Chapter 451: Ancient Alien God's Blessed One
[You consumed a piece of specially cooked giant beast meat. Ingredient Grade: Excellent, Deliciousness Grade: Superb]
[Gourmet Cells obtained significant growth. Current: Lv2 (128/200)]
[Milestone · Gourmet triggered. You obtained temporary buff · Atomic Reaction (Unparalleled Rare), lasting 10 minutes]
[Atomic Reaction (Unparalleled Rare): You can obtain energy from nuclear reactions and gain immunity to radiation]
Kaito Shirogane chewed the giant beast meat in his mouth. After being processed by the [Chef] ability, this meat also became very delicious and chewy.
It seemed the hardness of the muscle fibers far exceeded ordinary creatures. Kaito wasn't sure if Godzilla really existed in this world, or if the information the Multi-Faced Aliens used to create this giant beast came from other aliens.
This race, which considered itself to have transcended ordinary life levels, merely repelled the Four-Eyed Aliens when facing their attack, without choosing to exterminate them.
However, because the Four-Eyed Aliens were going to attack Earth, they chose to give Earthlings the minimum technology capable of repelling them—Gantz—before the Four-Eyed Aliens arrived.
They didn't care whether Earthlings survived or not, yet they intervened in everything. This behavior was less like a protector.
Rather, the Multi-Faced Aliens were more like conservation experts in an animal and plant park. They would protect every race that might face extinction, but without excessive intervention.
Kaito just barbecued beast meat in the Prime Minister's official residence like nobody was watching. Then, he sensed a group of voices appearing out of thin air four kilometers away.
With just a slight perception, he knew it was Gantz teleporting a team over.
The previous mission to hunt Reincarnation Aliens on a large scale was most likely issued by the Multi-Faced Aliens, aiming to create chaos or allow them to contact Reincarnators.
And now, noticing this batch all had Asian faces, Kaito knew there was a high probability someone around the Japanese Prime Minister had leaked the news.
Those chaebols controlling the Black Balls were trying to retaliate and stop him through this form.
Kaito casually pointed a finger. A Dodon Ray broke through the air, killing a person from several kilometers away.
Then, various roaring sounds rang out continuously.
Probably that group of people couldn't find his location and were firing randomly with those high-power weapons.
"Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao!"
"The list is out!"
Hideto Suga walked into the conference room with his secretary at this time. Both of them turned a blind eye to the demolished table and burned documents, and also seemed not to have received any warning from the guard troops, not mentioning a word about the appearance of men in black outside the official residence.
Kaito just briefly looked at the list. The Kujo, Fujiwara, and Tachibana families were marked as the most suspicious. Below, several other families with slightly less suspicion were listed. A thick analysis booklet was placed under the list.
But Kaito didn't care about those things. He just needed to find one family, and that was enough. Whether he killed too few, too many, or even the wrong people, it had nothing to do with him.
After getting the detailed locations, Kaito directly bent his knees and leaped up. With a bang, he smashed through the roof of the official residence and flew into the air.
Hideto Suga stood in the conference room, watching this scene, speechless for a long time. When a superman truly appeared and clearly harbored no goodwill towards humanity, he instinctively began to feel fear.
Kaito broke through the air and rose. From afar, he saw a large group of Gantz members wearing strengthening suits shooting towards the official residence from the field. The guard troops who came upon hearing the sound had already suffered heavy casualties.
Conventional human weapons faced an insurmountable generational gap against Gantz technology. Even the most ordinary strengthening suit could ignore the shooting of quite a few bullets.
Conversely, the firearms granted by Gantz would basically cause severed limbs or death to ordinary people just by grazing them.
These people shouted joyfully because of slaughtering the weak, and were even more excited because they could openly attack the location of high-ranking government officials.
Kaito stopped in the air. He looked at the crowd below, but ultimately did nothing. Accompanied by sonic boom clouds exploding, he flew away from the air with a boom.
Bonnie breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. Just in that instant, her crisis premonition almost exploded. Mercenary Tao was right above her head. Once her Reincarnator identity was discovered at this time, it would almost certainly be a dead end.
But it seemed she had good luck.
"Alright, get up, everyone. That guy should have gone to find those people controlling Gantz. Soon, that Black Ball will probably lose its effect..."
Kei Kurono lay prone without getting up. He touched the powerful equipment on him, recalling the desperate fights with various aliens in the past, and those who died in battle.
Actually... was everything just a game designed by those rich men and chaebols...
Kei Kurono raised his head. At this moment, this young man whose sharpness had long been worn away by life had eyes full of fury. It almost made Masaru Kato, who saw this look, think that the omnipotent Kei Kurono from his teenage years had returned to this body.
...
Kaito stood on Ace's Striker, gliding across Tokyo from the air. This city had been nearly half destroyed due to the mutual battles between Reincarnators, and the remaining areas were now heavily under martial law.
And Kaito could see that in the areas cordoned off by the army, there were still many zombie-like creatures moving about. These zombies were most likely controlled by something and didn't blindly impact the army's defense lines.
Instead, they seemed to be stationed in areas like Shibuya.
And in other areas of Tokyo, it wasn't peaceful either. The previous arrival of the nuclear explosion and the successive terrifying disasters caused extreme panic among humans.
