Is this really a Game?!

"Well, before any of that, come on, join our alliance Dad!" Shadow said with a happy smile as Jin sighed and smiled at them.

"Sure, sure."

Ding!

[ The Dawnbreakers have become allies with the \'Heaven\'s Hooligans\' ]

Suddenly, the entire area descended into silence.

"Hey, did, did I hear this wrong?" One of the people nearby asked as he gulped while another guy stood frozen, unable to answer.

"The Heaven\'s Hooligans, you mean … these guys … they\'re the ones that have had so many announcements?" Another man asked.

"The boss\'s son is actually a member of that group?"

"Holy …"

As the news of the alliance between the Dawnbreakers and Heaven\'s Hooligans spread throughout the base, a sense of awe and disbelief settled over the inhabitants. The Heaven\'s Hooligans were a legendary group, known for their daring exploits and their immense power. They were a force to be reckoned with, and now, they were allies with the Dawnbreakers.

And the most shocking part was the fact that their boss\'s son, as well as his nephew, were members of that group.

"I forgot that I never asked you what was the name of your group." Jin said with a sigh before he started laughing, all the while Shadow\'s mother was staring daggers at him and Reign.

"You boys, I\'ve seen many of those notifications, seems like you put yourselves in harm\'s way many times."

"Tell me, how many times did I tell you to be careful, huh?"

"We, we only did what we had to do."

"Aha, killing a Tier VI raid boss is something one has to do, right?" Kate asked as her smile became wider, but her eyes colder.

Both Shadow and Reign felt a chill go down their backs. They were both Tier VI combatants while Kate was currently a Tier V combatant, but that didn\'t matter, she was Shadow\'s mother and Reign\'s aunt, a person he respected, and feared, greatly.

"Enough Kate, they wouldn\'t be where they are if they hadn\'t taken any risks."

"As much as I hate to admit it, the only way to grow stronger in today\'s world is by making risky decisions, and by going head first into danger, that is it, we don\'t have any other choice if we want to survive and keep our loved ones safe."

"Damn, even you know how to say some smart things sometimes." A slightly mocking voice was heard from the side as the crowd parted to allow a man with a crutch to pass through.

"Uncle!" Reign shouted as he walked up to the man, only to stop and stare at his missing leg.

"Hey kiddo, been a while, huh?" The man wearing a brown coat and hat asked as he took his hat off and placed it in what seemed to be a spatial ring.

"Your … leg." Reign said with shock as his uncle, the only member of his family who proved to be true family to Reign after his parents died, chuckled.

"It happened a couple of days after the game started, right before Jin found me."

"I got unlucky, stumbled upon some monsters, and was unable to defeat them without losing something, and well, you can see what I lost."

"Without Jin, I would have bled out that day, and even if I had survived somehow, I don\'t think I would have lasted long at all."

Reign\'s uncle was a tall man. He stood at 1.9 meters, was thin, but not skinny, and had long gray hair.

He was the older brother of Reign\'s late father, even though the two looked barely alike. If Reign was ever asked what the two had in common, he would say their eyes, they had the same exact eyes that were seemingly able to pierce through one\'s soul.

He had long gray hair that was combed back and a cleanly shaven face. His cheeks were slightly sunken in, but that was how he always looked like.

"You didn\'t mention that when we spoke over the hub." Reign said as he continued staring into his uncle\'s eyes.

"Of course, I didn\'t, why would I want to make you worry about me when your kids had to focus on your own survival?"

"And looking at you now, I know I made the correct decision."

"You hotheads would have tried to come here no matter what if we didn\'t hide some things from you."

Reign nodded, understanding his uncle\'s perspective. Survival in this new world was already challenging enough without adding unnecessary worries. He embraced his uncle, grateful to see him safe despite his injury.

"Alright, so, you have enough materials to build a portal, right?" Reign asked Jin, who nodded in response to him.

"Well, then let me just get in touch with our people back at home, and we\'ll have it ready on our end in a bit."

"That way, you guys won\'t have to continue living here, and you won\'t have to worry about the monsters that are around, after all, we have more than enough space in Doncaster and Wilkashere for all of you, we also have multiple bases set up in some of the surrounding areas, as well as a couple of allied bases as well."

"Wait, Reign, how big are those two towns of yours exactly?" Jin asked, to which Reign smiled widely.

"Doncaster is the first place we took by ourselves, it currently houses tens of thousands of people, and the number might have gotten to 100,000 now, as for Wilkashere, it has a couple of hundred thousand people in it, it\'s not a town, but a city."

"Both are protected by a barrier that can hold on against Tier VI monsters, and we also have a castle, it has replaced the university, and the barrier there should also be enough to hold against Tier VI monsters at this point."

"Wilkashere has some low-level areas nearby, but most are for Tier I and above, Doncaster has more areas that are friendly to low-level players, the castle as well."

"You need to pay a fee every week to live in the castle, but we have a portal that leads to it, so there is no need to do that, you can just travel there and go out to hunt."

"We have a base on a mountain range, it\'s placed atop the first mountain of the range and is suitable for Tier I combatants, and when going deeper, you will come across Tier II enemies, then Tier III, and Tier IV enemies."

"We have another base in the mountain range, placed right where a giant wall that demons created in the past is, by passing the wall you will reach the place where Tier IV enemies are in, and if you go to the left of the mountain range, you will come across a desert that is empty during the day, but filled with Tier V enemies at night, and below the desert, there are Tier VI enemies."

Reign continued talking, and continued, and continued, making the people around him stare in shock.

One had to know that the Dawnbreakers had a total of 10,000 people in their two bases, and yet, Reign was now talking about his own faction, one that had hundreds of thousands of people in it, and he was talking like it was no big deal in the slightest.

Only now did the Dawnbreakers remember who they were dealing with, and that there were levels to this thing they called life. Compared to their faction, the Heaven\'s Hooligans were a titan that could not be scaled, only watched from afar.

And yet, they were now allied with them.

"I do remember you telling me about that, I just never realized how big your faction truly was," Jin said with a sigh before laughing once again.

"But that\'s great, to think you boys had become such big shots in this new world, leaders of so many people, really, I\'m glad you were able to do something like that."

Reign smiled at Jin and nodded his head while Laura went to the hub inside the base to notify their people to get ready to make a portal.

"I\'m sure you\'ll like it in Doncaster, or in Wilkashere, wherever you choose to live."

"As for this base, we\'ll keep it as it is, it will be a place we can all use to go out and hunt, and explore New York."

"Once we get strong enough, we\'ll take it back from the monsters, I promise that." Reign said with conviction in his voice while Wolf continued looking around, his eyes narrowing down as he made a mental note about several people he noticed.

\'Seems like we will be busy soon, weeding out spies is important after all.\'