The mob of people continuously got larger Reign was even left lacking weapons to arm them all. The players that fought against monsters helped out, even without being asked to, they gave the people some of the weapons they had and joined in the killing of the draif leader.
Thanks to his high level, the draif leader took a long time to be killed. His yelling got quieter and quieter as time passed, and his body was fully covered in cuts and bruises, but the people didn't stop with their attacks.
Even Reign had to admit that he underestimated just how angry the people were, it wasn't specifically just about the draif leader, but about the whole state of the world and what had happened.
To Reign, most of them were cowards, they refused to pick up a weapon and fight even now when they had the whole town pretty much under control. Deaths rarely happened amongst the lower-leveled players and becoming stronger was something that wasn't hard right now.
He didn't understand why so many refused to fight, but that was normal, when put under extreme circumstances, anybody could fight, and those that had to do it in order to survive would do it.
But when put to safety, when living in a territory where not only were they safe from monsters, but would even get food and water, why should they fight?
Reign and the others only provided the bare necessities to those people. They gave them the cheapest food that they could buy in bulk from the stores in the castle area, and that was it, it was enough to survive, but the taste was nothing special.
Still, most would choose to accept such a deal, they could simply spend their days in the safety of the territory and not worry about anything.
That was what Reign had mistaken. He didn't know why, but he could never accept living such a life, being under the mercy of someone else.
He strived to be above others, always. The same went for Shadow and the others, even the once meek Beast had enough courage to go out with them during the first day of the game and fight against monsters.
But normal people didn't care for such things. They didn't want to risk their lives simply to become stronger. Living was enough.
Even though Reign didn't care about those people, he had to keep them in the territory. He wasn't going to turn into a tyrant that forces others to do his bidding, nor would he kick them out and leave them to survive on their own.
There was no need to, they all had enough supplies and money to last them for a long, long time. Keeping those people fed didn't cost them much, hell, it barely put a dent in their finances.
But if any of them were to complain about the food or treatment they received, Reign would simply kick them out. He wouldn't let people undermine him and what they were doing for everybody, even for the leeches that spent all day doing nothing, not even trying to become craftsmen or merchants.
And now, these people, the leeches that didn't dare fight even the weakest of monsters, were suddenly giving it their all to kill the draif leader, a monster that was powerful enough to make mincemeat out of them in mere seconds.
Half an hour passed before Reign and Wolf finally put a stop to the madness. The draif leader was down on the ground, his body and face unrecognizable. He was dead, he had died some 4 minutes ago, but even though everybody heard the notification, most ignored it, they were too caught up in the whole act to notice it.
It was only after Reign and Wolf put a stop to it that the people saw what they had done. The entire body was mangled, there was no area of the body that they left unattended. Bits of flesh and organs could be seen lying around the area while a pool of blood had formed underneath the draif.
Most of the blood was on them, however. Their clothes, face, and arms were covered in the blood of the draif leader.
Some dropped the weapons immediately and vomited, while others simply stared in disbelief at what they had done.
Reign and Wolf picked up the weapons they had given to the people before Wolf used his ability on the corpse. Taking the body and burying it was definitely not something they would do while throwing it outside for the other monsters to eat would be too difficult thanks to the state of the body.
Burning it was the most efficient way they could get rid of it. Wolf's flames burned hot and slowly evaporated the blood while burning the body and the bits of flesh and organs to ash.
A couple of minutes later, the flames died down and there was no more body left. Everything had turned to ash before being scattered by the wind.
"Alright, that takes care of that problem." Reign said as Wolf nodded in agreement.
"So, what's next, are we continuing with our previous plan?"
"You mean go and kill a bunch of monsters in the mountains and get to Tier II, yeah, sounds about right." Reign smiled as he and Wolf made their way to the building where the others were waiting for them.
A couple of days later.
Blood flowed down the mountain as Reign and the others stood panting, covered in blood as the bodies of numerous snake people. The bodies piled up to create a small hill while the blood formed multiple small ponds and streams that flowed down the mountain.
Reign and the others were covered in numerous cuts and bruises, but their injuries were not serious. All of them had smiles on their faces, however, as they had finally managed to complete their main objective.
[ Player has enough exp points to level up ]
[ Level up! ]
[ Current player level is 100, additional stats gained ]
Reign and the others had finally reached level 100, and with that, they would finally receive the evolution challenge from the system.
[ Evolution challenge is being created ]
"So, should we go back to the territory while we wait?" Shadow asked as Reign sighed.
"I just wanna take a rest first, somewhere a bit away from these bodies preferably."
"Agreed." Laura and the others nodded before they made their way to the side.
They were currently on the second mountain of the mountain range. The first one had become too low in Tier I monsters after they had hunted them down so they had to go to the second one in order to find more.
And more they certainly did find.
The second mountain barely had any monsters that hadn't gone through the first evolution. The sheer number of Tier I monsters was more than triple the ones on the first one.
Just like on the first one, there were ash demons on this one as well, it seemed like the whole mountain range was a base for these guys that were scattered on all the mountains.
The stronger ones lived deeper inside the mountain range and had access to better resources while the weaker ones had to live on the outskirts.
The snake people were another race that was present on the second mountain. They had the upper body of humans while the lower body was of a snake. They were very fast and had deadly poison that could kill most beings in their own tier.
Fighting against a large number of them would pose a problem to most as the snake people were also physically strong, it wasn't just the poison that made them dangerous. They mostly wielded spears, but there were those that had swords and hammers as well.
Reign and the others first came across the monsters about 2 days ago, and after learning that their leader had been injured after fighting against two Tier II monsters a couple of days ago, they decided to make them their main hunting targets.
Without fear of being targeted by the powerful Tier II leader of the snake people, Reign, and the others were able to unleash a massacre upon them. They had killed over a hundred of the snake people the first day, and the number kept rising up until this moment when they were finally able to level up and reach level 100.
The only thing they needed to do now was waiting for the system to give them their respective challenge, and hopefully, the challenge wouldn't send them to another planet like last time.
Night had fallen by the time Reign and the others returned to their base on the first mountain. They used the portal and arrived back in their territory before entering their building.
The system had still not notified them about the challenge. They would rest, and hopefully, they would get the challenges tomorrow morning.
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