Is this really a Game?!

Chapter 184 Demonic Invasion ( Part 4 )

Reign and the others were standing in front of the players as they waited for the demons to arrive. Soon the portal appears and the demon army shows up, as expected most of them were in the level 18 – 20 range, that was enough to put enormous pressure on the players and probably enough to kill most of them.

Reign and the others charge as the players look at their backs nervously, they knew that they were far more powerful than them but still, seeing a party of 7 going against 300 enemies was something that made most of the players incredibly fearful for them.

The weakest of the players trembled slightly as they looked at the scene. They were even less knowledgeable about the party's strength and as such, they thought of this as a suicide mission. Of course, the scene that followed was something most would never forget in their lives. The powerful demons that troubled even the more famous squads were nothing more than powerless children in front of Reign and the others.

Their bodies were decimated in mere seconds and the 300 strong army was immediately thrown in disarray. Reign immediately broke off from the others and used his discharge in the middle of the army, tens of demons were electrocuted, most of them died while the more fortunate ones were heavily wounded, their flesh and skin burned beyond recognition from the powerful lightning.

The scene left everyone with their jaws wide open, even the most optimistic amongst the players believed that they would at least struggle a little bit against the demons but, the reality was that the demons were simply too weak for them to even break a sweat.

In a mere 30 seconds, about 200 demons were slaughtered, their flesh and bones littered the battlefield as the other demons looked at Reign and the others with fear in their eyes, all of them wanted to do nothing more than to escape from this place, unfortunately, that was impossible, the portal was only able to send them here and there was no going back, not to mention that there was a mysterious power that was forcing them to charge forward and attack any human they came across.

Looking at the demon's numbers Reign and the others simply walk away and position themselves near the players, the demons were confused for a moment before they charged at the players, it didn't matter that they almost got completely slaughtered by Reign and the others, the force that was compelling them to attack was simply too strong and they couldn't go against it.

The players were locked in battle against the demons, even though the demons were way lower in number this time it was still an incredibly hard battle as the average level of the demons was higher. The players were fighting with all they had, no skills and abilities were left unused as they knew that this would be the last time they would fight today. Only four squads were strong enough and qualified to fight against the next wave, but even they were giving it their all in this battle, the demons were simply too ferocious during battle and even the slightest mishap could lead to somebody getting seriously injured.

Reign and the others watched the battle carefully as they were ready to jump in at any moment. What surprised them the most was the ferociousness some of the players displayed, even amongst the lower leveled players Reign and the others noticed some that, with a bit of help, could be raised to become strong characters amongst the others, Adam was one of those, of course, the young boy was currently on top of their list, his young age being one of the factors as he was probably the youngest person amongst all the players that were here today.

They decided that they would take a couple of players under their wing after this was finished, most of them were solo players so Reign and the others believed it wouldn't really take a lot of persuasion for them to agree, Reign's building was huge and having more people in it would not really matter.

They planned on training the talented players themselves while simultaneously not limiting them in any way, as previously mentioned they were mostly solo players and were used to moving alone, they simply wanted to let them have a place to stay while training with them from time to time.

The battle was slowly coming to an end, the players managed to display great teamwork, and Reign and the others actually didn't need to intervene even once. As this was the final battle for most of them they used up every ounce of strength they had and that led to them dominating the demons, Reign was even a bit sad that they didn't leave more demons for them to fight against.

The battle had finally ended and the players retreated a bit from the battlefield before collapsing on the ground, the battles they had gone through today were extremely taxing for them, both mentally and physically. They were all lying down on the ground whilst panting heavily.

Only the four squads that were going to fight in the next wave were still behaving normally, they were tired as well, that was certain, but they wanted to fight in the next wave, not only would that earn them more exp, but it would also mean valuable experience for the future as well, a chance to fight against strong monsters while Reign and the others were there to save you if everything went wrong was a rare occasion after all.

Time passes and soon the next wave was before them. The weakest of the demons was level 25 and the sheer pressure coming off from the army made it hard to breathe for the players, the bloodthirst being emanated from the demons was incredible and even the four squads were pressured greatly when looking at them. Reign and the others simply crack their fists however as they charge towards them, the demons looked similar to the others, the human-like demons were now more muscular with bigger horns, the wolves and other animal-type of demons were the same when it came to size, it was the color of their fur and the different body types that changed, however.

All kinds of bloodthirsty monstrosities charged towards the players that were located behind Reign and the others, after a second they clashed against the demons. The demons this time were powerful, that was certain, after all the players would simply be cannon fodder to them, but compared to Reign and the others that were strong enough to fight against enemies of a higher level, these guys were simply too weak.

The demons fared no better compared to the previous wave, the only thing they managed to do was survive for a longer time, their strength however was still not enough to pose any significant threat towards Reign and the others.

They left 8 demons alive, the four squads were going to fight against two of the each. Cameron and his squad of course proved to be the strongest yet again, their levels were the highest and they had been fighting for the longest time as well, their teamwork especially showed that as it was impeccable.

Neil and his team were right below them, the four of them worked well together and wilted down the two demons slowly, a couple of days ago they almost died whilst fighting an orc that was of a similar level to these demons, of course, the orc was still stronger in his base form, not to mention his berserk one. Still, fighting against the demons like so made them see how much of an improvement they had made so far.

The other two squads, even though they performed a bit worse compared to the other two still did fine, the demons fought against them ferociously but they still managed to win against them without any significant injuries, of course, that was only possible because they had used every single thing they had during the battle.

The four squads slowly retreated back to where the other players were, they were tired, incredibly tired and wanted to do nothing more than simply relax a bit. The others looked at them with respect, amongst all of them they were without a doubt the strongest ones and they even managed to win against the powerful demons by themselves.

Of course, compared to Reign and the others they were still lacking, but they were in a league of their own, and the players never really intended to compare themselves against them.

The twelfth wave soon came and Reign and the party were locked in a battle against the demons, the average level of the demons went up and this time the battle was a bit tricky for them, a couple of times they had nearly been wounded and it took more time to kill the demons as well. After about 4 minutes the demon army was successfully killed however, the last two waves were powerful and it showed as they only had about 200 demons compared to the 300 the previous ones had.

The event however showed no signs of stopping and Reign looked at the direction of the now-closed portal with a serious expression. It seemed that they were going to have more waves, this time the demons will be anywhere from levels 30 to 35, even for Reign and the others it was going to be hard to defeat all of them, especially if 200 of them show up.