Is this really a Game?!

Reign and the others fiercely fought against the incoming ants, hundreds of them suddenly stormed the party while they were fighting and added a lot of pressure on them. Even though they were capable of fighting and killing many lower-level enemies, dealing with so many was still incredibly tough. Luckily they were fighting inside the tunnel and the ants weren't able to surround them, the many skills of the party members flashed forward as tens of ants died each time.

Some of the ants climbed the walls and the ceiling of the tunnel before lunging towards the party, luckily for them, Tank was there to stop them.

[ Golden Sanctuary ]

His golden shield flashed with splendor as a golden dome was formed around the party, the dome stretched 5 meters from Tank and shielded them from the ants. The skill was actually from the new shield that Tank was wielding, the Rank A Soul Blockage

[ Rank A Soul Blockage ] – shield

Def: 100

Vitality + 4

Endurance + 4

Strength + 2

Description: A shield made from a special kind of gold that was found by an adventurer of a lost kingdom. Upon finding the gold the adventurer was ecstatic as he believed that he was now rich and never again will he need to work again. His dreams were shattered once the merchants in the kingdom together with jewelers said it was useless, the gold would lose its splendor once mined and would simply look like yellow steel. It was only decades later that a blacksmith managed to get his hands on the material and forged a weapon, the gold was incredibly conducive towards mana and would allow for its wielders to use it better. The gold soon became incredibly valuable and many weapons and armors were created from it. The shield Soul Blockage was one of the masterpieces made from the same material, the user can channel mana and create a dome ranging anywhere from 1m to 10m around the user. The larger the dome the less defense it has, the domes defense will depend on the mana used to create and form it, any damage to the dome can also be repaired by the user with mana.

Tank was ecstatic after finding out the powers of the shield, they had inspected the items early in the morning after coming back from the grasslands the other night and he immediately took it. The only reason why he repaired his old shield was that they were going to sell it to other players that used shields. Other than that, Reign was currently wearing new armor, the rank A Tunic of Sacred Wars.

[ Rank A Tunic of Sacred Wars ]

Def: 60

Strength + 5

Endurance + 5

Agility + 5

Description: A tunic once worn by a holy knight during a crusade. The knight was known as the most fearsome and strongest amongst the others and no enemy was able to wound him during the long war. The tunic and other armor pieces that he had worn slowly changed after going through a baptism of tens of battles and many bestowals, soon they had become incredibly powerful and were called holy armor. Upon wearing the armor the wearer will be blessed by its divine power, the tunic will generate a shield that will be able to block a certain amount of damage from the enemy if it managed to hit the user directly.

The armor Reign had previously worn was called the Lightning Charred Armor and it was a Rank B armor.

[ Rank B Lightning Charred Armor ]

Def: 34

Agility + 2

Endurance + 2

Spirit + 2

Lightning attacks + 15%

Even though Reign was going to lose some power after replacing the armor, the bonuses and the defense that this one provided was simply too good to pass, everybody else encouraged him to take it as well since he hadn't taken any items in a long time.

The final item they had managed to obtain was called Rapture, it was a Rank A pair of fighting gloves. The gloves were considered a weapon and not gloves and they wouldn't be able to hold their weapons if they were equipped, they had already tried it and the system would simply block them from taking any weapon in their hands. Since that was the case then the gloves were useless so they planned to sell them to other players, of course since the day had been quite hectic they hadn't done so. Tank, Wolf, and Greenie were available but they decided to rest today and that they would simply sell the gloves off tonight, of course, the appearance of the ants destroyed those plans.

As the party fought against the ants they were elated after discovering how effective Tank's dome was. Even though tens of ants were attacking the dome at the same time they were unable to deal any significant damage to it, of course, the many hits were damaging the dome slightly and Tank needed to use his mana in order to heal the damage and to block the attacks. However, since he was responsible for that he wasn't attacking the ants, that way he would have enough mana left after they arrived at the end of the tunnel.

The screeching of the ants reverberated through the tunnel and the players that had gathered at the entrance were all able to hear it. The explosions coming from the tunnel reverberated all the way there and many of the gulped in fear as they could only imagine what Reign and the others were facing inside. Adam and the other players from the building had arrived and some of the older ones had to keep Adam back as he tried to get inside the tunnel.

"Let me go, Reign and the others are fighting inside, why are we not joining them?!" His angry voice could be heard by everyone and soon Neil came to him. Adam was on his knees as the guys were holding him down, Neil crouched down until he was at the same level as Adam before slapping him ruthlessly.

"Be quiet, kid." Neil's cold voice could suddenly be heard, contrary to how he acted most of the time he was looking incredibly ruthless now, even his teammates would seldom see him like this.

"Reign and the others are fighting inside for our sake, it's exactly because we're too weak that we're waiting here, hoping that we might be useful to them if an ant manages to slip past them. A kid like you, someone that's weaker than me and my team wants to go in?" Neil's voice suddenly grows a bit louder as he looks Adam straight in the eyes.

"Not only would you be useless, but you would even make things harder for them as they would need to protect you inside." With that Neil suddenly gets up before going back to his team, the two guys holding Adam release him as they could feel that the boy had relaxed his muscles and wasn't trying to get to the tunnel anymore.

"He's right you know?" A person could be suddenly heard next to Adam, the boy turns his head to the side as he sees Elijah.

"Right now we're nothing more than a nuisance for Reign and the others, what you just tried to do was reckless and could have endangered them, don't forget, Reign and the others didn't take us in because of our strength but because they thought we had potential, acting like a brat won't help anyone." Elijah gives Adam a final look before leaving.

"Damn it!" Adam hits the ground with his fist as he curses, his eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the entrance of the tunnel. He soon gets up and turns around before finding a place to sit down, he knew that they were right, he decided to stay because it was as Neil had said if an enemy manages to slip past Reign and the others he and the other players had to take care of it.

"I need to become stronger." Adam clenches his fist before looking at the ceiling, ever since he had left his previous safe zone and joined the territory he had been trying to do everything in his power to become stronger. After witnessing the power Reign and the others had he was excited, he was certain that with such power he would be able to kill the orcs that killed his parents.

Being chosen by them to live in the building with others and train together was like a dream to Adam, he had been alone for a long time, to actually be praised by someone, and to be told that he had talent was something he never expected.

After spending so much time in the building he grew attached to everyone, but today he once again felt how it was to be powerless, Reign and the others were fighting the ants while he could do nothing but wait and pray for them.

He hated this feeling of uselessness, he swore that he would train even harder so that one day he could be strong enough to fight the monsters on his own like Reign was doing. One day he was going to stand side by side with them and fight the monsters together.

At least those were his thoughts before the ground erupted at some places as 6 ants suddenly attacked. One of them actually appeared right in front of him, as Adam watched the mandibles of the ant slowly closing as the monster tried to decapitate him, he quickly used his ability and teleported behind it.

The other players all reacted as well, the initial attack of the ants was incredibly fast and since the battle in the tunnel was still continuing they realized that these guys probably arrived here before Reign and the others started fighting. Because of the sudden attack of the ants, two players lost a limb while one was cut in half, the other players soon attacked as a fierce battle started.