Is this really a Game?!

"How long do you think it will take before he learns the truth about himself?" Jack suddenly asked Eldar who was staring out of the window and looking at the forest that surrounded the castle.

"It will happen at Tier V at the very least, but probably when he evolves to Tier IV, he has stopped talking about his visions, but he is probably getting more and more of them lately, that's just how it is," Eldar said as Jack nodded at his words.

They were of course talking about Reign and his race.

What Eldar has just said was true, ever since he had reached Tier II, Reign started getting more visions compared to before.

Some were extremely foggy and he barely remembered anything from them, while there were some that were very lucid and he could remember even the tiniest of details.

Most of the visions were of the same planet he presumed to be Earth.

Whoever the person from whose eyes he was looking was, he was powerful, incredibly powerful.

The whole planet, many times larger than Earth, was seemingly under his control.

They didn't really have any great technology, but the magic they wielded was something else entirely.

Giant floating cities and castles could be found in the world, most of them staying in the same place, while some would fly around, making rounds around the whole planet.

There were no wars, they had all been united under one leader and they were seemingly preparing themselves to fight a powerful enemy he could see many soldiers training, he could see smiths creating new weapons and armor, and large war machines that were operated by mana stones being built.

He had even seen the past of the planet as well.

Well, to be more exact, it was the past of the person that he was seeing.

Great wars where tens of thousands of people were battling.

Smaller skirmishers where each soldier was an incredibly powerful being.

Sieges of cities that had walls that were above 100 meters tall and battles against monstrous monsters like dragons, titans, and the like.

The visions were coming frequently.

About every second or sometimes a third day, Reign would have one.

Out of all the ones he had seen, there had only been about 4 that were not connected to that person, at least Reign thought so.

With each vision, he was piecing together the story of that man, whoever he was.

He had fought wars and conquered kingdoms before reaching the power he possessed.

Reign wondered if that was what waited for him in the future.

He had fought against monsters, and he had fought and killed humans, but wars on such a scale were something else entirely.

He didn't know if that awaited him, or if he could simply continue the way he was and reach the Transcendent realm in the end.

From what Eldar had told him and the others after one reached Tier X, they would be able to Transcend with relative ease, although some risks still remained.

The power he would possess after Transcending like that would be unlike anything he would have ever dreamed of. He could wield world energy, an incredibly powerful source of power that made mana seem like child's play.

Reign didn't know if Saints and Gods used world energy as well, but he doubted it as Eldar had mentioned other types of energy as well.

Gods could seemingly destroy planets.

To use the energy that one could obtain from a planet to destroy it seemed too far-fetched in Reign's mind.

But that didn't matter.

It was debatable if he would ever reach the realm of Gods, hell, even becoming a Saint was incredibly difficult.

For now, his goal remained unchanged.

Conquer the mountain range, find New York and reconnect with Shadow's family before finding the person who killed his father, and potentially also finding Wolf's father who was seemingly on the hunt for the man.

Reign wasn't sure of what he would do next.

He knew that they needed to become Transcendents in order to pretty much survive, but with how the whole planet was progressing, and how there were many talented people that seemingly had the potential to reach the realm, the whole end-of-the-world thing was not really that scary anymore.

It was after reaching the Transcendent realm that Reign didn't know what to do.

Would he continue fighting in order to become more powerful?

Would he really spend hundreds and probably thousands of years in bloodshed, trying to become a God?

Reign didn't really think much about it, he mostly just went along with the flow.

If that was the best way to keep Earth safe, he didn't mind doing it.

He had his friends that would accompany him along the way, so at least he wouldn't be alone for all of those years.

There was also a huge, seemingly endless universe that he could explore.

Wondrous planets such as Elijeon that he had previously been teleported to by the system, hellish worlds that had been almost completely conquered by demons like the one Laura had been to, weird, almost futuristic worlds where mechanics were the primary fighters, and more.

There were many things that Reign couldn't even imagine existed and he had to admit that he was interested in them.

He would honestly rather spend time traveling around and visiting the other worlds, but he knew that that was almost impossible as the universe was not that peaceful.

One had no idea when somebody might attack them. Transcendents were rare, but that was on a planetary basis, for the entire universe where there existed billions of planets if not even trillions, Transcendents were nothing really special.

Even Eldar had told the same, the ones that can truly live peacefully and without care are gods, but only the powerful ones that had reached the realm of a High or Peak god.

Of course, such powerful beings were rarely without an organization behind them, so usually they were even busier than others.

Reign had no end goal. He was pretty much confused about what he would do after all of this.

Reaching the highest realm and becoming one of the most powerful in the universe?

That would take thousands of years, maybe even hundreds of thousands.

He couldn't even comprehend just how long that was.

Would he still stay the same after so much time had passed?

Would he become somebody completely different?

He had no answer, hell, nobody had an answer for that. People could drastically change after one or two years, not to mention thousands.

But for now, that was simply far away from Reign, he wouldn't bother stressing himself out over such things.

Just like always, he would simply continue on and go with the flow, waiting to see where it would lead him.

'Maybe I'll become some sort of homicidal maniac in the future?' Reign jokingly asked himself before shaking his head.

At the very least, he knew that he would not become such a person.

As for the others, some of them had thought about such things.

Laura wondered what she would do after killing the Transcendent demoness that had taken the souls of her family.

Currently, she was only living for revenge.

The only thing she wanted to do was kill the demon and free the souls of her family. After that, she would have nothing more to drive her forward, no motivation to do anything.

Maybe she would simply continue being on the team and fighting alongside them.

They had saved her and it would have been impossible for her to even escape the demon, not to mention think of revenge without them. That was a debt that she believed she wouldn't be able to repay no matter how much she did.

Tank, Beast, and Wolf didn't really have a clear goal.

Wolf wanted to see his father again and learn of the things that were happening before the game started, but it wasn't really a goal of his.

Tank just wanted to fight. He wanted to become stronger and fight stronger opponents so he had no problems with simply continuing like this.

Beast also had no clear goals. He had simply been dragged along by Reign and the others at the very beginning and continued to stay with them.

As for Shadow, his goal was the same as Reign's. He wanted to see his parents again, and he also wished to find the person that killed Reign's parents.

They had been close ever since they were kids and Shadow looked at Reign's parents as his family as well. Their deaths were something that he also took hard, although not nearly as hard as Reign did.

He wanted to see his best friend happy again, he wished that there was a way to get his parents back, but that was impossible, unfortunately.

Revenge usually didn't lead to good things, but in this case, Shadow completely supported Reign and would help him in his quest. At least Reign could get some closure and feel relieved that the person responsible for their deaths was gone, killed by his own hands.