Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia Knight

It takes me almost the entire five minutes to move again, and by the time I manage to stand up, a bright purple light shines in the room, and I find myself standing in the middle of some sort of cave instead.

I look around for a few seconds before beginning to move. Because gramps always said that to survive in the wilderness full of monsters, you always have to be on the move unless you have a good defendable place to rest.

Although the sight of black hair heavily tinted in deep purple to the point that I might even call it deep purple hair falling into my face as I do so does make me pause for a second due to its new color and that it's no longer in a braid. I quickly ignore it though, delegating it to a 'later problem' as I continue moving. But I don't even manage to make it to the closest tunnel of the large cavern I'm in before I hear some sort of skittering noise, bringing my attention to the ceiling where I find a meter-long spider staring at me.

{Lesser Taracht – Level 2}

Uh, System, where did the description go?

It, of course, doesn't answer. Instead, the spider lets out a screech and jumps from its place on the ceiling attempting to fall directly on top of me.

Well, now's as good a time as any.

I raise my hand towards it and activate my new skill, Quantum Bolt. And immediately, a bolt of purple energy of varying shades shoots out of my hand and strikes directly at the spider, making some parts of the creature struck by the bolt glitch out and then explode in a burst of gore as the creature itself is sent flying, its screeching rising in pitch and volume.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

I open my status to find that it took five soul to pull that off.

Bad. Very bad. I should only use that once or twice before regenerating my Soul, because if what the clone said was true, my Soul should be both my mana and health now.

And I'd rather not end up in a crippled state because I used too many quantum bolts.

My thoughts are interrupted by the sight of the spider landing on the ground and then flipping over to stand up again, albeit with some struggle. Then it turns around and hisses at me, seemingly ignoring the clear liquid flowing from its wounds which I'm guessing is its equivalent of blood. Because I'm pretty sure spiders don't actually have blood.

I quickly reach for my sword, only to finally notice that my armor is completely gone and so is my sword. Instead, I'm wearing nothing but a trashy set of brown leather armor with a simple and low quality sword instead of my magic sword, but on the wrong side of my waist.

Well, shit. Guess they're not letting us keep our equipment from before the reset either.

Then again, probably should've expected that. And it's for the best anyways.

Wouldn't want the other Legendary Feat holders bringing over some high Tier items to the Reset after all.

I awkwardly draw my new sword before shifting it to my right hand and rolling out of the way of the charging spider that seems to not understand the meaning of pain despite its screeches. But when I hold my sword in my hand, I somehow feel less confident in my sword skills.

Oh. Shit. I forgot.

My general skills are gone, including swordsmanship.

I grimace as I think of all the time I put into training those skills. Especially pain resistance which took a lot of literal blood, sweat and tears to get to where I got it.

Nothing I can do about it though. Just gonna have to do it all over again.

With that thought in mind, I sprint forward right as the large spider begins to turn around again from its failed charge. But I don't let it as I swing my blade to cut off one of its legs, following it up immediately with another, making the creature let out more loud cries of pain.

Wait, does it only feel pain when the damage is done? Does it not feel pain from blood loss? Or whatever that clear blood stuff is.

The spider swings one of its remaining legs at me right when I begin to swing my sword at its remaining leg. I grit my teeth as I realize I won't be able to stop my strike in time, instead letting the leg hit me at the same time as my sword cuts into another one of its legs, sending me flying at the same time as it loses a third leg, making it lose its balance.

I crash into the wall with a grunt, but I surprisingly don't feel all that much pain. Or at least, not anywhere near as much as I'd have expected.

Oh, right! Almost forgot about my new racial skill!

With that thought in mind, I open my status to check my Soul.