The neighborhoods were completely blocked by fleeing cars. People who lost their means of transportation carried backpacks and food in large numbers, trying to head to more remote countryside areas.
But the main traffic routes had been blocked by the government. The number of these people who left their own communities but were blocked in these unfamiliar areas grew more and more, eventually brewing terrifying chaos.
Wailing and crying to heaven and earth could be heard everywhere.
And amidst that despair, Kaito suddenly sensed some kind of special power.
That power made him feel both familiar and unfamiliar.
Kaito thought for a moment and found a source extremely similar to that feeling from his backpack—[Crown of the Outer Gods]!
This item, which allowed Kaito to almost directly borrow the divine power of Inari God in the B711 Secondary World, was also emitting light at this time.
[Crown of the Outer Gods]
[Quality: Unparalleled Rare · Extreme]
[Description: A crown of faith condensed from the vows of gods, the crown of acting for gods on earth]
[Effect 1: After wearing, obtain temporary characteristic · Divine Thought - Obtain the ability to pray to gods. Depending on world level and god authority, can be endowed with weak to medium divine power]
[Effect 2: After wearing, will be regarded as a Blessed One by any Outer God's Abode member. Reputation gains extra 100% enhancement margin]
[Effect 3: In the world where Outer God's Abode members descend, wearing this crown will be regarded as the "Patriarch of Outer Gods," obtaining dominance over Reincarnators and plot characters of that faction]
[Effect 4: God-Man (1/5), set incomplete, Outer God's power temporarily unusable]
This item emitted luster. Kaito looked at Effect 2 and Effect 3, understanding the reason.
When he killed the captain of White Temple, he actually also noticed that eerie tree and that magic circle. But he didn't feel any special power at the time, so he didn't realize that it was also a ritual of an [Outer God].
White Temple used a ritual in this world to guide the gaze and power descent of a certain Outer God.
Kaito thought of something, the corner of his mouth hooking up, and then placed the crown virtually above his head again.
[You used item · Crown of the Outer Gods]
[You obtained temporary characteristic · Divine Thought]
[You obtained the gaze of Outer God · Ancient Alien God. You will be regarded as His Blessed One. You obtained control over Wights and Ghouls]
[You have become the leader of the hidden faction in this world · Outer God's Abode. You will be regarded as the Patriarch of Outer Gods. You have obtained dominance over Reincarnators and plot characters of this faction. You can find their locations]
[You initiated new Faction Event · Cold of the Ancient Alien God]
...
After Kaito put on the crown, he suddenly sensed quite a few auras. This [Ancient Alien God] was much stronger than that useless fox Outer God.
Reincarnators merely started a ritual in this world and created a few Wights, and He could independently utilize the massive death and despair in this world to guide many people to become His believers, continuously increase rituals, and gradually descend.
Kaito felt the nodes of those rituals. His expression showed neither joy nor sorrow. He just landed on the ground, raised his finger, and then a chilling aura began to spread from his hand.
[Winter is Coming]
A moment later, several Wights, whose bodies seemed frozen by ice, walked out from the Tokyo ruins, followed by a large number of Ghouls behind them.
Somewhere in Shinjuku, the expressions of two Reincarnators wearing sacrificial robes suddenly changed drastically.
[You triggered Faction Event, Summon of the Patriarch of Outer Gods]
[Event Description: Patriarch of Outer God's Abode, Blessed One of Ancient Alien God, Mercenary Tao has descended, summoning all faction members to head to target location to assemble]
[Success Reward: Small increase in reputation]
[Failure Penalty: Significant decrease in reputation]
"What the hell, Patriarch of Outer Gods · Mercenary Tao?!"
Following Lancer's orders, the two secretly set up rituals outside Tokyo to guide the will of the Ancient Alien God. Seeing that reputation was about to be enough to open the Reputation Shop.
But they suddenly received a prompt that the leader of the hidden faction · Outer God's Abode had appeared and was summoning all Outer God's Abode members to head to designated coordinates.
The two exchanged a glance. They definitely couldn't go to these coordinates. Even the Outer God's Abode faction was probably no longer a place they could stay.
"Let's go, we can only escape abroad!"
Before leaving, looking at the few people bound in the room, the two frowned, picked up a piece of dragonglass, and walked towards them.
"It seems there's no chance to create a [Night King]. Let's just kill these few people..."
When Reincarnators talked about killing people, they had no psychological burden.
The bound people immediately shook their heads constantly in fear.
"Don't, don't kill me. I still have children... they will be scared if they don't see me..."
A woman cried until her eyes were red and swollen, but the Reincarnator holding the dragonglass showed no pity, ready to kill her casually. The woman kept trembling.
"Then please turn me into a monster. Even if I become a monster, I also want to..."
Pfft!
The dragonglass pierced into the woman's heart. Her warm, passionate heart instantly began to turn cold. Accompanied by weird magic chanting, the blood all over her body was turning cold.
Cold air began to pervade. [Evil Law] and [Cold Color] exchanged a glance, both feeling there was some chance for this transformation. But considering their coordinates had already been exposed to Mercenary Tao.
Having no mind to continue researching, the two turned and fled the place.
Leaving only that woman watching the world turn ice-blue. She reached out her hand in despair, but those two guys who took everything away didn't even have the action of looking at her, let alone... emotions like pity or regret.
"I... hate so much."
(End of Chapter)
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