"Finally back." Wolf smiled as he looked at the familiar buildings and people around him.
"Welcome back man." Wolf turned around and saw Reign and Greenie who were walking up to him. He was immediately able to feel the intense power contained in Reign's body right now, upon which his lip twitched a bit.
'Hey, we're both pretty much at the same level and evolution process, but how is his mana so high!?' Wolf blamed his bad luck for getting a simple rank A ability, but he knew that the truth was of course much deeper than that.
"It's good that you're here Reign, there's something I have to tell you." Wolf suddenly says as he beckons the two to join him. They quickly go to the building and sit down. Wolf didn't ask about the changes in the territory but first started narrating what had happened to him during his stay on the foreign planet.
He told Reign everything, how he met someone from Earth, someone that used to be an underling of his father. The orders, the existence of mana before the game started, the true identity of their fathers, and Shadow's father.
"So the assassin that went on a killing spree after my father's death was your dad huh?" Reign suddenly asked as Wolf looked at him with confusion.
"What you have said, I learned all of it yesterday, well, almost all." Reign quickly told Wolf about Marco and his order. Upon learning that there was actually someone that belonged to that world so close to them, Wolf simply shook his head before laughing a bit. He thought that the news would shake Reign and that he would need some time to adapt to it, but it turned out he was worried over nothing.
Not only did Reign already know about the news, but he was also surprisingly calm about it, especially when the news meant that foul play was definitely a part of it. The news of his father going on a killing spree was actually something that surprised Wolf greatly as his father was not one to get emotional and do stuff like that.
'So that's the reason father was gone for so long, and here I thought he simply left in order to do a couple of missions, who would have thought that he was actually going on a freaking killing spree.' Wolf thought to himself as he spoke with Reign. He wanted to know what exactly he was planning on doing next.
"Well to be honest nothing, first I want to wait for the others to arrive, also Marco should be back with his boss soon and we need to see what we're gonna do about those bastards that have been targeting us." Reign said with a ferocious expression on his face.
As much as Reign wanted to find the person he had seen during the funeral, he knew it would be incredibly hard to do so right now, they have barely explored a small part of the planet right now and thanks to the terraforming, people have been scattered around the planet, god knows where that person is right now.
First, he needed to make sure that any enemies that are targeting him and his territory were dealt with, his own strength needed to be improved as well, only when he was powerful enough could he travel around and search for that man. Eldar had told him that later on moving across the planet would become easier thanks to the teleports that would become more accessible and easier for players to build. That would be when Reign would set off and search for him, for now however he can't lose track of what was important.
Fixing and improving his sword was one of the things that are incredibly important right now, but that would also need to wait until Shadow and the others arrived thanks to the great cost of doing it. For today, however, Reign was going to take it a bit easy and just train a bit by himself and maybe spar with Wolf and Greenie while waiting for Marco to return.
Even though Marco didn't tell him where his safe zone was, since he was getting information by talking with the four in the territory, Reign presumed that it wouldn't be too far from his territory and he should be able to get back by tomorrow. Of course that also depended on whether or not his boss wanted to meet Reign as there was always the possibility of the man deciding against it and abandoning the four that were currently still in the territory.
The chances of that happening however were low so Reign didn't think much about it. He simply made his way down to the basement before starting his training.
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Marco arrived back in his territory in the evening. The dilapidated houses and broken buildings inside the small town they were located in were a stark contrast to Reign's territory and the safe zone where a lot of the buildings had been fixed in order to allow people to live there. He made his way through the town while the monsters dared not approach him. The monsters living here were quite weak, starting from level 1 all the way to level 10.
He easily got back and entered the safe zone as the guards all greeted him enthusiastically.
"Sir Marco, we thought something might have happened to you since you were supposed to be here in the morning." One of the guards said with obvious relief after seeing Marco.
"Yeah, some things happened so I couldn't get here earlier."
"Well, the important thing is that you're back, the boss had successfully gone through the evolution, he'll be happy to see you."
"He's done it?!" Marco asked the guard with great enthusiasm as the latter nodded at him with a smile on his face.
"Great!" Marco quickly made his way to the largest building in the safe zone, although the safe zone they were in was larger compared to the usual ones, it still only had 4 buildings in it and about 3 houses. The leader and the higher-ups of the order stayed in the largest building while the others were free to choose any of the 3 to live in.
The houses were used as storage areas and were always guarded by someone. In total their safe zone had a bit over 100 people in it, which was a fair number of people compared to other safe zones, but very small when compared to Reign's.
Marco entered the building as everyone greeted him, he was after the second in command and his strength and rank were second only to the boss. As Marco made his way up his heart started beating hurriedly, if the boss was truly a Tier I fighter now, then perhaps they would be able to form an alliance with Reign with ease.
Even though Reign had told them that they were welcome in his territory and that no discrimination would happen, it's hard to say what the other people in the safe zone would do. With their boss being so strong, however, they were bound to be respected by others as well which would make it easier for them to integrate into the safe zone slowly.
"Marco, you're back." Marco opened the door of the main office and was met with his boss sitting in a leather chair. The man looked up and smiled at Marco whose face lit up as he could feel that his boss was much stronger than before.
"Boss, you did it!"
"Yes, it was hard, but I got lucky last night and managed to finish the final mission of the system, the evolution was truly something." The man said before beckoning Marco to sit down.
"Tell me, what did you learn about that territory?"
"You're not going to believe it to be honest." Marco sighed before starting his story. He told his boss everything, from how he met with the four and spoke to them, to how Reign suddenly appeared before them, and the conversation the two had.
"He's John's son!?" The boss got up from his seat and stared at Marco with disbelief. Even though he was a leader of a small-sized order, he had an advantage thanks to the fact that he befriended a lot of people in his youth, amongst them were people that had joined the large-scale order in Chicago and held important positions. Thanks to that he was able to meet a lot of powerful people, including Reign's father.
"Marco, tell me, how strong am I compared to him?" The boss immediately asked Marco who simply nodded at him. The boss immediately released his mana as Marco squinted his eyes, the pressure coming from the man was tremendous, but compared to Reign, it was still lacking.
"So?"
"Well, I'm not sure if that was his full power back then, but if it was then the sheer mana pressure he exerted was double of what you just did sir."
"Double, tch, like father like son huh." The boss clicked his tongue before laughing heartily. Marco simply stared at him without saying anything since he knew that his boss was a bit hurt from learning that he was weaker than Reign who was much younger than him.
"Well, let's go."
"Huh?"
"You said he wants to meet me, well, I want to meet him too."
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