Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

I let out a sigh of relief after seeing Quantum Displacement finally reach level 20. And without hesitation, I immediately use a core to raise it to Tier 3.

{Congratulations! Your Active Skill \'Quantum Displacement\' has reached Tier 3 Level 21!}

[A skill has been brought to Tier 3. Requirement to bring a skill to Tier 3 has been cleared.]

It\'s about fucking time. I was beginning to go crazy from all my pointless teleporting.

Spending months doing nothing but teleporting is boring as hell.

I quickly check the skill\'s description to see if there\'s anything new before grinning at the sight of the change.

[Quantum Displacement: Allows the user to teleport up to a radius of {the Skill\'s level to the power of the Skill\'s Tier} meters around themself. The user may set their teleportation to maintain or clear momentum post-teleportation.]

Okay, now that\'s a good skill upgrade!

This will make teleporting through the air far easier for me.

I begin testing it out by teleporting into the air with the intention of not keeping momentum before stopping around a hundred or so meters in the air and teleporting in the direction of the Dimensional Block\'s center. And I quickly find the process to be a lot less mana intensive than before.

Then there\'s the mere fact that my range of teleportation is much larger as well. So instead of the maximum distance of 361 meters around myself that I could teleport at the skill\'s level 19, I can now teleport 9,261 meters.

When I try teleporting beyond a thousand meters though I realize a major issue.

I\'m not Tier 3, and I\'m using a Tier 3 skill.

So my soul really can\'t keep up with that sort of soul drain.

In the end I limit myself to about five hundred meters each teleport. I don\'t think I can even teleport the maximum distance even if I had the soul, considering that I have to be able to see where I\'m teleporting to do it. Otherwise I might end up teleporting into a wall or something. Which wouldn\'t be pretty.

And considering that I\'m high in the air, five hundred meters each teleport is easy enough.

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Anyways, I heard that the lich king finally reached the level cap of Tier 2 just days ago and left the dungeon he was in for his capital. Was mostly just waiting for Quantum Displacement to reach Tier 3 before heading over to see him.

So I continue teleporting through the air in the direction of his little capital. Which from what I\'ve heard mostly consists of a massive pyramid with his throne on top and some work camps around it.

That\'s not the only thing I\'ve heard though.

I was rather surprised when I heard he was preparing a powerful defense at his little pyramid.

Guess he\'s not as stupid as I thought him to be.

It\'s his best chance at survival after all. Not running away and instead fighting back after preparing.

After all, I can just chase him and then kill him if he runs. He is a summoner and necromancer, so he wouldn\'t be able to put up much of a fight on his own while escaping.

But if he sets up his forces to fight against me, that will make things a lot harder to deal with.

It\'s too bad I only got this news this morning, otherwise I would\'ve probably gone out to meet him sooner.

I continue teleporting through the air straight in the direction of the Dimensional Block\'s center. But instead of attacking the moment the Block enters my sight, I pause and teleport down to the ground.

Because I need to regenerate my soul if I\'m going to take on… that.

I frown as I stand in the sand looking at the pyramid in the distance through my System-enhanced vision. It\'s standing at several hundred meters in height and is literally crawling with mounds of undead. Meanwhile the undead grow higher and higher in level the further up the pyramid they are. And what has to be tens of thousands of undead are all swarming the base of the pyramid as well.

Their numbers aren\'t all they have though, because the undead also include a bunch of spell casters and ranged attackers in general. And the higher floor undead all look to be sapient as well. Likely the lich king\'s top generals.

That said, aside from the lich king himself, I don\'t sense too many powerful energy sources from here. Although I can\'t get their exact levels without getting closer to identify them. And if I identified them they\'d know I\'m here.

But from what I can sense, the highest-level enemy there aside from the lich king himself is only in the low two hundreds in level. Meanwhile the other undead, aside from those generals, vary in levels beneath that depending on the floor they\'re on, with the undead on the sands themselves being Tier 1 undead.

Well then. Someone\'s certainly cautious.

I don\'t think I\'ve seen that many people at once in my entire life, much less pitted against me. Even if most of those \'people\' are non-sapient undead monsters.

The undead on the sands won\'t be an issue. They probably can\'t even hurt me if they tried, since non-sapient undead of that level shouldn\'t be able to use magic. And a Tier 1 can\'t hurt me with physical strength. Not with Quantum Body.

Possibly not even without it, to be honest.

So I can simply walk through them without issue.

But the ones on the pyramid will be a bit more trouble.

I continue examining the pyramid and all of the undead for a while before simply lying down on the ground and staring up at the sun. Without taking my senses off of the pyramid and undead, of course. Wouldn\'t want them attacking me by surprise after all.

What I\'m about to do will absolutely throw this Dimensional Block into chaos.. But it\'ll save the living here as well, so it will be for the best. And at this rate, considering the number of living I\'ve saved in my job as a mercenary, most of the living are leaving this Block to enter Dimensional Block #109 to pay off their debts to me anyways.

I sigh as I stare up at the sky.

So many people to deal with after this.

But my trip to this Block will finally be over soon enough.

I smile at that thought.

Soon enough.