Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

The blizzard sends me flying back across the room despite me trying to teleport out of its way, the attack proving to be too fast for me to effectively teleport away from. And as I fly through the air with my arms crossed in front of me, I grit my teeth as I feel frost building up on my front, the cold beginning to overpower my adaptation.

Damnit, of course it can use magic!

I try to teleport away again, only to find that my magic is starting to act a little sluggish. Just like before.

Seriously? This is a pain.

Even with the sluggish magic, I manage to teleport away from the attack down to the other side of the pyramid. At the expenditure of a rather large amount of soul that is.

The boss looks confused for a second, at which point I raise both of my hands and use Quantum Paradox Blast twice. Once behind its wings and once in front of its head.

My eyes narrow a bit at the sight of the creature taking the blows without much visible damage beyond some slight cracks on its bones near the attacks. Then it turns around and lets out a loud roar while the bones in its body shift around, some even turning into a liquid form to refill those cracks.

Interesting.

Unlike Quantum Burst, Quantum Paradox Blast uses about half a percent of my total soul with each use. But since I was already full on soul when arriving at this boss fight, even after dealing with the small army of undead at the start of it, I still have three quarters of my soul left remaining.

So the two of us begin a bit of a dance of me teleporting away from its various attacks which include things like sending blades and spikes of ice or more blizzards at me, then me striking back at it with another set of Quantum Paradox Blasts or just Quantum Bursts with an occasional Waveform Manipulation to mess with its magical attacks. Although only two of my uses of Waveform Manipulation actually ends in something beneficial. Specifically one blizzard turning into a flamethrower that heats up the room, and some spikes turning into magma while I tried to get it to hit itself.

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Gradually, over the course of the battle, the boss slowly loses more and more of its stash of bones. All the way till the monster eventually only has a regular skeleton instead of a mass of bones, the mass turning out to be hiding its actual body within it.

The monster raises its head to the ceiling and lets out a loud roar as it stretches both its wings and the only two remaining arms it has to the sides of it, making the entire room begin growing colder and colder.

I can\'t help but examine the creature\'s actual body though now that all of the bones writhing around its torso are gone. Because the boss looks suspiciously like a dragon. One made out of bones. And a bit smaller. And with blue tinted bones, since the remaining bones all seem to be made from those crypt guards\' bones.

After it finishes roaring it lowers its head to me and just stares for a few seconds as I stare back.

Then we both rush forwards, the bone dragon proving a lot faster now that it doesn\'t have those bones around its torse. And right when our fists are about to collied – if you can call its bone hand a fist – I teleport to the side and then again around it where I pull out my polearm and stab it down straight onto its back. But my polearm doesn\'t get very deep into it, only cutting about an inch into the half-a-meter thick spinal cord.

I grit my teeth a little at the recoil from the blow going up my arm, only to ignore it thanks to Quantum Body as I teleport back again the moment the monster tries to swat me with its wings.

This monster is just as physically strong as it is magically strong…

I teleport away towards the top of the massive staircase before panting slightly as I look down at the boss that is currently looking around, searching for me.

It\'s absolutely a Class A version of a monster, but I feel… like I\'m missing something. There\'s just something off about it.

My gaze is attracted to the center of its chest in the middle of its ribcage where I find a random spherical bone where I\'d assume its heart would\'ve been if it were alive. An orb that is starting to glow with a pale blue light.

That\'s… probably not good.

The pale light begins to spread throughout the boss monster as its empty gaze locks on me. A gaze that doesn\'t remain empty for long as when the pale blue light fully covers its body, pale blue flames begin blazing in its formerly empty eye sockets.

Pale blue flames start shooting out from various points on its body while the monster lets out a loud roar. And at the same time, the braziers throughout the room start erupting in pale blue flames as well instead of the regular reddish orange flames they had before.

Yeah, not good at all.

I clench my fist around my polearm while frowning at the monster.

Guess this is its final form or something.

Might be a bit harder than I expected.