Hunter x Hunter: Pokémon Master, the World's Strongest

At the same time, the gestation bar in Link's mind also moved forward frantically, as if it had been injected with chicken blood.

Chapter 2: Harp Chapter! Gengar hits the soul! (2/, please subscribe)

In this dark cave, where ordinary people cannot see their hands in front of their faces, suddenly there came a series of weeping and complaining music.

Anyone who hears it will feel creepy.

If it weren't for the surroundings, if this wasn't a dark sonata, then perhaps it could be considered an extremely high-level piece of music.

After all, it is music composed by the Demon King. Not only does it possess unimaginable powers, it is also exceptionally beautiful and melodious.

But the reality is that no one is willing, and no one wants to enjoy this music.

"This is... the sound of a harp!"

Pijorn pricked up his ears and listened carefully, and finally determined that it should be the sound of a harp.

"A harp..."

Link muttered to himself.

The Dark Sonata is divided into four chapters. I have already obtained the violin chapter, and the harp, flute and piano are left.

It seems that the harp chapter will appear this time.

I don’t know what the [give and take] of this harp chapter is?

The Flute chapter is about losing health and gaining special abilities.

The violin chapter is about losing soul and gaining strength.

What about the harp?

Link glanced at the monster skeleton next to him that was covered in death thoughts.

Thinking back to the white bones he had obtained before, a thought vaguely flashed through Link's mind.

Just like before, a strong sense of death followed the sound of the music.

The dark thoughts of death seemed to have shapes, flying towards them in the form of strange and distorted musical notes.

The oppressive feeling brought by the death thoughts in the sky makes one's breathing stagnate, and just looking at this scene makes it difficult to breathe.

Suddenly, a figure suddenly jumped out from Link's shadow, the purple-black body's momentum was stronger than the Death Thought.

However, Piyorn and Sats were not panicked, but showed relieved expressions.

Because the one who appeared before them was none other than Gengar, whom they had known long before in the Moros Ruins!

They all knew that Gengar had the ability to devour death thoughts.

Sure enough, Gengar turned his back to them and opened his bloody mouth towards the flying death thought.

A gleam of light flashed in those scarlet eyes, and then the deathly thoughts in the sky twisted together in the shape of a vortex.

The intertwined thoughts of death flew towards Gengar's mouth in a spiral.

The endless stream of death thoughts is Gengar's buffet.

Not only did Gengar absorb the death thoughts in front of him, he also absorbed the death thoughts on the surrounding bones.

During the absorption process, Gengar's experience value continues to increase.

Seeing that Death Thought 397 was completely blocked by Gengar, Pijorn and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

This is the scariest part of Dark Sonata.

Being able to block these deadly thoughts has greatly reduced the danger level.

But Link didn't think so.

With the violin chapter in mind, Link felt that this dark sonata was definitely not that simple.

What puzzled him most was the bones all over the ground.

The cave they came to contained more than just the skeleton of the monster, there were bones scattered everywhere.

This shows that this is the place where many creatures die.

From some subtle details, we can tell their time.

Some of them are very old bones, and they are filled with extremely strong thoughts of death.

Some had only recently become like this, and next to them was the corpse of what looked like a spotted mole.

There weren't many death thoughts on it, but one could see that as the flesh and blood were devoured by the death thoughts, the number of death thoughts on it was increasing.

Most likely they died shortly before they teleported here.

Link deliberately let Gengar stay with the death thought on this creature because he wanted to observe it carefully.

The most interesting part is that the death thought devours flesh and blood.

Thoughts are the life energy that emanates from the body and are closely related to the physical body.

Then it doesn’t seem strange that the Death Thought has the ability to devour flesh and blood?

But Link always felt that it was not that simple.

The swallowing speed was too fast, and the swallowed part showed a strange white light.

And we have seen it before, the flesh and blood of the people affected by the violin chapter and the devil cicada were not devoured.

This is probably an effect unique to the harp chapter.

"Did you find anything?"

The two people next to him saw Link staring at the mole corpse on the ground, and couldn't help but look over there too.

Countless death thoughts were like maggots, frantically "gnawing" at the mole's body, making one's scalp numb.

After a few breaths, the death thought just devoured the last piece of flesh and blood on the mole.

