Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Within the Most Popular Viewing Room

Joe feels over the moon as he flies around his viewing room, taking in the attention from the millions of people joining. Because if this number keeps up, he'll be rich when the viewing rooms begin to allow charging people for entry.

Of course, he's not expecting there to be the same number of people then. But even just a fraction of this many people will help him and his sister a lot.

The most important factor for his excitement right now though is the sight of what's on the main screen right now.

That of the Quantum Reaper spinning around her polearm before holding it apathetically in one hand and staring at the massive squid head sticking out of a ravine. Staring at the kraken hidden boss that she encountered.

The first hidden boss of the Tier 5 dungeon.

And more importantly, the first livestreamed major battle involving the Quantum Reaper – or any quantum being in fact – ever recorded.

Joe can't help his excitement bubbling over into his voice as he shouts, "And let this battllllle beeeeegiiiiiiiinnnn!!!"

A second later after his shout, The Reaper teleports forwards at the same time as the kraken sends a single tentacle to slam into the spot she was just floating at. Then The Reaper slices down with her polearm, splitting a different one of the kraken's tentacles open without much trouble.

Until the tentacle regenerates so quickly that it is almost immediately after the blade passes through.

And as if that weren't enough, the kraken sends another three tentacles at The Reaper while she looks surprised by its healing prowess.

"It looks like the kraken will be getting the first real blood in this battle, even if The Reaper got the first hit!" Joe shouts, making his sister nod her head as she says, "Unless The Reaper's regeneration is just as good as the krakens. We don't know much about her capabilities after all."

Both twins watch with their interest clear in their gazes as the audience roars its own excitement.

But then something happens on the screen that shocks absolutely everyone there.

The Reaper just ignores the tentacles as two of the three pass through her without so much as hurting her. The Reaper's body just glitches out before the tentacles pass through.

Silence fills the stadium for a second before the twins share a glance.

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They both turn back to look at the screen again as Lizz asks, "Have we ever seen or heard of someone with a complete immunity to physical damage before?"

Joe shakes his head, answering briefly, "Not that I recall."

"Looks like this battle…" Lizz begins while The Reaper teleports over to the kraken's head and raises her polearm above her before Joe finishes for his twin, "…might not be as difficult as we expected."

Then glitchy purple and blue lightning begins to spark around The Reaper's blade as spell circles appear around it. Following which she points the blade straight at the kraken's head, sending the lightning at it as well as numerous bolts of glitchy purple and blue energy that appear all around her.

Bombarding the kraken's head and making it let out a loud roar of pain that echoes throughout the silenced viewing room stadium.

"Well it certainly looks like The Reaper's strength befits her reputation, now doesn't it?" Lizz eventually says, shattering the silence into a round of whispers all across the viewing room. "Because this is just… terrifying."

Joe silently nods his head as everyone in the viewing room watches the kraken regenerate almost instantly from every attack it takes. But it also gets hit again almost instantly after that, leading to a seemingly never-ending cycle of injury and recovery.

All while the kraken roars its anger and pain out loud for everyone listening to hear.

After watching for a few minutes, Joe looks out at the audience. And more specifically, at the nation leaders he has been able to spot within the audience.

But not a single one of them looks happy with what they're seeing.

The greatest benefit of this livestreamed dungeon to the Dimensional Leaders and the other nation leaders of their Blocks, in Joe's opinion, is clearly the ability to scout out the power of the other Block's Champions. Which is exactly what everyone is doing now.

And Joe is pretty sure no one will be bothering The Reaper again after this.

He turns his attention back to the screen again when the kraken suddenly lets out another loud roar and a faint blue light begins to shine all around it. Meanwhile the water begins swirling into dozens upon dozens of whirlpools. And unlike with its tentacles, the whirlpools actually do damage The Reaper.

But she just reverts the damage backwards as if using time magic. Except clearly with quantum magic instead.

Joe finds himself commentating less and less the longer the battle goes on. Mostly because he has no clue what to comment on.

The Reaper is just too powerful, even if the kraken is instantly regenerating all of the damage she deals.@@novelbin@@

But even that doesn't last forever, as after the battle continues on for nearly twenty minutes straight, with the kraken constantly regenerating through it all, its regeneration finally slows down enough that she manages to completely destroy its head. Killing the creature the moment its brain is beyond repair.

Then silence reigns as a large chest appears at the center of the now-destroyed round platform that had started the entire battle.

Silence both within the viewing room and inside of the large hidden area.

The Reaper herself doesn't seem to care though as she begins teleporting over to the chest to open it.

She's terrifying… certainly worthy of her position as the Reaper of the Universe.

A chill runs down Joe's spine.

I would never want her as my enemy.

And so, from here on out, Joe promises to himself that he will watch absolutely everything he says about The Reaper to make sure he doesn't say anything he will regret. And he nods his head to his sister, who returns it with a tense nod of her own as she no doubt has similar thoughts.

Never anger The Reaper.

He's sure it's a lesson the entire universe has learned from this battle.

One they won't soon forget.