Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Atlan crash-landed on the shore of the lake, with mud and soil welcoming his descent.

He coughed up blood. Losing 500 years of SoulTime was no painless endeavor. After all, this was the first time he'd ever been injured to this extent. It was a miracle he could even keep his consciousness.

Despite reaching his goal, Atlan found it extremely hard to move his entire body. The fact that his battle suit was thousands of tons of weight didn't help him a slight bit.

The problem was the fact that he overloaded his False Mutation so much that his muscles were basically too tired to even muster up any strength.

This meant that he wouldn't be able to move his entire body at all. He'd just have to lay in the soil, waiting for the inevitable arrow that pierced through his heart.

"Are you okay?!"

"I can't…I can't…even move a finger…"

"How much SoulTime did you lose?"

"500 years."

"That's good. You only lost a slight bit. You got extremely lucky there because even Intern-realm Saviors wouldn't be able to survive a real attack from a Specialist Canzer like the Huntsman. You, my good man, have the goddess of luck on your side."

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Atlan felt his whole body prickling with pain. "I don't think so…"

"Listen up. We only have a limited amount of time until the Huntsman decides to kill you. You have to heal your body."

"How?"

"It's a technique that only veterans know. You've surely seen Ninth and the other Specialist Saviors use this during their fights. Did you notice that every time they get injured, they suddenly heal super fast without any sort of healing powers activated?"

Atlan noticed that. However, he simply thought that it was one of those powers that Specialist Saviors only had. He even thought that it was a unique mutation.

"Are you telling me…I can heal my body?"

"Yes. But it will come at a cost. SoulTime. You've been taught that your SoulTime is your lifespan. We measure attacks based on how much lifespan a person loses.

If you get your arm cut off, then that is equivalent to about less than half of your SoulTime in total. That means that if you don't heal your injuries, you will live in the amount of SoulTime you have left.

But of course, if you heal your injuries by stopping the leaking blood, then your SoulTime will increase.

This is the best way of recovering from an injury. However, people like Ninth and the other Saviors don't have the luxury of taping their injuries and resting for months at a time during their missions.

If they get their arms cut off, then they would have to fight the entire mission with a reduced amount of SoulTime.

But there is another way that they could heal."

"....How?"

"It's by using more of your SoulTime to close any wounds. It could even heal your body to its original state.

For example, let's say that you have 2000 years of SoulTime. And if you lose an arm, then you will only have 1000 years of SoulTime left. But if you heal properly by closing off your stump or healing them through supernatural means, then your SoulTime could return to 2000 years.

This means that any injury that does not affect your health too much would only give a temporary decrease in SoulTime.

But if you decide to heal your injuries by sacrificing your SoulTime, then that temporary decrease will be permanent. If you need that arm during a fight, you can decide to heal it back for the price of 500 more years.

During a fight, this is extremely important. But after that fight, your original 2000 years of SoulTime will now only become 500 years of Soultime.

As you can see, it is extremely costly.

If you had just waited and healed your injuries naturally or with help, then you would hardly lose any SoulTime at all.

But of course, there are special instances where the cost isn't important. What you need right now is to heal your body so that you can move and finally get that boar!"

Atlan forced his head up and towards the forest after the shore. And on the very precipice where the soil met the grass, there was a very inconspicuous brown boar minding its own business. It hadn't noticed Atlan yet.

It was ripe for the taking.

All he had to do was stand up and finally catch the boar with his very hands.

"How can I heal my body?"

"It's quite complicated. You'd have to be completely in control of your Soul System."

"Just tell me how."

"....you have to look deep into your Soul System and locate the sands of SoulTime. It is encased in an hourglass that cannot be broken under normal means."

Atlan closed his eyes and focused on the giant hourglass floating in the darkness of his Soul System.

Unlike normal people where the sands of time flowed downwards, his hourglass defied normal gravity and instead flowed upwards!

That was because instead of losing time, Atlan was gaining it with every second that occurred.

This unknown power would have been enough to heal normal injuries, but the paralyzation brought about by the Huntsman was too damaging.

"Once you have located it, try to summon all your strengths and break the glass. Once you have done so, you can get all the sands of time you need to heal your body."

Atlan did as Carmine said and imagined himself facing the giant glass. He held out his hand and punched the glass with the strength of his SSS class Physique LifeSkill.

But he found that he could not conjure the signature black flames of his LifeSkill. He even tried using his Angel Wings, but it was as if they didn't exist.

Carmine was right when he said that he could not do this under normal means. He'd have to find another way.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"You can't, right? This is the reason why only veterans can do this sacrificial technique. You would need years and years of practice before you can even cause a crack on that glass.

Your body will fight you at every step it can. It's a self-defense mechanism."