Is this really a Game?!

“Run faster, they’re catching up!” Reign shouts from the front of the group as they are running away from something.

“Shit, why are there so many of these guys?!” Shadow complains as he runs as fast as he can with everyone else.

As they run small projectiles fly past them, stabbing deep inside trees and the ground, none hit them as a huge shield made from mana was protecting them from the back.

[ Mana Shield ]

Description: A basic technique of a knight, by using mana the player can form a huge ethereal shield to protect numerous people.

“Dammit, to think we would get into such a mess.” Wolf cursed out while running, everything was going smoothly for them in the dark forest until they came across these enemies.

30 minutes earlier.

“Whew, these guys’ speedy little bastards weren’t they.” Tank wipes off the sweat from his forehead, with a huge body like his cardio was never one of his strengths, not to mention he hated it as well.

A couple of minutes ago everyone was slowly going through the forest as usual before they suddenly got attacked by a party of 6 black wolves, the wolves were larger than normal and had decent stealth capabilities, leading to the party not being aware of them, luckily their individual strengths were lower than the average monster on their level, stealth and speed being things they focus on.

After a long battle, they managed to kill 5 of them and immobilize one wolf, letting Beast try to tame it, as always the goddess of luck made him succeed in the first try

[Battle has been concluded, distributing experience…]

– Lvl 13 Dark Wolf killed, 300 exp gained

– Lvl 12 Dark Wolf killed, 250 exp gained

– Lvl 11 Dark Wolf killed, 200 exp gained

– Lvl 12 Dark Wolf killed, 250 exp gained

[The players have earner 1000exp and 50S coins, distributing …]

[The player has earned 200exp and 10S coins.]

[Player has successfully tamed Lvl 12 Dark Wolf]

Name: Unnamed

Race: Dark wolf ( subspecies )

Strength: 18

Agility: 25

Endurance: 14

Vitality: 14

Willpower: 10

Spirit: 13

Proficiencies:

Stealth Proficiency Rank B

Skills:

Dark Coat

Shadow Movement

Dark Fang

Ability:

Shadow Blend – Rank D

Ding!

[Ability ‘Beast Tamer’ function activated, the pet will undergo evolution ]

[Battle has been concluded, distributing subordinates experience…]

– Lvl 11 Dark Wolf killed, 200 exp gained

[Your subordinate has killed 1 monster, 200 exp points earned.]

Ding!

[Players subordinate ‘Greenie’ has achieved level 10, having the necessary knowledge and strength it will undergo the evolution process.]

“Damn Beastie you really are like a lucky charm, getting a good monster on your first try and letting Greenie evolve too.” Shadow pats Beast’s shoulder while laughing, everyone felt quite good about the situation now, not only were they close to level 14 they got a strong helper in the wolf and Greenie was finally going to become stronger again.

Two black cocoons wrapped around Greenie and the wolf, the party had nothing to do so they guarded the two cocoons, making sure nothing would be able to disrupt them.

One of the cocoons suddenly bursts open as Beast’s wolf comes out, it was slightly bigger than before, the black fur it had was even darker than before and had dark purple lines on it. Beasts looks at it and checks it status again

Name: Unnamed

Race: Dark Battlewolf ( Elite subspecies )

Strength : 22

Agility : 30

Endurance : 15

Vitality : 15

Willpower : 10

Spirit : 15

Proficiencies:

Stealth Proficiency Rank B +

Skills:

Coat of Darkness

Shadow Flicker

Dark Fang

Dark Claws

Ability:

Shadow Use – Rank C

Looking at the wolf whose stats were close to theirs everyone had a surprised expression on their face.

“It’s much stronger now, not only the stats, even the skills changed and got a boost.” Reign put his hand under his chin while contemplating. “It seems like the race evolution has a big part on the monster’s strength, I wonder if we can do something similar or not.”

“We probably can, remember what notification we got after getting a class, seems like we will slowly move further away from the realm of humans while leveling up, race evolution is definitely possible.” Wolf chips in from the side.

Suddenly the other cocoon starts shaking, red lines slowly become visible on it as it expands before finally exploding.

Greenie was standing at the place where the cocoon was previously, he had changed tremendously, he was now 2 meters tall with bulging muscles everywhere, his skin was no longer green but gray with red lines on it. His hair was now black and two horns were protruding slightly on both sides. He slowly opened his eyes, his red pupils looking straight at Reign.

Taking a couple of steps forward he kneels down while saying.

“Master, I have become stronger again.”

“Oh, seems like your speech became better as well, good, good.” Reign nods happily as he brings up the status screen, eager to find out how much stronger his subordinate has become.

Name: Greenie

Level: 10 ( 70 / 3000 )

Race : Vajra Ogre (variant) (more info in the race menu)

Strength : 28

Agility :26

Endurance : 18

Vitality : 18

Willpower : 12

Spirit : 11

Proficiencies:

Pickaxe Proficiency C

Sword Proficiency B –

Hammer Proficiency B –

Two Handed Proficiency B –

Hand to Hand combat B-

Skills:

Shattering Punch

Dominating Slash

Crescent Kick

Shattering Stomp

Ability:

Vajra Might

Vajra Blood

Desciption: The Vajra Ogres are a variant species that worshipped one of the ancient Vajra gods, seeing the weakness their giant ogre bodies gave them they underwent a great series of mutations to make themselves smaller while not losing their formidable strength, the ancient god took notice of it and was satisfied with his worshippers, helping them by infusing a small part of his blood inside of them, making them one of the most feared ogre species of all.

