Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 37 - Childish Elemental (Patreon)

Alexia

The next several days pass by rather lethargically, with me doing nothing but some sightseeing here and there while training my energy manipulation. And spending more time just sitting in my room, once again training my energy manipulation.

Not much happens during this time. The inhabitants of the Block avoid me like the plague. The Rose Empress tries to get friendly with me for reasons that are rather obvious and creepy. Something about wanting to be friends with Lucas’s kid since she wants to be my stepmother in the future, apparently not caring about Mom. Which kinda makes me want to slap her. With a slap that requires more than a few healers to fix.

But the woman is actually rather important to the governing of Dimensional Block #1, since she’s basically Lucas’s right hand man. The woman who does everything he doesn’t want to bother himself with. Which is most of the governing, if I’m being honest.

Lucas isn’t really the leader type, same as myself.

The assassin empress is easy enough to avoid though. Just have to teleport away from her and I’m golden. And she never bothers me when I’m in my room.

So I end up spending a little bit longer than I had originally planned in the Block before heading out to leave. And this time around as I’m crossing the Dimensional Blocks, I don’t bother with interacting with the people. I just teleport straight through the Block, at most buying a map from time to time to find the other end of the Block.

Good thing a lot of these Blocks already know about my travels, what with word having gone around that The Reaper was traveling through the Blocks.

I cross from one Block to another, purposefully avoiding some of the ones I very much disliked passing through in the process. Meanwhile I run into some familiar faces belonging to Class S species I passed by during my first run through. Some of whom are friendly, others not so much.

All of them let me pass without bothering me though. And I don’t bother them either.

No reason to after all.

The only things I still need are one last level for Quantum Displacement along with nine more levels for Energy Manipulation.

But when I’m crossing through Dimensional Block #60, I find a rather unexpected surprise. One involving a rather large explosion that I barely avoid by teleporting away, leaving me reappearing on a large floating boulder above the rocky mountains of this Block with a frown on my face.

Then another explosion appears right beneath me, making me teleport away again. And these explosions continue to happen until I manage to lock down a powerful energy source nearby.

I quickly teleport over to them before blasting their location with a Quantum Bolt, making the stone itself shift before forming a man and leaping away from the target of my attack. Leaving my Quantum Bolt to blast the rock without anyone being there.

My gaze quickly focuses on the man whose form is still solidifying as he flies through the air.

{Strockr – Earth Elemental – Level 500}

A Class S species. And an elemental at that.

Elementals are unique creatures. The weakest elementals are Class A, with the stronger ones being Class S. And elementals are the only other creature in existence for each element aside from that element’s Class S species.

“You. Bad,” the elemental in question declares without their body finishing solidifying before they return to the ground again. “Bad. Reaper.”

Elementals are also rather childish.

I was wondering when someone would try attacking me. Because not all Class S species are smart, even if most of them are.

Some Class S species are just other species that advanced to Class S. Like the Lich King.

Others were turned into a Class S naturally or unnaturally. Whether through age, which is unfair, or through infection or science, like Astrid.

“How am I bad?” I ask while teleporting away again right as more explosions ring out from the stone. Which I’m beginning to realize is just the elemental blowing up explosives underground or moving natural gas and lighting sparks there. Doing whatever it can to make explosions.

I send another Quantum Bolt to where the earth elemental is now before it jumps out of the ground again and declares, “Reaper. Murderer.”

That has me frowning for a moment, then I tell the thing, “I have never killed any user outside of self-defense.”

The earth elemental immediately stops moving and attacking, going still.

I stop attacking as well, just watching the elemental for a few moments. Only for the elemental to most likely decide that it doesn’t believe me and resume its attacking.

“Reaper is liar,” the earth elemental declares, making me let out a sigh.

That’s one issue with elementals. They’re not very smart.

Whatever. I don’t have any reason to kill this thing. It’s practically a kid even if it’s most likely older than I am. And it won’t benefit me to kill it in any way.

So I begin teleporting away again, moving thousands of meters at a time. With the earth elemental quickly keeping up, causing explosions to ring out beneath me as I move.

But it never actually hurts me. So I just keep going.

Eventually I end up at the end of the Block, where I stop and turn towards the elemental that’s appeared out of the ground again to glare at me.

“Would you mind telling me if someone sent you after me?” I ask while tilting my head. Just to make sure.

“Saw. Screen,” the earth elemental declares, making it clear that it’s only basing this attack off of my appearance on that screen a while back along with how many points I had in the tutorial. Likely assuming I murdered those people for the points and isn’t believing that I was attacked right after I left the dungeon.

I try to convince him a couple more times about what happened, but nothing works.

Annoying.

This is why I don’t like kids.

With that, I let out one last sigh and proceed to leave the Block, no longer caring about the earth elemental anymore.

Because it’s not going to leave its territory to chase me.

Time to continue my journey.

I just hope I don’t get attacked by any other idiots along the way home.

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