And the thing capable of doing this, naturally, was one of Luke's inventions:
The gadget that can make people tell the truth, the Truth Sticker.
Invention: Truth Sticker
Origin: Doraemon world — Future Tech Company
Function: As long as it is stuck onto the target, it will make the target reveal the true thoughts in their heart.
Just like in Doraemon, where Suneo often lies to win everyone's praise, and Nobita, who gets scolded for telling the truth, uses such a gadget to expose Suneo's hypocrisy, forcing Suneo to admit his fake behavior and revealing his pretend good person nature.
Now, the same thing happened with Risnorth.
Since the other party was so dishonest and uncooperative, Luke wouldn't be polite with him.
Or rather, Luke had intended to stick it on him from the start.
This guy's fate was already sealed, so there was no need to consider his feelings.
At this moment, Risnorth's answer made Luke raise an eyebrow slightly.
"Ritual? What ritual?"
"It's a ritual concerning On..."
Under the influence of the Truth Sticker, Risnorth was completely open and honest.
He told him everything that had happened to him.
"After my son Palias died, I initially harbored a deep hatred for the Kakin Empire."
As soon as Risnorth spoke, Luke's mind stirred again.
The Kakin Empire?
Chrollo had mentioned it before.
The tragedy that befell Risnorth occurred in a kingdom on the Azian Continent.
The Kakin Empire is undoubtedly the most powerful kingdom on the Azian Continent.
Only such a kingdom would allow Risnorth to bring people there to discuss business cooperation.
And… The Kakin Empire is also a strange and chaotic country.
The egg-in-a-pot Seed Urn Ceremony, mercenaries and illegitimate children, throne succession wars, and so on.
Those were matters that arose later and need not be discussed here yet.
But as for this On...
"Are you talking about the power that the shadow organization leader possesses?!"
Luke had not forgotten that, besides the main storyline, Hunter × Hunter also had two theatrical adaptations.
One tells the story of the fourth member of the Phantom Troupe, who committed a mad act of self-destruction before Hisoka joined the group.
The other tells the story of Jed, leader of the shadow organization that acted under the Hunter's Association and a contemporary of Netero.
Jed is the master of On.
His On ability, The Grudge of One-Hundred Demons: Rakshasa, was powerful enough to rival Netero's 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Although in the end, he was still dealt with by the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.
And because the shadow organization of the Hunter Association carried out many unsavory, clandestine tasks on behalf of the association and its backers, tasks that became increasingly extreme and out of control, the V5 had Netero himself step in to deal with Jed...
Luke noted the connection between the Kakin Empire and On, then continued listening to Risnorth's speech.
"But later, when the Kakin Empire expressed their apologies, they offered me a way to bring Palias back."
At this point, bitterness and pain filled Risnorth's face and eyes.
He wanted to close his mouth, but his lips still uncontrollably continued to part: "According to the Kakin Empire, there exists a strange power in this world called On."
"With sufficient On, one can accomplish incredible things."
"Including resurrecting the dead."
"At first, I thought it was impossible, that they were playing a trick on me!!"
"But then..."
Risnorth closed his eyes in agony. "I saw with my own eyes that this world has a power called Nen."
"It can grant life to lifeless things; to me, that was already incredible."
"And the Kakin Empire says that On is even more powerful than Nen."
"So, this gives me another glimmer of hope."
"The hope of bringing Palias back to life!!"
After saying these words, Risnorth had almost accepted reality.
His tone was filled with loneliness and resentful anger.
"So, I went crazy, using various channels to kidnap children around Palias's age."
"The Kakin Empire said the best way to obtain On is to collect all kinds of negative emotions."
"In my opinion, if we want to bring Palias back to life, using children around his age to collect On might be more effective."
"Fear, terror, pain, resentment... Under the guidance of the Kakin Empire, I successfully gathered these emotions."
"I saw it with my own eyes too, that dark, electric current-like shape of On."
"Even though I knew this power could be terrifying, evil, and bring terrible things to this world and humanity."
"I couldn't care about any of that anymore."
"I only wanted to bring my Palias back to life."
"But..."
Risnorth said hoarsely: "In the end, it was a failure."
Well, Luke wasn't surprised by this.
There are indeed ways to resurrect the dead in this world.
The first, a typical example, is Alluka Zoldyck.
Her other self from the Dark Continent, Nanika, possesses the ability to grant wishes.
This is an unconventional and extremely unreasonable ability.
The second type would be the orthodox resurrection ability, a manifestation of Nen.
Among them, the most classic example appeared during the Kakin Empire's prince succession war.
The second prince, Camilla Hui Guo Rou, had the Nen ability called the Cat Who Lived a Million Times.
(T/N: Its name is Cat's Name, but the Cat Who Lived a Million Times sounds better.)
This ability triggers a special mechanism when she suffers a fatal attack: by consuming the killer's life force, she resurrects herself and heals all injuries, forming a unique Nen-based cycle.
Specifically, the ability activates at the moment the killer touches Camilla's corpse.
Camilla's Nen, even more powerful than when she's alive, transforms into a giant black cat behind the killer.
The cat instantly wraps its two paws around the killer's entire body, then it converts the killer's life force into liquid, storing it at the end of its tail.
After the killer loses all of his life force, the black cat injects the remaining liquid into Camilla's mouth.
After consuming all the liquid, Camilla resurrects at the same spot, and her fatal wounds disappear.
Isn't that just like Renata's Bailout skill in League of Legends?
Camilla's Nen ability mechanism is very similar to that ability.
Her power stems from an intense Nen formed after death.
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