Is this really a Game?!

Ding!

[ The challenge will start in 5 minutes, all participants please wait patiently to get teleported, those that are in the middle of a battle will also be teleported. ]

Reign and the others were fully equipped as they waited for the challenge to start. They were currently in the living room since it was the day of the challenge they, of course, decided not to go out and fight, luckily for them there was no further activity from the ants last night.

Since Reign had already paid the fee to have the soldiers patrol the city for a couple of days he was quite confident that nothing bad will happen while they do the challenge. Soon the 5 minutes pass and the seven of them all get teleported.

Upon opening their eyes after the teleportation they were able to see the cloud being incredibly close to them while a strong gust of wind was blowing. Looking around they were able to see that they were currently on a mountain top, contrary to a usual mountain top however this one was quite wider, the smooth surface of it seems like someone simply cut off a part of the mountain to create this.

Reign and the others were currently standing at the center of the mountain top as a white radiance covered them. The name Heaven's Hooligans was shown above them while they were all carrying an emblem on their chests. The emblem was a simple triangular one that was made from steel, in the middle of it was a lightning bolt, the right side was painted white while the left one was black.

Everyone knew that the emblem was a show of Reign's power, considering that the whole team had the same emblem then they could be sure that the others would be similar and that the emblems would show their respective leader's power.

Reign and the other looked at the sky where there was a 30-minute countdown, it seemed that they had to wait for half an hour before the challenge starts?

But why would they need to do that, everybody is present after all. The answer of course was found fairly quickly as there were some grunts and even screams from the side. Like the challenge said, even if the players were in battle, the challenge would still commence, and well, some of the players were clearly in battle.

There were a total of 25 teams on the huge mountain top, out of the 25 there were about 7 that were injured and were being healed by the system. The system notified everyone that this was in order to keep the challenge fair and that they will be told what the challenge is in 30 mins which is the approximate time for when the players would be fully healed, not only physically but mentally as well.

As they were the team in the center, most people were looking at them as they were interested in what kind of team the one at the top was. People seemed to have a particularly shocking reaction upon seeing Greenie, well, it was to be expected as seeing a monster with other players was not a common sight. Not to mention one that was clearly a powerful variant like Greenie.

"Master."

"Yeah, Greenie?"

"Some of the humans here are strong."

"I know."

Reign smiles upon hearing Greenie's words, the other players around them were shocked to hear a monster talk, not to mention that some of them had a blank face after hearing his name. It was to be expected, after all, why would anyone call a big guy that had gray skin a red tattoos Greenie?

Greenie had a true name now, but after everything that had happened since he got the inheritance, he decided to not to Reign and the others, he still didn't know why, he just felt that the whole dynamic of the team would change if he suddenly had a different name, he was after all just a subordinate.

What he failed to understand was that Reign and the others had stopped treating him such a long time ago, they had gone through thick and thin together and fought hundreds of enemies, to them, Greenie was simply part of the team, and one of them, nothing more and nothing less.

Reign quickly inspected the teams in their immediate surroundings, only three people were powerful enough to present any kind of challenge to him, of course, that was based on the amount of mana they had and the kind of feeling he got after inspecting them. The three, of course, were the leader of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ranked teams, the fifth team was similar in power to the 4th one, but the difference was that they had a more balanced power distribution.

1.      Heaven's Hooligans

2.      Ice Angels

3.      Berserkers

4.      The Gamers

5.      Blood Angels

They were the first ranked ones, of course, the second team, the Ice Angels was made up of mostly women, out of the 14 members of the team, only 4 were men while the others were all women of ages ranging from what seemed to be 16 to 25 – 26. They carried an insignia that had a snowflake on it, that should probably mean that their leader has the power of snow, or maybe ice or freezing or anything similar to it.

The Berserkers were the third-ranked team, they were made up of only men and there were 20 of them in the team, which is also the maximum number of players that could be present in one team. They all wore some red and black armor and their behavior was crude, to say the least. They were all a bit buff and seemed to have a few screws loose. Their insignia was a machete that dripped blood, either the leader had some ability that could manipulate blood, or he used his blood to somehow strengthen his skills?

The Gamers all wore some long robes whilst sitting down and seemingly meditating, of course, that wasn't what they were really doing as Reign could feel how their mana was slithering on the ground like snakes, trying to spy and pick some information up. Their emblem didn't have a normal form, it was changing constantly. Some of the mana tried to get to them but Reign quickly destroyed it which led to a couple of the players from their team going pale while the leader opened his eyes and stared at Reign with a serious look. It seemed that the leader was an expert at manipulating mana, thankfully Reign had already improved his mana organ and he was able to feel the mana being changed by him and the other players.

Reign smiled at him a bit and waved, the man simply closed his eyes as his team continued with what they were doing, of course, this time they made sure not to go even close to Reign and the others. The total number of the players in that team was 15, and they were similar to the Berserkers in one thing, most of the players were weak and only the leader and the second strongest were worth mentioning.

The Blood Angels were a group of 10,  4 girls and 6 guys, their mana was quite similar to each other and the leader was only a bit stronger compared to the other players on the team. Their emblem was a wing, either the leader could fly or he wished for freedom.

Suddenly a commotion was made like a couple of the girls from the Ice Angels started arguing with the Berserkers, Reign didn't see what happened but it seemed that the Berserkers made some rude comments which made the girls angry. It seemed the guys were used to it and even had a gleeful look on their faces as the girls looked at them with anger while holding themselves back to not attacking them. One thing to note is that when it came to strength, the Ice Angels can defeat them easily, the reason why is because there were 3 people in their team that had decent strength, while their leader who was currently hidden behind a robe had enough mana that she was only second to him.

Even Wolf would probably find it hard to fight against her, of course, Reign didn't even think for a second that Wolf would lose, it would just be a hard fight.

As the arguing continues it was clear that both sides were getting more and more agitated, the Berserkers were getting cockier and continued giving rude and lewd comments until finally the girls snapped and started walking towards them. The guys seemed overjoyed by their action but before they could do anything the mana pressure that one of the guys at the front emitted together with 2 of the girls was enough to make them stop and slightly shake as their power was far above their own. Even though they were ranked 3rd, the difference between the two teams was large, much larger than they thought.

Of course to not lose face their leader stood up as he faced the 3.