"Gato, take me to the manor immediately" Karma spoke quickly
Gato asked no questions as he seemed a little panicked flaring his nen he began to run with me while we spoke "What happened"
"A girl, she calls herself Biskut I think, she could have killed me easily, find out who she is and tell me immediately "Karma slowed his run to allow Gato to keep up as they left the arena towards Gatos car
"You can speed up Gato I can keep up"
"Sorry, young master but I can't go any faster than this and guarantee being of use in a fight"
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After entering the rented manor and resting for a while, Karma came downstairs to a sight of the butler playing with coins overcome with curiosity I asked
"What is your hatsu Gato?" Karma casually asked as he chewed on an apple
"Ahg, sir, sorry I didn't see you. To be honest, right now, I'm still developing my hatsu. I know to keep it in emission for maximum effect, but why?" Gato didn't grasp the concept behind whatever advice he had heard.
"Why are you being sent with me if you're that weak in nen without even a good hatsu? Also maybe you're not understanding I mean what does your ability do" Karma spoke slowly as he put down the half-eaten apple
"I don't want to waste my hatsus raw power on developing an ability" Gato spoke somewhat sheepishly
'it seems staff at the zoyldck manor are only really taught the bare minimum in nen combat?' Karma's abyss-like eyes calmly stared at Gato "Will you be my Personal butler?"
"Of course" Gato seemed surprised if anything but also excited
"Then listen very clearly, you are stupid what kind of ability is that emitting fast coins to do damage? No ability effect at that point use a gun" the 5-year-old began to lecture the older man
"W-"
"Shh, I'm not done since you've agreed to be my personal butler you will develop your Nen according to my desires okay? Good now bring me the information on Bisket whenever you can" Karma spoke
"I was going to tell you when you came down first thing sir, but Silva zoyldck wants me to relay this message" Gato still inexperienced quickly produced an envelope marked with divine language
….
"Gato use your men on the letter and pass it over" Karma was beginning to question his subordinate's competence
Pulling the letter back and opening the parchment he hands over a coded letter to me it roughly translated to
"Young master zoyldck, we have found one match on the person you've described I suggest you avoid her in the future. She is the single-star hunter Biskey Kruger
Approaching the Lukso province a strange magical beast has appeared everyone who survives an encounter claims it speaks, it seems to kill or leave its victims mad, and this information isn't confirmed but the creature… it's immortal the V5 lost many men trying to subdue it recently Maha suspects it comes from a land of darkness. This is to say if you see a creature like this escape immediately run and don't look back that's your only chance
Finally, a new enemy of the zoyldcks came to the mountains and injured Kikyo when Zeno was away Silva was unable to kill him. He warns you of the man with white hair and red eyes he doesn't seem to have the desire to kill anyone but Kikyo.
Stay safe
"
Interesting I need to unlock my hatsu quickly things are getting bizarre maybe the chat group has some info… what if it is one of them? I need to go about this more cautiously
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Four days passed, and karma waited four days to confirm the threat was no longer in heaven's arena. And now Gato is developing a stronger support ability.' Lucky for him he seems able to create two Nen hatsus with no issue must be the 1 in 10 Nen users with more than 1 ability limit' karma thought as he walked onto the stage
"Winner by knock-out Karma will anyone put a stop to this fighter?"
These days my life entered a sort of schedule I followed almost religiously from 5:00 to 11:00 he trained his assassin arts then did information gathering for around 1-2 hours and then depending on his opponents fought them or had them mysteriously disappear
I would kill one person on the kill list every 2 days my high caution and being forced to take only requests near Heaven Arena limited my options, so I had to abandon 2 requests.
All was relatively easy until around the 190th floor afterward the percentage of facing Nen users increased and since I was fighting fairly I'd win occasionally and lose a few. It was fun honestly fighting a nice hard fight was always enjoyable
After my fights, I would teach Gato and theorize about Nen's abilities finally he felt strongly about one particular ability after considering various restrictions we decided on. I allowed him to create one ability of his own mostly to not have him foster any resentment in the future.
He created with my advice an ability with the coins he liked so much, Collecting taxes that's what he decided to call the technique you use the emitted energy of anyone within 5 meters of you to charge up a coin, if someone leaves the range the coin can't charge of that person again, his second restriction was needing real gold coins finally he made a new vow of always serving me.
