Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

My jaw drops open at that.

"I know you\'re going to ask why I made the System later, so don\'t," he says rather bluntly before continuing his explanation, ignoring my frown. "It\'s entirely due to my System that the old universe wasn\'t overwhelmed by monsters, and it\'s entirely due to my System that users can grow stronger. This is because the System manages the energy in a monster and directs it into the user who it as a reward for killing the monster. But it doesn\'t manually direct any energy from other users into each other, which is why you still get just as much EXP from killing other users as you do from the monsters adjacent to them in Class."

I blink at that.

That\'s why?

I knew that Class Es give about the same EXP as a Class B species, and that Class Ds give the same as a Class A, and Class Cs the same as Class Ss, but that\'s why it\'s the case? But didn\'t you just say that the System is why we grow stronger?

"It is, but when a user has so much energy inside of them, the energy begins to compress on its own, and compressed natural energy like that is attracted to living beings," he answers my question. "And the one who killed the user who used to have that energy has a karmic bond to the energy, so it\'s naturally drawn to them."

Interesting.

Wait, karma is real?

"There\'s no such thing as bad or good karma," the System\'s Creator says without a hint of hesitation before moving on to my other question. "The dungeons in this Reset are different because I didn\'t just cause the Reset to reset the universe. I also did it as a failsafe for the monsters, leaving them their own universe to themselves while pulling them to this new dimension to fill it with just enough for it to be safe and good for progress without having any monster outbreaks."

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Oh. Very interesting.

"We only have a few minutes left, so keep the remainder of your questions to ones that can help you survive," he says, almost as if he were bored. Which has my frown growing larger, but I don\'t say anything about it.

Okay.

Are there any General skills you would recommend I get?

"Yes," he says right away, "you should get the Exploit Weakness General skill, the Fatigue Resistance General skill, Energy Manipulation, Anti-Magic Bullet, keep your Forerunner skill, Pain Resistance, and the skill you will be getting for finishing in the top spot on the Leaderboards, and purchase a skill called Anti-Magic Barrier from the Tutorial Store once our talk is over. It will cost you three thousand points."

My eyes widen at the list of skills, but I make a mental note of each one of them, only two of the new skills being ones I recognize. Those being Exploit Weakness and Fatigue Resistance.

"The last two slots are yours to choose," the man says while straightening up in his seat again. "After the Tutorial ends, Cataclysm Class monsters will start spawning, with one in each Block at the beginning of the Tutorial, breaking the rule that has already been mentioned to your sister by one of the memories. But since this one won\'t be spawning anywhere near you, don\'t worry about it for the time being. Instead quickly deal with reaching Tier 2 before wrapping up whatever business you have at your twin\'s base and moving on to find a Tier 2 dungeon."

Oh, wow. He\'s giving a lot of advice.

"If you don\'t want to listen to it, then don\'t," he says, sounding very impatient and slightly annoyed at my thoughts. "To get the Anti-Magic Bullet General skill, you must first have the Energy Manipulation skill. You will need to create a small orb of compressed energy that you can then shoot out at a spell circle made by a magic skill or mana manipulation. It will break the circle and cancel the spell completely."

That\'s… kinda broken.

"Anti-Magic Barrier will give you a permanent twenty percent resistance to magical attacks, bringing your weakness as a quantum being down from fifty percent to thirty percent," he explains, making me immediately understand the importance of the skill and why it\'s so expensive.

Is that skill something that can only be purchased through this Tutorial store?

"Yes, it is," he says with a nod before adding, "you can technically get it through a loot box from an Ascendant level dungeon if you\'re lucky, but the likelihood is so low that it\'s practically impossible. Especially since it\'s only from hidden boss areas in an Ascendant level dungeon."

Yeah, those things are pretty much unbeatable. I think the only person I\'ve ever heard of defeating one was the Hound. And that was just one.

"One more question," he says, his eyes narrowing. "Hurry up."

Right. Then… what is the most important thing I need to know that will help me right now and I don\'t already know?

He blinks before finally smiling and says, "Don\'t be narrow minded with Energy Manipulation, and don\'t overestimate yourself just because you\'re a quantum reaper. The Cataclysm spawning in your Block will be far too much for you to handle right now."

Then without any warning, the man dissipates into nothing but motes of purple light.