any of them could probably kill the monster in front of him with one attack, that was the difference between them.

Even the other players in the territory, Neil and Cameron’s squad took care of the stronger ants and they were barely even tired. While he and the others couldn’t even take down one single ant.

He looked in front of him as the final ant finally fell down to the ground and died. The noises coming from the tunnel had also stopped a while ago, they were now all waiting here as they expected that Reign and the others would come out soon and tell them what was happening.