Limitless The Strongest Revenant

"Excluding the Chaser, the Shifter, Bella and the Valkyrie of Ivaldi, are the other three of you women also Formless?"

"Yes," I answered with a nod.

"How is that even possible?" Herman asked with furred brows.

"What? Something wrong with that?"

"Herman's reaction is quite understandable, Limitless. Do you know what the ratio of Formless is to the Manifested?"

"I don't."

"It's 1 in 1,000,000," Carlos answered with a conflicted expression.

"Huh?"

Hearing the numbers I found it to be unbelievable. Apart from me and the Sirens most of the original members of the 2nd Amendment were all Formless. Only Claire and Angela were not. Find more to read on My Virtual Library Empire

"Just throwing out there, but how many Formless Reapers do you have in your ranks?"

"Thirteen."

[My lord, you know a lot more than thirteen, the actual number is close to a hundred. You, the Sirens, the male squad leaders of the 2nd Amendment, Cynthia Carmine, Van Micro and 25 Formless Academics, and Finally Terence Anvil along with 50 Formless Reapers who formerly from Fortification.]

'Oh, right. I forgot about the rest of them. Thank you for reminding me.'

"I miss spoke, it's close to a hundred."

Hearing that I knew close to a hundred Formless Reapers grew pleased. In the beginning all I wanted was to gain a large force who would use guns to fight. Along the way I met people who were just as desperate as me.

Apart from Van and Terence's initial groups, I do not remember if there was any more Formless Reapers who joined us. As I was surrounded by them, I didn't think it was that rare for a Reaper to be Formless.

"Well, I guess that can be expected. You did kick off the arms race based around the Formless."

"Was it the same for South America?"

Herman interjected in between sips of his beer, "Carlos is not wrong, we did try to employ the Formless, but they are kind of useless. Summoners are expected to be able to move fast and assault positions with our Champions."

"Hmm. What does have to do with anything?"

"Try to think you cocksucker. Unlike a regular army, Summoners can suddenly create a large disposable force with nothing but soul. Apart from defensive battles, Summoner armies are used primarily in Blitzkrieg, ambush and sabotage operations that overwhelm enemy positions and disrupt enemy lines."

I could see how. Unlike the other Reaper Classes, Summoners could deploy their Champions aggressively or defensively as the need arises. Even if the Champions are taken down, so long as the Reapers were not taken out, they would recover to full power with just time and rest.

However, the best thing about them would have to be the innate ability to quickly deploy a large force comprised of multiple elements with zero need for logistics or supply lines.

They could deploy tanks, fast attack Champions and even biological warfare. And unlike the other classes that needed a lot of Reapers, a single Legion Summoner could overwhelm a small sized base no problem.

Compared to normal Summoners, Bella did look a bit inferior. On top of not being able to call down her own Champions, she needed actual hardware to have something to command. This was beside the fact that only {Rewind} and {Auto} allowed her to recreate her Soulless army.

'Taken literally without Me and Lilly, it would have been impossible for Bella to be able to contribute in a fight. This was despite my woman being plenty amazing. If the other South American Formless were in the same boat, I could understand why Herman calls them useless.'

"I see. That is true. Even Bella would find it hard to fight as a Summoner without actual Champions available to her. But wouldn't your Administration try to support them?"

"Not really. Formless Summoners are extremely useless. They should be called Tamers instead as they need to capture monsters from Hellsgate. But even those have limited utility as the monsters cannot be hidden, nor recreated one they get killed."

"However, I while Herman's words are true, I want you to know this, Limitless."

Hearing Carlos' sudden change in tone I focused on him to ensure I heard him properly.

"Anyone who reads papers published by Academics would notice. While Formless significantly take more resources to train and ascend, they have a higher potential."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It is exactly as I said. I told you earlier, right? Your Formless Shifter lover, Jas, was it? Her soulform is incredibly unique but has terrifying potential. I can assure you once she turns into a Specter her power would be unleashed in full.

"{Fates} follow a certain standard. You gain power in exchange for something. Manifested while having a set standard also have a defined limit as well. Formless on the other hand do not, but due to that fact, they also do not have a minimum standard."

Carlos gestured to our surroundings like he was making a case for his argument.

"I am sure that during the Wraith ranks your Harem would have suffered much. However, the strength they displayed against our invasion was nothing short of amazing. The abilities your women executed were for lack of a better word, malicious and heartless.

"If such monsters are allowed to grow, they would soon outclass even our strongest Specters. I suggest you guard them and ensure they get to ascend safely. Personally, I find you more terrifying for keeping so many crazy women by your side."

Hearing his warning, I nodded and answered with conviction, "Haha, I got lucky. You do not need to worry, I am their {Kindred}. I will never allow myself to die so long as even one of them remains alive. I will protect them, I can assure you that," I proclaimed.

"I have no doubt in my mind of that my friend. But truly it seems you are favored by the heavens. Having a lover from each Reaper class would allow you to have an extremely well-rounded sense of combat. I grow excited at your future."

Finding his praise a bit uncomfortable, I turned to my drink while changing the topic.

"So… Chasers, can you tell me more about them?"

Despite our group eating the entire time since we sat down, Carlos and Herman did not show signs of getting full. I pulled out more food and just waited for the lecture to continue. I kind of felt it with the Sirens. Reapers in general seam to eat way more than the average person.

Although if you consider the amount of "work" our race does, eating only what a regular human eats would be like starving ourselves. Unaware of my thoughts Herman ran out of his coffee or whatever and began opening up cans of Miller High life.

"Chasers are the Reaper's version of a one trick pony. They go all out in only one of two things. More than their personalities such tendencies are because of their Zenith constitutions."

"Zenith constitutions?"

"Yeah. Put simply, it is a rare condition that occurs when a Reaper's cells get saturated in soul. Usually happens in the Phantom stages. While normal Phantoms use soul to enhance or improve their cells, they instinctively have safeguards."

"What do you mean?" I asked not able to understand.

"You know how the human body has internal breaks? Meaning you can actually pull more strength from it, but as it knows going all in would destroy your body it stops before you can hurt yourself."

"Yeah, it's called the safety reflex, right?"

"Yes. That is right. Reapers have their own version of that. When you ascend you do not actually control how your body improves right? It just happened automatically?"

I nodded my head to agree with him. In my case technically Exa was the one who did all of it. My evolution from a human to an Artificial Descendant would have gone to shit without Exa and the {Fates}.

"There are Reapers whose {Fates} are so out of whack the Reaper's safety reflex gets overpowered. When this happens the Reaper's body get infused with so much soul it can no longer handle it. In response the body enters Zenith.

"In Zenith, the soul forcefully interferes with the body making it a war of the body and soul. Should the soul win, all soul energy is taken from the body and is instead used to nourish the Reaper's soul capacity. If on the other hand the body wins, the Reapers cells get drowned to the limit at the cost of the Reaper's entire soul capacity."

"Wait so you either put everything into your muscles or your soul?"