Is this really a Game?!

Reign woke up in the morning, his thoughts gave him barely any rest last night and he was barely able to fall asleep, it matters little however as his body was at its peak right now, and even going for a day or two without sleeping wouldn’t affect him that much. Of course, it was a different matter if he fights as the mental and physical fatigue one would get from battles were much higher compared to most other things.

The party had breakfast before getting ready, they made sure that all of their equipment was in good condition and they went to the castle in order to buy some stuff. There were vendors that sold various potions in the safe zone, Reign and the others didn’t bother that much with them before as the potions were too expensive for them back then, after fighting for so long without using them and getting stronger they had almost forgotten about them.

There were various kinds of potions available, some would give you more resistance against fire, frost, lightning, and other elements while others could improve your stats. There were health potions and mana potions as well, the party had already bought some previously so they didn’t have a need for them now.

There also exist other types of potions, there was a berserk potion that would increase the player’s strength, agility, and both vitality and endurance for the cost of them going berserk and having an insatiable thirst for battle, most players would fight anything in their vicinity for 30 minutes after drinking the potion, but the buff would only last 5 minutes.

It was similar to the [ Blood Frenzy ] skill that the berserk set offered, of course, the difference was that that was a skill that had a possibility of turning the user berserk while the potion would turn the player without fail. Another potion that was present was one that caught the eye of Reign and the others.

[ Magic Shield Potion ]

Description: The players need to take a sip of the potion before breaking the bottle beneath their feet, after doing so the mana in the surroundings will rush toward the player and coat them in a magic shield that would stay on them for 10 minutes.

This kind of a potion could potentially save someone from a tricky situation, especially if that someone were either Laura or Beast, both of them had a lower skill level when it came to melee combat and if a monster was to suddenly attack them it could turn out to be devastating, of course, normal monsters would simply die as they were not that weak, but an elite or a mini-boss could potentially endanger their lives.

There were three kinds of such potions, each was more expensive than the other and offered a stronger mana shield, they were priced at 300, 600, and 1 200 S Coins. To pay 1 000 S Coins for a potion that could be only used once was mad as they could get a Rank C weapon without using any materials from Adrian with so much money. Of course, there was also the question of how strong the mana shield was as well, thankfully the vendors were there to explain a bit more.

Turns out that the cheapest potion was useful for people who were anywhere from level 1 to level 30, a normal level 30 monster would need about 3 hits to destroy the shield. The medium potion was useful until level 50, a level 49 monster would be able to destroy the shield in 5 hits, an elite would need anywhere from 2 to 3 hits while a boss could usually destroy it in 1 hit.

The most expensive potion was useful from level 50 all the way until level 100, a level 99 monster would be able to destroy it in 3 hits, an elite in 1. The vendor also told them that there were more powerful potions as well, but they needed to wait until some time passed before they would have them in stock.

Reign and the other decided to buy 2 of the strongest potions and gave them to Laura and Beast while buying 4 medium ones, in an instant they had spent 4 800 S Coins, they all split the cost and still had a solid amount of coins left. They had all received 3 000 S Coins after finishing the challenge, after all, Reign personally had 4 044 S Coins left with him.

They decided to take some enhancement potions, those would increase one stat by 15% for 10 minutes, each of them was 400 S Coins and was usable until level 100. They doubted they would need to use any of the potions during the battle, but being cautious was never a bad thing. Left with 2 714 S Coins in his pocket, Reign went back towards the portal with the others, they had bought 20 stat increase potions and had spent almost half of their money.

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“So we don’t need to wait for him?” Reign asks Wolf as they looked at the huge structure in front of them, the orc base was not a single building, it was multiple buildings that were connected together using a bunch of scrap metal. The entrance was a huge, 6-meter-tall gate that had dried blood on it. Many corpses could be seen at the entrance, many of them being impaled by rusty spikes on the wall, orcs, hobgoblins, humans, draifs, apes…

It was evident that the orcs were not very welcoming of strangers, curiously there were no orcs on the towers or anywhere at the entrance. The reason was simple, the orc scouts had managed to spot Reign and the others and had informed the orcs about the imminent attack, even if there were only 6 of them, the orc chieftain was certain that they were not here for sightseeing.

The last time their scouts spotted humans, it was merely a party of 4, and yet both his commander and vice-commander were gone while all the scouts that were responsible for that area had died. It was clear to the chieftain that the humans had powerful combatants in their ranks, and now it seemed they were going to try and kill him.

There was nowhere he could hide, even if he ran away now to save his life, he would be left with nothing, no men to command, just a lone orc, a very powerful lone orc, but a lone one that could be hunted down and killed by his enemies.

The town was only so big and he couldn’t leave it if he did then his level would go down and he would become weaker depending on the territory he crossed over, even if he was a powerful warrior, there would be many dangers that he would face.

He decided to make his final stand here, all of the orcs were in the base and they numbered 400, there were also 100 hobgoblins with them as well. They had more before, but after being attacked so many times by Reign and the others their numbers decreased and many of the weaker monsters decided to take their chance and leave them. In the end, only 100 were left, not of their own volition however, the orcs put them in cages and would give them some food every day, their morale was incredibly low but it didn’t matter.

Those were the enemies that Reign and the others were going to face first according to Magokur, he had given them a detailed plan of the base and the different types of orcs they could expect. The pitiful hobgoblins would definitely charge at them with everything they got as they were fearful of angering the orcs. In front of the hobgoblins were powerful enemies that they had to fight against, while behind them were hundreds of orcs that were ready to slaughter them if they dared return.

Reign and the other first thought of the possibility of simply sparing the hobgoblins, but after some deliberation they decided not to, first of all, it was debatable if the hobgoblins would even understand what Reign and the others were doing, secondly they didn’t want to leave any potential enemies alive, even if one player was killed by them later, it would be their fault.

Killing a hundred hobgoblins would not be an issue for them, even the orcs, there were only 2 squads of orcs that could pose a challenge to them, one was the personal guard of the commander because the orc chieftain had given them the order to immediately go out and kill the humans that were nearby, the commander decided to leave his troops as they were training at the time. He didn’t think much of it, the humans were weak, by what the scouts had reported, there was only 1 group that was dangerous while all the others could barely fight against a couple of normal orcs, for someone of his strength it was meaningless to even think about safety when going against them.

That was the first and last mistake the commander had made ever since the game had started, now his personal guard was taken by the chieftain, and none of them complained as it was an honor to be taken underneath the wing of the chieftain.

The second group was the personal guard of the chieftain, they only numbered 10 orcs, but each one was an elite that was very powerful, even Magokur said he wouldn’t be able to defeat the squad by himself.

A third group that wouldn’t be much of a threat, but still needed to be looked out for, were the orc assassins. Orcs were burly and muscular, for any of them to become an assassin was rare. These orcs were smaller compared to normal ones and they didn’t have as much strength, but their speed and stealth skills made them deadly foes that were not to be underestimated.

Taking a final glance at each other, Reign and the others all step forward as they start their attack, with a powerful swing of the hammer, Greenie smashes the gate of the base. 𝙚𝙙𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙚𝙡.𝙤𝙧𝒈

Bang!