Return, a Satirical Superhero

You have held ownership of the Special Construct Gantz for over 7 days.

You have obtained ownership of Gantz. You may now place Gantz in your Backpack and take it out of this world.

Attention, Special Reincarnator EX051. You possess a creation of a super-advanced civilization. Please return to the Goddess’s Abode for appraisal and modification.

Bai Cangshu opened his eyes beneath the sea. The aura he released in that instant sent every fish fleeing.

Bai Cangshu had deliberately remained in this world until now for this very thing.

He lifted the Black Ball he had forcibly dragged into the seawater and, sure enough, discovered that the item’s attributes had changed.

Gantz

Type: Special Creation

Quality: Special

Description: A special technological creation of the high-dimensional lifeforms known as the Multi-Faced Star People. Possesses powerful biological and technological replication capabilities.

Effect: Unappraised

Bai Cangshu stored the Black Ball in his Backpack, a teasing look on his face.

The Infinite Dimensional Space was not as powerful and omnipotent as many Reincarnators imagined. Whether it was the sheer number of loopholes in its rules or the wariness it had displayed when facing the Multi-Faced Star People…

Both made Bai Cangshu realize that even the Infinite Dimensional Space, which claimed to be able to deploy people across countless worlds, had its limits.

The strength of the Space’s top Reincarnators had yet to reach the point where monster-level powerhouses could shatter an entire world alone. That was likely not merely because this generation of Reincarnators had not progressed far enough.

This Infinite Dimensional Space was not mature enough—or rather, not perfect enough!

The conclusion was so natural that Bai Cangshu could now use it to answer many questions that had once puzzled him.

Moreover, Bai Cangshu had already confirmed what the Multi-Faced Star People had truly traded with him.

It should have been that fabricated piece of data!

Although Cleaner Duke ranked one place higher than Bai Cangshu in the Purge Mission, his strength clearly could not have been so great that his base Constitution attribute exceeded one hundred points.

That abnormal amount of information had been fabricated by the Multi-Faced Star People. That was why the word "abnormal" now appeared after Bai Cangshu’s Constitution.

To conceal their true purpose and method of transaction, the Multi-Faced Star People had deliberately allowed Bai Cangshu to obtain Gantz. The Infinite Dimensional Space was wary that the Multi-Faced Star People might use devices like Gantz to transfer abnormal information and technology into the Space or the real world.

That was why it had deliberately hidden the creation’s attributes and effects, and specified that Bai Cangshu needed to appraise it at the Goddess’s Abode.

Bai Cangshu gathered his thoughts. The realization that the Space was not all-knowing and all-powerful was crucial.

This proved the Multi-Faced Star People’s so-called observer hypothesis. At the same time, it gave Bai Cangshu a clearer understanding of the power structure at the highest level—and greater ambitions for the future.

But for now, none of that mattered.

As Bai Cangshu rose from the sea, several helicopters immediately descended lower. Their cabin doors opened, and cameras continuously filmed him.

The blonde female reporter’s face was flushed with excitement as she shouted over the roar of the helicopter rotors, narrating for viewers around the world.

"The hero who saved Japan, Mr. Mercenary Tao, has successfully survived in The Deep for over seven days without any oxygen equipment!"

"My God, this is a true superhero—a miracle of God still walking upon the earth!"

The reporter was clearly overcome with personal emotion, but that did not stop her live broadcast from sweeping the globe.

Superhero—After equipping this, you will gain Revered-tier reputation in the Pan-Human Order Faction. Every instance of reputation gained will be calculated at double value, and the corresponding faction's Reputation Shop will be unlocked directly.

Bai Cangshu had temporarily switched sides and driven back the Ancient Alien God. The Space judged that, through this single action, he had effectively saved more than 10,000 civilians.

In fact, even if the requirements for this milestone had been raised severalfold or even dozens of times, Bai Cangshu would still have completed it, given that he had effectively freed Japan from its frozen imprisonment this time.

Unfortunately, the human faction in this world had little of value available for exchange. Bai Cangshu did not even feel like farming reputation.

He lifted both feet and simply stood atop the seawater. Ki clung to the soles of his feet, allowing him to walk on water with ease.

In fact, aside from battle-crazed Saiyans, Martial Artists could do far more with ki.

Bai Cangshu waved his hand, and his pace grew faster and faster until he soon vanished over the sea.

Japan, meanwhile, was now a scene of devastation waiting to be rebuilt. The ancient Eastern empire across the ocean and the Western empire across the Atlantic Ocean simultaneously declared that they would spare no resources in helping Japan rebuild.

But the rebuilt Japan would most likely no longer be the country it once was.

The Reincarnators had left sufficiently deep marks upon this world. Bai Cangshu finally returned to that stretch of shore and saw the blue flowers left behind by the frozen corpse of that woman.

The Twin Ghouls had already vanished. Bai Cangshu did not know whether his choice had been worthwhile. This was probably the first time he had voluntarily spared his prey.

Return.

Bai Cangshu spoke, and his figure quickly faded into a stream of white data that shot into the sky and disappeared.

In the pitch-black space, Bai Cangshu’s settlement screen quickly appeared. Since this had been a temporary Purge Mission, the main quest requirements were not particularly strict.

Reincarnator EX051 has returned. Beginning settlement.

Settling...

World: Gantz KO8891

Purge Mission: Completed

Purge Mission Completion Rating: S

Side Mission and Hidden Mission triggers detected. Rating increased.

Mission Completion Rating: S+

Mission Rewards: 4,500 Dimensional Points; Character Attribute Points ×6

(Reincarnator has attained a strong rating. Free Attribute Points may be allocated freely.)

After thinking it over, Bai Cangshu allocated three of the six Attribute Points to Strength, raising his base Strength to 51 points, equal to his Constitution.

The learning requirements for various abilities in the Space actually had several obvious thresholds. For example, five points was generally the requirement for the most basic abilities—things anyone could learn.

Then came seven and ten points, roughly the level that early specialized Reincarnators could learn.

After that were thresholds such as fifteen, twenty, thirty, and fifty points.

At fifty points in an attribute, one had already reached the threshold for those top-tier, extremely rare and powerful abilities.

Bai Cangshu had originally intended to put the other three points into Agility, but ultimately kept them in reserve. If some ability required a forty-point attribute threshold, he could adjust flexibly.

Having received another rating above S, he had gained another opportunity to forge Rank Traits.

But since he did not yet have particularly good materials on hand, and had learned of God’s Staircase from Knight Sister, he naturally would not choose materials below Extremely Rare quality for forging.

However, the items in his possession had become plentiful once again.

Surely he could obtain sufficiently rare materials in the Space.

Sin/Virtue Reincarnator EX051, you meet the eligibility requirements to compete for the titles Martial Arts Grandmaster, King of Killers, Asura, Barbarian, Berserker, Shadowmancer... and others. Please confirm within two mission cycles whether you wish to participate in the competition for any title.

Title competition eligibility is assessed at the Rank Management Office.

The Space’s prompt appeared at precisely the moment Bai Cangshu returned to his Private Space.

Bai Cangshu looked at the many titles for which he met the criteria. There were more than twenty in total.

Title competitions were special events held every cycle in the Space.

Bai Cangshu had not expected to have reached this point already.

He turned the doorknob and entered the public space, intending to exchange the resources in his possession first before looking into matters related to titles.