Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Huh.

What\'s even odder is that it did actually hurt the thing. Just not where the scales are.

The bolt was too large to hit just the scaled area, so while it was deflected, it did deal damage to the surrounding skin and feathers around its scales.

Very strange creature.

Also fast, since I only barely teleport out of the way before its needle goes flying past my face again. And as it does so, I can\'t help but notice the faint purple glimmer in the needle that makes me realize it has magic.

Which isn\'t too surprising all things considered.

So with that in mind, I avoid its tail like the plague.

Because it may just be that.

I try a few other things on the thing that is probably some sort of mini boss, seeing as I haven\'t gotten a message about entering its lair. Or just an elite monster. And out of the things I try, including attacking it physically, sending Quantum Bolts at other parts of its body, and using widespread attacks like implosion, none of them particularly fail nor do they work.

The feathers somehow manage to deflect my physical attacks. Not sure how.

The scales literally move around in a rather disgusting and squelchy way across its body to block an attack if I attack a part of it without scales with Quantum Bolt. Which grosses me out just to see.

And when I tried to use Quantum Singularity Implosion, the thing just kind of… uh… ignored it.

Bizarre.

Guess explosions and implosions are no for it. Probably.

Either way, I try to attack it physically a few more times, still only barely outmatching it in speed thanks to the fact that I\'m a Class S species and it is only Class A. But every time it\'s like the creature has a sort of auto-counter that misdirects my attacks.

Which also teaches me that just because I\'m immune to physical damage doesn\'t mean others can\'t physically interact with me. Since it\'s able to misdirect my attacks and push my hands away in the first place.

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Good to know.

Eventually I move on to attacking the thing with nothing but magic. Both spells and skills.

Mostly skills, because I don\'t have spells down all that well when in combat. Or well at all.

In fact, I end up making a mistake while trying to form the runes for one mid-battle, leading to me being caught by the stupid needle. Which makes my skin begin to bubble and turn into a purple mush.

Kind of gross to look at, so I just use Quantum Stasis Copy to return my body back to before it got the injury, costing a large portion of my soul in the process. And then I retaliate against the stupid… thing… by grabbing its needle tail and… snapping… it… off?

Huh. Was not… expecting the needle to be so fragile.

Then again, it\'s a needle. So…

Yeah.

The creeper – literally – starts screeching and screaming in pain at the same time while scrambling onto the ground in a panic, unable to retain its footing. So now that it\'s all unbalanced, I go ahead and teleport right up to the head – which I didn\'t do before because it seemed to have the fastest reaction speed there and would always very nearly hit me while forcing me back when I tried – and blast the thing in the face with two Quantum Bolts at once.

Killing the thing and making it drop to the ground in silence.

[Level 551 Creeper Defeated – User\'s earned EXP has been increased by a significant portion due to killing a being whose level is thirty or more levels above their own.]

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 522! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

Oh, nice. That\'s convenient.

It\'s too bad I haven\'t gotten a single skill since reaching Tier 4 though.

Just goes to show how rare skills become.

I believe it\'s somewhere around every twenty-fifth level to get a new skill in this Tier? I think.

And they\'re not even guaranteed to be better skills.

So unfair.

Then again, I get the feeling it\'s just the System trying to force people to be more independent from it after reaching a certain level of power. Making it so that the best things to do is to get Legendary Feats, regular Feats, and to train in mana manipulation.

Or in my case, Energy Manipulation. To cast spells without the use of skills.

I… haven\'t been able to learn any quantum magic runes yet though. So… yeah. Apparently they\'re some of the hardest runes to learn.

Actually not the hardest runes though. Those are time magic runes according to the Architect.

Which makes the Quantum Enforcer that much more powerful, since that\'s one of his specialties.

Even if a lot of that is because of his species. Quantum Enforcer. And not just his own intelligence or capability to learn the runes.

On another note, I make sure to put the creeper\'s corpse into my storage ring. Just to get Dravik to look at those scales and feathers.

Because it would be quite nice to have scales capable of reflecting magic.

Very nice indeed.

Not many things can do that.

Makes me wonder just what else these Chaos and Cataclysm Class monsters can do that were rarely ever seen before the Reset.

But that\'s for me to ask the Architect about later.

Assuming he hasn\'t, well, left, leaving me unable to find him again.

Which would be a pain.

I blink for a moment before frowning as I begin to walk through the hall of the maze again.

Damnit, should\'ve put a tracker of some sorts on him before coming in here…

Wouldn\'t be surprised if he\'s left already. Considering that he knows I\'m gonna ask him more questions when I get out.

That\'ll be a pain to track him down.

I let out a sigh while I walk.

Just need to think about the creepe-

My thoughts pause as more creeps turn the corner and I decide against that.

Hmm. These things really are disturbing looking.

May be best not to think about them.