Reaper's Resurgence - Book 6 - Chapter 53 (Patreon)

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Somewhere outside of the Universe

Deep inside of an enormous hive of corrupted insects, a single being opens its eyes. One whose body repeatedly changes appearance all over, with each part of it showing a completely different appearance separate from the rest of it.

Sometimes the being has different human body parts from different types of humans, other times it has traits from non-human but humanoid species. And other times large claws or tentacles appear. All at the same time.

But the changes gradually begin to calm down as the being’s form settles into a general humanoid male shape with no skin or flesh. Just one mass of purple in the form of a human, with parts of its body showing afterimages while other parts occasionally glitch apart.

Finally, once a strange symbol appears where the being’s face should be, without any semblance of eyes, or any other distinctive human features, a glowing crown made of corrupted energy appears floating above its head.

The symbol on its face flares once. Then twice.

Then a strange garbling sound echoes out through the space around it as a massive wave of corruption rushes out from the creature, making the corrupted insects begin buzzing for a few moments before they all rush straight towards the universe. Leaving the space around the being completely empty.

The Corrupted One doesn’t move an inch after being left alone. It doesn’t make a sound, nor does it show any signs of regular intelligence.

Neither any inherent intelligence of its own, nor any intelligence left behind by its former host.

All the being knows is corruption.

The desire to spread corruption throughout all of existence. To end everything without leaving even a single trace behind.

But when the being is about to move, the symbol on its face glitches for a moment, halting said movements. And during that brief glitch, the being flinches.

However, the symbol doesn’t glitch like that again, nor does the Corrupted One flinch again.

The Corrupted One merely glitches in place before vanishing and reappearing near the edge of the universe. Where it finds itself staring at a crack in the universe’s shell.

Several seconds pass as the Corrupted One simply tilts its head slightly, just staring at the crack. Then it straightens its head and reaches in with two glitchy hands leaving afterimages behind them before grabbing the edges of the crack and tearing it open. Sending numerous much larger cracks all around it and making the area in front of it spanning thousands of meters shatter and fall apart.

Breaking down a chunk of the wall protecting the universe from the outside.

Then the Corrupted One tilts its head again as swarms of corrupted insects begin to rush in through the newly-expanded crack. Only for numerous Quantum Beings to appear near the crack and begin fighting against the waves of corrupted insects.

But the Corrupted One merely returns its head to a straight position while staring and occasionally glitching in place along with the reality around it. With the reality itself being unable to withstand its corrupted presence and sometimes cracking around it.

Alexia

I grimace while trying to hold back the corruption spreading in the direction of the Dimensional Grid. But it’s no use. There’s just too much of it, and it’s going towards it from too many directions at once.

Right as I’m about to panic, thinking the entire Dimensional Grid is going to get corrupted, a System Message flashes in my vision.

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

A THREAT TO THE DIMENSIONAL BLOCK HAS BEEN DETECTED.

DETECTING THREAT LEVEL…

THREAT LEVEL IS FATAL.

CONDUCTING EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.

ACTIVATING SYSTEM OMEGA PROTOCOL.

TEMPORARILY SENDING THE DIMENSIONAL GRID INTO THE QUANTUM REALM.

I blink in surprise at the notification before feeling immense relief immediately after.

Good. Sending them to the Quantum Realm should protect them for now.

It will probably take a lot longer for the corruption to reach the Quantum Realm than the universe itself, after all.

I let out a sigh before beginning to rush over towards where I feel the most corruption emerging from. Only to pause briefly when the System sends me a private message.

A Quantum Being has been corrupted into a being that should not exist.

The Corrupted One.

That being is now commencing its final assault on the universe after destroying the Universe’s Will’s Core and intends to wipe out everything in existence and replace it with corruption.

Should you accept the quest, the following reward shall be granted:

The Destruction of the Corrupted One: The safety of the Universe, and the purging of the corruption within the universe.

Will you accept this quest?

Yes / No

Wouldn’t the System be doing that anyway, regardless of if I accept or not…?

Well, whatever.

I accept the quest, only to find a rather helpful map appearing that points me directly to a large purple dot. One that is labeled as the Corrupted One.

It also happens to be where I’m currently heading. Which is both good and bad.

Good because I now know where the Corrupted One is.

Bad because I still don’t have full immunity to my own energy yet.

I quickly get to work trying to finish that immunity while I teleport across the universe towards where the Corrupted One is. Only to find an enormous army of corrupted bugs rushing out of an even more enormous crack in the universe. And amidst this all, I see almost half of the Quantum Beings – both those with and those without roles – fighting the creatures.

Lastly, at the center of the massive crack, I see the Corrupted One just floating in the air while the corrupted bugs pass by him.

It looks like the end really is nigh if we don’t stop him here and now.

I take a deep breath – or try to, but end up just breathing in quantum energy since it’s not really possible to breathe air in space – before clenching my fist around my scythe.

Right.

Time to clean up this mess.