Chapter 453: Ancient Otherworld God's Chosen (3K+)
"You consumed a piece of specially cooked giant beast meat. Ingredient Grade: Excellent, Deliciousness Grade: Superb."
"Gourmet Cell has grown significantly. Current: Lv2 (128/200)."
"Milestone: gourmet triggered. You gained a temporary buff: Atomic Reaction (Extremely Rare), lasting 10 minutes."
"Atomic Reaction (Extremely Rare): You can gain energy from nuclear reactions and are immune to radiation."
Bai Cangshu chewed the giant beast meat in his mouth. After being processed by the Cook ability, the meat became very delicious and chewy.
It seemed the muscle fibers were much harder than those of ordinary creatures. Bai Cangshu was unsure if Godzilla truly existed in this world, or if the information about the Multi-faceted Star People creating such giant beasts came from other aliens.
This race, which considered itself to have transcended ordinary life forms, merely repelled the four-eyed aliens' attack instead of annihilating them.
However, because the four-eyed aliens were about to attack Earth, they chose to send the lowest level of technology capable of repelling them—Gantz—to Earth before the four-eyed aliens arrived.
They didn't care about the survival of Earthlings, yet they intervened in everything. This behavior was less like that of a protector.
Instead, the Multi-faceted Star People were more like conservation experts in a zoo, protecting every species that might face extinction, but without excessive intervention.
Bai Cangshu was roasting beast meat in the Prime Minister's residence as if no one else was there. Then, he noticed a group of voices appearing out of thin air four kilometers away.
With just a slight perception, he knew that Gantz was teleporting a team over.
The previous large-scale mission to hunt Reincarnation Aliens was most likely issued by the Multi-faceted Star People, aiming to create chaos or allow them to contact Reincarnators.
As for this current batch, Bai Cangshu noticed they all had Asian faces, realizing that someone near the Japanese Prime Minister had likely leaked the information.
The financial groups controlling Gantz were trying to retaliate and stop him through this method.
Bai Cangshu pointed a finger casually, and Dong Dong Wave shot through the air, killing one person from several kilometers away.
Then, he heard various roaring sounds continuously.
Presumably, that group couldn't find his location and was wildly shooting with those high-power weapons.
"Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao!"
"The list is out!"
Hidehito Suga and his secretary entered the conference room. Both were oblivious to the dismantled table and burnt documents, and it was as if they hadn't received warnings from the security forces, not mentioning a word about the black-clad figures outside the residence.
Bai Cangshu simply glanced at the list. The Kujo, Fujiwara, and Tachibana families were marked as the most suspicious, with several other less suspicious families listed below. A thick analysis booklet was placed beneath the list.
But Bai Cangshu didn't care about those things. He only needed to find one family. Whether he killed too few, too many, or even the wrong people, it had nothing to do with him.
After getting the detailed location, Bai Cangshu bent his knees and leaped up, crashing through the residence's roof with a bang and flying into the air.
Hidehito Suga stood in the conference room, watching this scene, speechless for a long time. When a Superman truly appeared and clearly showed no goodwill toward humanity, he instinctively began to feel fear.
Bai Cangshu shot into the air and saw a large group of Gantz members in reinforced suits shooting at the residence from the fields. The security forces who had arrived upon hearing the commotion were already suffering heavy casualties.
Human conventional weapons faced an insurmountable generational gap against Gantz technology. Even the most ordinary reinforced suit could ignore a considerable number of bullets.
Conversely, the firearms provided by Gantz would usually result in dismemberment or death for an ordinary person if they were merely grazed.
These people were shouting joyfully from killing the weak, and even more excited that they could openly attack the location of high-ranking government officials.
Bai Cangshu stopped in the air. He looked at the crowd below, but ultimately did nothing. With a sonic boom, he flew away from the sky.
Bonnie breathed a sigh of relief. Just a moment ago, her premonition of danger had almost exploded. Tao Bai Bai was right above her. If her Reincarnators identity had been discovered at that moment, it would have been a certain death.
But it seemed her luck was good.
"Alright, everyone, get up. That guy must have gone to find those who control Gantz. Soon, that Gantz will probably lose its effect..."
Xuan Yeji remained prone, touching his powerful equipment. He recalled his past desperate battles with various aliens and those who had died in combat.
Could it be... everything was just a game designed by those wealthy individuals and financial groups...?
Xuan Yeji raised his head. At this moment, the young man, who had long lost his sharpness due to life's Sharpening, had eyes filled with rage, almost making Kato Masaru think that the omnipotent Xuan Yeji of his youth had returned to this body.
...
Bai Cangshu rode Ace's single-person boat, gliding through the Tokyo sky. The city was nearly half-destroyed by the battles between Reincarnators, and the remaining areas were now largely under martial law.
Bai Cangshu could see that within the areas sealed by the military, there were still many zombie-like creatures active. These zombies were most likely controlled by something and did not blindly charge the military's defenses.
Instead, they seemed to be stationed in areas like Shibuya.
