Chapter 452: Night King
Roar!
Weird roars constantly echoed in the empty urban area, accompanied by hisses that clearly couldn't be made by humans anymore.
Those were the most primitive roars of creatures.
The army soldiers guarding various traffic arteries and completely sealing off almost the entire central area of Tokyo firmly gripped the steel rifles in their hands, their nerves taut.
Although they were strictly required to block information, having come to the front line, they more or less knew that the central area of Tokyo, including Chiyoda Ward, Shibuya, Chuo Ward, and Minato Ward, had been completely occupied by monsters.
The dead and injured civilians were countless, and the economic losses were immeasurable.
They even suffered a nuclear strike once, and an unknown giant beast wreaking havoc appeared. It could be said that the place they were guarding now was the most dangerous place the human army could possibly encounter so far.
And their Self-Defense Forces were simply unable to bear this intensity of combat.
Damn it, why aren't those American garrison troops showing up at this time!
This negative emotion accumulated constantly. Accompanied by sporadic ghoul impacts encountered in various places, the spirits of a large number of soldiers were nearing their limits.
Kaito Shirogane stood at the top of the toppled Tokyo Tower. Four Wights (Others), along with tens of thousands of ghouls, stood mightily behind.
These few Wights were obviously transformed by Reincarnators using dragonglass and the magic of the Children of the Forest. They possessed a certain degree of dark magic, capable of raising the dead to become ghouls. Moreover, their bodies were also modified by dark magic, and only specific items and specific categories of energy could kill them.
Ordinary firearm shooting couldn't make Wights die.
Of course, Kaito estimated that the immortality level of Wights wasn't high. Encountering high-power explosives or extreme high temperatures, they could still be killed by humans.
Relying solely on Wights and ghouls couldn't destroy the human civilization in the Gantz world.
That [Ancient Alien God], as the god of darkness, death, and cold in "A Song of Ice and Fire" in dualistic opposition to the Old Gods, the Lord of Light, and the Red God R'hllor, also possessed powerful divine power.
These creatures like Wights and ghouls left behind by Him, even if created by Reincarnators, wouldn't serve only Reincarnators. Once these creatures were created, they carried the mission of plunging the world into eternal ice and cold.
[Winter is Coming], this was the signal of the Ancient Alien God's impending arrival.
Now, as the Blessed One of the Ancient Alien God, Kaito could communicate with this evil god to a certain extent through [Divine Thought]. Although he couldn't borrow divine power at will like in the B711 Secondary World, abilities like creating Wights and conducting sacrifices were enough.
Among the milestones Kaito had obtained now, there was indeed one related to this.
[Blessed One of Outer Gods (Unparalleled Rare): Open more than three Outer God factions (1/3)]
Moreover, in the reputation shop of the hidden faction · Outer God's Abode, there were quite a few powerful items. At least, those items that formed a set with the Crown of the Outer Gods all possessed powerful divine power.
Kaito naturally used the identity of [Patriarch of Outer Gods] to begin driving the Wights and ghouls of this world.
In the next moment, Kaito waved his hand.
The four Wights behind him raised their ice swords simultaneously, the blades pointing straight towards Shinjuku.
Ghouls roared. Tens of thousands of bodies with no sense of pain, leaving only cold and dead silence, frantically impacted towards Shinjuku.
Kaito and the Wights walked at the very back. The massive team was like an ice-blue corpse tide, crossing directly from the core area of Tokyo.
The sporadic survivors hiding in various places covered their mouths and noses at this time, not even daring to reveal their breathing. This terrifying scene was a picture that would only appear in horror movies in the past.
Helicopters hovered above, recording this scene and transmitting it everywhere in the rear.
In a high-rise building somewhere in Shinjuku, several men wearing Gantz strengthening suits sat in front of computers, looking at this picture, their expressions somewhat nervous.
