The garden where the wedding was held was thrown into chaos due to the sudden explosion. Many bodyguards and thugs in black suddenly swarmed around the grass, each protecting their employer or boss.
Four of Marko's bodyguards surrounded him. Men were yelling. Women were screaming. Children were crying. Melody frowned slightly, looking in all directions, holding a long flute in her hand—ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
The explosion woke up a little gray bird dozing on a branch by the roadside. The rock sparrow flapped its wings and turned its head to look at the group of humans who'd been quite festive and lively just moments ago. In the blink of an eye, they'd become panicked. The atmosphere was tense and dangerous. What happened?
And where did the three humans who fed it go?
Shizuku gave an order. The big mouth of the vacuum cleaner she held in her right hand suddenly opened and sucked hard at the wound on "Uvogin's" arm—locked by the six chainsaws.
SWISH SWISH SWISH!
The muscular arm—which had been cut by the chainsaw and turned into torn flesh—suddenly started to bleed like a fountain. Blood erupted in a geyser.
A stream of blood like a fire hose flew quickly from "Uvogin's" arm toward the mouth of the vacuum cleaner held up by Shizuku's right hand.
No matter how powerful "Uvogin" was, he was still human. Since it was a body of flesh and blood, it couldn't lose too much blood. Even if the blood wasn't sucked out and he didn't die suddenly—once it exceeded the limit and he became dizzy and weak—facing the enemy staring at him, the only end was death.
So "Uvogin" made a snap decision and transferred a large part of his powerful aura to his right arm.
"KING OF COMEDY" (Conjuration-Type)
1. Omokage can transform into any member of the Phantom Troupe through imitation, but can only become a member of the Phantom Troupe.
2. Once a member of the Phantom Troupe dies or loses their status as a member with the leader's approval, Omokage can no longer imitate and transform into them.
3. Through imitation and transformation, Omokage can obtain the Nen type and all Nen abilities of the person being imitated.
4. The total amount of aura after Omokage's transformation cannot exceed his own total aura, nor can it exceed that of the person being imitated.
More aura was distributed and poured into the injured right arm. All the burst wound muscles were immediately forcibly closed. The blood flow robbed by the strong suction also dropped sharply. Soon only a trace of blood mist was left flying toward Shizuku's Blinky—until no trace of blood flowed out.
Omokage—who'd obtained 100% of Uvogin's Enhancement talents through imitation and transformation—naturally also obtained Uvogin's abnormal recovery ability. This kind of minor flesh injury, as long as he concentrated his aura and relied on Uvogin's unreasonable beast physique, could be said to heal almost instantly.
"Uvogin" didn't waste any time. When he poured aura into his right arm, he knew the wound would recover quickly and the bespectacled woman's ability would lose its effect. He also knew the bespectacled girl's ability was too tricky. So while giving intensive treatment to his arm, he took advantage of his right arm's concentrated aura, wrapped around the Nen chainsaws in his backhand, roared, and pulled—yanking Shizuku over.
He was about to throw Shizuku out of the room like a whip when—at this moment—a dangerous premonition struck from the side.
From the corner of his eye, he saw the boy who'd been observing from the side had pointed his finger at him at some point. Moreover, at some point, an aura ball as big as his head had condensed on his finger—but how was this possible? As long as this kind of powerful aura ball was condensed, no matter how short the process, it was impossible for him not to be alerted.
"It's In. He used In to cover the condensed aura ball on his finger..."
"Is the girl with glasses trying to cover his feint attack?"
Liam wasn't interested in knowing what the fake Uvogin was thinking. He'd accumulated at least 4,000 aura of Nen. He'd grabbed the fake Uvogin when—in order to stop the bleeding—the aura defense of other parts of his body except the arm suddenly decreased. In the moment of opportunity, he shot out a Spirit Gun without hesitation!
"Uvogin" swung the chainsaw like a meteor hammer and threw Shizuku out. The other side of his body was heavily bombarded by the Spirit Gun as thick as his head!
The cement wall was like tofu. A hole was made by Shizuku, and she was thrown out without a trace.
"Uvogin's" majestic body was spun around by the exploding aura bomb, crashed through the other corner, and directly hit the bodyguard at the door who'd woken from unconsciousness in the corridor outside—causing blood to spurt from his mouth. He fainted again. "Uvogin" changed angles again, causing the corridor wall to collapse. His whole body hung on the broken window sill.
CRACK. CRACK. After the corner of the wall was broken, the cracks on the surrounding walls quickly spread to the ceiling.
Liam glanced at it and asked through voice message: [Shizuku, are you okay?] Switched the channel. [The previous explosion outside—Kurapika, were you caught by the explosive woman?]
As soon as Shizuku's answer came, Liam heard the sound of crunching gravel from the corridor outside.
