Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

I bow my head slightly to the bat corpse in front of me, respecting the poor fella that ended up dying instead of being tamed. Mostly because it was already grievously wounded, and I don't exactly know how to treat a vampire bat, much less have anything on me that can treat one.

Rest in peace, poor little bat.

Ignoring the fact that I probably would've killed it myself if I wasn't trying to get Taming.

I briefly nod my head at that thought before getting up and moving on to leave the cave I'm in back to the brightness outside. Only for said brightness to dim down again moments later, following which bats once again return to the main cavern.

Well, there are plenty of other bats around here for me to try taming. I'm sure I'll manage to at least get one of these vampire bats.

The things really do make the perfect tamed monster for me down here as well, now that I think about it. After all, they drink blood. They don't need water, or any food. Just blood.

So I can easily feed them with monsters.

I grin slightly while putting my hands on my hips and briefly using Quantum Burst to send a bunch of bats flying again that had moved towards me.

Time to get to work.

This should be fun!

One Day Later

I give up.

After my fiftieth – at least, I think it's my fiftieth attempt. It's kind of hard to tell after so many tries. But after my fiftieth attempt failing to tame one, I think it's safe to say I'm not meant to be a Tamer.

A pity. It would've been nice to have a flying monster as a scout.

I sigh at that thought before checking my status.

It is rather unfortunate that my level stopped going up as quickly as it was, but it makes sense considering that the strongest vampire bats down here are only around level fifty-one.

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I climb to my feet from my place kneeling next to the dead three-quarters-of-a-meter-tall vampire bat before stretching a little and starting to walk towards the main cavern again. Then, the moment I step out into the light, I head straight for the largest cave in the cavern. The one I've been avoiding all this time simply because it had the most vampire bats and seemed like the most obvious place for their leader to be dwelling.

Once I reach the large cave's entrance though, the light in the main cavern goes out again. Then all of the bats begin rushing out towards me from the cave, only for a lot of them to end up flying straight into a pulse of Quantum Burst. And I repeat the skill a few more times after that, sending the bats flying to the ground until the ones behind the front of the flock realize what's going on and fly back into the cave.

One thing I really wish this cave had was a Safe Zone. Because I kind of want to switch out some of my current slotted skills for the ones I got at levels 50, 55, and 60. Not to mention that sleep would be nicer to have in a place I know monsters won't attack me in, unlike the caves I clear out of bats.

Fortunately none of the bats seem to enter other caves aside from their own. Which is probably by design with this dungeon, otherwise people wouldn't be able to rest in here.

I glance at some of the injured but not dead vampire bats on the ground before looking at my soul and deciding I have some to spare, so I blast each of them with Quantum Bolts. Then I step inside of the cave after killing them, being careful of any vampire bats that might be above my head.

But I don't find any, to my surprise.

Where did they go?

I frown as I walk, but even after walking for several minutes through the cave, I still don't find any bats.

Okay, seriously. Where did the bats go? They couldn't have just disappeared…

My answer comes to me after another ten or so minutes of walking when I reach a large cavern spanning about a fifth of the size of the other one. But this one is just filled to the brim with bats, along with one enormous one hanging upside down from the ceiling.

{Vampire Bat – Level 55}

What catches my attention just as much as the bat though is the boss room notice that I get after entering the cavern.

[You have entered the Tier 1 Dungeon Crawling Cavern's Third Boss Room. The Bat's Den.]

Well this is interesting. First time thus far that I've found a boss monster that was a lower level than me.

All of the bats in the room seem to start moving at once, flapping their wings and dislodging themselves from the walls to fly towards me. Meanwhile the boss itself just slowly opens its eyes.

Then I use Quantum Burst and each one of the bats let out hate-filled hisses and screeches, some of them having been moving too fast towards me to stop, leading to them getting blasted by the pulse from the skill.

I raise a brow when all of the lesser vampire bats begin flying around me towards the entrance, leaving the cavern after I flash another Quantum Burst outwards.

The boss at the center of the ceiling finally dislodges its talons from the cavern's ceiling and begins flapping its wings with a loud screech that has half of the bats halting their current trajectory. But another flash of Quantum Burst and a Quantum Bolt sent their way sends those out of the cavern as well, managing to force them into ignoring whatever order the boss just gave them.

This might just be the easiest boss fight I've had so far.

Without any hesitation, I raise my hands and begin firing Quantum Bolts straight at the giant two-meter-tall bat with blazing red eyes, only for the creature to move a wing in front of it and block the bolts. Or rather, it tries to block the bolts, making the bolts begin tearing a glitching hole through the creature's wing.

I blink at the sight of the bat beginning to fall down to the ground before it quickly climbs to its feet.

Uh, is this bat stupid or something? Why would it try to block an… oh. The light from the bolts.

Was it trying to shield its eyes from the light? That sounds like a rather large weakness for a boss to have. But then again, most people don't have the ability to see in the dark like me when they come down here. So it's probably more of a challenge firing attacks directly at the creature with such a large cave.

It also didn't seem to be as fearful and weak towards the light as the lesser vampire bats were, simply because it didn't fly away in fright.

I reach out my right arm before summoning my polearm and grinning at the large bat.

This will be a good chance to test my polearm mastery.

Then the creature lets out a screech, making a lesser vampire bat appear from a portal of darkness next to it.

I blink in surprise, only to find the vampire bat biting the lesser vampire bat's neck, following which its wing begins to heal a little.

Interesting.

What's with this dungeon and cannibalism?