Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Meanwhile, in a secluded room where there were no windows nor any light source, a man was sitting in the corner of the room.

This man was Otis Orioness, the older brother of Obek Orioness, the prideful young master that Atlan had encountered back in the Pocket Remedium.

Even though it was an anomaly and a horde of Canzers that killed his brother, Otis Orioness still blamed Atlan for the death of his younger brother.

After all, there were a lot of people who witnessed Obek Orioness arguing with Atlan, the Star Porter. So, in Otis' mind, Atlan had something to do with his younger brother's death.

Back then, Otis planned for his lackeys to harass Atlan and give him a hard time. After all, while his brother was dead in the church, Atlan was still being hailed as the Star Porter of the City who had tremendous potential. However, Otis could only think that his younger brother had an even better potential than Atlan, but he was killed in cold blood.

When the lackeys he instructed to harass Atlan came back with no memory of it happening, Otis decided not to pursue the matter any further. It had been long enough that he was able to see logic in what happened. He decided to spare Atlan.@@novelbin@@

However, something happened in the City. They suddenly announced that there was no longer any immortality in the world. If someone died, then they were truly dead, with no chance of ever reviving in the future.

Otis wallowed in despair. He thought that after a few years, his younger brother would be able to revive from a single drop of blood and grow into the young man he was supposed to be.

But that was all over. His younger brother was dead, and there was nothing else he could do about it.

As the days passed, Otis was depressed.

That was until he heard a certain piece of news from his father, Byron Orioness. During one of his late-night talks with his advisors, Otis sneaked in and listened in on their conversation without them knowing about it.

This was supposed to be a privileged conversation, with no one knowing about it because it was supposed to be reserved only for those higher-ups.

Otis was only an Intern-level Savior. Even though he was already half-step towards the Specialist realm, he was still not allowed to listen in on this conversation.

"Is this true?" Byron asked his trusted advisor and butler.

"Yes. Atlan, the Star Porter, was said to have been the one to join Ninth and the others in their mission to save the church. Unfortunately, they failed, leading to the destruction of the church," the butler muttered to the room.

And once he heard this, Otis' eyes widened with a realization.

Atlan, the Star Porter, was the one responsible for the Church's destruction. In Otis' mind, this meant only one thing: he was also responsible for the disappearance of their immortality.

This meant that Otis' younger brother, Obek, could have still been revived if Atlan had not failed in his mission in the church.

Slowly, the sadness in Otis' heart turned into furious anger.

He stopped listening to his father's conversation and returned to his room to sulk alone. There, he planned all kinds of torture and pain he was going to inflict on Atlan, the Star Porter.

He began to have designs on how he was going to capture Atlan and make him pay for his sins. He was going to make him pay for killing his younger brother!

Back then, he didn't get his hands dirty because Atlan was only a Student-level Savior, while he was an Intern-level Savior. Otis thought that he was too good to get blood in his hands if he was the one who harassed Atlan.

But now, Otis wanted to do it himself. He wanted to choke the life out of Atlan and see his pained expression himself. He didn't care that Atlan was only a Student-level Porter with no way to defend himself. Otis only cared about enacting his revenge.

Of course, if he had listened a bit longer to his father's conversation, then he would quickly know that Atlan was far stronger than he had anticipated.

They talked about how Atlan had killed a Basilisk, a Specialist-level Canzer, all by himself without any help from Kobra. They even talked about the mysterious disappearance of symptoms in the city just a few minutes after they appeared on their radar.

They would have never thought that Atlan was the one who had been finishing these missions even before the news spread to the HeadQuarters. But, the news of Atlan easily killing a Specialist-level Canzer with his own hands was an eye-opening ordeal.

If he could kill a Basilisk, then he could definitely finish weak Pre-Intern and intern-level Canzers in just under a few minutes.

Atlan was the only explanation as to how those symptoms disappeared so quickly.

If Otis had heard this part of the conversation, then he would have known that Atlan had far outclassed him in every way possible. However, Otis' blind rage and prejudice against Atlan led him to come to the wrong conclusions.

He had been wanting to find an excuse to kill Atlan, and now, his mind forced a reasonable motive for him to get his hands bloody with Atlan's blood.

Otis began to call all of his friends and allies, promising them large amounts of Soul Time in compensation for their help.

He also decided to have Atlan tailed all around the City so that Otis could know what he was doing at all times.

Finally, after a few days, Otis found a way.

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Atlan was awoken by a relentless alarm from his wristband.

He quickly parsed through the messages and saw that he was asked to be the porter in a high-stakes mission in the City.

He looked around his room and found that it was teeming with death energy.

Something terrible was happening in the city.