Alexia

I can’t help but smile when I finally reach the ground, having spent who knows how long simply crawling along the invisible platforms while feeling for solid ground. Not to mention when I had to go down invisible steps.

The first time I had to go down them was a rather unfortunate event where I accidentally fell down the stairs, barely landing on the edge of the platform without falling off thanks to one of the many invisible walls around the path of invisible blocks.

Too close a call for my taste.

Would’ve been nicer if there were more walls along the invisible path, but that would just be making things too easy…

I stretch after finally standing up for the first time in who knows how long before checking the timer for the Tutorial.

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Time Left Until the Tutorial’s End

16 days, 22 hours, 2 minutes, 10 seconds

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The end of the Tutorial’s second week just passed…

I can’t help but frown at that as I look up at the bright sun in the sky, my eyes directly meeting the sun with no actual damage or pain registering in them. Something I realized was a thing the third time the sun appeared, which seemed to happen every hour or two. That my eyes ignore the oversaturation of light just as much as they ignore the lack of it.

Another nice benefit to being a quantum reaper.

But… if I can’t finish the dungeon within the next two weeks, will I be able to get back to Astrid before the Tutorial ends?

It might be a problem if I can’t meet up with her during the Tutorial. I’m not entirely sure about that though.

Makes me wish one of those clones would reappear to answer my questions, but that’s not likely to happen. And I’ve been so focused on asking questions about my situation that I didn’t get to ask many questions about the Reset itself.

I sigh at that thought before looking around at the bright cavern, finding it barren of any monsters right now thanks to the light.

There aren’t any other monsters here aside from the bats, but I still have to figure out which way the bats went. And while the vampire bats I killed on the way down here did bring me up to level forty-six, giving me another skill at level forty-five, I don’t feel particularly comfortable going into one of the bigger caves. Not when a lot more vampire bats seemed to be going in those than the others.

Although I am very happy about Quantum Burst, since that skill in particular is quite useful against these stupid bats. Not only is it bright, sending a large pulse of quantum energy all around me in a dome shape, but it knocks the vampire bats away in the process of hurting them.

The new passive skill I got at level forty-five could’ve been better though. Since all Quantum Veil does is help cover me from divination and scrying. Which I’m pretty sure no one is going to be using right now anyways.

My frown returns as I look around the cavern, only to eventually go away when I settle on a cave close to me that isn’t too big before going to head inside. But the moment I step inside of the cave, I get a welcome System Message.

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[*New General Skill* – Exploration: Enhances the user’s basic instinct to know which direction they should go when unsure, makes it so they always know which of the four cardinal directions are where, and may sometimes give the user an instinctive feeling directing them to a hidden location. Skill is automatically slotted due to free open slots.]

I smile at that.

It’s about time. Been waiting to get that skill for a while now.

I quickly open up my various Skills lists.

[General Skills]

|Pain Resistance Level 4(6%)(T1)|

|Polearm Mastery Level 2(31%)(T1)|

|Forerunner (Unique)|

|Stealth Level 2(91%)(T1)|

|Survivor Level 1(14%)(T1)|

|Poison Resistance Level 2(39%)(T1)|

|Exploration Level 1(0%)(T1)|

[Active Skills]

|Quantum Bolt Level 4(21%)(T1)|

|Quantum Displacement Level 3(31%)(T1)|

|Quantum Reversal Level 2(12%)(T1)|

|Quantum Phasing Level 1(0%)(T1)|

|Quantum Burst Level 1(31%)(T1)|

[Passive Skills]

|Quantum Attunement Level 2(21%)(T1)|

|Quantum Singularity Level 1(2%)(T1)|

|Quantum Infusion Level 2(46%)(T1)|

|Quantum Adaption Level 1(9%)(T1)|

|Quantum Veil Level 1(0%)(T1)|

Alright. Now all I need are three more General Skills and I’ll have a complete set of skills. Although I still need to replace Quantum Phasing, Quantum Singularity, and Quantum Veil for now. Since, while they are good skills, they just aren’t usable by me at the moment.

I am kind of curious why Quantum Singularity is gaining progress in leveling though. Unless it’s due to the dungeon areas? When I pass between them?

Either way, the skill isn’t useful unless I run into something with a magic that directly affects reality. And I won’t be finding one of those in a Tier 1 dungeon.

I walk over to the edge of the cave before sitting down next to the wall as I try to consider what other General Skills I should get. Which three I should use to fill up the last slots.

Most of the General Skills I know of off the top of my head aren’t things I can get right now, whether that’s because I don’t have the equipment needed for it such as specific weapons, or because I’m alone and have no one to negotiate with. Which kind of just leaves Taming and Resistance skills.

But I don’t have any food to tame anything with, unless I want to go killing a monster and then trying to tame another monster with its corpse.

Which I guess I can do.

What would I want to tame though? And do I actually want to tame a monster?

I frown as I cross my arms under my chest and raise my head to look up at the ceiling of the cave.

Such a dilemma.

The sunlight in the cave suddenly goes away, following which a bunch of bats suddenly rush out of the cave towards me, only for me to use Quantum Burst, sending a pulse of energy outwards in a dome from me, knocking into all of the bats that get near me and sending them dazed to the ground with whatever part of their body that touched the pulse glitching apart. Then I get up while summoning my polearm before rushing towards them to tear the things apart, glad that I can finally use my polearm again without having to worry about falling to my death.

But as I’m killing the bats, something comes to mind.

Couldn’t I try taming a vampire bat? Would certainly make for an interesting tamed monster, that’s for sure.

I use another Quantum Burst when the bats begin getting up again, draining a lot of my soul in the process. Far more than a Quantum Bolt takes.

Well, guess it can’t hurt for me to try. But I should be a higher level first.

So I continue killing the poor bats.