Hunter x Hunter: Card Master, the Strongest in the World.

Chapter 169 Biohazard! I'm in charge of the South Gate!

This is just the ability Kurapika currently possesses. Nen abilities can be developed, and there are many more possibilities for his future abilities.

After everyone left, Lynn returned to his room and took out a fruit with spiral patterns.

After Kurapika defeated the jackal, he was fortunate enough to receive a B+ rank Dog-Dog Fruit - Jackal Form.

In the past few days, Kurapika and Leorio have been sparring with members of the Reges royal family and have achieved considerable results. Including the Jackal Fruit, they now have a total of five B-rank cards.

The first four were used as sacrifices, but the Jackal Fruit can be kept, as it is relatively more useful.

Since the month is not over yet, Kurapika and Leorio have not yet received the reward from the [Employee Badge], but since they have five B cards, their commission should be considerable.

After the sacrifice, he now has 1500 points, and immediately chooses to upgrade his A-level substitute scarecrow.

For survival items, the stronger the better.

【Name: Substitute Scarecrow】

[Grade: A]

[Type: Ability Card]

[Background: One Piece]

[Description: Can create scarecrow substitutes. The scarecrows can withstand any form of attack on the original body, including severed limbs and fatal injuries — Current production capacity: 3]

It still offers the same simple and unpretentious life-saving effect.

However, Class A stand-in scarecrows no longer need to collect other people's blood, nor do they need to guarantee the life of the person whose blood was taken. They can directly create scarecrows and let the scarecrows suffer damage.

And the quantity increases by 1, which is equivalent to having an extra life.

With his survival ability enhanced, Lynn was in a good mood. He then produced two more cards and examined them. These two cards were a B+ grade Rabbit Talisman and a tissue.

The Rabbit Talisman can increase his speed and enhance his combat abilities.

Occupying tissues can improve his luck, making it easier to get high-level cards when challenging rare A+ level powerhouses and when drawing cards.

So his next step is to upgrade these two cards, but that will require a full 5000 points, which is a considerable amount.

Illumi was lackluster this month, only providing one B-rank card.

It's normal to have ups and downs, but he also has to face one thing: he doesn't have enough resources to get the cards.

C and B tiers are manageable, but starting from A tier, there are far fewer people, and the probability of getting cards isn't 100%, making it much harder to obtain cards.

Take Illumi as an example. He has A-rank strength and his assassination targets are often A-rank or below. If he's lucky, he can provide A-rank cards.

But in most cases, he only gets C-level or B-level cards. This is not only due to his limited strength, but also because there are too few A-level opponents.

Unless he approaches a major power or influential force, it's difficult to find even an A-level person, let alone an A+ level one. Therefore, he can only seize every opportunity.

Fortunately, the attribute bar can also generate cards, and the six continents are not small. He has only been to a few places, and there are still many places for him to go.

Before he travels across the six continents, his strength will already be sufficient to reach the Dark Continent, at which point he will have no worries about finding opponents.

Collecting his thoughts, Lynn released Tsunade, preparing for nighttime study.

"Super strength is difficult to learn. It requires extracting a large amount of chakra in a short period of time, and then using precise manipulation to condense it in the hand without disorder, thereby maximizing the use of every bit of power."

In the open space outside, the moonlight shone on Tsunade's calm face, and a gentle breeze blew, ruffling her golden hair.

The words had barely left her lips when Tsunade's right fist unleashed an astonishing surge of chakra, landing effortlessly on the ground with a mere, effortless movement.

Click—

The ground shook violently, then shattered, sending up clouds of dust, which were then blown away by a gust of wind.

This was only because Tsunade had restrained herself; otherwise, if she had gotten serious, the sound of her punch would have been comparable to that of a cannon, enough to frighten everyone else in the manor.

Lynn carefully observed Tsunade's every move and replayed it in his mind.

After acquiring Tsunade, he wondered if he could learn something from her.

The result is affirmative.

Although he lacks chakra and cannot learn those ninjutsu, he can at least master taijutsu.

Strictly speaking, these taijutsu belong to ninjutsu, which are taijutsu that use chakra. However, chakra and nimoji have certain similarities. He can learn techniques and use nimoji to replace chakra.

Take "super strength" as an example. If we replace chakra with Nen, then super strength is similar to "hardness" and "firmness". In essence, they are all about concentrating Nen in one place and unleashing it.

Therefore, what he really needs to learn is the technique involved, to learn the essence of superhuman strength on the basis of advanced application skills, and after learning superhuman strength, he will be able to unleash even greater power.

