Reaper's Resurgence: A System Reset

Alexia Honestly, I never really understood the whole concept of eating food for enjoyment. It's a hassle to eat and drink, you have to pay attention to what you eat and drink to make sure your body is getting the right nutrients, and you have to take time out of your day to eat and drink in the first place. Overall, it's a massive pain. One that I'm very glad that I don't have to deal with anymore. I just never understood the people who enjoyed eating with every fiber of their being. Or the gluttons who would always try to eat as much as they could because they loved it. But wild animals and powerful hunter type monsters? The types of creatures who hunt for pride and for the thrill of the hunt? Of hunting something powerful? Those things I understand. I don't care about their whole 'eating their kills as food' afterwards thing, but I definitely understand that they'd feel a thrill for it. Even if I don't exactly feel all that much excitement most of the time in the first place. That doesn't mean I can't feel satisfied with something. And it's that feeling of satisfaction that drives me forwards all the time. Satisfaction at leveling up. Satisfaction at seeing myself growing stronger. Satisfaction at seeing the numbers grow. And satisfaction at this rather large pile of sharks that I'm stuffing into my storage ring. Sharks that I spent quite a while hunting while chatting with Luna about Astrid's past embarrass- err, I mean wonderful moments. That feeling of satisfaction is a very nice one. And while the desire to survive to help Astrid and the other few people I care about is important, this sense of achieving a goal is a very powerful driving force. Especially when I'm bored out of my mind and have nothing to do other than hunt sharks, other fish, and tell story after story to Luna. I'm starting to run out of stories that would be fine sharing while being livestreamed. And even I'm not so nice a sister as to share those particular stories about Astrid with Luna. Or the people watching. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Eventually though I'm broken out of my own thoughts and the wonderful tales of Astrid when I notice that the ocean planet seems to be getting hotter. At which point I look up and wait a little bit for the world to rotate a bit around the other world. Then I blink in surprise when I see a certain magma hydra rampaging his way towards me in his berserk state. Huh. Unexpected. Who would've thought that we'd appear so close to each other in the dungeon? Not to mention that he's already gone berserk. It's a pity though, considering that Lucas and Gramps actually asked me to see if I would spare him if we fought and I won. But only if we fought when he wasn't berserk. So since he's already berserk, I guess I'm killing him. The Ancient Terror. Out of curiosity, I go ahead and identify him again. Only to find that his level is about a few beneath my own. Making us just about even in terms of level related strength. As for whether our skills can match or not? This will give me the chance to try out my new manner of fighting. One that I haven't really used any of despite having the general skill slotted for it. So without any hesitation, I raise both of my hands and point towards the Ancient Terror. At the magic going on all around him and the spell circles covering the air above and below the massive hydra that is currently jumping into the ocean and turning it into a massive pool of obsidian thanks to the magma he's spewing. Literally. Then I send anti-magic bullets flying straight at the Ancient Terror one after another, shattering dozens upon dozens of magical circles and canceling out spells that were already activated. Good. The first time I've really been able to confidently use this in a battle, and it's against the Ancient Terror himself. A berserk Ancient Terror at that. I'm sure the audience watching is beside themselves with excitement. On that note, the Ancient Terror in question begins roaring through all of his nine heads open and begin charging up some sort of powerful breath attack. One in the form of some orbs of laser-like magma that eventually blast out in lasers to single point, where they form another larger orb of magma. Then that one orb blasts out at me as well, to which I counter with more anti-magic bullets. But these don't do anywhere near as well. Probably because he's most likely using a skill and not magic to do this. So I block the rest by creating several barriers in front of me and blast off dozens upon dozens of quantum bolts at the breath laser beam attack thing. And while my own counter doesn't completely block the attack, my barriers manage to do so in the end. Leaving nothing left but a large pathway made of obsidian between the two of us. Obsidian that is currently beginning to sink downwards in the water due to being too heavy. I narrow my eyes a little before shrugging and teleporting upwards into the air. All while Luna finally turns into her bat form and begins to take this seriously. The Ancient Terror in hydra form is actually quite a bit larger than Astrid's hydra form is. And just as his status as a magma hydra would entail, his body has glowing cracks of magma running through it, with intimidating glowing crimson eyes on each of his nine heads. Eyes that are all currently berserk and without a shred of intelligence in them. From my understanding, Ignivara is more powerful when berserk, but he also has no mental abilities. Or any ability to think at all, actually. It's just that he's never really fought against anyone that could come anywhere near close to matching his power in his berserk True Form. So I think it's about time that I change that.