Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia

The Holy One has long golden hair and has the illusion of a golden business suit on his person. But I see straight through the illusion to find him actually wearing a white and gold priest's robe completely open to show his golden armor underneath. Which isn't generally the type of armor you would expect the highest ranking priest of his own religion to wear.

Then again, from what I've heard about him through Lucas, the Holy One's status in his followers' eyes is dropping by the day. Simply because they were led to believe he was perfect in every way. But the System after the Reset hasn't been shy about promoting my accomplishments since the Reset.

Accomplishments that far surpass his own.

Even his level is thirty beneath my own.

Although that's not exactly rare, seeing as my level is at least a dozen levels above everyone else in this ballroom.

And I can't help but feel like the Holy One's status in his religion is going to go down even more after this dungeon, seeing as the only real way to get out of it is to die. Or to clear the dungeon.

As for the Ancient Terror walking a few meters away from the Holy One?

That man is… unpredictable, to say the least.

The man has a black robe and cloak on underneath the illusion of a black suit, and his eyes are a molten red, almost like they're made of magma itself. Meanwhile he has short black hair that goes down into his face on one side and is pasted back on the other.

Most notable about his appearance though are the snake heads I occasionally see trying to peek out from underneath his cloak.

The many snake heads clearly representing his status as a hydra. A natural born one unlike Astrid.

As for the man himself? He looks completely emotionless, but Lucas has told me stories about him. About how he is both Lucas and Gramps' old close friend, and how the man pretty much has two modes.

One mode where he suppresses his emotions due to his past, and one mode where he lets loose, going on a rampage and killing indiscriminately until his rage settles down and he can suppress his emotions again.
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It's obvious that right now he is suppressing them. But who knows if he'll go on a rampage in the dungeon or not.

He's most known from before the Reset because of said rampages after all.

That's also how he got the Title of the Ancient Terror.

"Greetings, Lady Alexia, Quantum Reaper and-" the Holy One begins, sounding all sacred and all despite the fact that I know he has a rather not-sacred personality underneath – according to Lucas – only for a certain hydra to interrupt.

"Enough of that," Ignivara states, cutting the Holy One off in a single instant before he asks, "There are two things I would request of you, Reaper."

I hide my amusement at the Holy One's clear anger at the Ancient Terror as I ask Ignivara in return, "And what would those requests be, Ancient Terror?"

Out of the corner of my eye, I notice Lucas staring straight at the Ancient Terror as if trying to catch his eye. And he's not the only one as Gramps is doing the same.

But the man completely ignores both of them as he answers me, "First, I would like a battle to the death within the dungeon. Should we run into each other, I request you accept my request."

That surprises me for a moment, but after a few seconds, I go ahead and shrug, responding with a simple, "Sure."

It's not like either of us would die for real, considering the second life thing. And I highly doubt I would lose to him anyways.

"It's appreciated," he states with a nod of his head. Then he goes ahead and moves onto the second request as he asks, "As for my other request, should you manage to defeat me, I would like to meet your shadowborne hydra twin sister."

That leaves me confused.

"Why?" I ask with a frown and a slight tilt of my head.

"No, you will not be meeting my daughter," Lucas declares with a scowl on his face, shocking more than a few people here who I now realize didn't actually know about my and Astrid's relationship with Lucas. Which makes some sense now that I think about it, seeing as we never really announced it to people. "I will not have you courting and bothering my daughter."

Wait a fucking second, did he just say courting?!

I turn to stare at the hydra just to find him looking rather surprised as well. After which he closes his eyes for a few seconds before opening them again and stating, "Very well. I will not bother your sister."

"Good," I answer with a nod, still feeling a little confused but at least also a little reassured.

It would be… very awkward if he were to try to court Astrid right now.

And I kind of doubt Ethan would be very pleased about it.

I glance at Ethan's parents to find them both glaring at the Ancient Terror. Which I'm pretty sure they weren't doing until he mentioned that.

Guess they know about his courting Astrid.

A frown stretches across my face at that thought.

Wait, doesn't this mean the Ancestral Dragon and Ancient Wyrm may become my family some day through Astrid if she marries Ethan? That would be weird.

Anyways, the Ancient Terror nods his head once before walking away. With everyone in his path stepping out of said path without hesitation, clearly intimidated a little bit by the unstable hydra.

Then again, the hydra is still in the top ten leaderboards after all. So there's that.

Wait a second… hydra…

Is that why he wants to court Astrid? Because they're both hydras?

Now that I think about it, I've never heard of a female hydra before other than Astrid… I wonder if they're rare or something?

Well, anyways, time to see what the old priestly guy wants.

I turn my focus to the Holy One who still looks rather irritated at the Ancient Terror's actions.

"You were going to say something?" I casually ask him while putting my hands in my pockets.