Chapter Summaries

Maitai and the others assessed the killings on the Third Tier, while Koala, Gon, and Kiy pursued the killers themselves. Koala captured three Nen users, but another attacker fired from the crowd as Killua appeared behind him.

• Maitai reported that over one hundred people were likely dead and warned that Molena’s Nen-trained killers had a fortified hideout.
• Henrich rejected searches of the Fourth and Fifth Tiers, while Ollu warned Maitai to check for infiltrators among his subordinates.
• Koala left with Gon and Kiy and identified three main killers, then the group began pursuing Luini, whose ability let him pass through walls.
• Luini realized the lockdown and pursuit had trapped him near his ability’s origin point and decided to seek help.
• Koala faced three Nen users but bound them with Silent Gunshot, and guards approached to take them into custody.
• A gunman in the crowd shot at the bound captives, and Killua appeared behind him with electricity crackling around him.

Maitai and Henrich contained the killers’ exposed network while Kevin secured Fugats’s cooperation by offering to revive Kadzuo in exchange for helping destroy the Succession Ceremony. Kurapika and Pairo analyzed the Fourth Prince’s Nen ability, then noticed he was holding Kurapika’s photo, suggesting he might target them.

• Maitai and Henrich questioned four captured Nen users and planned to track Molena as she sought a new hiding place.
• Fugats and Kadzuo met Kevin, who showed them Kadzuo’s corpse and said he was nearly certain he could revive her.
• Kevin told Fugats that reviving Kadzuo would require her help destroying the Succession Ceremony, and Fugats agreed.
• Kevin removed a curse from Fugats, gave Kadzuo a protective measure, and let the sisters return; he chose to wait for Pairo and Kurapika before acting.
• Pairo described the Fourth Prince’s Nen ability and its apparent Zetsu activation condition, and he and Kurapika analyzed its vulnerabilities.
• Pairo noticed the Fourth Prince was holding Kurapika’s photo and wondered whether he was about to target them.

Molena ordered her people to abandon their base after learning four killers had been captured, while Pairo and Kurapika located the Succession Ceremony’s buddha statue with the Eleventh Prince’s help. Kevin brought Little Wang to consume the statue’s accumulated resentment, but the Eleventh Prince suddenly lost the ability to open his door.

• Molena learned that four of her people had been captured and ordered everyone with her to move to Base No. 2.
• The Eleventh Prince opened a Circular Door, allowing Pairo to scout a hidden room containing the buddha statue and dense God Text with a Butterfly.
• Kevin arrived with Biscuit and Melusina, explained how destroying the statue might free the princes from the Succession Ceremony, and inspected the room with Scale Powder.
• Kevin summoned Little Wang to eat the resentment accumulated in the buddha statue over centuries.
• The Eleventh Prince failed to open another door, and Kevin suspected that the Nen Beast was frightened of Little Wang.

Kevin and Little Wang destroyed the Meditation Ritual Buddha, removing the ceremony’s ability to sacrifice people on the lower floors. The Kakin King blamed V5 for the attack, while Pairo informed the Ninth Prince, who was preparing a major move.

• Kevin hid Little Wang, then had the Eleventh Prince hold open her Nen Beast’s tunnel so Little Wang could enter the hidden chamber.
• Little Wang devoured the Resentment and swallowed the Meditation Ritual Buddha, destroying the Succession War’s core mechanism.
• Kevin explained that the ceremony could continue, but its final victor could no longer affect those on the third floor and below; he told Kurapika and the others to discreetly inform the Ninth Prince.
• The King found the buddha statue gone and suspected V5 had destroyed it as a warning to Kakin.
• Biscuit suggested the King had mistaken the attackers for V5, and Kevin accepted that V5 could take the blame.
• Pairo relayed the news to the Ninth Prince, who frowned at what the mysterious beings had done.

Nasby accepted the destruction of a National Treasure as a crisis the Kakin Empire could survive, while the Ninth Prince shared news that Princes could withdraw and began negotiating with Kurapika and Pairo. Their meeting ended with the Ninth Prince asking what the Dark Continent team wanted from him.