They reported to the phone aside:
"Yes, the corpse tide is heading towards Shinjuku. Probably the government has allied with that monster, preparing to snatch your Gantz..."
Mocking laughter came from the phone.
Things like Gantz, although feeling very novel and terrifying in technology when first obtained, once mastered for a long time, they felt it was just so-so.
Technology was ultimately just technology. Only those who mastered this kind of thing could be superior to others.
Whether those aliens or the Black Ball Teams, they were all just part of their game.
This was the truly interesting seasoning in the boring lives of the chaebols.
"Heh, since that idiot Hideto Suga can't recognize himself, let's play a big game..."
"Retrieve the Tokyo Team, Osaka Team, and Kyoto Team, and deploy them together to Shinjuku. Let those people see that so-called yokai and corpse tides are completely meaningless in front of this technology that can constantly clone warriors and weapons by spending a little resource..."
"Ha, as long as we want, the situation of this world can change at any time."
The three Black Ball Team members responsible for controlling Gantz looked at each other, expressions extremely painful. But there were bombs implanted by Gantz in their brains, and they could be killed by the chaebols behind the scenes at any time.
They had no choice but to constantly change the orders of the Black Ball Teams, making those poor people like them unable to even control their own life and death.
They inputted commands and quickly found that the Osaka Team members had all extinguished.
"The Osaka Team members are completely wiped out. Do we collect newcomers again, or..."
"Do you even need to ask? Where is the time to let newcomers grow now? Just clone the previous batch directly. What a bunch of trash..."
In the next moment, as the three issued new commands through computer control of Gantz, the Black Ball Team members found themselves being teleported to new locations again.
This repeated modification of missions and redeployment had made Kei Kurono and others feel extremely abnormal. And having known the truth about Gantz, they also realized that the purpose of Gantz at this moment had changed.
They were no longer fighting true aliens, but being used to... protect those chaebols.
Daizaemon Kaze fell silent and sat cross-legged. This kind of battle had made him lose the reason to throw punches. He was a fighter, he was a martial artist. He fought to pursue strength, he fought to protect the weak.
But now, all reasons were gone.
"Sorry everyone, my journey ends here."
He already had resolve. Even if killed by Gantz, he wouldn't fight for that kind of thing again.
Masaru Kato and the others also had confused expressions. Hachiro Oka and the others, who were simultaneously resurrected and teleported over, just glanced sideways at the Tokyo Team crowd, not caring.
The equipment and strength of the Osaka Team were stronger than the Tokyo Team. At this time, they also lost the memory of being killed before, just bantering with each other.
The strength of the Kyoto Team's Black Ball Team was similar to the Tokyo Team. More than twenty Black Ball Team members assembled on the streets of Shinjuku. Listening to the tide-like footsteps, long and short guns were set up in front of them.
Kei Kurono clenched his fists tightly. He didn't want to die, but he also felt angry about all this. Various clear and intense conflicts made him feel a splitting headache.
In the unseen, he suddenly saw an eerie tree. Under the tree, groups of people constantly worshipped. There was an ethereal and vast figure leaning down from above the tree. That cold and dead feeling instantly submerged his anger, hatred, and pain completely.
In this coldness, he felt unprecedented relaxation.
Tap tap tap... Rustle rustle rustle...
Fine footsteps appeared behind the Black Ball Teams. Kyou Hanaki quickly noticed, turned around, and used the X-ray scan of the monocycle to see many figures approaching from the rear of the neighborhood.
But upon scanning, finding they were all ordinary people, he didn't care.
"It's fine, they are all humans."
Kyou Hanaki turned around, continuing to aim at the front area. The corpse tide had already appeared in the field of vision, but hadn't entered the range of these Gantz firearms yet.
Click, click.
Reika Shimohira was very uneasy. She leaned against Bonnie. Bonnie looked up at the darkening sky; the moon might be rising soon.
"Be careful, Annie, Miss Reika. Those movements behind us are unusual..."
