Is this really a Game?!

"Let's get you out of this place so we can talk huh?" Reign crouched down and stared at the man in a happy manner as the latter simply moved his head up and down as he stared at Reign with an incredibly scared face. Sometimes seeing someone being happy in a weird situation was many times scarier than the person being angry or calm. ( Author: Imagine Reign smiling like the titans in AOT )

"It's nice that you agree, well, come on, all of you, let's go out on some fresh air before we go to my place." Reign smiled warmly at the prisoners who all nodded fearfully at him. Seeing the man casually toss a powerful boss-ranked monster made them know that he wasn't someone they could mess with, not to mention the powerful mana that left many incredibly shaken.

As Reign and Greenie went out of the prison, the party of 8 people that were locked up in the cell followed after them. Each of the prisoners walked carefully and hoped that neither of the two would think they were up to something, otherwise they would definitely face an early grave.

"Well this is nice, see, the sun is shining, the weather is nice and warm, much better than that cold and boring cell right?" Reign asked the prisoners who all quickly nodded in agreement. Even their leader who was a level 47 powerhouse and amongst the top fighters in not only their area but in the surrounding area was doing the same and following their lead.

In the previous challenge they had actually managed to get into the top 10 and were very excited about it, being one of the strongest 10 teams in the region was very exciting and they believed that they could do anything. They didn't know however that the challenge wasn't something people had to do, many powerful teams who wished to stay anonymous or simply couldn't do the challenge because of some circumstances didn't go.

Out of the 25 teams that went to the challenge, perhaps only the top 5 could comfortably say that they were amongst the top 30 teams in the whole region. Of course, many simply ignored the fact or were clueless about that, just like these guys were.

After they were beaten up by Greenie they found out that the strength they were so proud of was nothing much really and that there were 3 teams in this territory alone that could go against them and perhaps win, more teams were present whose strength was similar to theirs as well. The prison as well was home to a couple of powerful groups that came to find trouble here as well, after talking with them, most of them were shocked to find out that they were here for a similar reason.

"Hmmm, so you say that most of the groups in the prison were given information about my territory and that it is a lucrative place that shouldn't be hard to take over?" Reign asked the prisoners who were now sitting in an office. Greenie had completely changed the building where they previously lived and made it even bigger, it now had 5 floors, and the fifth floor was made up of offices, each of the team members had one big office, and there were many more on the floor as well, some were given to the stronger teams in the area while others were still empty, waiting for someone to come and claim them.

The fifth floor was also completely isolated from the rest of the building, in order to get there one needed to take a special elevator-like platform that would bring them up there. Reign's room, as well as the rooms of the others, were all on the fourth floor, Elijah and his team were on the third while the first two floors each had their own purpose.

The second floor was what Greenie called the "Resting Floor". It had all kinds of areas where people could do pretty much anything. Playing sports, playing some games on mana-controlled devices and large arcade-like boxes. An indoor pool, a massage room where the massage was done via different kinds of mana-controlled devices that the user could choose, and more.

The first floor was the training floor and the reception of the building. The front part of the building was a large reception and three staircases that led to different platforms. The first platform led to the second and third floor, the second platform to the fourth while the last one was of course for the fifth floor where the offices were.

Behind the reception were the different training facilities of the building. Each of the training facilities ran on mana and mana cores that the building would produce by itself, with a cost of course. There was a training room that would make the gravity much more powerful, from double to 15 times stronger. There was one where one could fight against a powerful training doll that could use different weapons and fighting styles, the user could choose what the doll would use, or they could simply let it be random.

A simulation room that would simulate different fights that the user had gone through in the past, or use the memories of someone else that had left it there in order to train. A room that improved the fighting reflex of whoever was using it via different challenges. A room for people to spar against each other that would heal them, just like a building that Reign had built previously. A room where the user could go into a deep sleep and fight against monsters in his dream and more.

The basement was left intact for the most part, only some more options were added, but it was mostly still a huge field where they could do anything they wished to do. The best part is that it was reinforced so that no attack that was under the second evolution could damage it.

After hearing about all of the changes Reign was first left flabbergasted, but after Greenie told him about the price for all of that he was confused as it was really cheap. After the latter had told him that the elven queen and Eldar were the ones that footed most of the bill he finally understood how Greenie was able to afford this without straining their money. Even though they earned a pretty sum thanks to the tax, the tax was still put on the lowest as Reign and the others usually earned enough by hunting monsters.

"Yes sir, there is a mysterious group that could be found in many safe zones around this territory, nobody knows who they are but they are present almost anywhere, and they're strong, incredibly strong." The level 47 man said as he looked at Reign respectfully, even though he was always the one that has been put up on a pedestal in his safe zone, he knew that compared to the man in front of him, he was nothing.

"Hmm, is there anything else the group is known for?" Reign asked the man as he put his hand to his chin. He suddenly raised his eyebrow but shook his head and looked a bit apprehensive about whether or not he should tell Reign something.

"Go on, more information is always good."

"Well, I have heard talks that they are very adept at using monsters."

"In what way specifically?" Reign suddenly raised an eyebrow as he looked at the man.

"Well, in many ways, to be honest, I've heard that some of their members are good at luring monsters over to their enemies to kill or weaken them, some say that more powerful members even have some skills that allow them to make the monsters obedient to them for a period of time, of course, none of that has really been confirmed, but since a couple of people in different safe zones have been talking about it, I think there must be some truth to it."

Suddenly the man widened his eyes as he looked at Reign in fear, some of Reign's mana was leaking out as he clenched his fist that was on the large wooden table in front of him. Reign was still smiling but it was obvious that he was angry, luckily it seemed that he wasn't angry at them.

"So that's how it is, I think me and my friends have crossed ways with one of those people some time ago, they definitely did make a good use of the monsters." A part of the table suddenly cracked before Reign withdrew his mana and calmed down. He waved the group off but before they left their leader suddenly turned to Reign and bowed down a bit.

"If it's possible, could we perhaps live here, not only use but the people from my safe zone as well?"