Limitless The Strongest Revenant

"I HAVE MEMORIES OF MY PAST LIFE! I HAD BEEN SENT HERE BY A FUCKING GODDESS! I WAS A FUCKING OFFICE WORKER IN JAPAN WHO DIED OF OVERWORK!"

Anyone who has either watched anime or read manga would know the term. Isekai was Japanese for another world. It was a concept in which a person gets transported into another place that is different from his current setting.

It was usually modern people who get sent into medieval or futuristic worlds with little to nothing but the clothes on their back. Some took the genre and sent the modern person into a game or book.

Before the person was just transported. But then authors began killing the protagonists and have them reincarnate instead. The difference between the two was that the ones who just were sent away could come back. While the latter were no longer able to. Even if they did, they were already a different person.

The longer it went the more variety occurred. From being given cheats to being enslaved, the flavors were extremely varied and targeted both male and female audiences. In some of them the people didn't even get to reincarnate as people.

"They reincarnated as monsters…"

During this trip I began to learn to read between the lines of this Hellsgate and ours. The Sirens and I already established that IRIS intentionally began to present realities in Hellsgate to the humans. They did so using anime, manga and video games.

Unlike when presented as news or propaganda, their targets were the children. If you aimed propaganda at children, you would get shot. But if you told them stories instead you would be deemed wise. Just like fables and parables, IRIS was now using Anime and Manga as tools to prepare the world for Hellsgate.

It took time, but in today's world, if Hell suddenly broke open, people would not be completely caught off guard. Whether via movies from both east and west, people knew what zombies were. They knew how they propagated and more importantly how to kill them.

Funnily enough, much like zombies, Vampires were thought of as fictional. But due to IRIS's efforts you could get a random teen from the streets and chance were that kid would know how to kill a Vampire.

The longer I spent amongst the monsters the more I saw the realities IRIS already shared to the world. Even if the humans retained a fraction of that knowledge, it would mean life and death.

"You know about anime and manga, right? THAT FUCKING THING HAPPENED TO ME! ME! I WAS SO FUCKING TIRED I COULDN'T AVOID GETTING HIT BY A TRUCK! AND THE NEXT THING I KNEW I WAS A VAMPIRE!"

And now once again I gained the ability to accept what I was hearing because of IRIS. People dying and having their souls sent into another world. But instead of being reincarnated as a hero they were instead summoned as a monster.

"FUCK! LIKE HELL YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME! FUCK!" Stefan raged.

"I do."

"Huh?"

"I believe you. That you were once a human and are now a Vampire. Tell me what happened next."

"Y-You believe me?" he stammered.

"Yes."

As a sign of goodwill, I lowered all of my weapons. The reality before me could not be denied. That was why there was a disconnect between the duke's dignity and his demeanor. He was acting. Probably to survive.

Stefan was a reincarnator. That was how he knew how the world worked. That was why he knew human culture. From the designs of this castle to the cheesecake Sebastian was fond of.

As most of the world was depressed as fuck, Isekai stories became a means to escape. It was popular worldwide. You start out with cheats that make you a god among men. This cheat would make the world your foot stool. You could have everything you want or need. All you needed was to die.

Money, women, power, respect everything would be within your grasp. In some works, the MC needed little to no work or brains. While in others he needed to go through an ungodly amount of suffering to progress.

But one thing that did not change was that the reincarnator knew he reincarnated. As such, the vestiges of who the reincarnator's personality followed his new life. Along with knowledge that could aid him even at an extremely young age.

It was exciting to root for MC's as they slowly dominated the worlds they got sent to. We, the readers relate to their struggles or dream their successes were our own. It was truly meant to fulfill a person's every wish.

In most of them the reincarnator normally brought his culture with him. Japanese MC's loved rice and all that while American ones tried to create guns as fast as possible.

But what were you going to do if you were a monster? In a world where the strong dominated the weak, you normally would start from the lowest monster like a goblin and slime and work your way up.

Vampires were already considered mid to high tier on the monster totem pole. Most stories with monster reincarnator chose vampires as they were the closest to humans and were strong as fuck.

"Do you really believe me? You don't think I am crazy?"

While I could understand his disbelief, I found it annoying. A common plot line for Isekai stories was how trust and betrayal were universal. It didn't matter what world you went too. People were assholes.

Sure, there were truly kindhearted people. But one of the greatest challenges for reincarnator was to forget the morals that bound them in their original world. Japan in particular drove this home more than most.

While their history was as bloody as ours, the Japanese were currently seen as some of the politest and well-mannered people in the world. And while they had their freaks, as a people they avoided bloodshed.

And the one before me was from this race. Which might explain why he was such a coward. But how did he evolve from lower species monsters without combat?

"Tell me everything that happened to you. Specifically, after you died."

"Wow, I didn't expect someone to finally believe me after all this time."

"All this time?" I questioned.

"I have been a vampire for over ten years now."

Ten years. That was both a short and long time depending on context.

"Well, I'll skip the parts that do not matter. Worked for a black company till I died. Met a goddess and she asked me, would you wish to be revived again? After I said yes, she allowed me to choose a cheat and gave me a mission."

'Exa…'

[Yes, my lord. His story parallels yours. Except instead of a cheat, you get a {Fate} and instead of a human he became a monster.]

'Fuck…'

"Go on."

"I got reincarnated as a baby Vampire. The girls with me right now are my maids, lovers and servants. For the next ten years I tried to survive and get stronger. Just like the MC's of those Isekai novels."

Unimpressed at his story I remained silent. While I could understand what he was sharing, I found it bullshit. I was a reaper for barely 2 months, and I saw more bloodshed than some people did in multiple lifetimes.

'What the fuck did he do for the whole ten years?'

[If his behavior up to this point is to be used as reference, he must have not fought much and simply fornicated.]

Yeah. That would explain it. As someone who knew how easy it was to lose yourself in sex, I could understand why he would have wasted majority if not all of his time fucking beautiful vampires.

Even in Isekai manga there were a large number of them were the MC just fucked anything with a hole. Some of the most depraved ones involved stealing women from others for pleasure. Feeling there was nothing to gain from questioning him I opted to just ask the most important question.

"What was the mission you were given?"

Right the cheat he had didn't matter. Unlike Juno and Roach who fought for every inch, this bastard was born with a silver spoon. The mere fact that he could not die via regular means was already an unfair advantage.

"To reach the deepest floor of Hellsgate." Explore hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire

"…"

Fuck, now everything began to make sense.