Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

Somehow, despite my leaving mere moments after him, the damned archfiend makes it so far away that he’s barely even in sight anymore. Which leaves me blitzing past the shell-shocked guards stationed at the dungeon entrance – a few of whom seem to be dying of hellfire, no doubt because of the archfiend’s rage – as I cut down on the distance between us.

But to my surprise, the archfiend somehow moves a lot faster than he was in the dungeon. Which makes me realize he must’ve used some sort of item.

So the two of us continue our chase outside of the dungeon now rather than in it. Going all the way across his massive Dimensional Block, with him wiping out anyone and anything that stands in his path of escape.

Meanwhile I teleport after him, leveling up Quantum Displacement in the process.

And just like that, our chase lasts for an entire week as he flees. Laying waste to multiple cities and groups of people in the process.

But throughout it all, my eyes remain glued to him. Even while everyone screams and runs from him in fear the moment they see him.

Even when I hear people cheering me on to kill him when I pass by.

And even when my energy begins to run low. Because I just recover my energy through entering my True Form, drawing on energy from the Quantum Realm, and continuing to chase after him.

After all, nowhere did any rule ever state that I couldn’t use my True Form to chase someone without actually attacking them in this form.

Eventually, I finally manage to catch up to him. Both thanks to my own use of my True Form, and to the end of the effect of whatever item he’s using.

And once I catch up to him, I instantly deactivate my True Form before grabbing him by the throat and lifting him into the air. Then I call quantum lightning down on both of us, with it absorbing into my body like a sponge while he tries in vain to rip my hand off of his neck.

But after noticing the look of happy terror on his face thanks to the quantum lightning, I decide to not use my quantum energy to attack him. Seeing as he enjoys that despite the clear fear of death on his face.

So I use my energy manipulation to gradually finish the bastard off. Shooting attacks of all kinds at him from every side while I try to crush his neck with my hand.

Right before I finally finish the squirely archfiend off though, I lighten my grip on his neck a little. His neck being naught more than a crushed pulp at this point.

The reason I lighten my grip is simple.

To see if he can still talk, and if he can, if he has any last words.

And to my surprise, he actually does speak. Somehow.

The words just straight up come out in a wispy growl as he says, “Please… just one last time…”

I feel a slight shiver as I see the guy reaching towards me with the last bits of strength he has.

This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

This is almost pitiful.

With that thought in mind, I crush his neck and erase him from existence with a single blast of quantum energy. Ending him in an instant before he can even feel pain.