Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

As they walked forward, Atlan couldn't help but ask if the Remedium they usually faced was anything as arbitrary as the one they faced just a few minutes ago.

"Yes. This is normal for high-realm missions like this one—especially so since there are multiple Specialist Canzers inside. As we get closer and closer to the Church, the hostility of the Remedium will become even more prominent. For now, it is still unbiased. As long as you are strong and capable, then you can traverse through it.

An example would be the suspension bridge earlier. Our Scout figured out that the only safe pathway would be through that way. And as you saw, the tsunami of lava could not penetrate through to the other side.

This meant that the Remedium still wanted us to advance forward. If it was a little bit more hostile, it wouldn't have given a safe pathway in the first place. It would have trapped us inside till we succumbed to the lava."

Atlan was frightened but intrigued at the Remedium.

The Remedium was the God's body. And even though they–the Saviors–were trying to help the God by getting rid of the Canzers, the Remedium made things so much harder for them instead of making it easier.

This meant that the God was sabotaging Themselves from being helped. He didn't understand it.

Atlan decided to not think about it any further. According to the Reverend, the Divine could not be explained by the human.

He also realized that this was not the time to think about unnecessary things. While Ninth and her team had their focus on the pitfalls and traps around them, Atlan was the only one with the leisure to think about stuff outside the mission.

They walked forward, with their steps one pace slower than the normal mission protocol. Ninth was worried about the current silence.

It had been an hour after that bridge incident, and now they were at 50th Street. Just 50 more and they would arrive at the Church, yet they hadn't seen a single Canzer in sight.

This unnerved the rest of the team. If they didn't encounter a single Canzer on the road, then that meant only one thing: the Canzers were all gathered in one place.

That was bad news. The team was fully prepared to fight a couple of Canzers one by one to whittle down their numbers before they reached the Church. Ninth and the others were confident they could kill any Canzer that came their way. But if they were all at the same place, then they would have to fight multiple Canzers at the same time.

"Be careful," the Scout said. He stopped the team and led them towards the mall skyscraper to the side.

"Let's move here."

Then, he walked over to the glass walls of the skyscraper and walked upwards! It was as if there was no gravity to pull him down.

Ninth and the rest of the team followed behind him. They all walked up the building, with the transition from ground to wall as as easy as walking from one corner to another.

Atlan stopped at the very edge of the wall but found himself falling towards it. He was able to stop himself using his arms.

Strangely, even though he was standing upright with his hands against the wall, it was as if he was performing a push-up! The gravity was pulling him towards the walls of the skyscraper.

Atlan strained himself as he used all the power in his body to stand up.

As he did, he found himself scaling the wall as if he was walking on the ground.

In front of him, instead of seeing the horizon of the City, he saw instead the white skies and the black moon up above.

"Come on," Ninth said in front of him. "We'll spend the night at the top of the building."

Atlan followed behind her and asked, "We're spending the night here?"

She nodded. "We can't get there too fast."

He didn't understand. "Wouldn't we get ambushed at this point? What if some Canzer attacks us while we sleep."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Instead of being worried, Ninth smiled. "That's the point. We want them to attack us. We have to lure them out of the church one by one so we can kill them one by one. That is our best bet to get you to the basement as safely as possible."

Atlan admired the confidence they had. If Atlan was in charge, he wouldn't want to clash with the Canzers and try to sneak into the Church.

I guess that's the confidence of a Specialist-realm Vanguard. They must have killed thousands of Canzers at this point in their career.

He didn't have that much experience, so he was still hesitant in dealing with Canzers.

As they 'climbed' the skyscraper, the Scout led them towards different floors to circumvent any traps from the Remedium. They 'technically' weren't walking towards the Remedium, so its hostility wasn't that high compared to when they first started.

After half an hour, they finally reached the rooftop of the skyscraper. The gravity finally returned to normal.

They quickly set up 'camp' on the rooftop. However, they didn't have the right equipment to properly call it a camp. They simply laid down on the concrete floor without going out of their formation; they never even let go of the weapons in their hands.

Their definition of a camp was just a place where they could sleep.

"I'll take the first shift," Ninth said. "Sleep now and recover your strength for tomorrow. This is just the start of our journey, and we can't be fighting with sleep deprivation on our faces."

The rest of the team nodded and quickly closed their eyes.

Atlan was surprised with their ability to go from alert to asleep in just a few seconds. It was as if they just flicked a switch.

I guess this is not the first time they had to sleep in the Remedium.

"You too, Porter. Do you want to get out of your battle suit as you sleep?"

Atlan went silent for a second before he answered. "We could get ambushed tonight, right?"

She nodded.

"Then, I won't."