It was not the rule, and it was easy to see that in terms of direct physical combat and close-combat expertise with a weapon.
Anisa is far better than Adarte. Adarte was more of a brawler and pretty open fighter that would use everything he got to hit his enemy with his metal bat.
Meanwhile, Anisa knew how to use her dagger and protect herself better.
Despite Laxon being powerful and now his nen ability changed to the second stage, he did not have a clear advantage over her.
Anisa dodged most of the attacks and counter-attacked with her knife.
"From the left?" she thought as she looked at the leg of Laxon and moved to the right.
Laxon kicked to the left side, but it was already seen. Anisa, after dodging, swiped with her dagger and cut the face of Laxon slightly.
Laxon jumped back for a moment and could not help but take a deep breath.
This was harder and more dangerous than he thought it would be.
Anisa did not wait for Laxon to plan and attack her again; she took the wind to her back and jumped and started swiping and slashing with her dagger, right and left, left and right, up and down.
Every four and five moves, she was able to cut and damage Laxon to some extent.
Laxon then finally found an opening, and with a palm attack, he counter-attacked the chest of Anisa.
Anisa did not stop or try to dodge and took the full brunt of the attack and launched several meters back; she spat a little blood.
The opening Laxon saw was not a real opening but an opening that she let him see.
It was all a tactical movement from Anisa's end.
As she spat on the ground, a smirk manifested as she took deep breaths.
She pointed her revolver and then said it.
"First…" With her words, a black bullet formed and then shot towards Laxon. Laxon dodged to the left and then felt sharp pain in his abdomen.
"Fuck..."
"I dodged it," he could not but think.
"No..."
"The dodge is not useful against such an attack."
"It would be foolish to think that she just uses a regular revolver."
"That must be her nen ability."
As Laxon thought, he kept on bleeding even more and more.
While at the same time, Adarte kept on fighting against Lilis.
Her red stick kept on pounding the metal bat of Adarte. In ten to fifteen seconds, they attacked each other many times without any connection or any damage to both sides.
Lilis jumped back and then felt aggravated.
"It seems like I have no way to beat this guy..."
"Without using the real ability."
The ability of Lilis was called "Emotional Influencer Stick." It had three color stages, and the stages could be chosen.
Lilis was a pretty immoral individual, and so she had no reason to not accept using the lives of others to improve her nen ability.
"In return for three innocent lives sacrificed, she is able to have an effect of inducement on her weapon."
These three people that needed to be sacrificed every month needed to have three emotions while they were killed.
Happiness, fear, and anger: when Lilis kills these people while they feel these emotions, their emotions and life powers up to the stick she uses to fight.
When she hits a target with the emotion that he would choose, "happiness, fear, or anger," she either induces the effect or takes it from the target.
Anger was red in color; the stick changed to the red color. Fear was black, and happiness was yellow. There is also a non-active use of the stick, which is just white.
The problem for Lilis is that she was not able to hit Adarte and damage him; if she were able to hit him, she could make him more angry or take anger from him for a duration of time, about ten minutes after each hit.
"His physical capability and use of nen are great."
"I also think that he must have some uses for that glove too..."
"He never used it; other than trying to hit me with that bat of his, he never did anything else..."
Adarte, on the other hand, felt great, as this was a better fight for him; the woman did not know, but he was in a great state.
"Hmmm."
"After all the vibration and the attack, my glove is pretty loaded up."
"With one opening, I can blast him and use my new ability."
Sting – My Lovely Pain was slightly improved by Adarte after his experiences.
Usually, he stored the nen that he accumulated through his nen ability and pain, the vibration, and used that as a punch.
Now, he had a second use of it, it was called.
"Sting – Lovely Pain Blast."
He stores the nen in his glove and then lets it out as "pain" instead of just a punch. The range is not much due to him not being an emitter, but it is still effective in a range of five meters.
All the nen change into a sensation of pain within the glove, and then when blasted away to the target, the target feels all the pain in just three seconds.
Due to the collected amount of pain and influence of nen, the pain is more than enough to stop the mind of even an experienced nen user from working.
It did not kill, but it gave him at least three to six seconds of time to open to whatever he wanted to do to his opponent.
"I will be testing this new ability on her."