At this point, the mole was left with only a skeleton, except for the thought of death.

"Oh?"

Link's eyes narrowed, as if sensing something, and he stared closely at the mole's body.

I saw a strange thing floating out of the mole's body, and its shape looked exactly like the mole when it was alive.

But it was floating strangely in the air, emitting a creepy green light.

In the pitch-black environment, a creepy feeling arises spontaneously.

“Is this… a soul?!”

Piyorn looked at the horrifying scene, his face changed slightly, and he exclaimed softly.

The faint green light reflected on the faces of the three people looked extremely strange.

"So it's a soul?"

It was not until he witnessed this scene that Link finally understood the [give and take] of this Harp chapter!

Give the body, gain the soul!

That is to say, you pay the price of having your body devoured and gain something in the form of a soul.

This also reminds Link of the bald Hanzo's Nen ability in the original work.

On the Black Whale, he used his Nen ability, which was called "Clone Technique".

He can use his mind to create a clone that is exactly the same as himself, and his consciousness will be transferred to the clone.

This clone can move freely and penetrate space.

Although it is called a clone, the full name should be soul clone.

Judging from his telepathic ability, he has gained the ability similar to out-of-body experience.

The concept of souls also exists in the world of Hunter x Hunter. Jade sold his soul to the Demon King in exchange for the ability to resurrect.

But I didn't expect that the exchange of the harp was exactly the opposite of that of the violin.

The violin gains physical strength but loses its soul.

The harp is gaining soul power and losing the body.

So what about the rest of the piano piece?

Could it be the opposite of the flute effect?

Can you trade special abilities for health?

This is still unknown, it may be true or it may not be true.

Just as Link was thinking, the mole's soul made new movements.

The mole soul seemed unaware of what was happening and just looked around blankly.

A few people could see that it had self-awareness and that its soul could be controlled by itself.

But this self-control did not last forever.

Suddenly, the thought of death on the mole's bones suddenly climbed up the mole's soul.

The mole soul seemed to want to scream, but the soul could not utter a word.

All this happened in just a moment. When Pyorn and Sats reacted, the mole's soul had been completely controlled by the thought of death.

The eyes that were once quite lively were now dead and numb.

“Have you been manipulated?”

"So the next step is... to attack us?"

As soon as Link finished speaking, the mole soul floated towards the three of them, its pair of sharp claws shining coldly, which was quite scary.

The soul at this moment is not as pure as before. The faint green light is mixed with wisps of black thoughts of death.

The speed of this soul state is much faster than that of the physical body!

In the blink of an eye, the mole soul flew in front of the three people, and its first target of attack was—

Gengar is absorbing the death thought!

It was obvious that these actions were manipulated by Dark Sonata.

Seeing that his death thoughts were being devoured by Gengar, he let the Mole Soul attack Gengar.

The power of this soul has most likely also increased, as the mole soul's movement speed is surprisingly fast.

Seeing the soul rushing towards them, Piyorn and Sats' first reaction was to retreat.

As a Nen user, the most important rule to follow is to never act rashly when facing unknown abilities.

Because the abilities in the world of Hunter x Hunter are varied and strange.

Abilities of any effect may appear.

Therefore, in the battle between Nen users, intelligence is a very important link.

The current priority is to avoid the soul's attack, and then slowly and step by step explore the soul's ability.

Link thought the same, but simply retreating was not enough, he had to test the soul.

It is said that ghost-type Pokémon are transformed from souls, so will ghost-type skills be effective if used?

"叏思!"

A sky full of purple-black energy burst out from Gengar's body, which was more like the thought of death than the thought of death.

The dark mental energy instantly gathered in front of Gengar into a basketball-sized mental bullet, with countless mental energies surging inside.

Ghost skill - Shadow Ball!

With Gengar's S-rank strength, it can easily create Shadow Balls several times larger than this.

Considering the surrounding environment, Gengar chose the smaller Shadow Ball.

The shadow ball flew straight towards the mole's soul, but when the shadow ball touched the soul, the imagined explosion did not occur.

The soul and the shadow ball are like water and fire, canceling each other out.

But the Mole's soul was obviously weaker than Gengar's Shadow Ball, and it completely dissipated after only a slight resistance.