Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

As it turns out, Alara managed to get herself Authority Level 1 from the nearby Authority Shards that I didn't snatch myself. Which is a bit of a surprise considering how I've only barely managed to get ten of them.

At least it calmed my worries about those shards, because apparently you can only raise your Authority level once using shards. After that they don't do anything for you.

So people can't just go around to every island and collect shards for days before significantly increasing their Authority.

It also makes me less in a rush to get more shards, because I was planning on going to find a few more before returning to the dungeon. But now that isn't really needed anymore. Unless I just want to stop others from getting Authority in the first place.

Also, from what Alara has said, the messenger from the – as they call themselves – Covenant is already long gone after delivering the message, apparently having been in a rush to deliver it to every budding large civilization they could find. Meanwhile, according to them, their own base consists of about a dozen islands located several day's travel in flight from here. Probably only four days travel for me with my teleportation.

I sit in on their discussion next to Astrid, not really participating in any way and just listening. But most of what they're talking about is how they're gonna deal with the Covenant once they reach the Dimensional Council.

And while I am technically this base's protector, as an Authority holder myself and since I don't participate in the base, I'm going to the Dimensional Council separately from them.

If the Dimensional Council is anything like the Planetary Councils were before the Reset, everyone with Authority that is participating should be able to bring a certain number of people with them to act as advisors. So the plan is for Alara to bring a few of the people around this table including Elizabeth, her fiancé who apparently isn't her fiancé anymore, and Astrid.

When asked why I wasn't bringing Astrid by my sister herself, Alara answers, "To show that we're allied with your sister."

Which is a rather simple explanation. It's not exactly hard to figure out that she and I are twins just from a single glance after all.

Astrid is also at Tier 2 already, something I find to be pleasantly surprising.

I'll have to ask her about her requirements at another time.

Must've been easy enough to accomplish.

She's now the highest level person in their base, if you don't count me of course.

The discussions continue all the way till the timer for the Dimensional Council meeting reaches down to less than a minute remaining. At which point everyone breaks off into individual discussions while they wait.

"Good luck," Astrid says to me with a nod. One that I quickly return.

This is going to be interesting, one way or another.

Astrid and I sit in silence for the remaining time before a notification appears in front of everyone.