Somewhere in Dimensional Block #1 – The Endless Oceans

Lucas Nightshade sits still as he gazes out over the ocean waters, for unable to get the face of the Reaper out of his mind.

Why… why does she look just like her?

No matter how many times he envisions her face, he can’t make logical sense of it. The girl looks just like how his wife looked when she was younger, except without the purple hair.

But the girl isn’t a human. He saw that on her identify.

She’s a quantum being. And a quantum being cannot be born from a mortal being.

So then why is this girl here in this new dimension? Why is she a System user? And why is her title The Reaper?

Scenario after scenario runs through his mind, but no matter what, Lucas can’t figure out why a quantum being would be acting as a user.

The only explanation that I can think of is that whatever the girl did to get her Title also made her into a quantum being, but that shouldn’t be possible. Species change is very possible in the System, but not to a quantum being species. That’s just not possible without the help of…

Lucas’s eyes widen in realization.

She killed the System’s Creator. That’s why she has an unknown Legendary Feat. The System’s Creator was in the void, which is cut off from the System. And I’m sure he could’ve managed to make her into a quantum being with the System’s help and his death, but the real question is why. Why would he basically commit suicide just to make the girl into a quantum being?

The Hound continues staring blankly at the ocean for so long that he completely loses track of time. Even when his ‘partner’ – the Empress of Roses – returns from where she was hunting on her own and tries to stir him from his thoughts, all he does is continue staring at the ocean.

So the Empress just walks over and lies down on the sand, staring up at the sun in silence.

Reaper… that Title… what is it supposed to mean? Does the System’s Creator want the girl to be his personal reaper? To clean up the System’s users? But why?

No matter how many times Lucas thinks it over, none of it makes sense.

But there are two things Lucas knows for sure.

One being that the Reaper is powerful, even if they appear to be young kid who has more than enough skill to survive on her own.

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And the other being that the Reaper looks almost identical to his wife. She has the first name that his wife had wanted to give a daughter if they had one. And she has the last name of his best friend.

Lucas continues looping through these three facts over and over in his mind until he finally blinks out of his stupor and stands up.

There won’t be any way that I could confirm anything if I just stay here frozen. I should be able to confirm things if I see her. Whether she is Crystal’s daughter or not, and whether she has any ties to Lysander.

The Hound of the Apocalypse pats his sword’s pommel before glancing at the vampire lazily lying down on the sand and saying, “Get up. We’re leaving.”

Then he begins walking deeper into the island as the vampire jumps to her feet and casually walks behind him with her hands held behind her head.

I have to see that girl again.

Lucas frowns, his grip tightening on his sword’s pommel.

I have to confirm.

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Alexia

Astrid and I end up spending nearly an hour just talking as we explore my new house. Mostly about our different experiences during the events over the last few hours.

Apparently anyone who wasn’t in the top one thousand users on the leaderboards only saw a livestream shown on a screen floating in front of them of the events that happened in that place where I met the other top users on the leaderboards. Which means that everyone in existence saw me and knows that I’m the champion from the Tutorial.

I hope that doesn’t get awkward in future interactions with new people, but I’m not a particularly social person anyways. Not to mention that my primary goal right now is to get Energy Manipulation and reach Tier 2 before searching for a Tier 2 dungeon. And very little of that needs me to work with other people.

It also turned out that Astrid just barely had enough points to buy the species change. To the point of only having one more point than she needed, since she had 701 points and the change cost her 700.

A bit of a close call.

After we finish touring the house, my explanation of events having already been told rather quickly, I head straight for the bedroom where I sit cross-legged on the bed with my eyes closed. Meanwhile Astrid does whatever Astrid is doing.

I didn’t ask to see what she was going to do. I only know she left the house somehow.

Probably because I’m wearing the ring linked to this house.

Okay. Time to focus on Quantum Attunement.

I take a deep breath before directing my Quantum Attunement skill’s senses inwards towards my chest. And to my surprise, I immediately find what the System Creator mentioned.

A purple flame just floating inside of my chest in the quantum realm. Not in the mortal realm.

My soul.

Now then. How exactly do I manipulate it?

He didn’t really…

My thoughts trail off when I feel my hand being drawn to my chest not long after seeing my soul itself. And instead of stopping at my armor, my hand somehow turns purple and glitchy as it passes through my armor and through my chest and reaches for the purple flame.

Despite my eyes being closed, I can’t help but raise both of my eyebrows in surprise. But I just continue letting my hand move until it reaches out and grabs a tiny sliver of my soul. A sliver that, after checking my status, is actually taken out in the form of one point of soul being lost. One point that’s lost and then recovered almost immediately afterwards thanks to my own regeneration.

The sliver of soul is still in my hand though as I pull my hand out of my chest before opening my eyes.

But after opening them, I don’t find anything in my hand.

Oh.

The sliver of soul is in the quantum realm.

Not the mortal realm.