Somewhere in Dimensional Block #1

Inside of a large hall

The Hound of the Apocalypse peacefully plays a piano at the center of a large hall located on a grand island. One larger than most of the other islands around it. Meanwhile various users all around the hall stand tensely in silence as their Dimensional Champion and Leader plays a piece of music few of them recognize from before the System even first Initialized, much less before the Reset.

A piece of music that reminds each of them of moonlight and of the night. A slow and peaceful melody that fills the room and feels like it perfectly fits the man playing it, despite the atrocities they all know said man has committed in the past.

Lucas continues to play the piano all the way through the piece of classical music with more people gradually entering the hall throughout the piece before eventually finishing and closing the tray over the piano keys. Then he stands up and turns to face the various people in the room, all of whom were former Ascendants who he had found during the Dimensional Council and decided to gather on his own island.

Silence fills the hall now that he is no longer playing the piano.

“As I stated in the meeting, I will be the absolute power within this Block,” Lucas declares, his voice filling the hall immediately and sending chills down the spines of everyone present. None of whom include any Class S species, since the few Class S species within the Block were dragons or fae, neither of which wish to deal with affairs unrelated to their species. “There will be two matters at hand to mark off the start of this new reign. The first is to stamp out the three forces opposing my rule.” His eyes narrow. “And the second will be to find The Reaper.”

Silence fills the hall as everyone feels too terrified of the Hound to say anything, their fear partially passing over from the man’s past and partially due to his own power now. Since Reset or not, he was the most powerful human in existence before the Reset, with one of the most powerful known Legendary Feat Bonuses.

A Bonus that makes him completely immune to magic.

And another reason why the man himself despises goblins, since if it weren’t for him being put in a goblin dungeon, a place with very little focus on magic, he would’ve likely been the first to clear a dungeon after the Reset. But instead he lost that Legendary Feat to The Reaper instead.

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Eventually muttered words of understanding run through the gathered leaders before they carefully begin to trickle out of the room, as if testing if the Hound will hurt them for doing so.

Lucas on the other hand just looks out the window at the moon high above them in the sky and narrows his eyes slightly.

I hope the girl isn’t in a Block too far away from our own. It won’t take long to find her if we find her Block, considering that she has to be the Dimensional Champion of whatever Block she’s in, but if she’s on the other side of the dimension from our Block…

The Hound clenches his fists slightly before flapping his wings and beginning to fly straight out of the building through the open doors, scaring those outside. Then he heads straight towards the closest Tier 2 dungeon to continue fighting while he waits for progress from the underlings he’s made.

Meanwhile the vampire who has been tagging alongside him ever since he first left his dungeon stays behind to manage the leaders on his behalf.

After flying for a few seconds, a faint smile stretches across the Hound’s face.

I’m glad they got that piano finished. I missed playing.

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Alexia

I let out a grunt as I rip another piranha zombie off of my arm and throw it back in the water while standing on a platform of ice, waiting for the next platform to appear. Because, as I’ve learned through some rather cold dips in the water, magic doesn’t seem to want to work in this area. Or rather, it does work, but only sometimes.

The magic just cuts off at random points, with the System itself seemingly disabling all use of magic in this room for extended periods.

And suddenly losing my magic while trying to teleport across the room turned out to be… a very unpleasant experience.

I shiver at the thought of just how freaking cold that water was, along with having to rip off dozens of piranha zombies.

Very unpleasant.

I shake my head and jump to the next platform of ice around halfway through the room as soon as the thing forms. Then the platform behind me vanishes seconds later.

This room might just be my worst nightmare.

Water too cold for me to swim through infested with monsters in a room that I can’t teleport across and can’t reliably use magic in. Where the only safe way across is the platforms that appear once every minute right after the previous platform if and only if someone is standing on the previous platform.

I shiver again as I think of the horrendous swim back to the start that I had to do, since this water itself seems to cancel out my magic as well.

Whoever thought of this room must’ve been sadistic as hell.

I suddenly duck down as another piranha zombie jumps out of the water straight over the platform, aiming for my head. Then I swing my polearm straight upwards, bisecting the undead fish before standing up straight again.

This dungeon has been full of surprises. First the endless floors, then the Chaos Monsters, and now a room like this… I just hope there aren’t any other rooms like it.

Also, what’s with the System and piranhas? This isn’t even the second time I’ve run into piranhas in dungeons before after the Reset.

I scowl at a piranha as it jumps out of the water again.

Stupid fish.