Limitless The Strongest Revenant

'Exa, send everything I have to the Alpha. I want eyes on it.'

[Understood, switching to closest feed. Puma AE selected.]

I then used [Commander] to see the perspective that Exa was sending. It was similar to selecting a monitor screen to watch. I then saw what looked like a moving house.

"What the fuck is that thing?" I couldn't help but gasp.

[It is an unidentified monster. There is no record of it in the Hellsend Bestiary. Such entities are usually classified by Academics as mutations or aberrations].

"The creature stands as tall as a castle tower, towering over the tallest trees in the forest. Its massive bulk would eclipse even the mightiest of war elephants, with skin as thick as the thickest fortress walls. The ground trembles beneath its weight, as if an entire army of knights were marching in unison.

Its steps are like thunder echoing through the mountains, striking fear into the hearts of all who dare to stand against it!"

I suddenly remember the descriptions Gareth gave of this thing. He was not exaggerating. This Alpha was as big as a fucking house with legs that looked like gigantic columns. Except for the scales on its body, it bore little resemblance to the lizardkin.

It reminded me of the monsters in some of the games I played. This thing looked like a cross between a centipede and an elephant. If you took the face of a centipede with its massive mandibles, grafted it onto the body of an elephant, and then super-sized it. You would get this fucking monstrosity.

Tough-looking plates covered its entire body like armor. Instead of halberds, the Alpha had scythes that took up most of its body on either side. It ran on four legs and charged like an elephant. It was accompanied by thousands of lizardkin.

"Exa, how long until it gets from its position to ours?"

[It is currently halfway through Zone 1246-5. We are currently in zone 1246-2. Given the Alpha's travel speed of 65 mph, it will arrive here in 2 hours and 24 minutes.]

"Oh? That gives us some time. How did you arrive at that number?"

[Each zone has a land area of 3,861 square miles. The only exception to this rule is the Tier One zone on each floor. The Tier 1s because of its proximity to the next floor, it has a land area of 11,883, or three times the size of a normal zone].

"How big is 3,861 square miles?"

[In more understandable terms, that would be slightly larger than the city of Los Angeles. At its current speed, it would take the Alpha an hour to cross each zone. Since there are three zones between the Alpha and our forces, it would take more than two hours to get here.]

"Hmm. Then how big is the entire 24th floor?"

[The entire 24th floor would have a total land mass of 115,830 square miles. To put it in context, that would be comparable to the size of Arizona. We are fortunate to have air supremacy on this floor, so the Puma AE found it right away].

"Remind me again, who came up with the divisions between the areas?"

[This was not something that Administration set up, my lord. When the Administration brought in Soul Crystals to purify an area, they found that each crystal was confined to a boundary. No matter how powerful the crystal was brought in, its effects did not go beyond the borders of the boundary. This is what led the Administration to classify the divisions as zones.]

"Oh. So, besides the fact that the purification doesn't go beyond a specific zone, it's all one big area then?"

[Yes, my lord. But it's more like a desolate wasteland. The fallen zones can become makeshift bases for the zombies. It is not explained where they come from, but leaving an area tainted will cause it to spawn undead from the ground.]

"I see. Then the next problem is what to do now."

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As I checked my {Kindred} link, I could feel sighs of trepidation. I couldn't blame my girls. If we had only the Alpha to fight, we could somehow handle it like we did with Andromalius.

But with the massive army with it and the ones on the ground, there was just too much to kill.

We need more guns. That or we need bigger bullets. I could just as easily talk the girls down and summon the rest of Hellsend.
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But I didn't want to.

What had happened to Aki earlier had shaken me. The girls knew how hard my path would be. I kept asking them to follow me, but I wanted to protect them from harm.

Diamonds were not made in greenhouses; they were made only under extreme stress and pressure.

In the same way, a hunk of steel must be melted, molded, and hammered to be made into a weapon. If I wanted my family to be strong enough to survive the coming battles, I had to abandon the notion that they should grow at a safe pace.

The girls foresaw the hardships I would experience, and because they loved me, they grew more desperate. Truly, if they were weak, I would leave them behind.

The only reason they were with me now was because they were strong.

But unlike most people, they didn't become strong because they had plot armor.

They gained every bit of strength through pain staking effort and sacrifice. Somehow, it felt wrong to trample on that resolve and tell them to back off.

The girls wanted to prove to Gareth and everyone else that they were with me not just because of their looks. But that they were with me because they were the baddest bitches who could not only take a beating, but dish it out.

If I had originally resolved to see them fight. Now I had to resolve to see them bleed. These were the consequences of my decision.

I chose to close Hellsgate.

I chose to keep the Sirens at my side.

They chose to follow me with everything they had.

"Sigh. Why couldn't I have seen it before. I really am fucking stupid."

They will be with me not as mere decorations, but as my most powerful combatants. The Sirens would never accept anything else.

And until I either give up my goal of closing Hellsgate or leave the Sirens, they will continue to fight alongside me. No matter the pain. No matter the danger.

My path has never been one of safety either.

And my results were not because I screamed for something to happen. I created the results through meticulous effort and planning. I could not retreat to a mere Alpha unless I wanted to stop my path at that moment permanently.

Steeling my will, I sent confidence and fighting spirit to my girls. If before I was the one who needed reassurance, now it was the other way around.

I had to remind my harem why I was the one they followed. I had to stop being John Smith to them and become Limitless.

'My {Kindred}, you all heard Exa, right? Before I begin, I would like to apologize for my past behavior. You are all powerful warriors in your own right. And I belittled that by treating you all like weaklings. Your fights earlier made me realize that I was too arrogant. I am sorry.

'The boss will be here in two and a half hours. No matter how much we upgrade our weapons, it will be impossible to kill the bastard with small arms. I want the Sirens to take the nearest fort and deploy the 777 howitzers as we originally intended.

'Once you do, I will join the battle. I want you all to use the howitzers to kill as many as you can before the Alpha arrives. At the same time, Hellsend will deploy and begin their own operations. When the Alpha arrives, we will take it down— together. We will win this. I shall accept no other outcome.'

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