Is this really a Game?!

Nearsch Alvaor slightly bowed to Reign and the others before smiling at them.

“Now, I do understand that you are worried about what is going on, the fog isn’t really nice to people, but I truly do not wish to fight against you, so how about we make a deal?” Nearsch asked, making Reign and the others slightly surprised.

“A deal?” ．𝒄𝙤𝙢

“Yes, a deal, a simple one.” Nearsch suddenly moved his hand and a small display nearby lit up, showing a map of the surrounding areas.

“Instead of us fighting and going against each other, we can do this like civilized people, we can simply go ahead and divide the areas, I get some of them and have free reign over spreading my fog there, and you guys get the rest, free of the fog and my monsters.”

“I have been here for quite some time, and as you might have guessed, I was the one that summoned the fog, but I didn’t realize that it would make me bound to it, making it impossible for me to even move from this position until today.”

“So, if you had been able to move before, you probably would have tried to kill us, right?” Wolf asked Nearsch who simply nodded his head.

“Yes, you lot were weak before, and had I been mobile, I would have gotten rid of you, but after you guys arrived multiple times, even bringing some more people over with you, I realized that the more time passed, the harder it would become for me to fight against you, even if I was to use all the monsters at my disposal.”

What Nearsch didn’t say, was that he wanted to send all of the monsters to them and slaughter them for quite some time, but he didn’t have a good grasp over the fog and its powers, making that impossible.

It was only today, after the restrictions from the system were lifted, that he suddenly found himself able to control the fog a bit, which was why the 30+ monsters that were around Reign and the others were standing still and weren’t attacking them.

“So, the reason why you want peace is not because you dislike fighting, but merely because you don’t know if you could win against us?”

“Correct, as you see, I’m being completely honest here, no lies, no hiding the truth.”

“I merely wish for us to coexist, with your power and mine, if we were to forge an alliance, we would be able to dominate this entire planet, nobody would be able to go against us, nobody.”

Nearsch suddenly started chuckling as he stared at Reign and the others.

“So, what do you say, partners, huh?”

‘You’re sure that’s what happened?’ Reign asked Jared who was nodding his head. The moment that Nearsch had activated the display screen, Jared had used the opportunity to not only scan it but to also infiltrate the ship.

Even though the technology used to build the ship was unfamiliar to Jared, he was a true AI from a civilization that was once the most advanced in the universe, one of the most powerful in the universe that ruled over a large portion of the known universe at that time.

The encryption of the ship, the firewalls, and the many defenses placed on it were worthless as Jared was able to break through in seconds and gain access to the ship’s database. The first thing he did was comb through the logs and check to see if there was a record of what happened before the ship landed on the planet.

There, Jared got surprised and even elated. It turned out that the ship did indeed arrive here after the game had started, and it had done so by cloaking itself, but the cloaking was not in the ship, no, it was actually placed outside.

It was a special coating that the civilization used, by coating the ship with the substance that they had created, the ship would be invisible and even gods would have trouble noticing the ships. Of course, that was true for Low Gods, the ones above could indeed notice it if it was nearby.

The coating was expensive though, so not all ships could be coated, and it was usually reserved for ships that were on a special mission, and this one was.

They were to go to a station of an allied race and deliver the package. The package was a mystery to the crew of the ship and they only knew that it was very important and that they were to prioritize the safety of the package even over the ship.

During their trip, something changed.

As they were passing near the Earth, the crew stopped as they sensed that there were gods nearby, and one of them was above the Low God realm. Panicking, they stopped and were planning on going back before going around the star system, but it was then that Nearsch moved.

He actually knew what the package was, and he wanted it for himself. As the highest-ranking person on the ship, Nearsch used his authority to take a battlesuit before calling for a meeting. The meeting was for the higher echelons of the crew, and Nearsch, as the inspector that the navy had sent to make sure that everything went well, used their predicament as the cause for the meeting.

It was there that Nearsch killed everybody with the help of the battle suit he was still wearing, but he wasn’t fast enough as the commander had quickly locked him out of the ship, making it impossible for him to utilize any of the ship’s functions.

Without the battle suits, the Ubolts, which was the name of his race, were weak, on average, their combatants were as strong as Tier II beings, and they only had a small number of those that had reached the Transcendent realm, and only one Saint.

In order for the ship not to be delivered to an enemy, the commander had used an emergency button, one that would send the ship toward the nearest planet and force it to land there and stay until reinforcements arrived.

Unfortunately, even if the signal hadn’t been blocked, it would be impossible for the civilization to come and take the ship back. Thanks to the high interest of the alliance, Earth was being closely monitored, and the coating they had would be destroyed when a ship entered the atmosphere of the planet.

When the ship landed, Nearsch had already killed everybody that was present on it before quickly making his way to the back of the ship and immediately opening the package.

The package was actually a small box, one that had a little bit of fog in it.

Nearsch broke the box before quickly inhaling the fog, causing it to enter his body and change it. After many millennia of research, it became known that if a person could take the origin of the fog, which was what was inside the box, a portion of the true Ominous Klinchor Vitality Draining Fog of the Mad God Plosarkon, which the mad god had created himself, they could become the origin themselves.

Upon taking the fog in him, Nearsch was able to create the small hole from which the fog came out. The hole led to another dimension, and as long as he was alive and had power, it would be open.

He then fell into a long slumber before waking up and realizing that the ship had used its batteries to create an invisible barrier that didn’t allow the fog, himself, or anything tainted by the fog near it. He had to stay in place and slowly allow the fog to spread and take control of the monsters around him.

Unfortunately, he had no access to the arsenal of the ship, which had promptly been destroyed when the crew of the ship realized what was going on. His biggest regret was the fact that the commander’s personal battle suit, one that allowed him to battle against Transcendents, had self-destructed after the death of the commander.

The Ubolts fought using their spaceships and other machinery together with the battle suits. They had large suits that were similar to those one could see in animes that were piloted by some of their best pilots and rarely utilized mana or world energy themselves, mostly relying on their machines to do that for them.

After learning all of that, Jared told Reign everything, making him aware that Nearsch was not somebody that could be trusted, and that he planned on gaining full control over the planet, which was a pipe dream that a person that had no information about the existence of the will of the world, nor that there were many Transcendents present, could only wish to do.

Knowing that Nearsch would most likely end up betraying them, and could potentially trick them right away as he wasn’t bound by the system and its rules like they were, Reign decided that the only thing they could do right now was to fight.

Even though Nearsch had the power of Tier V being thanks to the suit, he wasn’t a fighter, so Reign was confident that he could defeat him.