Limitless The Strongest Revenant

Humans were often called a being potential. Unlike angels who were inherently good, or demons who were evil, humans had the potential for both. While there have been numerous benevolent humans through the years, the reality was simply that people were fucking bastards.

The drop rate of Benevols was a clear indicator of this. I forgot what the actual number was, but I think Cynthia mentioned that it took hundreds if not thousands of regular zombies for each Devil's remains.

People, both Human and Reapers have been killing shit since time immemorial. Whether it was for their sustenance by hunting or just because they wanted to. There was no better way to illustrate how malevolent people were than when they took life.

Maybe this was why we became reapers. We took life. That was both our purpose and our way of life. While it may have been possible for humans to live without killing anyone, for Reapers it was not possible. Not if you wanted to survive in our fucked-up reality.

Carlos' impromptu lecture was eye opening on several levels. The nature and abilities of the Reaper ranks was a big part of it for sure, but I found myself noticing somethings about what separated them to begin with.

The four summoned Carloses in front of me made the differences all the clearer. But I opted to stay quiet and wait for him to finish first.

"Now, in that part as a Death Seeker I am sure you are most interested in the combat applications of the Domains and how they factor into the combat styles of the seven battle fronts."

Wordlessly I nodded. My nature was exactly as he described. Ask me about the law and tax codes of the Unites States and I would draw a blank. This was of course despite the fact that I was born and have lived only in America my entire life.

It was simply because I was just not interested in it. But ask me about the history of guns and I knew enough shit to make a presentation worth several days. along that same mentality I could care less about the philosophical implications of the Reaper ascensions.

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What I did care about was how I could kill them.

"The let's start with something a bit complicated. Limitless, are you aware of the differences in combat styles of each Battlefront? If you are mind telling me what you know?"

"Sure, North America has {Fates} centered on breaking common sense. Africa on Soulforms. South America summons Champions. Europe gets possessed by dead heroes. Asia is big on buffs. Australians are one trick ponies.

Finally, Northerners gain power in exchange for curses."

"Wow, you really are a warmonger! I half expected you to only know a few of them," Herman rudely commented.

"Impressive. You are correct on all seven answers. You did not make the mistake of lumping Europe and South America as summoners. It seems you understood what the differences are despite not using the proper terminologies."

"Terminologies? What do you mean?"

"I can only attribute it to the fact that you are self-taught. Normally such topics are only explained in depth to Reapers tasked with Reaper versus Reaper combat roles. The Death Seekers are notorious worldwide for having extremely poor on-boarding practices despite being such a role."

'Exa, shouldn't you know such terminologies?'

[I am restricted by your access to the Graveyard network my lord. I only complied my information by watching the archives available to the public. I apologize for not knowing the proper terminologies.]

'Nah, that is fine. I have a feeling Zach didn't bother as even the limited on-boarding the Death Seekers did have I didn't even watch. Please record the information Carlos will teach and share it to the rest of Hellsend.'

[I understand.]

"Yeah, sorry about that Carlos. I really in lacking. But why do I need to know the terminologies anyway?"

"Well, it will make it easier to discuss especially when I begin describing the strength and weaknesses of each Reaper combat doctrine."

Hearing his explanation, I dropped whatever pretenses I had and created {Shelter} tables and chairs. I sat down and gestured to the two Specters.

"Look at this fucking cocksucker. He was just blasting us into oblivion a while ago. And now you expect us to sit with you?"

"Then go fuck yourself Herman. I don't need you here. I gave you a seat out of respect to Carlos. I can bring up the Helicopters to kick your ass again if you want."

"Hahaha. Pardon him Limitless. Despite only being a Phantom, your mentality is already that of a Specter!"

My teacher called for Herman to join him as he took a seat.

"While people of our rank do get into fights from time to time, it is a silent understanding that we are not to kill each other. Anyone who does is hunted Specters from every continent."

"I am impressed that you understood the hidden implications of fighting in a Domain. Your ability to comprehend subtle messages is good. So long as we are under my Domain none can see what we do inside. For appearance, the war being waged outside is enough."

"…Yes…Thank is exactly it," I replied trying to sound confident. I didn't know if my Poker face sucked or something, but Herman face palmed while Carlos began laughing out loud.

"Unbelievable, so you really would stop everything to listen despite proposing to fight for real?"

"HAHAHAHA! How amusing! As expected of a Ruler!"

I smiled wryly waiting for the lecture to continue. While fighting was a good experience, intelligence especially the type that Carlos was sharing was the condensed knowledge of several thousand battles. It was obvious which would help me more in the grand scheme of things.

After a few minutes, Herman pulled a couple of steel cups and began making coffee. Carlos meanwhile composed himself before he began to explain.

"Right, Limitless, I will assume you have zero knowledge about Reaper-on-Reaper combat and share everything I know. Basically, I will act like your handler for this afternoon."

"I understand, thank you Carlos. I will repay this favor."

"Haha, think nothing of it. You basically saved my life just from cleansing our malice. It is a small price to pay. While we could have tried to hide in Hellsgate we would have succumb to soul collapse sooner or later. Because I understand this, it is I who must repay your grace not the other way around."

I nodded without saying anything further. For all the evil bastards from Carlos' stories he was a really honorable guy. I was really lucky I opted to Listen to Bella. If we continued fighting to the death, I would go about still knowing nothing.

Although it is doubtful if I could truly win. Unlike with the Vampires, Sacreds do not really help in killing Reapers. But that might not be the case for Roach's Halberd. Would the anti-soul weaponry be able to kill a Specter inside their own domain?

'I should test that out in depth later. Lilly would benefit from this lecture as well.'

My Princess was way smartest than me, she might have already understood Domains and all that crap along with her Ethos instinctively. But knowing the basics would allow us to understand the language of Hellsgate better.

One of the requirements of espionage and counter insurgency was being able to understand the words of the you intercept and steal. Not using the same words would be the equivalent to not knowing how to read, so I couldn't pass up the chance to learn from Carlos.

"Okay, let us start on the terminologies. Reapers in the global stage are classified by their frighting style. This makes it easier to coordinate with others and comprehend information quickly. Are you familiar with how {Fates} are classified?"

Feeling glad I at least knew something I vigorously nodded my head before answering.

"Yes, they are given codes. For manifested is made up of three letters. Their rating which goes I think from C to S, then M for manifested followed by their function. The functions are separated between Combat, Assassination, Support and Defense."

"Well done, almost perfect. The rating goes all further to SS then finally SSS. So, any manifested with more than 3 letters is powerful regardless of his type. This is similar to the stigma on octads. If you know that much then you should also how it is for Formless?"