Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Probably because he\'s still Tier 1 while I\'m Tier 2.

What is a little surprising though is that he is actually still on the island. Since it\'s been at least a week since he came here.

Then again, he can\'t teleport like I can.

On that note, I teleport over a dozen times until I arrive right in front of the man, finding him faintly surprised by my sudden appearance despite his attention having been on me before.

Looks like he didn\'t expect me to be able to teleport so quickly over here.

The man has two gray horns with slightly blueish silver tints to them, two draconic wings of the same color, long bluish silver hair, a long pale blue tail, and blue eyes to match. He\'s wearing a set of white and gray armor I quickly identify as being Tier 2 armor with greaves going up to his knees, gauntlets to his elbows, pauldrons on his shoulders, armor covering most of his torso, and a wave of spikes flaring down and outwards from his waist down to his knees.

What interests me though is that he has no weapon on him. But then again, he\'s a dragon. I don\'t expect a dragon to have a weapon.

{Ethan Silva – Hellfrost Dragon – Level 100}

Nothing surprising there. Would\'ve been more surprised if he wasn\'t level 100.

"Hello," I call out to him in greeting with a light nod of my head. But I don\'t feel any need to be deferent towards him, even if I know he\'s older than me by at least a few decades or so and was an ascendant prior to the Reset.

Mostly because he looks the same age as me and is a lower Tier than me.

Well, that and I\'ve never been all that big on formalities anyways.

"Hello," he responds back with a nod of his head.

Then we just sit there staring at each other for several awkward seconds.

Eventually I come out and ask, "Did you send the former viscount my way?"

He nods his head right away and answers, "Yes. I thought you would like it." He tilts his head slightly, crossing his arms. "Did you?"

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"Yeah," I answer with a light smile. "I did."

"That\'s good," he says with a smile, only to turn serious as he asks, "Do you and your twin need any help finding your parents or other loved ones?"

I frown at that and shake my head, answering, "No, I\'ll be searching for my mother myself, assuming she\'s still alive."

That has him frowning back for some reason.

Why is he trying to help me? I don\'t understand it.

"What about your father?" he asks, sounding confused. Which only has me confused as well.

"Never met the guy," I answer, feeling slightly suspicious of the hellfrost dragon at this point. "So I honestly wouldn\'t know where to start."

Wouldn\'t have cared about him either until I heard that the man didn\'t even know I existed. Which does have me wondering how that\'s possible, considering that he has twins as kids.

Did my mom just ditch him right after getting pregnant or something? Or were they separated?

I don\'t even remember Mom well enough to know how she felt about the man, much less anything about him.

That aside, why does this guy seem to care so much about my family? It\'s weird.

I know it\'s normal to be worried about your family and searching for them, but his offering to help me search is kind of out there. Like he\'s trying to earn my trust or something or get me to owe him a favor.

Or I guess he could just be a nice guy who offered to help someone find their lost family. Not likely in this world though.

"Enough about my family, I\'m guessing you\'ve found another Class S species aside from just us? Or at least a former Ascendant?" I ask with a frown on my face, but to my surprise, he actually shakes his head.

"No, they weren\'t a former Ascendant or a Class S species," he answers with a light shrug of his shoulders. "They were a Class A species friend of mine from before the Reset." His eyes lock onto mine. "I won\'t be saying more on that subject though. Just know that they already left after helping."

A Class A species? And they\'re already gone…

Why does it feel like he\'s trying to reassure me or something? It\'s weird considering that we only just met for the first time.

Wait…

My eyes narrow as I ask, "Have we met before?"

He purses his lips for a moment before shrugging and answering, "Not directly, but I did see you fighting the large thunder bird on your island when I left my dungeon."

Oh. I guess that dungeon was close enough to see the peak of the mountain, so that\'s plausible.

And I know dragons don\'t like lying. They\'re too proud and detached from others to bother.

Which makes me wonder why this guy is bothering to give me the light of day.

Is it because I\'m a Class S species too? But he also spoke to Astrid, so that can\'t be it.

Unless that was just to be polite?

That\'s possible.

I almost groan out loud while trying to keep a straight face.

This guy is annoying. He\'s strong enough to be a threat so I can\'t just ignore him, and his attempts at gaining my trust are only making it harder to trust him. Because he\'s a dragon. And that\'s not normal for dragons.

Especially dragon princes.

Eventually I just let out a sigh and ask, "Are you planning on staying on this island?"

He nods his head as he answers, "Yes."

Okay, I\'m not sure if that\'s a good thing or a bad thing. Mostly because I don\'t know how the islands move around. Because if they move around in a pattern and always go to the same places, then that means we\'ll be neighbors with him at certain points. Which could be… unpleasant depending on our relationship with him.

But if the islands move completely at random, then it would mean that things would be very annoying to keep track of other islands and where they are, not to mention the dragon himself.

Well, at the very least he did send me the former Viscountess, so he hasn\'t done anything bad to me. He also didn\'t bother Astrid after meeting her alone and hasn\'t tried attacking or even bothering the base.

I\'ll still be keeping an eye on him though.