Reaper's Resurgence - Book 1 - Chapter 83 - Underwhelmed (Patreon)

Wrote this chapter earlier but never posted it. Enjoy. Writing another Reaper chapter and writing a WBM chapter too. Already halfway through writing the second Reaper chapter since I wrote that earlier too.

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Alexia

To start things off, I teleport and deal with the two wendigos at the entrance first. Without making any noise and while teleporting them away from the cave, hiding them in the bushes. Then I begin teleporting through the cave, making sure to only appear in places out of sight of the wendigos. All while I search the caves for a large energy source.

And after several minutes of searching, I eventually find the leader of the wendigos in a large cavern at the back of the cave system.

Asleep.

A grin creeps onto my face at the sight of the leader all alone and looking rather defenseless.

{Alpha Lesser Wendigo – Level 100}

So without a hint of hesitation, after checking for other wendigos of course, I teleport right in front of it and swipe my polearm straight at its neck. But to my surprise, the creature’s eyes shoot open immediately and it starts moving, making my blade cut through its shoulder instead of its neck.

“Shit,” I mutter as the two-meter-tall wendigo lets out a roar that instantly gives rise to other roars within the cave system.

This thing’s senses are a lot stronger than I expected. Although it doesn’t really help it, since its arm is almost detached entirely now.

I quickly finish off the thing by teleporting behind it right when it swipes at me and impaling my polearm straight through the back of its throat.

[Level 100 Alpha Lesser Wendigo Defeated. No EXP is given due to the user’s level being capped. Two Tier 1 Capped beings defeated. To clear the requirement, you must defeat one more.]

Then I quickly grab the Shard of Authority I find at the back of the alpha's cave and begin teleporting away through the caves again, occasionally killing the wendigos I run into along the way. But I don’t bother wiping them all out. Because there’s no point when I won’t get anything for it.

Plus it could hurt the growth of everyone on this island, and that would just be rude to take away their path to power for no reason other than senseless slaughter.

So in the end I only kill about a fourth of the wendigos on my way out, avoiding most of them as they all rush towards their leader without knowing I’m already far away from him.

And it doesn’t take long before I find myself walking through the mountains again with a smile on my face, heading back towards the home island again.

While I was teleporting through the caves I came to a rather obvious realization. Something I should’ve noticed before.

If there was a Class S being on our home island before any of the islands attached and only right after the Tutorial, there’s a good chance they came from a dungeon on our island. Meaning I can go challenge that for the last level capped monster kill.

And along the way I can continue leveling up Quantum Displacement.

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It only takes me about ten minutes to catch back up with the group of people who I saved earlier. And they seem rather surprised to see me so soon. So surprised that Shawn stumbles backwards when I appear in front of them.

He quickly recovers though and asks as if he hadn’t just stumbled, “Alexia? I thought you were going after the level capped monster?”

I nod my head before answering, “I did. The thing didn’t last long.”

Silence fills the small clearing we’re in.

Then Shawn and the others share a glance and focus on me again as he asks, sounding more than a little hesitant, “You… did you frighten them away or something? Or…”

I tilt my head slightly and answer, “No, it’s dead. I left most of the wendigos alive though, so don’t worry about that.”

They all fall silent again, so I decide to just leave, not wasting my time anymore as I tell them, “Well, I’m going back to my island. So have a nice day!”

Before they can say anything, I return to teleporting back through the mountains. But as I teleport, I can’t help but think about their reaction.

I guess I can understand them being shocked. Considering their levels, and the fact that I left them and came back within an hour after killing the thing.

But the level capped monster should’ve only been a Class C species. It was also asleep and vulnerable, letting me get a crippling blow on it before it could even respond, so it’s not that surprising that I killed it so quickly.

Although no one else would’ve been able to do that. Not without being able to teleport so freely and sense their surroundings. And, well, being able to kill it.

I continue teleporting for a while only to check my soul when I reach the hills, finding it to be only at a fifth remaining. So I stop teleporting and begin running instead to give my soul some time to recover.

Good thing that battle barely cost me any soul.

After walking for a bit, once again ignoring any monsters along my way except those that attack me, I open my Skills List just to check on my Quantum Displacement’s leveling progress.

[General Skills]

|Pain Resistance Level 6(2%)(T1)|

|Polearm Mastery Level 5(19%)(T1)|

|Forerunner (Unique)|

|Stealth Level 2(94%)(T1)|

|Survivor Level 2(14%)(T1)|

|Poison Resistance Level 4(29%)(T1)|

|Exploration Level 3(1%)(T1)|

|Anti-Magic Barrier (Unique)|

|Tutorial Champion (Unique)|

|Energy Manipulation Level 1(6%)(T1)|

[Active Skills]

|Quantum Bolt Level 5(62%)(T1)|

|Quantum Displacement Level 8(78%)(T1)|

|Quantum Reversal Level 4(41%)(T1)|

|Quantum Resonance Level 1(5%)(T1)|

|Quantum Burst Level 4(23%)(T1)|

[Passive Skills]

|Quantum Attunement Level 5(35%)(T1)|

|Quantum Singularity Level 1(5%)(T1)|

|Quantum Infusion Level 4(22%)(T1)|

|Quantum Adaptation Level 4(4%)(T1)|

|Quantum Aura Level 2(73%)(T1)|

Okay, I really should test out Quantum Resonance more. I’m not used to using it, so I haven’t really implemented it in my fighting much yet.

I purse my lips for a moment before deciding to train in using that skill a bit after I recover all of my soul again. Preferably after I’m back at the home island.

It’s not likely that the others will be at the base right now, considering that they’re probably in the Crawling Caverns Dungeon, but I can at least check on how things are doing. And make sure William isn’t up to anything.

Then, after trying out Quantum Resonance better, I can figure out where that possible dungeon might be.

I pick up the pace, a smile on my face at the thought of fighting in another dungeon.

This’ll be fun.

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