Is this really a Game?!

“Hahahahahahah, even with your strength you won’t be able to defeat me now!” Bone said as he was already creating a plan to escape this place. He knew that even with the elephant, the chances of him defeating Reign were almost none existent. Even though it pained him to do so, he had to sacrifice the elephant in order to escape from this place and slowly gather his strength back.

‘Even though it’s an incredibly powerful monster, I have no other choice than to do this.’ Being forced to sacrifice the strongest monster he had managed to fully control was not something he wished to do since it was one of the trump cards he had. Nobody in the group knew about it, just like they didn’t know about how he can merge his ability with the skills and change them.

Monsters that the group had under full control could be put into a separate pocket space, just like Beast could do with his tamed beasts. Of course, there was a limit to how many monsters could stay in the pocket space, and they also needed to be fully under control in order to be put in there.

Bone was very secretive about his monsters and ability, and unfortunately for him, he was still unable to fully control the elephant, he was very close to it above 90%, but he still hadn’t fully taken over it. Different monsters were in his pocket dimension, but unfortunately, none of them were powerful enough to pose a real threat to Reign so he wasn’t going to let them out, at least for now.

“He’s quite a big boy, but I have to admit it, you are even dumber than I thought.” Reign said as he looked at Bone with a disappointed look.

“Huh?” Bone stared at Reign with confusion before widening his eyes in shock as tens of lightning spears and mana missiles rained down on him. His demonic flames were almost extinguished and if this continued then they would be gone before his elephant could help him out.

“I specialize in speed, and yet you brought such a large and slow monster to fight me, I’m truly disappointed by your intelligence man.” Reign said before disappearing, before Bone could respond to his movement, a sword had pierced through the flames and his left leg.

As Bone went down on one knee, the demonic flames made their way up the lightning-clad sword before touching Reign. Even though the lightning gave a layer of defense against the flames, it was still unable to block it completely, but upon touching Reign, the flames did nothing.

“So soul-based skill huh?” Reign said before chuckling a bit and drawing his sword out of Bone’s leg. The one thing Reign feared the least in the world right now were soul-based attacks thanks to Aethion and his dark copy that resided inside his soul, any attacks that dared aim at his soul would be destroyed by the two.

Aethion had slowly started to recover his strength, of course, he was still limited to having his strength be a tad lower than Reign’s in order for him not to try anything, but he was still much more powerful compared to back when they fought him.

His dark copy was a complete enigma, on the other hand, it seems that Aethion knew more about the copy and what Reign truly was, but he wasn’t talking for some reason. The same went for Eldar, for some reason they were all hiding the information from Reign. It mattered not to Reign, however, whatever he was, whatever he needed to do in order to completely control his power, he would do it.

“W-what?!” Bone screamed in shock as he saw his demonic flames burning on Reign’s body without doing anything to him. The demonic flames were one of his trump cards and so far nobody had managed to come unscathed from them, but against Reign, they seemed to be completely useless.

“How, how is that possible, how are my flames not doing anything to you?!” Bone screamed in fury as he sent a wave of demonic flames at Reign who calmly walked through them. The flames were unable to deal any damage to him as Reign had already managed to thin them out previously during their fight, but even if they were at full power they would barely be able to do anything to him anyway.

“So, are you still going to resist or will you finally surrender?” Reign asked Bone who glanced at the elephant who was now about 500 meters away from them. He gave the elephant a telepathic command as the latter roared before running toward Reign.

“So it’s going to be like this huh?” Reign asked before staring at Bone with a chilling coldness in his eyes. Bone immediately felt that something was wrong, but before he could do anything, Reign was already behind him and his right leg was stabbed together with his right arm that held the mace.

Before Bone could even scream out in pain, Reign stabbed his other arm before taking out some mana-restricting chains and chaining Bone up. His mana was now completely restrained and he could do nothing to get out of his predicament.

Reign grabbed him by the hair before throwing him up the hill, the other five members were all there and they dared not move a muscle. Without mana they were nothing, any monster in the grasslands could potentially kill them, and trying to run away was the same as suicide.

“Now, shall I do with you?” Reign turned around and stared at the elephant who was only some 50 meters away from him. Even though the elephant wasn’t particularly fast, his enormous size allowed him to cover a great distance with each step it took.

The height of the monster was about 7 meters and it was 13 meters long. The powerful tusks were each a couple of meters long and it was clear that Reign should stay away from them. He also didn’t know what kind of powers the enormous elephant had, but since it was a field boss, it was bound to have some.

The elephant suddenly stopped a couple of meters in front of Reign before swinging his trunk at Reign. Just the simple act of swinging his trunk made a fierce wind blow towards Reign as the trunk moved with incredible speed. As it hit the ground a giant explosion of stones and soil took place as a cloud of dust formed.

When the cloud disappeared the elephant looked down, only to find nothing there.

“Yo, big guy.” The elephant suddenly looked at one of his tusks as Reign was sitting on it with a smile on his face.

“These are quite tough you know?” Reign hit the tusk with his sword as the sound of metal colliding could be heard. The elephant’s eyes suddenly reddened as it looked at the tiny being in front of him with fury. It was one of the most powerful beings in the grasslands and none dared show any disrespect to it, to see such a small being making fun of him made the elephant boil with rage.

It started shaking its head left and right, up and down as it tried its best to shake Reign off, after doing that for over 3 minutes the elephant stopped and looked at his tusks again. Reign was no longer on them, but before it could do anything, it suddenly screamed in pain as a part of its trunk suddenly erupted in blood as a long cut appeared.

“I gotta hand it to you, you do have some tough skin man,” Reign spoke whilst sitting on the elephant’s head. Even with his rank S weapon, he still felt some resistance when cutting the trunk which was actually the softest part of the elephant’s body, except for the underbelly. 𝒷𝒹𝓸𝓿𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝓶

“Let’s see how tough your head is, huh?” Reign tapped the elephant’s head two times before getting up and lifting his rank S sword in the air. Black and white lightning suddenly appeared around the sword as a lance formed around it. Reign quickly stabbed down whilst going down on one knee as the lance managed to stab through the elephant’s tough skin and meat. The skull of the elephant, however, was much harder to damage and Reign was unable to pierce through it this time, he did, however, manage to make the elephant even angrier than before.

He quickly jumped down from the elephant as he felt a tremendous amount of mana being released from the beast. He quickly did the same as his mana forced wind to blow around them, the elephant seemed a bit shocked that such a small creature had such mana, but its anger made it impossible to stop. Even if Reign was stronger than it, it was still going to fight with Reign until the very end.

It was not only thanks to Reign enraging the elephant, but also the fact that it was controlled by Bone who was looking at Reign with bloodshot eyes up from the hill.