• Nasby told the royal butler that the Succession War Ceremony would continue and produce a ruler capable of leading the empire.
• The Ninth Prince released information that Princes could escape the war, while Fugats admitted helping sabotage the ceremony and was taken away by the Review Committee.
• The Ninth Prince began preparing to meet the force that had sent him the information, alarming the First Prince and the other contenders.
• Kurapika and Pairo told the Ninth Prince that they were leaders of a Dark Continent Exploration Team seeking to kill the Fourth Prince and had stopped the ceremony to prevent the sacrifice of two hundred thousand people.
• The Ninth Prince agreed that the ceremony's sacrifice was unacceptable, and asked Kurapika and Pairo what they wanted from him.

Kurapika and Pairo negotiated an alliance with the Ninth Prince, offering Nen advice and extensive intelligence in exchange for a chance to disrupt Beyond and support a long-term Dark Continent expedition. As the Ninth Prince’s side began acting on the information, the Succession War grew more chaotic, with several Princes dead and mafia families mobilizing across the lower tiers.

• Kurapika explained his group’s motives to the Ninth Prince, and they agreed that his side would receive Nen consultation and intelligence in return for a future commission to help Princes withdraw from the Succession War.
• Kurapika’s intelligence about the Princes and their Nen abilities shocked the Ninth Prince’s team, which chose the First Prince as its priority target.
• Two days later, Kevin and Men Qi learned from the ship’s broadcast that First Prince Benjamin had been hospitalized after being poisoned.
• Bianluoke reported that two mafia families were searching the lower tiers, and Pairo told Kevin that the Third Prince and Seventh Prince had been assassinated by unknown attackers.
• Kevin connected the mafia families’ mobilization to the deaths of the Princes they served, while Melusina and Men Qi went to bring Lorian to stay with them.

Melody learned that the Succession War had descended into chaos after several Princes were assassinated and the First Prince invoked Special Martial Law, so she set out to protect Fugats. Meanwhile, Tserriednich survived an assassination attempt and sought revenge on Kevin, while the assassins turned their attention to other Princes.

• Kadzuo told Melody that the Third and Seventh Princes had been assassinated, the First Prince had fallen unconscious after issuing Special Martial Law, and the Second Prince’s faction was cursing other Princes.
• Melody decided she needed to escape her cell and protect Fugats amid the growing disorder.
• Tserriednich used his strange ability to survive an attack by the First Prince’s soldiers and told Taisa he planned to take revenge on Kevin and punish Kurapika and Pairo.
• Assassins attacked the Fifth Prince with a Nen arrow, but his medicine healed his wound before he passed out.
• Molena’s three assassins discussed killing the Princes downstairs after their attempt on the Fourth Prince failed, while one of them planned to target the Second Prince.

Kurapika and Pairo learned that the Fourth Prince had left his room and gone down to confront Kevin, while the Succession War plunged the ship into chaos. The Fourth Prince tried to poison Kevin, but Kevin revealed that he understood the prince’s Nen ability in detail, leaving the prince terrified.

• Kurapika and Pairo discussed the spreading chaos aboard the ship and noted that Melody had begun protecting the Eleventh Prince.
• Kurapika and Pairo saw through a guard’s eyes that the Fourth Prince was taking a secret passage downward, and Kurapika prepared to warn Kevin if necessary.
• The Fourth Prince told Tada he intended to take revenge on Kevin, and Tada followed him despite hoping Kevin would kill the prince.
• The Fourth Prince arrived at Kevin’s residence with Tada and offered gold bars as a down payment to repair their relationship.
• The Fourth Prince attacked Kevin with a tranquilizer round and claimed it carried an incurable neurotoxin, but Kevin blocked it and remained unharmed.
• Kevin described how the Fourth Prince’s Nen ability let him see ten seconds into the future and alter events invisibly, and the Fourth Prince asked how Kevin knew.

