Limitless The Strongest Revenant

Whenever I played a game or read a story, combat was usually straightforward. You had two opposing sides that wanted to kill each other. And while the mechanics of how and why differed, the core idea never strayed from the essence of combat.

Therefore, regardless of the genre, the way people fought remained the same. Fighting massive armies or dragons in fantasy. Using tanks or planes in modern combat. Or fighting in space with spaceships or mechs.

The concepts of each encounter had not changed. One of which was the role each unit played. Tanks that protected everyone else. Scouts who were fast and agile. Nukers who were unrivaled in large-scale destruction.

Of course, as the battlefield evolved, other roles were added. Marksmen who excelled at killing targets from a distance. Supports that allowed everyone to fight longer, and finally hybrid roles that fell somewhere in between.

The same concept applied to both my girls and Hellsend. Liv was a tank, who specialized in charging at the enemy. Robyn, on the other hand, relied on superior speed. While Jas was a sniper unrivaled in pure killing potential.

My other girls, however, were hard to characterize with traditional RPG classes.

Jo was a frontline fighter but relied on speed, her {Fate} reinforcing this despite not having superior firepower. The best way to describe her would be as a magic knight. When her body failed her, she would use her {Fates} to overcome her opponents.

Bella, on the other hand, was a pure summoner. If she was the weakest at the beginning, her power increased exponentially as she evolved. As long as her army was available, she was like a force of nature.

Lilly should have been weak. She could only defend with her sub-spaces and move quickly with {Blink}. But her immense talent and intellect allowed her to get around this by using her storage as an armory. Before meeting me, she used physics and water. Now she used guns and lead.

With the M134D minigun as her main weapon, she gained an offensive ability that surpassed most of the girls. Her combat experience further amplified this, making her a jack-of-all-trades. However, this made her inferior to the first three who specialized.

The person I was most worried about was Aki. When she decided to give up using blades to follow me, she lost what made her powerful. Granted, guns could still complement her way of fighting, but she was called the Bladed Kitsune for a reason.

While my Kamisan was a frontline fighter, she usually followed the path of a shinobi. She rarely fought in the open, and when she did, it was when the enemy was confused. That was why I chose the Faxon Sentinel for her.

This rifle was, for the most part, a regular AR-10 rifle. What made it powerful was the brand new innovative cartridge it used. The 8.6 Blackout.

Guns usually had two ways to increase the power of a bullet. One was to make it go faster. The other was to make the bullet bigger.

The problem was that in order to make a bullet go fast enough, gun manufacturers had to make the bullet fly at supersonic speeds. That speed, which gave it power, also made the things loud as hell.

The Ruger Mk II. And the MP5SD, which Aki preferred before, used subsonic ammunition.

This meant that they did not break the sound barrier, which made them extremely quiet. But it also made them weak.

Since my girls would continue to fight with guns, stronger calibers were necessary. But Aki's way of fighting made her want guns that were quiet.

The 8.6mm Blackout was the answer I found. Developed by Q, this round used a large bullet but was subsonic. Normally that would make this bullet weak with terrible range. Q came up with an ingenious answer.

Instead of making it go faster with gunpowder, they made it spin faster instead. Blackout rifles had a unique feature. They had exaggerated twist rates.

Twist rates were the number of inches a bullet took to complete a revolution. The spin was what stabilized the bullet in flight.

Rifles were accurate because of their "rifled" barrels. This was also the reason why rifles could shoot farther than smooth-bore shotguns. A typical AR-15 had a 1 in 7 twist rate. This meant that the bullet would twist once every seven inches.

For a standard 16-inch barrel, a 5.56 NATO round would be forced to spin twice before leaving the barrel. For 18-inch or 26-inch barrels, it would be even more. Higher calibers required a lower twist rate, but it was still usually two full turns before leaving the muzzle.

This same principle was why sniper rifles were always long. If you shortened the barrel and the twist rate, it was impossible to reach far. Q's blackout rifles broke this understanding by increasing the twist rates while shortening the barrel.

For the Faxon Sentinel, the twist rate was 1 in 3! This meant that with an 18-inch barrel, a bullet would spin 6 times before leaving the gun.

This made the 8.6mm Blackout incredibly powerful with long range despite being subsonic.

The videos I saw on youtube showed 8.6 rifles being able to take down boars and buffalo in one shot. Of course, the 8.6 has its own set of problems, but this rifle fit Kamisan's combat philosophy.

However, despite all my research, I still didn't know how it would perform like the other Sirens. While Aki would be deadly against humans or reapers, even the 8.6 blackout would not help much against undead and monsters.

That was what I thought before, but then I saw the rivers of blood dancing around her. Aki was in the middle of dozens of lizardkins, but the monsters were screaming in rage.

With smooth movements, she rolled to the ground and shot a monster in the neck. Blood gushed from the wound, causing the angry reptile to turn search for its attacker. Aki's weapon and its suppressor made it hard to pinpoint her location.

However, in the next second, the blood that had collected on the ground solidified like stalagmites and shot the monster's foot. In rage, it smashed its halberd on the ground forgetting about the bladed Kitsune.

Aki repeated this process, wounding the monsters and using their blood to distract them. In less than a minute, more than twenty of the ten-foot monsters were riddled with injuries.
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But so far, none of them had even noticed my lover in their midst. When Aki finally stopped moving, all of the lizardkin suddenly fell to the ground, dead.

My Kamisan raised her hand and blood left the bodies on the ground and gathered like a cloud in the sky. It then turned into thin needles and began to shower another group of enemies, drenching them in blood.

Aki wore the fox mask on her face as she ran towards her new targets. Much like Jo and Robyn, my Kamisan used blood and confusion to hide her presence.

I noticed that Aki always had an affinity for using blood in her tactics. Whether it was to reveal invisible Reapers by spraying it with blood or wiping out loaned {fates} by making an enemy drink it.

Blood has always been a weapon for her.

And when I saw how she could control it and shape it into projectiles, I immediately knew whose {fate} it was.

'Kamisan, is your new soulgear {Blood Feast}?'

At my words, the Bladed Kitsune suddenly stopped and looked in my direction.

'Shujin? Yes, it is. It goes well with {Eat}. I can draw stamina from blood and use it to weaken, poison, or distract my enemies. I can even do this...'

"{Save}. {Transfusion}. {Sanguine Armor}."

The lizardkin's violet blood was suddenly drawn to her like a the raging tides of a river. Then the blood solidified and wrapped around her body like armor.

My Kamisan suddenly transformed from a stealthy ninja into an imposing samurai warrior. As if that was not enough, twelve four-foot long Odachi made of blood formed and floated behind her.