[ Dominating Slash ]

Description: By using mana and all of his strength the ogre can unleash a devastating slash that deals 200% damage

[ Crescent Kick ]

Description: Channeling mana to their legs the Vajra ogres can launch a blade of mana towards their enemy.

[ Shattering Stomp ]

Description : By stomping on the ground the ogre can shake the earth itself and destabilize his enemies, if an unfortunate enemy stands between the ground and the foot he will take all of the damage instead.

[ Vajra Might ]

Description: The Vajra are one of the noblest ogres, their might feared by all. Using a part of the power the ancient god left them their bodies can grow incredibly large, letting go of speed and flexibility for unparalleled strength.

[ Vajra Blood ]

Description : The Vajra are one of the noblest ogres, their might feared by all. Using a part of the power the ancient god left them their bodies will undergo a qualitative change, boosting all stats for a short duration, the Vajra ogre will be weakened after the duration ends.

“Holy shit!” Shadow exclaims as he looks at the status screen next to Reign, the wolf was already incredibly strong but Greenies boost in stats was incredibly high, not to mention the skills and abilities he had gained.

After resting a bit of time everyone started moving again, eager to explore more of the dark forest, it was only a short couple of minutes later that they came across another batch of enemies.

Without any warning the party had suddenly faced a small barrage of projectiles aimed at them, Tank was at the front so he managed to block all of them with no difficulty, looking ahead everyone could see their enemies, the monsters in front of them looked like humans, of course, that was only the body shape they had, their entire bodies were made of wood.

[Lvl 11 Wood Folk ]

[Lvl 12 Wood Folk]

…

The Wood Folks in front of them came in different shapes and sizes, all of them looked humanoid, some had bigger arms, some had bigger legs…

The attacks of the Wood Folks were different as well, some launching needle-like projectiles from their bodies at the party while others detached part of their bodies and used them as javelins. The ones that didn’t have long-range capabilities were charging towards everyone. The number of enemies was about 9, with 4 being melee combatants who were charging forward.

“Beast and Shadow try to take out at least one of their long-range fighters, Beast, tell your wolf to go full stealth mode and try to take out one as well, the rest of us will try to finish these 4 as fast as we can,” Wolf commands as he goes to meet the 4 enemies with the others, each one took on one enemy as their numbers were the same.

The melee fight had no suspense, at the same level the monsters couldn’t endure long against anyone, Reign quickly dissected his opponent until finally stabbing deep inside it while using his lightning to fry the insides. Tank simply smashed apart his opponent with the shield while hacking away at it with his axe. Wolf used his greatsword together with his fire to make short work of it, the fire being incredibly effective against it. Greenie on the other hand simply used his hammer to crush parts of his opponent before he finally destroyed the head and body.

Immediately after finishing them off, they charged towards the remaining opponents who numbered 3 now, with one being seriously injured. Beast and Shadow focused their attacks on one opponent which allowed them to quickly kill it while Beast’s wolf attacked another one, it had just killed him when Reign and the others finished their battle.

The remainder of the battle held no suspense, the remaining 3 enemies were quickly taken care of.

[Battle has been concluded, distributing experience…]

– Lvl 11 Wood Folk killed, 200 exp gained

– Lvl 12 Wood Folk killed, 250 exp gained

– Lvl 13 Wood Folk killed, 300 exp gained

– Lvl 12 Wood Folk killed, 250 exp gained

– Lvl 13 Wood Folk killed, 300 exp gained

– Lvl 11 Wood Folk killed, 200 exp gained

– Lvl 11 Wood Folk killed, 200 exp gained

[The players have earner 1700exp and 65S coins, distributing …]

[The player has earned 340exp and 13S coins.]

[Battle has been concluded, distributing subordinates experience…]

– Lvl 12 Wood Folk killed, 250 exp points gained

[Your subordinate has killed 1 monster, 250 exp points earned.]

[Battle has been concluded, distributing pets experience…]

– Lvl 11 Wood Folk killed, 200 exp points gained-

[Your pet has killed 1 monster, 200 exp points earned.]

Ding!

[Player has enough exp to level up, leveling up!]

Level up!

[Current player level is 14, additional stats gained]

[ Strength + 1 , Agility + 1 , 2 free attribute points gained.]

Name: Reign

Level: 14 ( 98 / 7000 )

Class: Swordsman (more info in the class menu)

Race: Human? (more info in the race menu)

Attribute points: 8

Strength : 21 (30) (+3 from ability, +1 from item)

Agility : 30 (36) (+4 from ability, +2 from item)

Endurance : 14 (15) (+1 from item)

Vitality: 16 (17) (+ 1 from ability)

Willpower: 16

Spirit: 22 (31) (+3 from ability, +6 from item)

Proficiencies:

Knife Proficiency D+

Hand to hand combat A –

Sword Proficiency B

Skills:

[Inspect ] – Rank B

[Lightning charge] Rank A

[ Lighting movement ] – Rank C

[ Lightning Stab ] – Rank B

[ Compact Punch ] – Rank C

[ Swordsman] – no rank

[ Downward slash ] – no rank

[ Swordsman Heart ] – no rank 𝐨𝘃𝗹.

Ability:

Lightning manipulation S ( lvl 28 exp: 48%)

Unknown rank ??? ( lvl ? exp ???)

Before anyone could be happy about their victory and leveling up they heard sounds in front of them, their eyes widened after seeing what was coming at them, it was the Wood Folks again, only this time there were tens of them, perhaps even a hundred, looking at each other they all screamed: “RUN!”

And that was how the present situation happened, the party was still on the run, trying to flee the forest in haste.