Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

"Oh my god! We're finally back. What happened?!"

Carmine's urgent voice echoed through the empty streets before turning silent. Once he saw the normal Remedium through the video feed, he couldn't be more surprised.

"Where's the dragon?!"

"I think she's gone," answered Atlan.

"Do you know what happened? Our video feed became obstructed again and all we could see was a gray smoke and all we could hear was silence."

Atlan was very glad that his Fog of War LifeSkill worked as he wanted.

"I don't know. When I came to, I was already back here in the normal Remedium. I don't see any sign of the dragon anywhere, and frankly, I'm more than glad it's gone." Explore more at empire

Carmine and the rest of the Operators in the meeting didn't question the Queen's disappearance any further. Although they didn't know a lot about her, they knew that she wasn't a woman who held a deep grudge against humans. It was very possible that it saw Atlan as a non-threat and decided to spare his life.

"By the way, can you tell me more about that dragon?"

"She's the Queen of the Enchanted Kingdom. She's one of the strongest Canzers out there, only below that of Gods."

"The Dragon was that strong?!"

Atlan knew the Queen was strong, but he didn't know she was being compared to Gods.

"Yes. That's why I was adamant for you to run away as soon as she appeared. Though, I don't think that would have mattered if she truly wanted you dead."

After a few seconds, Atlan wanted to know more about the kingdom of Canzers, specifically, their world.

"Can you tell me more about the Queen's kingdom? How does their society work?"

"It works just like how our society works. There are leaders, there are workers, and there are citizens. There are warriors among them, and there are non-warriors as well. But that doesn't mean they don't pose a threat.

Just like our world, theirs is divided into territories. They are usually ruled by a sovereign, like the Queen. But unlike our world, theirs is more vicious. They want something, they get it through bloodshed. They fight each other for land, food, and even missions to hunt for humans. Some territories are easier to hunt, you see, so those territories are very wanted in their community."

Atlan waited for a few seconds before asking the most important question.

"Do you think humans can enter their world?"

And in response, he got a resounding,

"No."

"It's not possible?"

"I didn't say that. I just said we will never enter their world because we don't want to."

"Why not?" he asked him. Atlan thought that a scientist like Carmine would want to be curious to enter another dimension. "Don't you want to see what's on the other side?"

"Word of advice, don't talk about this with anyone else. It's taboo."

"Why?"

Carmine took a deep breath.

"You are not the first person to ask that question. There are plenty of other innovators who have gone and tried to cross over to the other side."

"And what happened to them? Did they find out that it wasn't possible?"

"We may never know. Once other people found out what they were trying to do, they were immediately stopped and reprimanded. Even if their research yielded good results—and I'm not saying it did—nobody wants them to succeed."

"That's…"

"That is for the good of all humanity."

"....."

Atlan was silent.

"What do you think will happen once we find a way to the other side? Do you think we will find a way to finally extinguish the Canzers' very existence by exterminating their home world?

That's all and good if that's the only thing that will happen. It may very be possible that the Canzers exterminate us first.

After all, by creating a portal to their world, we are also allowing them to cross over to our world, and that is dangerous beyond belief. The destruction and chaos caused by these Canzers are already too much even though most of their damage is only in the Remedium. Imagine what they could do in the real world."

Atlan was silenced by Carmine's words. Humanity didn't want to find a way to go to the Canzer's world because they would only give the Canzers a chance to go into the real world.

He understood why that research was stopped even before it yielded any results.

He then remembered the Queen's words. Was she planning on infiltrating the real world by using Atlan's powers?

No, if she wanted my powers for herself, then she could have just kept him captive and found a way to get his powers for herself.

"Atlan!"

Atlan's somberness was interrupted by the familiar shout of Ninth and the rest of the Specialist Savior group.

Ninth came running towards him, giving him a big hug and looking at him up and down. Even though his armor was chipped in a lot of places, she could see that he didn't have any severe injuries.

"It's good you're okay. Lizzie would kill me if anything happened to you," she said, joking.

"Star Porter! What happened?"

"With the dark forest gone, does that mean the White Canzer is dealt with?"

The rest of the team wondered why they were all suddenly transported back into the normal Remedium.

Atlan nodded. Although the truth was more complicated than that, he didn't want to explain it to them.

"No way! I can't believe it. How did you put the poisoned apple into the White Canzer?"

"Did you sneak into its cottage while it was sleeping?"

Atlan was about to say something when the radio in his battle suit crackled.

"He did more than that."

"Carmine! Can you tell us more about what happened? The Puppets disappeared, but we didn't immediately get transported out of the dark forest. Did something else happen?"

As expected of Ninth, she was astute enough to notice something amiss.

"Well, you'll have to make camp for now because that is a long story. First, let me tell you about how Atlan escaped the Huntsman."

"The Huntsman?!"

"That bow and arrow guy?! Our star porter managed to escape him?!"

Carmine began his retelling of Atlan's recent escapades.