Is this really a Game?!

“Hey, I mean New York was enough of a surprise, but what the hell man?” Reign said as he scratched his head and stared at the city from a distance.

Upon learning what the city was, all of them immediately distanced themselves from it. They didn’t know if there was radiation left inside or around the city, and they didn’t want to risk it.

“Hmmm, what happened to you guys, to suddenly get so meek and act like this?” Aethion asked Reign while M’azgara and her elites were also looking at them with confused expressions on their faces.

“Ah, right, you guys don’t know about Pripyat and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, wait, do you even know what a nuclear power plant is?” Reign suddenly asked Aethion and M’azgara who simply shook their heads.

‘M’azgara I didn’t expect would know, but you neither, seems like there really is no such technology in the universe, just like you have said.’ Reign told Aethion before starting to narrate what Chernobyl was.

He briefly explained how a nuclear power plant works. He first told them about nuclear fission and how a neutron collides with a uranium atom and splits it to release a lot of energy in the form of heat and radiation.

How the nuclear fission heats up water that is in the core of the reactor, then the water goes into tubes inside a heat exchanger where steam is created in order to create electricity from another generator.

After that, Reign explained how the reactor had exploded and that the radiation that had been released made it impossible for humans to go there without suffering immensely and dying. It took him some time to explain everything, and in the end, both M’azgara and Aethion were left stunned.

“To think you had such large constructions that produced so much power, the power that generator could potentially explode with is probably equal to what an average Transcendent could have.”

“Yeah, and you still don’t know about nuclear missiles, not to mention the Tsar bomb and similar weapons that are much more powerful.”

“I’ll tell you about it later, not now.” Reign quickly said as he saw how Aethion’s eyes opened wide. The old man was quite interested in learning stuff, and hearing how Earth had been improving its technology was something very interesting to him.

“Even though it can’t be compared with what we can do with mana and the amazing buildings and structures that have been built thanks to it, you guys have managed to do it without using any mana at all, truly astonishing, had the system not taken over the planet and rendered most of your technology obsolete, mostly electrical technology and the like, I have a feeling that you would have been able to fight against most monsters in the early stages of the game,” Aethion told Reign who nodded his head.

‘That’s another thing I want to know, just why did the system do that, not to mention that the system itself had told us that the overseer was the one to make that choice, which clearly was not the case.’ Reign told himself before shaking his head and staring at the city in front of them.

They could see some monsters, all of them looking quite grotesque and relatively small compared to the ones they had seen before. If they were to guess simply based on their observations, they would say that there still was radiation down there.

The monsters didn’t look normal, they were grotesque and some looked horribly mutated, just like one would see when playing certain video games that were taking place in the city of Chernobyl or Pripyat.

“Hmmm, I don’t think you need to worry about it, radiation is the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, and thanks to how strong you guys are now, you should have quite some resistance over it, not to mention that you can always use your mana to shield yourself from it, which should make it impossible for you to get affected in any way.” Aethion suddenly said as he looked down at the city. 𝚍ｎ𝚘ｖ𝚕.𝚝

“Are you sure, I don’t want to go down there only to find out that I am dying from cancer in a couple of days because you weren’t right.” Reign told Aethion, prompting the latter to laugh.

“Boy, you are a Nephilim, even if you were to bathe in the radiation, your true form would be enough to heal you from anything that happens, not to mention that you have light manipulation as well and can heal yourself even further, so don’t worry too much and go down there, you can leave the rest here and check it out yourself, I can guarantee that you will be fine,” Aethion said, making Reign click his tongue in slight frustration before nodding his head.

“Wait here, let me check it out first,” Reign told the others before speeding down and arriving at the city. He coated himself in mana and was immediately able to feel a change.

There was something outside of his body that was trying to go past the mana coating but was unable to do so.

“See, it’s trying to get to you, but the mana is keeping you safe, as long as you keep it up, you will be fine, not to mention that it will have a hard time doing anything to your body since you are a Tier IV being, so relax a bit, only places that have a high density of radiation will be able to harm you, and that is only if you are not coating yourself with mana,” Aethion told Reign before the latter called the others over, not forgetting to tell them to use mana to coat their bodies.

They were all able to sense the difference and were surprised to find that mana could actually block off radiation. This would help not only them but all the other players if they were ever faced with a situation where radiation was present and they had to go through it.

They slowly started walking through the city. The empty city gave eerie vibes as it was one that had been abandoned for over a century, with nobody living inside.

Tourism had started blooming for the city of Pripyat, but even then, there were not many that dared go there.

The monsters here were thankfully Tier III, and they were powerful enough for M’azgara to be able to use them as nutrients to create her main army. The monsters were all different from each other, even the ones that were the same race looked different.

Deers with two heads, one which was normal while the other one was horribly transfigured with large teeth that could easily rip through flesh, wolves with green glowing bodies, multiple heads, more legs than normal … all kinds of mutations could be seen.

This was actually a good thing for M’azgara. The monsters here had adapted to living in such conditions, which meant that the ones she would be able to create would be the same, very adaptable, and able to move through many different biomes without much difficulty.

One could say that this was the perfect place for M’azgara to get her nutrients, at least for now, before she become more powerful and could have a larger, and more powerful army.

The monsters were of course unable to do a thing to Reign and the others thanks to them being a whole realm above them. They were able to easily walk through the city and take in the sights, even coming across an area boss that was present inside Pripyat.

The area boss was powerful and could fight evenly against Reign, but if it was to fight against all of them together, it would be killed without much difficulty, prompting it to do nothing. The area boss was actually a giant deer, its skin was milky white and it had blue glowing antlers on its head.

The monster was many times larger than a normal deer and was as big as a normal house. Upon sensing just how powerful Reign and the others were the giant deer simply started following them around.

It was quite tame and never tried to attack them or anything similar. Beast even went to the deer that lowered its body and stared at Beast, before its eyes softly closed as he started rubbing its forehead.

“It’s very tame, I can actually tame it right now if I wanted to,” Beast said with slight surprise as he looked at the giant deer that was acting as if it was a pet.

Suddenly, a glow appeared around the deer before it actually licked Beast and transformed itself. It suddenly became smaller, just like a normal deer. It was then enveloped in a bright blue light that formed a ball around it.

“Umm, sorry, it’s evolving, we need to wait here for a bit, I tamed it just now,” Beast said as he scratched the back of his head.

“Truly the luckiest bastard ever.” Reign sighed as he and the others sat down and waited for the deer to evolve. They had come here in order to find a suitable place for M’azgara to use, and Beast had already found a good monster to tame, one that immediately started evolving to Tier IV after being tamed.