After giving it a try, although he hadn't mastered it yet, Lynn felt that he could learn it with some time, so he also included [Super Strength] in his learning scope.

There's so much to learn. Even with the Shadow Clone Technique to share the burden, it's not efficient enough. We can only take it slowly.

As he immersed himself in his studies, time slipped by little by little.

As night fell on May 25th, some changes occurred in the capital.

The celebration street is still bustling with activity and brightly lit.

A bald man suddenly felt dizzy and his nose started bleeding. He instinctively knelt down on the ground. Seeing this, the others rushed forward to check on him.

With a scream, the bald man's life signs quickly disappeared, replaced by a dense aura of death emanating from his body, and his eyes turned as black as ink.

At this point, he had completely become a mind-controlled corpse.

The next moment, the bald man suddenly pounced on the person next to him and began to bite him, tearing him to pieces in just a few moments.

"what!"

Screams erupted, and those around looked horrified at the sight.

Could it be rabies?

Someone tried to subdue him with a wooden stick, but the sturdy stick fell on him without causing any damage; instead, it was so hard that it broke the stick.

Even more unbelievable things happened: the person bitten by the bald man stood up shakily, looking just like the bald man, with a deathly pale face, dark and empty eyes, and frantically chasing after others.

A bizarre, dystopian version of a biohazard is unfolding in every corner of the capital city of Reges.

This also symbolizes the start of Yingren Kingdom's actions!

Soon, the Reges royal family noticed something was wrong. There were an unusually large number of "fights" that night, and they discovered that death thoughts were spreading among people, which was obviously related to Nen users.

The death consciousness spreads extremely quickly, and the power of the spirit corpses far surpasses that of ordinary people; relying solely on normal law enforcement personnel is simply not enough.

Seeing that things were not going well, the royal family dispatched the army and some Nen users to deal with the incident, but they could not send out all of their forces.

Because tonight's events are very likely deliberate, and the real target is the royal palace!

Inside the royal palace.

main hall.

Gail, Bisge, and others gathered here, including some members of the royal family.

"With Amy and the King away, they are at a critical juncture. We must not allow the enemy any opportunity to take advantage of them," Gail said gravely.

As a member of the royal family, she should do her part in this situation.

Moreover, Amy had already instructed that if any unforeseen circumstances arose, Gail would take charge, so no one had any objections.

Upon discovering the unexpected incident, Gail immediately gathered everyone to arrange the next steps.

"It's exactly midnight now. Amy needs another three hours. During this time, we must defend the palace."

"The palace has three entrances. Apart from the personnel left inside the palace and those sent out to maintain order, we need to guard these three places, and even the western side, which has no entrance, needs to have troops stationed there."

"The enemy is most likely the desperate Yingren Kingdom, so we must deploy a sufficiently strong force."

Considering that dispersing troops might allow the enemy to concentrate their forces and break through in one place, this gave Gai Lu an even bigger headache. He felt that the troops were not enough, so he had no choice but to arrange the east and north gates first.

The East Gate is the main gate, the closest to the main street, and the place that needs to be guarded the most. At the same time, it is also necessary to keep an eye on the rampaging spirit corpses to the east. Therefore, Gail placed Bisji, Kangzai and others at the East Gate.

The north gate was guarded by the royal family's A+ level middle-aged man who wielded fire, who was said to be Amy's uncle.

The remaining group was responsible for the west side of the palace.

Then Lynn volunteered: "Then my apprentices and I will be in charge of the south gate."

Should Lynn, Kurapika, and Leorio guard the South Gate?

Will we be short-staffed?

Although it's called the South Gate, it actually oversees the entire southern area.

The next moment, streaks of white light flashed behind Lynn.

Tsunade, Zoro, Chopper—each figure exuded a powerful aura, drawing the attention of everyone present.

Seeing this, Gail immediately made a decision to do as Lynn said, while also arranging for some people to stay in the palace as a reserve force.

Lynn alone is equivalent to an entire team, and Lynn is even stronger than Bisji. With him around, Southgate should be safe.

After arranging the matters, everyone went their separate ways to carry out their tasks.

Lynn and the others arrived at the South Gate. Lynn chose to stay and guard the South Gate, and then Leorio, Kurapika,

Chopper and Zoro went to a place further away from the south gate to clear out the households and observe the situation so they could warn others if any enemies appeared.

Finally, he stood alone in front of the gate, ready for anything.

Another place in the capital.

