Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 742

Another One Won't Make a Difference After They've Already Taken Two

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"Is that... a nuclear bomb?!!"

Hisau Maiya stared wide-eyed at the enormous oval warhead, crystal clear through the Telescope, disbelief written all over her face.

Unlike those magi who paid little attention to developments in modern technology and weaponry.

Having risked her life on battlefields since childhood, she was intimately familiar with firearms, explosives, aircraft, tanks, artillery, grenades, landmines, and the like.

She could even identify different weapons' models, strengths, and weaknesses with a single glance, so there was no way she would fail to recognize this apocalyptic bomb, hailed as the most terrifying weapon humanity had ever invented.

The only thing she could not be certain about was that, until now, the largest-yield bomb humanity had ever created was the Tsar Bomba, at just fifty megatons, weighing twenty-six to twenty-seven tons, eight meters long, and two meters in diameter.

After that, nuclear powers had shifted from pursuing yield to pursuing penetration capabilities and multiple-warhead technology.

But what about the one in front of her?

It was already more than fifteen meters long and roughly five meters in diameter. Whether in volume or explosive yield, it far surpassed the Tsar Bomba.

Moreover, the surface of the bomb was painted with a row of strange symbols whose meaning she did not know.

"Damn it! How does this guy have something so dangerous?"

Since even the assistant he had trained since childhood recognized it, Emiya Kiritsugu, her teacher, naturally recognized it as well. He immediately activated his "Time Acceleration" ability and raced madly toward the shore, utterly unconcerned by the terrifying tsunami rushing in.

The moment he reached the dock, he gasped for breath and shouted, "Berserker! Is that thing a nuclear warhead?"

"Yeah! That's right! Don't you think letting twisted, vile scum like this die beneath nuclear fusion as warm as

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