Limitless The Strongest Revenant

After sharing a tender moment with the girls, I noticed that the rest of our party was quietly waiting for us. Pixie and D were on alert and had their weapons out. Nyda and Leo were discussing personal matters that didn't interest me.

'My {Kindred}, I would like your opinion on how we should proceed. We have a zone that seems to have fallen, a rogue reaper who has turned into a vampire, and monsters that seem to be higher than C class.'

'Dearest, as the former commander of the White Guard, the first priority should be to understand how this zone ended up in this state in the first place. The dirge sirens are a failsafe tied to the defender. As soon as the defender falls unconscious, dies, or calls for help, it should go off. But that didn't happen here.'

'Husband, if dead Reapers can turn into vampires, it is imperative that we recover all fallen defenders and send them home. We saw human torsos on hooks along the way. If those were the defenders, we must make Hellsend withdraw them.'

'Beloved, I agree with Jas and Lilly. I am just beginning to learn about the Priority Alert System, but even I know that this is a problem. A gap in our defenses is tantamount to a false sense of security. We must notify North America immediately, lest the lower zones be taken.'

I couldn't help but nod at the words of my battle harem. Lilly's observations were correct. Why didn't we know that this zone had already fallen? I couldn't feel any malice. But the fact that there were no defenders left was a problem.

Jas, on the other hand, played devil's advocate. As far as I knew, reapers did not turn into undead. Only humans did. During enlistment, the only zombies were those who had yet awakened. For those who were able to join the Reapers, their corpses became dolls after they died.

However, we could not rule anything out. For one thing, even Bella could "revive" dead Reapers. She had already demonstrated such an ability. {Instigator} combined with {Code} was able to replace the undead driving the Bradley with Reaper dolls.

If {Instigator} could create such a possibility, there was no reason to believe that there would not be a fate designed to create vampires. Such was the power of {Fates}. Nothing was impossible for them, given enough souls and a desire for power.

I wonder if the abilities of monsters follow the evolutionary path of {Fates}. Could they also create new abilities based on their needs? Was that why Roach had {Cocoon}, because he wanted to change?

Meanwhile, although Liv was always worried about the defenses like Lilly, she was concerned with a different facet. While Lilly focused on possible sabotage, Liv's emphasis was on the weakness that North America now possessed.

The current Priority Alert system was quite comprehensive and designed for redundancy. Each zone had a designation at all times, that designation being the measure of that area's importance. But perhaps most important of all, were the forces that accompanied each designation.

A lower designation number meant that the area was of higher importance. There were two types of zones, core zones, which were zones that ended in -1, -2, or -3. And wing zones, which were zones that were tiers 4 to 7 which ended with -4 to -7

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The current priority system takes into account the location of the zones before assigning a designation. Since the core zones cannot fall as they risk losing the entire floor, they were given extra attention.

As the current frontline for North America was at floor 52, the current battlefront had the following assignments.

Each floor between 52 and 41 received a P1, these 10 floors were where most of the Specters were concentrated. As no one could match the Specters, all 28 zones were cleared of undead.

For floors 42 through 31, the priority systems began to separate the wings from the cores. Any core zone within 42 to 31 was still a P1. If these zones fell, the Specters would have no place to retreat.

This contrasts the wing zones. For 42 to 31 they were no longer critical to the survival of the battlefronts, only for training. As a result, they were given a P2 instead. Any Phantom-ranked Death Seeker wishing to ascend to the Specters would serve in P2 Sirens zones.

Along with the wing zones for 42 through 31, the cores from the 32nd floor through the 21st floor were also assigned to P2 Death Seekers. The reasons for this were similar to those of the P1s, but of lesser priority.

Priority 3 Death Seekers followed this pattern and were assigned the wings for floors 32 through 21 along with the core for 22 through 11. Similarly, P4's were assigned to the wing zones on floors 22 through 11 or the core zones on floors 6 through 10.

Priority 5's, the lowest priorities, were given to wing zones lower than floor 11 or core zones lower than 6. This may all sound complex, but it really wasn't. Depending on your level as a Death Seeker, you were expected to use the priority system as a measure of your abilities.

Priority 5 was for Wraiths.

Priority 4 was for low level Phantoms or those at level 4.

Priority 3s were for mid-level Phantoms at level 5. 2's were for high level Phantoms at level 6. While P1's, which were considered the front lines, were for Specters.

If you knew such information, you would be able to see the magnitude of the difference in retaliation when the floor was designated as P1 or P2.

Which made what happened to our current location worrying. This zone, 1304-2, was a core zone that was within 22 floors of the front line.

This meant that even if this zone fell, the most it would get was P2. It was literally on the razor's edge. If they took that same zone on the 31st floor, it would get a P1.

And unfortunately, at P2, unless there was a Specter bored with nothing to do, the only responders would be high-level Phantoms at level 6.

Even if it was only a difference of one rank, a Phantom, even a high-level one, was inferior to a Specter. Even the lowest Specters were leagues above the most powerful Phantoms. While Wraiths could fight above their rank, Phantoms could not.

I knew this firsthand, as all the Specters I encountered trampled me to the ground. Whether I was fighting for my life or not, it didn't matter. Zachary Lynch, Eva Baker, Raymond Gertrude and Xander Rutherford, the power of a Specter was just that insane.

The Alpha, who almost killed my harem and me, was regularly wiped out by Specters. If such might was readily available there wouldn't be a need for tactics! They could just steam roll everything!

Unfortunately, those bastards were also the most broken of the Reapers. But even if you took the propensity of these human weapons out of the equation, it seemed odd that the vampires knew just how to avoid bringing down a Specter on themselves.

Thinking there was more to the story, I remembered what Nyda had said earlier.

"Because you are powerful! It is your duty! We cannot come for them because the journey is too far! It is dangerous to use the warpgates beyond the 30th floor. Our supplies will not last long enough to make it to the 32nd floor!" Find adventures on My Virtual Library Empire

At the time, I thought the reason she was saying such things was because the vampires had a way of tampering with the warp process itself.

What if the reason was much simpler than that? There was an eminently logical reason why the dirge siren didn't trigger, though it might not be the one people around here would not like.