Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Once the shy Canzer was thrown out, the chitinous hands suddenly retracted back to their bodies and disappeared completely.

The bodyguard looked around and was relieved when he saw Atlan safe and sound. It would have been his fault if the Star Porter got injured from that Canzer. He neglected to prepare for a situation where his senses were completely obscured.

"Thanks, Scout. I owe you one."

"It's fine. The Porter is all our priority."

Just then, the bodyguard sensed something and used his shield to bash the flying tree away from Atlan. They all looked back and saw an intense fight between Ninth and the two Canzers.

Her swordmaiden sliced through the air and hit the rotating bearded Canzer, creating sparks everywhere as her blade hit its sharp nails. The fact that it had hands all over its body meant that she could not find a vulnerable spot that she could use to her advantage. She just had to hack the Canzer enough times to break through its hard chitin.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

It wasn't easy, especially since she was fighting two Canzers at the same time. The Canzer with a pipe in its mouth blew smoke toward her and induced a nauseating effect that hindered her reactions.

She massaged her head to try and heal her mind, but the bearded Canzer spiraled towards her right shoulder and drew blood.

She sliced her one-handed sword toward it, but her attack was repelled by its fast-rotating body.

In the chaos of their fight, dead trees and huge chunks of land were flying everywhere and causing a dangerous hazard for everyone inside the forest.

'A…A….A HUMAN TOUCHED ME!!!!'

The Canzer's bellowing scream reached Atlan and warned him of the impending attack. Even though he couldn't see the shy Canzer anywhere, he knew that it was about to attack them—specifically, it was about to attack the Scout as a form of revenge.

"It's coming for you!" he warned the Scout, but what could he do? He was neither a Tank nor a fighter. The only reason he was able to do damage was through his mutation. An ambush was his only form of offense; he had no defense if he was being the one ambushed.

"Use your LifeSill on him!" Atlan shouted to his bodyguard.

The man activated his LifeSkill, conjuring an octopus arm that pierced through the ground. But instead of wrapping itself towards the Scout, it went for Atlan and protected him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Atlan screamed.

"He's not our priority!"

Just as he said that, they all suddenly saw the world turn. They were seeing the black skies and dark moon under their sight, while the ground was above it. This was enough to disorient them for a good second, but they were horrified to find that their movements were also reversed!

When Atlan raised his left hand, his right hand moved up instead. Even though he had perfect control of his own body, he found himself falling to the ground like a newborn unable to support his own body.

The bodyguard and the Scout were no better. They fell on their knees as they tried to figure out how to get out of this spell.

DUG DUG DUG DUG

Just then, they saw the shy Canzer running towards them at intense speeds. It looked at the Scout and immediately moved its eyes away from him in embarrassment. It was shy. But instead of running in the opposite direction, it moved towards the Scout with purpose. It wanted to trample him.

As someone who was well versed in the traps of the Remedium, the Scout immediately figured out that this reversed 'illusion' was the doing of the shy Canzer. Meaning that he couldn't dispel it unless he knocked out the Canzer.

The problem lay precisely on that. He was only a Scout.

He immediately ran away from the Canzer, forcing it to separate from Atlan and the bodyguard. As expected of a Specialist Vanguard, he was able to familiarize himself with the reversed controls of his own body.

Once it was focused solely on him, the Scout performed a skillful maneuver through the dead forest. He was able to leverage his skills as a Scout to create distance between himself and the shy Canzer.

But just as he was about to slip away from the monster's grasp, it cried out into the remedium.

'Nobody look at me!'

The Canzer shimmered in the air until it disappeared from the Scout's eyes. Even with his discerning eyes, he couldn't see a trace of it.

And if that wasn't enough, he soon felt his vision turn even more topsy-turvy. The whole Remedium seemed to have separated into puzzle pieces that rearranged themselves in his vision.

The distraction made him trip and fall into the ground. And before he could recover, he felt the weight of a thousand tons crush his very body into the ground.

'Ah! Where's the human? I can't see him!'

The Canzer rematerialized just above the bloody body of the Scout and started to jump up and down out of nervousness. It bit its nails, not knowing that the human it was so worried about was under its feet and getting trampled multiple times.

"GAAGHHH!" the Scout could only vomit out blood as his consciousness was fading in and out.

He lost a total of 1000 years of SoulTime before the shy Canzer finally ran away and stopped its rampage. It ran towards Atlan and the bodyguard again, as if it wanted to finish the job.

The Scout raised his hand in an attempt to stop the Canzer, but he was too injured. His head fell to the ground, unconscious.

The shy Canzer stepped on the ground as hard as it trampled the Scout.

The bodyguard was ready, with the octopus arm already wrapped around Atlan's waist.

The Canzer only took a few moments before it reached Atlan, only one step away from completely stomping him into the ground.

Just then,

'HA…HACHOOOO!'

The bodyguard felt his entire Soul System shake, losing his control over his own LifeSkill. The octopus arm disintegrated, leaving Atlan completely vulnerable to the Canzer's tremendous weight.