Is this really a Game?!

Adam stares at the back of the retreating Reign as he smiles slightly, he was one of the rare solo players in the underground city and he only wished to be stronger, being recognized by Reign and receiving his permission to fight in the following wave was a big thing for him. He defeated another demon before running towards the demon army, Reign had pointed at them while looking at him and he understood that he was allowed to join them. Most of the demons here were done for anyway.

Reign and the others also took some time to give tips to the players while they were fighting, Adam wasn't the only promising player in the crowd so they made sure to keep track of the more talented ones, it would be a waste if they leveled up while not working on their proficiencies or their battle instincts, abilities and skills were important, but a skilled fighter could still come on top against them.

Adam joined the demon army as he used his spear to the utmost, he had just gained a class yesterday after going through the trials and he was incredibly excited to fight, the trainers told him that he was above average as he had managed to get Rank A scores in the trials and a lot of them wanted to take him under them, of course since he had fought with the spear for so long he went with the Spearman trainer and gained some skills for the spear.

So far Adam didn't use an ability, his ability was a tricky one and he didn't really have full control over it right now. It was the ability to teleport, even though it sounded cool and powerful it wasn't that much really, it has done a great job of keeping him alive so far though as he had managed to get out of tricky situations with its help.

The mana requirement, however, was large, and right now he could only teleport 5 times in succession before running out of mana, not to mention that the distance of the teleportation was limited to 4 meters so far, the longer the distance the more mana it requires, he also needs to spend more mana to teleport inside of a building or behind a tree, because for some reason teleporting past objects was more like passing through them with his ability.

Quickly the players finish off the demon army and go back to rest, it was the fourth wave already and now stronger demons were probably going to spawn, going by how the levels had changed till now the next wave would probably have level 15 demons as the weakest ones. The weaker half of the players were not going to participate from now on, they had fought against four waves and were exhausted right now, not to mention that the enemies this time will be too powerful for them to contend against.

This time the players were not going to charge out and fight the demons, so far they didn't have a need for the trenches and earth pikes that they had made, but now they were going to use that to the fullest. The players waited for the next wave behind the defenses, some of the players used long-ranged weapons such as bows, crossbows, and even some weapons that looked similar to flintlock pistols and rifles, those weapons however didn't use gunpowder but mana, a person would simply channel his or her mana inside of the weapon before it would fire a concentrated ray of mana to the opponent. The requirement for using such weapons was almost at zero, they were incredibly easy to use, the drawback however was that the weapons used up a lot of mana to fire.

The demons come out of the portal and charge towards the players, it was as they had expected, all the demons were at least level 15 while there was a couple of level 20 demons mixed in the crowd. The demons were a bit different now, the stronger a demon became the more complete his body seemed to become. The human-like demons had slightly larger horns and thicker muscles and tails, the wolves, dogs, and the other grotesque demons were still there, they only looked bigger and more ferocious compared to last time.

Some of the demons that were in the crowd even had pitch-black wings that they used to fly towards the players, they didn't attack, however, and simply flew above them before returning and shouting something to the other demons.

They clearly possessed higher intelligence compared to the other demons they had faced so far. The stronger demons were in the back as they slowly marched with the other ones. The demons charged towards the players in a more orderly fashion compared to earlier, no demons were pushed down or trampled by the others.

As they arrive at the place where the numerous trenches were made the demons jumped over them, the earth pikes at the ends however proved a bit too hard for them to break immediately, a lot of the demons were pierced by them while others would hit each other in the air before falling in the trenches, the orderly march suddenly turned chaotic as even the shouts of the stronger demons had no effect on them anymore.

Demons were hateful creatures that didn't go along with the others by nature, for them to march together was mostly because the stronger demons took control when trouble arose however that was soon forgotten as the demons trampled upon the ones in the trenches while charging towards the players. Reign and the others look at the scene with interest, they mostly built the defenses to make it harder for the whole army to march towards the players, they never thought that it would have such an effect.

"Say, this is already the fifth wave, do you think that they will continue attacking from this place during the whole event?" Wolf asks Reign from behind as he looks at the portal that was still open behind the demons, it seemed that the portal would only close once the whole wave was killed. The event was going better than they had expected so far, there were no casualties amongst the player ranks and all of them managed to get enough exp to level up, some of them leveled up multiple times as well, it was a great success so far.

"I don't know, but if the demons do attack from a different place then we simply need to go there, as long as the enemies are not above level 35 then we can take them." Reign simply says as he focuses on the battle in front of them, the demons and players had clashed and so far it was going well. The demons were hindered greatly by the defenses and only a part was fighting against the players right now, the stronger demons were in the back and that allowed the stronger player squads to help out the other players and kill some of the more bothersome demons quickly.

Soon the other demons arrive, since the place they were fighting at was surrounded by earth walls and spikes they were forced to fight the players in a tighter area which allowed the players to slowly wilt them down. The players used their skills and abilities to their utmost as the demons this time were as strong as them while having higher numbers.

The battle so far was progressing well and Reign and the others were standing beneath a tree a couple of meters away from it, as soon as they would notice someone being in trouble they could arrive immediately to help out, Beast already had an arrow notched on his bow and he could fire it off at any moment.

The stronger demons arrive and clash with the stronger squads, the demons were powerful and individually the players didn't know if they would come out on top, but they were able to fight against the stronger demons together and come out on top. The battles however were extremely draining and soon the players started to show gaps in their formations. The demons were able to use that to their advantage and pressure them greatly, soon the tide of the battle was turning against the players.

Adam was amongst the players, his strength was insufficient to help out in any significant way and he could only use his spear between the gaps of the players to stab the demons. The stronger player squads saw that the situation was turning against them and started fighting seriously. They all used their skills and abilities to swiftly kill numerous demons, even the stronger level 20 demons weren't spared from the onslaught.

Without the skills and abilities the demons were a bit stronger than the players, but after using that the players were able to quickly turn the tides yet again before slowly decimating the demons. In about 5 minutes the battle was over, Reign and the others intervened a couple of times before the end and they managed to save some players from being killed or critically injured.

For the next wave they had decided that Reign and the others would take charge while they would let the players fight against a smaller group of enemies, that would also be the last wave the whole player group was going to participate, against level 25 demons and above only a couple of squads were strong enough to fight against after all.