Is this really a Game?!

"So I need to have a good reason to exile someone, that's probably just to make as many people comfortable with the idea of being in a territory that belongs to someone else, no matter though, I never planned on kicking people out without a good reason anyway." Reign looks at the notification while walking through the tunnel with Eldar and the others.

The territory management also allowed Reign to change the surrounding areas as well. He and the others spend some 500 S Coins to make one big tunnel that goes straight to the city from the lake. The big number of crocodiles was not an issue Eldar and Jack cleared the nest after returning. The only problem that Reign and the others faced was how people would go down to the underground, as the only way right now was jumping down the hole.

Luckily Eldar told them not to worry about that as he was going to take care of it for them. Even though the captain was a funny guy that no one could seemingly depend on, he was very capable when needed, making Reign and the others re-evaluate him. Going down to the city everyone agreed that the houses already built could be used by the inhabitants of the town, if more was needed then they could simply go to the castle via the portal and sleep there as the insides of the castle were much larger compared to how it looked from the outside. Eldar explained that it was because spatial magic was used in the construction of it.

As they arrived back at the now-abandoned hobgoblin city everyone could see the portal still there. Some of the students from the castle already passed through it and were looking around the city. Blood and flesh of the hobgoblins Reign and the others had slain could still be seen on the streets and walls of the buildings. Some of the students even felt sick after coming too close to it as they were still not used to such a gruesome sight.

Reign and the others look at the students with some pity in their eyes, they knew how hard it was for everyone to adapt to such life, but unfortunately, that was the reality of today's world, if you cannot become stronger you will die.

The students notice Reign and the others as they were passing with Eldar, Jack, and the soldiers. They all looked at them with weird expressions, the students truly didn't know what to think as Reign and they were completely different compared to everybody else, while the rest of them were busy fighting goblins and small beasts in the forests around the castle these guys actually managed to destroy and capture a whole hobgoblin city. The difference was simply too large.

They all come to the portal and pass through it. Ronny, Lea, and Cameron badly wanted to see the castle but they decided to go back to their zones and get their people ready to leave. Nobody wanted to stay in the zones when it was possible that theirs will be the one to disappear, not to mention that they were already looking at Reign as their leader and were willing to follow him to become stronger.

Laura however had nothing to go back to, so she simply followed after Reign and the party. One thing to be noted is that she was still level 18 but her stats were quite low as they all got reset after the demon left her body. Right now she had a lot of free attribute points, but she decided to take Lea's advice and not touch them before gaining a class and getting more acquainted with her ability.

[ Rank ? Demonic Possession ]

Description : The player has been previously possessed by a demon and her ability has been sealed for a period of time. Until the player manages to further understand her ability and condition the ability will be sealed.

[ Further note, depending on how the player responds to the demonic affliction the ability will change for better or worse. ]

Laura clenched her hands after remembering all the things the demon did to others using her body. She was truly lost as to what to feel right now, and what to do to regain her locked ability.

As everyone passed through the gate they were happy to see the familiar sight of the castle and the many shops in the safe zone. It was a welcome sight after spending days outside.

"Damn, I just want to go shower and sleep in my bed right now," Shadow says as he starts walking towards the castle.

Reign was looking at his new sword. The basic stats it gave were lower than his current sword, it didn't even give any bonuses like his previous one. Eldar explained that it was because his sword used to be rank S, therefore some bonuses from it were still left, even though it was broken and dropped almost two grades.

Ding!

[ Special quest " Journey to the West" has been completed, distributing rewards. ]

- 12 000exp points given

- 1 200 S coins given

- Higher favorability with the residents of the safe zone and a 10% discount when buying

- 6 free attribute points given

[ Players will not be able to level up before doing the trials, all bonus exp will be stored for after. ]

"So it was finished after we got back to the zone huh," Wolf says as they all look at the notification given to them. The rewards were good as they were now able to purchase things with a small discount, not to mention the attribute points which were always nice to have.

"No rank A items this time?" Shadow looks disappointedly at the notification as the others stare at him.

"You guys are immensely lucky to have rank A stuff right now, the average player only has rank D stuff, with some having rank C, anything higher is considered quite a luxury you know?" Eldar says from the side while looking at Shadow.

"Umm, captain, what is the highest rank of items?" Beast suddenly asks Eldar.

"Highest, that would be rank Z."

"Z?"

"Yes, you should know that from rank B to rank A is a big jump, as those allow you to store them in your body, well, from A to S is even higher, but I won't go deep into details with that now after S come SS rank items, followed by SSS, and finally Z," Eldar explains to them patiently as everybody listens to him.

"The thing is." Eldar suddenly smiles at them

"There are tiers to items as well."

"Tiers?" Everyone looks at him with confusion as he smiles gleefully before flying to the castle.

"That bastard." Shadow looks at the back of Eldar who was getting further away from them. His mouth was slightly open in shock at the childish prank Eldar just pulled on them.

"To give us such information and then ran away, gotta say I'm not surprised." Tank shrugs his shoulders as he looks at the others who nod in agreement.

"Anyway, we're still nowhere close to getting rank S items, so there is no need to think about tiers and stuff like that, let's go rest and then we will meet up and go to do our trials," Wolf interjects from the side as everyone gets a bit tense, they were all a bit nervous about the trials.

"Come on guys, we just went to a completely different area, survived a high-level forest, killed our way through the city and the dungeon, and conquered it, what the hell are we nervous for, some freaking trials?!" Reign shouts at everyone with great vigor.

"We already survived trials in our small journey, we meet gods and demons for god's sake, not to mention that we kicked a demon's ass in the dungeon as well, no matter what the trials may throw at us we will do the same we always did, survive and win." Everyone looked at Reign with a small smile on their face. They didn't even bother to correct him and tell him it was him that kicked the demon's ass, nobody really cared anyway.

With smiles and newly found courage, they all make their way to the castle to get a well-deserved rest. Before that, however, they were stopped by a soldier who asked them about Laura.

"Guys, we need her to go with us, the castle won't accept anyone new without any form of ID, don't worry, it'll only take us a short amount of time for that."

"Laura?"

"Yes, don't worry about me." Laura gives them a smile as she goes with the soldier, they all decide to wait for her in front of the castle entrance.

A couple of minutes passed before Laura was out of the army office, followed by a soldier who was looking at her with amazement.

"You guys were already abnormal but, where the hell did you find this girl?!"