World-Shaking Thunder Roar (Bonus Chapter)

"Was something like that really worth making those faces?"

"Is it really so hard for you to accept that your captain was killed by a casual blow from me?"

Bai Cangshu’s voice was not loud, his tone calm as though he were reminiscing with old friends. His hands hung naturally at his sides as he soundlessly walked toward the Reincarnators frozen in place by fear.

At the same time, the movements and auras of the surrounding Black Ball Team members and monsters had all fallen completely within his perception.

Including Hanaki Kyo’s horrified expression.

Bai Cangshu did not consider instantly killing the Osaka Team’s captain to be anything remarkable.

In a world like Gantz, which could truly be called the Primordial Infinite Flow setting, the rewards these Black Ball Team members gained from completing missions could only be applied to themselves through technological weapons and equipment.

They simply could not freely enhance their attributes, bloodlines, and abilities like Reincarnators could.

Therefore, the veterans of these Black Ball Teams were still ordinary people at heart. They merely wielded weapons and equipment far beyond modern Earth’s technology.

Even the American Black Ball Team members who appeared at the end of the manga were, for the most part, just soldiers using those weapons more efficiently in battle.

Ultimately, they were only mortals.

Bai Cangshu lowered his eyelids and did not look at anyone present as he spoke.

He did not take anyone here seriously. Not a single individual present had any possibility of fighting him.

Hanaki Kyo’s entire body was stiff. He felt as if the nerves and muscles in his back had frozen. Though he had already aligned the targeting reticle in his scope on the other party, as long as he pressed the lock-on trigger first, then no matter how fast the other party was, he would definitely be able to…

But he could not move.

The finger Hanaki Kyo held over the trigger trembled spasmodically. He felt crushed by an atmosphere of terrifying horror, as if moving even a finger would get him killed.

Yamazaki Anzu did not understand what was happening. She was too weak to even notice the terrifying pressure emanating from Mercenary Tao.

When Mercenary Tao appeared, she had merely instinctively hidden behind the motorcycle. Naturally, she had not seen Muroya Nobuo’s Reinforcement Suit shatter and kill him after being lightly tapped.

Watching the hundred-point Boss Mercenary Tao pass over their group and head toward Qingyun in the distance, Yamazaki Anzu instinctively drew the compact X-Gun at her waist. This gun was similar to the rifle in Hanaki Kyo’s hands, though it had a shorter range and equally terrifying power.

The X-Gun, the standard firearm Gantz gave Black Ball Team members, was a dreadful weapon that could ignore a creature’s outer skin and directly inject invisible high-energy particle beams beneath the target’s skin before detonating them.

Most flesh-and-blood bodies would be directly killed by this weapon.

Moreover, the scope with its X-Ray Vision effect possessed a locking function. After locking onto a target, once the trigger was pulled, the high-energy particle beam would fire at that locked target regardless of whether the gun was currently aimed at them. Several seconds later, the high-energy particle beam would Blast within the target’s body.

The common knowledge among Black Ball Teams was that no matter how powerful an alien might be, as long as they could be shot with the high-tech weapons granted by these black balls, they would almost certainly be killed.

That was exactly what Yamazaki Anzu intended to do. She drew her X-Gun and was about to raise it to aim from behind when an arm reached out from behind her and pressed down her arm.

"Don’t shoot…"

Yamazaki Anzu turned around and saw that Kuwabara Kazuo, who suffered from severe sexual dependency, was now drenched in cold sweat across his bare upper body.

Qingyun stood rigidly in place, struggling intensely inside. He had naturally heard of Mercenary Tao’s Fierce Reputation. When he had seen the name at the black ball earlier, he had still clung to a sliver of hope, thinking that Mercenary Tao might not necessarily appear on his side.

But now…

"You’re unlucky."

Bai Cangshu grabbed Qingyun by the neck with his right hand. The black Gantz Reinforcement Suit immediately developed raised vein-like ridges as Qingyun pushed its performance to the limit. This suit could allow an ordinary person to exert nearly ten times their normal abilities.

For a low-to-mid-tier Reincarnator like him, already somewhat stronger than ordinary people, it could bring his strength, speed, and defense close to the limits of the First Tier.

Qingyun felt a searing pain in the skin where Mercenary Tao gripped his neck. It was extreme fear causing an abnormal reaction in his nerves.

Unable to endure any longer, he roared, "Arm Strength Enhancement!" The muscles in his arms instantly bulged as if exploding. He whirled around sharply, and the air boomed.

At that moment, power that had fully reached the limit erupted from Qingyun’s hand.

The air gave a dull roar as a vast amount of it was forced aside.

The bald man Shimaki, who had crawled out from a pile of mangled flesh on the concrete, had just risen when he saw Qingyun’s all-out attack.

He had never seen anyone unleash an attack with such force. Drawing his blade, he charged wildly toward Mercenary Tao.

Bai Cangshu’s long black hair was blown apart by the fierce wind, but his eyes shifted toward the air on the other side.

