Is this really a Game?!



The attack on the base was a swift and fierce one. Shadow and the others held nothing back and slaughtered the many gang members with incredible efficiency and speed. With Wolf making a hole in the wall next to the basement entrance, the prisoners were able to immediately get out. The sentries and guards who were outside were the first ones to be taken down by Reign while Shadow and the rest focused on the riflemen who were atop the towers or at the windows.

Even though the destruction of an entire base would soon be found out, which would alarm most of the city, Reign and the others didn't care. Their plan was to immediately head to the center of the city and go inside the building in which the Butcher resided. They knew that they had to be fast, from the conversation that Reign and the others managed to overhear in the tower, they knew that the Butcher was planning to start drinking the potions tonight before starting the evolution.

If he was allowed to drink the potions and gain more strength, the battle against him would be harder, and they couldn't allow that to happen. The battle only lasted for 3 minutes. In only 3 minutes, every single gang member that was inside the base was dead. The speed and strength of Reign and the others made it impossible for any of the gang members to defend themselves, every single one being killed in one hit.

Upon finishing up with the base, Reign and the others made their way outside. The prisoners were waiting in the yard of the base, every single one of them scared of what will happen in the future.

The people that had rescued them dared to not only infiltrate the base of a gang, but they had also dared kill every single person in it, which would incur the wrath of the head of the region, as well as the Butcher.

"Listen up, you guys only need to run out of here and hide yourselves, the gangs will soon learn of what has happened here, but don't worry, soon enough, they will have a lot more to worry about than you guys!" Reign said loudly as he looked at the prisoners.

"Go now, the longer you wait here, the harder it will be for you to safely escape and hide yourselves!" Reign shouted, amplifying his voice with mana and using his soul manipulation in order to make the prisoners a bit more willing to listen to his words.

He knew that some of them would end up being caught and probably killed, but when looking at the entire picture, the lives of every single person in this city, and the surrounding area, were on their shoulders.

If the Butcher was allowed to continue doing what he was doing, then little by little, people would start disappearing, being killed inside the machine and even their souls would get devoured by him.

"Let's go, we need to act like we're normal citizens of the city and make our way to the center of the city." Reign said as the others nodded.

"From what we already know, the center is the place where the density is the highest, many people work there, but the building that the Butcher has taken, as well as the surrounding area, has been deemed as a private zone that nobody dares enter, the moment we step foot in it, they will know that we are there," Wolf said as Reign nodded to him, fully aware that he was correct.

The entire group made their way through the city, sometimes being glanced at weirdly by passersby as such a large group of people moving together was not a frequent sight in the city as normally, it would only be the gang members that moved in larger groups.

Only minutes had passed since they had left the base before people started panicking.

The large crowd of people leaving the yard of the base had been seen, and at first, people had no idea what was happening. Reign and the others had killed everybody and when it came to those who were in the yard, they not only killed them but made sure to move their bodies so that people wouldn't notice the corpses easily.

Upon seeing that there was nobody in the base, some people got confused, and it took little time for some people to actually recognize some of the prisoners. Upon going after them and talking with them, they heard of what had happened, how they were kidnapped by the gang before being rescued by some people that killed every single gang member.

Those that heard the story trembled as they knew that the murder of an entire gang would make every other gang enraged, and it wouldn't take them long before they would mobilize and come over here.

People started running away, even those that had nothing to do with the gang's death. They knew how unreasonable the gang members could be, and the last thing they wished was for them to be implicated in this matter.

Some cursed Reign and others for doing such a thing. Killing an entire gang only meant that the citizens would be in danger as the gangs would be looking to avenge their comrades and make it known that nobody is allowed to mess with them.

As time passed, Reign and the others could see that the city was changing. The people were now nervous, and many of them started making their way back home in order to be safe. More gang members could be seen on the streets, and for those that were simply passing, Reign and the rest would do nothing against it, but those that would approach them with hostile intentions would be left lying on the ground upon being attacked by Reign's soul attacks.

He didn't kill them as he didn't want to draw more attention to him or the group right now. They were making their way to the center, but as fewer people could be seen on the streets, and more gang members started occupying the streets, he knew that they had to hurry.

They went to another alley and got up to a rooftop before jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Most of the gang members below didn't see them, but sometimes, they would be passing near a base of a gang and would be spotted.

It mattered little to Reign and the others who were much faster than any gang member. Even when some tried going after them, they would be forced to stop as they would soon lose sight of Reign and the others. Gangs started alarming others of the group that was making a beeline to the center, but even when knowing ahead of time, the gang members were unable to stop them.

The situation back at the base that Reign and the others had decimated turned serious as multiple gang bosses arrived, and it didn't take long for the head of the region to arrive as well.

"Sir, we have received multiple reports of a group of 13 jumping from roof to roof and making their way to the center of the city." A gang member suddenly arrived and told the boss whilst panting, making the faces of each boss and the head ugly.

"Could it be possible that they were the ones that did this?" One gang boss asked.

"Also, I do not know if it's connected to them or not, but we have received reports of a couple of small groups lying on the streets, from what they told us, they were walking toward a group that they believed was suspicious, but before they could even say a thing, immense pain hit them and they lost consciousness, from the location of those groups, we believe that the enemy had been walking through the street, making their way over from this place to the center."

"The first group to be attacked was only 3 streets away from here."

"Notify the other bosses and heads of this, don't sound the alarm, however, just make sure to capture the prisoners so that word can't spread of the basement." The head told the bosses who all looked at him weirdly.

"But, sir, they are probably making their way to the big boss, shouldn't we alarm everybody and gather up the gangs to stop them?"

"Stop them?" The head asked one of the bosses before sneering.

"If they are making their way to the boss, and they have killed everybody here without anyone noticing, then we can be certain that they are all Tier IV combatants, probably powerful ones, do you really think the gangs can take them on, perhaps not even my personal group, together with me, could go toe to toe with them." The head said before turning around.

"The boss will deal with those ants, you have nothing to worry about, just make sure to contain the news about what is happening and continue operating as normal." The head said before disappearing on the spot, leaving the bosses confused.