Chapter Summaries

Kevin tested his new A-Rank Electric Propulsion potion by fighting a Bone-Whip Giant Wolf in Zetsu, overwhelming it with enhanced speed and strength. He subdued the beast and concluded that the potion greatly boosted his physical abilities, especially movement speed, without relying on Nen Aura.

• Kevin entered Zetsu and had the new potion injected by his upgraded Syringe while Jin, Biscuit, Melusina, Kurapika, and the others watched.
• The potion surrounded Kevin with blue electricity and let him dodge the Bone-Whip Giant Wolf’s attacks before kicking it hard enough to send it flying.
• Kevin avoided the Giant Wolf’s rapid strikes and used Domination to make it lie down and submit.
• Kevin named the potion Electric Propulsion and explained that it continuously strengthened his muscles, perception, explosive power, and speed, with the greatest boost going to movement speed.

Kevin planned to trade Unmanned Stones with the Long-haired Creatures for a steady supply of Thick White Milk, hoping to build a peaceful relationship through his Lord authority. Two days later, he set out alone, but the Bone-Whip Giant Wolf refused to come to him, leaving him to seek a different mount later.

• Kevin explained that the Giant Wolf was intended as a mount and described how the A-Rank potion could strengthen bodies, then the group returned to camp and released the wolf after Pairo marked its eye.
• Men Qi told Kevin that their Thick White Milk was running out, and Kevin agreed to rob more from the Long-haired Creatures in a couple of days.
• Kevin reasoned that the Long-haired Creatures might possess Lord authority and proposed exchanging Unmanned Stones for a long-term supply of Thick White Milk.
• Biscuit doubted whether the Long-haired Creatures could understand trade, while Jin argued that Kevin could build a relationship through repeated communication; Kevin decided to make the journey alone.
• Two days later, Kevin tried to summon the Bone-Whip Giant Wolf, but it refused to come, so he gave up on using the potion to establish a bond with it.

Beyond and the surviving members of his expedition returned from the Dark Continent with six Alchemy Plants and a way to stop the spread of Zobae. The Gatekeeper let them pass without disaster, but they learned that no other exploration team had yet returned, leaving Kevin’s team’s fate uncertain.

• Beyond’s ship emerged from the giant whale and approached the gate with only 213 of the more than 2,000 expedition members alive.
• Piyon reported that Saiyu was recovering, while Saccho confirmed the survivors’ count and Beyond revealed that he had kept six Alchemy Plants.
• Beyond’s group reached the gatekeeper, who confirmed that they were the first returning team and agreed not to impose a disaster because they had brought back hope.
• Porto asked whether Kevin’s team had returned, and the gatekeeper said no other team had come back yet.
• Beyond said he believed Kevin could survive the Dark Continent, and the ship continued toward human society.

Kevin raced through the Giant Beast Kingdom alone, but Phoenix warned him of an approaching creature and a fleeing Phoenix soon arrived. Kevin fought a Grey-Black Crow for two hours, yet could not kill it, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Kevin crossed the Giant Beast Kingdom at full speed, then camped for the night and ate rations prepared by Men Qi, Xiahara, and Melusina.
• Phoenix emerged and warned Kevin about a distant light approaching from the sky; the light proved to be another Phoenix fleeing from something.
• The arriving Phoenix urged Kevin’s Phoenix to flee, but a Grey-Black Crow turned its hostility on Kevin, who struck it out of the sky.
• Kevin discovered the Crow’s smoke extinguished Phoenix’s flames, then used wind, a sonic blast, lightning, and repeated punches to fight it.
• After two hours of combat, Kevin widened the distance to recover and realized he still could not kill the Grey-Black Crow.

Kevin fought the Grey-Black Crow, whose smoke absorbed energy and countered flames, and drove it off after unleashing a new speed technique. The nearby Phoenix then underwent Nirvana, leaving Kevin with a new egg and several A-Rank feathers as payment for protection.