There, Oka Hachiro, who had achieved complete Optical Invisibility by adjusting the frequency of Gantz equipment, had his pupils contract. He gripped the Gantz Sword in both hands, his body stiffening for an instant.

The next moment, bang!

An invisible force struck Oka Hachiro with a crash. Looking at the attack warning displayed on the panel of his Gantz Mecha (Gorilla Suit), Oka Hachiro had not even seen the form of the attack.

Bang!

A shockwave like transparent ripples exploded from thin air. Qingyun’s full-force strike kicked up a gale, and Shimaki silently praised it in his heart. He drove his Reinforcement Suit to its limit, stepped behind Mercenary Tao, extended the Nano Combat Blade’s one-meter edge, and slashed at his neck with all his strength.

Pfft.

A breeze brushed past Bai Cangshu. He extended his right hand, catching Qingyun’s swollen fist in his palm, then raised his left hand and pinched Shimaki’s blade beside his ear.

The violent power enhanced by the two men’s Reinforcement Suits vanished like mud sinking into the sea. No sound or disturbance was produced; it was completely erased within those two hands.

Shimaki stared in stunned disbelief as the other party held his sword with only two fingers. He tried to pull it free with all his strength, but it had no effect at all.

What kind of strength is this…

As for Qingyun, the hot blood in his mind instantly turned ice-cold. He opened his mouth to beg for mercy.

"Mercenary Tao, don’t…"

Crack—pfft!

Shimaki felt his blade snap with a crack. The next moment, the broken blade stabbed through Qingyun’s open mouth and emerged from the back of his head.

"Urgh… ngh…"

Pfft!

Another black blade flash streaked past. Shimaki felt heat on his neck, followed by a torrent of blood spraying out.

He staggered back two steps, clutching his neck. Only after blinking did he see that Mercenary Tao had already pulled the broken blade back out. Qingyun swayed twice before collapsing limply, while Shimaki’s vision rapidly darkened as his strength and body heat swiftly drained away.

Thud.

Shimaki also fell backward.

You killed Shimaki

You killed Reincarnator ST23378011 during the Purge Mission. Purge Mission progress increased.

A scarlet radiance began to appear, and the next moment, Bai Cangshu vanished instantly.

Bzzz!

An invisible gravity wave descended from the sky, crushing Shimaki’s corpse and the ground beneath it into pieces, turning them into a pool of blood.

A massive circular crater nearly a meter deep appeared in the concrete ground.

"Damn it, who fired?!"

Hanaki Kyo cursed. Perhaps because Qingyun and Shimaki had acted just now, he no longer felt paralyzed by fear. He immediately ran toward his unicycle motorcycle, preparing to retreat some distance first.

The next moment, several unicycle motorcycles roared in from the direction opposite the gymnasium.

More than twenty members in black Reinforcement Suits shouted as they raised their firearms and began firing wildly in this direction.

Bzzz!

Bzzz!

Bzzz!

Gravity waves continuously descended from the sky.

Hanaki Kyo was a step too slow and watched the unicycle motorcycle before him explode into pieces.

"It’s another Black Ball Team!"

Yamazaki Anzu cried out. That group had already completely surrounded the enormous plaza.

"Where are the Reincarnation Star People?!"

"Hey, Osaka Team! Where did you hide the hundred-point Boss?!"

Kuwabara Kazuo pulled Yamazaki Anzu down into a crouch. Looking at the suddenly appearing Black Ball Team members, his eyes constantly darted about as he searched for Mercenary Tao’s terrifying figure.

But there was no sign of him anywhere nearby. The next moment, Kuwabara Kazuo raised his head and, sure enough, saw that man standing in midair.

"Careful, he’s above us!"

In the end, he could not help shouting a warning.

You have encountered a new mission: Survive

Mission Details: Gantz has issued a mission to hunt the Reincarnation Star People. Survive the mission.

Reward: C-A-rank Anomaly Point rewards based on completion.

Bai Cangshu looked down at the humans firing wildly from their motorcycles, and the expression on his face gradually became cruel.

He took a deep breath. Currents of electricity began to surge through his body, and the electrical energy stored within the Heart of the Thunder Emperor immediately began circulating under the push of that power.

The first acupoint in Bai Cangshu’s abdomen began gathering electric light.

Bai Cangshu’s chest expanded abnormally. Filled with savage intent, he exhaled and shouted.

"Ha!"

World-Shaking Thunder Roar!

Boom!

A Blazing White shockwave surged forth alongside lightning that flashed into existence in an instant, followed by a terrifying explosion with a thunderous crash.

Smoke and dust erupted from the ground below in an instant, as though a fuel-air bomb had detonated amid the crowd.

Kuwabara Kazuo only felt himself soaring through the clouds in an instant.

Blood and severed limbs, accompanied by a thick bloody aura, spread everywhere in moments, dyeing the outskirts of the plaza into a scene like an apocalyptic cult nightmare.