Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

This was the true terror of fighting the horde of Canzers. Even though most of them were just Student-level Canzers, their special ability as Destruction and Infection Canzers allowed them to practically be indestructible.

"Oh my gods…"

"This…this is just unfair…"

Ninth's team gasped when they saw this horrifying sight. Even though they knew about a Canzer's ability to regenerate or clone themselves, they hadn't seen it at this scale.

The hundreds that Ninth 'killed' now grew into a thousand.

It would have been better if they hadn't attacked them in the first place.
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"We need to kill them all in one go so that we have the time to go after the dragon," Ninth said.

This was the reason why she didn't want her team to waste their energy trying to fight defensively against the horde.

They wanted to slowly fight their way through the horde, but Ninth knew that it would only worsen the situation for them.

But Ninth didn't blame her team for forgetting this small fact. After all, they were so used to fighting with a porter in their midst who carried a construct that could disable the Canzers' abilities.

Unfortunately, they had none of those. Atlan was probably abducted by their enemies, which meant that they didn't have any contact with Carmine or the rest of the Operator Specialists who could help them figure out a way to fight this horde.

"What are we going to do," her team asked.

Ninth looked ahead and watched as the horde continued to march towards their location. More and more Canzers passed through to the domain, with their strengths becoming much stronger than the first lines of Canzers that entered.

"We wait. Once they're all here, we strike," she said.

The Canzers at the back of the horde were now at the strengths of the Intern level. Ninth judged them to be the generals and high-ranking officers of the entire army. They had their own legions under their wing, which they controlled with perfect coordination.

Just then, Ninth stumbled forward and held her head as she experienced a mind-splitting headache.

The domain she summoned started to shimmer as if it were just moments away from being destroyed.

Ninth gritted her teeth and gathered all the strength in her Soul System and increased her control on the domain, allowing it to recover and remain stable.

"It's here," Ninth uttered.

There was only one Canzer that could make her domain unstable: the dragon.

It came to the domain, with its fiery red wings spread out in the air. As soon as it entered the space, Ninth felt her control of the domain start to weaken. It was as if the dragon was trying to take away her domain.

Usually, when two beings this powerful fought against each other, they would clash their domains and try to overwhelm each other in their own spaces.

But this dragon didn't summon her domain. Instead, she tried to take away Ninth's domain.

It was a power play designed to demoralize Ninth. After all, for a second, Ninth felt like she was losing her domain forever. It would have been enough to shock other Saviors into retreating from the dragon before it could steal their domain.

"Don't kid me. This is my space," Ninth said, standing tall and facing the dragon in the distance.

"$*&@(#*&$(*&%"

The dragon roared as it floated in the air above its army. And all the Canzers under its control raised their weapons in the air and shouted the same words that the dragon uttered. It was a war cry.

The whole domain shook with their war cry.

Ninth and her team weren't that shaken by this display. First of all, they couldn't even understand what they were saying, and second, they were veterans who did not falter under trivial things like these.

But there was one of them who was truly affected.

All the color drained from her face. She could hear the dragon and the rest of the Canzers chant out the words,

'I have your mothers and your little friend trapped in my castle. Surrender yourself now or I'll kill them all.'

Her mothers were alive. This would have been cause for her to celebrate, but it turned out that they were taken captive by the Queen. Not only that, Atlan was also taken by her and threatened to be killed.

The worst part about it was that Tulip didn't know why this was happening to her. She was clueless about her own fate. She didn't even know that she was the only weakness of the magical Queen Malificient.

Tulip wanted to surrender herself. If she simply did as the dragon told her, then her mothers and Atlan would be saved.

She knew that if she surrendered herself now, there was a high possibility that she would be killed. But she didn't care. In her eyes, their lives were so much more important than hers.

Tears started to fill her eyes.

Then, she started to walk forward. She wanted to end this whole thing now. She didn't want to be selfish anymore and forget about wanting to live.

But just as she was about to leave their formation, Ninth shouted at her.

"Don't you dare. Whatever happens, I will protect you with all I have."

Even though Tulip couldn't understand her words, the meaning was clear. Even now, these humans were trying to protect her at this time. If they had just let her go, then all of this could have ended.

Tears streamed down her chitinous cheeks.

'Why is this happening to me?! My mothers…my home…and now Atlan…I just want to live normally! But I can't. I need to sacrifice myself to stop this whole thing.'

Tulip let out all her frustrations into the air.

Even though Ninth couldn't understand her, the meaning was clear. She left her position in the formation and walked over to Ninth.

This was the first time Ninth approached Tulip of her own accord.

"I'm sorry. I've been hating you even though I don't know you. You didn't deserve it. You don't deserve this."