Roy held two swords, sometimes displaying the "Scorching Sun," sometimes the "Softness of Water," and sometimes the "Sharpness of Wind"... just like a dancer of swords, frolicking amid the scattered Nen in the sky... captured in Netero's eyes,
compared to the first meeting during the Hunter Exam, the young man was hardly recognizable!
"Zeno, congratulations~" Zeno's leisurely voice pierced through the scattering Nen, directly pointing at Zeno beside him, "Your family is about to gain a sword master!"
Master... What is a master? Only by delving deep into one path, constantly "imitating," "learning," then "surpassing," "creating," and forging a path uniquely one's own... can one be called a master!
And to be given such a high evaluation by the acknowledged "strongest human" of the era, even if Zeno prided himself as an assassin, hiding his expressions was his specialty, a faint arc couldn't help but appear at the corners of his mouth, as he proudly huffed coldly: "A master, though Roy probably doesn't care, it's his... teacher, who's truly......"
Some people love to teach in reality, some in dreams... Who says reality is true, and dreams are necessarily false?
Truth and falsehood, like "Conjuration" and "Anti-Conjuration," for a Nen user of the Conjuration class, "true" and "false" are important, yet... also "unimportant"....
Zeno thought of his father Jager, and Netero thought of his friend Jager...
He said he was dead, but the one in the Demon Eye clearly wasn't him, just a part of his "game," or rather... a "game tool"!
Netero deeply agreed, squinting as he watched Roy move with his sword, the sole of his foot rippling across the water, a fierce straight thrust, empowered by "Light Speed" and the "Divine Spear," suddenly surpassed the distance of space, extending the blade instantaneously to stab toward Silva's face!
Without withholding his acknowledgment, he said, "Then his teacher must be an extraordinary swordsman!"
"If there's a chance to meet him, it must be quite interesting!"
A misty fighting spirit suddenly emanated from Netero's body and quickly dissipated... Zeno gave a sidelong glance, empathizing, having vaguely heard some things from his grandfather Maha, wondering about entering the dream to see,
what kind of appearance those teachers standing behind Roy had, but alas... what grandfather would forcibly impose on his grandson?
He wasn't Silva!
Zeno squinted his eyes, looking at Silva through "Gyo"!
The abruptly extended "Eclipse" and "Yubashiri," through the display of "Light Speed," appeared from space with sharp brilliance, sword wind brushing his face... causing Silva's silver hair to fly wildly!
The man's pupils narrowed, crossing his fists, lifting them before his face, Nen surging between them, quickly adhering to his forearms and spreading to his fists, forming an X shape, coated with "Ko"!
Then, the sound of a crisp "ding~" was heard!
Roy wielded his sword as if stabbing into a diamond; although the blade's tip pierced Silva's "Nen Shield," it was also forcibly caught by his formidable "Ko"!
"Lady Tsubone, is the bright silver membrane on the master's fists what you call 'Ken'?"
A kilometer away, perched atop a large tree, Kurajing, holding a telescope, observed with "Gyo," noticing the "Eclipse" and "Yubashiri" in Roy's hands seemingly embedded in a swamp, wrapped by Silva's vast Nen, and turned to Tsubone with a curious question.
Beside him, Kurapika furrowed his brows, holding a telescope as well, casting Tsubone a sidelong glance... Oddly, he didn't see any "bright silver membrane"?
The so-called difference between "ordinary" and "Nen" is precisely this....
Tsubone deeply gazed at Roy being restrained by Silva, warmly addressing the siblings, "Just call me Tsubone."
The old butler's two pink pigtails hung behind her, adjusting the glasses on her nose, as Kurajing and Kurapika looked on with curious eyes, she solemnly said, "That isn't 'Ken,' it's 'Ko'!"
"It's a high-level applied technique combining the Four Major Principles 'Ten', 'Zetsu', 'Ren', and 'Hatsu' with dynamic capture from 'Gyo'!"
"Not something ordinary people can master....."