Kevin killed the Fourth Prince and prevented his Resentment from possessing the prince’s eyes, then explained how Resentment worked. He discovered that the prince’s soul had been taken by a Nen beast, leaving behind unusual Resentment without its original will, and brought Jin in to help shape it into a Nen tool.

• Kevin revealed that he had watched the Fourth Prince through Taisa’s eyes and had seen through the prince’s Nen ability.
• The Fourth Prince tried to escape, but Kevin’s poison needle killed him, and Taisa carried away his corpse.
• Kevin told Biscuit and Melusina that he had stripped the prince’s Resentment away before it could attach to his eyes.
• Kevin explained that the prince’s soul had been taken by a Nen beast, leaving Resentment that he might be able to shape himself.
• Kevin called Jin, who examined the Resentment and began explaining how to make it into a Nen tool.

The Ninth Prince effectively won the Succession War and obtained the Kakin Empire's national treasure, while Kevin fought his way past Molena's group to join him. Kevin destroyed the Pot and captured the dark presence inside, ending the ceremony as the Ninth Prince's Nen Beast disappeared.

• The Second Prince was resurrected by her Million Reincarnation Cat, but a poisoned needle killed her after her heart restarted, and the Ninth Prince learned that the remaining Princes were dead, incapacitated, or withdrawn.
• The Ninth Prince confronted Nasby, asked for the Pot to end the Succession Ceremony, and received it after Nasby accepted his choice.
• The Ninth Prince brought the Pot to Kurapika and Pairo in the dining hall, where they told him the ceremony could end after a short wait.
• Molena confronted Kevin over Tserriednich's death, but Kevin killed the man whose ability had protected her group and broke through a metal wall to reach the dining hall.
• Kevin confirmed that the Ninth Prince consented to destroying the Pot, then filled it with Resentment until it shattered and caught the dark clump that emerged.
• The one-eyed Nen Beast on the Ninth Prince scattered away after Kevin destroyed the Pot.

After the Succession War ended in the Ninth Prince’s victory, Kevin’s group prepared for the quiet two-month voyage to the Imaginary New Continent. Kevin began assembling a mechanical stopwatch and rare animal eyes to contain the Fourth Prince’s resentment, while Beyond’s team chose not to confront him.

• The Ninth Prince questioned Kurapika and Pairo about Kevin’s power, then postponed their cooperation talks while he dealt with other matters.
• Fourteen days into the voyage, Nasby Gray Pot Meat abdicated during a broadcast ceremony and passed the throne to the Ninth Prince after most rival Princes had been killed or injured.
• Kevin’s group discussed how the Succession War ended quickly and why Beyond’s team had stayed quiet, while Biscuit explained the Princes’ bloody tactics and the limits shaping the conflict.
• Kevin suggested that Kiy and Gon hunt the mafia family members who could spread their level-based ability, and they went out with Koala.
• Belores gave Kevin a ten-second mechanical Pocket Watch and two rare eyeball collectibles for his attempt to craft a Nen tool for the Fourth Prince’s resentment.
• Pariston questioned Beyond about letting his son die, but Beyond said Kevin was powerful enough to kill or injure them and that avoiding a confrontation served their goal of exploring the Dark Continent.

Kevin and his companions reached the Imaginary New Continent, where the expedition began building its first camp and unloading supplies. They met Jin and observed Beyond’s large team, while Kevin suspected Beyond planned to use ordinary personnel to scout the dangers ahead.

• Kevin and his companions watched the B.W. Liner reach East Coast Alpha Port and saw engineering teams begin assembling the temporary port and defensive perimeter.
• Bianluoke left to help with preparations, while Gon reunited with Jin and the two agreed to talk more during the journey to the Gatekeeper.
• Jin told Kevin’s group they would travel aboard Morel’s ship after the camp’s early construction, which was expected to take about a week.
• After three days of unloading, the B.W. Liner departed, leaving Morel’s ship and other vessels anchored beside the growing camp.
• Ce estimated that Beyond’s team numbered around twenty-six hundred, and Kevin suspected Beyond would use ordinary personnel as test subjects to scout the Dark Continent.