• Kevin realized the Grey-Black Crow could absorb energy, heal itself with smoke, and withstand his attacks because of its enormous size.
• Kevin coated himself in Water Droplets to move at incredible speed, ambushed the Crow, and injured it with rapid blows.
• The Crow turned into smoke and fled after Kevin blasted through its protective tornado and seized its wing; Kevin stopped pursuing when he saw the Crow had drained the surrounding land.
• Phoenix descended, turned into a silent egg, and left Kevin several valuable feathers.
• Kevin summoned the Phoenix inside his tattoo and learned that it had chosen Nirvana to escape the Crow and entrust its egg to him, so he picked up the egg.

After reviewing his fight with the Grey-Black Crow, Kevin entered the Gale Grassland to meet its Lord, Gelan, and trade Unmanned Stones for Thick White Milk. Gelan unleashed the stone’s electricity to test its energy, and Kevin watched to estimate how much it contained.

• Kevin reflected that speed and his Mental Image had been crucial against the Grey-Black Crow, then traveled to the Gale Grassland a day later.
• Kevin sensed the Giant Horses were being raised by Gelan, rode one across the grassland, and let it go when it refused to enter the Golden Grassland.
• Kevin crossed the electrically charged Golden Grassland and reached Milky White Lake, where he met Gelan and offered energy in exchange for Thick White Milk.
• Gelan took an Unmanned Stone and made it discharge a huge amount of electricity through brute force, prompting Kevin to retreat and study the energy output.

Kevin traded Unmanned Stones to Lord Gelan for a fortune in concentrated Thick White Milk, then traveled onward and caught a hidden creature trying to steal his Pocket Flower. The creature remained trapped in Kevin’s Water Droplets as he prepared to reveal what it was.

• Kevin grew impatient waiting for Lord Gelan to finish testing an Unmanned Stone and asked how to trade for Thick White Milk.
• Lord Gelan gave Kevin a Milk Brick, and Kevin discovered it contained highly concentrated nutrition.
• Kevin traded twelve Unmanned Stones for twelve Milk Bricks, learned that Gelan had tens of thousands in stock, and gave Gelan an extra stone as a gift to maintain their trade relationship.
• Kevin escaped the lightning field, traveled for two days, and rested while Don Freecss spoke with strange creatures elsewhere on the Dark Continent.
• A concealed creature approached Kevin and tried to steal his Pocket Flower, but Kevin froze it and trapped part of its body inside two Water Droplets.

Kevin captured a stealth-specialist Three-Tailed Fox, discovered her talent for sensing hidden treasures, and taught her to speak as she followed him back to Snake Nest. She remained terrified by the camp’s powerful creatures and the mountain of corpses awaiting her there.

• Kevin caught a tiny Three-Tailed Fox with exceptional concealment but little fighting ability, calmed her with the Lord’s symbol, and offered her food.
• The fox followed Kevin the next morning, shared fruit with him, and demonstrated her speed as he considered using her treasure-sensing ability.
• At Snake Nest, Shalnark returned with a heap of creature corpses, and Pairo spotted Kevin approaching with a flaming egg and a fox.
• Kevin taught the fox to speak during their journey, and she learned words quickly before warning him that the Snake Nest territory felt dangerous.
• Melusina welcomed Kevin back and learned that the fox was concealed around his neck, while the sight of the camp’s corpse pile left the fox trembling in fear.

Kevin brought home six tons of Thick White Milk and learned that Three-Tails could detect treasures and danger from hundreds of kilometers away. Jin gave him a small spatial gem and notes on making spatial equipment, leaving Kevin ready to test the technique on Master of Stealth.

• Kevin showed the camp twelve Milk Bricks, and Men Qi, Melusina, and the others calculated their value and discussed his trade with the Lord Long-haired Creature.
• Kevin returned to making potions, while Melusina and the camp helped Three-Tails learn human speech and customs.
• Kevin tested Three-Tails’s ability to identify treasures, edible materials, and danger, discovering that she could smell them from five or six hundred kilometers away.
• Three-Tails explained that she had risked stealing from Kevin because the Thick White Milk smelled too tempting, and Kevin taught her to describe scents as treasures.
• Jin gave Kevin a spatial gem that could store objects in a two-meter-wide spherical space, along with a notebook explaining how to make similar equipment.
• Kevin took out Master of Stealth and prepared to test modifying it.

