The exploration raid begins

-Chapter 166: The exploration raid begins-

At the same time, inside an underground base somewhere in the United States.

"Mr. WildFang, are you sure to start? The newbies will be left to their own devices and will lose any communication with us. I think we should wait a little longer before starting."

At this time, a researcher with a claw sign on his chest said to a tall, muscular man in the center of the room.

The whole place was full of high technology, information about the first floor could be seen in some holograms that other researchers were consulting and taking notes, obviously, the most important thing at the moment was the Reality Hurts feature, many researchers moved their fingers through holographic screens collecting all possible information.

"We had already planned everything, we considered from the beginning that the newbies would be alone when entering, so share my orders, right now, the scouting raid officially begins now."

In the center of the room, dressed elegantly but not so formally, Diorge WildFang personally came to supervise this raid, it can be said that it is the first time the guild leader has done something like this, it is momentous, even more so considering that he is issuing orders to thousands of newbies to enter the first floor, almost as if he were commanding an army to start a war.

"Yeah!"

Immediately, some members of the White Fang guild nodded and started their work, they opened the chat room of the tower and sent Diorge WildFang's orders to all the leaders of the groups in this raid.

Then, in various recruiting zones located around the underground base, the White Fang guild members and associates followed the orders of the guild leader, the rookies in charge shouted at the top of their lungs:

"The scouting raid will officially start!!!"

"Yeah!!!"

All the rookies responded in unison, then, in different areas where the thousands of rookies are located, white lights shone one after another and thousands of people began to disappear.

…

Going back to Har.

Letting Juvia go alone is a big risk, not because she cares about her safety, but because she could go back to the Jubileus family and alert about what happened, then the news about Joseph's death would be like hitting a hornet's nest, they would undoubtedly improve security and maybe even move Ruth to another site.

Precisely because of this, Har decided to send a couple of clones to watch over Juvia, as long as they remain in a soul state they will be the perfect spies for this mission, besides, he doesn't plan to kill Juvia unless absolutely necessary.

For the years she acted as her mother, even the ruthless Har will let her live for now, but as long as the information can be exposed, the clones will act accordingly without hesitation.

In a way, she just freed Juvia, if she just goes unnoticed and lives like a common person, she won't get involved in her revenge against the Jubileus family, but if she decides to return to that family of inhuman monsters, Juvia will only have herself to blame. for his stupidity.

'This will be the last practice, for now.'

Inside the base on the first floor, Har appeared again as Steve, wearing a blue T-shirt and Jeans, but he didn't give any importance to this, apparently the tower will take care of restoring something as simple as clothing in each raid, unless You come in equipped with a magic suit or something similar, but on the first floor that's not possible.

Looking around him, he was in the bed that he had created at the beginning of everything, because he decided to load game in Xcountry and this is the spawn point of him on this island.

This time the base was alone, it was because he died on the third floor that all the clones vanished, just because of this he couldn't ask for a distillation station through Ender's chest, otherwise he would have tried to distill a potion with the demon king Mephisto long ago.

'Then should I try it first?'

With an idea in mind, a vial appeared in Har's hand and he stared at it. Inside the vial, a miniature red demon was especially calm and silent, obviously, this is Mephisto.

Har doesn't know if it's because of the Maffuba+ or because the vials are in his inventory, but none of the demons he captured disappeared when he sent them all to the blacklist, considering that the dimension of hell fell apart, these could be the ones last specimens of the demonic species.

"..."

Inside the jar, Mephisto stared at Har without saying a word, this was very strange considering his usual annoying attitude, but in Mephisto's mind it was something that made sense to him.

'How could I insult this bastard? If I do, he will torture my soul for who knows how long!'

Mephisto didn't have masochistic tendencies or anything like that, so he preferred to be an obedient little demon and go missing, after all, he can't do anything but resist the other party's torture, before he felt quite good insulting and annoying without being punished, but now he no longer dares to continue inciting hatred.

Boom!!*

"...?"

Just when Har was thinking of taking Mephisto to the potions room, he could hear an explosion and immediately raised his head, this small room was the first thing he built when he first entered the first floor, it is the place of his closest base to the surface, and was able to recognize that explosion no matter what world it was.

