Limitless The Strongest Revenant

I brought it to my lips and kissed it tenderly, imagining the lips of the one I love as I did so.

"Shujin, I head into battle. Please remember me. And know that my heart is always with you."

I had no illusions that my mission would be easy. The fact that there was over a hundred Phantoms in reserve meant they were either the elite or Reapers who had some kind of way to turn the tide of battle. {Fates} had such a power.

Fortunately for us, {Rewind} allowed our entire force to give our all and do it repeatedly. But as this was our first time to fight in a war of this scale, we didn't know what to expect.
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[SiliconeChipDiva: Aki, get ready. Our bombardment has begun. The Specters are defending with their Champions.]

[HaveYouMetMyFish: Roger that.]

"Exa, map my surroundings and heading. Give me the straightest path towards the Priority target 1 and 2."

[Right away, Lady Aki.]

My vision got augmented and showed the events occurring outside this subspace pocket. There were large beasts that seemed to be tanking the Sunset shells. A pair of giant turtles and what looked like a gigantic moth. They were about as big as normal Cyclops.

"[Translucent], [Silent Steps], [Overdrive] [Assassin]. [Blood Intoxication], [Sanguine Bladewing]."

With most of my preparations completed, I took out a dango stick and invoked my most powerful {fate} to date.

"{Dope}."

As I ate the dango stick, I felt power flow through my veins. This was my request to {Eat}. The power similar to {Soul Breaker}, but without the danger. Until {Dope} expired, anything I fed from would extend this attack buff.

Naturally this worked in tandem with {Butcher}, {Carve} and {Eat}. Together with my {Soulgear} {Blood Feast} and my {Programs} [Blood Intoxication] and [Sanguine Bladewing] anything that bled by my bullets or blood swords would extend {Dope}.

"[Inventory] MP5SD, Sentinel. Exa, give me Sunset rounds."

[Done. Good hunting, Lady Aki.]

[SiliconeChipDiva: Aki. Go now. Fuck them up.]

"[In Plain Sight]."

I leapt out of my hiding place and immediately joined the fray. Confused screams dominated the air adding to the chaos. Loud crashes and explosions made the ground shake from the power of the impacts.

A large dome of blue energy protected the area. The tortoises and moth were all pouring soul into the defensive structure. Underneath them the Reapers and Champions all waited helplessly.

"How can their guns even reach us here! There was nothing about this on the reports!"

"Commander! Please evacuate this area, Hellsend has almost ten times the fire power we anticipated! Continuing is suicide!"

"Just how powerful are those rounds! Even with three Rank A Champions, we are barely defending! Are there really no Specters present? Carlos! Are you sure the Coroner is not here!"

"Shut up! Even if she was her {Fate} is centered around decomposition! What the hell does that have to do with fucking Howitzers!"

'{Blink}.'

Taking advantage of Lilly's abilities, I shortened the distance between me and the Specters covering several kilometers of distance. Unfortunately true to their rank, the moment I got in within 200 meters, the army of summoned conquistadors of Target 2 turned my way.

"INTRUDER! THERE IS SOMEONE HERE!" he shouted.

"Tsk. Get out of my way! [Sanguine Bladewing]."

Without stopping, I charged towards the commander's bodyguards. They separated into two lines. One line held pikes while the backline held heavy looking crossbows. I raised both my guns and rained lead on them. Together with over a dozen blood swords I broke through!

"SHIT! GET HER!" "PROTECT THE COMMANDER!"

More and more of the Champions and their Phantoms tried to block my way. I threw away the Sentinel and moved to the nearest enemy Reaper. I grabbed him by the neck and carried him as I ran.

"BITCH! DIE!!"

Monsters and all sort of insects attacked me. But I prioritized evading and threw my hostage at them. With my blood swords deployed they began to spin around my position like a skirt of metallic blades.

"KYA!" "ACK!" "NO!!!!"

I slid under a wolf type Champion as my blood swords carved him and his Phantom into shreds. Using the Reapers as cover, I made my way to their commander. Despite my progress, again and again the surviving Phantoms resummoned the Champions I already killed.

Unable to keep my temper in place, I decided to step it up. I dropped the MP5SD and took out my trump cards.

"How annoying! [Inventory] Blight grenades!"

