Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

The prismatic dragon started to waver. The vision of thousands of Canzers regenerating and cloning themselves infinitely was not an easy sight to see. They thought they were able to at least focus on the red dragon entirely without having to worry about anything else, but they were dead wrong.

The general Canzers tripled in numbers, and so did their firepower. Once the red dragon showed its majesty to them, they became even more united than before. They were no longer afraid of the prismatic dragon that feigned to be a true royal like their queen.

They rallied, charging towards the prismatic dragon in the air by building a mountain of Canzer bodies, which the other Canzers used as a stepping stone to reach the air.

These Canzers were willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the queen just so that they could reach the prismatic dragon.

Ninth could feel dread and anxiousness within her teammates. The sight of the Canzers slowly clamoring towards them felt like an inevitable end that they were going towards.

'Do you see now, my dear Tulip? Surrender yourself now and we will spare these humans…

And you—'

Even though the red dragon was a little bit further away from them, Ninth could still feel her piercing gaze towards her. She knew instinctively that the dragon was talking to her.

'Do you not want to save yourselves? Why are you protecting a Canzer of all beings? Do you not have deep-seated hate towards our species? Don't deny it. I can see it in your eyes….'

Ninth felt the sudden urge to tear the prismatic dragon asunder and push Tulip towards the red dragon.

If this was before, then Ninth wouldn't have fought the urge. After all, she would be absolving herself of the sin of betraying Tulip since it was the Queen who was manipulating her mind. She could simply follow the orders.

But things were different now.

She shook her head and screamed out, 'Get out of my head!'

And the moment she did, the red dragon flinched imperceptibly. She wasn't expecting Ninth to fight her with this much resolve. She thought that she, of all people, would be the one to cave and give up the Canzer in their midst.

But it turned out she underestimated her. Somehow, Ninth was able to fight the human urge to kill a Canzer.

'If a war is what you want, then a war is what you're going to get. Men, destroy this false dragon into bits and bring me the traitor!'

The moment she said that, the rest of the general Canzers unleashed their powers once again, manifesting the objects that corresponded to their numbers.

It didn't matter, Ninth and her team thought. If they could defeat the General Canzers once, then they could defeat them again. The only difference this time was that their numbers were a lot larger than before.

The mage and sniper once again combined their domain powers, creating a lightspeed prismatic fire bullet that could pierce through the bodies of the Canzers within a fraction of a second.

Because there were a lot of them this time, it was going to take a little bit more time before they could destroy the whole horde.

PSHOO!

The prismatic bullet traveled at light speed, with the general Canzers barely even moving as the bullet pierced through their bodies and curved to pierce the Canzer right next to them.

In a matter of less than a second, the entire ten thousand army of Canzers was once again torn asunder and turned into nothing but charred corpses or ashes.

The prismatic dragon opened its mouth, taking deep breaths as it tried to recover strength.

But despite their best efforts, the red dragon barely even felt a serious threat from them.

'Hahahaha…there is no use. You are only increasing the number of Canzers under my control,'

Just as the Queen said, the prismatic fire that used to suppress the Canzers from regenerating or cloning themselves was suddenly put out, as if an invisible wind had picked up in the air.

This allowed the Canzers to increase their overall strengths once again.

They were only making things worse for themselves.

"No way…."

"Is there really no chance for us?"

"We can't….we can't…"

Her team started to feel hopelessness and despair, with their emotional distress reflecting onto the physical aura of the prismatic dragon itself. Its strength was waning, and this led the Canzers to gain even more motivation to destroy the prismatic dragon.

Ninth was slowly losing her wits as well. She couldn't understand how they couldn't destroy the Canzers anymore.

'...it's…it's…it's the fire…'

Just when all hope seemed lost, Tulip's voice echoed out in their heads.

'What do you mean?' asked Ninth.

'It's the fire. It's the one that is allowing the Canzers to heal themselves back up. I feel…I feel the red dragon's aura on that fire.'

Ninth immediately looked down at the horde of Canzers and scoured it for any large fire.

But unfortunately, she couldn't see anything.

Then, when she looked at the very end of the horde, she saw a small little light that seemed so insignificant.

At the very end of the Canzer army, there were a few flag bearers and a single torch bearer.

Since this wasn't the first war Carmine witnessed, she knew that a flag bearer and a torch bearer weren't a rare occurrence. It was only a symbol of the territory fighting.

But according to Tulip, the fire was the reason they couldn't defeat the army.

However, no matter how much she looked at the torch, it seemed like it had no mystical energy around it at all. The flame wasn't even all that impressive either.

Then, she finally realized it. Throughout all this chaos, that torch barely seemed to flicker or die out. Even though the flame wasn't all that big, it wasn't being affected by the environment like it should have.

Ninth finally realized that Tulip may be right. That torch could be the key to finally defeating the army of Canzers.