'A Creeper…'

Har returned Mephisto to the inventory and was immediately ready to go, he knows that the Creepers don't explode by magic, but they do it to kill the players, considering this, it's obvious that someone must have taken advantage of this moment where there are no clones maintaining security to approach the base.

It might not be a big thing before, but now there are such things as lighthouses on the surface above the base, which can be a bit of a problem.

Initially, the rumors about these lighthouses were not that relevant, however, the fact that these things appear in every raid draws a lot of attention, there are already many rumors about this, things like that there is a hidden treasure inside or that it is the place where Steve discovered the Reality Hurts feature.

They hadn't had a chance to get close before, but the clones aren't there anymore to keep the security, so the people in this raid had a chance to sneak in easily.

Although the clones disappeared in the previous raid, the people who tried to get close were killed out of nowhere, so no one tried later, plus they didn't know that the soul state clones then vanished.

Har can't go into every raid to restore security, so now he thought of protecting the base in another way, but he must take care of these guys first.

"Hahahahaha, this place is amazing!!"

"I feel super powerful!!"

"Powerful? Take a look at this speed!"

"Look everyone, I jump higher than the pros in the old Olympics!"

Passing through the ground, Har reached the surface and he could see a lot of people goofing around everywhere, they looked like kids in an amusement park.

These morons got the upgrades from the lighthouses around the base, so many believed that they had gained some great treasure, they even had the courage to face some Creepers and the surface was riddled with holes from the explosions.

Obviously, the command that Har used a while ago was still active, the sun was still high in the sky and it wouldn't move even with prayers, it's just that the Creepers are different from other monsters that die under the sunlight, so who continue to walk at ease.

But, although there are still monsters like the Enderman or the Creeper that roam free under the sun, they are seen as high level monsters and are the most difficult to kill.

On one hand, the Creeper explodes as soon as someone gets close, on the other hand, the Enderman teleports away like a lunatic, these were monsters that newbies preferred to avoid, but now they have become the most abundant in the world.

While it was difficult before, now that these fledglings gained power from the beacon's blessings, they have enough courage to commit genocide against all monsters.

Obviously, there are also intelligent people among them, they have already discovered some holographic displays in the upper right corner of their field of vision, these are the effects given by the lighthouse only they don't know it, but some intelligent people are more focused on the duration.

As long as you have half a brain you can notice that even though the duration is constantly resetting, it's still not an infinite effect, so they tried to get away from the place and found that the time stopped resetting, so they determined that the effect wears off as you move away from the pyramids that cast a pillar of light into the sky.

Still, there are many unknowns about this place, why did the rumors start recently? Didn't this magical place exist in raids of the past? If so, why did this place appear from one moment to another? More importantly, why aren't they dying like the rumors say?

They dared to come to investigate thinking of obtaining information, more than anything because they are aware that a death on the first floor is not real, precisely thanks to this, some were able to buy information on how to get to this place, the rookies who had ventured to the lighthouses before they were shocked that they can even make money on information like that.

Also, since the spawn point of each island is predetermined, they just have to follow the same path to get here, which is pretty easy.

…

Moments ago..

"Hey, isn't this weird?"

A group of novices with more than half a brain gradually got together, they had noticed these others who were investigating the little secret behind the effects obtained in this place, so they knew that they were intelligent people and did not hesitate to group together, because something strange happened recently.

"Why did it turn on all of a sudden, I thought it was always on."

"Didn't you hear, there are a lot of people on the internet talking about this, the fact that the Reality Hurts feature was suddenly activated in another raid."

That's right, the big issue that caused the grouping of these newbies was the Reality Hurts feature that was activated suddenly recently, but we all know the reason, once Har joined this raid, he loaded all his previous data and with it too the effects of the Reality Hurts function, no matter how much time passes, the function will be activated again with the arrival of the person who activated it.

For other newbies it would just be something of a raid, but the problem is Har, who can re-enter the first floor whenever he wants, so the one-time function has amounted to something akin to a curse.