Kevin transformed Chrollo’s resentful book into a Nen tool for the Dark Probe team, designing restrictions that let its leader share selected abilities with teammates. He successfully inscribed Moment’s Dream, Snake Scale, and Blank Meteor, giving the team a way to strengthen its members.

• Melusina carried Three-Tails out of the Pharmaceutical Room so Kevin could work in silence.
• Kevin concluded that Master of Stealth’s resentment and restrictions made it difficult to modify, but he removed Chrollo’s original resentment and obsession.
• Kevin redesigned the book for the Dark Probe team, requiring its leader’s permission and limiting how many members could use its abilities and for how long.
• Kevin finalized the white book, inscribed his name on its first page, and marked himself as a Dark Probe member.
• Kevin copied Moment’s Dream, Snake Scale, and Blank Meteor into the book, confirming that the team could use them, though the book could not record his highest-level abilities.

Kevin tested his new Nen tool on Gon and found that it boosted training far less than he expected. Jin and Biscuit explained that Kevin’s unusual talent and the self-oriented nature of his abilities made them impossible to reproduce perfectly, then Jin claimed Kevin’s luck was poor as an unfortunate event was already approaching.

• Kevin used [Blank Meteor] and a Nen-increasing potion on Gon, then had him spar with Biscuit for half an hour.
• Gon reported that the training boost felt like about a week of progress, far below the effect Kevin had expected.
• Biscuit and Jin took Kevin to the Meeting Room and explained that his fused body and soul gave him exceptional talent, while his Enhancement and Specialization abilities made [Blank Meteor] unusually effective for him.
• Jin told Kevin that no Nen ability could achieve perfect results when lent to others because Nen depended on the user’s traits and extremes.
• Jin asked about Kevin’s luck, rejected his answer that it was good, and hinted that an unfortunate event had already appeared.

Kevin discussed bad luck and the costs of Nen abilities with Biscuit and Jin, then discovered that Gon’s gains from [Blank Meteor] had vanished when its time limit ended. He questioned the usefulness of his Nen book and raised the need to choose between building their territory and continuing the Dark Continent expedition.

• Biscuit and Jin explained that powerful people often attract bad luck, and Jin described how changing the Greed Island producer’s name tied his fortune and existence to the game.
• Jin warned Kevin that he could not achieve his current goal with Bargain and Vow yet and advised him to wait until he became a Lord or Overlord.
• Gon and Killua arrived, and Kevin saw that Gon’s gains from [Blank Meteor] had disappeared along with the ability after its one-hour permission expired.
• Kevin realized his Nen book had failed to preserve the lasting results he wanted, though Biscuit and Jin argued that it remained a powerful and successful tool.
• Kevin told Biscuit and Jin that establishing their territory would keep him there for years and force them to decide whether to build it or continue exploring.
• Kevin said they needed to make a choice and began to discuss his other plans.

Kevin, Ging, and Biscuit discussed pursuing the Dark Continent’s other Hopes and preparing for a larger expedition, while Beyond’s returning expedition reached human society and its members faced questioning under guard. Netero visited the Twelve Zodiacs and said he would get them out of confinement.

• Kevin argued that the next expedition should seek the All-Curing Herb, Longevity Rice, Triple-Origin Water, and Alchemy Plant, and Ging explained why they needed to choose a territory before returning.
• Biscuit renewed her determination to reach Knight Rank, while Kevin returned to the Pharmaceutical Room and examined a Pocket Watch-shaped Nen tool.
• Maitai and the other returning expedition members watched the harbor at the Imaginary New Continent take shape, and Saiyu said Beyond planned another, larger expedition.
• The ship returned to human society, where the great powers placed the expedition members under guarded confinement and repeatedly questioned them about their journey.
• Netero visited the confined Twelve Zodiacs, welcomed them back as heroes, and told Yinda he had come to get them out.

