Chapter 78: Don't Jinx It.

After making a deal with the two monkey, Kurono proceeded to hunt down the other 100 Pointers, by following the list given by Tensho. In doing that, he faced different kind of encounter on each of the targets.

In his first little quest, Kurono was sent to Poyang Lake that was located in Jiujiang, China. At first, Kurono thought that he needed to dive down into the lake. However, Tensho told him that the dragon was up on the sky.

After ascending over ten thousands kilometers, Kurono then found that the dragon was in a human form, and have his own floating courtyard. This guy is pretty civilized, thought Kurono.

Shenlong was shocked that a human was visiting him. However he become enthusiastic when Kurono told him that he was a human. The dragon enthusiastically guided him to tour his little courtyard, and to see his collection in his house.

Kurono was fascinated at Shenlong's enthusiasm, and feel bad to hunt him down. In the end, he only told the dragon about the alien invasion, and asked his help to protect the people of China.

Shenlong agreed to help. After that, Kurono left, but not before accepting the dragon request to be his friend.

On the second hunt, which is to hunt the Suzaku, Kurono found the target inside an underground cave in Japan. He found out that Suzaku can transform into a human form, a girl human.

The girl was short tempered, and very hard to talk with. In the end, Kurono ended up fighting the phoenix, and caused the underground cave to be caved in. Their fight lasted for almost a day, and caused some earthquakes in Japan.

Suzaku was so hard to deal with as she could turn into a scorching giant bird. Her body was made of fire, and almost have no weakness. In the end, Kurono controlled both water and earth to imprison the girl. After that, he tried to convince the girl to become one of his helper.

After some good talk, and haggling, the girl phoenix finally agreed to help with some condition. Her condition was to have a good and comfy living accommodation. Turn out, she was not good when it come to building her own house.

In the next hunt, Kurono was sent towards the deep Atlantic Sea. When he appeared, he was heavily pressured by the sea waters, and almost panicked of getting drowned. Fortunately, he remembered that he could elemental such as water and wind. He then controlled the water to not get near him, for a radius of five meters.

After getting comfortable and adjusting himself with the situation underwater, he then proceeded to find the Atlantic King. The search was not hard, as he almost immediately saw the distance structure of the Atlantic Kingdom. He then teleported himself directly inside the underwater kingdom.

Just when Kurono found the Atlantic King, he was surrounded and attacked by the army of the Atlantic Kingdom. He tried to ask the Atlantic King to not be hasty, and listen to him. However, the king was too arrogant to listen, and just asked his underwater troops to kill the above water sapient.

This resulted in total wipe out of the Atlantic Troops, together with the Atlantic King. After that, Kurono was no longer have the mood to have a talk or try to convince the rest of his targets.

For the next hunts, Kurono changed his attitude when dealing with the targets, and become merciless upon seeing that the target was the hostile type.

The target called Turupurun was one very tricky target. Kurono didn't saw it when he hunted it down. Luckily, the guy was kind enough to be the first to attack him. This helped him to pinpoint the alien location. As for the ending of the guy, it was killed without mercy.

In Thailand, Kurono found Yaksha on top of a small hill feasting on a dead little girl. A dozen of children were also being captured to be the livestock for that monsters. Seeing the unfortunate child being eaten caused Kurono to have zero interest to have any talk with this enemy.

Kurono directly used his light beam to shoot out Yaksha. However, that monster was capable of turning itself into many bodies of crows. Those crows flew out so fast that it was hardly visible by the normal human eyes. They could also shoot out many sharp feathers, which were sharp enough to cut and destroy stones.

However, the Yaksha was doomed to die when Kurono really decided to kill it. He just used his psychic powers to entrap those flying crows, and bind it to the ground using gravitational force. After that, he incinerated every single one of them without missing a single crow.

In the last hunt, Kurono needed to go to Canada to find the Boogeyman. When he first see the guy, it was hiding behind a teenage, who was going back to his house. When the teenage passed an alleyway, some thugs tried to bully the kid.

At that time, the Boogeyman came out and released dark aura that caused all the thugs to turn pale in fright. They were even more frightened when the guy pulled out a scythe from the thin air. Those thugs then run away as fast as they can, without anymore desire to bully the youth.

After those thugs left, the teenage turned around, and thanked the Boogeyman, in which he gestured for the kid to just go back to his house. Seeing the scene unfold gave Kurono a realisation that some aliens are not a hostile one, and have some kindness in them, kind enough to help other race.

After the kid left, Kurono tried to speak to the Boogeyman in order for him to gain a new helper to fight against the alien invasion. However, the two ended up having trouble of understanding each other, and ended up fighting. Though, Kurono won the fight, and ended up killing the guy.

Kurono didn't feel right in killing that Boogeyman, and so, he asked Tensho to ressurrect him as a Gantz Fighter, and gave him the knowledge of human language. With that, Kurono and the Boogeyman finally were able to talk and understand each others intention.

Similar to Hanuman, Boogeyman also have his own clansman, and he also used a favor as a mean to gain his clansman footage on Earth. Kurono then agreed to help the guy and his clan to find a suitable place to stay, while Boogeyman promised to help him fight against the alien invaders.

