Reaper's Resurgence - Book 2 - Chapter 8 - Altar of the Frozen Moon (Patreon)

                                                           Alexia

This is… unexpected.

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Altar of the Frozen Moon

Description: An altar located within the Frozen Wastelands Tier 2 Dungeon with magical properties. Anyone who makes an offering of magical energy to the altar shall be granted a gift. The gift will be randomized and is affected by the element of the magical energy used as an offering.

Stats Bonus: N/A

Requirements: None.

Item Tier: 2

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I stare at the thing for several seconds before eventually stepping up to it and placing my hand on the thing. And almost immediately, I feel some of the quantum energy in my body moving into the altar, following which the thing begins to glow with a purple and blue light instead of the pale blue from before. The same color as my quantum energy.

Several seconds pass with the light shining brighter and brighter until suddenly it explodes outwards, blinding me for a second due to the magical light before it clears again to reveal an item floating above the altar. And the item immediately has me grinning, strictly because I can sense quantum energy coming from it.

A quantum magic item! That’s a first!

Even my armor and weapons are only elemental armor taking on quantum characteristics due to my own quantum energy filling it until someone else uses them. Well, if someone else could use them, considering that they’re soulbound.

The item itself is a ring with a brightly glowing band of purple going around it. A band that seems to glitch out as I look at it, like it’s constantly trying to set itself in reality but failing each time. Meanwhile the rest of the ring is a black tinted with a deep purple.

I identify the item and quickly find my grin growing wider.

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Quantum Lock

Description: A ring infused with the quantum energy of The Reaper. It is able to slow down or speed up time once every month for a period of ten normal seconds when the user is below 10% of their total soul capacity.

Stats Bonus: +30 MAG, +30 MEN

Requirements: The user must have soul. The user must have a quantum magic Affinity of Class B or higher.

Item Tier: 3 (Item Tier increased by one due to the Legendary Feat, The First Clear)

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Good to know that The First Clear’s perk also affects things like this.

Without any hesitation, I take my gauntlet off and put the ring on. Then I put the gauntlet back on and clench my fist slightly.

I love wearing rings under gauntlets. As long as the gauntlets adjust to fit them, that is. Otherwise it’s just uncomfortable.

But if they do adjust themselves, then it hides an enemy’s vision of your rings completely. Which can really help out in battle.

Now then.

I turn to look over the platform before teleporting over to the edge of it and kneeling down to look at the ice faaaaaar below.

Getting down… might be a bit tricky. Maybe I should’ve thought about that before coming up here?

This is one major issue with the whole ‘retaining momentum when teleporting’ thing.

Then again, I can always just send some Quantum Bolts down to offset my momentum a bit. And in the end, fall damage is physical damage. So I’ll only be taking 20% of the damage anyways.

Meaning I don’t have anything to worry about. If I do get hurt, I can just reverse the damage in an instant.

I nod my head at that, clenching my fist slightly at the rather large drop without a hint of fear of the height in me. Right. No fear at all.

And with that thought, I close my eyes.

Just because.

Then I step over the edge and use my senses to repeatedly teleport downwards all while gaining momentum. And from time to time, I send bolts of quantum energy down to offset the force of my fall. Not that it necessarily does all that much to help.

Eventually I hear a cracking sound when my feet finally hit the ground, even with me doing the last teleport with me just a single inch above the ground.

I immediately reverse the damage, only letting out a very faint scream of pain in the process from the near two seconds of pain I endured.

And then I finally open my eyes again. Not that closing them really helped much with the fear I was not feeling, considering that I could still see around me with energy manipulation.

I look around for a second before sighing and beginning to walk across the ice again, ready to continue the endless trek across the wasteland.

I’ve never been afraid of heights, but I don’t particularly like falling down several thousand meters with nothing but solid ice beneath me. Pretty sure anyone would feel that way.

The fall aside, it was absolutely worth it getting that ring.

I smile at the thought.

Time magic is very powerful. Even if the quantum beings monitor all time magic users to make sure they don’t do a mass time reversal on the universe or anything else, really. Not even just the Quantum Architect, but all of the quantum beings.

Same with space magic, actually. But in terms of destroying reality itself.

Almost like the quantum beings are the protectors of reality. Which is pretty close to the truth.

A fact that’s rather ironic considering my status as a Quantum Reaper. Something with the power to straight up destroy reality with quantum energy.

I pause in my step as a thought comes to me.

Do the other quantum beings know about me?

That has me frowning.

If they were bothered by my ‘killing’ of the Quantum Architect, then they would’ve either stopped me from doing it or killed me outright. Although considering how they left the guy in his imprisonment and didn’t do anything I get the feeling they probably don’t care that I killed him.

But I can’t help but wonder despite that.

What are the quantum beings doing right now?

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