Is this really a Game?!

“I can’t believe it.” Shadow blinked innocently at the item that lay on top of Beast’s hand. It was a wooden bracelet that was seemingly useless, there were no gems on it, no complicated runes or arrays crafted on it, it was simply a bracelet made of many wooden beads that were connected by a thin cord.

“Is this really an S ranked item, I can’t feel anything from it, there’s no aura or anything.” Reign stared at the item with interest, contrary to the Rank A items they had which exuded different kinds of auras, this wooden bead bracelet looked like something you could buy at a thrift shop. It looked incredibly simple and unremarkable.

“It is, here, take a look.” Beast suddenly says before showing the description of the item to Reign and the others. Soon collective gasps could be heard in the living room.

[ Rank S Golden Soul ]

Spirit + 20%

Willpower + 30%

Vitality + 10%

Defense against negative soul-based attacks 40%

Description: A simple wooden bracelet that once belonged to a powerful monk. After the monk had finished his teachings he started traveling over the world and used his miraculous powers to heal the weak and stop wars. After he had fulfilled his goal and brought peace to his homeworld the monk achieved enlightenment and Transcended, the bracelet was still on the monk’s body during this time and a part of the incredible power stayed inside of it. Even though it was only a sliver of the Transcendent mana it was enough to completely change the bracelet and make it a powerful item. Whoever wears this bracelet would always feel calm and it would be incredibly difficult to injure the soul as the Transcendent aura would protect it, negative status effects such as illusions, confusion, and many kinds of poisons as well would be useless against the wearer.

Reign and the others took a sharp breath after reading the description of the bracelet, contrary to other items the bracelet didn’t give a fixed number of stats, instead it would increase the stats by a percentage which meant that in the long run, it would be more and more effective. Just increasing the three stats was already powerful enough, but just by wearing the bracelet one didn’t need to worry about any kinds of negative effects and soul-based attacks.

The party rarely fought against enemies that could use such attacks, but Reign knew exactly how powerful those could be, back when they attacked the warehouse and fought against the orc shaman, the latter had used his power and cast an illusion on Reign. Without his mysterious ability, Reign wasn’t certain whether or not he would have been able to break the illusion.

That was actually something that Reign had thought of ever since that battle finished, he made sure to let the others know of it and focused on finding items that could give them an edge over such opponents. It seemed that the Willpower stat was the one that was the most important for defending against such attacks and most of them focused on getting some jewelry that improved it.

“I know that you’re lucky but, what the hell man!?” Tank shouts out as he looks at the bracelet with a sense of loss, he was incredibly excited to get his axe, but compared to the bracelet the powerful axe looked a bit dull now.

“System, are there gods of luck in the universe?” Shadow suddenly asked.

[ There are a myriad of different beings in the world, powerful beings that are associated with luck do exist. ]

“Yeah, it’s official, that guy is an illegitimate child of one of them, there’s no other explanation, like, none.” Shadow started waving his hands around while talking, it was obvious that he was a bit upset that not only was Beast able to get good items from every single box he opened, but he even managed to get the first rank S item they had ever seen from this one.

“Alright, enough with you.” Reign hits Shadow on the head before turning around to face Beast.

“Congrats man.”

“Thanks, I, um, I don’t think I need this ring that much now, you should take it.” Beast says while taking the ring off of his finger.

“Yeah, I got no problem with that now.” Reign and the others laugh as he puts on the rank S ring on his finger. He took off the Rank C cultist ring that they had received a long time ago as it seemed that only one ring could be put on each hand. Reign didn’t know when exactly the rule had been implemented, but after asking the system it replied that one ring was the maximum that could be put on a hand now.

It did make sense, if one could put a ring on each finger then the stat points gained would be massive, especially if all of the rings were rank A and S, that would make a person incredibly powerful even without training as the base stats would be above most at the same level.

With the new items equipped the party now focused on the token. Reign and the others browsed the many different upgrades that were available by using the token before Reign suddenly thought of something.

“System, can we somehow move the buildings that we built in the territory?”

[ Affirmative, the players can simply pay a small fee and move a building to any location inside of the territory. ]

“Good, that’s good.” Reign nods his head affirmatively after hearing the system, since they could move the buildings then they didn’t need to think too much about using the token. The only question was what exactly should they build?

After browsing through the upgrades the party had managed to make a shortlist of 4 buildings that would be helpful to the territory right now.

A huge training facility that could be used by anyone to spar was the first building. The facility was equipped with a powerful array that would heal anyone inside as long as they had not gone through the first evolution, since there were barely any players that were at level 30 which meant that the facility could be used by everyone for some time. The healing array would pretty much make sure that nobody would die or be seriously injured inside of it so it would be a great way to improve the teamwork and different proficiencies as well.

The second building was also a training facility, but contrary to the previous one that focused on sparring sessions between players, this one would actually focus on fighting monsters. Upon entering the facility the players would need to sit down on one of the many stone beds that were in the facility, upon laying on top of the stone bed an array would be activated and the players would suddenly find themselves in an arena. Players could choose what kind of monsters they wanted to fight or they could simply allow the array to summon random monsters. There was no healing array or anything since all of this would be taking place in a dream-like space. The array would force the consciousness of the player into a virtual reality of sorts and they would fight until they decided to leave or died. It was not only a great way to improve their fighting abilities but to also steel their nerves as well, of course once again it was only usable before the first evolution.

The third building was an auction house. The auction house was not only usable in the territory but throughout a couple of nearby areas. Players would be able to easily trade and find good items using it and it would definitely be useful for a long time to come. There were also upgrades that could be made to the auction house, each of them would allow the auction house to connect with more areas in the world, but all of the other buildings had upgrades as well. 𝑜𝑣𝘭.𝘯𝑡

The fourth and final building that caught the attention of Reign and the others was a monster stable. The stables would summon a couple of different monsters every two weeks, most of the monsters were normal monsters that were usually docile and players could have a chance to tame them. Players could tame monsters even without the taming ability that Beast had, only that it would be many times harder to do so, with the stables however not only did they have a greater chance to do it, but players that hadn’t unlocked their ability might finally unlock a taming ability after attempting to tame a beast.

Since all of the options were great the team decided to browse them using the territory interface that Reign had for one simple reason. Check which one is the most expensive and use the token to build that one. After browsing the interface they were shocked to find that one of the four buildings was actually a lot more expensive compared to the others, without wasting any more time they decided to build it, they would simply pay for the others later.

[ Free territory upgrade token used, Monster Fighting Facility has been built in the territory. ]