Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 799: Maybe he is... [2/2]

"What Carlos is trying to say is that you look like a person who thirsted and finally got a chance to drink. This must be the unintended side benefit of those self-taught. When they gain proper understanding, they make such a face," Herman his adjutant added.

"Hahaha! Herman is right. Nothing pleases a teacher more than to see the gears turning in their student’s mind. I am excited to see what you come up with."

"It is not related to the current matter. Thank you for your understanding, Carlos, I will tell you some other time. For now, can you continue with the Enhancers? I kind of blanked out at the beginning," I confessed as I scratched my cheek.

"That is fine my lord, think nothing of it. Enhancers are quite straight forward. They use {Fates} to manipulate battle conditions to their liking. They are basically Shifters that do not change forms.

"They are separated between Augmentors who invoke positive effects and Attenuators who invoke negative effects. Their two schools of thought for domains are just as straight forward. They first have Boosters, Enhancers who are pure Augmentors.

"Synergists comprise the second. They combine positive and negative affects to maximize combat effectiveness. A word of caution however, while they idea is straight forward the application is not."

"What do you mean?"

"I mentioned earlier, right? Enhancers are Shifters who do not change forms. Sure, they can increase the power of muscles or reduce the vision of their enemies. But they also can do even nasty stuff. Turning your skin to stone, boiling your blood or turning your bones to swords."

"That last one, why is that a bad thing?"

"Your bones are inside your muscles. What would happen if they suddenly became razor sharp? You would shred your insides just from moving. Forget the pain, you would get incapacitated just from the blood loss," Carlos expounded.

"I guess Attenuators are bad news. Their abilities sound like curses or status effects."

"Augmentors are just as evil. I once joined a training camp with Enhancers. The Booster Enhancer I teamed up was a fucking sadist. His {fate} turned my skin into metal. Thinking it was a good thing I didn’t think much when he egged me to join my Champions and fight on the front.

"Turns out even if your skin was hard as metal, that didn’t mean your insides were the same. After two battles I collapsed from severe internal bleeding. My organs so beat up I got sent to the ICU. The worse part was that the Enhancer knew! But he didn’t tell me!"

Hearing his story reminded me about the hidden dangers of {Eat}. Aki certainly fit the mold of a Synergist Enhancer. {Eat} boosted stamina, {Gather} memory, {Digest} poison immunity.

From then on, her {fates} changed directions. {Carve} was actually a debuff that increased damage to targets recorded in {Gather}. Meanwhile {Butcher} made it possible to apply the effects of {Eat} on targets with {Carve}.

I did not know yet what my Kamisan’s latest {fate} was, but she was definitely combining buffs and debuffs. True to Carlos’ words, the {Eat} family was not a simple application of power increases. They were more like mini changes applied to both friend and foe.

The statement "Shifters who did not change forms" was incredibly apt. But I couldn’t help but grow curious. My Kamisan was already plenty powerful in my eyes was a Synergist, just what the fuck would a Booster be?

"Anyway, ignoring the side effects of Enhancer {fates} aside, they have absurd levels of potential. Boosters are the sickest bastards of the bunch. The stories of the East such as cultivators and the like, are in fact legacies of the Enhancers."

"What does that even mean?"

"Take Goku for example. He can fly, shoot energy, punch mountains into dust and run faster than light. Sounds impossible right? Only it’s not. The energy he shoots is basically soul…"

"I am failing to see where this conversation about an anime character is heading," I snapped.

"Herman, can you help me out? I can’t explain it properly in English."

The conquistador finished his drink, pondered for a moment then explained.

"What Carlos is trying to say is that Chi is like wind. Wind exists, it is invisible, but we know it’s there. Given enough strength, wind becomes visible, that’s why we can see hurricanes and tornadoes.

"Rather than Goku, it is better to use his majesty the Peerless Li Wu Di. He is a boost Enhancer. His {fate} {Challenge} is similar to my ethos. It enhances his strength based on his opponents. His entire {Fate} family is built on it."

"But like I said, how is that…"

"You are familiar with Superman, right? What was the explanation that he can fly?"

"Isn’t it because his body is used to strong gravity, he doesn’t even feel the Earths?" I guessed from memory.

"Correct. Superman is like Goku in that regard. Their lore states their bodies are so powerful they can literally break the limits placed on humans. His majesty the Peerless is the same. Or rather you would think he was Goku."

"…"

Seeing my disbelief, Herman continued to explain.

"No one really knows what the parameters are for his majesty the Peerless’ augmentations are. But while he takes some time to reach his peak, once he arrives to full power, he turns into Goku.

"His punches become so fast they create vacuums. Combine with soul, his majesty can make waves of energy as big as he wants. He moves like he teleports. Manifested weapons cannot even pierce his skin. Discover hidden tales at novelbuddy

"His sense goes beyond superhuman and it’s like he has eyes on the back of his head. This is of course on top of being able to fly, pulverize entire mountains from a single punch and get even stronger as the battle goes on."

"Motherfucker…he sounds like a Chaser. Maybe he is Goku…"

"HAHAHA! I know right! When you see him in combat his majesty is terrifying. He uses a halberd at the beginning of the battle, but the longer he goes he eventually just punches everything to death," Carlos excitedly chattered.

"And all of that abilities are a byproduct of his augmentations. His {Fate} wasn’t meant to make him fly. It just enhanced his body to such a state that it came as a result. Enhancers unlike Shifters cannot suddenly change the forms of their allies or enemies.

"But once the requirements for the augmentations and attenuations compound and stack, it is pretty much the same thing. Funnily enough, this same component is used by Eastern fiction specifically Cultivation stories."

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I see, Herman was right. Unlike Western stories where the superpowers manifested suddenly overnight like a spider bite, Eastern powers took time. Goku the arguable most famous anime character grew in power, unlike Superman who was born as a Kryptonian.

Then did that mean that the Cultivators were boost Enhancers that slowly increased their powers with time? It made sense and fell in line with what I knew of Hellsgate. Seeing the stark difference between Boosters and Synergists made me respect the Enhancers more.

I couldn’t help imagining the good the Reaper classes would do If they only worked together. How powerful would a Chaser, Linker or Keeper be if he was buffed by an Enhancer? Or what kind of chaos could a Legion Summoner and Synergist Enhancer tandem unleash?

Sadly, I doubt few would see that as the Reapers were too busy with other stuff. They were too preoccupied at measuring each other’s dicks. I guess that was still better than seeing them beating the crap out of each other.

Just like the other Reaper Classes, the Enhancers did not disappoint. While I am sure that there would be support type Reapers among the other classes, Enhancers were a whole different beast.

My girls were the best example. Despite all the good having each other’s {Fates} had. The one single ability that allowed the Sirens to go over their limits was {Eat}. It allowed them to negate the burdens of higher ranked {fates}.

It was only because that we had Aki, that we could go as hard as I wanted. Enhancers held that much potential when it came to pulling up a squad. Put into gaming terms, I doubted seeing a squad of pure DPS and carries trump against a balanced squad.

’I should make this a point when I restructure Hellsend. We need to think more about squad makeup just as much as we did about their equipment,’ I internally noted.