Menthuthuyoupi felt the punch he had thrown with all his strength… did not produce any power nor cause any ripples!!
How is this possible?!
Menthuthuyoupi's not-so-bright mind suddenly seemed to glitch. He had poured all his strength into the punch, but he didn't get the result he expected.
According to his own judgment, when his strength exploded, this place should have been blown into a giant crater by now... Wait?!!
Suddenly, Menthuthuyoupi realized that something was wrong.
"My strength... I can't use it?!!"
His eyes widened in shock; he lowered his head and looked at his hands, as well as his lower body.
The aura that usually surrounded him, providing him with nearly impenetrable defense and destructive power, seemed to have completely vanished, as though it had disappeared without a trace.
It was as if it didn't exist at all, and he couldn't summon it up!
"How could this happen?!!"
After several unsuccessful attempts to use his aura, Menthuthuyoupi's eyes began to show bloodshot veins.
"What exactly is happening?! Why can't I use my power?!!"
He threw his head back and roared in fury, his roar nearly shattering his eardrums.
With his Nen ability, he relied on the rule of gaining strength through anger. His current emotional state was beyond furious. The force that erupted from his roar was enough to flatten everything around him.
But unfortunately, all of this depended on his own vast reserves of aura.
The sad reality was that Menthuthuyoupi's entire aura had been completely sealed.
It wasn't that it had disappeared entirely, but rather that it was temporarily unusable for a short period, all because of Knuckle's Nen ability.
"Hey, big, dumb idiot, shut up already!!!"
Beside Menthuthuyoupi, the A.P.R., now in its demon cat form, spoke with an extremely cocky tone.
"You've completely gone bankrupt, and you have been completely deprived of your ability to use aura."
"Any aura you try to use will be completely ineffective!! Get a grip on reality!"
The little demon cat continued to mock Menthuthuyoupi, looking as smug and arrogant as ever.
And considering its figure, it was about the size of a small cat.
"What did you say?!"
Menthuthuyoupi suddenly looked up, his eyes blazing with fury and nearly spilling blood, as he glared at the demon cat.
"My aura can't be used... Is this all your fault, you bastard?!!"
He couldn't understand the exact words the demon cat had just said, but he seemed to have started to get the gist of it.
This was the one who had caused him to fall into this current predicament!
Then, if that's the case…
"Give me back my power, you damn bastard!!!"
Menthuthuyoupi screamed at the top of his voice until it seemed to tear his vocal cords, and he swung his fists at the demon cat with all his might.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
His fluffy, cotton-like fists hit the demon cat again and again.
Each punch seemed to be like a tiny punch from a small, insignificant figure.
But sadly, his angry punches did absolutely nothing!
The demon cat didn't even flinch. It didn't even show the slightest change in its body shape when hit by the blows.
Even Nen's attacks were useless against it, let alone Menthuthuyoupi, who now had his aura sealed.
Menthuthuyoupi's entire aura had been completely bankrupt, and he had fallen into a state of Zetsu (Suppress/Null).
"This is great!!"
Seeing this, Knuckle directly sat down on the ground, letting out a long sigh of relief.
"I was worried that my Nen ability wouldn't work on the Chimera Ants, but looking at it now..."
He watched as Menthuthuyoupi, like a headless fly, scrambled around in impotent rage.
A smile slowly crept across his face, revealing a grin.
"This is working better than expected!!"
Not just him but all the members of the Chimera Ant Extermination Team visibly relaxed.
"I really didn't expect it to be so difficult..."
Morel immediately stuffed the pipe he had been using during the battle into his mouth, not caring about the dirt on it, and began to smoke vigorously.
"This is just one of the royal guards. If we had to face the Ant king, they want to protect..."
Morel immediately thought of a heavy question: "How much more difficult, troublesome, and terrifying would that be?!"
The scene fell silent for a moment.
Everyone began to think back to the intense explosion they had just heard in the distance and the rose-shape flames rising in the sky.
Those who knew about it naturally knew that it was caused by a powerful bomb called Poor Man's Rose.
Since such a globally prohibited weapon was used… one could only imagine how brutal the battlefield must have been!!
"It should be fine..."
A hint of worry flashed in Morel's eyes, hidden behind his sunglasses.
"Chairman Netero, he's already over a hundred years old. He's not the kind of person who's easy to take down..."
Even though he said this, just thinking about Netero's stubborn and reckless personality made Morel feel uneasy.
But this premonition wasn't very strong, so he managed to calm himself down.
"Chairman Netero will naturally have a stronger level of people to deal with it, and what we have to do..."
Kite whispered: "To completely eliminate this Chimera Ant first!!"
He looked at the still rampaging Menthuthuyoupi, and a cold gleam passed through his eyes.