Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

Hail and ice poured down all around, hitting the ground and melding into the already thick snow below.

Atlan slowly walked forward and saw himself enter into a completely different world. He looked to the side and saw no visible walls or corners. And when he looked back at the door, he only saw a rectangular frame that led back down to the hot production floor.

He walked back and saw that he could walk beyond the door! The door was just a rectangular thick frame in the middle of snow and ice. This wasn't just an illusion; he was truly transported into a different world!

He was standing in the middle of a blizzard, with barely anything visible beyond a few meters.

"Oh, bad weather. I'll change it to be a little bit clearer," said Carmine as he went on his tablet and entered some kind of command.

Suddenly, the world seemed to have fast-forwarded. The blizzard increased in intensity for a few seconds and a fraction of a second later, the clouds soon dispersed to show clear blue skies up above. He saw the snow build up high just a few seconds ago but was now melting down to only a couple of inches deep.

Once Carmine stopped his command, the world seemed to have slowed back down to its normal speed.

He looked up and only saw pale blue skies with barely any clouds.

Now that there was no blizzard, he finally saw the world around him.

He was standing at the very peak of a snowy mountain, with a panoramic view of the horizon with a bigger world beyond him.

There was a luscious environment filled with green and life away from the mountain. He couldn't see the Unclaimed Lands anywhere.

"Where are we?"

Carmine opened his arms. "Welcome to my abode. I like to look at good scenery whenever I work on something hard, so I constructed a simulated world of a tall mountain with an amazing view of what I thought the world would have looked like back in the olden days. They didn't have the Unclaimed Lands and had life sprawling around everywhere."

Atlan bent down and touched the snow in his hands. It was cold and wet. And as he crushed it in his hands, some melted into water and some condensed into ice.

"This…is a simulated world?"

"Yes. I visited the cable car in Mount Infernal a while back and liked it so much that I built my office to have the same view."

Atlan truly underestimated Specialist Operators. If they could create a world like this, then they almost had the power of a God!

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"How do you create this?"

Carmine looked at Atlan and saw the pure curiosity in his eyes. It was the look of someone hungry for more knowledge.

"Pterina was right about you. It seems you do have the talent to become an Operator."

"Why do you say that?"

Carmine gestured around him. "Look at what I have made.

Do you think I would have been able to create this if I wasn't curious about what the world would have looked like back then?

Do you think we would have been able to kill Canzers if our forefathers weren't curious about their weaknesses?

Curiosity drives you to explore what's out there and inspires you to find new things that weren't there before. It encourages you to ask the right questions and seek the appropriate solutions.

If you weren't curious about Operators, then you wouldn't have been able to find a way to force yourself into our world and enroll in the University. Not only that, you were also allowed to study Alchemy and the creation of constructs. Due to your curiosity, you have done the impossible."

Carmine complimented the young Star Porter. What he has done was truly unprecedented, and from what he could see, it stemmed only from curiosity and the desire to know more.

He was worried that the other Operators wouldn't accept Atlan as one of their own in the University, but if he was able to show off his curiosity and his pure interest in learning, then they would understand that even if Atlan wasn't one of them, he was one of them.

"Do you want to see your new battle suit?"

Atlan nodded. There was nothing he would like more to see.

They walked over towards the very peak of the mountain—the very summit consisting only of a single sharp mound at the end.

Carmine waved his hand, and a rectangular hole in the ground suddenly gave way.

A new battle suit donned on an armor stand was being slowly pushed up from the rectangular hole until the full suit was revealed.

Atlan looked at the battle suit and felt a strange force emanating from inside it. There was a mix of signals as if it was made out of different elements that were constantly fighting with each other.

And if he studied it thoroughly, he could sense the familiar Angel Power running through the seams of his new battle suit.

Atlan walked up to it and touched his new uniform. The protective padding was made out of something incredibly hard. Because of its color and shiny finish, he wouldn't have recognized what it was if he didn't touch it himself.

It was made out of chitin! He would be wearing a battle suit made out of the carcass of Canzers!

The cloth itself was very flexible yet incredibly firm as well. He tried to stretch it using all of his strength, including activating his Physique LifeSkill, but he still couldn't tear the fabric apart.

It was clear that just from the construction alone, this battle suit was made for high-level missions.

"This is amazing," Atlan uttered.

"You haven't seen anything yet. This is a one-of-a-kind battle suit with programmed abilities and powers weaved into the very fabric itself. Some of it will activate even without your intervention, so you don't have to worry about how to wield it. You'll be protected from attacks even if you can't see or react to them.

Usually, that would be impossible. But this is different. It is state of the art.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

This battle suit is a combination of an Operator battle suit and a Vanguard battle suit. It is the best of both worlds."