Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 1345

The Meaning of Learning Is to Better Understand the World

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Fear!

Chaos!

Despair!

As the expeditionary army officially set foot on this continent, nearly every village and town within a hundred-kilometer radius centered on the fortress city suffered devastating destruction.

Soldiers filled with hostility and hatred toward this country stormed into ordinary people's homes with extreme brutality, gathered everyone together regardless of age or gender, and systematically looted all valuables and, most importantly, all food.

Before leaving, they did not forget to set fire to the thriving crops in the fields and burn all the houses to the ground.

Any slight resistance along the way was met with merciless slaughter, with the resisters and their entire families killed together.

Under this fierce and brutal suppression, tens of thousands of ordinary people were forced to transport the possessions and food that had originally belonged to them, dragging their families along to this port city that had become a ruin.

After seeing the horrific state of the massive port fortress following its bombardment by artillery, the last traces of resistance vanished from their hearts.

Among the countless mangled corpses, they saw the modified warriors created to resist the enemy nation's secret weapon—the Dragon's Descendants.

If even these modified warriors with immense power had been slaughtered, then ordinary people like themselves, who possessed no strength at all, would simply be throwing their lives away no matter how many there were.

What was more, while they were being looted and driven along, several translators, acting under Allen's orders, had already explained the origins of the expeditionary army to them, as well as the horrifying experiments the Organization and the country behind it had conducted on the island.

Therefore, most of the ordinary people who had lost everything overnight understood that their current predicament was, in truth, naked and undisguised retaliation.

If any large-scale resistance

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