Is this really a Game?!

Chapter 357 Sparring At The Mountain Range

"So you're his kid huh?" The middle-aged man said as he looked at Wolf with a smile on his face. Wolf's suspicion came true after he heard the man's words, his father was indeed one of the members of the order, brought in by John Ashburn himself.

"Hey, so, what is going on with John and the others, your dad as well, how are they all doing?" The man excitedly asked Wolf who sighed before narrating what had happened ever since the man left Earth and arrived here.

"John is dead?" The man's face turned to visible confusion as he heard Wolf's story, "A car accident, how, no, that shouldn't be possible, even if the car itself was completely destroyed John would have been fine, he wasn't one of the leaders for nothing.

"He was that strong?" Wolf asked the man.

"If he went all out, he could stop, perhaps even destroy a truck that was going full speed at him, for him to actually die in a car accident, there's no way, something must have happened." Wolf nodded to the man in agreement as his thoughts were the same. If Reign's father was so powerful, then a simple car crash was definitely not enough to kill him.

"But still, it's nice to hear that you are a part of the same team as the sons of those two, anyway, we can talk later boy, it seems like we're gonna get busy again." The old man took out his two swords as Wolf followed behind him with his greatsword, in the distance, they could see tens of weird, bipedal creatures charging at them.

None of the creatures had any fur or hair on their body, just skin that was of a dark pink color. The creatures had powerful teeth that could bite through metal and their powerful arms could smash apart rocks. They didn't run as humans however, they were down on all four as they charged at the party with great speed.

The remaining members of their group all came together as they nervously stared at the incoming monsters. Seeing the two men in front of them however made them relax a bit, Wolf was incredibly powerful and his flames could burn through many of the creatures with relative ease. The man however was even more powerful, he was a Tier I fighter and could easily deal with their whole group if he wanted to. ( Tier I is what these guys call first evolution fighters )

"I know we came here so I can deal with my second evolution challenge, but tell me if there's something you need to do for your evolution, we're both from the same place after all." The man smiled at Wolf before disappearing from the spot, his body appearing right in the middle of the group of monsters that were charging them. Wolf and the others could barely see his movements as the monsters started getting cut to pieces.

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Swish

A powerful sword light flashed through the training ground as a training dummy was sliced clean in half. The dummy wasn't a normal one however as it could withstand all attacks below the first evolution.

"Finally, it's finished." Reign smiled as he looked at the sword in his hands, he had tried hard for the whole day yesterday to make the sword submit to him, and finally, today he was able to do it. The sword no longer hummed when in his hands and Reign was able to use it without any issues.

[ Rank S Storm Bringer ]

Atk: 160

Agility + 25%

Spirit + 25%

Strength + 10%

Lightning damage + 20%

Description: On the highest mountain of a certain planet, a special kind of ore could be found. Lightning would constantly strike the mountain as if the heavens themselves wanted to destroy it. Thanks to that the mountain top was named "Heaven's Retribution" and only the most powerful could stand on it. One day a blacksmith was able to get his hands on the ore that could be found on the top of the mountain, using his skills he labored for days in order to create a masterpiece, unfortunately, the ore turned out to be far harder to use than he expected, resulting in the weapon being one rank lower than he wished it to be. It mattered little to the person who brought the ore as he simply gave the blacksmith more in order for him to create the perfect weapon. This sword was the first, and the worst out of the 9 the blacksmith had created, named the "Sword Bringer" it is a powerful weapon in the hands of a lightning user, in the hands of others it was not as powerful. The user can tap into the sword in order to bring out its full potential, allowing for any lightning-based strikes to be increased manifold.

Reign stared at the sword with his mouth wide open, compared to what he thought, the sword was even better than expected. It was actually a perfect weapon for him right now, with his rank S lightning ability he could bring out the full potential of the sword, something that the previous owner was unable to do since he didn't have a lightning ability at all.

That was the main reason the king had gifted him the sword as a reward. The bonuses that the sword gave were actually lower for people with no lightning abilities, and since the kingdom had none of them, it would have been useless for them. Of course, they could try to exchange it with something else, but it wouldn't hurt to keep having friendly relations with Reign, who knows, perhaps one day he might return here, or they might try to summon him again for help.

'Hey Aethion, I have a question.' Reign suddenly said.

"Yes, boy?"

'I thought about it before, but what is the max level that abilities can go up to?'

"Max level huh, well, it depends on the rank, each rank will increase the level cap, with your rank S ability the max level is 300, each rank of course increases the cap limit, and from what I know, the highest rank, Z, has no limit," Aethion spoke before pausing a bit.

"Of course, that is all in the leveling realm, once someone becomes a Transcendent, things change."

'Things change, I've heard that Transcendents have a different kind of system, what exactly happens when one gets to that realm?' Reign asked Aethion who simply stayed silent, it was obvious that he wasn't going to answer the question.

'Not gonna answer huh, well no matter, I'll find out once I get there.' Reign said before focusing on his sword. With all the bonuses it gave, it was obvious to Reign that this was a higher tier of rank S, what tier exactly, he didn't know yet.

"Alright, let's find someone to spar with now." Reign smiled as he suddenly gazed at the castle. Raigon scratched his head in embarrassment before creating his wings and flying over to Reign. He knew from before that their little spectating wouldn't go unnoticed by Reign, it was however still a bit embarrassing to be found like this.

"Let's spar." Reign immediately said to Raigon who simply nodded his head, both of the men quickly left the capital and made their way to a nearby mountain range. There was barely anyone there and they could freely fight without a care in the world. Of course, before they did that, they made sure to announce it to the soldiers and patrols so that the citizens wouldn't be alarmed by the battle that was taking place, the last thing they wanted to do was spread panic amongst the populace who were still celebrating their victory.

The battle between Reign and Raigon continued for the whole day, the area where they fought was completely devastated, trees were cut apart or crushed, the ground beneath their feet was full of dents, holes, and cracks from the intense battle. The area around them, about 1km in diameter, was devoid of any animals as they had fled the second they felt the incredible mana pressure from both men.

The low-level monsters in the area were the same, the moment the two arrived, all of them fled the scene and dared not look back. Luckily the two first waited for some time before they started fighting, the mountain range was one of the rare spots inside the kingdom where adventurers and soldiers could go in order to steel themselves and fight monsters to level up. Killing the monsters wouldn't help the two at all as they were simply too weak. The depths of the mountain range, however, were different, it was said that even first evolution monsters could be found there, but going there alone was too dangerous and Reign didn't have enough time to explore either.

As the two men panted heavily they also smiled. This was not a life and death battle so neither of them went all out, but the two were about equal during the spar. Raigon was someone that was blessed with his incredible ability that was incredibly hard to deal with, coupled with his ability to fly made it hard for Reign to land a single hit. Reign was also hard to deal with however, his incredible speed made it hard for Raigon to properly use his ability in order to attack him and most of their attacks were dodged by the other party.

"The sun is going down, we should probably call it a day," Raigon said as he looked at the sky, they had been on the mountain for the whole day and night was slowly approaching. Reign nodded in agreement and the two made their way back, unaware of the pairs of eyes staring at them from the depths of the mountain range.

The truth was, the depths of the mountain range didn't only have first evolution monsters inside, one of the previous kings who had gone through the second evolution once tried exploring the depths, only to never be seen again.