Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

The whole Remedium rumbled. The folds and wrinkles of the strange meat-like dome covering the entire Masamune district started churning.

"What's happening?!"

Everyone felt the roof they were standing on bob up and down, destabilizing their footing.

Tarish looked down and was horrified to see that the strange orange liquid flooding the streets gushed forward with much more speed and volume than before.

"Why is it flooding?!"

It was as if a dam had opened. The orange liquid dispersed the buildings even more, breaking them off from their firm foundations underground. Other buildings much better constructed and stayed on the ground were destroyed by the mere force of the gush.

"Brace yourselves!"

The one-story roof tilted as it floated above the rapid gush of the orange liquid.

They were safe from being engulfed by the tsunami of orange liquid but they weren't safe yet. The wave led them in a direct collision course with a high-story skyscraper!

If they collided with the skyscraper, they'd be crushed under the thousands of tons of weight just from the rubble that would fall on top of them.

"Should we abandon ship?!"

One of the mages suggested falling off the roof to avoid the skyscraper. But that was a stupid idea.

"No. We'll get taken away by the wave. We need to stick together!" Tarish shouted to her team.

Even though the skyscraper was falling on them right at this very second, she was not focused on it at all. Instead, she looked around the Remedium and tried to find a circular construct in the middle of all the floating buildings and rubbles in the orange flood.

Damn! The portal's lost!

Tarish didn't say those words out loud because she didn't want to cause further panic.

They could always search for the portal later. But if they panicked and split up, they might get lost in the Remedium for hundreds of years!

"It's falling on us!" the mage screamed.

Tarish and the other tanks used their LifeSkills and created a defensive shield around them.

However, it couldn't last long under the weight of the metal beams of the skyscraper. Their defenses were great against elemental attacks like the Ifrits, but it wasn't that effective against physical attacks.

Their shields cracked like glass, but it was able to deflect the skyscraper away from a direct collision with their one-story roof.

For good measure, Atlan jumped up and used his Physique LifeSkill to punch one of the main columns supporting the skyscraper.

CRASH-SPLASH

The skyscraper crashed onto more buildings drifting in the orange flood, sending orange mist and negative colored rubble flying in the air.

Tarish and her team were safe from being crushed to death by the high-rise building, but they were not safe from the aftermath.

A large wave emanated from the skyscraper's crash site. It created a rippling effect that increased the speed and height of the flood coming towards them.

"Let's hope our building's buoyant!"

They held onto any railing, pillar, or wall they could grab onto as the wave came towards their roof.

WOOSHH

Thankfully, the building they stood on had an air pocket underneath the flood, and allowed it to stay on top of the wave. The Saviors held onto the roof as it followed the stream onto a narrowing tunnel that led to a dark chasm underneath.

"Where is this going?!"

Tarish didn't know. "Just stay together!"

The whole wave surged towards an opening on the meaty wall surrounding the Masamune district.

Buildings, rubble, street lamps, steel beams—everything was swallowed inside this dark chasm.

Even in the distance, they heard the torrent of orange liquid falling into the opening.

Tarish and the rest of her team had no choice but to stay on the roof and hold on to each other for safety. They couldn't swim away from the gush of orange liquid leading them to the unknown even if they tried.

"Don't let go!" Tarish warned as they were enveloped by a shimmering curtain of orange liquid made from small droplets falling onto the darkness.

As they fell, everything turned dark.

The Saviors held each other's hands as they felt the weightlessness of free fall.

Atlan held hands with the mage beside him.

He was going to stay with his team until things got too dire. If things proved to be too dangerous, Atlan would use his Angel Wings and burst through the dimensional walls of the Remedium and return to the real world.

That was his last contingency plan.

But for now, he wasn't going to leave his team to deal with the looming threat of the darkness all by themselves.

They didn't know what they were fighting with. But Atlan did.

He couldn't forget the rhythmic wing patterns of the Sapient Canzer.

DUM…DUM DUM…DUM…

Even in the nothingness of freefall, he still heard those excited flapping wings echo in the chamber. He didn't have to hear it speak to know that it was excited. It couldn't wait to see the tormented expressions on the humans again.

Atlan used his Thermal Vision and saw the cylindrical chamber they were falling under.

He looked around and saw the terrified expressions of Tarish and the rest of her team. He felt the desperation in their grip. They were deathly afraid because their worst fears came true. They encountered an anomaly.

But for Atlan, this wasn't an anomaly. This was an opportunity.

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THUD-BOOM

The ground underneath them exploded as they reached the end of the tunnel, creating a blinding burst of light that stunned all of them into confusion.

As they fell through the hole, they saw nothing but white skies and dark stars under their feet.

After falling for about two seconds, they suddenly slowed down.

They stopped in mid-air for a moment before they started accelerating upwards!

Atlan looked up and couldn't believe his eyes. They were falling upwards into a grass field!

It completely defied the laws of physics.

BLUGHH

They felt their heads crash onto soft but firm soil.

Their reality-defying experience left them stumbling for a second as they gathered their senses.

What happened? Did we come out from underground and land on a grass field?

Atlan was the first one to gather himself. He slowly stood up and looked at his surroundings.

Behind him were the tall steel walls of Genesis City and in front of him was the wide expanse of the Unclaimed Lands.