Other areas of Tokyo were also not peaceful. The previous nuclear explosion and the subsequent terrible disasters had caused extreme panic among humans.
Streets were completely blocked by escaping cars. People who had lost their transportation, carrying backpacks and food, tried to go to more remote countryside.
But the main roads had been sealed by the government, and the number of people who left their communities but were blocked in these unfamiliar areas grew, eventually brewing terrible chaos.
Cries of despair could be heard everywhere.
And in that despair, Bai Cangshu suddenly sensed a special power.
That power was both familiar and strange to him.
Bai Cangshu pondered for a moment and found the source that felt extremely similar in his backpack—the outer god's crown!
This item, which allowed Bai Cangshu to almost directly borrow the Inari God's divine power in the B711 world, was also glowing at this moment.
"outer god's crown"
"Quality: Extremely Rare·Peak"
"Description: A crown of faith condensed from divine wishes, a crown that acts on behalf of a god on Earth."
"Effect 1: After wearing, gain temporary trait: Divine Thought—gain the ability to pray to a god. Depending on the world level and divine authority, weak to medium divine power can be granted."
"Effect 2: After wearing, you will be regarded as a chosen by any Outer God Domicile member, and your reputation will receive an additional 100% increase."
"Effect 3: In worlds where Outer God Domicile members descend, wearing this crown will cause you to be regarded as an "Outer God Ancestor," gaining leadership over Reincarnators and plot characters of that faction."
"Effect 4: Divine Human (1/5), set not complete, Outer God's power temporarily unusable."
This item radiated light. Bai Cangshu looked at Effect 2 and Effect 3 and understood the reason.
When he killed the White Sanctuary captain, he had indeed noticed the strange tree and the magic circle, but he hadn't felt any special power at the time, so he didn't realize that it was also an Outer God ritual.
The White Sanctuary in this world used a ritual to guide the gaze and power of a certain Outer God to descend.
Bai Cangshu thought of something, a smirk appeared on his lips, and he then virtually placed the crown on his head again.
"You used item: outer god's crown."
"You gained temporary trait: Divine Thought."
"You gained the gaze of the Outer God, Ancient Otherworld God. You will be regarded as his chosen, and you gained control over the wights and ghouls."
"You have become the leader of the hidden faction in this world: Outer God Domicile. You will be regarded as the Outer God Ancestor. You have gained leadership over the Reincarnators and plot characters of this faction. You can locate them."
"You have started a new faction event: Ancient Otherworld God's Chill."
...
After putting on the crown, Bai Cangshu suddenly sensed many auras. This Ancient Otherworld God was much more powerful than that inept fox Outer God.
The Reincarnators had only initiated one ritual in this world, creating a few wights, and he could independently use the vast amount of death and despair in this world to guide many people to become his believers, and continue to increase the rituals, gradually descending.
Bai Cangshu sensed the ritual nodes, his expression showing neither joy nor sorrow. He simply 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 appeared frozen by ice, walked out of the Tokyo ruins, followed by a large number of ghouls.
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Somewhere in Shinjuku, the expressions of two Reincarnators wearing priestly robes suddenly changed drastically.
"You triggered a faction event: The Outer God Ancestor's Summons."
"Event Description: The Outer God Domicile Ancestor, Ancient Otherworld God's Chosen Tao Bai Bai, has descended. All faction members are summoned to the target location for rendezvous."
"Success Reward: Minor reputation increase."
"Failure Penalty: Significant reputation decrease."
"What the hell, Outer God Ancestor Tao Bai Bai?!"
The two, following Lancer's orders, secretly set up rituals outside Tokyo to guide the will of the Ancient Otherworld God. They were about to unlock the reputation store with their reputation.
But then they suddenly received a notification that the leader of the hidden faction, Outer God Domicile, had appeared and was summoning all Outer God Domicile members to a specified coordinate.
The two exchanged glances. They definitely couldn't go to that coordinate, and perhaps they couldn't even stay in the Outer God Domicile faction anymore.
"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 dragon crystal, and walked towards them.
"It seems there's no chance to create a night king. Should we just kill these people..."
The Reincarnators spoke of killing without any psychological burden.
The bound people immediately shook their heads in fear.
"No, don't kill me, I still have children... They'll be scared if they don't see me..."
A woman cried, her eyes red and swollen, but the Reincarnator holding the dragon crystal had no pity and was about to kill her casually. The woman kept trembling.
"Then please turn me into a monster, even if I become a monster, I still want to..."
Puff!
The dragon crystal pierced the woman's heart. Her fiercely burning heart instantly turned cold, and accompanied by a strange magical incantation, all the blood in her body became icy.
A cold aura began to spread. Evil Magic and Cold Color exchanged glances, both feeling that this transformation had some potential, but considering their coordinates had already been exposed to Tao Bai Bai.
Wu Xin continued his research, while the two turned and fled the place.
Only the woman was left, watching the world turn ice-blue. She desperately reached out, but those two who had taken everything didn't even glance at her, let alone show emotions like pity or regret.
"I... hate so much."