Kevin and Jin’s teams sailed toward the Dark Continent while Kevin described the dangers he and Melusina had encountered and shared his classifications of its creatures. At sea, Kevin also studied Nen and Nen tools with Jin, whose research offered new ideas for modifying [Master of Stealth].

• Kevin selected Cuckoo, Illumi, Morel, Bianluoke, Kansai, and one other Zodiac member to accompany his team, while Qiduo and Porto arranged the surveillance groups.
• The International Voyage Bureau repeated its warnings, then its personnel boarded Beyond’s ship as Kevin and the others boarded Morel’s vessel.
• As the ships set sail, Kevin told Kiy and Jin’s team about the Dream-Entering Butterfly, Earth-Swallowing Worm, Overlord Giant Bird, and other dangers he had faced on the Dark Continent.
• Kevin proposed a creature-ranking system, describing the Giant Bird as Overlord-level creatures and the Resentful Eater Snakes as Lord-level creatures.
• Kevin discussed Nen research with Jin and learned about the construction of Nen tools, gaining ideas for altering [Master of Stealth].

Morel’s ship and Beyond’s ship reached The Gate, where the Gatekeeper Yashu recognized Beyond and singled out Kevin as a stowaway who had once visited the Dark Continent. Yashu promised Kevin a reprieve from the return calamity, then opened The Gate for the expedition.

• Morel used purple smoke birds to distract giant birds, and Kevin tested his Nen tool Kairos to kill two attackers, though it consumed one hundred thousand Nen.
• Kevin explained Kairos’s limits to the group, and Jin praised his first Nen tool while urging him to plan how to modify his book.
• The two ships reached the enormous Gate and entered its river channel, then Beyond, Kevin, Jin, and Qiduo went ashore to meet the Gatekeeper.
• Yashu recognized Beyond, examined Jin and Qiduo, and identified Kevin as a stowaway who had reached the Dark Continent through no choice of his own.
• Yashu promised that Kevin would not receive the Gatekeeper’s warning calamity on his first return, and Kevin gave the signal for Yashu to open The Gate.

Kevin and the others passed through the Gatekeeper’s passage, reached the Dark Continent, and landed at a seemingly safe coast. After hiding their ship and driving off local Chimera Ants, they prepared to move inland toward their chosen destination.

• Qiduo learned that Kevin could return without bringing back a disaster, and the two ships set off with Guides toward their chosen directions.
• After about ten days inside the whale-like Guides, Kevin’s ship emerged near the Dark Continent, where the Guide gave them Bone Whistles and warned them to remember the return route.
• Kevin, Jin, Morel, and the others spotted enormous Pterosaur-like creatures and a giant sea creature before finding a natural harbor and landing.
• Morel found a coastal sea cave, and Kevin widened it so they could hide their ship and carve a passage to the shore.
• When Jin sensed a dangerous gaze, Kevin’s En drew out local Chimera Ants, which he quickly defeated to discourage them from approaching the group’s camp.
• Kevin rejected Illumi’s suggestion to build a base and led the group away from the coast toward a safer place.

Kevin, Melusina, Biscuit, Men Qi, Jin, and the others entered the Resentful Eater Snake’s nest to establish a forward base, meeting familiar snakes and exploring the territory. Kevin brought the group to the tree house he and Melusina had once lived in, where they planned to settle.

• Kevin led the group through the Dark Continent’s overgrown forest toward Snake Nest as they felt the pressure of the surrounding Resentment.
• The group reached a clean expanse of Quartz Sand, where Melusina explained that they should avoid releasing too much Nen to keep from attracting Resentful Eater Snakes.
• Gray Scale reunited with Little Wang and greeted Kevin and Melusina, while Kevin fed Gray Scale a Resentment Cluster.
• Kevin guided the group deeper into the nest and explained that the snake bones in its core marked a single adult snake’s growth, while other adults had left to claim their own territories.
• Kevin showed the group the tree platform and tree house where he and Melusina had lived, and chose the area as the Forward Base.