Collecting taxes, uses the aura released of your three targets within eyesight as the base of the damage of the coin, by adding a secondary restriction of needing gold coins he is able to send out powerful golden coins more dangerous the more nen is available.
A strong ability, using it as a base after much deliberation I decided for his last hatsu to be a buff type, Collecting interest is where you can fire a collecting taxes coin at an ally buffing their raw Aura for 30 minutes. And as a vow being only capable of giving coins to zoyldck family members. Then a secondary restriction of needing to explain your ability to your target is you can lend the zoyldck this nen at no cost and in return you are forced in Zetsu for 5 times the amount of time the ability is in use. after your Nen returns your maximum aura grows. During the duration of the ability, the user needs to remain within a 50x50 meter space.
The one issue after further experimentation was the aura buff reduces by half if you leave a 10-mile range off Gato thankfully he had an emission affinity otherwise having such an ability span so far would be a stretch, this was ignoring that if the coin was removed of the body of the target the effect ended instantly.
The ability was possible only due to the restrictions and Gato's high talent. Using Gato's coin to max effect required multiple willing Nen users and preparation time
Elevating Gatos nen from a mere gag trick to a versatile dangerous ability was fun.
I continued my routine for 2 weeks while it only took a week to get to floor 180 getting to 200 took more time and effort the constant defeat eroded my patience.
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Floor 198
Gato seemed resigned sure he wouldn't convince me "Young master please think more clearly, why would you fight this man on his terms? " Gato spoke
"I need to live a little being cautious all the time can't be correct it seems like an acceptable risk, he has never killed someone in the ring before and he's a enhanced with no strange hatsus" Karma spoke as his eyes shone with confidence
'My martial arts have reached a wall perhaps a close fight with someone strong like him will give me a breakthrough' Such thoughts flowed through Karma's head as he entered the cage.
"Special match CAGE FIGHT On the right corner we have the undisputed cage fight champion, Reynolds Wright! And on the left the demon from the zoyldck family KARMA" the announcer yelled information about my origin which wasn't necessarily hidden
"3…2…1 GO"
There was no immediate confrontation, Reynolds seemed content to monologue and karma seemed to take up space as he began using rhythm echo.
'He has a momentum-based hatsu I need to beat him quickly' thought karma
"So you really are a zoyldck… don't blame me kid blame your family th-" Ryendolds spoke as his rage began to consume him before being interrupted by a swing.
"Ting" a sound pinged out of metal on metal, and 2 of Karma's fingernails snapped off. Reynolds attempted to grab karma only for him to escape his palm like he was the wind.
"Cowardly assassin, don't you know martial artists introduce themselves first" Reynolds' aura grew denser before it suddenly emitted killing intent
"I will kill you" Reynolds spoke simply as he ran at the zoyldck this time trading a few flows
"Checkmate" believing the fight was done he was shocked at a hand rushing towards him grabbing his shirt.
Now shirtless looked as Reynolds willingly inhaled the rest of the poison and… smiled " I don't feel guilt killing scum like you" Reynolds spoke in a distorted voice
"I forfeit" Karma has no hesitation in abandoning a match suddenly full of unknowns.
Before the announcer could announce the results Reynolds charged at karma… he picked the wrong after image he was at least 50% faster
"Haha, I see it now you can't use Nen, can you? The heavens smile on me today." This time he wouldn't miss
Realizing there was no way out of the ring, Karma realized that he needed to win there was no losing he had to win. And at that realization, something innate to him moved.
Fist on an elbow, shin on the jaw, yet every exchange only left me more damaged. The staff quickly broke the locks on the cage and opened the door. Running to the open door I was met with a fist before I could react my head moved on its own.
Nen genius A term to describe the usage of nen typically with the user unaware. Often with aura nodes sealed the nen still manifests.
Under Nen contract restricting his hatsu and restriction on his Nen itself Karma zoyldcks hatsu responded. Regardless his intense desire to survive went beyond the ability of Nen's restrictions.
"Tch, brat so you're not hiding your abilities anymore too bad, my Nen was fully created to kill you sneaky zoyldck scum" Reynolds wanted nothing more than to kill him