Reaper's Resurgence - Book 4 - Chapter 8 (Patreon)

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Alexia

I manage to teleport out of the way of the polearms at the last second, only for them both to change directions and begin heading towards me again. Leaving me only enough time to teleport once more before they change directions again and pierce straight into my shoulder and gut.

Fuck.

I cough out a mouthful of glitchy blood while turning to look down at the monsters right as the two polearms inside of me vanish and return to their hands. The two monsters in question just looking up at me with glowing purple eyes shining through their helmet’s visors and nothing else visible beneath the helmets. Just those eyes.

After a second, they pull their arms back to throw the polearms again. But I don’t just sit here bleeding. Instead I pull forth a past stasis copy of my body and paste it over the current one, returning my body to what it was just several minutes ago. Then I swipe my scythe straight at the polearms the two monsters throw my way. And this time around it actually makes contact, sending them flailing back at the monsters, who catch them mid-fall.

Good. Looks like it’s just the monsters themselves that I can’t strike with my scythe.

The next test…

I teleport straight up to the monsters before slamming the butt of my scythe into the helmet of one of them, making contact this time around.

…is to see if I can hit them with any part that isn’t the blade.

The corners of my lips quirk ever so slightly upwards, only for me to teleport backwards in seconds when the blade of the glaive one of the monsters is holding passes straight through my shoulder, cutting off my arm in the process.

After teleporting away, I once again rest my body back to a past stasis. A process that costs even more soul after having my arm cut off.

But it’s fine.

I have a damn-near infinite supply here thanks to it being the quantum realm.

At least, of energy.

Because it seems my skills are being supplemented with energy here instead of directly using my soul.

Which is really good, but what would be better is if that energy would fill my soul somehow instead. But alas, that’s not gonna happen.

Meaning, if I take too long to regenerate my wounds, and my soul ticks down, I will end up in trouble even with the infinite energy. Because I’d end up paralyzed if I ran out of soul.

And I can’t exactly fight while paralyzed.

I focus on the monster I hit with the butt of my scythe, only to narrow my eyes when all I find is a single dent in its helmet. While the creature itself is making a wave of glitchy purple energy almost like lightning coat its hand as it raises the hand towards me.

My eyes widen a bit the instant it shoots off a bolt of glitchy lightning straight at me. Lightning so fast that I can’t dodge or even teleport away form it before it strikes me, making me let out a grunt of pain, following which I fall limp towards the ground. With my soul rapidly dropping.

I catch myself by restoring my body to the past again, no doubt getting a lot of progress with leveling the skill in the act of doing so. Then I immediately teleport away as another polearm – the spear this time – flies straight through where I was just moments ago.

Well, shit. This may just be one of the toughest battles I’ve fought in a while… excluding the Tier 5 lupin parasite, of course.

Another polearm flies straight at me – the glaive this time – and I teleport away to dodge it right when the spear changes direction to hit me in the back. But it vanishes just as quickly before I revert the damage and teleport right in front of the monster whose glaive is still in the sky. Then I sweep my scythe around to hit it with the staff part, slamming into its side and sending it staggering towards the other monster.

I don’t give it time to react as I sweep my leg afterwards, slamming into it while using multiple Quantum Bolts from my leg itself upon collision. Sending both monsters flying away from the tower.

Then I teleport away when the glaive finally reaches me, making it pierce into the ground. At which point I teleport back and grab the thing by the pole, gritting my teeth a little when it tries to get away.

But I don’t let it. I hold tight and immediately begin sending waves of Quantum Breath at it through both of my hands, slowly deteriorating the glaive in the process.

Making it glitch apart one part at a time.

Until I sense a flash of danger and teleport away, finding myself unable to teleport the glaive with me despite holding it.

Then the spear slams into the ground where I was at, and both the spear and glaive teleport away to return to the monsters. Both of whom are back on their feet again.

I feel myself breathing a little heavily due to the exertion this battle is causing. Despite my tank of energy being filled to the brim, even if my soul isn’t.

What I find rather annoying, though, is the sight of both monsters standing while holding their polearms without much damage to them. Other than a bunch of dents in their armor.

There isn’t any blood, no limps, no staggering. None of that.

They’re just standing perfectly straight as if they weren’t wounded while preparing to throw their polearms again.

Well, I wasn’t really expecting this to be an easy fight. So it’s not that surprising.

This time though, an idea comes to mind. So I just float here in place and let the two throw their polearms at me. And while I dodge the spear, I purposefully let the glaive pierce into me.

Then I finish deteriorating it with Quantum Breath, turning the thing into nothing but rapidly vanishing glitched flakes of metal.

I turn a faint smirk towards the two monsters before teleporting away from the returning spear.

Now to deal with the other one.

Then I can see what they do without their weapons.