Outside of the Dungeon

Lucius Nebula, the forty-one year old eldest son of the Nebula Duchy that has ruled for at least three centuries in the Kingdom with their spatial magic, stares with more than a little fear in the direction of the dungeon, the girl he was fighting forgotten already. And he’s not the only one as everyone else, both on the enemies’ side and his, stare as well, all of the battling having come to a halt.

Meanwhile the girl’s voice coming from the edge of the island continues to echo through the base, “Oh, you actually don’t mind the light, Luna? That’s a surprise.”

Even without being able to see the source of the voice, Lucius can already tell just from the powerful presence he can sense over there that she is powerful. But at the same time, he notices something off about the presence.

That’s… not mana that I’m sensing. What is it?

Any user trained in mana control has the mana manipulation skill, letting them manipulate their own mana to a very limited extent. But the skill also allows the skill’s users to sense mana outside of themselves and in others. To know how powerful someone is without identifying them.

Her power… almost feels like the System’s own…

His thoughts trail off when he hears the sound of footsteps coming from the area around the dungeon. And as the footsteps sound out, he can’t help but tense up a little. Meanwhile he sees some of the people around the base beginning to back away from the dungeon.

If this is really the first clearer, then she has to be frighteningly powerful…

That thought causes him pause for a moment.

Wait, this is after the Reset. She can’t be too much stronger than we are, can she? It’s just a single, or rather, two Legendary Feats, right?

Lucius tenses up slightly, his grip growing tighter on his dagger as the footsteps continue. All the way till the source of the voice’s head becomes visible over the edge of the ruins where the girl is walking up the stairs.

And right away, whispers begin to build up around the base from both sides of the battle. But the whispered conversations repeatedly cut off out of nowhere.

She’s just a young girl in her early twenties? Might not even be that old. She is rather short after all. Maybe nineteen or twenty years old? Unless her age was reverted while leveling?

Right when he’s beginning to feel his confidence grow, he realizes everyone else had gone silent and remembers to identify her.

Then he drops his knife in shock.

{Alexia Knight – Quantum Reaper – Level 89}

And if the Class S species identifier, the epic rarity class, and her absurdly high level weren’t enough, Lucius finally notices her eyes. Eyes that appear to be glitching out with a radiant purple light from time to time as she walks up the remaining stairs and looks around at the gathered people in the base. The girl has a deep purple shade of long hair with a set of purple armor the same shade as her hair. And for all appearances, she appears to be unarmed. With a bat on her shoulder.

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Qua-Quantum magic class…

At the same time as his thought, he hears a couple people mutter, “Quantum magic…”

But after several seconds of silence where the girl looks around at the gathered people – most of whom are nobles from prior to the Reset – she crosses her arms under her chest and asks, “So what’s going on here?”

Lucius and a good majority of the members of their side of the battle look towards the crown prince, only to find him standing stiffly while alternating his gaze between the quantum magic user and someone near Lucius. So Lucius turns to look next to him, only to find the girl he was fighting standing there with a smile on her face.

A girl who looks identical to the quantum magic user outside of her inhuman traits and hair color.

A girl whose last name matches the quantum magic user’s.

Lucius gulps as he turns to look at the newcomer again.

A girl… who he had been trying to kill.

The girl – Alexia judging by her Identification – tilts her head and says, “Lots of people identifying me, now aren’t there? Guess it’s not impolite to do that anymore.”

“Yeah, we all decided that it’s a necessity in this new dimension,” the girl who Lucius had been fighting says, raising her voice over the silence of the others and finally drawing the quantum being’s gaze towards her, past all of the other people in between them. “Took you long enough to finish up in there Lexi.”

“You try…” the quantum being begins, only to pause when Lucius sees her eyes finally finding the other girl’s. Then her eyes narrow and she asks, “What happened here?”

To Lucius’s absolute horror, the girl he was fighting just shrugs and says, “These guys were trying to kill me and my teammates, so we fought back. And I was fighting this dude here.”

While pointing at Lucius.

The quantum being’s gaze slowly turns to him before looking at him with a cold indifference that has a chill running down his spine. But she doesn’t attack him right away. Instead she asks everyone nearby, “If you are working with my sister, please step out of this base.”

Sister. I’m dead.

Silence fills the base for a total of three seconds. Then Lucius’s enemies all begin stepping out of the base, following her directions.

And, to Lucius’s continued horror, one of the crown prince’s men – a boy Lucius recognizes as Rodrick Lancaster – apparently decides that he won’t let them, sending a fireball directly towards a man with a staff on the enemy’s team named Aidan.

So the new girl raises her hand and sends a bolt of varying shades of purple straight at the fireball, somehow hitting it in the process and making it glitch out for a moment before vanishing. Then she vanishes in a glitched flurry of purple energy and appears again next to the boy who was standing just three and a half meters away from her where she grabs his throat and raises him into the air.

“I don’t think I told you to move,” she says, her tone still indifferent. But then she blinks seemingly in recognition and shouts seemingly to her sister, “Hey, this is the dude that kept bothering you, right?”

“Yeah,” her sister answers, sounding both surprised and like everything is happening as she was expecting somehow.

And right when Lucius is beginning to consider trying to escape through teleporting away, even if his reserves of mana are starting to get low, the girl says, “Good,” and snaps the boy’s neck like a twig before tossing his corpse and briefly nodding her head at the boy she protected with her interruption. Then she turns back to the rest of Lucius’s side of the disagreement and crosses her arms again while asking, “Are all of Astrid’s teammates out of the base?”

After no one says anything for several seconds, she uncrosses her arms again and says, “Then if you don’t mind…”

Lucius doesn’t hear anything else after that, finding his eyes quickly widening by the sight of a purple bolt of glitching energy flying straight at him.

Then a very brief wave of incredible pain fills him before everything goes dark.