Limitless The Strongest Revenant

"Everyone, is this how those who want to be my mother behave? Stop this unsightly display at once! And why bother to wear clothes? Nothing can hurt me anyway, and Beloved assaults me more often when I wear nothing!"

I chuckled at the arguments my girls were having and changed the subject. Slowly, I relaxed my arm around Bella. She could push me away if she wanted to.

Funnily enough, when I released her, Bella timidly waited a few good seconds before pulling away. I couldn't help but notice a hint of disappointment in her expression.

"You said it had five abilities. So what does {Cocoon} do? Does it turn into a butterfly or something? Or does it evolve into ....?"

As my mind started to think out loud, I felt my stomach drop. Wasn't it normal for monsters to have second stages? While many games had sub and mini bosses, just as many added the cliché of second and third transformations.

Then I remembered the Alpha's status screen.

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Background information: The pinnacle of the Lizardkin species. This mutation has remarkable defenses and grows stronger as it becomes more enraged. Scientists have been unable to recover a living specimen of this beast. Adding to its mystery. Despite its massive strength, raiding parties often find its bodies in various zones. How or why they live such short lives remains unknown.

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What if, instead of dying, it transformed from its {Cocoon}, and what the Reapers saw were not corpses, but actually its...FUCK...

I quickly turned to the Alpha stew we had made and used {Imaging}. Quickly switching between different lenses, I tried to find some evidence that the Alpha was dead or still there.

'EXA!'

My {Kindred} link spoke faster than words. The girls all drew weapons and began firing at our surroundings!

[There is nothing on {Sonar}. Despite using every available spectrum in {Imagin} there is nothing... The chaos of magma and water prevents proper scanning...]

Somehow this situation was very familiar. It was almost the exact replay of the enlistment. Back then, after we defeated the Undead Brute, we assumed that there was a secondary boss.

This cautious thinking allowed us to narrowly escape death and defeat the Rank D Undead Stalker.

"Fan out! Cover every inch and vector! I will deny subspace doors in this area! {Magnitude}! {Withdraw}!"

Lilly pulled out rocks and bullets filed with momentum from her storage and began firing her minigun systematically.

"MY CHILDREN! FIND THE ALPHA! {WITHOUT STRINGS}!"

Bella's entire army of machines began firing in every possible direction. The Switchblades in the air began methodically dive-bombing suspected positions. She also sent out the lizardkin corpses, partially restored their senses.

"[TRANSMITTER]! FIND IT! I COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME OF LIMITLESS! {SHOW YOURSELF}!"

Meanwhile, Jo invoked her cultist zone and sent the monster division to search for their former king, She also used {Announce} to issue a death resonance command.

"[Inventory]! [Sanguine Bladewing]!" Aki suddenly drew back her Blood Odachi and sent them scattering! Discover hidden content at empire

Unlike the Slayer, who had to spill blood every time she fought, Aki kept her growing arsenal in her inventory, conserving most of her power. She also joined the search with her AR-10 Sentinel.

"[KNIGHT] [OVERDRIVE]! {WITHSTAND}! {ENDURE}! {SUFFER}! {BLOCK}! {SHELTER}!

[WAR CRY]! COME! YOU PITIFUL EXCUSE FOR A DRAGON!"

Liv taunted. The Norther also charged forward, intent on protecting everyone else.

"You will not harm my family, monster! [Future Sight]!"

Perhaps the most likely to find the monster. Jas called up her {Program}. [Future Sight] had the best chance to predict where the enemy was most likely to strike. Since she always had [Guardian Angel] on, {Fractal} should also allow her to defend the rest of us.

"I DON'T NEED TO SEE YOU TO HIT YOU! [GRAVITY ROUNDS]! [PENETRATOR]!" Robyn, fully intending to blow everything to kingdom come, pulled out her AA-12 and unleashed a barrage of 12-gauge {Fate} Powered Buckshots!

Despite the absolute overkill the girls were doing, my heart would not calm down. They were blasting everything around us. With projectiles, monsters, resonance commands, and even future predictions. Yet I was still terrified.

'What is this?'

Then I saw it. I saw a black cloud around Liv's feet. Fearing for my Northerner, my body moved faster than I could think.

Jas shouted in the next moment. "LIV! IT IS UNDERGROUND! GET AWAY!"

Time slowed to a crawl. The world fell silent as I ran forward as fast as I could. Liv, hearing only Jas, raised her shield to protect her vitals. She did not see the ground behind her legs slowly erupt.

'Why didn't this thing show up on {Sonar}?'

Because Liv was inside our curtain of fire, the area behind Liv was not exposed to any of the projectiles.

You could argue that Liv should have just stayed inside our defensive line. But for a tank, her primary job was to draw enemy attacks. In that respect, Liv did an amazing job.

But I couldn't let her take this blow. Something... something deep within me believed that she would not survive. Against all logic, I ran forward.

'Exa, trigger Liv's [Autoload] now.'

[Yes, my lord!]

[Inventory] FT5, HCAR.

With two of my most powerful weapons, I aimed both into the ground beneath Liv.

Immediately, Liv's figure began to shatter into particles of light and vanished. The next thing I knew, something burst from the ground. It was a bipedal monster with scythes for arms. Its face resembled that of the Alpha. But it was human-sized.

"[Sniper], [Penetrator]!"

Grinning, I pulled the triggers of my two weapons. I blasted my opponent with a full auto burst of .30-06 Springfield and a 95mm HEAT rocket.

The monster blocked the bullets and sliced the rocket in mid-air.

It then charged me in the same second. It was moving so fast I couldn't even understand what was going on. The transformed Alpha brought its razor-sharp scythe to my neck.

Death seemed imminent, only for the blade to be pushed back by a 12.7×99mm NATO round. The girls all turned their weapons on me and the Alpha, waiting for a chance to strike.

Jasmine's emotional screams drove the danger of the situation!

"HUSBAND! BE CAREFUL! ITS ATTACKS DISABLE REWIND!"

I see. That was why I was afraid. If Liv was slashed by that monster, she would lose the ability to {Rewind} and die instead. Luckily, Jas could see into the future with a certain success rate thanks to her new soulgear.

In the split second I had to act, I weighed my options. At the moment, nothing in my arsenal could kill this bastard. I guess this was what the forums meant about guns being useless. For certain enemies, blunt trauma was simply no good.

With the current firepower at our disposal, the only ones who could attack with non-physical weapons were Aki and Robyn. Technically, Liv's {counter} also counted somehow, but I didn't think we could trade blows with this bastard.

If I had to think about who we could sacrifice to kill this Alpha. It would have to be the corpse, the soulless, the monster division, and me. Specifically, my soul avatars.

"{DAY BY DAY}!"

'[Commander] [Overdrive]. [Shared Armory]. Exa, tell the girls to stay away and send only the disposable units.'

[My Lord, hardly anyone in Hellsend would consider you a disposable unit.]

'Thank you for that, but please just do as I say.'

[Affirmative]

'{Shelter}!

I didn't bother giving my avatars {Shelter} armor. Instead, I covered my weapons and turned them into melee weapons. If even Liv could die in one hit, nothing I could create would be enough to withstand a blow.

If I could neither defend nor run, the next best thing was to pin the bastard down so my harem could shoot him dead. So, like incels seeing a naked woman for the first time, I threw all seven of my bodies at the monster.

'You will NOT survive beyond today, you fucking bastard! I SWEAR IT'