Reaper's Resurgence - Book 2 - Chapter 16 - Authority (Patreon)

                                                                         Alexia

It ends up taking longer than I would’ve expected for all of the votes to be made by the Authority holders. Either that or the System just sits there and waits for several minutes after the votes are put in.

But eventually an explosion of fireworks shoots up into the air above Varsac’s booth, following which a notification appears.

That last bit has me frowning slightly, but my attention is quickly returned to the booth when the purple barrier turns gold, following which his booth is moved up to the fourth level. And the man has a confident smirk on his face as it happens. One directed not towards me but at Harold instead.

Then another notification appears to replace the first as two blades suddenly materialize into the air above my own booth and clash with each other.

Well, at least he isn’t the only one getting his authority increased.

Silence fills the hall as everyone no doubt talks amongst themselves in their booths with the muting feature enabled. But just seconds after the notification fades, another one appears in its place.

A Legendary Feat whose text for me quickly changes to show its perk, unlike for everyone else who are just seeing the description and name.

I blink at that before smirking, still with my cheek resting up against my hand.

Now that’ll come in handy. A free pass to go anywhere I please no matter who controls it.

And just like with the Dimensional Leader’s booth, my booth moves up a level. But unlike his booth, instead of glowing golden, mine takes on a red hue with the purple light still partially there.

Red and purple for the Champion, gold for the Leader. Fitting enough I guess.

Another notification appears, the last one judging by the text on it, replacing the last one.

Six… hours…

This is going to be boring as hell.

It doesn’t take long for people to start leaving their booths, heading over to other booths in order to make contact with the other civilization leaders. And amongst those are both Varsac and Harold. And they’re heading straight towards me.

Ugh. Such a pain.

Both of them pause when the sound of flapping wings echo out, bringing our gazes along with the gazes of quite the number of people in the room to a certain dragon who is flying through the air straight towards my booth. Then he taps on the booth’s barrier, giving me a notice asking if I want to let him in. And I quickly accept it, letting the man fly into my booth where he then just casually makes a seat of ice and sits down.

Then an awkward silence fills the hall for a few seconds and I turn on the mute button to soundproof the barrier.

“Looks like you leveled up a lot,” Ethan comments as soon as he notices the soundproofing.

At his words, I identify the man to check out his own progress.

{Ethan Silva – Hellfrost Dragon – Level 189}

I nod my head in agreement and comment back, “I’m not the only one.”

The last time I looked at the leaderboards, it was changing again with more dragons starting to show up in the top ten. And now Ethan was closer to the back of the top ten than he was before, the hellfrost dragon slowly losing ground in terms of levels compared to the others.

“Yeah, well I moved into a Tier 2 dungeon shortly after our last conversation,” he says with a light shrug as the two of us focus on all of the scurrying people outside the booth, many of the ones who were originally approaching me turning around and going in different directions instead. Likely due to not wanting to speak to two Class S species at the same time or something. “Which dungeon did you enter?”

I glance back at him before looking out of the booth again and commenting, “I entered an ice-aligned undead dungeon. What about you?”

“An underwater dungeon,” he answers without hesitation, not really surprising me in the least considering that he’s a hellfrost dragon. So the only two choices I would’ve guessed were a water or an ice dungeon.

We fall silent for a bit once more before eventually I ask, “Did you find a Chaos Monster in the dungeon as well?”

Out of the corner of my eye, I find the dragon nodding his head with a frown on his face as he answers, “That I did.”

Sounds like he didn’t have a very pleasant time with them either. Makes me wonder just what sort of Chaos monsters he ran into.

“Do you think they’ll appear outside of dungeons?” I ask, turning my head to look at him this time.

He just shakes his head, answering, “I’m pretty sure we would’ve seen them by now if that were the case. The Calamity Class is already roaming around after all.”

True.

The others were rather worried about that happening when I told them, all things considered. I agree with Ethan though, since they probably would’ve shown up by now if they were outside of the dungeons as well.

Although, one thought does come to mind.

The Calamity Class monster.

Does it have a home?

And if it does, could that home possibly have Chaos Monsters in it?

Not a very pleasant line of thinking, to be sure.

I sigh before focusing my attention towards Astrid and Alara, finding quite a few people moving over to talk to them.

Looks like my declaration of support is working.

And with Ethan here it’s basically making them the point of contact for me, leaving me without the need to deal with politics.

A rather nice benefit.

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This is a message to all users within Dimensional Block #108!!!

User Varsac Varal, The Giant of the Ages, has been selected with a   37% majority of the votes as Dimensional Block #108’s first Dimensional   Leader!

Varsac has now had his Authority Level increased by one!

This is a message to all users within Dimensional Block #108!!!

User Alexia Knight, The Reaper, has now become Dimensional Block   #108’s first Dimensional Champion!

Alexia has now had her Authority Level increased by one!

Legendary Feat – The First Authority

As the first to reach Authority Level 5, you may pass through any   Dimensional Barriers regardless of if the Dimensional Barrier is locked down   by order of that Block’s Dimensional Council.

The Dimensional Council will end in six hours. Until then, you may   discuss amongst each other and mingle.

There are no decisions needing the council’s attention for the   first meeting after the election.