Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

As soon as Atlan moved without the White Canzer's approval, the Happy puppet moved with a swift punishment.

A single happy slap sent his whole body flying through the air and collided with multiple dead trees before he ended up in a puddle, bloodied and wet. It was so fast that he wasn't even able to react until he was already flying and injured.

'I'm very happy that I punished your insolence, human!'

'Good job, dear. It seems that he needs a little bit more of a punishment before he can serve me as a loyal slave.'

Atlan coughed up blood. He lost about a hundred years of SoulTime from that small mistake.

He thought he tricked the White Canzer into trusting him, but it seemed that he underestimated its intelligence. Even if Atlan didn't mean any harmful intent as he reached for something in his toolbelt, the Happy puppet would have still punished him regardless.

He needed to gain the White Canzer's respect and trust before he was able to execute his plan.

"Atlan, this is a precarious situation. Don't bring out the poisoned apple under any circumstances. The White Canzer will immediately recognize you as a threat and order your execution. For now, lay low and survive."

Carmine's voice traveled directly to his ears and went unheard by the monsters.

He gave Atlan very sound advice, which Atlan had no intention of disobeying. After all, he already learned a hard lesson from that.

"Just wait, you monsters. You will get your comeuppance."

Atlan bowed his head and pretended to apologize to the White Canzer. Thankfully, they were blissfully unaware of Atlan's plans and still treated him as nothing more than a bug that could be easily squished at any time.

He then slowly walked over towards them, making sure that he kept his hands in the air and only looked down at the ground. He made himself seem as harmless as possible as he approached.

'Hmph…that's good. At least you know your place,'n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

the White Canzer uttered.

'I'm happy that the Human is learning from his mistakes!'

'Have you heard from your other brothers? What is taking them so long?'

The Happy puppet scratched its head in confusion.

'I don't remember…I'm just happy I'm with you!'

'sk. I forgot you all lose your memories with each death.'

Then, the White Canzer flashed a wicked smile on its face directed at Atlan. It was even more wicked than the Happy Canzer's weird smile.

'Kid. Do you want to see what's happening with the other humans?'

Atlan didn't say anything because he wasn't supposed to understand her.

The White Canzer took his silence as an agreement and chanted a spell under her breath. The power flowing from her whole body colored her white chitin into a tone of darkish green.

Suddenly, a giant needle and yarn appeared in her hands, the same one that she used to recreate the Happy puppet.

She started to sew in the air with the magical yarn, creating a giant 2D rectangular screen that floated right in front of them.

Slowly, as it got filled with yarn, a picture started to emerge. Judging from the dark dead trees and the brown wet soil, it was easy to guess that the picture depicted the dark forest Remedium.

Surprisingly, the image moved to show a different scene from somewhere inside the Remedium. Find your next read on empire

There were six creatures on the screen, each one had the same bulbous body shape and a long conical hat.

These were the six other puppets that the White Canzer created.

"This….this is a live video feed of what's happening back at Ninth's position!"

Carmine couldn't hide his surprise. This wasn't a known ability of the White Canzer, meaning that it had only evolved this ability recently.

And even though the image was made entirely out of yarn, the video quality was very high. He could see the individual hairs on the Grumpy puppet's white beard.

'I'm happy to see my brothers!'

shouted the Happy puppet as it jumped up and down with its legs alternatively.

'What are they doing? Who's going to cook my dinner for me if they're not here yet?'

But soon, the White Canzer's nonchalant expression turned serious. It wasn't obvious from the video at first, but once she focused on it, she could see that the six puppets were looking up in fear of something. Not only that, they huddled themselves in a tight-knit, as if they were afraid of getting separated.

The White Canzer raised her hand and pinched outwards. The video then zoomed, showing the puppet's skin, which was full of cuts and injuries.

'WHAT IS HAPPENING?!"

the White Canzer screamed.

Even the Happy puppet stopped jumping up and down. Its joyous crescent smile soon turned upside down as it saw the horrible state his brothers were in.

'Who dares to dirty my things?!'

The White Canzer changed the video's perspective to show the creature opposite the puppets.

And what she saw made her afraid, even when she was far away from the actual threat.

In the video, Atlan saw Ninth standing tall amidst a land full of weapons sticking out of the ground.

It was no longer an environment of the dark forest with dead trees, it was now a world filled with abandoned weapons such as polearms, swords, longswords, etc.

And instead of the black skies of the Remedium with an even blacker sun, the skies had turned a viscous red.

Just from looking at her in the video, Atlan couldn't help but avert his eyes. It was as if he would get sliced in half if he dared to look at her for so long.

He could only imagine what kind of pressure and threat the puppets were experiencing in real time.

It was as if Ninth was in a world of her own that even the Remedium could not influence.

Then, in a fit of rage and desperation, the Grumpy puppet summoned a thousand arms from the ground that tried to swarm Ninth's world of swords.

The puppet was like an asura.

Yet despite that, no matter how many tried to enter her world, no one was able to enter. They were all sliced into pieces without NInth even moving her body a single inch.

"You're lucky, Star Porter. You're witnessing the power of a domain for the first time."