Kurapika stood on Tsubone's left side, stealthily glanced at the pondering Kurajing, focusing on "Four Major Principles," "Gyo," "Ken," and "Ko," then lifted the telescope to look back at the clear pond, silently thinking, "Of course, not just anyone can...."
Not mentioning the two locked in a stalemate on the lake, and the three watching nonchalantly beside them,
in the whole Zoldyck Family, there's only him... still an ordinary person.....
The young man recalled his first entry into the Zoldyck Family, seeing Uncle Zebro's muscular frame, feeling... if he hadn't been recognized at the time, he would've been smashed into a meatball with a punch, or... swallowed as a snack by the big dog at the mountain's base!
"Hum....." The sword was trembling....
"Crack.... "Ko" like a clamp, gripping "Eclipse" and "Yubashiri" without letting go.....
On the clear pond, as father and son's Nen surged, simply contesting sheer strength!
Just hearing "splash.....", the water surface sank, as the two became the center, the water frenziedly swirling outward, drowning a small circle of waterwood around them within the blink of an eye......
Silva looked closely at Roy, feeling the powerful force from "Eclipse" and "Yubashiri," transferring through "Ko" to his fists, then to his forearm and bicep, oppressing his voice, speaking with uninhibited delight: "Roy, you have reason to be proud... speaking of strength alone, father has only ever admired three and a half people in his life!"
Roy raised an eyebrow, equally feeling the overwhelming force from Silva, pressing down like a mountain, and asked: "I count as half, who are the others?"
"One's in Kakin,"
"One's in Bandle City,"
"And one, is right here,"
Netero heard this and laughed heartily with his hands on his hips: "Zeno, look, your son is praising me!"
Zeno: "....."
Coldly smirking, he spat out a name: "Beyond, Beyond....."
Netero was instantly like someone had choked him silent, face turning red and silent...
"Kekeke....." A gradual mocking laughter unabashedly echoed deep into Kukuroo Mountain.....
Within the Zoldyck Family's ancient castle, in that dimly lit room on the first floor, a certain scrawny old man turned over, rocking in a chair, reaching out to pat Betty Zoldyck's round behind, revealing a toothy grin... only to get a slap from the embarrassed and annoyed Betty Zoldyck, and settled down....
"Watching the show, your hands aren't honest!"
Pity she is now a wisp of true spirit, truly alive, who knows how long she'd be tormented by the audacious Maha....
The Enhancement type has strong limbs, of course, the fifth wouldn't be weak... The woman, borrowing Maha's Nen, sat on his lap, gazing at the large television before them, switched to the battlefield... faintly seeing a familiar Nen aura flowing... it was Killua!
"Eeeeyah....." The bedroom on the second floor,
Killua cradled Killua, channeling Nen, controlling the cameras densely scattered over the entire Kukuroo Mountain, observing the battle from God's perspective, naturally wouldn't miss their ancestor at home — Maha.
"Sizzle~" Electric arcs flickering, the cameras embedded in the forest nimbly adjusted angles, capturing the battlefield's situation.....
Having heard Silva's words, Roy stared closely at Silva, his tight training attire filled to the brim with bulging muscles, unsurprised, he said: "The one in Bandle City is called... Benjamin Federick!"
That is, the former head of the Security Corps, now the... "Thunder Archbishop"!
"It seems, you've met him already." Silva vaguely gleaned a hint of emotions from Roy's Nen.
Yet, this emotion... didn't seem all that pleasant,
Roy smiled...
Of course, that stab from Benjamin, he'd never dare forget, only...
"Father, aren't you overlooking someone?"
"Who?"
"Your great-grandfather, and my great-great-grandfather... Maha Zoldyck!"
"No, I'm not," Silva's eyes were deep, looking distantly towards the dimly lit room in the Zoldyck Family's ancient castle, "In my heart,"
"your great-great-grandfather doesn't count here,"
"He's not human,"
"He's a 'god'!"