Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

As everyone in their team released their domains, each other their powers clashed with one another, creating a lot of chaos and pain in their psyche.

No matter how much they practiced this, they could not get rid of the pain and hardship they were experiencing each time all of them released their domains at the same time.

It was bearable with two of them, it was hard with three, but it was almost impossible with all six of them.

They could feel each other's thoughts, but since they were all connected, all they could hear was a high-pitched noise that only induced a head-splitting headache.

Slowly, their domains started to shimmer and shake. They were starting to lose control of their domains. Some of them were releasing too much of their power, while some of them were only using too little. They had to find the right balance to truly make the combination of their LifeSkills stable.

If they weren't pressed for time, they could have waited a couple of hours till their powers naturally mellowed down, which would have allowed them to combine their powers.

But the dragon and the horde of its Canzers weren't going to wait that long.

Each second they spent concentrating and melding their domains together, the horde drew closer and closer.

'You're mine!'

'I'm gonna be a king!'

'Hahaha! I will kill her first!'

The first line of Canzers was already near enough for Tulip to hear their individual voices. This almost scared her to death.

Her instincts and entire body were telling her to run. If she ran away now, she could probably still save herself from certain doom.

But then, she remembered Atlan. He wouldn't have run away.

She also looked at Ninth and the rest of her team. Their faces were full of pain and exhaustion, but they weren't giving up. They were using all of their willpower to keep going and find a way to survive this ordeal.

Tulip looked towards the horde and knew what she had to do.

She looked down at the sands on her chitinous feet and took out a small knife sticking out of the ground.

Then, she faced the horde of Canzers before putting the knife near her throat.

'Stop now or else I'll pierce this knife in my head!'

Her words forced the first line of Canzers to stop in their tracks. The crazed look on her face told them that she wasn't lying.

The Canzers, although completely loyal to the Queen, also had their own desires. If Tulip killed herself, then they wouldn't have a chance to kill her themselves. They would lose the opportunity to become a King that bowed down only to the Queen.

Although the Queen ordered them to advance without a break, the Canzers slowly stopped and gazed at Tulip.

Even if she wasn't serious, they couldn't take that chance.

'Now, no sudden movements!' Tulip warned them.

The Canzers all looked at each other, not knowing what to do. They didn't want to be the first ones to move forward.

After a few seconds, one brave Canzer took a step forward. He didn't believe that Tulip was serious. And since no one else was moving, then this was his chance to get ahead of the pack and be the first one to kill her.

But as soon as he was about to take the second step, Tulip pressed the knife deeper into her throat, causing violet blood to spill down her chest.

She wasn't joking.

Some Canzers immediately pulled the idiot Canzer back. They didn't want anyone to ruin their chance to become a King.

After a minute of standstill, the Malificient Queen finally noticed something wrong with her army. She looked down and noticed her army having a staring contest with Tulip.

They were so close to her, but they weren't moving at all!

This would have been the perfect chance given that the humans were busy doing something else and were unprepared for this attack.

Then, she saw Tulip with a knife on her throat. Her draconic eyes flashed in realization. She knew what was happening.

The dragon in the air breathed fire down to her own army, incinerating them into nothing but ashes in the sand. She did not need useless Canzers who did not obey her words with full obedience.

'I will kill anyone that dares to stop my charge!' the dragon roared.

And that was all the Canzers needed to overcome their hesitance. They rushed towards Tulip and the humans with great speed, hoping that they would be able to kill her before she killed herself.
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Tulip looked at Ninth and the rest of the humans and saw that they still weren't done with their strange ritual. At this point, they were going to get overrun by the horde of Canzers.

With no choice left, Tulip walked forward and out of the formation.

She stood in front of the humans.

If she was going to die, then she was going to die protecting Ninth and the others. It was only natural.

She closed her eyes and felt the rumbling in the sand become more and more intense. She could feel the desperate breaths of the Canzers.

The first Canzer jumped towards Tulip, with his clawed hands outstretched to decapitate her in one go.

Tulip knew that there wasn't any other option. She steeled herself and pushed the knife into her throat, hoping that it would give her a clean death not in the hands of the vicious monsters.

SHINGGG!

But then, she found herself unable to control the knife in her hands. She couldn't push it any deeper, with the knife fighting her with all it's got.

Finally, it freed itself from her grasp and landed back on the ground.

But after a few seconds, she still hadn't died. The Canzers had yet to rip her into shreds.

Tulip slowly opened her eyes and saw the Canzers getting pushed away from her with no visible reason as to why. Then, within a fraction of a second, thousands upon thousands of Canzers suddenly burst into nothing but a violet mist.

"Thank you," Ninth's voice echoed behind Tulip. "You bought us enough time."

She looked behind and saw Ninth and the rest of the humans glowing with a prismatic aura that surrounded their entire bodies.