Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

As hard as it was to believe, what they were seeing was as real as day.

Atlan was shaking hands with a Canzer!

Carmine and the rest of the Specialist Operators back in the Emergency meeting room practically had their jaws on the ground as they saw it happening live on the screen. They thought it would take hours if not days before any of them could approach the Canzer without it scurrying off in the distance. They practically expected it to take at least three days before Atlan could earn the Canzer's trust.

But who would have thought that Atlan would be able to earn the Canzer's trust in just a few seconds?

Even though it was shy and still a bit apprehensive of Atlan, it was still shaking hands with him as if it understood that he was not the enemy.

They thought this was impossible. It was practically hard-wired in humans and Canzers that they were eternal enemies. Earning the trust of each other shouldn't be this easy.

"How did…how did you do it?"

From Carmine and everyone's perspective, Atlan simply spoke a few words to the Canzer, and it seemed to have understood his words within a few seconds.

The problem here was that he was speaking human language! The Canzer shouldn't be able to understand Atlan's words, much less trust it.

What no one knew was that Atlan had a mutation that allowed him to listen and speak to Canzers.

His normal mutation would change his modular voice box into something unhuman, and allow him to create the sounds specific only to the Canzer language. And with the in-built knowledge in his mind, he was able to communicate like a Canzer.

However, if he used this mutation, then Carmine and the rest of his team would immediately know that he was speaking Canzer. They would hear the strange voice in his voice and immediately know that it was the same language that Canzers used.

To solve this problem, Atlan only used the False Mutation of his 7-star Sapient Canzer Polyglot mutation.

— (7-star) Sapient Canzer Polyglot

——— 10% mastery

It allowed him to communicate with Canzers, but while only using the human language.

He would be speaking normally as if he were speaking with a human, but the Canzer would somehow understand his words through intonation, gut feeling, and other such factors.

Of course, since it was a False Mutation, the translation ability was less than if he would fully activate his mutation.

But for this circumstance, it was the best he could do.

When Atlan introduced himself, the Canzer heard the harmlessness in his voice and immediately knew that he meant no harm to her.
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In normal circumstances, this wouldn't have been enough to convince the Canzer. After all, they were not only strangers but of a different species entirely.

However, Atlan figured out that his Allure mutation worked on Canzers as well!

He didn't know how it worked, but somehow, his appearance made the Canzer trust his words very easily. Atlan imagined that in the Canzer's mind, Atlan's skin was replaced by chitin, making him seem like a Canzer that she could trust.

Because of that, she took his hand and trusted his words without a second of doubt.

"She's probably smarter than we thought," Atlan explained to Carmine.

"Hmm…you're right. If she could understand your words through actions, then this particular Canzer might be smarter than most. It would make sense, actually. After all, it doesn't have any physical capabilities it can use to protect itself. It must have evolved to have superior intellect."

Thankfully, Carmine seemed to have bought Atlan's excuse.

"Good job, Atlan. Now, you just need to convince her to stay close to you when you all start walking. She can't be on the outskirts of your formation. She has to be smack dab in the middle, just like a porter."

"Tsk. Can't we just bury her in the dirt and make sure that no other Canzer finds her?" asked Nine.

She couldn't bear to think that the Canzer would be positioned behind her. It gave her the creeps. She didn't know if the Canzer would backstab her in the middle of a fight.

"You can't stay in one place; it will send a signal to the creature in the castle. You must continue walking through the forest undetected.

Just treat the Canzer as if she is a construct. Our Star Porter will be the one tasked to make sure that she follows the team, while Ninth and the rest of you will be the ones in charge of killing any Canzer that tries to kill the construct."

Ninth closed her eyes and meditated for a second. She tried hard to forget that the Canzer existed and treated her as nothing more than an object. If she was an object, then she would be a lot more lenient in letting her inside the formation.

Atlan looked over to the Canzer and asked her to stay close to him. He explained that they were trying to protect her from those who tried to kill her.

"It's for your own good. I'm sure that you've encountered some bad Canzers that tried to kill you."

The Canzer nodded her head and slowly put her head down as she remembered the terrible time she spent on the run from those beasts.

Compared to those Canzers, she would much rather be with the humans who didn't try to kill her.

'I…I…I don't want to get caught by those guys…'

Atlan pretended not to understand her words, but on the inside, he was pitying the small little Canzer.

Of course, he also spent a couple of minutes trying to make it seem as if the Canzer didn't understand his words instantly. It would be a bit suspicious if he talked to her with the same fluidity as his conversation with other humans.

Once a few minutes passed, he asked the Canzer to stand close to him in their formation.

She was a bit hesitant to be in the middle of the humans, but she eventually relented.

CAW! CAW!