Limitless The Strongest Revenant

The world seemed to return to silence as my head became foggy. Even when I opened my eyes, I could see nothing. No sound reached my ears no matter how long I waited.

My entire body felt numb, as if it were asleep.

[## ####!]

Huh? What was that? Some kind of transmission?

[## ####!]

Who was it from?

[## ####! ## ####! ## ####!]

It kept repeating, I wondered why? Still, the silence was quite comfortable. It's been a while since I could think like this in peace. I've met so many people, but it was always so noisy.

Huh?

Who did I meet?

Why couldn't I remember?

What was I even doing?

[M# ##R#!]

Damn it. My memory was fucked up! What was I trying to do?

Oh, right, I had to understand this strange transmission.

What language was it? It doesn't look Asian. I should ask ### she knows Japanese, right? You know, being a ninja and all.

Huh? I knew a ninja?

Well, yeah. I even know a Viking.

Really? When did I meet her? How did I even meet her?

It was when ##### was thrown away. We saved them and asked them to help us.

Did we?

[M# L#R#! W##E U#! I#S #E! A#R#!]

Let us ask the sisters from Europe, they were smart.

Huh? I knew someone from Europe? But I never left Arizona? Yeah, who was it?

[#Y LO#D! #AK# #P! #T# M#! #I#A! ]

Huh? I think some parts of that message got through. It seemed to be about computers, I should call... who should I call? I knew someone who was good with computers, right?

No you didn't

But I didn't know anyone like that. My last memory was when I went to some kind of concert.

No it wasn't

A woman with blue hair greeted us, right?

Did she? Why can't I remember anything?

The last memory I remembered was dying on the sidewalk. Ah, right. I already died.

This must be the afterlife. No wonder it is so peaceful. It is nice and quiet. Maybe I should just sleep here.

[MY LORD! WAKE UP! ITS ME! AIRA!]

Aira? Aira. My AI in Hellsgate. I remember now, I died and joined the reapers. Lilly welcomed me. I met Bella, who was good with computers.

Then Jo and Jasmine, the sisters from Europe.

Robyn was thrown out and when we rescued her I met Liv, a viking and Aki, a ninja. After that I met a lot of people. Right. I wasn't dead yet. My second life had just begun.

I was Limitless, a death seeker on the North American battle front. Where was I then?

[MY LORD! PLEASE WAKE UP!]

"Aira?"

[MY LORD! YOU'RE OKAY!]

"What's going on, Aira?"

[Ah! My Lord, please brace your face for impact!]

"My what?"

Then the world shook so much that the darkness began to crack. The next moment, the cracks grew and shattered, bathing my vision in blinding light.

Then I felt my body slam into something. A powerful jolt knocked the air out of my lungs. A painful burning sensation then engulfed my right cheek. In a reflex action, I grabbed my injured face and moaned.

"Ouch, that fucking hurt."

"You fucking asshole! Can't a day go by without you screwing everything up? As if the chaos with Production was not enough, you even dare to have a soul collapse here? Fucking bastard!"

With my vision blurred, I tried to find the source of the voice. Eventually, I saw an angry gangster in a sloppy suit, who seemed to be furious as he shouted curses at me.

"Have you come to your senses, you deranged fucker? I got enough on my plate as it is!"

Zachary Lynch, the nightmare, held out his soul-covered fist. Was he the one who beat the shit out of me?

[My Lord, welcome back. You briefly experienced a soul collapse. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a reaper is so overwhelmed by negative emotions that he begins to summon a demon.]

"It seems like I almost died," I murmured as I gently caressed my swollen face.

[Yes, my lord. Returning after being assimilated by a demon is exceedingly rare. Luckily, I got a hold of you and allowed the nightmare to separate you from the demon.]

I didn't quite get it, but I understood that Zach had saved me. I stood up and straightened my suit before reaching out to him.

"Thanks." I said with great difficulty.

My words were slurred by the deformation of my swollen cheeks.

Zach took my hand, then sent another powerful fist to my left cheek. I flew like a ragdoll in a video game and slammed backwards into an adjacent wall.

"Owww!"

"I collected payment. Now we are even." Zach explained as he turned and walked away.

As I tried to get up, I saw the pitiful state of the meeting room. Philip was leaning against a nearby wall, his right arm bent the wrong way, while there were three holes the size of ping pong balls in his right shoulder.

"{Regen}. {Draw} Medbag."

I tried to heal my injuries so I could speak again. I was about to give Phillip a {Heal} tablet, but he refused.

He then placed an expensive cigar in his mouth and lit it with a Zippo lighter. A green glow enveloped his body as his injuries began to heal.

"This cigar is a Soulgear?"

Nodding, Phillip blew out some smoke as he would with a regular cigar.

"This is a mid-level healing soulgear consumable {Mend}."

Within seconds of smoking {Mend} Phillips' wounds began to heal. He twisted his right arm against a wall, and I heard the sound of bones fusing together.

"Ahhh! This never gets easier," he commented with a frown.

"I'm sorry about what happened Phillip, I didn't know what came over me."

"You mean this is the first time this has happened?" he asked as he calmly blew smoke.

"Yes."

"Well, I guess that is to be expected, you are under a lot of stress anyway."

Phillip bit into his cigar as he tested his newly repaired arm. After swinging it a few times, he stood up and returned to our previous topic as if nothing had happened.