Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1725 1725: Four Powers of a Reaper

Ning sat inside the carriage, ready to hear some information surrounding everything. There had been a few too many things being kept at bay and he didnʼt like it.

Shara sat next to him and Matthew sat not far from them.

The woman, healer, sat adjacent to them, looking at both of them.

”First of all, let me introduce myself. I am Marina Ann Glow, daughter of Torris Ann Glow. You can call me Marina or just Mari,” the woman said.

”Nice to meet you, sister Mari,” Ning said from the side.

The woman nodded softly. ”I am sorry I have been keeping everything to myself, but I see that we must talk. I do not know if it is by fate or by coincidence, but we have come together unexpectedly.”

”I am sure this is just a coincidence,” Matthew said. ”I do not believe in things such as fate.”

Ning didnʼt say anything. Fate… was a complicated topic to explain, even for him. It existed, but at the same time, it did not.

Fate was usually either manipulation by a higher power that governed the world or simply a coincidence that was predicted earlier than it happened.

”Sister Mari, you are the first person I have met who knows what I am. Can you please explain it to me? Why are people hunting me? What is so bad about me that I must die?” Shara asked.

”Iʼm… sorry?” Mari looked confused. ”You are a Reaper, are you not? Why would people try to hurt you for that?”

”That is why they have come after me,” Shara said. ”That was why the army today was here. They were following me because we fought their allies and left.”

Mari frowned for a moment, turning to look at Ning. She had heard part of the story from Ning back in the city when she had healed his arm, but she had never even begun to think that the person they had fought could possibly be a battalion commanders.

”A Reaper?” Matthew asked. ”What is that?”

”Do you not know?” Ning asked, curious. ”If the Empireʼs soldiers knew, I wouldʼve assumed you knew too. You have been fighting in a war for some time now, havenʼt you?”

”I have, but I have never heard of this term before,” the man said. ”Maybe itʼs not something I am supposed to know about?”

”It is the information passed down through the nobles only,” Mari quickly said. ”Reapers are the strongest sort of Spirit Awakener. They are sometimes even considered the antithesis to a normal Spirit Awakener.”

”While a regular Spirit Awakenerʼs power is the make use of spirits or take care of them, a Reaperʼs whole identity is to taking away agency from anything spirit related, be it the Spirit itself or the power one gains from a spirit.”

”Unlike a regular Spirit Awakener who has 2 powers, a Reaper has 4. Spectral Destruction, Spectral Harvesting, Spectral Binding, and Spectral Negation.”

”Spectral Destruction allows a Reaper to destroy a Spirit they come into contact with. I believe that you cannot see a Spirit, right?” Mari asked.

Shara nodded. ”I havenʼt yet seen or felt a single spirit.ʼ

”Yes, this power of yours can only be used when a Spirit takes over someone else. When you have a physical medium to contact the Spirit, you can destroy it completely.”

”Oh!” Shara said. ”Thatʼs why I can destroy the raised dead. So it is a power I have to use. I feared all souls that came into contact with me would die.”

”They donʼt just die by being around you,” Mari said. ”Spectral Harvesting is just that, but for Spirit Awakeners instead of Spirits. You can take away all of their energy, leaving them with no power.”

Shara nodded.

”Spectral Binding is when you take the energy from a Spirit Awakaner and bind it into an object,” Mari said. ”It creates artifacts that only Spirit Awakeners can use at the cost of their own energy.”

”That is what I did today to make the spear,” Shara said.

Mari nodded.

”Why arenʼt there more Spirit Artifacts in this world?” Ning asked, joining the conversation. ”If making an artifact is as easy as that, shouldnʼt we go around finding people who arenʼt happy with their own powers and ask them to give it to a Reaper so that you can make more artifacts?”

”Oh!” Matthew chimed in. ”Thatʼs right. But, I know of Spirit Artifactʼs existence. There arenʼt that many. Even the Republic has no more than 42 in total, and not all of them are useful in war. Even if there is a single Reaper in this world, shouldnʼt there be a ton of Spirit Artifacts?”

”Itʼs not that simple,” Mari said. ”Spectral Binding doesnʼt just take away oneʼs Spirit energy. It takes away their Spirit Awakening itself.”

”What?” Shara asked, surprised.

”Yes. To make a single artifact, you would need to waste a capable Spirit Awakener. A random Spirit Awakener wouldnʼt work either since you need strong Awakeners to make strong artifacts.”

”Oh!” the three of them said at once.

”No wonder there are so few of them,” Matthew said.

Mari nodded. ”And finally, Spectral Negation is a Reaperʼs power to negate any effect from a Spirit or a Spirit Awakener. No powers that would directly affect you can affect you and no spirit can take over you. They would die instantly.”

Shara remembered the first day she had awakened and was being tested for what she was. A spirit there had died before any of them had known what had happened.

”Four powers,” Matthew said. ”Thatʼs quite incredibly, young miss. Congratulations on becoming this mythical figure.”

Shara gave a small smile, but awakening as one had been more trouble than not so she wasnʼt sure if it was worth it just yet.

”I must say, you know a lot,” Ning said. ”Nobles must be taught quite well for you to know all of this.”

”They do, but thatʼs not why I know so much,” Mari said. She took a deep breath and revealed the truth to them.

”My brother was a Reaper as well.”