Is this really a Game?!

“Well, I certainly didn’t expect to have so many guests here today.” Drayce smiles as he looks at the 3 figures that were standing in the air above him. Eldar, Jack, and Sylra were currently looking down at Drayce before slowly levitating down towards him. They step onto the mountain top and sit down.

A gentle wind blew and a chair made of air was formed beneath Eldar, the ground on the mountain top cracked as a branch popped out and allowed the queen to sit on it.

Hummm

A sound of swords humming was heard as hundreds of swords suddenly burst from the ground and created a chair for Jack to sit on. The mountain started shaking fiercely as all the monsters scrambled to escape from it and get as far away as possible all three of them stared at Drayce while their mana was leaking out from their bodies.

“Scary,” Drayce comments as he suddenly does the same, contrary to the three however his mana brought no pressure to the monsters and the surroundings, a gentle light radiated from him as everything was basked in it. The monsters calmed down, the mountain stopped shaking, it was as if Buddha had arrived to bring peace and tranquility to them all.

“Tch, to think a person like you actually managed to inherit that power.” Eldar clicked his tongue in frustration as he looked at the person in front of him. One of the most powerful Transcendents, and the person that was infinitely close to becoming a Saint, the ‘Bringer of Light’ Drayce.

To compare their powers to him was not even possible, they knew that they would get trashed if they fought against him, even the three of them together might not be able to win, the best they could hope to achieve would be a draw.

“And what do you mean by that I wonder?” Drayce asks Eldar as he makes a sad face, “You’re going to hurt my feelings, ‘Butcher of Eredise.”

Suddenly an intense killing intent was released in front of Drayce, but curiously it wasn’t coming from the person he had addressed, but from Jack.

“Don’t you dare address him like that, you phony dragon!” If Reign and the others could see Jack now they would be greatly surprised, the always calm and serious man was currently completely different, his calm demeanor was gone as an intense killing intent was released from him, and even the light coming from Drayce was being slightly suppressed by it. His hair suddenly grew longer and danced wildly in the air as he stared at Drayce with a murderous look in his eyes.

“Jack!” Eldar shouts out his name as the latter calms down and suppresses his killing intent, all four had stopped using their mana in hopes of gaining an edge now. The queen was still quiet, her calm demeanor never changing as she observed Drayce.

“You have broken the rules, dragon.” She finally spoke, her ethereal voice drifting away like a dream.

“Broken the rules?” Drayce looks at her with a dumb face, “I don’t think so.”

“Not only did you kill a team of players, but you also kept Reign and the others here for a couple of hours longer, extra rewards, sparring session, who the hell do you think you’re trying to fool?” Eldar suddenly speaks as he crosses his legs while looking at the blonde-haired man with anger.

“I merely wanted to train them a bit, those guys are so talented, it would be a shame if they would continue without anyone guiding them, at least that’s what I thought.” Drayce suddenly shows a smile on his face as he faces the three.

“You trained the dagger-wielding boy, while this guy actually taught the Severing style to Reign, not to mention, I felt it, the power hidden beneath his lightning, he can fool most, but I am someone that wields the holy light, I am particularly sensitive to people that have powers of light or darkness.” Eldar constricts his eyes a little as he looks at Drayce, the queen finally shows a different face as she grows intrigued by what Drayce had said, she fought against Reign so she was able to see his lightning, she knew that something was different about it, but she simply couldn’t get her finger on it.

“Anyway, I really don’t want to be involved with ‘them’, so you can rest assured, I won’t do anything detrimental to those guys, I will be available to teach them if they continue getting the number one spot during the challenges, and well that’s almost a certainty.” Drayce suddenly sits down and lies back in his throne of light as he looks up at the sky.

“You know that the reason I took this position was to just rest a little bit and see if I can find anyone interesting to pass my inheritance down to, once I become a Saint, I won’t have a lot of free time I’m afraid, the temple is in need of more people.” Drayce smiles bitterly as he talks, he had joined one of the many Buddhist temples in the universe, even though it’s called a temple, it is merely one of many organizations that belong to the Buddhists.

The one he joined was powerful, but contrary to the others they weren’t very wealthy, all of the people in the organization worked hard in order to increase their power and to bring peace and tranquility to the universe, of course, that was just a dream, Drayce wasn’t really into it, but he owned them a great favor, without his master and the temple he would have never become as powerful as he currently is.

Drayce and the other three take some more time as they talked about various things, killing players is prohibited, but since Drayce had done many good things over the course of his life, and with the protection of his master, he was able to get exempted from the punishment of the system. Even if he was punished he didn’t really care, coming down to Earth was something that Transcendents did in order to get resources, promotions in their respective organizations, and more, Drayce, on the other hand, was half a step away from achieving Sainthood, he had no need for any of that.

Changing the rules of the challenge and sparring with Reign and the others was another thing that was not really allowed, but it wouldn’t be called breaking the rules, merely bending them extremely. Upon realizing that Drayce will truly not impose on them and their goals, but that he was merely interested in Reign and the others and wanted to see how far they would go, the three finally stood up and left.

Drayce had a warm smile on his face during the whole time, even after they left he simply continued staring at the sky with his smile. Slowly he was bathed in light before scattering in the air and disappearing from the mountaintop. 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝐞𝐥.

Reign and the others however had returned to their building, They had spent more than three days in the challenge which translated to about a bit more than 3 hours had passed here. The building was silent and it seemed that nobody was there, they had probably gone out in order to hunt some monsters and level up.

Reign and then others took a look at their rewards, they had gained pretty a Rank B item each, but unfortunately, nobody managed to get something that would be useful to them now. The materials they had gained on the other hand were all good quality things and they were planning on visiting Adrian and asking him if they had enough materials for him to create some rank A items for them.

The money that they had previously spent in order to create the portal and for Wolf’s sword had almost completely been replenished after each of them gained 3 000 S Coins from the challenge. As they all sat down in the living room they talked for a bit, they had been healed by Drayce before leaving the challenge area, but it was still different than resting. Training with Drayce was draining and all of them wanted to just sit down for a minute and relax, after all, being healed and being relaxed were two different things.

The underground city was bustling with activity, however. Ever since the elves had arrived there had been a lot more activities that players could do. The elves had already started teaching them how to craft and research whilst also picking up different methods from the players as well. So far all of them were going along nicely and it was looking like the alliance was a perfect deal for both sides.

The communication crystal that Reign received from Magokur suddenly lit up. Reign took it out lazily as he accepts the call from the big guy.

“Hey, what’s happening?” Reign asks him with a smile as he lies on the sofa.

“There’s a problem, some scouts had seen a group of humans near the base, I don’t know what they’re doing there but the Chief is beyond mad and he commanded me and the commander to attack them, I thought it would be you guys for a moment, but I know that you wouldn’t do such a thing without at least telling me.”

“There are people near you, shit, how much do you need to get to them?”

“We will leave soon, we need approximately 5 minutes, I will try my best to keep the commander from killing them, if you guys can get here on time then we can also use this chance to kill him.”

“I’ll be there as soon as possible.” Reign puts the crystal back as he immediately stands up, and the others do the same as they had heard the conversation. Without wasting any time they all make their way outside.