Victory X Reunion

On the arena stage.

After the medicine went down, the bloody hole in Kevin's hand stopped bleeding and slowly began to heal.

The sight made Chrollo's eyes widen in fury.

"What kind of medicine is that?"

Kevin had no habit of answering an enemy's questions.

At the same time, his Nen Aura erupted, clearly surpassing the average level.

Quite a few sharp-eyed people in the stands noticed it.

"Is it because he drank two bottles of medicine?"

"So that's his Nen ability?"

Yungu could not help saying, "It seems he's properly studied and developed his Nen ability."

Biscuit nodded. Her information network was more extensive, and she knew Kevin had spent over a hundred million on acquiring all kinds of materials these past few months.

So she was not particularly surprised.

In a corner of the stands, Illumi watched the scene and flicked the medicine bottle in his hand.

As a descendant of the Zoldyck Family, he naturally would not take Kevin at his word and use the medicine on himself.

He could tell that the medicine was a product of a Nen ability, but he had not expected it to be this practical.

The medicines he compared it to were the various drugs used by the Zoldyck Family itself.

None of them had healing effects like the one he had just witnessed.

He had seen it clearly: one of the medicines Kevin drank was identical to the one in his hand.

He would find a chance to test it on someone else.

He still had no intention of drinking it himself.

After all, he always avoided getting hurt in battle.

On the arena stage, the battle continued.

The first two exchanges had given both sides a rough grasp of the other's abilities.

But Chrollo was more troubled, because he still had not figured out what Kevin's Nen ability truly was.

As for the medicine Kevin had just drunk, he could not see through it.

The effect it produced did not seem like a Nen ability. Perhaps it was simply an advanced medicine?

Chrollo fought even more cautiously now, maintaining the greatest possible distance from Kevin at all times.

He understood now that he absolutely could not let Kevin get close. Otherwise, defeat was inevitable.

Kevin had already seen through his abilities and would certainly not give him another chance to escape as he had the first time.

That kind of heavy punch.

One hit was all it would take to leave him unable to resist.

Kevin charged at Chrollo again.

Chrollo repeated his old tactic and swung out the Meteor Hammer.

He had to use his dagger attacks carefully, and he even intended to keep the dagger close for self-defense.

After all, the Meteor Hammer could only reach its fullest potential when thrown.

As for the Steel Needles, those were his final trump card.

He now intended to rely on Steel Needle attacks to score points, striving to win with ten effective points.

Any thoughts of "pruning" the opponent's "branches and shoots" like before had long been thrown out of his mind.

Kevin put far too much pressure on him.

He had chosen the wrong opponent.

The Meteor Hammer missed again, and Kevin, prepared in advance, easily dodged the shockwave from its impact.

Then the Hook traced an arc and flew out along the edge of the arena.

"Bang."

A crisp collision rang out.

Chrollo's eyes flew wide as he roared in disbelief, "What did you do?!"

The Hook he had sent flying toward its designated point was knocked away by an unknown attack. It landed outside the arena without hooking onto anything.

The Hook had to latch onto an exact spot on the floor for it to count as a hit.

But now, like a casually discarded tool, it had fallen outside the ring and lost its original function.

Kevin grinned.

He had no habit of clearing up an enemy's confusion.

In truth, it was only an Aura Bullet infused with [Zetsu]. After several rounds of fighting, he had already determined the Hook's flight path.

He had actually tried twice before, but neither shot had landed.

Other than Enhancement Type Nen Aura, he had not trained in any of the other types.

Even with eighty percent effectiveness, he was not very proficient with them.

And his opponent had no habit of constantly activating [Ren] whenever something strange happened in battle, so he had not seen it at all.

Since the Aura Bullet was not aimed directly at a person, there would be no abnormalities if it missed, so the enemy had never noticed it.

This time, however, the Aura Bullet struck successfully.

Faced with Kevin rapidly closing in, Chrollo flung out Steel Needles once more.

As Kevin rushed forward, his Nen Aura radiated outward in a circle, though it extended only one meter beyond his body.

Since he could not dodge it, he would leave it to his body's instincts.

After months of training his body to withstand attacks while using "En," he believed his body could definitely manage it.

His body twisted in midair with no foothold to brace against.

The Steel Needles flew past, grazing his waist and slicing his clothes.

The attack missed!

"Impossible!"

Chrollo screamed. The Steel Needles were his trump card and had never failed him.

If they missed once, their cooldown lasted a full ten seconds.

And Kevin had simply dodged them!

Chrollo's eyes widened. Gritting his teeth, he clutched his dagger and quickly backed away.

Facing the charging Kevin, he stabbed forward with all his strength.

"Your hand-to-hand combat is really terrible," Kevin said. He sidestepped, evaded the dagger, clamped both hands around his opponent's arm, and violently swung him.

An exaggerated shoulder throw.

"Bang!"

The enemy arced through the air before being viciously slammed into the floor.

The immense impact made him cough up blood at once.

"I surren—"

Before he could finish, Kevin's fist slammed into his face.

The punch drove his head straight into the floor.

"Realizing you want to surrender now is too late."

At that moment, Chrollo's weapons vanished, and the bodysuit he wore was tattered from the fight.

The referee immediately ran over.

"Unconscious! KO!"

Cheers erupted from the stands. Although most people could not understand the fight at all, there was no doubt it had been an exceptionally spectacular duel.

After all, several craters had been smashed into the arena floor.

Kevin let out a long breath and slowly walked out of the arena.

Fighting was so mentally and physically exhausting. It was truly boring.

When he returned to his room and was about to rest and review the battle, a knock came at the door.

He opened it.

"Master?"

Biscuit entered the room with Yungu.

"It's Princess Biscuit."

Yes, yes. Kevin was already used to it.

"I only just reached the 200th Floor, and you came right away... Wait, don't tell me you were in the stands the whole time?"

Yungu nodded.

Biscuit stepped forward and patted Kevin's shoulder with great satisfaction.

"Very good. Your growth over the past few months has been even better than I imagined."

"Really? Hahahahaha!"

Kevin laughed without reservation.

He too was extremely satisfied with his growth over the past few months.

Biscuit sat down by the table, and Kevin poured her a cup of sweetened black tea.

Biscuit took a sip, nodded in satisfaction, set down her cup, and asked, "It seems you've completed the goal I set for you quite well."

Kevin nodded and briefly described his actions and gains over the past few months.

"Based on that idea, I created a Nen ability for myself. I call it [Blank Meteor].

"The ability is—"

"Stop!" Biscuit interrupted him.

"You don't need to explain it in detail. Every Nen user's Nen ability is extremely important information.

"Especially when it has special conditions and rules in battle. If an enemy learns them, it could bring lethal danger."

After hearing Biscuit's instruction, Kevin nodded.

Though he felt that it would not matter much even if he told others about his Nen ability.

His Nen ability could not directly increase his strength in battle. It was instead used for everyday training and sparring.

It was also simple and straightforward, so knowing its details would be meaningless.

After thinking for a moment, Kevin selected some important and necessary details to share.

"Then I'll tell you about the Specialization Type Nen ability you've seen before."

As he spoke, Kevin materialized the Alchemy Table.

"Master, I need your help now!"

He needed Biscuit's decades of experience and breadth of knowledge to give him some ideas about materials.

After all, the information he could gather online was extremely limited.

The internet was not very developed yet.