Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia Knight

I let out a scream as I stab my polearm down into what must've been the fiftieth lesser venomous arachnid to date before immediately using Quantum Reversal again, just like every other time I killed one of them over the past three days. Which causes me to let out an even shriller scream, only for it to cut off in an instant when a wave of relief fills me, along with another System Message in addition to the regular kill message.

[*New General Skill* – Poison Resistance: Passively increases the user's resistance towards any and all types of poison by a slight amount. Skill is automatically slotted due to free open slots.]

"Finally…" I mutter as I collapse onto my back, the pain from the poison reverting having left me.

No more letting the buggers bite me before killing them.

I tried just drinking their poison, but it looks like the poison dries really quickly outside of a biological body. Actually, it just dries up quickly in general even after it's injected into a body. Including my own, hence why it was so fast acting and didn't last long.

Made for a short and easy training method to get Poison Resistance, but not a fun one in any meaning of the word.

Now the Poison Resistance skill should help me resist a lot of the Tier 1 poisons to a decent degree. Not fully, but quite a bit.

They won't help much if at all against Tier 2 or higher poisons though.

I continue lying on the ground for several seconds before getting up with a grunt and continuing my way down the tunnel. But after just half an hour more of walking, along with the killing of four more spiders, I find myself at a Safe Zone.

Despite the Safe Zone, I don't feel much relief. Because on the other side of the Safe Zone, I see a tunnel curving upwards, and I can hear the occasional hissing of something very large on the other side of the tunnel.

This is it, isn't it? The boss of the boss area.

I'm almost back to that first room again.

I continue further into the Safe Zone before dropping onto the floor and staring up at the ceiling while opening my status.

This time I should be prepared at least.

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Or rather, more prepared. And I doubt I'll be able to find many more spiders in the tunnels, since they don't respawn. And unfortunately, I was running into fewer and fewer of them as I continued moving through them.

Plus I'm pretty sure I'll get lost if I tried, since I don't have anything to mark where I'm coming from with.

Doesn't help that my memory isn't exactly perfect.

Although that shouldn't be an issue when I reach Tier 2.

I smile at that thought as I continue staring up at the ceiling. But eventually my eyes begin to droop, and I fall asleep.

Somewhere in Tutorial Block #1

Lucas lets out a grunt as his blade finally cuts straight through the goblin chieftain's throat, finishing off the boss of the area he's in with a flare of black light and shadow engulfing the creature's head in the process. The Hound of the Apocalypse then flings the blade slightly as the last hints of shadow and dark light on it fade away along with the blood from the corpse.

Then he takes a moment to read the System Messages that appear in his vision before he glances towards the other goblins who are all running away.

[Level 50 Goblin Chieftain Defeated. User's earned EXP has been increased due to killing a being whose level is five or more levels higher than their own.]

[Eight points have been earned for killing a creature seven levels above you.]

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 43! Your Species has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, +1 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

Lucas raises his free hand and activates his Dark Light Wall skill, causing a wall of pure black light and shadowlike flames to shoot up from the ground right in front of several of the goblins, erasing most of the goblins that enter within its bounds and burning the rest with black fire.

That should do it for the boss area.

The man glances back to the chieftain's rather disappointing throne before a chest appears in front of it with what Lucas guesses is supposed to be a goblin chieftain's head imprinted on the front, with spikes of bone shooting out of the corners and some cloth covering it.

Lucas walks over and sits on the throne, not bothering with the boss chest just yet as he opens up the leaderboards.

[#1 Alexia Knight – 1241 points]

[#2 Lucas Nightshade – 1227 points]

[#3 Aurora Frost – 1125 points]

[#4 Leif Eriksson – 1121 points]

[#5 Isabella d'Aragon – 1097 points]

[#6 Leonidas Silver – 1085 points]

[#7 Alexander Frost – 1014 points]

[#8 Nathan Briar – 993 points]

[#9 Noah Kowalski – 969 points]

[#10 Damien Black – 965 points]

She's still ahead of me in points, but the gap is slowly closing. And the Empress has leaped past the King of Arcadia again.

Lucas shakes his head slightly at the amusing sight of the two former rulers of nations fighting over a spot on the leaderboards once again after all these years.

The leaderboards prior to the Reset had been based solely on the level of the user and not any sort of point system. But Lucas does remember the original System's Tutorial having a point based leaderboard.

What he can't help but wonder about though is how the System is going to separate this new dimension out. Since the last dimension was separated into different worlds in a universe, while this one is supposedly one large dimension according to the memory he had answering his questions. A large dimension separated by blocks similar to the Tutorial, with large dimensional walls in between each block that people can only pass through at certain points.

It's an interesting setup, and a good way to let powers form amongst the different blocks without much interference at first from the other blocks. But will the System have leaders for each block like they had Planetary Leaders for before the Reset? Will they still have Champions?

Lucas certainly hopes they at least keep the Champion position in use somewhere, because the General Skill that position gave was always of great help to him. A skill to help the strongest person on their planet to protect the planet itself from outsiders.

After a few seconds of considering, Lucas shakes his head and gets up before walking over to the chest.

Guess I'll see when this Tutorial ends.