Chapter 492: Soul Replication, Gantz's New Use
"Heard from where?"
"Could it be that I was mistaken? Haha..."
This big bald man codenamed [Socthacht] seemingly laughed heartily, but Kaito Shirogane noticed out of the corner of his eye that the other party's gaze was always on him.
This person's true personality was unknown, but Kaito guessed it was definitely completely different from the hearty demeanor he deliberately displayed right now.
This guy exuded a twisted and artificial flavor all over.
Socthacht put away that skeleton material, not even showing Kaito the characteristic options for smelting, and turned his head to look at the item Jaki prepared to trade.
"Jaki, what are you and Mercenary Tao trading? Why not show me too?"
Jaki frowned, also feeling Socthacht's behavior was a bit weird. It didn't seem like he wanted to reach a deal, but rather like he was deliberately stalling for time or interfering with the trade between him and Mercenary Tao.
He remained unmoved and had no interest in the surging undercurrents of various gatherings behind the scenes.
As a high-level member of [Knight & Rider], he had indeed heard that Mercenary Tao had now become a "hot commodity" in the eyes of many, becoming a target of public criticism.
Regarding the performance of that Ability User from the Goryeo March Consortium, many people believed Mercenary Tao was the mastermind. Mercenary Tao's ambition and his alteration of the situation between Reincarnators and the real world made many gatherings value him. This kind of Mercenary Tao was far more valuable than the Mercenary Tao who was purely addicted to slaughter before.
"How about it? Do we trade? Mercenary Tao, I want to take back Duke's belt and bloodline all at once."
[You agreed to Reincarnator JG20873354's offer]
[You lost Item: Unidentified Belt]
[You lost Bloodline Item: White God Promis's Bloodline (Modified)]
[You obtained Ability Scroll: Ten Phoenixes Nirvana Technique (Special)]
Kaito didn't say a word, putting away this golden feather. Without even looking closely at it, he turned and left the stall.
Leaving Socthacht and the others, who had inexplicably mocking expressions on their faces, on the spot.
Jaki and the others took back Duke's relics, preparing to give these items to recognized juniors in the gathering to use. In their gathering, [Knight] was an inheritance.
When a Knight died, the others would try to retrieve or obtain another identical driver, letting a more hot-blooded and righteous latecomer transform again.
[As Reincarnators, we will eventually die, but Knights will not]
This was their tenet.
With a flash of his figure, Kaito disappeared from the public space. This greatly disappointed the Reincarnators who successively rushed over for that Op-Op Fruit. They could only leave their offers one by one. But the efficiency of reading offers was too low, especially since a guy like Mercenary Tao didn't seem like the type to seriously read through offers one by one.
Black Butler, who had just come out of a large gathering's public space, suddenly received a Space communication. His expression became solemn, and he quickly applied to enter Mercenary Tao's personal space.
With a flash of light, he found himself in a huge personal space. At this moment, it probably exceeded five hundred square meters, but this space was completely empty, without any furnishings.
And Mercenary Tao was discarding the low-value items belonging to the previous owners in those newly merged personal spaces.
Mercenary Tao didn't say a word. Black Butler immediately felt a chilling atmosphere. He could even see purplish-red fluctuations brushing like flames behind Mercenary Tao.
That is probably... the fluctuation of killing intent.
Black Butler pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and actively said:
"Recently, there have indeed been quite a few rumors related to you in the Space."
Kaito's movements paused, still not speaking. Black Butler felt the pressure mount and could only continue to explain.
"But you know, as your fame grows, these kinds of true and false news will always increase. Mixed in are quite a few fake ones."
At this time, Mercenary Tao suddenly turned his head, his movement as fast as a frame-dropping animation, startling Black Butler. But to his surprise, there was absolutely no angry or displeased expression on Mercenary Tao's face.
He was smiling!
Mercenary Tao had a smile on his face that he couldn't understand.
"Mercenary Tao, you..."
Kaito didn't explain either. Black Butler was a weakling and wouldn't understand his mentality.
He just wagged his finger and said:
"Don't worry, I don't mean to blame you. On the contrary, I asked you to come hoping you could leak a bit more of my information~"
Black Butler's face changed, and he quickly explained.
"Those previous pieces of information weren't leaked by me!"
"I am very principled and will absolutely not leak information detrimental to my employer!"
Kaito neither agreed nor disagreed. He didn't have much trust in Black Butler; it was just that cooperating with the other party was indeed convenient. Moreover, he wouldn't be angry about that level of information leakage at all, so he perfunctorily waved his hand, signaling Black Butler to quiet down.
"That kind of thing, whatever. I'll give you a fee, just like our first cooperation. You can leak my information, and let the outside world know that I'm very angry, very furious..."
Black Butler didn't understand why, but still nodded in agreement.
Although this kind of thing would affect his "image," spreading rumors and hearsay often didn't require him to step forward personally.
Usually, he only needed to "accidentally" say a few more words, and someone would spread it quickly.
After Black Butler disappeared, Kaito took out the Black Ball Gantz in his personal space and placed it in the empty space.
He thought for a moment. After that Deathmatch Mission, he suddenly had more ideas about this thing.
He pressed his hand on the black ball, and the black ball quickly unfolded. A screen appeared. The screen no longer displayed the information of the Gantz team members, but instead became something like an operation panel.
This was probably the original appearance of Gantz, only in the Gantz world, it was turned into a tool for those chaebols to play with humans for fun.
