Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 748: If it came down to it [1/2]

I took out the Esca and grew it to its original size. Turning to D, I made a request.

"D, can you proceed to drive the others back to the corridor? The Sirens and I will catch up."

"No worries my lord, I can do that. I will have Exa help me."

"Okay, thank you."

The rest of my party piled up in the car and made their way back. Exa normally set my [Autosave] on Esca when I pulled out my beloved car. Thus, I could just return to the car later when I rewind. Although I knew we should head back, I still had some things I wanted to discuss with the girls.

Naturally the first thing the girls and I did after the other left was to lock lips. After a few minutes of affection maintenance, the girls and I took a moment to walk about. Jas and Lilly held my hands as Liv followed like a guard.

I gazed at the desolate landscape of the 32nd floor. The light of the Sacreds unless replenished only lasted for a few minutes. Slowly the night returned back into its gloomy atmosphere. There were numerous large craters littering the ground.

Scents reminiscent of Iron and rotting flesh filled the air. I didn’t know what the 32nd floor had before we arrived here, but it was only know that I pictured what was lost. Each floor had 28 zones. With North America’s purification rate 60%, that at maximum there would have been 17 Phantoms at the minimum here.

If each of those had a standard squad of 5 Wraiths, that would put the total number of defenders in this floor alone at 102 Reapers. If you add the 31st and 30 floor, that would at least 306 Reapers were lost because of this conspiracy.

And there was no telling just how many floors are affected. We could just easily be included in the body count if we weren’t careful. The only thing I was certain was that the 24th floor would be assaulted by South America instead of the Vampires.

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My girls simply followed along as I contemplated. While I made piece that people would eventually die due to my actions, I had no intension of being careless. As we walked. I then felt a large soul signature begin to descend in front of us.

Liv quickly dashed in front of me with her shield up. Lilly and Jas similarly let go of my hands and armed themselves. A red warp circle appeared on the ground announcing the arrival of a Death Seeker.

The seconds ticked by until a trio of figured appeared. Two of them were new faces but the last one was someone I was extremely wary off.

"Zach…"

"Hey, Bastard. As always you are being an asshole everywhere you go."

"What do you want?"

"Shouldn’t you be telling your women to stand down?"

While technically we were on the same side. Zachary Lynch the Nightmare was one of the most conniving assholes I have ever met. He was one of the people who obviously had me dancing in the palm of his hand since the beginning.

My girls who knew of the power plays this fucker was doing naturally had their guard up. This was outside of the fact that Zach told them to leave me. The only reason we had yet to come to blows was because of the fact that he was one of the pillars holding up the North American battlefront.

’My precious {Kindred}, stand down if you please.’

With my words Lilly and Jas lowered their weapons but were still alert. Liv on the other hand moved her shield to the side and got out of the way. Zach who saw the hostility radiating from the girls began to complain.

"Bastard, I said it before, right? Your women are crazy. Stop dawdling and put a…"

"Cut the crap Zach. Talk now. I am not in a good mood."

The Nightmare scowled as he brushed the back of his head.

"This fucking bastard. I swear you are getting more and more arrogant by the day."

"…"

We stared down each other for a moment.

He then sighed exaggeratedly before speaking.

"Who cares about relationships right? Anyway, I just wanted to thank you. We investigated the upper floors after your stint with the Tunneling Worms. Our side is still calculating the actual damage, but it is safe to say that if you people didn’t stop the Vampires it would have gotten bad."

Bad was an understatement. Without the Tunneling Worms or our Sacreds, the battlefront would have been overrun if the Vampire army began their attack. But that was only the assumption that David was not on the battlefront. Because if he was, there was nothing to worry about.

"And I know exactly the day he would leave. Funny right? I didn’t even need to look very far."

That was what Stefan De Arno said. It was unthinkable for the monsters to know where North America’s human weapon would be. While I recognize that it would be hard, shouldn’t the Reaper equivalent of the Secret Service do their jobs properly?

I was sure that such information would be closely guarded. And no matter how much he owed me, Zach would not let slip when David would be away from his throne.

"I’m not even sure why you are thanking me. David is here anyway, right? They wouldn’t have even made any progress even if they attacked the battlefront."

I carefully stared at Zach’s expressions trying to see through his mask.

"If only things were that simple," he smiled wryly.

Not able to get anything even remotely useful, I was about to ask what happened to my domain when I remembered something. There was another instance of my secrets being leaked out. And it wasn’t because I was careless, it was because someone could see the future.

The answer to your plight lies in your blood, remember this when hope seems distant. Also set your mind at peace, I have brought reinforcements for Hell’s Eden. South America will begin their assault in 3 days. Your garden will not fall. Wrath, Envy, Gluttony and Sloth shall grow with their blood.

The Reapers had a person like the Astrologer. She had such accuracy that it was impossible to hide anything from her. What if the Demons had someone similar? If they were as old as they said, the likelihood that they would protect such a person was incredibly high.

After all there wasn’t a steadfast rule that only one person could have future reading powers. There was no guarantee that Blanche Voir Millénia was the only who lamented the past. In fact, I would assume that tons of people would have regrets centered around seeing through time.

What if the information about David was not leaked, but it was seen by someone instead? A demon who had the same abilities as the "Astrologer". The implications were enough to make my brain stop. How could you even defend against that? Was that why Zach and David operated with all this cloak and dagger shit?

"Fine. Her name is Astaroth the 3rd. I don’t know much. She just told me to prepare a vampire army to destroy this arc. Not that it matters now. If I knew that I would fight a fucker like you, I would have not just sleep till you died.

The Malice I lost fighting you was equivalent to eons. I don’t have a future anyway even if I escape here."

Astaroth. From how Bifrons talked she was someone who fit the bill. I wasn’t even sure if what I guessed was right. But Zach and David would definitely have it hard if someone who can see the future was their enemy.

Thinking I was onto something I tried to let slip the name.

"Indeed, Asty makes the situation complicated after all."

"W-What? Y-YOU! How do you know that name?"

Well fuck. It looks like I hit the nail on the head. Zach seemed to lose his composure. He quickly erected a large soul cage covering our groups. The sudden enclosure took the girls by surprise.

’Girls, please calm down…’

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When our location was secured, Zach pinched the bridge of his nose as he continued.

"Bastard, I am not even going to ask how you found out about her. But do not use the Archdemons name so casually, she has a {Fate} that allows her to see anyone who mentions her."

"I see. Then putting her matters aside. Is David really not at the Battlefront?"

"Short answer is yes. But it’s hard to explain. Just know that if the Vampire army was able to assault North America it would have been very ugly. We would have become the second Antarctica."