Limitless The Strongest Revenant

Chapter POV: Lilly Browning

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[38F.]

[38F? 38F! Vai tomar no cu! I am only 32DD and I already have back problems! You guys are all freaks!]

I couldn't help but chuckle at the lighthearted topics the girls were chatting about. Even as we murdered and massacred this facility, none of them were the worse for wear.

Ever since the enlistment I have been keeping tabs on these gathering of talents.

Aside from Aki, they were all above average in one area or another. Somehow it amazed me that Dear was able to find them all.

For reasons I could not explain, they were all drawn to him like ants to sugarcubes. The only thing they had in common was that they were Formless.

[This is Robyn, enemies neutralized. Target is not here.]

Even the youngest of a group was someone of immense talent. An notorious combat joey, feared in the Australian underground as the "White-tailed Spider".

Only Bella and I knew this information, but Robyn belonged to the terrorist group Vulture's Talons. And the ambush that killed Robyn's entire unit was orchestrated just to take her out.

'Robyn is unstable right now. If she knew, I wonder what she would think. Her former teacher was a respected mercenary known only as the Bayonet. And true to his guidance, Robyn turned into an absolute monster.'

To be named after the spider with a myth about its lethality showed how infamous Robyn was. Despite her entire unit being wiped out, she somehow single-handedly annihilated the 13th Commando Unit of SOCOMD, Australia's renowned counter-terrorism unit.

[Got it. Head towards the basement next to Robyn. Continue planting bombs along the locations I marked].

But not only the combat joey, Isabella Taurus was equally impressive. A Brazilian terrorist leader masquerading as an honest female police officer.

Bella was known in the criminal underworld as "Maria Chorando", the supreme commander of "Azul Legiao". A bloodthirsty terrorist group at war with Comando Vermelho or C.V., Brazil's most dangerous criminal organization.

Comando Vermelho was built on drug and arms trafficking, extortion, kidnapping for ransom and narco-terrorism. They had brought much suffering to most of South America.

And our young Brazilian had her family slaughtered by C.V. when she was only fourteen years old. With nothing but her brains and spirit, the woman built a powerful force, all for the sake of her revenge.

[What if I meet someone, Bella?]

Azul Legiao operated without ethics or mercy. Forget blurring the line between right and wrong, they never even knew it existed.

They burned down entire cities, publicly raped and executed C.V. officers, and bombed churches, schools, and even hospitals to take out their targets.

[Excluding children, Kill them all]

[Got it.]

Because of her methods, Maria Chorando or "The Weeping Mary" was wanted by Interpol in over 47 countries on four continents. Isabella Taurus looked normal, but behind her facade was a psychotic murderer.

Of course, the Descendants weren't any better.

The "Ebony Deathstalker" Jasmine Denel, who could hit skulls five miles away with nothing but an arrow.

Then there was "Stella Cadente" Josephine Benelli, the Italian shooting star. A battle junkie infamous for defeating an entire knight order of Descendents at the age of 21.

[Thank you. That means they put the kids upstairs. Liv, did you manage to destroy the garage?]

The only one I had little information on was Liv Ivaldi. But stories about the bravery of the "Valkyrie of Ivaldi" were certainly numerous. So, she couldn't have been normal either.

[Yes, Bella, I destroyed all the vehicles here. There were only humans.]

Using my resources as a Princess, I classified the girls' records under my father's gag order for John Smith. This is because now was not the time for him to find out. My man was already traumatized by betrayal and was already difficult enough to approach as it was.

'If he found out that the allies he was protecting were nothing but psychopaths and murderers, he would be distraught.'

When I learned that Dear had a group of vixens vying for his attention, I immediately had them investigated. What I found both impressed and shocked me.

The life of a reaper was nothing short of a curse. Ask any descendant and they will tell you horror stories from their childhood. But even the humans John picked up were equally pitiful.

At first I was worried that the girls would be a weakness for him. After all, the man fought a Revenant for the girls in front of my men and all the survivors of the July enlistment.

One might become a Reaper by sheer luck, but luck would not be enough to evolve. There was a cost to evolving into a Phantom. And that cost came in the form of abandoning humanity.

The quickest way to manifest this change was to take life. Unlike good people, who had some kind of justification, a Phantom was only born when a reaper was able to kill without conscience.

"And one can only do so when he no longer sees his enemies as people," I said out loud to no one in particular.

The Descendants of Europe easily cleared this hurdle. One of their most effective training regiments was to be sent as teenagers to fight in wars.

Liv, too, would naturally be accustomed to such barbarism. The North's rite of passage, the Northern Ceremony, was nothing more than a battle royale for their children. No human survives, the ceremony only determines their rank.

What I didn't expect was Aki as the Bladed Kitsune, Bella's stint as the Weeping Mary and Robyn's colorful assassination portfolio.

They were all like flowers grown in the bloodiest soil. My history seemed modest compared to these people.