Kevin’s group built a temporary base in Snake Nest while Jin’s team prepared to explore toward the Unmanned Stone. Kevin then organized a month of adaptation training for his team, which began with a demonstration of the Dark Continent’s overwhelming creatures.

• Shalnark emptied the supply crates from her Vacuum Cleaner, and Bellolight assembled them into a temporary base around the trees.
• Kevin warned everyone to stay near Snake Nest, then discussed exploration plans with Jin, Melusina, and Biscuit.
• Jin chose to lead his team on cautious outward exploration and adaptive training before moving toward the Unmanned Stone.
• Kevin set long-term, mid-term, and short-term objectives for his team, including finding a permanent base and hunting A-Rank materials.
• The next day, Kevin divided his team into hunting and reconnaissance groups and began a month of adaptation training with Melusina.
• Kevin’s group witnessed a giant ape kill a four-winged bird in the Giant Beast Kingdom, astonishing the newcomers.

After a month of adapting to the Dark Continent, Kevin’s group had grown tougher and prepared to begin operating as a team. Kevin assigned members to the base, Hunting Team, and Exploration Team, leaving Kansai, Bianluoke, and Biscuit at the base for the first operation.

• Kevin’s group fought and killed a pack of Snake Dogs, then encountered another giant beast on their way back; the team suffered minor injuries.
• The Exploration Training Team led by Melusina returned at dusk, also looking worn and battle-scarred.
• Over the next month, Biscuit and the others adapted to the wilderness, while Jin’s team explored the region around Shi Yunyu and brought materials back.
• Kevin gathered the group and assigned Xulolite, Ce, Qiduo, and Illumi to remain at the base as its core members.
• Kevin designated Gon, Kiy, Kurapika, Koala, Kansai, Shalnark, and himself as the Hunting Team, and Melusina, Biscuit, Rukira, Pairo, Men Qi, Buhaci, Morel, and Bianluoke as the Exploration Team.
• Kevin said operations would begin the next day, with Kansai, Bianluoke, and Biscuit staying behind at the base.

The Exploration Team crossed the Giant Beast Kingdom and reached an immense grassland, where they encountered a herd of enormous, horned horse-like creatures fleeing from an unseen force. The team climbed trees as the strange wind swept across the grass.

• Buhaci knocked back a wild beast, and Men Qi relayed that her group had dealt with the danger through a Chimera Ant.
• The three exploration teams regrouped at night, compared notes, and discussed the Dark Continent and the landmarks recorded in New Continent Chronicle.
• Rukira mapped their surroundings, marking the Unmanned Stone, the World Tree, the Inner Sea, a vast pit, Kōtan, and the Giant Ox Herd as possible targets.
• After five days of travel, the teams left the Giant Beast Kingdom and reached a vast green grassland.
• Morel spotted a herd of enormous horned horse-like creatures galloping across the grassland at tremendous speed.
• The herd split apart as an invisible wind swept the grass into the air, and the team hurried up into the trees.

The exploration team stayed at the edge of a grassland where invisible winds sliced apart two-horned Giant Horses, then used Morel and Men Qi’s Nen Beasts to scout the area overnight. Their scouts returned unharmed, while Men Qi cooked the horses’ exceptionally nutritious meat for the team.

• Morel, Men Qi, and the others examined the horse corpses and concluded that the grassland’s invisible Wind Blades posed a serious danger within a limited range.
• Men Qi summoned Transport Armor to retrieve the corpses, and she and Buhaci found the horse meat and blood exceptionally nutritious.
• Melusina decided the team would camp in the giant trees, while Morel and Men Qi sent their Nen Beasts into the grassland to scout.
• Morel and Men Qi reported that none of their scouts had been destroyed during the night, though the team still needed to investigate further.
• Men Qi prepared Rock Slab-grilled horse meat, which Melusina praised for its flavor and Buhaci found extraordinarily nutritious.