After finishing his little hunts, Kurono then returned back to Tokyo. The hunts really took some of his remaining time before the invasion, and when he returned back to where Tensho and the Advanced Black Sphere, it was already the afternoon of the last day before the alien invasion.

By doing all those hunts, Kurono gained a considerable amount of benefits. His accumulated points after the hunts already reached 2,120 pts. After deducting the points expenditure of gaining abilities, he still have 1,720 pts. As for his newly aquire abilities, it was listed as below:

Hanuman and Sun Wukong:

- Cloning skills, Gigantization, Summoning, Weapon Creation (Staff and Spear), and Elemental Control.

Atlantic King:

- Underwater Breathing ability, Weapon Creation (Trident), Water Control, and Intimidation Aura (Only applied to aquatic life).

Turupurun:

- Invisibility, Poison Immunity, and Poison Creation.

Yaksha:

- Feather Blade Skills, Flight, and ability to turn one body into many crows.

Boogeyman:

- Fear Inducement, Shadows Teleportation, Body Concealment in Shadow, and Weapon Creation (Scythe).

Adding to his own abilities, Kurono now have so many abilities in his arsenal, that were ready to be used. This give him great confidence in stopping those aliens from invading.

"Let's go back to the Gantz Room." said Kurono. He then brought Tensho and the Advanced Black Sphere back to the Gantz Room. Just as he reached the place, he saw all of the Tokyo Team inside the room.

"Kurono!"

"Kei!"

Everyone exclaimed in delight when they saw Kurono is back. Sakuraoka and the girls walked forward and hugged him.

"Is this the Advanced Black Sphere? It sure is bigger than the normal one." said Sakurai. He observed the new ball curiously. "Who is controlling this thing?"

"Of course it's me." replied Tensho.

"You mean, it was controlled by Gantz."

"I controlled him. So, relatively speaking, I'm the one controlling this big ball." said Tensho, still on his point.

"So, what can you do with this new thing?" asked Sakata. He asked more, "Can you reprogram back the Black Sphere?"

"Unfortunately, I cannot do programming. But I can make the Black Sphere run like it used to be."

"Nice. Can you return the reward system?"

"Already done."

While the duo psychic power users talk to Tensho, Masaru Kato approached Kurono and said, "Is it true that the aliens will invade our Earth tomorrow?"

"I think so." replied Kurono. "Ask Tensho to show how much time do we have Before the alien arrive to Earth."

Hearing Kurono, Sakurai then asked Tensho to show the time limit before the alien invasion.

Catastrophe: 00: 20: 45: 33

Right now, they only have around 20 hours before those giant alien get to reach Earth.

"Ugh. We only have this much time?"

"I'm already starting to feel bad on my stomach." said Sakurai.

"Kei-chan, can you tell us more details about those alien?" asked Kato.

Kurono looked around, and saw that everyone were looking at him. Even Nishi who usually not really interested in listening was stayed silent and waited for him to talk.

Kurono the started talking about the giant alien, "These aliens look similar to human. They got a head and four limbs. They also have emotion and senses like human.

As for the differences, their body were so big. They can be as tall as ten storey tall building, and some of them can be taller than that. Other than that, they got four eyes, which give them a wider range of sight.

Regarding their technologies, they have more advanced technology than us human, that they created many special weapons. The got a wrist weapon that enabled them to shoot high voltage electric towards any target, just by pointing their fingers.

Other than that, they also got suits that fully equipped with many weapons. I'm not sure if there are other weapons, but the few that I know off are guns, giant spinning chakram, giant blades, and lasers. By the way, when they are in their suits, they could destroy any buildings just by using physical attacks."

Everyone frowned when they heard about those giant aliens. Just by listening to Kurono's information, they realized that those giant aliens are way more powerful compared to the usual alien that they have been hunting all of this time.

"What about their spaceship? You said that they will attack the whole planet. So, the must have thousands upon thousands of spaceships, right?" asked Shinozaki.

Kurono answered, "Actually, in the original timeline, they got one mothership, a giant spaceship that was docked some distance away from our planet. This mothership housed many of the giant troops, weapons, many other kind of aliens, their captives, and their many technologies.

Other than that, they also brought together with them their own people, ranging from their babies to their elderly people. They also have their houses, town, and all of those children's playground. I'm also willing to bet that they have all those facilities such as hospital, school, and so on. To short it off, their mothership is their own planet that housed the whole giant aliens.

At the end of their invasion, us human tried to make them submit in defeat. However, they decided to kill themselves, and let the mothership got engulfed in total fire. That caused all of the giants to die."

"That mean they got extinct?" asked Sakurai.

"I'm not sure about that. However, that possiblity also cannot be ruled out." replied Kurono.

The team then fall into a deep thinking. According to Kurono's story, those giant is similar to human, and most probably invading Earth in order to find a suitable planet for their people to stay.

Then, that gave them the conclusion that these alien is just another people that trying their hardest to survive. It's a do or die situation. In this aspect, everyone felt a little sympathy towards this outerspace people.

Suddenly, Rei remembered something, and asked Kurono, "Hey Kei, didn't you say that compared to the original story, the enemy in every mission in this timeline is double the amount of the original. What if the alien invaders are also doubled this time?"

Hearing that, everyone's expression changed. Even Kurono on his own frowned.

"Hey, don't jinx it!"