Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

At some point in my search, I realize I have a System Message waiting for me that I never checked.

[One Tier 4 level-capped Target Defeated. No EXP is given due to the user's level being capped. Three Tier 4 level-capped Targets of three defeated. The requirement to slay three Tier 4 level-capped targets has been completed.]

[One requirement remaining to ascend to Tier 5: Raise Energy Manipulation to Tier 4.]

Nothing I didn't already know. So I just continue searching around for targets to hunt while I train my Energy Manipulation.

Right now the skill is at level 25. So it's about halfway to Tier 4.

Meaning it'll be a little while before I reach my goal.

Quite a while, in fact.

Which is a pity, but still. I haven't seen anyone else who has reached Tier 5 yet. It would've given a Legendary Feat if someone did after all.

And there hasn't been a Legendary Feat for it yet.

I kind of want to get this one, so I'm going to keep searching for targets while training it.

Hopefully I can get more of those free skill level-ups to boost it forwards.

"Do note that they don't boost your own understanding but just unlock the benefits you would get at that level of the skill," Zal states, his voice echoing in my head. "It'll be nothing more than an empty skill without the knowledge and ability to put it to use that you would get from raising it naturally. Until you get that knowledge and ability, it will be harder to level it up."

I know that perfectly well, but it doesn't really matter. I'll catch up my understanding and training after I reach Tier 4 in the skill.

What matters right now is reaching Tier 5 first and getting that Legendary Feat. The other matters can wait.

"Understandable," Zal says before his presence fades again. Leaving me teleporting through the Dimensional Blocks while training my Energy Manipulation.

His presence does occasionally return though, simply to give me some advice on my training. But other than that, my trip ends up being rather quiet and peaceful.

I run into targets every now and then, all of whom I ask a simple question before killing, but none of them are very strong. And the one that happens to be the same level as me is still easily killed without much of a struggle. Simply because I'm using my True Form to kill the targets and not my regular form.

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And I don't think anything in the Dimensional Blocks right now is strong enough to fight my True Form.

Not a single thing.

It's just too bad I can only use my True Form against targets and Corruptors. Which I guess are also targets, technically.

Amongst the rewards I get for killing the target though, I only end up getting one more free level-up for a skill out of five target kills. Which isn't a good ratio, but it's better than training the skill on my own and waiting for it to reach Tier 4 naturally.

After all, someone else could reach Tier 5 at any moment. And this is one Legendary Feat I really don't want to miss out on.

As if on cue, a Legendary Feat notification appears in my vision almost giving me a heart-attack.

If that was possible.

Okay, good. It's not someone reaching Tier 5.

Although that timing was rather… yeah.

Anyways, the Devourer guy? Not to be mistaken with Mom, whose species is a devourer. It's just this guy's title.

No doubt given by a Legendary Feat from before the Reset or something.

I can't remember this guy though. Just that they weren't well known pre-Reset.

Putting who he is aside though, is he just hunting other Dimensional Blocks or something? Going around declaring war on one Block after another and challenging their Dimensional Champions?

Either he is hunting for Legendary Feats, he really likes fighting, or he is really ambitious for territory within his Block.

I have to wonder just how massive a Dimensional Block would be if it had eleven different Dimensional Blocks of territory?

Would be interesting to see, but I have no idea what Block this guy is in. So I'd have to randomly stumble on it to find it.

And I don't think I would like that anyways, since there's a chance he'd start bothering me.

I continue teleporting through the Blocks, searching for targets one after another. All the way until I find a rather big target.

Not to mention an important one.

When I arrive at their rather large base, I find it filled with turrets and security completely covering the outside of it. Almost like the one inside was expecting an attack.

What's more is that the security is made up of quite a few people I recognize from the news, even if I don't know who they are. Just some passing faces I saw on the news before the Reset.

But the fact that I saw them alone means they're probably powerful.

Most likely.

"Quantum Reaper, please turn back and we will not have any problems," someone named some really long and complicated name that I'm just gonna rename Bob simply because bob is somewhere in his long name declares while aiming a rather large rifle at me. "If you do not turn around, we will be forced to shoot."

I blink at that.

Does he actually expect those bullets to do any harm to me?

I go ahead and transform into my True Form to prepare for the target before teleporting down to the entrance and beginning to walk in. Only for them all to open fire and some of the bullets to actually hit me.

That surprises me as I turn around to look at the bullets, just to find some of them coated in magic. Then I lift my head towards the people who shot me, finding them equally surprised. Albeit probably because of their bullets' lack of effectiveness.

"That was rude," I state without showing much of a reaction on my face.