Is this really a Game?!

Both the territories were busy after the construction of the portal, the elves were coming in droves and everyone was hurrying to go and talk to them. The elven craftsmen were already talking with the others as they were trying to study together, some of them even come to Adrian who simply closed his door in annoyance.

Wolf took his new sword as he marveled at the craftsmanship, the thin blade of the previous greatsword was now thicker as the behemoth's materials have been added, the crevices that Wolf had made on his sword during the customization were left as they were, Adrian simply sharpened them while reinforcing the weapon. The dirty white color of the sword was gone as it now had a slight red hue, a fang of a dragon needed to go through a special blacksmithing process to show its true power, as the system was the one that gave the fang to Wolf for the weapon customization, it, of course, gave him the one best suited for him, a fire dragon's fang.

After Adrian had taken the sword to work on it he had managed to make the materials truly shine, the behemoth's bones and mana core were used in the process as Wolf's sword now had an eye-sized jewel on the sword handle, the jewel was of course what was left of the mana core after being used to strengthen the sword. The greatsword was now bulkier as well, its weight was about 30kg.

The 2m long sword was larger than Wolf as he put it on his back. The black handle of the sword had also gone through a bit of a change as it was now much more comfortable to hold. With a smile, Wolf inspects his new weapon.

[ Rank A Blazing Giant Dragon Bone Greatsword ]

Atk: 100

Strength + 6

Endurance + 4

Fire damage + 25%

Description: A sword that was originally forged from a young dragon's fang. With the help of a master blacksmith, the sword was reinforced further before it evolved to a higher rank. The power of flames that the dragon commanded is now present in the sword and it will increase the power of fire attacks. The bones and mana core of a "Behemoth" class monster had been used to strengthen the sword further which gives it incredible durability. By using mana the player can activate the skill hidden inside the sword. The power of a behemoth and dragon will channel through the player's body as all attributes will be increased by a large percentage. The skill has a five-day cooldown.

Wolf nodded his head after seeing the stats, not only was the base damage and bonuses of the sword greater compared to his old one, but the bonus to fire damage was also great. The skill that he could use from the sword, although he wasn't sure how powerful it is, since the cooldown was the same as Reign's power of the stars then the power of the skill should be about the same.

All in all the increase in strength was not a minor one, Wolf was satisfied immensely as he walked back towards the territory. Reign and the others had quickly returned to their building, showing the elves around the city and the castle was just exhausting and they couldn't wait to just rest a bit. After seeing Wolf's new sword, however, they all surrounded him as they started touching the sword and inspecting it, seeing that the weight-changing ability of the sword was gone and that a new skill was there surprised them all.

They knew exactly how much Wolf liked the skill and they all thought that there was no way that he would ever change it with another one. But after seeing the skill that was present they all nodded in satisfaction, the skill's power should be about the same as Reign's, a skill that powerful was definitely worth having.

Ding!

[ Attention all players! ]

[ The first challenge will begin in 3 days ]

An announcement was suddenly heard throughout the world.

[ The world will be divided into 100 different areas, from each area the top 25 teams will be eligible to enter the challenge, the system will automatically select the teams based on their level, strength, abilities, and other factors. ]

[ There will also be individual challenges, players that are not a member of a party should not worry. ]

[ Players can also choose not to take part in the challenge, but it is advised not to do so as the rewards at the end of each challenge will be helpful. ]

Ding!

[ Player Reign and his team have been chosen to take part in a challenge, do you accept? ]

Reign looks at the others as they shrug their shoulders, he accepts the challenge before again looking at them and showing them the notification.

[ Please create a name for your team ]

" Umm, the world's mightiest?" Shadow says with a smile before getting smacked on the back of the head by Wolf.

"Just type in any normal-sounding name," Wolf says before sitting down, Beast and the others also seemed to have no problem with any name as they stayed quiet while looking at Reign. Of course, after seeing the name Reign had created they wanted to stop him, but they were unfortunately too late. Reign's gleeful face showed that he knew that their reaction would be like this one as he truly enjoyed it.

[ The team Heaven's Hooligans has entered the challenge ]

[ Current rank of the team: 1 ]

[ Area ranking, top 5: ]

1.      Heaven's Hooligans

2.      Ice Angels

3.      Berserkers

4.      The Gamers

5.      Blood Angels

Looking at the four names beneath their own, Reign and the others start thinking, if the names have anything to do with the skills and strengths of the players then the second team will be one that focuses on ice, the third and fifth teams are probably a bunch of crazy melee guys, while the fourth is just some nerds. Of course that didn't need to be true, just like their name showed nothing of their powers, the names of the other teams perhaps were the same.

Nonetheless, by the expert ranking of the system they were the current number 1 team in the area, there were still 3 days left until the challenge started so they weren't fazed by it a lot. Everyone went to train with the other players before going out, they didn't have the time to go and hunt today so they decided to do something they rarely did nowadays and go for a night hunt.

Fighting during the night was a lot more dangerous, some monsters only went out during the night and they were quite powerful, their eyes were perfect for the dark and it didn't bother them, they were also in most cases incredibly good predators that could hide their presence and killing intent almost perfectly, fighting against such monsters was simply a huge risk for most people. Of course, Reign and the others didn't care as much for that, they wanted to fight stronger monsters, and fighting some during the night was a perfect thing to do.

Just by passing through the forest behind the town they already came across a couple of monsters, since the party wasn't emitting mana currently the monsters had no idea about their strength. With incredible precision and power, their monsters attacked Reign and the others multiple times, only to find out that the prey they had attacked was no prey at all. They were all killed before they could even deal any damage, their corpses left on the cold forest floor to rot or serve as food to another monster.

Entering the grassland at night was a different experience compared to the daytime. Simply looking at the sky was enough to enchant anybody, an innumerable number of stars could be seen in the beautiful night sky as they shined like diamonds. Previously Reign and the others had mostly spent their nights in the castle, in their building, or in forests. Even during their long journey to the town they didn't really have such a beautiful sight as the clearings that were present between forests simply didn't have such a number of stars.

It was as if somebody took a painting and simply put it in the sky for everyone to see. Since the Earth was now bigger it was normal that they would be looking at some stars differently, honestly, nobody knew how this was even possible, since Earth grew bigger what happened to the other planets in the solar system, what happened to the Sun?

They knew that such questions were useless right now, they were simply far too weak to even know those kinds of things, even if they did know there was nothing they could really do. Right now the most important thing was to become stronger and to survive the game, they knew that once somebody managed to become a Transcendent the game would end and the person would immediately be elected as the planet's leader for the Alliance.