Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

The Canzers on the sidelines stopped their murmuring and stared intently at Atlan. From their perspective, they were the ones being generous and Atlan slapped away their gift to him with absolutely no appreciation toward them.

Atlan felt the entire throne room go cold.

Even though the Queen already warned Atlan to not be her enemy, he was still stubborn enough to go against her.

'I have no intention of living here. And by doing so, I would be betraying my race.'

There was a large possibility of the Queen attacking him the moment he said those words, but Atlan didn't care. He said what he said.

'Sigh…you think I'm the bad guy, right?' the Queen said, a bit exasperated at the thought.

'You think that I am an evil queen who wants to kill an innocent being like that traitor…'

Atlan would have nodded, but that wasn't appropriate in this situation.

'But you don't know the whole story. I was betrayed when I was young by who I thought was my—'

But before she could even start her story, Atlan put up his hands and stopped her from wasting her breath.

'Don't bother,' he said. 'I can't believe a word you'll say, and the simple reason for that is that I don't like you. A superior being like you should never bully someone weaker than yourself.

Tulip was just living her life without even hurting a single blade of grass, yet you and your little puppets destroyed her home mercilessly, without any provocation. I could never forgive someone who does that.'

Atlan let out all of his frustrations to the Queen. From his perspective, Tulip was just a pitiful creature who was caught up in a game against giants. She would have lived happily ever after in her little cottage with her mothers, but the Queen and her need to control everything made her want to destroy that peace.

Whether he liked it or not, Atlan connected with Tulip. He stayed with her as she let out all her tears from the trauma she got from being chased around like prey.

Right now, he wasn't a Savior. He was Tulip's friend protecting her.

The Queen looked at Atlan, anger rising from her throat.

But then, she noticed something Atlan said.

'You…you said Tulip…she…she gave you her name…'

Atlan thought that a fight would start after he berated the Queen like that, but for some reason, she lingered on the fact that he knew about her name.

He didn't think it was strange. Since he could speak Canzer, then it was only natural that he would eventually know about her name.

But as it turned out, that little piece of fact was more important than Atlan realized.

The Queen slowly looked up at Atlan, and her eyes changed from one of confusion to realization, and then to dread.

It was as if whatever she understood was something terrible for herself.

She thought that Atlan was a simple human who got caught up in this situation through nothing but a coincidence, but it seemed that there was something more devious at play here. It seemed fate had a hand in those two meeting.

The Magical Queen had every intention of killing Atlan on this throne.

If he agreed to convince Tulip to surrender herself, then the Queen would have gone back on her word and killed Atlan once he didn't have any use for her anymore.

And if he refused and tried to escape from this castle, then the Queen would have also killed him on the spot.

But this realization changed everything.

She could no longer think of Atlan as a mere pawn in a game of chess…no…he was something more.

Her face changed into one of urgency. She didn't think things would progress this far.

She had to get to Tulip faster than she expected.

Without any warning, the Queen raised her hand and summoned another ethereal black hand.

And even though Atlan was prepared, he couldn't dodge the Queen's attack because it was far too fast.

As it made contact with his skin, a black portal appeared behind him and sucked him into another location.

With the Queen in the middle of her throne, she looked down and bit her lips.

'Get my army ready. We must find that girl now!'

Suddenly, the whole throne room shook as the giant double doors opened and revealed creatures of all kinds, ready to set out into the forest with just one word from their Queen.

'This is no time for caution. We must act now! This is our chance!'

The Queen walked over to the balcony of her kingdom. With the outside in open view, she looked at the scenery of her kingdom.

It was beautiful, and everything she could was hers.

She wanted to protect that. She needed to protect it.

With one big breath, the Magical Queen stepped up to the railings and jumped off to the cliff below.
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Jagged rocks and strong water currents would have welcomed her descent if she had done nothing.

But then, her body started to morph into something bigger, with scales impenetrable through normal means. Her legs and arms thickened, like that of an elephant's limbs.

Then, wings sprouted out of her back, spreading out and allowing her to fly through the air.

ROAR!

The Queen shouted, with a fiery breath coming out of her mouth.

As expected of the Enchanted Queen's sister, she could also transform into a mighty dragon that ruled the skies!

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Atlan landed on his back, with the black portal closing in front of him.

Even though he was transported to another unknown location, this was perhaps the best thing that could have happened during that situation.

At least, it would have been better than him fighting the Magical Queen all alone.

He stood up and took notice of where he was.

Just like before, he seemed to have been transported into a dungeon.

He looked around and noticed something weird. There were benches and a toilet in this room.

And strangest of all, there was no door!

I'm trapped here.