Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset LitRPG

Alexia

The very first thing Alara says after I finish explaining everything I’ve learned since they entered the dungeon is not what I was expecting.

“Can you bring me to see the hellfrost dragon?” she asks with a face tinted slightly with curiosity.

Honestly, after telling her everything, I was mostly expecting her to ask questions about the Calamity Grade monster or about the neighboring islands that I’ve visited. Or even about the exact pattern that the islands follow whilst moving.

I wasn’t expecting her to wanna visit Ethan.

Then again, I was gonna take a break for the night from searching for dungeons and level 100s anyways. Might as well take her there before coming back and heading to bed.

“Give me a few minutes to change my skills and I’ll take you,” I tell her with a nod, but to my surprise she just tells me that she’s ready now and will go with me to the Safe Zone. So I shrug and place my hand on her shoulder before teleporting us over and over again towards the Safe Zone.

And, while completely ignoring her vomiting from my little teleportation spam, I step further into the Safe Zone away from the smell and change out my skills for the new one.

Alright. I turn back to the vomiting girl who is actually the same age as me before asking, “Would you mind sending a fireball at me?”

She looks confused for a second mid-vomiting with her hands on her knees, only to raise a finger, vomit once more, and rise back to her full height again with a groan while grabbing some sort of cloth to wipe the vomit off her mouth. Then she narrows her eyes at me and raises a hand, sending a spear of fire at me instead of a fireball.

I quickly use the new skill on the spear of fire, and to my surprise, the spear glitches out for a second before turning into a spear of water that I still simply raise a hand to block, not taking much damage from it despite Alara’s increase in level.

“Interesting…” I mutter while ignoring the flabbergasted look Alara has right now.

But is changing the element all it can do?

With that thought in mind, I have Alara send more attacks my way, and each time the attack completely changes form. Sometimes the spear will become a ball instead, sometimes it’ll change element, and sometimes it’ll even vanish entirely only for me to realize that I shifted it out of this realm when it appears again several meters away to hit the ground.

Very interesting.

The effect seems to be completely random every time, both in terms of what it does and how long it lasts. Some of the effects even seem to be permanent. Or at least long enough lasting that I don’t see it revert back before hitting the ground.

After a couple more tests, I find that I quite like this new skill. I might even make it one of my set of active skills.

What I’m even more interested in though than the skill right now is how it’ll develop as it levels up. Because that will be interesting.

Eventually I finally finish testing the skill and walk back up to Alara, whose eyes widen in some rather obvious trepidation. But I don’t care about her little vomiting problem. Not like there’s anything I can do about it.

She’s the one who asked for a ride after all.

Although…

I glare at her as my fingers dig slightly into her armor and I state, “If you vomit on me while we’re moving, I will drop you off the island.”

She immediately nods her head repeatedly, genuine fear in her eyes despite me not really meaning that I’ll drop her.

But I don’t correct that misunderstanding. Instead I begin teleporting us to the edge of the island where I then search around for a few seconds for Ethan’s island.

Then I start teleporting us up there with Alara repeatedly vomiting half the time we appear. All while trying as hard as she can to not vomit on me.

At least, until she runs out of substance to vomit. A point in time that I am rather thankful for since it makes the unpleasant smell of vomit go away.

Is it really that unpleasant to teleport? I honestly kind of enjoy the process of teleporting. But maybe that’s just because I’m a quantum being.

That or I’m just used to it.

Come to think of it, wasn’t that Shawn guy feeling ill after I teleported him? Maybe it’s just not meant for non-quantum beings.

I give a mental shrug at that thought right before finally arriving at the island. And it doesn’t take long before I feel a certain hellfrost dragon’s attention arrive at our location.

So I quickly begin teleporting over to him, to Alara’s surprise who apparently thought we were done teleporting.

And once I finally arrive at the little den the dragon built for himself, Alara drops to her knees, then falls face first into the ground while hugging it as if her life depended on it.

Huh.

I glance up to see Ethan walking out of the cave with a slightly bewildered expression on his face as he looks at Alara, then at me, and then at Alara again. Finally he raises his gaze to me and says, “Hello again Lexi. What brings you to my island?” Apparently deciding to ignore the girl.

That act alone almost has me chuckling. But I keep it in. Partially because Alara does not look very happy right now and partially because the dragon genuinely doesn’t seem to care about her.

Several seconds pass in silence as I glance between the two before I eventually just shrug, deciding that Alara will be fine as I focus on him and answer, “Oh, my sister got out of the dungeon and this one, the leader of their base, wanted to have a word with you.”

His eyes narrow for a second, “Oh?” He turns to look at Alara who is finally getting up off the ground. “She does, does she?”