Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 26 - How To Kill a Spaceship (Patreon)

Alexia

So as it turns out, fighting a giant living spaceship is even weirder than I was expecting. The thing is really fast despite its size, has a bunch of laser weapons all across it with some cannons, and it has a habit of blaring its ship’s alarm.

Really annoying.

More importantly, the thing has the defense of an entire spaceship. One built with magical ore, making it very resistant to magic.

All I’ve managed to do after half an hour of fighting is a bunch of dents. Not a single actual hole into its hull.

And when I try to hit its bridge, the ship just avoids my attack by warping.

I never knew how annoying it was to fight a teleporter before now. And I am a teleporter myself.

At this point though the ship is just trying to escape. Which makes things even harder because it’s become a chase now.

I let out an irritated groan as I continue teleporting after the living spaceship, occasionally passing other spaceships and their occupants in the process.

Fortunately none of our attacks land on them though. Even if there was one close call.

Our chase keeps up for hours on end before I finally manage to catch the thing off guard by switching to Wave form and rushing straight up to it to blast the thing with the energy I’ve stored up with Observation Effect Absorption. Which crashes in the window of the bridge finally.

To my surprise, I find some sort of tentacle running through the ship towards the control panel at the command seat. Which is… odd… to say the least.

So I attack it like any normal woman would do.

And the tentacle immediately severs, making the ship let out a loud screeching sound. Kind of like it was trying to screech without actually having vocal cords.

Then dozens of turrets and laser cannons appear in the bridge. A feature that I’m preeetty sure most spaceships don’t have.

I might be wrong about that, but I doubt it.

The weapons all begin firing at once, making me instantly teleport out of its bridge. And to my surprise, the ship starts teleporting away the moment I leave it. As if it couldn’t teleport with me inside or something.

But that’s not all that surprises me. Because the ship doesn’t start moving again. It just teleports and doesn’t do anything in terms of movement other than teleport.

Interesting…

My thoughts go back to the tentacle.

Maybe it has a tentacle going to each control part of the ship that controls those functions? Kind of like nerves and its brain in a sense. But as a spaceship.

Just a theory, but I feel it may just be how the ship works.

Either way though, the things teleporting must be draining its mana. Assuming that’s what it’s running on.

Now, back to the theory that the ship can’t teleport with me in it.

To test that out, I teleport right in front of the ship’s bridge, which makes the ship immediately teleport away. But my range of teleportation seems to be further, so I teleport right next to it again and move inside of its bridge. Because I instinctively feel that I can’t teleport into the bridge.

Then the ship’s teleporting stops again as the lasers and turrets return.

Right. So it can’t move anymore when I’m inside of it. But its bridge has way too many defenses.

I move straight up to the door leading out of the bridge before breaking the thing down with a Quantum Bolt and rushing straight through it as lasers and bullets begin shooting at the entrance. And a few of them even hit me, tearing straight through my body and making me cry out in pain. But I quickly heal the damage with Quantum Stasis Copy while rolling across the floor into the hallway.

Right when I’m landing and about to get up again though, a System Notification appears in my vision, making me frown.

Huh?

I don’t get much time to think on that before more turrets and lasers begin poking out of the hallway walls, making me wonder what the fuck kind of spaceship this is.

Who needs this many weapons?!

I immediately begin running through the ship, jumping around and dodging the bullets and lasers while still being hit by some of them. But there aren’t as many as there were in the bridge, so I manage to make it through the halls while chasing after the tentacle that I severed back at the bridge. Since the thing is just trailing across the hallway.

Eventually the tentacle leads me to some sort of core, and I don’t hesitate to blast the thing with a Quantum Bolt. But the core doesn’t blow up. Instead, more weapons poke their metaphorical heads out of the walls and begin firing.

What the fuck is with this spaceship and weapons?!

I continue blasting the core while very much wishing I could teleport inside of here. And after taking more hits than I care to acknowledge, the core finally cracks.

Then just one more hit leads to the core shattering, and all of the weapons just lowering to point at the ground with the sound of some sort of machine powering off.

I heal myself again before cautiously looking around, only to sigh when the System Message finally comes in.

[A Cataclysm Class monster has been slain. Requirement to slay twenty-five Cataclysm Class monsters has been updated.]

Finally.

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The Dimensional Council of Dimensional Block #1 has officially achieved   victory against Dimensional Block #15 in their war!

Henceforth, the Dimensional Wall between Dimensional Blocks #1 and   #15 shall no longer exist. Furthermore, all citizens of Dimensional Block #15   designated as not allowed in the Block will be forcefully ejected into a   random neighboring Block.

Due to the war coming to a close through the slaying of the   Dimensional Champion of Dimensional Block #15 by the Dimensional Champion of   Dimensional Block #1, only one Champion remains.

Therefore the remaining Champion will take on the role of   Dimensional Champion for the new Dimensional Block #1.

Lastly, the Dimensional Leader of Dimensional Block #1 will retain   their position as the Leader of the newly merged Block.

The war results have now concluded.