Is this really a Game?!



Reign and the others stared at the giant spaceship that was in front of them before they all steeled themselves and made their way closer to it. There was already an opening in the spaceship, a hole that had been created somehow, and they used that to get inside.

There was no electricity in the spaceship, no lights, nothing.

Luckily, they could all use mana to improve their eyesight, which gave them improved visibility in the dark. It was not night vision, and it was definitely inferior to the eyesight they had when there was light, but it worked, and it helped them to move in the darkness inside the ship.

Reign and the others were careful, even though Jared had scanned the ship and told Reign that there were no life signals inside of it, which should prove that nobody was inside, they were a bit skeptical.

After all, the fog was all around the ship, and the only part of the ship that Jared had been unable to scan was the back, which was where whatever they were transporting was located, which made them believe that there might be enemies there, and they might have already sensed them and could be moving toward them.

Reign tried to sense mana, but nothing could be felt in the ship. He used his soul manipulation and tried to sense if there were any souls around them, but once again, there was nothing, not even a small trace of a soul.

The situation perplexed them a bit.

Why was this giant spaceship here, and when did it even appear?

They should have been able to spot such a large thing coming down if it arrived after the game started, after all, this mountain range was not present before the game, so there shouldn't be a way for the spaceship to have been present on the planet before the system arrived.

They thought that the system might have placed it here as some of the areas had objects and even some buildings that were confirmed to have been placed by the system in order to give humans more chances to obtain benefits, but the system hated every race that created such space ships, and it would have destroyed it immediately if it had come in touch with it.

The system would have most likely destroyed the spaceship the moment the game started, so it had to have come after that. From what Reign and the others knew from Eldar and the others, the planet was constantly being monitored by the Alliance and there was even a god present outside, so how did a spaceship manage to pass unnoticed and arrive here?

Nothing here made sense, and that was exactly why Reign and the others were so careful. If the ship had truly arrived after the game started, that meant that it had managed to pass unnoticed by a God, and that was beyond anything that Reign and the others could hope to reach right now.

Even though gods were restricted by the system when coming to planets that were going through the game, the race that created the ship existed outside the system's scope, which meant that they weren't bound by any rules and would be able to kill them without any problems if they wanted to.

Reign and the rest spent more than 2 hours inside the spaceship, and yet, they found nothing. They found some living quarters, or what they believed to be living quarters, they found some other rooms that might have been used for storage, and they even came to an armory that, for some reason, was completely empty.

It was only thanks to Jared that they could move around without getting lost and could identify the rooms they visited. Jared could scan and even translate the language that was used to write the names down, and he was the one that told them what each part of the ship and room was.

They even made it to the main deck where there were tens of screens and a lot of different kinds of machinery, but none of them worked. The light coming from the front was the only thing functioning, and it seemed that that light was used to give a sort of distress signal.

Of course, since the spaceship was stuck on Earth, whatever signal they were trying to send was being blocked by the system, and potentially even the planet itself.

Reign knew that Cyrus hated the system, but he doubted he would allow any harm to come Earth's way. Nobody knew what the ones that had sent the ship here planned on doing, after all, so it was much better to just block the signal and not allow anyone to come here.

"So, seems like we have to start moving to the back." Reign said in a low voice as everyone nodded at him. They knew that that would be where the true danger would lie, and they would be lying if they said they weren't apprehensive about it, but it had to be done.

The back was where the fog originated from, and if they wanted to get rid of the fog and truly conquer the mountain range, they needed to go there and figure out what was making the fog appear and how to eliminate it.

They slowly started making their way back. Jared had scanned the ship and even created a sort of map that he was using to guide Reign and the others toward the back of the ship, which saved them quite a lot of time.

He had only managed to create the map after they entered the ship and explored a bit as his scan wasn't powerful enough to identify the entirety of the ship's inside without coming inside and spending some time scanning it again.

"Interesting." Jared suddenly said, making Reign stop and Aethion stare at him.

"What is it?"

"This ship, it's nothing special, the materials used to construct it, the technology, it is all inferior to my creators by quite a bit, and yet…"

"Yet what?"

"Yet it is actually superior in some ways, the speed it could actually reach is above any ship that my creators had ever created, of course, everything else is below, the cloaking is not that good, the durability of the hull, the destructive power of some of the weapons, everything is subpar, and yet whoever built it managed to make the ship specialize in speed, something that shouldn't be possible."

"Why wouldn't it be possible, isn't it like a person specializing in speed, adding most of the stats in agility?" Aethion asked as he was completely oblivious to how a spaceship was built, or any other form of vehicle that ran on petrol or electricity.

"It's not nearly the same, without enough durability, the speed of the ship would warp the material, destroying it in the process," Jared said with a scoff.

"The technology used here, shouldn't be enough to make the ship move so quickly, and yet, from my scan and everything that I have seen, there is barely any damage from the outside, and the ship seems to be in good condition."

"Looking at the materials and everything else, this ship should have been destroyed in minutes, the speed itself should have caused everything from the outside and inside to warp and be destroyed, but nothing of the sort happened."

"Truly interesting." 

Reign didn't fully understand what Jared was talking about, but he did understand what he meant at least a bit.

"Maybe they used mana as well?" Reign asked Jared whose ears perked up.

"Mana, hmmm… it could be possible, but I can't perceive any way of them doing that, at least, not here."

"The back, it has to be there, whatever you are looking for might have been the sole reason why such a ship could exist and function, ohh my, this is exciting," Jared said with a wide smile on his face as Reign chuckled a bit.

Here they were, risking their lives and potentially going to a death trap, and this guy was excited to see what might be waiting for them.

As Reign and the others continued walking toward the back, the atmosphere changed. The mana that they could sense in the air became thinner, and the suppression they had sensed when they were in the fog started appearing once again.

Compared to before, the fog was now closer to the ship from the inside, and it was slowly starting to creep and shroud the ship from the back. In a couple of hours, the entire ship will probably be completely covered by the fog.

As Reign and the others continued walking, Reign suddenly stopped. He raised his hand, making the others stop as well.

"I can sense some bigger mana signatures deeper inside, they're probably the monsters responsible for defending the origin of the fog."

"How strong are they?"

Reign shook his head at Wolf's question.

"The fog is making it difficult for me to sense their power properly, but at the very least, they are peak Tier IV, potentially Tier V."

"And how many such signatures?"

"Three, at least for now."