Is this really a Game?!



"Ummmm … it's not what it looks like."

"It looks like you can't use your arms and have placed yourself in an incredibly embarrassing position in order to use a mana potion so that you might use that light ability of yours to heal," Liara said with a deadpan expression as Reign blinked a couple of times again.

"Yes." He said calmly.

"It's exactly how it looks like."

"You're an idiot, why use a skill that is strong enough to do that to you, don't tell me you didn't have any other skills at your disposal?" Liara asked as she jumped down to the hole and walked toward Reign.

"Not enough time, those bastards went all out, I only had a short period of time to think of what I could use to not only blast away their attacks but to kill them as well, and well, this was the fastest and strongest combination I could think of, it didn't go as planned to be honest, but hey, I'm alive, you're alive, the others are alive, and the demons are dead, so it worked." Reign said as Liara grabbed the potion from him.

She opened the potion before crouching down, Reign smiled and opened his mouth before his eyes opened wide as Liara stuffed the narrow end of the bottle in his mouth and let it stay there. The blue liquid from the bottle went right down Reign's throat, and it continued before the bottle was empty, and Reign was almost out of breath.

"Why the hell did you do that for, damn, I almost choked." Reign said as he coughed before staring at Liara who was looking to the side.

"Was this some weird way of getting back at me for this morning, you did it yourself for god's sake, not to mention that the bottle is still smaller than my-"

"Shut up," Liara said as she glared at Reign who simply smiled at her before using his light manipulation.

Slowly, his body started healing.

The two teams quickly arrived to see how Reign was and were shocked to find out how bad of a condition he was. They were also shocked at how quickly he was healing his injuries with his light manipulation. 

Of course, he was a peak Tier IV combatant, so his healing powers were incredibly high, but the mana consumption was equally high. 

The potion filled up his mana reserves by about a quarter, which was enough for him to heal his arms well enough so that he can move them, but even then, they still hurt.

His internal injuries were also healed and suppressed as he didn't want to use up all of his mana. They were going to return to the region right now anyways, and just as they were about to leave, another team arrived.

They had gotten the signal from Liara as well and had quickly made their way over, but they were much further away from Reign and his team, so it took them much longer. Upon seeing the devastation in front of them, the entire team was shocked, and upon talking with the two teams present and finding out that the enormous hole was made by Reign after he used a skill to defeat the remaining Ethereon Demons, their shock became even bigger.

The leader of the team was a peak Tier IV combatant from the Timen region who had heard stories about Reign, but never expected him to truly be this powerful. He was a tall man that fought using two giant shields.

He was a tank, he was able to defend most attacks with his shields, as well as deal incredible damage to his enemies thanks to the large spikes that both shields had. He was wearing heavy armor, and the reason they had come only now was also thanks to the fact that he wasn't very fast.

Liara suddenly took out an item and pressed it, which further shocked the team.

"Two groups that were led by a peak Tier IV demon attacked us, there are bound to be more, if any other team gets attacked, they will be in trouble, we need to go back, regroup and see what to do next, we can't continue searching in the same way as before, otherwise we will suffer a lot of casualties."

"Agreed, the enemy has moved faster than expected, they are far away from the base, which nobody thought would happen as the Tier IV demons are usually stuck deeper in the region, this can only mean that they believe the artifact is somewhere around here, which is beneficial to us, as we are closer to our base compared to them, but it also means they will be coming here, and the teams we have made aren't strong enough to go against them, they have more Tier IV combatants than we do, as well as more combatants in general." Reign said from the side as he got out of the hole.

"Then we shall go back, the other teams have sent no signals, so they should be fine, at least I hope that's the case." The tall man, Olmnir, said with a sigh as the three teams looked around them to see if there were any demons still nearby before turning around and making their way back.

The item Liara pressed was one that all teams possessed, well, all team leaders possessed it. It was a signal to all the teams that they need to get back to the Lumon region right away. The reason for that can be because they found something important, because of some danger, or anything that the leader deemed important enough for all the teams to know about.

The trip back was relatively peaceful. They came across some demons, but they were merely Tier II and Tier III demons, so they were killed immediately without any trouble.

Along the way, Reign's eyes widened as he heard what Aethion was able to get out of the souls he had collected. Reign had luckily been able to collect the soul of the leader of the first group, and since his soul was mostly intact, Aethion had stopped focusing on getting information from the other demons and started playing around with the Peak Tier IV demon.

It was him that had told him what he knew of the mission, and why they had come here.

'It's all connected, huh?'

"Seems like it, the system really pulls no punches back huh?" Aethion said with a chuckle as Reign exhaled.

He wasn't going to tell the others what he found out yet, it was best for all the team leaders, as well as the two region leaders, to hear what he had found out together.

They arrived at the wall and waited for the other teams. Liara and Olmnir were waiting worriedly as they hoped nobody was attacked, as for Reign, he already knew that the chances of any of the teams being attacked were incredibly low, so he wasn't worried.

And just like he had thought, all the teams returned, none of them encountering any large teams.

"What is going on?" Laura asked Reign who told her what happened, which made her turn incredibly serious.

As they were all debating what was going on, Reign suddenly stepped up and cleared his throat.

"I know what is going on, I managed to get the information from the peak Tier IV demon that attacked Liara, let's go in, the region leaders should hear about this as well." Reign's words made everybody tense up. They already knew that he was able to use soul power, but taking the soul of a peak Tier IV demon and interrogating it?

They had no idea he was able to do something like that, well, all of them except for Laura didn't know that.

They went through the large gates, where they were welcomed by Basred and Siggurd who were surprised when they saw the signal that Liara had sent. They knew something major had happened, and upon seeing the serious faces of the teams that entered, as well as Reign who told them that they needed to gather in the hall, they turned solemn and nodded at him.

As they all gathered in the hall, the two region leaders were first told about what had happened and how Liara's team was attacked by a group led by a peak Tier IV demon, which shocked them quite a bit, but after hearing how Reign was able to not only arrive so quickly and kill the demons but also face 8 Ethereon Demons who were led by a peak Tier IV Ethereon Demon and win against them, they stared at the young man in shock.

"Yes, yes, that happened, I also interrogated the leader of the first group, as well as some other demons, that allowed me to find out just what they were looking for, and why they attacked Liara." Reign's words made everybody go silent and he suddenly sighed.

"They were looking for the key that would lead them to the artifact." Reign's words made the people whisper amongst themselves.

"A key, and do you know what it looks like, where it is?"

"Ohh I know where it is, but you're wrong, it's not it, but who the key is." Reign said before suddenly looking at Liara.