Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Atlan had to go back to the group as soon as possible before they went and fetched him. With an explosion like that, they would no doubt imagine that he was getting attacked by a rogue Canzer.

When he was back, he was met with relieved expressions.

"Oh thank the Gods! We heard an explosion out there and thought something happened to you."

"I checked it out and it turned out the whole building was burning!" said the Scout.

Ninth walked over to Atlan. "It's best if you don't stray away from us from now on. Put on your suit and take a rest. We'll be setting off tomorrow."

Thankfully, nobody questioned too much about where the explosion came from. They simply put it off as some mysterious phenomenon from the Remedium. It helped that Atlan used his Allure mutation to make sure that they didn't ask too many questions.

Atlan and the others spent the rest of the day recuperating, either from their injuries or their training. After all, tomorrow, they would have to fight another Specialist-level Canzer on the way to the church.

He didn't prepare all that much. He was the only one who knew that they didn't have to do anything at all. The Queen would be the one to kill the Canzers for them.

When night fell, they all took camp and took shifts. Atlan volunteered to be the first one to stay awake.

The next morning, everyone was up and ready before the sun came up. Surprisingly, their expressions were light, and the group was making some jokes here and there.

He thought they'd get nervous and all, but as expected of professional Saviors, they knew that being too serious would only detract from their performances.

"Ready?" asked Ninth to the group.

She didn't have to hear their answers to know that they were more than ready. She could see just from the look on their faces that they were ready to beat some Canzer's behind.

They set off to the road, with the Church on the horizon. From Atlan's perspective, it would only take a couple of minutes of walking to reach the Church. But he knew that there would be some Canzers waiting to stop them in their tracks.

Everyone was in their position, walking through the streets, when all of a sudden, the reality they saw before their eyes changed in a matter of seconds.

The concrete and steel jungle that was Genesis City was transformed into a swamp bayou, with low-hanging trees by the side and a mucky stream flowing down towards the horizon.

Thankfully, the streets had somehow transformed into a raft that saved them from dipping their toes into the strange, viscous, swampy water on the stream.

CROAK!

The growl resounded out through the whole bayou. Just the environment itself was dangerous enough. After all, it was the home of alligators and dangerous 30-foot pythons. And that was only normal animals, not Canzers.

"Where are we?" asked Atlan.

His special battle suit crackled as Carmine brought out a response.

"Looks like we're in another reality-bending Remedium. This only means that the Canzer could be a monster from the bayou, namely alligators, owls, snakes, and such."

Atlan prepared himself, until another resounding growl echoed through the bayou.

CROAK!

The whole Remedium shook, followed by a large splash in the creek.

The commotion sent a large wave through the stream and reached their raft, putting it high up in the air and bringing it down with another large splash, sending water flying through toward them.

Thanks to their Tank's timely action, no water was able to penetrate through their formation.

And because of their training yesterday, no one got disoriented from the wave.

Once everything in the creek settled, everyone turned their eyes toward a large creature out in the distance. Its eyes glowed red deep in the darkness.

"It's here," whispered Ninth. Everyone held their weapons tighter, ready for another fight.

This time, they were going to go all out from the very beginning. The last time, they had to rely on Ninth's domain ability to fight the six puppets because the rest of the group was incapacitated. Now, they were going to defeat this monster only using their teamwork.

"Atlan, we'll have to rely on you to create the construct," said Ninth.

They weren't going to take any chances. They would weaken the Canzer from the very beginning and kill it before it could use all of its strength.

"Carmine, any idea what kind of Canzer this is?"

Atlan pointed the camera on his battle suit towards the large creature in the distance.

Now that they were close enough, everyone was finally able to see its full appearance.

The creature had a wide and stout body, with warts all along its dirty green skin. Its eyes bulged out from its head, with its vision aimed towards the humans coming towards it.

It sat on all four limbs, with its hind legs much stockier and thicker than its front legs.

The Canzer had a wide mouth that remained closed as if waiting to devour its next victim.

The Mage fired off a warning shot toward the creature, sending a ball of violet hands clumped together.

But before it even got close to the Canzer, it opened its large mouth and suddenly, a red blur shot out from its throat and caught the spell. It then swallowed it whole.

"What is it?" asked Atlan. He could only see a blur, so he wasn't sure what it was. But he had a guess.

"It's a frog,"

said Carmine.

"With a tongue that fast, there's no mistaking it that it's another Specialist-level Canzer."

Atlan was relieved. He thought they'd have to fight against a monstrous alligator or a gigantic snake. But thankfully, they were only fighting against a frog.

"This is bad…it's another one of those…damn it, Atlan! How are you so unlucky?!"

Carmine couldn't believe Atlan's unlucky streak. He encountered another Canzer that was supposed to have a very low chance of appearing.