However, Loki only noticed that Neon's eyes had become strange.
He just thought that Neon was curious about why he was able to open up a road in the ocean of flames.
Loki, who didn't plan to explain, didn't care about Neon's strange gaze.
Soon! The two crossed the wide ocean of flames.
The moment they stepped out of the flames, Neon looked up! The light shot towards her eyes.
In front of her! Was a castle covered in flames.
Black smoke gathered above the castle that was about to reach the top of the mountain in front of her.
In the black smoke, there was vaguely a huge thing, parked on top of the castle.
But Neon didn't see clearly what it was.
Loki came straight to the door! He turned his head and glanced at Neon. "Go in! Fight with the people inside, and try to hold on until the end."
"Are there people here?"
Neon, who didn't know about the Devil Fruit event, didn't think there would be anyone here.
The players should all be trapped at the foot of the mountain!
Loki didn't answer her question. He raised his hand and slapped the door in front of him, pushing it open.
He signaled Neon to walk in.
Neon stepped into the castle.
The first thing Neon saw when she entered was.
What looked like a huge castle from the outside, was actually a huge arena inside.
All around were surrounding stands, and a huge arena floating in the ocean of flames in the center.
The temperature inside was even much higher than outside.
"So amazing, the person who created this place is really a genius."
"To actually have such a whimsical idea."
"Although those flames look very dangerous, but they're really"
Saying this, Neon turned her head.
But Loki had long disappeared.
And while she was turning her head in confusion, the players who had already entered here were sitting in the stands, everyone staring at Neon.
Neon's unique appearance was too different.
The other people all entered Flame Red through coordinates.
They landed directly on the stands.
But Neon actually came in from the door.
Clearly, she didn't come in using a card.
This situation made Neon almost instantly targeted by many people.
Kurapika, who was talking to Leorio in the stands, was suddenly stunned.
"Miss Neon"
Leorio saw that Kurapika actually had such a big reaction, and glanced at Neon with some surprise.
"Do you know this scary lady, Kurapika?"
Kurapika nodded. "Yes! She's the daughter of my former employer. Why has she also appeared on Greed Island, and she actually has the ability to enter the Devil Fruit competition."
"The point isn't how she entered here, but that she actually came in from the door. Kurapika, all the players who entered here using coordinates shouldn't be able to come in through the main entrance, right!"
'There seems to be a familiar aura on her body'
Just as Kurapika was feeling strange, Mizaistom on the side closed the Card Book in his hand.
"Kurapika, don't you think it's very strange!"
Listening to Mizaiistom's words, Leorio and Kurapika both turned their heads at the same time.
Mizaiistom looked around at the people in the arena.
"There aren't too many players who have come here to participate in the Devil Fruit competition. At most, there are only about 500 people."
"There are tens of thousands of players on the island, but only 500 players have entered here. The difference in this ratio is frighteningly large."
Mizaistom paused.
"But what I find strange is, could this Devil Fruit event have some other purpose?"
Leorio: "What do you mean, Mizaistom? This is just a game event that was arranged in advance. What's so strange about it?"
Mizaistom shook his head. "No! I feel that it's definitely not that simple."
Kurapika also nodded. "I also have this feeling. The people who provided the Devil Fruit information behaved very strangely."
"Strange? How strange?"
Leorio had an appearance that said, "Are you guys too sensitive?"
Kurapika directly began to state his analysis.
"In the past, when a game item was triggered, the people who provided the information needed to say a specific thing, or ask a specific question, before they would provide the player with information."
"But this time it's very strange. Many of them seem to have taken the initiative to mention it."
"From this point of view, it doesn't feel like the players triggered this event, but that the creator deliberately used this event to attract players."
"I also have this feeling."
Mizaiistom looked at Kurapika. "At first, I thought I was overthinking it, but after coming here, I discovered something."
The two looked at him.
Mizaistom's gaze swept across the entire arena.
"It's time now, most of the players who want to participate in the Devil Fruit competition should have already arrived."
"The players who haven't come may have given up, or it's because their tickets were found by other players, and they're fighting."
"But! None of this is important. What's important is that the players in the arena basically include 80% of the top players in the first echelon of clearing the game, except for Beyond."
The more Mizaistom spoke, the worse his face became.
"These top players have been delayed for two weeks because of the Devil Fruit event. What have Beyond's subordinates been doing during this time?"
He summoned his Card Book. "I just contacted Botobai and them through the Card Book. They checked the card collection list and discovered that Beyond has already collected nearly 80 cards!"
80 cards, this number was not small.
Originally, the top players in the first echelon were only about 10 cards away from Beyond at most.
However, after being delayed for two weeks, they were already nearly 20 cards behind Beyond.
20 cards, these players could no longer catch up with Beyond's clearing speed.
Unless Beyond had an accident. And even if Beyond was gone, he couldn't continue to clear the cards.
But the Nen users under his command, with their huge number, could still continue to clear the cards.
Kurapika's eyes also became strange. "Could it be that Chairman Loki is helping Beyond?"
Leorio felt that this was unlikely. Loki shouldn't know Beyond yet, right!
He thought this way. But Mizaistom didn't speak, but was silently thinking.
This possibility seemed very small, but it wasn't absolutely impossible.
And Kurapika felt that there was a high possibility that Loki was really helping Beyond.
With Loki's personality, it was very likely that he would do this kind of thing.
However, Loki wouldn't do this kind of thing for no reason.
Everything Loki did had a very strong purpose.
In other words, if Loki was really deliberately delaying other players to help Beyond clear the game, then there must be some reason.
But no matter what the reason was, Kurapika also wanted to question Loki face to face.
On the other side of the castle, Hisoka, who was preparing to arrange the Devil Fruit competition, was dividing the players one by one, and then arranging their respective teams.
According to what Loki had instructed before, he would select five winners.
Then he would hand them over to Loki for the final trial.
"This one here, this one here"
Holding a card with the avatars of all the players printed on it, Hisoka was dividing them one by one.
At the same time, sitting at the top of the castle, Loki, who was looming in the flames, was watching the players who had entered this arena.
"Oh! Even Menchi and the three have come?"
Why would the food hunters who were interested in food want to participate in the Devil Fruit competition?
Loki cast his gaze towards the three.
"I wonder what the Devil Fruit tastes like?"
Menchi was saying.
Loki, who was listening to the three's conversation, admired Menchi a little.
As expected of a food hunter, she didn't even miss out on the Devil Fruit as food.
She actually wanted to taste the taste of the Devil Fruit.
Loki revealed a malicious smile. 'If you eat it, you will definitely be satisfied!'
The Devil Fruit was a delicacy in the world!
Most of the players in the arena were also the people that Loki had paid attention to before.
As expected, these players had successfully entered the arena.
But there were also a small number of players that Loki cared about who hadn't come.
As for the reason, there was no need to say more.
After looking around the entire arena, Loki discovered a guy who was very worthy of attention.
A guy with a very strange appearance.
To be precise, his hairstyle was very strange.
Like the oval-shaped clubs that performers tossed during juggling.
Two clumps of hair on the left and right were like hammers.
This strange discovery also attracted a lot of people's attention.
At the same time, what Loki felt was even stranger was that there were actually two different auras on the other party's body.
Generally speaking, this situation only existed when someone had been given a certain Nen ability on their body.
However, if someone had been given Nen on their body, they shouldn't have the time to sit here and participate in the Devil Fruit competition.
Loki stared at him intently. 'It seems that this person wasn't on the list I checked before.'
In other words, this person had only recently entered the game.
He was able to get a ticket and come here as soon as he came in.
'Quite powerful!'
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