Lotus had excellent psychological quality. Although he was instantly killed by Lancer in the team battle, after being resurrected, he quickly accepted the reality that he had died. At this time, his thinking was also clearer than others. In this abnormal environment, ordinary people surviving in Shinjuku shouldn't gather so calmly together.
These terrified humans, even if unable to flee due to the army's blockade, should gather in small groups. And humans would constantly engage in meaningless communication out of fear.
It wouldn't be as quiet and dead silent as now.
Lotus looked back at the corner behind them. Sure enough, in the next moment, a group of people walked out from the street. Everyone had their heads down, covered in bloodstains.
And weirdly, behind everyone, there were intestine-like tentacles, connecting to an unknown place.
Lotus patted Bonnie's shoulder lightly. Bonnie turned her head, pupils quickly turning into cat pupils. She had entered combat state.
"The corpse tide is here. Time to farm points, Baby!"
George Shimaki shouted excitedly. The ghouls ahead ran frantically. Many ghouls had damaged hands and feet, but it didn't affect their frantic impact at all.
Hum~
A high-energy particle beam hit the foremost ghoul with a bang. Two or three seconds later, the ghoul exploded into minced meat with a bang.
In the next moment, countless high-energy particle beams fired constantly, and the ghouls continued to charge forward unawares.
Hum hum hum~
Bang bang bang...
Flesh and blood flew everywhere instantly.
Masaru Kato clenched his fists with both hands, his expression nervous. He looked at Daizaemon Kaze sitting on the ground seemingly turning a blind eye to everything before him, and then looked at Bonnie who had entered combat posture.
Not knowing what to do, Masaru Kato unconsciously asked the hero in his heart.
"What do we do now? Fight?!"
Kei Kurono, who was frozen in place, suddenly turned his head. The ice-blue color in his eyes startled Masaru Kato.
In the next moment, the meridians on Kei Kurono's strengthening suit bulged. He suddenly jumped seven or eight meters high, leaping onto the roof of a small building, and then continuously jumped a few more times, disappearing from everyone's field of vision.
What surprised others was that Kei Kurono, having left the mission range, didn't have his head blown off.
In the air, Kaito looked down at everything. He withdrew his gaze from the direction Kei Kurono chose. There, a special Wight attracted his line of sight.
It was a woman, completely frozen in ice inside a room.
The entire apartment was already wrapped in cold air, but there was still a steady stream of living people walking in. Then with intestines connected to the room, the people walked with their heads down towards the Black Ball Teams.
From this Wight, he felt powerful dark magic. The divine power of the Ancient Alien God was extremely obvious on it.
This could perhaps already be called... Night King?
Kaito entered the room, seeing the woman nailed to the wall by dragonglass, and the several Wights beside her completely frozen in ice.
[You triggered Faction Event · Winter is Coming]
[Event Description: The Ancient Alien God wishes to take this world into His pocket, spread the faith of the Ancient Alien God, guide the descent of the Ancient Alien God, and let Winter sweep over more than 50% of the world's area]
[Reward: Significantly increase Outer God's Abode reputation, randomly obtain Outer God's Abode reputation item 1]
What exceeded Kaito's expectations was that the sound coming from the mouth of this Wight comparable to the Night King wasn't something like "Winter is Coming," or some oracle of the Ancient Alien God.
"Child... my child..."
This was a mother who captured many humans searching for her own child...
Hum!
Gravity field fell. Those controlled humans were smashed instantly.
This woman also seemed to feel pain. She suddenly looked up at the sky and roared.
In the next moment, the several Wights in the room ended their freezing together, rushing out of the room.
The battle between the Black Ball Teams and the Wights officially began.
At the same time, beside almost every altar, new Wights were born, each accompanied by more peculiar abilities.
The Ancient Alien God seemed completely capable of descending independently without relying on Kaito.
Kaito also thought of this level. The smile at the corner of his mouth slowly cooled down.
(End of Chapter)
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