Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Lizzie led Atlan down the next building to a dojo where Saviors and aspiring Saviors alike could train their skills.

They entered a private room, which was already arranged and ready for them to enter as soon as they stepped foot on the building. The Elder Heads worked fast and already guaranteed that things would go smoothly for their training session.

There were plenty of veterans and novices crowding the dojos these past few days because of the current ban on Pocket Remediums. This was the only place they could practice their skills and make sure that it wouldn't stagnate.

If they didn't have the Elder Heads' intervention, they would have waited days before they could book the largest training room they had available.

They were led by the owner of the dojo itself to the biggest room, where they were assured that they could unleash the full power of their LifeSkills without worrying about it causing damage to the walls.

Once the owner locked them in, nothing could disturb them for two hours.

"What do you think is stronger, a 4-star mutation, or a 9-stage Student LifeSkill?"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Atlan didn't know the answer to her question. From his experience, both LifeSkills and mutations had different powers that were hard to compare.

"I'll change the question. Which do you think is stronger: a 4-star mutation or a 7-star mutation?"

The answer seemed obvious. Of course, the higher rarity mutation was a lot stronger than the lower rarity one. It was one of the main reasons why high star Genuses were highly coveted. They want the corresponding high star mutation that came with it.

"Isn't the answer obvious?"

"You would think so, but no."

Lizzie stood opposite Atlan, with the entire room behind her. She started stretching her body, which reminded him of a cat that just woke up.

"A 4-star mutation can be a lot stronger than a 7-star mutation," she stated while licking her hands like a cat licking its paws.

"How? That is hard to believe."

From what she told him a while back, a 4-star mutation wasn't even powerful enough to be hidden. Mutations with only a low rarity were manifested in reality all the time, while the higher rarity mutations could be hidden and released at any time the user wanted.

Lizzie had a 5-star rarity mutation that allowed her to become half-feline.

Even if it was hidden, her mutations gave her a small boost in power according to her mutations. Even when her eyes remained human, she still benefited from enhanced eyesight. But if she manifested her cat eye mutation, then her eyesight would be enhanced multiple times.

By the mere fact that her mutation was a 5-star mutation, she was able to turn off her mutation and let it rest when she didn't need it.

This gave her the benefit of having enhanced power without the drawback of having a non-human mutation hindering her daily life.

Having an octopus-leg mutation or horse-leg mutation was a pain to deal with in a daily life scenario.

"It's better for me to show you. This is my feline mutation," Lizzie said as she bent down on all fours, with her nails digging into the very metal flooring itself.

Two red pointy ears grew out of her head and gave her the ability to hear a pin drop even in the middle of an explosion.

The pupils in her eyes turned vertical. She looked at him as if he was her prey. Every micro-movement he did was caught by those eyes and she was able to follow him without lagging behind.

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Three whiskers grew on each of her cheeks. Atlan didn't know what these mutations did for her, but he found that it made Lizzie even cuter than before.

A red tail popped up from behind her, which swayed back and forth gracefully from her left shoulder to her right. It seemed to have a mind of its own and moved with such fluidity that it put Atlan into a trance.

It only took him a fraction of a second to get him out of the distraction, but that was already enough for her to disappear from his sight.

Atlan couldn't hide his shock. He couldn't even sense her anywhere near him.

It was only when he felt something poking his arm did he realize that Lizzie was already beside him, with her claws digging into his forearm with barely any resistance.

Atlan used his other hand and pushed Lizzie's claws away, taking with her a torn piece of his battle suit. The black dye quickly dispersed and turned into the original green color.

"I thought you didn't want to hurt me?!"

Atlan saw his SoulTime go down by a few minutes.

Lizzie didn't allow him to recover. She disappeared from his sight and reappeared just a few fractions of a second later to whittle away at his SoulTime by scratching his unprotected back.

Atlan couldn't believe it. Even with his enhanced physical strength, he couldn't keep up with her speed at all! She was much faster than his eye by several magnitudes; he never even saw blur as she passed by.

Atlan immediately used his LifeSkill and covered himself with a black flame.

Just then, Lizzie's claws came crashing down on his chest from up above. This time, his black fire allowed him to defend himself a little better. Though, he still lost a few seconds of SoulTime from her half-hearted attack.

I can't keep up with her…if that's so, then I'll have to get ahead of her.

Atlan bent down and gathered all his power on his legs, and burst out running towards the wall.

It didn't take him long till he was about to crash into the steel enclosure of the room.

But instead of colliding with the wall head-first, he raised his leg and jumped towards it, using the momentum he gathered to continue running up the wall!

Atlan used the friction between the wall and his shoes to keep going up, but eventually, gravity started to pull him back down.

Just as he was about to fall, he quickly turned around and faced Lizzie, who followed behind him as he expected.

He used his last step on the wall to speed back down towards Lizzie.