Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Atlan didn't know how to thank her.

When he first met Tulip, he struck up a conversation with her, not because he wanted to, but because he needed to.

Carmine told him that Tulip was an important weakness of the creature in the castle, so he needed to gain her trust.

So, he talked to her and gained her trust.
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It was nothing more than a job.

But now, she gave him something extremely special.

For Atlan, the amulet was just a piece of accessory, but for Tulip, this amulet wasn't just anything; it was the only surviving piece of object that wasn't burned down in the wreckage. She could have kept this amulet to herself because it was the only thing that tied her back to the home that she once had.

But because she considered Atlan as someone special, she gave him such a precious object.

Just as he was about to say something to her, Ninth suddenly shouted towards the group.

"Incoming!" she warned.

This one word sent everyone into a fighting stance. Without another word, they quickly formed their formation.

Atlan took Tulip's hand and led her toward the middle of the formation, where they could all protect her.

CAW! CAW!

Crows flew up from the trees and encircled the group. Everyone looked up and waited for the inevitable attacks from the crows above.

But even after a few seconds, they didn't attack. They continued to circle in the air right above the humans.

"They aren't attackers. They're scouts!" Carmine warned.

Atlan realized it as well. It was as if those crows were trying to signal to someone far away where the humans were located.

Ninth didn't want to wait any longer and summoned the giant swordsmaiden behind her. Its ethereal form shimmered, showing her readiness to chop down any monster that came her way.

RUMBLE RUMBLE

The sound of something large rummaging through the forest echoed towards them. Everyone gripped their swords tighter, expecting to have a hard fight against a monster.

TRAKKKK!

The monster crashed through the last trees and finally showed its gigantic stature to Atlan and the whole team.

But this 'monster' wasn't actually a monster!

Instead, it seemed to be a giant spinning wheel made out of nothing but wood. This didn't look like a Canzer, it looked like a giant device that people used to spin threads and yarns from fibers.

But once this giant spinning wheel moved its 'legs' the way an actual human leg walked, everyone figured out that this was indeed a Canzer!

Slowly, its monstrous energy spread down towards Atlan and the others, finally giving confirmation that this was a Specialist-level Canzer that was on the level of The Beast.

Ninth looked over at Atlan's battle suit.

"Carmine. What are we dealing with here?"

"Good news. This Canzer is only a puppet, so it doesn't have any regenerating or cloning capabilities. Bad news…I don't know about its powers."

Unfortunately, this Canzer seemed to be one of those extremely rare creatures that rarely ever appeared in missions.

Since the creature on the castle was a rarely seen Canzer as well, then it made sense that its minions and puppets were also rarely seen by humans as well.

Atlan and the others were basically the first humans to ever lay eyes on this creature in more than a thousand years!

"How do you now know?!" complained Ninth.

"We don't have any scrolls or books that perfectly describe this Canzer. Even the old sources that we were parsing through only had a very rudimentary description of this Canzer.

The only thing we know properly is that this is a puppet. As long as you whack it with your sword enough times, you can kill it."

Ninth clicked her tongue. She didn't like this situation one bit. She would rather fight 50 Beasts than fight this Spinning Wheel.

When she fought The Beast, at least she knew about its weakness and tendencies. She knew which moves and what powers the Beast had. This allowed her to prepare for their fight and use her superior intellect to win the fight, or at least survive it.

But with the Spinning Wheel monster, she knew nothing at all. She didn't know its powers as well as its tendencies.

She couldn't properly time her dodge or her counters because she didn't know its timing! If she dodged at the wrong time, it could completely turn the fight to the monster's advantage.

"Whatever. I'll just slice it into pieces."

Ninth commanded her sword maiden to slash the Spinning Wheel, but thread immediately spurted out of the wheel and created a tightly knit wall that successfully slowed her sword down enough for it to escape.

"Slippery little bugger…" Ninth uttered. "But this is good. It seems to be a utility-type Canzer, so it doesn't have much physical strength. As long as I can hit it with my sword, I can cleave it in half."

But before she could do anything else, the Spinning Wheel took the initiative and spun its wheel a thousand times per second.

Thread and yarn kept spurting out of its body, slowly engulfing the whole area into a dome.

But that didn't end there.

The yarns continued to flow down towards Ninth and the others, slowly filling their vision with nothing but yarn and threads.

Ninth used her sword to cut down these annoying threads, but more replaced them on the way down.

Everyone threw their LifeSkills at the yarns, but it was useless. The threads may be easy to cut, they were replaced by a thousand more each time.

Slowly, everyone got engulfed in the yarns, unable to see anything but themselves.

Thankfully, these yarns didn't seem to be doing any harm to them at all.

After a few seconds, the threads finally stopped coming. Ninth swept her sword upwards, destroying the last remnants of the threads that obscured their vision.

Once everyone had their bearings, they looked at Tulip.

Thankfully, she was still alive.

But then, they noticed something terrible.

Atlan was gone!