Is this really a Game?!

Ever since Reign and the others had arrived, they were training and waiting for the inevitable challenge that would take place. Contrary to what they expected, however, the challenge was a bit late.

Usually, the challenges would happen in intervals of 1 month, this time, however, even after more than a month had passed, there was no challenge. Nobody would pass a chance to go and do a challenge since the time that passed outside the challenge was minuscule, some would also be able to not only survive dangerous situations by joining a challenge but any injuries they had would be healed, even someone on the brink of death would be brought to peak condition before the challenge commenced.

The challenge countdown had, however, started yesterday. Upon seeing it, Reign and the others were definitely going to take part in it, and so were Elijah, Neil, and Cameron's teams. The territory had 4 teams that were powerful enough to play a part in the challenges, which was an incredible achievement.

Of course, none of the three teams had any notions of winning the challenge, not only did they see the power that some of the top teams like Ice Angels possessed, but they knew that compared to Reign and the others who were constantly getting stronger, they were nothing special.

In the previous challenge, nobody had hit Tier I, right now it was obvious that everybody that was going to take part in the challenge would be a Tier I combatant, and the area they would be doing the challenge it was definitely going to have plenty of Tier I monsters.

Reign and the others were excited, not only because they wanted to improve the tier of their title, but because the rewards were great, especially if they could somehow get a special reward like last time.

Sparring with Drayce was something that allowed them to improve by a significant margin back then, if they could do the same this time, then they would definitely see their strength rise once more.

As for the other teams, Reign and the others weren't wary of them that much. They respected the strength of some of the teams head, especially the Ice Angels whose leader was incredibly powerful, powerful enough to even be part of their team as her strength was definitely a match for them.

The other teams, like The Gamers, Dark Scythe and the Blood Angels who were all part of the top 5 teams during the first challenge were still incredibly powerful as they had managed to reach the top 5 during the last challenge as well.

Like Drayce had said, the last challenge didn't have the same rules and if somebody died during the challenge, they wouldn't be resurrected.

That not only brought more fear to the weaker players, but it also made sure that the players that didn't possess a high level of strength would be careful during the challenge as everybody would get rewards, even those that ranked last.

Of course, the rewards were barely worth anything, but to get something merely by participating was not a bad thing at all.

As the countdown reached 0, Reign and the others were all transported away.

The sky had the same 30-minute countdown as it had during the first challenge and the previous one. Reign and the others could immediately see some groups that were laying down on the ground, bruised and battered.

Some groups even had people whose arms or legs were cut off and were bleeding profusely. But that would soon change, the challenge would not start until the players were all in their peak forms, which meant that even lost limbs would get regenerated here.

One could see green mana covering the ones that were heavily injured, their wounds were closing with incredible speed as even their lost limbs had immediately started regenerating, albeit quite slowly.

Reign and the others stood in the center once more while the three teams from their territory came to them and sat down.

Many glances were given to them, some whispered, talking to the teams that were new and hadn't seen the power that Reign and the others possessed, while others talked about Elijah and the others and how they were right about them all being a part of the same territory, something that was evident by how they all talked comfortably with each other.

Reign was glancing around, there were some new teams that he hadn't seen before whose powers were actually quite decent, there were even two that were near the level of the Ice Angels.

Upon talking with Elijah and the others, he found out that those two teams had not taken part in the challenge the previous time and were completely unknown entities.

As Reign was talking and looking around, he felt that someone was staring at him. Looking to his right, his eyes met with the sky-blue eyes of the leader of the Ice Angels. Reign had remembered her from the first challenge as her strength truly was something special, but of course, her beauty didn't lose out either.

With her white hair, pretty rose lips, and enchanting body that was perfectly shown through the dress she wore, she looked straight out of a fairy tale. Even Reign had to confess that he was moved a bit after seeing her again.

But why was she staring at him?

Reign and the girl continued staring at each other before Reign lifted his head and, gently,  waved at her.

Wolf and the others had a confused gaze as they looked at Reign who was waving, then at the person to who he was waving to.

"See, even the boss is trying to woo her." One of the boys from Elijah's team said before Ashley smacked him on the back of his head.

"Be quiet, there is definitely a reason why the leader is waving to her, perhaps he is trying to show dominance?" Ashely said as the people around her all tried their best not to chuckle.

"Ash," Elijah spoke

"Yeah Eli?"

"Please think before speaking again," Elijah said as he gazed at her with a calm expression before turning around. His expression changed as he was close to laughing as well.

"You're all just bullies." Ashley pouted as she sat down and stared at the sky.

The girl seemed a bit confused by Reign's actions at first but merely continued looking at him for a couple of more seconds before retreating her gaze and speaking to the members of her team.

"Damn bro, she didn't even wave back," Shadow said as he patted Reign's shoulder while having a sad expression on his face.

"Don't give up, maybe she doesn't see you in that way right now, but in the fut-" Shadow stopped talking as Reign put his hand over his mouth.

"Zip it, something is, different about her."

"Different?" Asked Wolf with an interesting expression on his face.

"Yeah, I can't really think of what it is, it's not her strength, she is still incredibly strong, and her looks are the same, but something has changed, well, no use thinking about it too much, I guess we'll see what it is during the challenge." Reign said as he observed their surroundings.

This time, they were in a desert. There was no scorching heat present as they were currently in a safe zone of sorts that seemed to protect them against the heat, but when the challenge started, they would definitely feel it.

As the countdown reached zero, a familiar figure appeared in the sky just a couple of meters above them.

"Hello dear challengers, welcome to another challenge," Drayce said as he smiled at all the teams present.

"I'm happy to see that we have our no.1 team back in the challenge," Drayce said as he glanced at Reign and the others before waving at them enthusiastically.

"Hello guys, make sure to do good so I can beat- spar with you again."

"That bastard," Shadow said as he stared at Drayce who was still smiling at them.

"Now, you are probably wondering why it took so long for this challenge to start, well, I kinda forgot to start it," Drayce said as everybody looked at him weirdly.

"I'm joking, just joking, damn, tough crowd," Drayce said with a sad expression before continuing.

"It's because the system decided to give you all some more time to reach Tier I and level up some more, I'm happy to see that all of you have managed to do so," Drayce said as he looked at all of the teams present.

"We have some newcomers as well, well, I can't wait to see what is going to happen here."

"Now, you must be itching to find out the contents of the challenge, well, let's get to it," Drayce said as he looked up as the sky changed. A board appeared with the names of all the teams that were taking place in the challenge.

"For this challenge, everyone will be able to see what's happening and who is in the lead, but you are probably wondering why there are only 13 places on the table." Drayce smiled as he looked at them.