Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 801: It doesn’t matter. [2/2]

"A fire for example occurs when something burns right? There are numerous things in there but the cause of something burning is what makes the fire, do you still follow?"

I nodded my head at his explanations. From what I learned from Exa, {fates} while magical still followed scientific knowledge. They just substituted soul energy for whatever was lacking.

"Right, for the first six earlier classes, they substitute something to "make" fire. Even the most direct of these trades, the Infinity Chasers still requires souls to pay the price for the fire. For Rulers the need for something to burn, may not even needed in the equation."

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"Rulers have two schools of thought. Distortion and Creation. Distortion betrays the rule of the universe while Creation completely disregards it. For the fire example. The Ruler can change the requirements for a fire, like touching something burns it.

"Touching would be the substitute for burning. So, to the Distortion Ruler touching creates fire. A Domain that promotes this rule would make anything and everything flammable. Of course, the universe’s own laws will use friction to fill the gap in the Distortion to make it work somehow."

That makes sense. It only bended the rule rather than break it. As friction has the ability to create fire, Distorting the rule can reduce the amount of friction needed. By Distorting the amount of friction needed, the requirement of touching creates fire could still be achieved.

"The Distortions allowed by nature have limits, however. For the same example, as friction is the rule that accomplishes the Distortion, things that do not create friction will deny the rule. Meaning if you touched water, ice or air, you still cannot make fire. Still with me?"

"Yeah, Distortion requires some kind of common sense to still apply."

"Exactly, that is the limit of Distortion Rulers they can only make small changes to the rules using things already present in nature. Creation Rulers are those that goes beyond Distortion and recreates even the limits of the universe.

"Creation Rulers can say everything they touch catches fire. And irrelevant to how nonsensical that rule is the Creation Rulers {fate} would handle the rest. Whether it be ice, smoke, smoke, air, space or metal, it will catch fire. Because that is the rule that was created."

"You have got to be shitting me. How is that fair? Wouldn’t Rulers be fucking OP?" I complained.

"Well, they certainly can, but then comes the Irony of Rulers. Rulers are the only class that have extremely stringent constraints and procedures to how they apply their abilities. We can analyze your Formless lover’s {fate} or your own as an exercise."

Hmm. I then review the rules surrounding {Store} and {Rewind} in comparison to all the others. {Store} had constraints on distance, time, size and even imagery. {Rewind} needed the user to follow a procedure around {Auto} and {Save} on top of having a cool down.

{Code}, {Listen}, {Perceive}, {Withstand}, {Carry} and {Eat} had some things, but they weren’t constraints or procedures per se. For example {Code}, only worked for machines, but that had more to do with what {Code} was meant to do.

{Eat} needing food to work was also similar. {Withstand} had consequences but not constraints. {Carry}, {Listen} and {Perceive} on the other hand had little rules and only had limitations.

"I see. So, Rulers could bend or create rules, but they are subjected to them as well."

"Yes. The best example is his majesty the Invincible David Thomas. He was quoted on more than one occasion answering that his power is caused by his confidence. If you have had the experience of seeing his majesty fights, you would know that he creates nuclear explosions from thin air."

"Yeah, I saw. But what does his confidence have to do with anything?"

"His majesty the Invincible is quite arrogant. He told the world actually. And even then, no one could do anything about it. It is why he is called the Invincible," Carlos said with a weird looking smile.

"You lost me," I replied honestly.

Herman made a complicated expression as he added his two cents, "Limitless, his majesty the Invincible claims his power comes from his will. To put it in simple terms. So long as he believes he cannot lose, he can generate unlimited power."

I only know remembered what Exa showed me in the past. At the time I just glanced and ignored it. At the time I thought it was an analogy or something. But turns out it was objective fact.

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North America

Theme: Breaking Common Sense (Logic defying based combat)

Common battle style: abilities that violate rules of the world.

Revenant Combat Style: Power conversion of will (David Thomas) Stay updated via novelbuddy

Siren Combat Style: Space manipulation (Lilly Browning)

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Power conversion of will. What the actual fuck? David was a fucking Shonen protagonist! All he needed to win was to scream and believe he can. It sounded insane, but I still remember the nuclear explosion he created from that halfhearted punch during the Enlistment.

I didn’t know how The Peerless or The Merciless would fair against David. But being able to kill an entire floor break with a single punch went beyond the realm of understanding. If his will was all that he needed to win, then I could understand why he never kept it a secret.

"Because It doesn’t matter. Whatever anyone thinks, does or says," I murmured in defeat.

Carlos continued to explain while scratching his beard, "But the rules are strict for him as well. If his will is the source of his power, that means that his majesty the Invincible cannot loose heart no matter what. The moment he does he will not only lose his power but endure a penalty."

"Hmm. That is true. No one can be strong all the time. That must be quite exhausting."

"Indeed, but such is the caliber needed to be a Revenant. But that example is too far off. Why not use you lovers {Fate}. I believe it should be the Untamed Lilly Browning, right?"

"Yeah, It’s her. Her {fates} are for controlling subspaces. She breaks the concept of space and distance."

I then explained some of the nuances for Lilly’s first five {fates}. I kept {Blink} and {Gate} a secret. After he heard Lilly’s abilities both Carlos and Herman expressed their opinions with complicated expressions.

"The {fates} themselves are quite useful in terms of keeping supplies. But the requirements to use them are too hard. The need to remember the dimensions of an object when you put it in or take it out are harsh. {Portal} is even worse."

"Even if you could vividly remember the place, the doorway closing after you enter it makes it useless. On top of that it uses stamina and it’s not even useful for combat! How on earth would the Princess fight properly? She would need to be a genius to even execute them!"

Anyone who saw how my girls abused the shit out of {Portal} or how I used the storage space would never think the {Store} family of {Fates} was useless. But I only recognized just now, how tough the constraints on them were.

I once tried to pull out just magazines from my storage and failed. Exa taught me what I missed, and I never had a problem with my storage since. When I tried to explain the {Store} family to the South Americans Exa defined the constraints on Lilly’s {Fates} for me the first time.

And I marveled at the shit I didn’t even know that existed. Turns out that much like when I pulled out the magazines, taking or putting anything into the {Storage} required vivid imagery of size, shape and weight of the objects. This was what allowed them to retain their features in my subspace.

I didn’t need to deal with of that crap because of {Gather} and {Perceive}. Turns out if I didn’t have either, just taking stuff out of my storage would require immense concentration.

Apparently, Lilly needed to memorize the object’s dimensions first before being able to store it. This was why Lilly only stored a few items and used majority of her subspace to hide water for her act. Primarily because water had flexible dimensions and consistent weight.

She only began liberally using her subspace in combat after she gained {Limitless} and Exa. Much like {Rewind} so many things needed to come together for her {Fate} to exhibit its power. Which made me glad that I had all the members of my Harem, we truly were stronger together.

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"Haha, that much is true, but she wouldn’t fair too badly after all she has me," I boasted with a smile.