Half of "Uvogin's" body was burnt black by the blast. Smoke was still coming out. He stood up from the ruins by the corridor window and looked toward him in the room—against the light.
The opponent's face was entirely in shadow, except for the ferocious anger and murderous intent in his bloodshot eyes.
"Oh." Liam muttered.
[Well, it's the explosive woman you mentioned.]
After the smoke and dust from the explosion dispersed, the previous wall had disappeared—blown into a pile of debris. Kurapika was blown away a hundred meters. Hot smoke rose all over his body. His black suit was in tatters. The white shirt underneath was all black and gray, not much cleaner than his face.
There was a dolphin floating next to him. There was an empty space among the six original books on the bookshelf.
Book One: "Redemption."
Kurapika tore off a page of Redemption and pressed it on his injured right shoulder and arm. The page glowed with a vibrant green light. His injuries healed almost in a breath.
While he was healing himself, he raised his eyes and stared at the woman walking toward him in the distance.
[She's found me here.] Kurapika remained calm and continued to transmit sound through the C-shaped ring on his finger.
Bambie stood far away, chewing gum. "The healing effect is so good? Are you an Enhancer?"
She glanced at the Dolphin Bookshelf floating next to Kurapika.
Kurapika also glanced at her side. Many "bubbles" followed her like a shadow—just like the "bubbles" that had chased him and exploded before.
Obviously, these "bubbles" were this woman's Nen ability. What Liam had said before—this woman's unknown explosive Nen ability.
As for the finger she'd pointed when she caused the explosion, it was probably a deception to confuse the audience.
She didn't need any specific gestures at all. She could even remotely control these "bubbles" to chase and explode.
After the treatment was over and the Redemption paper disappeared, Kurapika said, "Standing so far away—you could be an Emitter?"
In fact, with the Star Mark on his chest, he didn't need to use his own Redemption page to treat himself at all. The reason for doing this was purely to prevent the enemy from discovering the self-healing properties of Liam's Manipulation—if this information was leaked, the enemy might become more confident when the position controlled by Liam for the first time wasn't a fatal place. They'd wait for the short moment between Liam switching Star Mark positions to launch their killing move.
With this thought, Kurapika eliminated the aura from the arm with two lines of divine characters printed on it.
The "bubbles" floating in the air around Bambie in his eyes disappeared one after another as if they were invisible. And when he returned aura to his arm and touched the two lines of divine characters on the skin of his arm—triggering the Cone ability—those "bubbles" appeared in patches again.
No wonder Liam couldn't see through the truth of this woman's explosive attack before... The gang members he'd possessed and controlled didn't have divine characters on their bodies, so he couldn't activate Cone...
And En was usually only used before the battle started and after it ended. Using En during a fierce battle would only disperse one's own aura and put oneself at a disadvantage.
This woman's "bubble" had very powerful In that even ordinary Gyo couldn't easily see through.
Some kind of restriction had probably been added!
Was it necessary to chew gum?
Kurapika's mind was spinning, analyzing the existing intelligence. At the same time, he shared the information with Liam and the others through sound transmission. [They can grasp our position at any time. I'm afraid this woman can even observe through these bubbles... Liam?]
He couldn't help but wonder when he found Liam didn't respond for a long time.
Bambie was chewing gum and suddenly blew at Kurapika, who was a hundred meters away.
SWISH SWISH SWISH! A series of 10 "bubbles" floating around her flew out and flew toward Kurapika.
Kurapika dodged.
[Ah? Wait a minute, I'm a little busy here... Damn it!] Liam's voice transmission was only then transmitted into Kurapika's mind.
The 10 "bubbles" dispersed around, circled, and headed toward Kurapika.
[What a coincidence. Same here.]
While running, Kurapika replied to Liam. At the same time he heard the woman ask from a distance, "Tell me—among you, okay, the other two—do you have a Manipulator?"
We can only block it!
Kurapika stopped. The aura from his body surged out, turning into a big skeletal hand. This time, it was specially lengthened but also became thinner. Kurapika's big skeletal hand flicked in the air. BANG BANG BANG BANG... He stirred in a circle and exploded all 10 "bubbles" that came toward him.
"This is like Transmutation again..." Bambie looked at the explosion in surprise. The aura on his body vaguely took the form of a blond boy in the half-length form of a skeleton knight.
"By the way, the dolphin-shaped bookshelf that was floating around him before—that's Conjuration. In this way, he's most likely Conjuration like Omokage... So he's Conjured multiple books that cover Enhancement-type healing and Transmutation-type aura changes?"
Bambie couldn't help but sneer. "How stupid!"
So what if you could indirectly use the abilities of other types? If the efficiency of using it was greatly reduced, it was just a foolish waste of aura.
Kurapika thought carefully. "Has she already figured out I'm Conjuration?"
