Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

As much as the rest of the team wanted to help Ninth, they knew that they shouldn't. It wasn't their job. Their role in this fight was to suppress the other Canzers and prevent them from interfering with their leader's fight. They just had to trust that Ninth would overcome the bearded Canzer by herself.

The Mage raised her wooden sword as she chanted her spell. Violet hands suddenly sprouted out of its tip and spread out in a circle around them. Each one of these hands intertwined with each other and acted like a huge body of water.

Then, with a swish of her wand, the ocean of hands suddenly rose in the air and created a giant wave outwards. She intended to drive out the rest of the Canzers away and into the fog.

Her LifeSkill was not specialized towards this kind of 'area control' but it was fine if she could at least prevent the Canzers from attacking by at least a few seconds. That was her job.

The wave rose 40 feet in the air and swallowed everything in its path. Individual violet hands opened their hands and caught some of the dead trees in their path and created a physical barrier in the wave.

The sleeping Canzer didn't do anything as it got swept up by the dead trees. It seemed to smile as it got carried away into the fog—happy that it could finally have some peace and quiet to itself.

The shy Canzer seemed deathly afraid of the wave of hands. Each of them moved and wriggled independently, making it seem like they were all different individuals. The Canzer seemed to have thought that each of those hands was human and got so shy that it started running away from the wave.

Just as the wave was about to hit the big nose Canzer, it suddenly raised its head, closed its eyes, and opened its mouth as if it was yawning.

'Ha…ha….HACHOO!'

The sneeze reverberated out into the Remedium and clashed with the violet hands. Unfortunately, before it could completely sweep away the rest of the Canzers, the hands suddenly popped out of existence as soon as they got hit by the shockwave of the sneeze.

"Kagh!" the mage groaned. "Brace yourselves!"

The sneeze spread towards the team and induced another splitting headache. Even though they were ready for it this time, they still couldn't muster up any strength to fight against its disorienting effect. Their Soul System was shaken. They couldn't use their LifeSkill for an entire second!

The smoking Canzer finally took this chance to take out a ball made of chitin and throw it towards the team. Without their tank, they were unable to deflect this dangerous object away.

CRACK! SPLASH!

The ball exploded and spread a purplish liquid with a very thick consistency. The team couldn't get away in time and was sprayed with this strange liquid which covered their entire bodies.

At such critical moments, it was the Mesmer's job to create an illusion to protect the team. But he found it almost impossible to even raise his flute because it was covered with the thick purple liquid. The same went with the Mage and the Sniper; they couldn't even raise their weapons to defend themselves.

'Finally! Took you long enough, Dee!'

The bearded Canzer saw his opportunity and wanted to pounce. These humans were served up on a platter perfectly for him to eat.

"Oh no, you don't!" screamed Ninth as the swordmaiden struck the ten-thousand-armed Canzer on its back. Her blade sliced through thousands of arms, finally cleaving through the last layer of black hands and reaching its chitinous body.

'KAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!' it screamed, with violet blood bursting from its back.

The whole Remedium shook with its scream, comparable to the big nose's sneezes.

Suddenly, the dead trees swept up by the wave of hands vibrated with life. Each one of them grew an angry demon mask on its trunk similar to the bearded Canzer's face. And just like it, the trees also inherited the Canzer's anger.

'GAAHH!' they bellowed, striking the ground and trampling each other. It was chaos for the newly birthed trees.

Those that felled a tree would absorb and eat the ones they defeated. As they did, their trunks got even thicker and darker, showing their improved defenses and attacks.

The thousands of trees were in a royal rumble until finally, there were only five superior trees that survived. These trees were much bigger and thicker than before. Their trunks got nimbler, acting more like a limb of a human. They grew a crown of thorns on their heads and roots that acted like octopus arms.

And most terrifying of all was the improved mask on the trunks. They were no longer static. The mouth moved like a real human showing an angry expression. Its eyes, however, showed an intelligence that shined in the purpose of killing humans.

The Mesmer struggled until he could finally put his flute in his mouth and play a high-paced song that created an illusion that displaced their original location.

The five superior trees angrily moved with their roots toward the illusion. Their branches extended outwards and pierced the human bodies with their sharp crowns.

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The Mesmer purposefully created this illusion in the hopes that the trees were so indulgent in their fury that they didn't notice that they were under his spell.

Unfortunately, he underestimated their intelligence. The superior trees looked at the dead humans skewered through their branches and found something amiss. They showed no sign of suffering.

They looked around with an even angrier expression until finally, one of them raised their branch and pierced through an empty space in the forest.

The branch pierced through the illusion, deflating the musical notes that composed the very spell. The other trees followed its lead and pierced through the illusion, dispelling it completely.

The trees sauntered over to the team. One of them raised their branches and struck the Mesmer outwards, breaking several of his ribs and losing him 100 years of SoulTime in the process.