Is this really a Game?!

"I'm sorry that I won't be able to show you the creation process, my lord."

"It's fine, we can go and hunt down some monsters, I am interested to see just what kinds of creatures you will be able to create after devouring Tier IV monsters." Reign said with a smile on his face before turning around.

"Let's go."

"Yes, my lord."

"Please stop using the honorifics, just call me Reign, or if you really feel uncomfortable without honorifics, just say boss, I'm used to being called like that by the others anyway."

"Yes, Boss," M'azgara said with a wide smile. Seeing her like this, it was hard for Reign and the others to associate her with the giant ant queen. Even before, when she had first evolved, she was different, but now, everything changed.

Her hair was pale blonde while her eyes were dark purple. She was a bit taller than before and was now about 1.7m tall, a slight increase from the previous 1.65m. Her skin was completely white, without any parts of her visible body being tanned. Her hands looked soft and her face was one that would have been enough to make her famous in the past thanks to how good she looked.

To think that that girl was once a monster, the giant queen of ants, was mindboggling.

Even though Reign and the others had seen many things thanks to the system and their trips to other worlds, this was the first time they had seen such an evolution. Even Greenie's evolution from a goblin to an ogre was different, with him clearly having some of his previous characteristics, but M'azgara had none, at least not now.

Reign and the others still knew that M'azgara was not human, and her powerful [ Transmog ] skill allowed her to change her body at will, but they still didn't know exactly how it worked.

As Reign and the others left the underground city, they were met with the confused stares of the players who were still near the town center and were having a conversation, each of them interested in what their alliance with the ants would be like.

Since most of them were still there, Reign decided to introduce M'azgara to them.

He quickly leaped to the podium that had previously been installed with M'azgara, Wolf, and Greenie before looking at the players.

"Huh, why is Reign here again, and who is that girl?"

"She's freaking hot man, is that his girlfriend or something?"

"Way to go boss!"

"Since I see that most of you are still here, I think it would be prudent of me to introduce you to our new ally, the once queen of ants, M'azgara." Reign motioned to M'azgara who quickly stepped up before bowing to the players.

"I am looking forward to our cooperation."

After M'azgara spoke, there were no words coming from any players. There was only drop-dead silence as the players all stared at M'azgara and Reign, shocked to find out who she actually was.

"So, you really think she is hot, what about before?" The man standing next to the guy that commented on M'azgara asked him with a visible smirk on his face while the latter was staring down at the ground with embarrassment.

Many comments were being thrown around to those that had previously commented on M'azgara's looks and those that thought she and Reign were together, only for the people that spoke those words to be red in shame.

"I can see that many of you are confused by my appearance," M'azgara spoke before chuckling, making some people stare at her with a slight blush visible on their faces. Even though people knew who she was, it was still very difficult to associate her with the queen of ants they knew.

"I am no longer the queen of the ants, thanks to the boss and all of you accepting me and allying with me, I have managed to evolve and am now a hybrid, being mostly human, as you can all see."

"As of now, I will be working together with all of you, may our future endeavors be fruitful and without errors," M'azgara said before bowing slightly and turning around, letting Reign to have control over the podium once again.

"Well, that would be all, you guys can return to doing whatever you were doing before." Reign said as he scratched the back of his head before leaving with M'azgara and the others. They immediately went to the portal that led to the first mountain. Their goal today was to try and hunt down some Tier IV monsters before allowing M'azgara to devour them.

It would be good for them to see how her skills worked and how she would be able to create monsters out of the nutritious she was given, not to mention the fact that Tier IV beings were still very rare, and other than them, there were no other such beings in the territory.

When faced with the opportunity to get 14 more such powerful monsters was incredible and it would make the territory much more powerful.

Even without Reign and the others, the territory would be safe thanks to such powerful beings existing there. With all of that in mind, Reign was quite confident about the safety of the territory even if he and the others were not there.

The monsters will not be in the territory at all times as Reign was planning on creating a portal as soon as possible to allow the monsters to go somewhere else and explore, as well as hunt and improve their strength.

One thing that was notable was the fact that the monsters that M'azgara creates can not level up. Only a few will have that possibility, and they will never be able to increase their levels beyond their mother, M'azgara.

It was fair, after all, if the monsters that M'azgara creates could simply level up and reach very high levels, then her ability would truly be broken.

Reign only imagined her with hundreds of monsters that were on her level and shuddered slightly as even he would find it impossible to win against such a foe.

Who knows, maybe in the future she would be able to improve her ability and allow more monsters to level up, but for now, her limit was 5. Only five of her creations would be allowed to level up, as for the others, no matter what they do, they would always be stuck at the same level.

That made it pretty much useless for her to allow any monsters except the five that can level up to have a consciousness as even if they were able to improve their strength immensely after training and learning, they would sooner or later have to be switched by other monsters that she creates.

Reign and the others quickly made it to the first mountain, and from there, they made their way toward the depths of the mountain range.

Even though they were Tier IV and were much more powerful and faster compared to before, it would still take them quite some time before arriving there. The need for a new portal that would be nearer the depths was quite evident as even those that were Tier III had issues with how long it took them to get to where Tier III monsters were located.

Reign and the others were different as they were able to travel relatively quickly before. Reign was incredibly fast, as was Shadow, not to mention the fact that Beast had more than one flying monster tamed, and with their help, all of them were able to simply sit on the monsters and fly to where the more powerful ones were located.

Of course, having a flying monster was not a perfect solution as there were plenty of flying monsters that inhabited the mountain range, and even Reign and the others had problems when they would be attacked by them, many times being forced to land before fighting against them.

Reign knew that traveling every single time in order to hunt monsters and demons so that they could level up was hindering many of the players, so he was going to need to fix that by making another portal.

Luckily, creating a new portal would not be that difficult, and he could even do it today if he found a good location. But first, he and the others needed to go to the depths of the mountain range and find out just how powerful the monsters that were keeping the demons busy were.

It would be a good thing for them in multiple ways. They could finally see for themselves what the fuss was about, they could fight monsters of their own realm and get exp, and they would be able to see just how M'azgara could devour the prey and create monsters from them.