Alexia

I draw in a gasp of air and shoot up into a sitting position as soon as my eyes snap open despite not needing to. Then I look around, finding the Ascension Barrier that’s meant to protect any being currently ascending Tiers during the process slowly fading away.

But I don’t focus on that. I don’t even focus on the loot box I see sitting nearby.

Instead I focus on my System Messages and the Legendary Feat Notification that I’ve gotten since waking up, starting with the Legendary Feat. Which seems to have already changed from the public announcement version to the private version for me telling me what it gives me.

Legendary Feat – The Vanguard

As the first being to ascend in Tier within the System, you are gifted with a token that you may use to upgrade your class whenever you desire to the next rarity.

This is a one-time-use item and will vanish after use.

My mouth drops open at that and I have to immediately stem my desire to use the token that appears in my hand. Because it would just be a waste to use it now.

I carefully put the token in my spatial ring for safe keeping.

The rarity of a class will often be upgraded as you ascend in Tier, but not with every ascension. And the higher the rarity of your class, the harder it will be to upgrade it further.

So having a free upgrade token will really help out when my class stagnates in rarity later on.

I smile at the thought of possibly getting it to mythical in the future. Or I could try to get it to mythical naturally and see if there’s some sort of hidden rarity above mythical.

Doubt that’s the case though, but it couldn’t hurt. If there isn’t then I could just give it to Astrid.

I’ll have to wait and see what happens though. There’s always the chance I might need to use it in an emergency to raise my stats in a fight or something.

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The System Messages flow by after the Legendary Feat.

{Congratulations! You have reached Tier 2! The effect of each stat point has been increased by ten percent and your level lock has been removed! Current advanced stats are 30% weakness to all magic, 80% immunity to all physical damage, and a stat multiplier of 1.16.}

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 101! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

[*New Racial Skill* – Quantum Equilibrium: Due to the balanced quantum state of a Quantum Reaper, you grow naturally resistant towards any and all status effects.]

{Congratulations! You have cleared the Dungeon known as the Thunder Highlands! Touch the loot box to claim your reward!}

Nothing I didn’t already expect, although that new racial skill is going to come in handy. It’s too bad it’s not an immunity, but considering the weakness that Quantum Body gives me, it might be for the best. Since if it did give full immunity to status effects it would probably have to give me something bad as well to make up for it.

The System is balanced after all. Even if it’s messed up in its own way.

I’ve never seen a skill working against all status effects, so it’s already a really good skill. Like a resistance skill towards everything of one category.

Pretty good. Also means I won’t have to worry as much about things like poison, paralysis, stuns, mind control, or anything like that.

Although what exactly is considered a status effect was never fully determined even before the Reset.

I frown at that thought before shrugging and getting up from the ground to walk over to the loot box. And to my pleasant surprise, the loot box gives me a knife clearly made out of the glowing blue horn from the rampaging kyre. One that absorbs a certain amount of lightning and releases it when the wielder desires it to.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Would definitely have made this boss fight a lot easier on me.

I store away the knife before stretching a little and leaving the dungeon through the large door that appeared out of nowhere at some point while I was ascending a few dozen meters away, at the center of all of the metal spires. Most of which are all still charged with lightning.

After I get out of the dungeon, I quickly begin to test out the limits of my Tier 2 skill, teleporting around both at the distances that I could teleport before and longer distances. And I soon learn that it takes less soul to teleport within the ten meter range that the Tier 1 skill gave me at level 10 than it would’ve back when it was Tier 1. Meanwhile it takes more and more soul at an exponential rate to teleport further away than that, with the current limit of the skill being one hundred and twenty-one meters away from me.

A rather large increase from Tier 1, but considering that it’s a higher Tier skill that makes sense.

I begin to teleport through the jungle towards the base, arriving far sooner than I would’ve otherwise. Specifically due to the fact that my soul is worth more with each point now that the effect of each stat point has been increased by ten percent, so I can do a lot more now. Even if my soul technically only raised by a few dozen points.

When I reach the base I find a rather unexpected surprise awaiting me. That surprise being in the form of the people I had met on the other island being at the base talking with Aidan.

And from the looks of it, they have all of their things with them. As if they were moving here or something.

Interesting.

Guess the base is growing already.