Is this really a Game?!

Chapter 264 The Queen’s Past

While Reign and the others had attacked the horde from behind and started massacring the lower-leveled monsters, the players and elves of course didn't stay idle. The commander together with his royal guards was standing a couple of meters from the dome, they were ready to exit the dome and help Reign and the others at any moment, of course, that would be impossible right now as there was still a big number of elite monsters that were close to the dome.

Leaving the protection it offered would be no different than suicide at this point and they were waiting for a moment when the horde became completely disarrayed before charging at them. For now, they continued attacking the monsters with long-range attacks, contrary to before however, it was obvious that they were not going all out, doing that would make them spend a lot of mana and they wouldn't be able to deal significant damage to the monsters after initiating close-quarters combat.

The commander, Aelrinder was holding onto a silver spear as he stared at the distance, he could see Reign and the others fighting, right now they were in an extremely advantageous position as the monsters at the back were the weakest ones on average. Of course, the advantage wouldn't last for too long as it wouldn't be too long until the stronger monsters and elites confront Reign and the others. Even with their powers, it was almost impossible to contend against so many elites at once.

Aelrinder had a similar skill that Reign, Wolf, and Tank had, using the power bestowed to him by the queen he would receive a portion of her power, the skill however had a long cooldown and would force him to enter a weakened state for a couple of days during which he would be unable to fight. That was precisely the reason why the queen was going to make a move previously, not only would Aelrinder enter a weakened state, but there was also the possibility of him getting injured from the skill as his power was still too low to contain the immense power that would be given to him.

He was her most powerful warrior and she was planning on making him a true powerhouse later on, amongst all of the elves present only a part were from her kingdom, the others had arrived from different worlds or continents from her world. Aelrinder was one of the elves she had hand-picked together with her royal guards and elite squad of soldiers, they were amongst the most talented elves in her kingdom and she wanted to give them a chance to increase their power by a large margin here.

Her homeworld had joined the Alliance a long time ago and it was currently a peaceful place, becoming stronger there was not really easy as the number of powerful monsters had lowered during the last couple of years. Most worlds that belonged to the Alliance were in the same situation, in order to increase their power the many nations, kingdoms, empires, and organizations would send their people to fight against the Dark Ones or to a planet such as Earth that was currently undergoing a trial.

Of course, there were many planets that were different as well, there were many that were infested with monsters or demons, there were others that were under attack by the Dark Ones and needed help in order to defend against them. Opportunity was everywhere in the seemingly endless universe and more planets and dangerous locations were being found at every moment.

Of course, where there was an opportunity, there would also be danger. Different races that were in the leveling phase were simply cannon fodder and billions would die during wars, to make sure that they would survive took a lot of resources that even Transcendents couldn't easily get, only powerful Saints and organizations that had Gods amongst them could make sure that their geniuses would survive the brutal wars and fights that were always happening in the universe.

The queen had previously sent many of her elves to explore the universe and become stronger, some died, some returned with barely any improvements, some betrayed her or simply left and only a small portion was able to come back with success. All of her generals were people that had ventured out in the universe with the queen or alone and managed to increase their strength, some of them had managed to Transcend as well.

Unfortunately, the queen had spent an immense amount of resources in order to train and send two elves out in the universe, they had the best equipment and as long as they fought against anyone below Transcendent level, their safety would be assured. Tragedy struck when the two elves were unfortunate enough to join a battlefield where two Saints later fought, the whole planet shook from the immense power the two had and most of the army died, the two of them included.

The disaster was a huge blow to the queen and her kingdom, during the last two decades the kingdom had stagnated greatly and the two elves were a ray of hope for them all, not only were they fiercely loyal but their talents were equal to the queen and they would definitely become powerful people in the future. Their task was to become stronger and acquire new territory for the kingdom, Transcendents had to follow different rules and they would need to go through a lot of danger in order to get benefits, since her kingdom was heavily reliant on her, the queen couldn't risk it and neither could her generals as they had become Transcendents not long ago and their strength was insufficient.

Thus they put all of their hopes on the two that unfortunately died, the resources of the kingdom were dwindling and in a decade or two it would become weak, the only thing the queen could do was to either join a powerful organization or to bet everything on a new planet, she was a proud woman and didn't want to bend the knee to someone, her kingdom would need to pay taxes and give up many benefits to an organization only for a chance to become stronger.

In the end, she heard of Earth, a new planet that was starting the terraforming process, she took out a lot of resources and decided to join and give her people a chance there, if the players there managed to succeed in winning the so-called game then the benefits she would acquire would be immense, if they failed, however, everything she did would be for nothing.

The gamble seemingly paid off, after only a bit more than 2 months had passed she formed an alliance with the native humans here, not only were the humans here more talented than expected, but it seemed the whole planet was on another level than expected. However, everything was now endangered, the horde of beasts attacked and if her elves couldn't defend properly against it then the damage would be immense, not only was the queen ready to face the fury of the system and get penalized in order to help them, she even relied on the humans to help them weather out the danger.

It seemed she didn't make a mistake however, after 10 minutes of fighting Reign and the others had killed over 200 monsters and the elites were slowly moving towards them, the protective dome was filled with cracks but it would stand as most of the monsters had shifted their focus on the group behind them.

Elves and humans alike were sending out waves of attacks toward the monsters while Aelrinder was ready to go out with the royal guards and face the horde together with Reign and the others. The situation looked favorable to them at first glance, but all of them knew that the real battle was just beginning, the monsters killed were mostly weaker ones and the rest wouldn't die so easily.

The tens of elites could slaughter the whole elven territory by themselves, the immense power they had was not to be underestimated.

Bam!

Tank was suddenly pushed back by a surprise attack, a huge monster that looked like a lizard was standing in front of him. Its tail was thick and it formed into a shape of a ball at the end, that was what hit him previously. The monster was ferocious and attacked him while it was blocking an attack from another one, the powerful tail smashed the back of the monster and sent both Tank and it back.

The ape-like monster tried to get up but it could barely move as its back was broken from the powerful blow. Tank glared at the huge lizard in front of him with a serious gaze as he lowered his shield and prepared himself.

Bang!

The tail arrived again but this time it bounced off Tank's shield, this time he was prepared for the attack and an elite monster was not powerful enough to break through his defense. It wasn't only him as everybody was suddenly attacked by elite monsters, the powerful creatures all lunged at the party at once while Aelrinder charged out of the dome with his royal guards.

The real battle starts now!