Living in Hunter x Hunter

I woke up the next day.

After washing up, Lucci went to the restaurant on this floor for breakfast.

Lucci is currently on the 100th floor of the Sky Arena, and he does not reside in the rooms of a fighter.

Instead, it's a room for Sky Arena staff.

Lucci can also be considered an "official" member of the Sky Arena.

His adoptive father, Barn Frank, was a renowned referee at the Sky Arena. Twelve years ago, he discovered Lucci's abnormality and brought him back to the Sky Arena to adopt him.

While the anime does introduce the Sky Arena, it doesn't provide a particularly detailed description.

It was only after truly coming into this world and having some contact with it that Lucci came to understand the differences in the Sky Arena.

First of all, the Sky Arena was built with funding from many martial arts schools around the world, and it is not owned by any individual.

The central source flow accounts for the majority of it.

At this point, Lucci finally understood why Yun Gu was able to easily obtain the battle recordings from the Sky Arena in the anime.

Basically, any well-known martial arts school will send its disciples to use the Sky Arena as a training ground.

Among the users above the 200th floor, most are disciples of martial arts schools.

Of course, the current Sky Arena is not the same as the Sky Arena in the future anime; there are still many things that need to be improved.

Without technological support, it's impossible to have a large viewing venue like those in anime.

After all, without a large screen, if you're too far away, you can't see the battle at all.

Lucci's adoptive father, Barn Frank, is one of the current chief referees of the Sky Arena.

I only learned this after I actually arrived.

Refereeing in Sky Arena is a dangerous and discerning profession.

The danger, of course, lies in the potential impact of the competitors' achievements, such as the West-Dan War in the manga.

In terms of perspective, it's based on the first 200 floors, determining that some contestants can directly access certain floors without having to climb 10 floors at a time.

In the anime, Gon and Killua went straight to the 50th floor.

At the same time, one also needs to have a keen eye to see the form of the battle in order to judge the score.

Sky Arena matches are scored using a point system.

If you can't even understand the situation of the battle, then naturally you can't talk about scoring.

The Sky Arena is said to be a holy land for martial arts practitioners, but it also has another name: the public "underground arena".

To register, you need to sign an agreement, which is essentially a waiver of liability.

Battles in the Sky Arena are decided by a point system, but there is no restriction on using a fight to the death to determine the winner.

Many of these matches are actually very bloody and satisfy some people's "dark" fetishes.

Now that Lucci possesses the Sharingan, his goal is no longer to climb floors to fight.

Instead, he wanted to be a referee.

There is a daily limit to the number of battles in the Sky Arena's climbing floors, and if a player is injured, they will not be able to immediately apply for a match even if they apply before the match.

However, there is a time limit, which is one week. If you do not participate in the battle within a week, you will be punished by being demoted to a lower floor.

As for why I chose to act as a referee, it's because I can see more martial artists and witness more combat techniques.

After breakfast, Lucci went straight up to the 220th floor, where his adoptive father, Barn Frank, worked.

He is the chief referee of the Sky Arena, and can be considered a high-ranking member of the Sky Arena.

There are 20 referees like this in the Sky Arena.

Their main job is to recruit referees and host battles on floors 200 and above.

This also means that they are all Nen users.

Although it wasn't the era of anime yet, many of the systems in the Heaven's Arena were already in place, and battles above the 200th floor were naturally fought by Nen users.

As a referee, if you don't have mastery of Nen, then close contact will also affect you.

Barn Frank, 52, has black hair and looks like a burly middle-aged man.

His style is completely different from many referees in Sky Arena; he feels more like a fighter than a referee.

This is true.

Perhaps Barn wasn't this size when he first became a referee at the Sky Arena, but as he officiated more and more matches, he gradually transformed into his current form.

The dangers of being a referee at Sky Arena are such that few can guarantee they won't get into trouble.

Generally, once they have saved enough money, they start to move into clerical work and don't stay in the referee position for too long.

Barn Frank is currently the oldest and strongest player in the Sky Arena.

He is rarely allowed to host regular competitions anymore.

Now I am mainly in charge of the fighting tournament.

The Fighting Tournament is a project that Sky Arena has only started operating in recent years.

Barn Frank's office was also unlike any other office; it was more like a martial arts training ground than an office.

Upon entering the martial arts arena, Barn was practicing his punches.

It's somewhat like Netero, or you could say it's training in the same way Chairman Netero does.

Of course, he was not a disciple of the Shingen-ryu school.

Lu Qi entered the training ground and stood aside to wait for Barn to finish his training.

It took him half an hour to throw those punches.

"What's wrong?" Barn Frank withdrew his fist, taking long breaths to allow himself to recover.

The kind of training Netero received is not easy for ordinary people to replicate.

Then he turned his gaze to Lucci, and suddenly spun around and leaped forward, throwing a punch at Lucci.

Lucci was prepared and immediately retreated to dodge the punch, but that was all he managed to do.

Because what follows is a continuous barrage of attacks.

Lucky tried his best to dodge, and if he couldn't dodge, he would use his arms to block.

The two only stopped after being punched and sent flying.

"While cultivating your mind, don't forget other forms of cultivation," Barn said.

Lucci bowed: "Yes!"

"Speak, what is it?" Barn knew his adopted son very well; unless there was something important, he wouldn't easily come to him on his own initiative.

"I want to become a referee at the Sky Arena," Lucci stated his goal directly.

A look of surprise appeared on Barn's face.

Barn initially thought that Lucci was about to begin the "trial".

When they adopted Lucci, they valued his talent and have been quite strict with him over the years, training him entirely in the direction of a martial artist.

Many men even made a deal with Lucci: as long as Lucci could reach the 200th floor.

From then on, he would be free to come and go as he pleased, and do whatever he wanted. In Barn's eyes, this meant he had become an "adult."