Alexia

I think I’ve changed my opinion on these doggies. They’re not doggies. They’re monsters.

I let out a cry of pain when another wolf’s ethereally magical claws cut straight through my back, tearing several gashes through me, and spilling my blood onto the ground. Then I proceed to teleport backwards before cutting through its throat. Only for another wolf to strike at my back once again, following which another chomps on my arm, damn near tearing it off.

This is proving to be-

I teleport a couple meters away before impaling the wolf that cut my back this time through the throat.

-more difficult-

Another wolf tears its claws through my shoulder as I restore my form again to the past before I got the injuries. Costing a significant amount of soul in the process before I rip my polearm out of the other wolf’s neck and swing it to cut into the chest of the one that hit my shoulder.

-than I thought it would be.

One wolf after another arrives, overwhelming me with an endless wave of monsters that are so great in number that I can’t even see past them all. There are so many that my soul is finally decreasing down to rather… terrifying… amounts. I’m getting dangerously low.

It’s why I’m trying to keep my soul usage to a minimum.

Which isn’t helping all that much since I have to teleport and heal.

I grit my teeth as I avoid one attack after another, receive multiple attacks, some of whom would be fatal wounds and others not so fatal, all while trying to avoid as many hits as I can. And reverting all of the damage again soon after. Trying to minimalize the stasis copy to only copy from as little time ago as possible that I wasn’t injured. Calculating it to the very seconds that I’m not injured to do that.

In addition to that, I also learned after raising the level enough that I can copy my stasis from only particular body parts rather than my entire body. Something I got in Tier 2 of the skill. So I copy the stasis from specific body parts and then paste them over those body parts. A process that costs a lot less soul than copying my entire body’s stasis.

Eventually my soul begins to decrease more and more until it’s reaching critical levels and I have to search around for a way out. But the only way out I find is up.

So I begin teleporting straight up into the air, barely dodging as the wolves charge after me one after another. All jumping in the air while their half corporeal claws stretch forwards, out of their bodies to attack me. But I manage to dodge each one and teleport high into the sky. Finally getting away from the strange spatial pull I’ve been feeling that’s keeping me from teleporting very far.

And after briefly looking around, feeling my soul draining more and more until it reaches just the double digits, I find my opening. A strange rift in space that I feel several dozen meters away, floating high in the sky.

I teleport straight to it before falling directly inside and landing in some sort of tree trunk. Or at least, that’s what it looks like from the inside of it. With walls made entirely of rough wood.

Well, that and the System Message that plays out in my head when I land in it.

[You have entered the Tier 4 Hidden Area, Wolf’s Tree Haven.]The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.

The moment I land on the ground and spot that there isn’t anyone or anything around me, I collapse flat on my back while heaving in exhaustion. Then I open my status once more and grimace.

Name: Alexia Knight

Species: Quantum Reaper(T4)

Level: 758

Class: Quantum Reaper

Soul: 21/66,262.5

VIT: 2,272

DEX: 2,780

STR: 2,272

MAG: 3,029

MEN: 3,029

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