Is this really a Game?!

Chapter 852 The Bonus Rewards Of the Verdant Jungle Dungeon

"Gasp!"

Reign opened his eyes and took a deep breath before sitting up.

He glanced around him, only to see white everywhere.

"What … what happened?"

"You died," Aethion said with a sigh as Reign furrowed his brows before thinking back to what happened after he had killed the Stalkers.

The Soulbeast had appeared behind him, and in that one instant, he suddenly saw the world go black.

Upon recollecting and thinking further, he realized that the beast had actually smacked down with an open palm that was reinforced by corruption and some soul power. The world in front of his eyes did turn black, but that was because the palm had encompassed a large portion of the jungle, blocking out any light before hitting him.

He wasn't able to resist for even an instant. He wasn't able to defend against the attack, and he felt nothing as the palm had squashed him instantly, killing him before he was able to even comprehend what had happened.

"So, in the end … I died."

"I failed the dungeon."

"Well of course you did you dunce!" Aethion scoffed at Reign before shaking his head.

"The dungeon was deemed impossible from the start, which means there was slightly over 0.1% chance for you to complete it."

"Upon thinking things through, maybe the best course of action would have been for you to continue hunting down Tier V monsters and some lone low-grade Tier VI monsters in order to gain more stats and some skills."

"After getting a couple of skills that could help you sneak around, which would have probably taken a couple of months, only then should you have tried to get to the core of the jungle and see what is corrupting it."

"Even then, your chances were slim, not to mention that even if you did decide to spend months there and not go into the depths of the jungle, a powerful monster might have very well come across you and attacked you."

"There is no perfect plan Reign, so just consider yourself lucky you were able to gain so much from this dungeon," Aethion said as Reign nodded his head.

Reign felt a mix of disappointment and gratitude. Disappointment at the failure to conquer the dungeon, but gratitude for the valuable lessons he had learned and the strength he had gained during his time in the corrupted jungle.

"Alright, Aethion. What now?" Reign asked, determined to make the most out of the situation.

Aethion paused before responding, "Well, kid, dying in a dungeon doesn't mean it's the end. In fact, you've gained a lot from this experience. You've grown stronger, utilized new skills that although will be gone now, can still act as a reference for a skill in the future, and faced challenges that most players wouldn't even dream of."

Reign nodded, acknowledging the silver lining in the ordeal. He realized that despite the failure, the journey through the Verdant Jungle had been an invaluable experience that had pushed his limits.

"I guess now you only need to wait till the others finish as well," Aethion said as Reign looked around the area.

"This is the same as back when we did our first solo dungeon, all of us were transported here after finishing, but where is everybody?"

"Wait, don't tell me that I'm the only one that failed so far?" Reign asked himself before sitting down and thinking.

"That shouldn't be it."

"I don't want it to seem as if I am bragging, but in my Nephilim form, I am more powerful than any of them, even without it, I am certain I can defeat my friends, although I would be seriously injured at the end, potentially incapacitated for a while."

"Was I just too hasty, or was I just unlucky to be the first to fail?"

Before Reign could continue thinking out loud, the system suddenly rang.

[ The player has failed the dungeon. ]

[ The rewards that the player gained have been calculated. ]

[ Note: each player will be sent to a different room to get their rewards, they will only join together outside of the dungeon. ]

'Well, I guess that answers my previous thoughts.' Reign thought as he scratched the back of his head before looking at the notification in front of him.

[ The player has defeated a total of 11 elites, 14 mini-bosses, 5 bosses, 2 field bosses, 10 low-grade Tier VI monsters, and one Elite low-grade Tier VI monster. ]

[ The rest of the monsters that the player has defeated were not counted for the reward. ]

[ The player has gained a total of 11 skills, all of which will be gone now and calculated into the reward ]

[ The player has gained a total of 23 levels during his time in the dungeon, all of those levels will be taken back and the player will be given a consolation reward for that. ]

[ The rewards given are the following: ]

-?4x level ups

-?1 mil S Coins

-?2x Rank SSS items

-?Complete carcasses of 2 low-grade Tier VI monsters

-?2x random skill level-up card

-?1x ability improvement card

-?1x opportunity for ability enlightenment

-?+ 180 strength, + 220 agility, + 140 endurance, + 140 vitality, + 100 willpower, + 220 spirit

[ The rewards have been given. ]

Ding!

[ The system has deemed the player's performance as satisfactory to gain skill as an extra reward. ]

[ Skill – Palm of Lightning, has been given to the player ]

Suddenly, Reign found himself staring at all the rewards in shock.

"This … this is what I got after failing?"

"Just how much more would I have gotten had I managed to complete the dungeon, just how much larger would the bonus rewards be?"

"No use in thinking too much about it kid."

"You truly have done an amazing job, I mean, you killed several Tier VI monsters while only being a peak Tier V being in that dungeon."

"Of course, that was mostly possible thanks to the skills and bonuses you got, after all, your stats had gone up by over 3000 on average, which was almost half of an evolution."

"Not to mention that the skills you had access to were truly powerful as well, and that snake was quite good too."

"Still, even if you were to give other people the exact same stats as you had, most wouldn't be able to defeat a Tier VI."

Reign nodded his head after listening to Aethion before a countdown appeared.

[ The player will be brought to the outside world in 10, 9, 8 … ]

Reign chuckled at the countdown before taking a look at his new status screen.

Level: 481 ( 4 600 / 19 000 )

Class: Magic Swordsman / ? (more info in the class menu)

Race: Nephilim (more info unavailable )

Attribute points: 440

Strength: 8 270 – 8 450

Agility: 8 575 – 8 795

Endurance: 7 567 – 7 707

Vitality: 7 566 – 7 706

Willpower: 7 762 – 7 862

Spirit: 8 560 – 8 780

In total, Reign had gotten a total of 1,000 points for free thanks to the dungeon. One level-up gave him 40 stat points, which means that with this one dungeon, he had gotten as many points as 25 level-ups would have given him.

It was a huge number of stats, and right now, he was certain that there were no Tier V combatants that had such high stats.

Well, at least he had never come across any such people.

After a blinding flash of light, Reign found himself standing outside, in the jungle.

Wolf, Shadow, and everybody else were there as well, and they all smiled at each other as they had been by themselves for quite some time inside that jungle. Still, there was no time for them to sit down and talk as they were inside the jungle, and a monster could appear at any moment now.

The entire team quickly made their way through the jungle. It was obvious that each one of them had become much more powerful than before and soon, they reached the portal in Mia's base.

They went through the portal and reached Doncaster. As the system had told them from the start, only a couple of seconds had passed since they entered the dungeon in the outside world, so nothing had changed.

Still, for them it was a beautiful sight, one they hadn't seen in weeks.

They all made their way to the main building before sitting down in the living room.

"So, I guess we all failed, huh?" Shadow asked as everybody groaned as they remembered what had happened in the dungeon.

"I don't even want to talk about it, at the very end, there were so many of those bastards chasing me, I just couldn't get away from them," Wolf said as he sighed and leaned into the sofa.

"So, who made it longer than 3 weeks?" Shadow asked with a smile, only for his smile to freeze after Wolf, Reign, Beast, Mia, Aelrinder, Greenie, Tank, and Laura all raised their hands.

"Huh, wait, you guys serious?!" Shadow asked as he stared at them all with wide-open eyes.