"At least we're lucky, according to the description given by the tower, the massive appearance of monsters should start tonight, but the sun doesn't seem to have plans to go down."-said one of the rookies, narrowing his eyes and looking at the sun in the center of the sky

"Good luck? It seems that you still haven't thought deeply about it, the best thing for us would be for all the monsters in the world to come, don't you remember? Now we have extraordinary power."-Said another rookie causing others to react, because what he said is indeed true.

Although it is strange that they can survive here unlike the rookies of past raids, they are lucky to be able to obtain this power that apparently no one in the past has discovered, if they can face the rumored massive amount of monster spawns from the Reality Function. Hurts, they could easily take them on thanks to this power, not only could they get a lot of points, but their rating will definitely be very high, even an S rating is possible, or maybe a higher…

Thinking of this, the group of 7 rookies seemed to have the same idea, they all looked at each other with greed in their eyes, but they didn't say what was on their mind, getting an SSS rating is undoubtedly everyone's biggest wish today. today, and this could be your biggest opportunity.

"So everything has been further complicated by the sun, if there are no monsters we won't be able to get points, and without points there is no qualification, I think we're screwed."-Said another rookie with a pessimistic tone, the others just looked at him in silence, obviously, everyone had thought about this even though they didn't say it.

"I say we kill the others to keep the remaining monsters, the land is quite big and we could divide the place among ourselves, but it's not enough for everyone if we include those idiots."-Said another rookie with bad intentions.

He had thought of a plan to make the others kill each other to get rid of the competition, but how could they not realize his intentions? It's pretty obvious what he's trying to do and no one agreed.

"I say we investigate there."-Said the last of the group of rookies who had remained silent, he pointed his finger at a place making everyone turn in that direction.

There was a construction similar to a room, located right in the center of the land that the 4 pyramids cover, and the fifth pyramid was built on top of that room, which is very striking.

Obviously, this is the entrance to the underground base, originally there would only be a plain left by Har's initiative, so he didn't mind building the entrance where everyone can see it, the whole place is too flashy, so it's better to focus everyone's attention. in this room, although uninvited guests were not supposed to arrive, in this situation this is the best, instead of starting to dig the ground in search of treasures, smart newbies focus on the entrance to the base.

But anyway, it's not like I'm going to let them live.

When the group of rookies reached the entrance of the base, they searched for a way to enter through a hidden method, which is very popular in stories with treasure plots, it's just that they couldn't see the silhouette of a winged person who flew over them.

…

Far away from this place, on an island on the first floor.

"Everyone ready to set sail!!"

"Yeah!!"

At this moment, a group of people wearing elegant suits with a red claw sign on their chest gave orders, behind, hundreds of newbies with all kinds of appearances responded in unison.

This is just one of the raiding teams, there are several similar groups in different directions of the island, they had all rushed to the edge and now they stopped in front of the sea, at any moment, they would start plying the seas in search of other islands.

Obviously, the people who lead the raiding teams are White Fang guild rookies, along with them, there are also rookies sent by guilds, families and organizations with the excuse of supervising their rookies, but everyone knows that, they are just here to investigate for themselves. his account about the intentions of Diorge WildFang.

"Everyone, move on!!"

"Yeah!!"

With these words, all the rookies began to activate their abilities and act as planned.

Some pulling wings out of their back.

One bit a nail with his teeth without thinking, threw the piece of nail into the sea, then the nail grew and used it as a canoe.

Another raised his hands and summoned a mutant fish, with one eye and half a meter long, he climbed on the fish and used it as a mount.

A beautiful girl closed her eyes communicating with the sea, in a few seconds, a dolphin rushed in her direction and let her lead it as a mount.

Among all of them, one of the craziest was a rookie who kicked the air like it was a tangible cloud and slowly rose up.

'Where did the law of equivalent exchange go?'

Watching everyone walk away, that boy who used his own nail as a canoe suddenly had a gloomy face, he is the one who has sacrificed the most, why can others use skills better than his without giving anything in return, powerless complaining, he only used his hands as oars to slowly move forward, but, looking at his left hand which is missing a fingernail underwater, his face became much more gloomy, because a turtle passed by much faster than him.

Others just stayed on the shore activating tracking abilities to the maximum, either stretching out their senses to the fullest trying to catch something in the distance.

-End of this chapter-