Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia Knight

The spider seems to notice my change in plan and begins standing up straighter again before shooting out more globs of poison at me. But these are a lot smaller, only spanning about half a meter in diameter even if they're a lot more numerous than the first ones.

I repeatedly teleport three meters away from myself over and over again to dodge the poison, no longer sending quantum bolts at the massive glob behind me in the process.

Then the spider starts shooting them even faster at me, making my eyes narrow.

This isn't good.

I glance back as I run to find the massive glob catching up.

Very not good.

I begin teleporting faster while shooting quantum bolts at the large one again, only narrowly avoiding most of the new, smaller globs of poison it's throwing. But even with all my effort, one of them still manages to hit my left shoulder, making me let out a scream of pain.

To my surprise though, all the glob does is disable my arm, rotting large portions of my shoulder and blocking off my use of the arm itself. Which is a lot less than the 'instant death' I was expecting.

Looks like it was a good idea to get Poison Resistance after all.

I grit my teeth while continuing to run, pushing through the pain of my shoulder and teleporting all over the place until the globs finally stop coming from the spider, the black light no longer shining from its body.

It's out!

{Congratulations! Your General Skill 'Pain Resistance' has reached Level 4!}

I let out a sigh of relief as the pain from my shoulder reduces a bit. But I ignore the level as I continue running towards the spider, briefly glancing behind me to find the massive glob being only about a meter away at this point.

Just a little more!

I teleport three times in a row to end up directly below the arachnid, only for it to send a limb directly down to cut me in half. A limb that just barely misses when I teleport once more, feeling a wave of exhaustion as I do so from lack of soul.

That doesn't matter though. I did it. The spider's own attack should hit it.

And it does, the massive slightly-less-than-five-meter-long glob of poison pops, splattering all over the spider.

But I forgot that I was still just about a meter behind it, so some of it splashes on me as I instinctively raise my arm to block it before I manage to teleport away, covering my remaining arm in poison and making me scream again, the pain of the other wound only having just gotten tolerable. And the pain only grows worse and worse as the poison eats through some of my bracer and begins to rot my arm.

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I quickly glance at my soul to find it only at about five hundred left, clearly not being enough to reverse this.

The pain continues growing as my scream grows louder and louder until I find the black poison finally gone on my arms, leaving just the rotted flesh behind. Then I get a couple System Messages that I can only barely read through the pain while I reach through the pain into my pocket for my potion that I got from the System at the start of this Reset.

I ignore the messages for now as I slowly try to force my arm up to bring the potion to my face, but I fail, dropping the potion onto the ground. But fortunately it doesn't shatter, so I drag myself over to it before struggling to open the bottle with my mostly crippled right arm and my mouth.

Eventually I manage to open it and down the potion, making an intense soothing sensation move through my body, following which the rot on my arms begins to return ever so slowly to normal, only to stop midway through.

Despite the wounds not healing fully, they heal enough for me to let out a sigh of relief and finally check on my System Messages as my soul helps heal the rest of the wounds.

[Level 40 Lesser Arachnid Defeated. User's earned EXP has been increased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is higher than their own.] x8

[Two points have been earned for killing a creature one levels above you.] x8

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 40! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

[*New Active Skill* – Quantum Burst: Sends a powerful wave of quantum energy all around the user. Skill is automatically slotted due to free open slot. Active Class Skill Slots are now filled. Any Active Class Skills obtained after this will no longer be automatically slotted, requiring the user to go to a Safe Zone to slot them.]

[Level 40 Lesser Arachnid Defeated.] x7

[Level 41 Lesser Venomous Arachnid Defeated. User's earned EXP has been increased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is higher than their own.] x12

[One point has been earned for killing a creature the same level as you.] x7

[Two points have been earned for killing a creature one level above you.] x12

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 41! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

[Level 40 Lesser Arachnid Defeated. User's earned EXP has been decreased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is lower than their own] x4

[Level 41 Lesser Venomous Arachnid Defeated.] x2

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

[One point has been earned for killing a creature the same level as you.] x2

[Ten points have been earned for killing a creature nine levels above you.]

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 42! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

{Congratulations! Your General Skill 'Poison Resistance' has reached Level 2!}

I look around after reading the System Messages to find a couple of lesser arachnids that were previously entering the room from the large pit I had originally fallen down now rushing out of it in a panic.

Guess the monsters in a boss room do all flee the moment the boss is killed. Something that didn't happen before the Reset.

Interesting.

I grimace as I look down at my wounds that are still healing.

This could take a little bit to heal.