Alexia

What I end up doing turns out to be rather simple.

What does one do when faced with fanatics and fans you never knew existed?

You run the hell away.

So I immediately teleport far away.

Surprisingly they don’t seem angry from what I can tell using my senses even after I leave. In fact, they seem rather happy just to have gotten pictures of me, even if I didn’t give them any autographs.

And I’m going to ignore the look of awe the guy I brought up into the air was giving off after I left.

Amusingly enough, though, they all begin to pack up right after my disappearance. As if they don’t give a shit about anyone else inside the dungeon.

Not sure how I feel about this. Other than I’m just gonna leave and act like I didn’t see them.

Unfortunately for me, the moment I arrive at The Retreat, I find it filled with even more people with quantum affinities. So I avoid the hell out of it and immediately go searching for the Quantum Architect. A search that actually doesn’t prove to be that hard.

Mostly because the guy is literally a glowing beacon for my senses.

It’d be harder not to spot the source of quantum energy that’s brighter than a damned sun when I focus on my senses alone. Something I haven’t done since he was restored to his former glory.

I quickly begin teleporting through the air, ignoring the people who were waiting for me that aren’t fanatics and fans as they try catching up to me. Because I need to figure out what’s going on.

Something about this just feels off. After all, I never once felt any sort of worship or awe of the Quantum Architect even before I became the Reaper. Despite having a quantum affinity of my own.

Unless that’s because I wasn’t awakened yet to my affinity? Because I couldn’t use it?

I shake my head while repeatedly teleporting through the skies of the Block, heading straight towards the beacon that is the Architect in question. And once I arrive, I find the man just causally floating inside of a large cloaking spell. One that hides the island he’s above in its entirety.

My eyes narrow for a second, only for me to shake my head and move straight through the barrier. The thing not stopping me for even a second.

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Guess he set it so it doesn’t block me or hide him from me.

Meaning he expected me to come find him.

Wasn’t as hard as I believed it to be back in the dungeon.

I teleport straight up to the man, making him open his eyes to look at me. He’s currently wearing the same outfit I saw on him when he was in the tube before the Reset. A rather high tech set of purple and black armor. Meanwhile his eyes are just pure pools of purple. Like lights on a computer screen in a way, just more regal. Like some sort of god. And his hair is the same deep purple as every quantum being I’ve seen so far, myself included.

What isn’t normal about his look, on the other hand, is that half of his body is just kinda glitching out, not solidifying into one singular form.

Which looks rather weird.

“Already seeking me out, daughter?” he asks without a single change to his expression.

My eyes narrow slightly at his use of that term again. But I ignore it for now as I ask in return, “What’s with the quantum affinity users flocking to me?”

He simply closes his eyes again while answering, “The quantum affinity is a difficult affinity for one to learn. It not only takes time, but it requires guidance after that time has passed to grow the affinity into something usable.” The man pauses as he slowly floats down to the mountains beneath us, landing on the ground. “But the System doesn’t give people enough time to get their affinity grown before users obtain their classes.”

I wait for a few seconds, but he doesn’t say any more than that. Leaving me figuring out the rest myself.

Which isn’t hard.

The System gives options for classes and a deadline for choosing said classes. Albeit a rather luxurious deadline. But a deadline, nonetheless.

And if it takes so long to develop the affinity… the only way most people with the affinity could do anything with it is through resetting everything and getting a new class assigned after they’ve already developed that affinity through time.

Which is exactly what the System Reset did. It gave everyone a chance for a new class after their quantum affinities had already developed.

That doesn’t answer my main question, though.

“Why are they treating me like some sort of celebrity, or even a goddess?” I ask while crossing my arms.

He takes a few seconds to answer, his eyes still closed, “It’s a similar situation to the beings known as dragonborn. Creatures with a strong affinity for one element will be drawn towards the Class S beings who embody that affinity.”

I frown at that.

But wouldn’t that mean more than just the dragonborn would be drawn to the dragons?

“Some beings are born amongst the energy of other beings and are more easily attracted to them,” the Architect answers my thoughts, reminding me of his habit of reading my mind. “And my energy is spread all throughout the dimension.”

He leaves at that, but I get the point.

And said point leaves a chill running down my spine.

What he means is that every being in the dimension was born amongst the energy of the quantum beings. Meaning every person with a strong affinity for the quantum will be drawn to quantum beings.

I stare at the Architect for several seconds before eventually sighing.

Well, that’s gonna be a massive headache to deal with.

But for now, there are other questions I need to ask this guy before he decides to vanish from the face of the…

I glance down at the island, only to look at the skies down below. Then I turn back to him again.

Before he decides to vanish from the face of this dimension.