"I can't believe it! She was so foolish as to give up her ability! To give up being a Nen user!"
The moment they walked out of the coffee shop, Bodoro couldn't help but exclaim.
In his opinion, forget a mere one billion Jenny; a hundred billion Jenny couldn't compare to the importance of a Nen ability!
"No. You're wrong. She wasn't foolish; she was very clear about what she wanted. After all, having an ability like that, she was like a child walking through a crowded market square holding a priceless treasure. Instead of waiting for ill-intentioned people to snatch the treasure and kill her to silence her, it was more sensible to sell it while someone was willing to pay a high price. At least by choosing the latter, she gained a large sum of money and saved her own life. Moreover, the original reason for her ability's birth was to escape; how can you expect too much from a person who craves escape?" Allen explained meaningfully.
After all, Hunter x Hunter is not a typical hot-blooded manga like Naruto, One Piece, or Bleach, which builds a world where strength is everything. It has a powerful governmental structure and even a United Nations-like body called the V5.
Even the Hunter Association needs to obey the V5 to a certain extent and follow the orders issued by those politicians.
No matter how powerful a Nen user is, they cannot withstand a nuclear bomb.
Forget nuclear weapons, the Ant King, who symbolized the ceiling of individual combat power, was eliminated by a mere small Poor Man's Rose.
And the Poor Man's Rose is only a slightly stronger biological weapon, something that even gangs and warlords can easily obtain. Its power is miles away from a true thermonuclear warhead.
Therefore, in this world, becoming a wealthy or powerful person is not necessarily much worse than becoming a Nen user.
At least the former has a much lower probability of encountering danger than the latter.
Bodoro nodded thoughtfully: "Well, maybe you are right. One billion Jenny can ensure she lives a life free from worry for the rest of her days. In a way, it's a blessing in disguise."
"Indeed. If she's smart enough, she can use that money to invest and start a business. She might even become a wealthy businesswoman in a few years. Come on, let's catch the next airship and try to take care of all the wanted criminals on this map within a month."
With that, Allen hailed a taxi, heading straight for the city's airship takeoff and landing center.
Thanks to his Hunter License, he had little trouble booking a ticket for the earliest airship bound for the next destination. He then used the time aboard the airship to enter his instance dungeon and begin studying the two new abilities he had just acquired.
In particular, the large, plush rabbit-like doll was definitely worth spending a significant amount of time and effort on for in-depth development.
The ability to simply dispel a target's wounds, negative status effects, and emotions through an intense, subjective consciousness of repulsion was already powerful enough.
Furthermore, besides these effects, the ability seemed to have the potential to repel others' malicious Nen.
That is to say, by adding Limitations and Vows, it could potentially achieve the effect of a Nen Exorcism.
The only problem was how to properly trigger his own emotions to meet the minimum requirement for the ability's activation.
Don't think this is easy.
Especially for someone like Allen, whose personality is relatively calm and composed and who doesn't easily experience intense emotional fluctuations, it would require a long period of training.
However, after practicing for a while, he found that no matter how he stimulated his brain, he would, without exception, gradually become more and more numb, moving away from the initial strong reaction.
This meant that all types of stimulation were only effective initially, and as the number of uses increased, the brain would develop a certain cognitive resistance and become increasingly desensitized to that kind of stimulus.
Out of frustration, Allen had to figure out a solution from the perspective of Nen ability. He ultimately discarded the size Enhancement and transformation aspects of Zebulun's "Ghoul" ability, transforming it into a special kind of Aura used to significantly strengthen his neural perception, especially his pain nerves.
This way, as long as he activated the ability and briefly deactivated the protection of his Hunter class template, he could instantly feel a level of agony that ordinary people couldn't endure.
And this intense pain would be instantly converted into a strong subjective emotion, generating a sufficient will to repel.
Simply put, he would achieve the prerequisite for activating the ability through a certain degree of "self-harm" or "self-abuse."
At the same time, the "Ghoul's" powerful cellular regeneration ability ensured that he wouldn't easily die regardless of the damage inflicted.
With the two abilities paired, Allen finally completed the restructuring of his new ability before disembarking from the airship.
Standing on the bustling commercial street in the downtown area, he looked at the red dot on the map getting closer and closer to him, curled his lips slightly, and muttered to himself: "Mad Chemist Perro, I'll use you to test my new ability…"
The moment the words fell, he charged out like an arrow shot from a bow!
Amidst the crowd, a man wearing a trench coat and a fedora suddenly saw a map materialize out of thin air in his left hand. His face instantly changed drastically, and he immediately activated his Nen ability.
In the space of a single second, a materialized, oversized flask appeared out of nowhere in his other hand.
The flask contained a murky green liquid that was constantly emitting a pungent odor.
Poison? A Conjuration-type user!
Allen's pupils instantly dilated at the sight. Without a second thought, he summoned the Cyan Philosopher's Stone, stirring up a strong current of Aura that pushed the surrounding passersby out of the potential combat zone.
"Hmph! Naive! Do you think blowing these people away will protect them?" Perro sneered, lightly shaking the flask before throwing it out.
The next second...
BOOM!
The murky green liquid inside the oversized flask violently exploded upon contact with the ground!
A red fireball erupted skyward!
The walls, windows, and doors of all the buildings within a dozen meters collapsed from the deafening noise. Many passersby who were relatively close were also affected and suffered minor injuries.
Moreover, the injured all showed varying degrees of poisoning symptoms, and some, having inhaled the smoke from the explosion, were doubled over on the ground, vomiting uncontrollably and struggling to breathe.
"Liquid explosive? No. That's not right. There must be something else in there!"
Allen was clearly startled by the bizarre explosion and immediately stopped his advance, scrutinizing the "infamous" wanted criminal.
The reason he was called infamous was that "Mad Chemist" Perro had repeatedly taken commissions from warlords and extremist organizations to set off bombs in densely populated areas, widely dispersing toxic substances, causing the deaths of thousands of civilians. He was an utterly deranged perpetrator of terrorist attacks.
Furthermore, his ability was highly unusual; when pursued, he would often use the lives and safety of civilians as leverage, which resulted in many powerful Bounty Hunters having to retreat empty-handed.
Even among A-rank wanted criminals, he belonged to the most dangerous and difficult-to-deal-with category.
"Hehehehe! That's right!
"My ability is the Miraculous Chemical Reaction!
"I use my Conjuration ability to spontaneously create a chemical solution I am familiar with, and then use my Transmutation ability to change its chemical properties, thereby creating all sorts of strange phenomena that defy conventional understanding.
"For example, turning an inert solution that originally has no explosive properties into a flammable and explosive substance like nitroglycerin.
"Or, for instance, turning a non-toxic solution that quickly evaporates upon contact with air into a deadly poison capable of killing a person in seconds.
"With this ability, I can create an explosion in just a few minutes and disperse highly toxic substances into the air for several kilometers around.
"Well, now that you know all this, are you still determined to capture me?
"If I use my full power, I could turn the surrounding few kilometers into a barren purgatory, and hundreds of thousands of civilians, men, women, and children alike, would all die.
"And it will be because of your recklessness and impulsiveness!
"So, take my advice and give up now. Otherwise, even if you capture me, the Hunter Association and the rulers of this country will not let you off the hook."
Perro issued his threat meaningfully.
It was easy to tell from his cold, ruthless eyes that he was the kind of self-serving individual who had no moral bottom line and cared nothing for the lives of others.
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