Is this really a Game?!

[ The challenge has ended, and the teams 'Heaven's Hooligans' and 'Ice Angels' have taken the first place. ]

[ The team has managed to finish the hidden task, and the rewards are bolstered ]

[ The rewards are the following ]

-  6 000 000 exp points gained

-  250 000 S Coins acquired

-  2x Rank A items received

-  1x Chest of Mysterious materials received

-  1x Golden Chest of Drayce acquired

[ Player has enough exp points to level up ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Current player level is 86, additional stats gained ]

[ Free Attribute points + 20, Strength + 10, Agility + 13, Endurance + 6,  Vitality + 6, Willpower + 6, Spirit + 7 ]

Level: 86 ( 510 000 / 1 550 000 )

Class: Magic Swordsman (more info in the class menu)

Race: N? (more info in the race menu)

Attribute points: 178

Strength: 190 (342) (+17 from ability, +31 from item, + 55%)

Agility: 226 (432) (+22 from ability, +37 from item, + 65%)

Endurance: 119 (189) (+11 from ability  +23 from item, +30%)

Vitality: 117 (191) (+ 11 from ability, +28 from item, + 30%)

Willpower: 122 (189) (+ 12 from ability, + 12 ??? + 7 from item, + 30% )

Spirit: 239 (423) (+17 from ability, +11 from item, + 65%)

Ding!

[ Subordinate has enough exp to level up ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up! ]

Name: Greenie

Level: 88 ( 30 000/ 1 650 000 )

Race : Vajra Ogre (variant)  (more info in the race menu)

Strength : 358 (611) ( + 17 from item, + 20 from ability, + 60% )

Agility :212 (246) ( + 21 from item, + 13 from ability, )

Endurance : 200 (267) ( + 19 from item, + 8 from ability, + 20% )

Vitality : 200 (259) ( + 11 from item, + 8 from ability, + 20% )

Willpower: 132 (143) ( + 11 from item )

Spirit : 183 ( 204) ( + 13 from item, + 8 from ability )

The team was struck by a white light before they disappeared from the castle. They had returned to their territory.

The team quickly assembled in the living room. They looked at each other with grins as they had managed to finish the hidden task and had gained a bunch of rewards. The reward of 6 million exp points was a really big one. The higher their level grew, the more powerful monsters they had to face since they would get penalties to the exp they received after fighting weaker monsters.

There was also the problem of them needing to go to other mountains in the mountain range since there was a lack of high-level Tier I monsters on the one they were on.

The Tier II monsters that were there had noticed the disappearance of many of their people and started investigating things. Reign and the others had to be careful, lest they ended up face to face against a Tier II enemy, and perhaps a bunch of powerful Tier I enemies as well.

Gaining four levels after doing the challenge felt quite good, but the rewards didn't stop there. Each of them gained 2 rank A items, and although those were pretty much useless for them since they had already fully equipped themselves with rank A and S items, they could always sell these to the players in their territory, which would increase the overall power of the territory.

The territory had grown larger and there were many teams that were now powerful, almost as powerful as those that went to the challenges. Marco and Carlo were two people whose team was actually eligible for the challenge, but they decided against going this time since they didn't want to risk anyone's death.

The chest of mysterious materials gave them materials that would be needed to raise the tiers of some of the buildings they had in the territory, but also materials that would be helpful for creating weapons and armor pieces.

Overall the rewards from the challenge were great, but the thing that intrigued Reign and the others the most was the final reward they had received, the Golden Chest of Drayce.

They immediately knew that this was the reward that Drayce had given them since they had managed to finish the hidden task. Although the system was not stingy and would give out good rewards, they were all incredibly excited to open the chests as a reward that a Transcendent had given would never be a bad one, at least they hoped so.

Reign and the others all took out the chests and stared at them in wonder. As the name suggested, all the chests were made out of gold. They didn't have a lot of details on them, they were just normal chests made out of gold.

Beast was the last one that would open a chest, with his great luck, Reign and the others knew that he would definitely get a good reward so they wanted to see what they would get first.

Reign was the first one to open his chest. A brilliant light came out of the chest as a piece of paper appeared from it. The paper landed on Reign's palm as he examined it carefully.

[ Buddhist Temple Construction Permit ]

[ The player will be able to construct a Buddhist temple of the Ashen Buddhists in his territory for free. ]

The description of the item was a brief one, but it did what it was supposed to do. Reign looked at the permit with curiosity before putting it aside. A building permit was always nice to have, and Reign would definitely build the temple after they were finished, he doubted that it would be anything detrimental to him, but he also doubted that it could help him out.

He wasn't a follower of the Buddhist teachings, and although he had no idea why Buddhism was present in the universe, he would check the building out in order to find out more.

Laura was next.

She opened the chest and received a ... a pair of socks?

[ Socks of Drayce ]

[ Socks worn by the Transcendent Drayce, they have no purpose other than to feel incredibly comfortable ]

Laura quickly tossed the socks aside and looked at them in disgust. The others tried hard to stiffly their laughs but were also a bit concerned.

Reign's reward had given them hope in the beginning, but it seems Drayce had put some incredibly weird things in the chests.

Back in the golden hall, Eigol appeared and stood in front of Drayce.

"So, what did you give them?"

"Well, chests that are connected to my personal storage, they might contain good things, or they might contain some awful ones, honestly it depends on their luck, oh, and I made sure to put a building permit for a Buddhist temple in Reign's chest, think of it as my way of helping out my organization."

Eigol looked at Drayce with slight confusion in his eyes.

"Wait, your personal storage, don't you put all kinds of nasty stuff in there, what if they get your underwear or something, for god's sake, have some decency!"

"And a building permit, you say it's to help out your temple but be honest, you want to use that as an excuse to keep track of them, you crafty dragon."

"Well, if they get some of my clothing, so be it, but I didn't lie, it really does contain some good stuff, but of course, that's only about a tenth of the storage, I doubt they will be able to-" Suddenly Drayce's eyes widened in shock.

"Son of a bitch, who the hell managed to get that?!" He rose from his throne and stared at the ceiling as Eigol looked at him with even more confusion.

"What happened?"

"Someone got really lucky, that's what happened, god damn it, to think that guy would actually get 'that', I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass, how the hell did he even get that, that's one of the things with the lowest chances to be drawn, it's almost impossible!"

Drayce sat back on his throne and looked defeated while Eigol snickered.

Back in the territory, nobody had any luck. Shadow managed to get Drayce's underwear, which he promptly threw to the side before Wolf enveloped it with his flames.

Curiously, the underwear was fine and the flames were unable to do anything to it.

Tank got a hairbrush, Greenie got a golden robe that he was unable to put on as nobody under the realm of a Transcendent could use it, and Wolf received a hairpin.

The rewards they had received were useless, all of the items, except for the permit that Reign had received served no purpose.

They all cursed Drayce for his rewards, how stingy could a Transcendent be, a couple of rank S items probably wouldn't hurt his finances at all, right?

They understood that this was probably a way for Drayce to pull a prank on them, and they hated him more than ever before. Doing the brutal sparring sessions was one thing, giving bad rewards another thing, but giving them chests that at first raised their expectations, only to later shatter them made them angry.

But what Beast received broke their minds.

[ Transcendent-Slaying dagger ]

[ The player can use the dagger without any cost to kill any Transcendent being below the 5th Cleansing ]

Reign and the others stared at the dagger in awe and horror as they feared to even touch the item.