Alexia

  It doesn’t take long before I sense them. A group of two dozen Ascendant Tier users appear inside of the Quantum Realm. And within a few seconds, they’re already catching up to me as I teleport.

  I briefly pause my teleporting to face them.

  Or rather, I start teleporting so quickly in place that it’s hard to tell that I’m even teleporting.

  All just to stall them.

  And one by one, they all begin to spread out in front of me. Yet, despite them all being Ascendant Tier, I don’t recognize even a single one of them.

  They’re all strangers to me. People I’ve never even so much as heard of much less met.

  “Alexia Knight, fancy us meeting here, huh?” some half lightning spirit says with a grin on his face. Meanwhile chuckles echo out from the others, albeit with some of them just glaring at or staring at me.

  Despite their rather lacking fame and infamy though, I can tell they’re all stronger than me. Simply on account of being Ascendants.

  Ascendant Tier is far stronger than Tier 5 after all.

  The only possible way to kill an Ascendant Tier as a Tier 5 is if the Ascendant Tier is a weak user or an unintelligent monster, and only if they’re level 2501. Just barely stepped into Ascendant Tier.

  These Ascendants? While they are very weak users, they have also leveled up at least a few times after reaching Ascendant Tier.

  There’s no way I can kill them.

  While I may theoretically be able to kill one if it was a one on one and I used some tricks, I can’t kill two dozen of them.

  “Who are you?” I can’t help but ask while still spam teleporting in place.

  It’ll probably take another four or so weeks of teleporting all over the place to reach level fifty. So anything to stall them should work.

  The half spirit looks rather pissed, meanwhile the other Ascendants here all openly laugh at him. Or a lot of them, not all of them.

  “Let’s see if that tongue of yours can last when we’re done with you,” the half spirit says while scowling at me, clearly livid.

  Yet he never answered my question, so I still don’t know who he is. And I can’t be bothered to identify him.

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  “This will be revenge for all those whom you have tortured and terrified over the years, abomination,” some human says, speaking complete gibberish with a righteous expression on his face.

  “I’ve never actually tortured anyone before,” I comment while tilting my head. In the process making the man’s eyes flash with a green light, seemingly shocking him in the process. “And I normally try to avoid other people, so if anyone was terrified of me, it was most likely due to their own delusions.”

  “Y-you-” he stutters with his mouth gaping as if his entire belief system was shattered. “That can’t be possible! How could she be speaking the truth!”

  The others look vaguely surprised as well, leading me to believe that this self-righteous idiot probably has a truth-seeing skill. One that lets him see through lies.

  It doesn’t seem to change the opinion of most of the people here though.

  That said, two of the Ascendant Tiers that look the most shocked besides the idiot actually leave without another word after confirming what I said was the truth. So I guess the idiot wasn’t useless after all.

  At least, I believe that until the idiot decides to delude himself that I somehow must have a skill to fool his truth-seeing skill.

  I really don’t like self-righteous fanatics. They’re a pain to deal with.

  There’s just no convincing them of anything but their own delusional beliefs.

  It’s irritating.

  Apparently that’s something Ethan and his family has to deal with a lot too. People attacking them because ‘dragons must be bad’.

  Then again, dragons do kind of see them as nothing more than worms and insects, so maybe they aren’t entirely wrong there…

  Not entirely at least.

  Anyway, I manage to stall them for another twenty or so minutes by mostly just pissing them off while also asking why they’re attacking me. But none of them give me any solid answers.

  The best answer I get is that one of them is trying to remove a potential threat hanging over his head.

  I don’t know who that is though, so I’m not sure why he’d consider me a threat to him personally.

  Anyway, eventually things are set off when a fire spirit starts shouting about ‘enough talk’ and all that before he starts attacking me. Leaving me teleporting far away in one bound. Then I continue to teleport away, realizing my stalling tactic isn’t gonna work for any longer now.

  And just like that, the chase begins. With about twenty-two Ascendant Tiers chasing after me, each using their own methods.

  Although around six of them quickly begin to lag behind. Reducing the threat further as they aren’t agile whatsoever and have no real methods to move around quickly.

  Unfortunately for me, there are several of them that can move just as fast as I can teleport. With a couple that can even move faster than I can teleport.

  Leading to me getting quite a few injuries already from their attacks.

  But I use my energy from being in my True Form in the quantum realm to reverse all the damage instantly.

  As long as it’s only a few of them attacking me, then I can just teleport and heal myself repeatedly and it won’t be an issue.

  I can’t do that if like a dozen of them are hitting me all at once.

  There won’t be anything left to heal at that point.

  To make matters worse, there’s a space affinity worm amongst them that’s trying to send me out of the quantum realm.

  I grit my teeth as I teleport away, dearly wishing that I could use my True Form to fight against them. But I’m not allowed to. The only reason I can use my True Form to defend myself from attacks is if it’s a Quantum Being attacking me.

  And I’m not going to let myself get punished by the universe while I’m being chased by a bunch of lunatics.

  So I just continue teleporting all over the place, hoping that the skill will level up faster.

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