Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

While Tarish and her team were in the Remedium, the HeadQuarters already noticed something wrong inside.

They didn't stop monitoring the symptoms in the Masamune district. They knew that there was a chance that an anomaly would show up.

Even though the Operators had no idea when it would happen, they would know once they appeared.

The 'Quills' resolved to prove to everyone that they were competent in their jobs. They needed to assure the 'Knives' or Vanguards that even in the case of an anomaly, the Operators were ready to resolve the situation as fast as possible.

So, soldiers were already posted near the Masamune district that closely observed the situation inside the infected area.

A Gastros Enterifrits, also known as the Ifrit Infection Canzer, was only supposed to show a symptom of a heat wave and an occasional random explosion around the infected area. However, the soldiers noticed that the explosions stopped becoming random. It started to arrive at a set amount of time.

To the untrained eye, this wouldn't seem all that strange. However, the Operators knew that symptoms don't arbitrarily change out of nowhere.

Uniformity almost always signaled intelligence.

This meant that they were dealing with Sapient Canzers.

The Operators quickly prepared a new construct tailor-made to search for the Sapient Infection Canzer's root and armed with the ability to kill it with a tinge of Angel power.

HeadQuarters also recruited a new team and briefed them on the situation.

Within 20 minutes, their preparations were completed.

Even though they didn't have any porters available, they opted to use three Saviors with Martial Artist jobs to carry the heavy construct to the Remedium.

Your journey continues at empire

The new team of 7 Saviors was just a few preparations away from entering the Remedium in the Masamune district when, all of a sudden, the original team came back and completed the mission by themselves.

None of them could believe it.

The fact that the Remedium portal closed by itself meant that the God Himself considered the mission a success

But how is that possible?! They are fighting against an Infection Sapient Canzer! They are not even equipped with the right construct!

The soldiers and a few representatives of the HeadQuarters quickly interviewed Tarish, the leader of the group, to learn more about what happened to them inside the Remedium.

According to her, everything went smoothly until they were suddenly flushed down and transported outside the walls of the City.

That alone was absurd to hear. Even the representatives of the HeadQuarters stopped writing for a second and tried to understand her words.

"Outside…what do you mean exactly?"

"Outside the walls. We were at the grass fields outside the walls."

Gasps and murmurs resounded throughout the spectating crowd. There were a lot of curious civilians who couldn't help but doubt Tarish's words.

"Ahem," the representative coughed and silenced the crowd. "We'll know the truth once the Inquisitor Pterina comes and questions the team."

Tarish wasn't worried. As much as she wanted that anomaly to be nothing more than a lie, she and her team were forced to remember it as the truth.

"Now, aside from that. Are you aware that bringing an unauthorized novice along with you on the mission is prohibited?"

She knew she'd get punished for it, but she didn't regret it. If it weren't for Atlan, they wouldn't have come out with their SoulTime intact.

"Gosh! A 2nd stage novice in a 6th stage mission…what are they thinking?"

"Did he sneak inside with them?"

Once Tarish's team heard that, they quickly sprung to their feet and defended the Star Porter.

"You guys don't know anything! We wouldn't have defeated the Ifrit if it weren't for him!"

"He killed hundreds of them with his barrage of punches!"

Now, everybody looked at the Star Porter. They'd heard about his absurd feats of strength, but it was unbelievable to think that it was enough to fight against a 6th stage Student-rated Canzer.

"You expect us to believe that?"

"That's absurd!"

"Hmph!" The mage went over to Atlan and put his hands over his shoulders. "Doubting him means blasphemy! The Genesis God Himself has deemed our Star Porter to be a once-in-a-lifetime genius!"

The mage didn't even wait for the doubtful words of the crowd and immediately revealed the truth.

"He rewarded us for completing the mission and the Star Porter was given enough experience to advance to the 3rd stage of the Student Realm!"

The representative of HeadQuarters immediately turned towards the mage.

"Is that true?!" He didn't know which one to question first: the fact that they were rewarded for a mission with an anomaly, or the fact that Atlan advanced to the 3rd stage.

"Yes!"

"But how's that possible?! How did you kill the Sapient Infection Canzers without a construct? Tell me, now!"

But of course, Tarish and the rest of her team had no answer for that. When they told the representative the truth that they were spared and allowed to leave, he massaged his head. He had a splitting headache trying to decipher what happened to this mission.

Somehow, even though they didn't kill the Sapient Canzer, they were given a reward from the Genesis God Himself, which should have only happened after all Canzers were killed in the Remedium.

It was a complete paradox.

"Sorry, but can we reserve all questions for tomorrow?" Tarish pleaded. "My team and I are exhausted, and we have no energy left to convince all of you about the truth."

The representative acquiesced. Tomorrow, things would get cleared once Pterina questioned them.

Meanwhile, the crowd still hadn't gotten over the fact that Atlan achieved the 3rd stage Student realm in such a short amount of time. They talked amongst themselves.

"Ey! No way. It's got to be an exaggeration."

"But why would they lie about that? And look at his aura. Don't you think he's gotten a little bit stronger?"

"Now that you say that, I think so too."

Either way, the word already spread out to the rest of the City about the transcendent genius of the Star Porter.

But the gossips were no match against the spies. The other Cities and Territories in the whole world would soon learn about the fact that a Porter was able to go from undrafted to 3rd stage Student in just two weeks.

That speed was unprecedented. The offers for his transfer spiked up to even higher levels.