Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 48 - Tedious Progress (Patreon)

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Alexia

I continue marching on through the maze for several hours, not stopping much at all through the process until I finally arrive at a Safe Zone. At which point I go ahead and take a break. And a dip in the little hot spring located within the Safe Zone. Because why not.

The System sure seems to like putting hot springs in the Safe Zones.

Then again, it’s good for relaxing, and they often have magical effects to them. So it makes sense.

It’s not like the System’s bizarre obsession with piranhas.

On that note, I’m rather curious about if I’ll run into any of those fishies here within this dungeon? I can’t really see myself running into any, considering that it’s a massive maze spanning across who knows how much space, but I still wouldn’t be too surprised if it managed to sneak some in.

Speaking of obsessions, now that I think about the subject, I’m glad the Architect has his form back. Since people will stop asking me if I’m collecting bats, what with me only having one bat again.

I lean back in the hot spring, having actually changed out of my armor this time around into something more comfortable to laze around in. Mostly because it’s a Safe Zone.

It is nice to actually sit back and relax once in a while.

I won’t be staying for too long, of course. Just long enough to recover my soul a good chunk.

But it’s still nice.

I rest with my arms held behind my head while looking up at the calming glowing stone shining from the ceiling of this little room set inside of the maze. With the sounds of water falling into the hot spring from a hole in the wall filling the room with ambient noise.

And right as I’m beginning to close my eyes, I hear a ringing sound while a System Notification appears in my vision.

Oh. Well, guess someone’s been busy turning people into vampires.

I’m pretty sure his Lord of Vampires Legendary Feat and title came from him doing basically the same thing, just with smaller numbers. Turning one million beings into vampires or something like that.

As for the Legendary Feat itself? I think it gave him control over all vampires.

Which doesn’t affect me in the slightest.

But this Harbinger of Mutation Legendary Feat… not sure what that’s supposed to do.

Doesn’t bode well that my enemy just got another Legendary Feat though.

On another note, there have been more and more Legendary Feats nowadays. Probably because they become more common in Tier 4, 5, and for Ascendants than anything else.

Most of the Legendary Feats tend to be given out to the first person to do something extremely common, hence the frequent Legendary Feats at the start of the Reset and a lot of mine, and to the first person to do something very difficult. Something most people never do.

Like what lord vampy just did.

And since most of the former have all been done already, it’s moving on to the latter now that people are starting to become strong enough to even reach for them.

I’m rather curious about what Dimensional Block lord vampy turned into a vampire nest though. One massive nest of millions of vampires.

Doesn’t sound like a pleasant place to be.

Not in the slightest.

I continue lazing around in the hot springs for as long as it takes to restore my soul before getting out, putting my armor back on, and heading on through the maze once more. After checking on my skills, of course.

And while walking through the maze, I make sure to keep an eye on my Dungeon Map. Which is a life saver in terms of traversing mazes.

I can’t even remember the number of times I backtracked and ended up lost in mazes before getting that skill. Or, rather, I can, but I’d rather not remember.

And unfortunately, I will end up having to backtrack through this maze. Because, for the first time in a very long time, the monsters are actually beginning to grow too many and too strong for me to handle.

The monsters are starting to reach the range of the high five hundreds, with an occasional creeper that is actually at level six hundred. And combined with their numerical advantage, that ends up pushing me back even with my species Class advantage.

Especially when I only have a certain amount of soul.

In the end I have to use my map to find routes in the earlier sections that I never went through, letting me deal with the lower level monsters once again to level up some more.

And after spending a few more hours doing this, I see another System Notification ringing out in my head and vision.

That just stops me in my tracks as I end up staring at the notification.

Excuse me, skill what-now? Skill Thief? Seriously?

That’s a thing?

Huh?

I mean, it’s… rather shocking. But at the same time, not as useful as it sounds. Considering that he can still only have a limited number of skills slotted at once.

Also depends on how he steals the skills. Because I doubt the System would let someone go around stealing skills from someone without doing anything first.

Most likely requires him to kill the monster in question or something.

I do wonder if he can steal skills from users too though.

Kind of hope he can’t.

Either way, this was the person with the same title as mom’s species name. Devourer.

That might mean that he has to eat the monster to steal a skill or something like that.

But this is all speculation.

I’ll know when I meet him. Assuming I meet him.

Anyways, I keep on marching my way through the maze.

The damned seemingly endless maze.

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For those of you who can't view the images:

Legendary Feat – Harbinger of Mutation

Damien Black has become the first user within the System to mutate   over ten million beings into a different species.

Legendary Feat – Skill Thief

Noah Kowalski has become the first user within the System to steal   the skills of five thousand monsters.