With the bottles of poison in my hand I threw it as close as I could to the Commander. Upon shattering, a gray colored smoke began to spread outward.

Those that got covered in them all began to drop like flies as they began coughing and wheezing in pain. Despite their predicament I ran into the smoke without a second thought.

[Lady Aki, {Digest} has neutralized {Blight}.]

'Thank you, Exa.'

"FUCK! COUGH! ITS {BLIGHT}! THIS WOMAN IS THE CORONER! COUGH! WIND CHAMPIONS GET RID OF THE SMOKE NOW!

{CONQUEST}!"

Target two, the Specter who looked like a conquistador, began shouting orders as he ran to stop me. A great number of souls rushed towards him from all around me. His 100-man army then manifested in front of him creating a wall of Champions.

"Tsk."

Wordlessly I raised my arms over my face and charged into the large army. They began to shoot me with bolts and stab me with pikes. I sent all my swords to hack the pikemen, inadvertently allowing all the projectiles made of soul to bury themselves into my body.

Target 2 and multiple other Phantoms joined in and blasted me with all sorts of skills and abilities. As I was in [Shadowblade], I couldn't tank all the hits and halted to a stop.

"SUCH COURAGE BUT YOU ARE A FOOL EVA BAKER!"

Eva was not actually participating in this battle. She and her husband were back on Earth protecting the Simmons. However, seeing how easily I hacked my way across through Phantoms, they probably would not believe I was not yet a Specter.

Many of the Phantoms and Champions sacrificed themselves to the {Blight} cloud just to join the attack. Once I got rid of Target 2, I could attack Target 1 without much issue.

I couldn't help smiling before I replied. "Is that so? Huff… I wonder. Huff… [Karma Strike]."

Feeling lightheaded from the damage, I felt my body overdraft to unleash [Karma Strike]. It was arguably my most powerful attack. It fused {Counter}, and {Vendetta}. two devastating {Fates} that returned damage.

"ACK!" "ARGH!!" "BLEUGH!!" "FUCK!!" "WHINE!" "ROAR!"

The results were as expected. When [Karma Strike] executed, everything in my vicinity suddenly died. With every guard suddenly falling to the ground, I drew the blood towards me and healed my wounds.

"{Transfusion}."

I ran towards Target 1 as I willed my blood swords to skewer him.

"HA! HO!"

Using impressive martial arts the Inca warrior looking Specter counter attacked. He smashed my blood sword constructs with just his fists. In the chaos I controlled the blood in the area and sent it towards the Specter like a tidal wave, taking away his vision!

"{Blink}. [Inventory] Sentinel."

"W-WHAT!"

I teleported behind him and unloaded everything I had to his liver. Which for some reason was where his soulgem was. As his soulgem shattered, Target 1's body fell lifelessly to the ground.

"Huff…Huff…Exa, tell Bella, I succeeded."

Looking around, I saw the other Phantoms converging on me. I was about to attack once more till I heard Jo's voice.

"AKI! GET OUT OF THERE IT'S A TRAP!"

"!!!"

[Invoking [Autoload].]

I couldn't even react before I felt my body shatter into lights! Only the {Fate} of my {Kindred} gave such a sensation, meaning I just rewinded.

***

When I came too, I was back on the defensive wall beside Bella.

"I died?"

"Yep," Bella said with a frown.

[ChainsawsAndPropane: What the hell is happening?! For fuck's sake! I knew they were hiding something!]

[MastiffKnight: Fuck me dead! You have got to be fucking shitting me!]

Hearing the profanities of my sisters, I turned around and understood why they were agitated. Beyond the walls and Robyn's pitfall traps stood the South American army. But rather than what was left, it was the imposing numbers they had before the battle began. All 1500 of them.

Bella massaged the bridge of her nose, as she explained.

"We now know what the {fate} of the Inca looking Specter is. His {fate} created doppelgangers of his entire army. They got us. We exposed most of our hands fighting fakes. No wonder Blanche didn't say anything about winning. So long as Target 1 is present defending is all we can do."

As I watched the anxious faces of our forces, I inwardly agreed with Bella. Majority of our traps, strategies and abilities had been exposed. All because we were too aggressive.

"Sigh… This is going to be a really long battle," I said in defeat.