Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Atlan gritted his teeth as he saw the Tank get blasted out into the fog.

He thought if he turned their attention towards the Canzer at the right time, they would be able to defend themselves against its surprise attack. But it seemed he underestimated the Canzer's speed and overestimated their trust in him.

With the Tank out of the picture, there was nobody left to deal with the thousand-armed angry Canzer in front of them.

"You'll pay for that!" Ninth screamed as she brought down the might of her one-handed sword to the back of the angry Canzer.

But even without looking at her, the Canzer used its thousand arms sprouting on its back to catch her sword in mid-air.

Ninth gritted her teeth and increased her strength, slicing through multiple palms that tried to catch her sword.

But as she got nearer and nearer to the Canzer's back, she realized that its red hands became even harder to cut as its color got darker and darker.

Her sword finally stopped at the last set of black hands. And before she could move her sword out, more and more hands sprouted out from its back and replenished its dead hands. Each one of those hands, no matter how weak they were, grabbed onto her blade and refused to let go.

She tried to wiggle her sword out of its hands, but it wouldn't budge.

"Do not sully my sword!" Ninth shouted at the top of her lungs and activated her LifeSkill.

A giant ethereal swordmaiden suddenly manifested behind her and endowed her with strength equivalent to that of her size.

She yanked her sword out of the Canzer's hands, cutting a hundred more on the way out.

'Damn human! Brothers, aren't you joining in?' screamed the bearded Canzer.

Atlan was alarmed as he heard that. He immediately turned to the Mage, the Mesmer, and the Sniper. "They're others are about to attack!"

They didn't know how he knew that, but they witnessed firsthand how he was able to predict the bearded Canzer's surprise attack. If they had heeded his advice earlier, then they wouldn't have been put in a situation where their main tank was out of sight.

They weren't going to make that mistake again.

They initiated their LifeSkills and preemptively struck the Canzers surrounding them. The Sniper looked through his scope and looked upwards. With a pull of the trigger, a single bullet fired through the black skies and disappeared.

Suddenly, more than a hundred thousand bullets surrounded them in a circle. Each one of them whizzed through the air and indiscriminately shot the Remedium.

Most of them hit nothing but the ground and the dead trees, but quite a few of them buried themselves deep into the Canzers' chitinous bodies.

'Ahhhh! They found me! don't look at me!' The shy one named 'Bee' hid itself behind the trees, but the bullets pierced through them and hit its body nonetheless.

'Zzzzzz…..POP….ouch….zzzzzzz.'

'Haa….haa…Hacho—-OW!' The Big Nose sneezer was about to sneeze again, but the Sniper's preemptive strike stopped it just in time.

Luckily, some of the bullets hit the Canzer smoking a pipe. Surprisingly, the Canzer's body turned into nothing but a body of smoke. It turned out that all this time, the Canzer had only been a smoke clone.

Due to how many bullets shot out everywhere, an empty spot suddenly got disrupted by the bullets whizzing by. The environment turned into smoke and revealed the true scene behind it.

'Ah! They found me…hehe…it's all good.'

It turned out that the smoking Canzer with a pipe in its mouth was only a few meters away from ambushing Ninth from behind! It already had a ball made out of chitinous layers in its hands ready to throw it to her.

But despite being found out, the Canzer still threw the unknown bomb towards her.

Ninth quickly turned around and used the flat part of her blade to deflect it out towards the angry bearded Canzer.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

CRACK! TSSSSS!

'Argh! Dee, you bastard! I'll kill you!'

The thousand-armed bearded Canzer ignored Ninth and chased down the smoking Canzer. But as its hands reached the other Canzer, it turned into nothing but smoke.

'Damn! I'll get you!'

With the two Canzers chasing each other, Ninth finally got a moment of reprieve. She took a deep breath.

If the Canzer hadn't been disrupted by the rain of bullets, she wouldn't have known that there was an ambush coming. She certainly wouldn't have been able to defend against it.

'GARGHHHH! I'll destroy every single one of you!'

The bearded Canzer shouted to the sky and sprouted more hands in its body. Then, some of the hands merged into one another and created a much bigger hand.

This continued until the bearded Canzer's body was already five times its original size, and it still wasn't done growing.

With its arms flailing around, the Canzer created destruction all around it. Dead trees got uprooted from the ground and flew through the air, threatening to bury everyone in a rain of dead trees.

Without the Tank to protect the team, the responsibility fell to the leader, Ninth. She turned around and swung her sword down, with the ethereal swordmaiden following her movements. The giant sword cut through the forest of trees and saved the entire team from being buried.

She saved the team but at the cost of her own safety. The thousand-armed Canzer, which was now almost half as tall as the swordmaiden, rotated its body and created a circular saw with its fingers as the 'teeth'. It jumped towards Ninth's ethereal swordmaiden threatening to shred her into pieces.

Ninth continued her swing from before and used its momentum to quickly turn around and defend herself from the Canzer.

However, the Canzer was still able to shred the right shoulder of the swordmaiden. Ninth's real body down below winced as she felt the pain her swordmaiden felt. Red blood stained her right shoulder.

"150 years…" she muttered.

Even though that damage wasn't as severe as she thought, she knew that it would eventually accumulate. Without the Tank, she'd be forced to carry on that task and risk her life in the process.