"And they all got to know my spouse naturally, huh? Such horseshit."

Someone was staging this like a play.

I felt it, and somehow even my involvement with John Smith was not normal. But who?

Even on the day of my enlistment, I received a card from IRIS.

[Leave your father's memento here if you want to know the truth. -IRIS]

All this time, all I wanted was to become a Revenant. I wanted to see what they would say when the one they called trash rose above them.

To that end, I climbed the ladder of power. However, I encountered a hurdle I could not overcome: my evolution into a Specter.

No matter whom I asked, no one would tell me what the cost was to become one. Even when I offered gifts to the oldest living phantom, Isolde Drache, she turned me away.

In desperation, I left my father's Colt 1911 and two magazines of ammunition at the designated spot on the enlistment grounds.

The same gun then ended up in the hands of the man I would soon adore.

"Was I also one of the girls selected to be by his side?"

With no one to answer my doubts, I remembered the moments we spent together. I still didn't know what the future held, but I knew the entire world was shifting into a new era. And at the center of it all was John Smith.

At this moment, I was on my way to the main lobby of the hospital. The plan was simple, I would ring the doorbell from the front, Liv would take out their retreat while the rest of us searched the building for Haru Miroku.

[Bella, we have reached our target location. I can see fourteen people. Four of them are carrying weapons.]

[Wow, your new {Fate} is so handy. Seeing through walls is OP. Jo, can you check to see if there are any Reapers in there?]

[Give me a moment. {Listen}]

The moment I entered, seven men in masks appeared. Their masks had an eye inside a triangle.

The symbol many would recognize as the conspiracy group the Illuminati.

"Untamed, you are fighting forces beyond your father's protection. Even IRIS would not dare an attack on this facility," warned the man who was in charge of the group.

As he spoke, the remaining men around him began to spread out. Each one took out a manifested {Fate} in preparation for battle.

From their soul depth, these guys were nothing like the Wraiths that were part of the welcoming committee.

"I think you are mistaken; I am not Lilly Browning. I am merely a fox spirit sent here by the stars," I replied with a smile.

"And what do you bring to this place?" he asked.

"I simply bring an omen, whether of blessing or catastrophe is for the future to judge. The order of the world is about to change, traitor. And we are the harbingers of its coming."

Then I pulled out my soul gear, Wolf's Greed. It was a greatsword that I had made, and its embedded {Fate} was to control pressure. It created the illusion that I could control water.

"The dead cannot be stopped, child of David. You will be buried with all those who have tried before you!"

"I couldn't have said it better myself, traitor! OPEN COMBAT!"

[Ten, twelve, sixteen. There are two reapers inside. I have no idea if they are Wraiths or Phantoms.]

I swung my greatsword while invoking {Withdraw}. By channeling the water into Wolf's Greed, I created a water jet of immense pressure, capable of cutting through even reinforced armor.

The Trinity Phantoms all either dodged or blocked my water slashes.

Some of them returned their own projectiles, while two ran forward to attack me at close range.

[Princess, are you busy? I can hardly help since this hospital is not connected to the Internet.]

Fending off the Phantoms, I decapitated one by cutting off its head with my sword.

But even without its head, the body rushed at me with its weapon in hand.

"I am a bit preoccupied at the moment. Jas and Jo can handle it. Just make sure no one survives."

I twisted my body and hit the headless body with my palm.

"{STORE}!"

Along with my {Fate}, a large chunk of the man's torso was ripped apart, causing his frame to collapse in a bloody heap. At the same moment, another reaper came charging with a spear.

[Roger. Let's go Jo.]

My attacker's weapon used the blood from his ally's body as camouflage for a quick stab. I twisted my body to the left and evaded his thrust. Transitioning to a charge, I lunged at the spearman and delivered a powerful knee strike to the man's gut.

"{Withdraw}!"

Along with my blow came a rush of water that mimicked a raging tide. The water struck the reaper with such force that all of his limbs bent backward.

Unable to move that second, I sent a water jet compressed to the limit. The blade of water cleanly severed the second Phantom's torso.

'Good heavens, this is why it is so troublesome to fight Phantoms!'

After a fierce battle, I crushed the Phantoms to the point where they had no intact limbs. The last of them spoke cryptically in his dying moments.

"You are no longer the untamed you bitch! You are but a monster! And..keurk... You are going to die soon."

I looked at the bloody carnage around me and smiled. Indeed. The girls and I were nothing but monsters. But with the right tamer, even monsters could be put to good use.

"You are right, I have found my owner. And only he can tame me," I said as I plunged my greatsword into his soulgem, ending his existence.

[Bella, this is Jas, target secured]

[Roger that. Head to the basement and regroup with Liv and Robyn. I am sending your pickup. Princess, are you done?]

[Yes, I am. Blow the place up, Bella]

[Roger that.]

'Dear, I hope you allow us to stand with you in the future,' I prayed in my heart.