Limitless The Strongest Revenant

Under the Domain of a Legion Summoner, I was having a working dinner with two South American Specters. It was funny how we had our own little world while our armies blasted the fuck out of each other.

[My lord, I apologize for bothering you, but Hellsend has finished terminating the South Americans. The only two remaining are the Specters with you.]

'I see. Has the girls finished taking out the Observers?'

[Not yet my lord, out of the ten groups present, only six have been dealt with. To hasten the process, the ladies have begun enlisting the services of the South Americans who woke up. Their payment came in the form of malice cleansing by Juno and the Awakened.]

'Hmm. How does the girls intend to make sure the South American's run away?'

[They were allowed to help up only under the condition that they drink your blood and invoke {Call my Name}. Should they try to run, we will be able to terminate them so long as they remain within ten floors of the 24th floor.]

'Good. Keep me posted. If they need more people, send the Adventurers or the rest of the 2nd Amendment. As a side note, when we upgrade {Kill Switch}, we should make it so even the Sirens can trigger it. '

[At the moment the South American Reapers are zealous. Together with the Siren squads none of the Observers will escape. As for {Kill Switch}'s upgrades, I agree. Granting it to the ladies is a good consideration. As is changing the code words.]

It was funny how I much of a bastard I was being. Here I was advocating for alliances with the South Americans only to strap bombs into their souls. And sadly my conscience had very little trouble accepting it.

Learning how powerful Specters were made me fearful. As more and more people grew under my wing, the risk of them turning on me was real. My nature as a negative thinking began imagining on what I would do to resist them.

What would happen if some of them chose to betray me? Rather than risk it, I would much rather be prepared. Being paranoid while hard on the nerves was a good thing if channeled in productive things.

If we really do end up having a fruitful alliances, {Call my name} would ensure {Kill Switch} was always primed and ready. This would remain true even as our Phantoms ascend into Specters.

Despite thinking such thoughts I ate and drank merrily with the two before me. I wonder what they would say if they knew? I do not think anyone would appreciate the fact that their lives could literally be ended at a single word from me.

'I guess this evens out their attempt at trying to harm my girls,' I inwardly decided.

I then remembered that their people who died to {Blight} grenades or Anti-soul halberds failed to return. Would the rest of them be able to continue working with us when there were those that died?

"Carlos, my adjutant just gave me a update. You army has been trounced and have returned to their real bodies. Of the ten groups of observers my harem has terminated six. They also employed your Reapers to help out with malice cleansing as payment."

"Oh! That is wonderful news, I am sure they would fight even harder to replay the Cleansing."

"But would your people still be fine? Some of your men died to our weapons. If their {Kindred} or friends wish to fight us…"

"While I cannot say for certain, most would be amicable to joining Nerio's army. Rogues might appear free but they are still shackled by malice. If Hellsend decides to aids us in getting back our humans, my people will be serve you loyally."

With their malice concerns taken care of by me, they would hardly want to leave my battlefront. Once I expose the bullshit about the humans of this army being dead, the next question would be if I wanted to help them.

'I will ask the girls if they believe the loyalty of these bastards is enough. If it is, then we would need to plan an assault on South America soon. {Gate} should help a lot with that.'

I raised my beer for a toast.

"I look forward to it then Carlos. And to you to Herman. You arrogant condescending fuck."

Despite Herman and I cursing each other like sailors he wordlessly clunked his cup to my beer can.

"Here is to hoping you do not die on some street you cock sucker…"

Good company always made food and alcohol taste sweeter. Despite Herman being a elitist bastard he was a Specter. Thus I had no issues with him cussing at me. For all his faults I at least knew he wasn't a bad guy.

'The fact that I can kill him with a single word helps too.'

After a few more toasts Carlos continued his lecture. Until we found the rest of the Observers we still had pretend we were fighting in this domain.

"Buuurrp. Damn! That definitely hit the spot. Weew! Where was I? Oh, right, Shifters! Experience new stories with My Virtual Library Empire

Basically if Keeper and Summoners sought power outside of their bodies using Oaths and Champions, Shifters had no qualms using themselves."

"Aren't Oaths the same? Its still within the body, right?"

"No, they are different. Oaths do not directly interfere with the body. Mostly you pay souls to the universe and you either get a reward or a punishment. Shifters are different. They take saturating the body to another level.

"All Phantoms feel their bodies change due to soul. Your bones turn harder than steel. Once saturated our muscles and organ tissue become several times denser. I think it was on the level of reinforced concrete."

Wow, no wonder our bodies could withstand much more punishment. I kind of felt that our base abilities was already better than humans but hearing such crazy comparisons was cool.

'And my body should be even tougher as an Artificial Descendant.'

[My lord, Lady Bella actually researched much on this topic. The biggest difference of regular Phantoms and those that were Descendants were their blood vessels and neural pathways. The former can only gain stronger bones and denser muscle tissue.]

'Why the big difference?'

[According to the papers from Academics, the human body can only take in a set number of souls. Every Reaper hits this limit as Phantoms and gets it increased upon becoming Specters. Descendants naturally begin with a higher capacity due to their origins.]

'So its like a hidden level?'

[Yes, Descendants would have bodies meant for Specters at the Phantom rank. The higher the generation the larger the difference. Although the improvements past the 12th generation start to become negligible.]

'Where do I rank?'

[Your body's restructuring would place you at the level of a 5th Generation Descendant. At the 7th Generation onwards your body would already by at a the standard of a regular Specter.]

'Fuck, so Jo, and Jas already have bodies as powerful as Specters?'

[Yes. This is why they have thicker neural pathways that allow them to out think computers. Along with better blood vessels that allow them to have higher stamina.]

'Eh? But Liv and Aki out performs the other Sirens when we have sex.'

[My lord. Northerner are masters in soul control. Lady Liv's body is as powerful as a 15th generation Descendant. There is a reason her people continue to use the Northern Ceremony despite its negative consequences.]

'… Well fuck… How do the other girls fair?'

[Lady Aki comes in next as 3rd generation Descendant. Lady Lilly follows as a half Descendant. Followed by Lady Bella a standard Reaper, then Lady Robyn who has the worse physical condition of all the Sirens.]

'Bella is in better shape than Robyn? Since when?'

[As I keep track of their vitals, I know that Lady Robyn's physical prowess has been rapidly deteriorating. It occurs each time she ascends. At her current pace she would have the body of a senior citizen once she becomes a Specter.]

'What?! But I still see her run! How can her body be that bad? Are you sure you aren't mistaken?'

[No, my lord. Lady Robyn has been pushing herself harder ever since she became a Phantom. She can only manage to maintain appearances because of {Eat}, {Butcher} and the energy realm. But the amount of stamina her body can replenish has already halved. Soon, she would be forced to accept her weak constitution.]

'Exa… Why the fuck am I only knowing of this now?'