Kaito thought for a moment and directly chose to create a human.
[You can replicate or resurrect any lifeform you have ever witnessed. The amount of information consumed is linked to the life level of the target lifeform]
Kaito imagined the target's appearance in his mind, a smile on the corner of his mouth. Soon, a tall and robust man appeared on the screen. The other party's long black hair scattered behind him, swaying slightly. His face was handsome, but a cruel smile seemed to forever hang on the corner of his mouth.
Kaito Shirogane!
That was exactly Kaito's own appearance.
*[Target possesses abnormal information. Only basic information can be replicated. Replicating the basic information of the target individual requires an information consumption of: B-Class Singularity 1, Dimensional Points 18000]
Kaito pondered, and through further inquiry with Gantz, found that for the target replicated by Gantz, the soul information and physical information must be kept consistent.
Other abnormal information carried couldn't be replicated. Those abnormal pieces of information referred to the abilities, items, and bloodlines Reincarnators obtained through various channels in the Infinite Dimensional Space.
It was just like a 3D printer, but it could obviously only print the most basic things.
Kaito frowned. This didn't satisfy his needs. After his battle with that Reincarnator who possessed Copy Magic, he thought he could replicate himself. Fighting a completely identical self should be the most exhilarating slaughter he could imagine.
But Gantz couldn't do it.
He thought again, and Kaito in the picture became a thinner figure, his hair returning to a refreshing short cut. That was exactly his posture before entering the Space.
*[Replicating the basic information of the target individual requires an information consumption of: D-Class Singularity 1, Dimensional Points 5000]
Kaito agreed to the payment. In the next moment, in the personal space, a new figure seemed to be printed out, rapidly generating downwards from the top of the head.
Within a breath, a new Kaito Shirogane had appeared.
This Kaito wore a hypocritical fake smile on his face. Appearing in this empty room, he didn't show the slightest fear, looking around, and soon turned to meet the eyes of Kaito himself.
His pupils obviously contracted as well, and he spoke:
"It seems I was replicated by you?"
Kaito looked at this guy replicated by himself. In those eyes exactly the same as his own, he was looking around from the corner of his eyes, obviously looking for information that could let him control the situation.
This was indeed a guy no different from himself.
Kaito took a step forward.
The replicated Kaito had already jumped a large step backward. His body crouched low, violent heartbeats sounded from within his body, and his muscles began to expand.
Obviously, the oppressive feeling displayed by the original Kaito stimulated him, making him sense danger and quickly enter a combat stance.
Kaito remained unmoved, continuing to walk towards his replica.
"Since you can't entertain me, then let me see what exactly is different between you and me..."
Kaito's hands hung low. The aura of a Martial Arts Grandmaster was completely incomparable to Kaito before entering the Space. But the other party immediately also slowly straightened his body, his hands hanging low, seemingly imitating his force generation.
"Hmm, probably possesses a body control ability similar to mine."
Kaito raised his right hand, intense Qi condensing at his fingertips.
Hum~
The whistling of the Qi obviously made the replicated Kaito's pupils tremble violently. He began to refresh his cognition again, knowing the human extremely similar to himself before his eyes was not an ordinary creature, and the subsequent battle couldn't be a pure physical arts battle.
Thump thump thump thump thump thump...
Violent and dense heartbeats constantly sounded. Kaito looked at the other party with keen interest. But the other party's muscles didn't continue to expand; instead, in the next moment, he took a step forward at extreme speed.
The speed of this step was much faster than the speed Kaito himself could achieve before entering the Space.
Pfft!
The Dodon Ray shot out abruptly. The replicated Kaito's hair scattered, seeming to stand up straight. His eyebrows and eyes also stretched open completely. His whole spirit was concentrated to the extreme. His figure abruptly stagnated, actually dodging this Dodon Ray.
Subsequently, he took another step forward, his figure stretching out, throwing a punch towards Kaito's face.
Pfft!
The replicated Kaito maintained the posture of pulling his feet apart by more than a meter and stretching his figure to throw a punch, but his upper half was already completely empty.
His body was like an exploded watermelon. The flesh and blood of his upper half were smashed by a punch Kaito rapidly raised.
Buzz~
Li Qingzi, who coincidentally teleported in at this time, looked uncomprehendingly at the tragedy that occurred in the personal space, not knowing what crazy fit Kaito was throwing again.
Kaito, however, tossed the ability scroll named [The Extremes of Zero and One Hundred (A-)] to this woman.
"Woman, learn this ability. Next, I need you to do something."
Li Qingzi didn't understand.
"I'm about to start a new deployment."
Kaito remained unmoved.
"Of course, it's after you return..."
Li Qingzi found that Kaito didn't seem to have considered the situation where she might die in the mission world. This meant the other party perhaps still had some trust in her.
She nodded, not even asking what the matter was or what the situation was just now, and entered the public space, beginning her final training.
Kaito spent a D-Class Singularity, but obtained some special insights regarding himself and the soul.
The replica of himself seemed to use his talents in a not entirely identical way to himself.
Then, is the so-called [Light of the Heart], the truly special place of an individual, exactly there?
Of course, the more important thing right now was still those guys hiding in the dark.
Kaito had a bright smile on his face. He didn't hate others coming to kill him. Slaughter, that kind of thing was the most interesting...
"Let's see which of us finds the other first. Heh..."
(End of Chapter)
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