Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

My energy manipulation training is interrupted when Zal suddenly says, "You're about to have a visitor."

I open my eyes at that with a slight frown before closing them again and sensing the surrounding area. Only to notice something strange not too far away. Something strange that's quickly approaching.

The first thought that comes to mind about them is that the person approaching is one of those quantum magic fanboys or fangirls, since I can sense quantum energy in them. But when they get close enough for me to get a mental image of them, or rather, her, I realize she doesn't have even the slightest hint of fanaticism on her face.

So I look deeper. And what I find is rather surprising.

Because she feels kind of similar to the quantum beings. Yet different at the same time.

She doesn't have a core, or even a fragment of a core. And she feels… empty. Like something's missing.

My frown grows deeper as I open my eyes and walk over to the balcony. Just to find several guards appearing around the building when the visitor in question gets within sight of the building.

When my eyes meet hers though, I instantly realize that she's at least somehow related to the quantum beings. Even if she isn't exactly one herself.

"She is a Successor," Zal states, making my eyebrows rise simultaneously in surprise. "The Successor to the Quantum Archon to be specific. And she's come to meet you."

Huh. Interesting.

The girl in question-

"She may look young, but she's far older than you are," Zal comments, interrupting my thoughts.

Right. The woman in question is just floating in the air atop glitched pages and books, heading straight towards me as I lean over the railing of the balcony. And her gaze is locked onto me without so much as glancing at the people aiming guns and other weapons at her such as staffs and blades.

"Slowly lower yourself to the ground and state your purpose," one of the soldiers outside shouts while aiming his rifle directly at her. A rifle I'm sure is magically powered. "Otherwise we will shoot."

The woman completely ignores him and continues flying straight towards me. To the point that she doesn't even look his way or acknowledge that he said something to her.

Which I would say is rather bold, but judging by the fact that the identify result I get from her is… unique, to say the least, I'm not entirely surprised.

{Aragalia Tela Velal – Quantum Ar-r-ar-r-r-ERROR – Level UNKNOWN}

I'm honestly kind of surprised the soldiers aren't afraid.

"Mortals can't identify the Successors of the Quantum Roles," Zal states, surprising me again with a bit of information I didn't know. "The Successors are in a sort of midway-point between being a full quantum being and not being one, so the System doesn't know how to identify them and just leaves them full of errors."

Huh. Weird.

You should make a better System if it's still got errors in it.

"Blame the System, not me," Zal grumps, sounding irritated with the System himself.

Guess that's fair. Why haven't the soldiers shot at her though? And why do they look confused?

"The Quantum Archon has a few… peculiar skills, to say the least," Zal explains as the Successor continues floating unassaulted over towards me. "The Quantum Archon and his Successor cannot be attacked by others so long as they do not attack them themselves."

That is a peculiar skill… are they pacifists or something?

"They're bookworms who don't care about anything else besides reading their archives," Zal says, clearly not very impressed with him judging by the tone of his voice. "I don't think either of them have attacked anyone, thereby letting them be attacked by them in return, for thousands of years." The Quantum Architect pauses for a second before mumbling, "Actually, I don't think the Quantum Archon has even left the Quantum Archives in a couple thousand years as a matter of fact…"

Huh. Sounds like a major shut-in.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"A pair of shut-ins," Zal corrects me, making the corner of my lips quirk in amusement. "Not that I'm one to talk."

True. You probably sat somewhere for years upon years fiddling with the System without a single interaction with others while you were making the System, knowing you.

Zal goes silent at that, pretty much confirming my guess.

"Why can't I… what's going on?!" "Hey! Stop moving now!" "Get away from Her Highness!" "Stop!!!"

The guards constantly shout at the Successor as she floats over to me, but I just watch her while leaning over the railing with my chin held in my hands and my elbows resting on the railing itself. And she still isn't even looking at them.

I go ahead and take the woman's silence to finally pay attention to her appearance other than the glowing purple and glitchy eyes and her dark purple hair. Hair without any black to it, unlike the rest of us quantum beings.

Other than that, she's wearing some sort of robe and kind of looks a little scholarly. Albeit with a cold look on her face as she continues ignoring the soldiers below who clearly can't do anything to her.

Which I have to admit is rather amusing.

Even when Lucas arrives, no doubt having been told about what's happening, he can't do shit to her. And that infuriates him to no end.

I finally stop all of this as I ask the woman, who also happens to finally be arriving in front of me and stopping, "So why are you here, Successor to the Quantum Archon?"

She looks at me square in the eyes while the other people around finally understand the situation. Not that they bother leaving, what with the unknown person here. But they do stay silent.

"I came to meet the newest quantum being," the Successor, Aragalia Tela Velal according to her identify, answers in a rather cold and slightly empty voice. "Would you mind if we spoke for a while?"

I shrug without a care as I answer, "Sure. But let's take this elsewhere."

She nods her head before snapping her fingers, making reality around us warp with what look like glitchy pages appearing and turning all around us before we both appear in some strange dimension. One full of books.

"Welcome to my personal library," she states while still floating in the air. "We shall have full privacy here."

Huh.

That was kind of cool.