Is this really a Game?!

Reign appeared behind the staff-wielding Idrel once again, his black and white lightning was on full display as he had decided to use it from the very beginning. Compared to Yufan and Sios, these three were all more powerful individually and would definitely pose a problem for him, there was no reason to hide most of his strength before fighting against the king.

The incredible speed that Reign showed was more than enough to make the three men shocked, even though they were ready for him, his attack was still incredibly fast, and following his movements was very difficult.

Clang!

The katana and staff collide as Idrel was able to block the attack once again, even though Reign's speed was above theirs, all three of them were very experienced and wouldn't be defeated so easily. All of them released their mana as they attacked Reign with full force.

Idrel had vines growing out from the ground beneath him as he twirled the staff around and deflected Reign's attack, the vines immediately shot out towards Reign who cut them off with a simple swing of his sword. The problem however was the fact that the vines quickly regenerated and more of them were growing out from the ground.

The hammer-wielding man, Gardo, simply had his muscles grow even larger as his 2-meter-tall body grew about an inch taller. His ability was quite a common one, it simply increased the size of his muscles and gave him more strength. Even though it was quite a common and relatively weak skill for many, in the hands of a veteran fighter who had it at a high rank, it was devastating. Even Wolf who was the one with the highest strength stat in the party would probably lose when going against Gardo with pure strength.

Luin, the sword-wielding man had his body covered in a gray hue. Reign could immediately feel what the gray hue was, it was souls. Luin's ability allowed him to communicate with the souls of the dead and employ them in his service. The souls would not only be able to enhance his physical attributes, but each attack he landed would also affect the opponent's soul as well. Most would find their thoughts slowing down and their mental state worsened after fighting against Luin for prolonged periods of time.

His physical strength was the weakest out of all the top combatants of the coalition and the amount of mana he had was nothing special, but the ability to fight together with souls and attack the enemy's soul directly was what made him one of the most powerful people in the coalition. Amongst all the fighters in Older, he was the one that was strongest after the king.

Reign was quickly caught by the impressively fast vines, before he could free himself, Gardo had appeared and swung his hammer down on him. Reign could see that it would be almost impossible to dodge the attack right now and simply met the attack head-on.

Bam!

The intense power behind the large man's hammer forced Reign to go down on one knee immediately, luckily he was still able to block the attack. Of course, the vines were still coming to bind him and Idrel was also attacking with his staff.

[ Discharge ]

A large amount of lightning suddenly exploded from Reign, the two men were immediately blasted away as the vines were burned. One shouldn't underestimate Reign's lightning as it could kill a normal person at a moment's notice.

Swish

Luin suddenly appeared in front of Reign, his two eyes were wide open as he slashed down at Reign. The sword, however, didn't even come close to Reign as there were still about 2 meters between the two, a translucent sword light however came out of the sword and went toward Reign. Reign quickly used his broken sword to meet the slash, only to see the sword light pass through the sword and enter his body.

Reign could immediately hear tens of voices in his head, many emotions could be felt as the souls that Luin had used tried to attack his psyche. The attack was however useless, in an instant, the voices were gone as the souls started screaming inside of Reign, their screams, however, were hidden from Reign who simply felt as if nothing had happened.

Aethion looked at the two souls in front of him, they were locked in some sort of bone cage that he had created after using his soul power, the rest of the souls however were bathing in the sea of lightning while they were being ground by the light and darkness that could be found inside of Reign's consciousness.

'Trying to attack him with souls, that's a baaad move, young man.' Aethion thought as he looked at Luin whose face showed an expression of disbelief. Soul-based attacks are very rare, not only on this planet but in most places of the universe. The hardest opponent Luin had faced was a person whose mental state was so strong that he needed to use over 100 souls in order for them to start affecting him.

With Reign, however, the story was different. Never had he faced a situation where he lost contact and all connections with the souls he had sent inside somebody's body like right now. He was clearly able to feel that the souls had gone inside and had started attacking Reign's consciousness, but in an instant, the connection was severed and the souls were seemingly lost. Luin quickly pulled back as Reign attacked him, he didn't know what exactly happened, but he knew that he needed to be careful when fighting Reign, the ability to ignore or destroy the souls was something that was incredibly bad for Luin.

Luin had heard stories about fighters that could do the same as him in the other kingdoms and empires, but in this area, they were incredibly rare. Not only was he one of the few that could do soul-based attacks, but he was also the most powerful one, even Lico and the Judge had to be a bit wary of him as his attacks could affect them during battle.

For Reign however that was not a problem, not only did he have the soul of an old monster like Aethion with him, but his consciousness was far more powerful compared to others at the same power level as him. That, coupled with the dark copy of himself that actually lived inside of it made his consciousness almost impossible to be touched by someone such as Luin.

Even without the dark copy interfering, Luin would find it incredibly hard to do any meaningful damage to Reign with his attacks.

"Luin, what happened?" Idrel asked him after seeing the shock on his face.

"My souls, they're destroyed," Luin said with a heavy voice, he had never come across such an opponent before and was already worried about what could happen during the battle.

"Destroyed?" Gardo asked him with a surprised expression, he knew just how formidable Luin's soul-based attacks were as both he and Idrel had sparred with him many times in the past. More than once would the two suffer for a long period of time after being bombarded by the souls that Luin employed. To hear that they were destroyed so easily after entering Reign's body was worrying, to say the least.

"I thought we prepared well, but we have still underestimated this guy, he's far more dangerous than we expected him to be," Luin said as he stared at Reign with a concerned look. If his attacks were meaningless against Reign, then this battle would be many times more dangerous than they expected it to be.

Idrel was an expert when it came to immobilizing opponents and making it difficult for them to move around. Gardo was the one that would smash apart everything and deal great physical damage to the opponent while he was the one that would swoop in and attack the psyche. The trio was quite famous for their power and they could defeat almost all the fighters that were below the first evolution, even the Judge and Lico would have great difficulty when fighting them.

But Reign, Reign was different, with his ability to pretty much ignore one of the three, he was at a much better situation compared to anyone else. Idrel's vines were annoying and a bother to deal with while Gardo was too difficult to fight head-on, but if that was all he had to worry about, then this battle was impossible for him to lose.

Tap, Tap

Suddenly the sound of footsteps echoed through the gorge, Reign and his opponents had stopped fighting for a moment as even the large turtle and the defensive army had paused their battle. One man slowly walked toward the fortification, the aura he was releasing was suffocating for many of the soldiers who gulped in fear.

The king had finally moved and joined the battle.