Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals Chapter 50: Blue

After a few hours, Atlan finally woke up.

He opened his eyes and imdiately saw an intricate painting of heaven on the ceiling. It depicted a serene view of humans wearing pure white robes and calm smiles on their faces. It induced calmness in anyone who saw it.

Judging from the correct colors on the painting, Atlan judged this to be the real world. Thankfully, he wasn't in the Redium.

He sat up and saw that he was in a small room with tall, vaulted ceilings. Off to the side, he saw sunshine gleaming down from stained glass windows with designs of a maidenly woman praying with both hands.

Unlike the modern architecture he saw in the City, this place seed to be made from ancient Gothic materials and designs. The pillars on the corners were made out of stone and li, with intricate carvings of n and won fighting monstrous creatures.

Where am I?

Just as he thought that, the door suddenly opened and in ca a woman that Atlan imdiately recognized. It was Lizzie.

Her eyes widened with relief once she saw Atlan awake. She imdiately lunged towards him and gave him a big, warm hug.

Atlan was speechless. He didn't know what to do with his hands. He was going to put his hands and hug her back when she muttered sothing in his ears.

"Thank god you're alright."

Atlan didn't know what god had to do with it, but he didn't say anything else.

Then after a few monts, she imdiately pulled away from the hug and grabbed his shoulders with a stern look. She seed pissed, which left Atlan utterly confused. First, she hugged him very tightly and then she was angry. I didn't even do anything.

"Do you know what you've done?"

"Uh…"

"That was a very dangerous stunt you've pulled during your mission. If I was there, I would have knocked so sense into your head."

Ah. Lizzie was talking about the very heroic and very stupid action of Atlan going back to the Redium and saving his teammates.

"I had to help. I didn't want them to suffer."

Lizzie put her hands on her hips and took a deep breath. She was ready to give him a big lecture on not risking his life in the Redium, but how could she reprimand him for such an admirable reason? Even she was impressed with his valiant efforts.

Yet, it was still an unnecessary risk for him. There were other Saviors tasked with the retrieval of the survivors in the mission, and Atlan didn't have to put that burden on his shoulders. He shouldn't have.

"Even so. You broke protocol."

"I didn't know anything about that."

She massaged her head. "And that's my fault. I should have taught you better. Anyway, it's especially important for you to not risk your life."

"Why?"

"It's because you're the only low-class Porter we have. What if you get trapped in the Redium and we can't find you?"

Atlan raised his eyebrows. "We can get trapped in the Redium?"

She sighed. "Yes. It's rare, but it happens. The last ti it happened was 300 hundred years ago, and the Savior was trapped for 5 years."

Judging from the way the tunnels in the Redium changed without warning, Atlan guessed that being lost in the Redium was possible. However, he didn't think that it had already happened.

He re-evaluated the risks of the Redium in his mind. If things could change in the Redium at the drop of a hat, then it was much more dangerous than he thought.

Their mission was only supposed to be a simple one. They only had to kill a Deiztruphia Canzer and go ho. Yet, things happened so fast that none of them could react quickly enough.

"What about Neumann? What about my team?"

She gave him a terse smile. "They're fine. Neumann took a lot longer to recover, but he's already up and running. Your other teammates have recovered well too. The Scout is the only one still unconscious and stuck in his bed."

Atlan heaved a sigh of relief.

"You did a good job. If you hadn't acted so quickly, their condition would have been much more critical."

They all did their jobs. They killed the Canzer. But, who could have expected that things would go so wrong?

"What happened?" he asked her.

Lizzie sat beside him in the bed and shook her head. "Nobody knows. HeadQuarters have been working overti to try and figure out how, what, and why things escalated to such difficulty. As of now, they've co up with nothing."

"This hasn't happened before?"

"No. In the entire history of Genesis City, a Canzer Report has never been so thoroughly wrong."

Even though no one knew what happened, Atlan had a guess.

It probably has sothing to do with the extinction of Angels. Weird things have been happening ever since they fell from the heavens, but nobody ever correlates it with the Angels. After all, they don't even believe it happened.

Atlan looked at Lizzie and saw that she had no idea about it at all. Even though she was there to witness them falling to the ground first-hand, she still believed the City's words over her own eyes.

"Have you heard what happened to them?" she asked him.

Atlan slightly nodded his head. When he rescued the Stun Wizard, she told him all the things they went through in the sewers. She told him about the two Deiztruphia Canzers as well as the dangerous Sapient Canzer. She warned him that it was coming for him.

"That was really dangerous. You're lucky that the Sapient Canzer didn't find you. I'm getting chills just thinking about it."

Of course, nobody knew that Atlan already felled that monster. Nobody thought he'd have the power to even hurt the Sapient Canzer, much less actually kill it without disabling its healing factors.

"What happened to you after you fell?" asked Lizzie.

But just as he was about to answer, the door suddenly opened.

A woman suddenly ca in without warning. Atlan looked at her body and was surprised to see the color of her garnt.

She was wearing a blue battle suit. She was an Operator!