Obviously, she didn't know that when he turned on the Scarlet Eyes, he'd transform into Specialization. This woman—who'd analyzed that he'd developed a Dolphin Bookshelf through Conjuration that could use the abilities of the six major types—immediately felt his ability was too "flashy."
[If it's true as you said—the bubbles released by the woman can be placed in the sky to monitor the entire area—we may have been targeted by this woman since we entered the wedding in the garden.] Liam's voice message sounded in Kurapika's mind. He seemed to be gritting his teeth. [Fucking Shalnark!]
The three of them looked so harmless, and they were targeted by these two Spiders for no reason—as if they'd guessed someone was secretly involved in the gang incident... And the last person Liam could think of who could analyze him as a hidden player at that time was the only one in the Phantom Troupe who often acted like a strategist—Shalnark.
Kurapika was speechless. He raised his eyes to look at Bambie, tore off his half-tattered black suit and tie, and threw them to the ground. He wore black contact lenses, so his Scarlet Eyes were not exposed. He said coldly, "Let me ask you—are you a member of the Phantom Troupe?"
Bambie chewed gum. "What, do you want to join too?"
Seeing the expression of the blond boy opposite become even more angry—even the aura in his body seemed to be burning with rage—Bambie couldn't help but want to laugh.
Seems like there's a grudge against the Troupe?
She laughed and jumped sideways.
Two intertwined chainsaws shattered the place where she'd been standing, tearing out a ravine several meters deep, half a meter wide, and twenty meters long on the ground. The end of the ravine was where Shizuku had suddenly approached and attacked.
She was indeed able to borrow the vision of those "bubbles" floating in the air above her head.
Kurapika said coldly, "So you are indeed a member of the Phantom Troupe."
Bambie ignored the cynical young man but was a little wary of the bespectacled girl who'd just attacked her. This girl seemed to have mediocre strength, but the chainsaw-like ability in her hand made people have to be careful—especially since Bambie herself wasn't specializing in melee attack and defense.
The ceiling of the villa was penetrated. The young man—wrapped in white light like a solid wall—broke through the hole and quickly turned to look elsewhere. Almost at the same time, a humanoid beast with white light all over its body chased up from the hole in the floor, widening the hole again by one lap.
Can this guy even pretend to be a normal person?
Liam looked at half of "Uvogin's" body—blackened by the explosion.
Unexpectedly, the Spirit Gun—which had almost emptied one-fifth of his aura—didn't produce much result. The "burns" left on this guy's body quickly healed themselves as the guy was full of aura and burst out while fighting with all his strength. At this moment, it just looked like his skin was a little wrinkled, a little darker, a little blurry. That's all.
THUD-THUD-THUD. "Uvogin" charged toward him again with a ferocious smile and swung out his casserole-sized fist wrapped in aura.
Although it looked like a mountain of meat covered with muscles, "Uvogin" wasn't slow at all. This amount of muscle only weighed a few hundred kilograms. Compared to "Uvogin's" explosive power—estimated to be tens of tons—it was simply a drop in the bucket. It didn't affect his terrifying sprint speed at all.
The fist reached Liam's face almost instantly.
The Star Mark on the back of his neck activated his aura. The light and shadow of "Uvogin's" fist still remained in the bottom of Liam's pupils. His body had already dodged around this exaggerated guy like a berserker. At the same time, he counterattacked like an instinct—concentrating aura on his fist and striking Uvogin's ribs sideways.
BANG. "Uvogin" didn't move at all.
This guy's Ken is definitely more than twice as strong as mine... Liam's pupils tightened.
"It's this kind of action again!" "Uvogin" sneered. "You obviously didn't react, but you just avoided it. Is this some kind of Nen ability of yours? You also used this to control those gangsters before, right?"
Before Liam could answer, "Uvogin" raised his knees and bumped toward Liam.
Liam didn't intend to answer at all. He immediately raised his arms, contracted his body, and hit his aura to prop up Ko.
The wall on the second floor of the villa suddenly exploded. A figure flew out high.
Liam was knocked out of the villa with a knee from the berserker "Uvogin." After landing, he rolled twice to regain his bearings. He put his hands on the ground and pushed himself sideways.
Where he'd been lying just now, "Uvogin" landed heavily from a high place—directly smashing the ground into a round pit that collapsed layer by layer.
"Did you... did you come from the Dragon Ball set?"
Liam bared his teeth, sat up, and looked up. Shizuku was looking at him with concern. Looking over there, Kurapika was confronting the gum-exploding woman.
"Hi?" Liam raised his hand to say hello, took Shizuku's hand, and stood up. He patted the dust on his body and took a long breath. "Seems this isn't going to end well, friends."
"Uvogin" came over and was about to say hello to Bambie when he suddenly noticed a strange black figure had appeared behind the boy.
It was the shape of a human being—but with eight arms.
"Second round. Team battle?" Liam said.