The Phantom Troupe, which had only recently assembled, also encountered an attack by Nen zombies.

Peng!

The blade flashed by.

Feitan landed, slowly sheathing his sword, and at the same time, a Nen corpse fell to the ground.

Phinks punched the mind-body away, then swung his arm and grinned maliciously, "This guy's actually pretty tough."

"Looks like something interesting~" Hisoka said meaningfully. He squatted on the roof, his fingers wrapped with the flexible Love, and below him was a Nen corpse stuck to the wall, struggling desperately.

Death thought—this was an ability that interested him.

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If used properly, it might become even stronger?

Paknotan, who was standing nearby, shot the zombie down with a few shots, then turned to ask, "Captain, what do we do now?"

The group of ten gathered together. Surrounded by the others in the center, Chrollo remained calm. He first went to a Nen corpse and examined it carefully, his brows furrowing slightly.

Death thoughts, and very peculiar ones at that.

This death thought is contagious; it can transform a person into a death covenant, allowing them to attack others and escalate their attack in the process.

In terms of strength, these Nen corpses vary in strength. The strong ones are roughly equivalent to ordinary wild Nen users, while the weak ones are only slightly stronger than ordinary people.

Even so, its powerful transmissibility still allows it to cause a large-scale disaster.

How could such a thing suddenly happen in the capital of Reges?

Kuroro looked thoughtful.

Normally, thoughts of death only appear in two situations: first, the deceased has strong obsessions, forming thoughts after death; second, large-scale deaths or special circumstances create a large number of thoughts of death, which often appears in relics.

It would be difficult for a single person's spirit to generate such intensity after death, and he had never heard of any royal relics. Therefore, there must be something that would happen under abnormal circumstances, which fits the current situation perfectly.

As far as he knew, there was a small ethnic group in the world, even smaller and more powerful than the Kurta tribe they had wiped out many years ago, namely the Satan tribe, also known as the Deathmind tribe.

They would sometimes travel across the six continents, releasing death energy in densely populated areas like planting trees, and then collecting the death energy after a large number of people had died. Each time they went out, they could cause large-scale violent incidents.

The changes happening in the capital of Reges are quite consistent with this description.

So, if it really is the Satanic tribe that has made a move, targeting the Reges royal family, then they will have an opportunity to attack Lynn.

After a moment's thought, Kuroro made a decision: "Let's head towards the palace first and observe the situation along the way."

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"If things go beyond our expectations, retreat immediately; otherwise, find Lynn and take revenge."

The royal palace, outside the south gate.

Zoro, his two companions, and the deer ran outwards, splitting up but maintaining a certain distance from each other to avoid getting too far apart.

Not long after, Kurapika and Leorio encountered an enemy, but unlike what they had expected, the enemy was not a Nen corpse.

"So it was premeditated after all!" Leorio adjusted his small round glasses, his gaze serious, his right hand resting on the hilt of the Oni-Ku.

"Yes, judging from their Nen, they're quite strong." Kurapika leaned down slightly, secretly observing the five people surrounding them, and materialized two swords with his hands.

Leorio and Kurapika stood back to back, the two brothers getting serious for their first real team battle.

Their enemies are five Nen users with malicious intentions!

A man with a long scar on his face spoke first: "Don't you dare try to take them from me! These two are my prey!"

Hearing the scarred man's arrogant attitude, the others were naturally displeased. A fat man in dark green clothes retorted, "What a joke! I've been looking forward to this operation for a long time. This time, I'm going to make a killing!"

"I'm the Greedy Lord's long-time customer! You should all know how to be courteous!"

Before the fight even began, the five people who had briefly acted together for mutual benefit started arguing.

Without exception, they were all clients of the Seven Deadly Sins' Greed. They had heard from Greed that there would be good opportunities to hunt Nen users in King Reges these days, so they came.

This time, a total of more than twenty customers came, along with a hidden rage and gluttony.

The treacherous Yingren Kingdom, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Satan Clan, and the Phantom Troupe have gathered here for different purposes.

What Lynn and the others, along with the Reges royal family, had to do was stop them, at least for three hours.

Under the cover of darkness, an unimaginable large-scale conflict is unfolding in the capital.

Current time: 00:10.

The skies above the capital city, some distance away.

A sub-dragon-type magical beast flew through the night sky, heading towards the royal capital, with a disheveled man on its back.

The man sat cross-legged on the back of the dragon, flipping through a book, and murmured, "The Satan race—if left unchecked, they pose a great threat."