Maitai, Piyon, Porto, and the other returning Hunters reported to Netero about Beyond’s expedition and the Alchemy Plants, while Netero revealed that his strength had begun growing again after a breakthrough. Netero also shared that Kevin and his team were safe on the Dark Continent and had gained far more than anyone expected, leaving him to anticipate their return and consider how to protect them from powerful interests.

• Maitai criticized Beyond for sacrificing people to obtain Hope, and the returning Hunters recounted their experiences to Netero.
• Netero explained that Beyond had become an honored guest of the nations and had handed over his Hope to the International Voyage Bureau, while the powers worked to cultivate the Alchemy Plants.
• Porto suggested that Beyond was already preparing another expedition, and Netero agreed that his success would bring him extensive resources for it.
• Netero demonstrated that he had recently broken through his limits and could grow stronger again after taking Kevin’s potion.
• Netero told the Hunters that Kevin and his team were safe, had lost no one, and had made astonishing gains on the Dark Continent.
• Netero said he was looking forward to Kevin’s return and worried about protecting him and his companions from greedy powerful interests.

Nion missed Kurapika and began training while the manor learned that Beyond’s team had returned from the Dark Continent and that the Five Great Powers were closely guarding information about its gains. Hisoka recruited Illumi to investigate the returning explorers, including Illumi’s younger brother.

• Nion complained that she missed Kurapika, then surprised Alisa by asking to train at the manor’s Indoor Training Ground.
• Rosana told Nion, Basho, and the others that Beyond’s team had returned months earlier, but Kevin and his companions still had no plans to come back.
• Light explained that the Five Great Powers had tightly bound Beyond with special clauses, while Kevin’s group had signed older, less restrictive terms that could not prevent them from keeping their gains.
• Hisoka lamented that the world had become boring and met Illumi in a city alley.
• Illumi tried to leave when Hisoka mentioned the returning Exploration Team, explaining that his father and grandfather had warned him not to get involved.
• Hisoka offered Illumi five billion to share information about the returning explorers, including Illumi’s younger brother, and Illumi accepted.

Illumi and Hisoka kidnapped Sida to question him about the Dark Continent, but Sida survived their attack and returned to a supervised area in the city. Meanwhile, Kevin set out along Lake Mobius’s coast with Three-Tails to assess the dangers of nearby regions and find suitable territory for his group.

• Hisoka and Illumi questioned Sida about his Dark Continent experiences and his voyage with Kevin, then Illumi killed him and Hisoka burned the Hunter Cabin.
• Sida emerged unharmed from the flames and returned to the city, where a burly man welcomed him back and took him for a drink.
• Kevin explained his aura growth and the distinctions between human limits, Knight Rank creatures, weak Lords, and Lords.
• Three-Tails sensed danger far out at sea and chose the left-hand route, so Kevin began surveying the coast with her to classify nearby regions by danger.

Kevin and Three-Tails explored the coast, where Kevin spotted a colossal whale-like Overlord crushing the distant whirlpools. After crossing a barren stretch, they reached the edge of the dangerous Spiky Mountain region.

• Kevin climbed a giant coconut tree, saw immense whirlpools offshore, and drove away an approaching Giant Bird with his intimidating presence.
• A mountain-sized whale surfaced far out at sea, sent a towering jet of water into the sky, and disappeared after crushing whirlpools in its path.
• Kevin harvested a Coconut Fruit, shared its juice and flesh with Three-Tails, and recorded the tree and fruit in his Notebook and Route Map.
• Kevin and Three-Tails traveled through several days of desolate terrain, finding no nearby danger or treasure until Three-Tails sensed danger ahead.
• Kevin climbed a slope and saw a vast field of isolated, cloud-piercing spire mountains, which Three-Tails identified as Spiky Mountain and warned was very dangerous.

Kevin crossed the Spike Mountain Range and reached the edge of the Sky Overlord’s vast territory, then turned inland to return toward camp. While resting, he detected a humanoid Lord Level creature approaching from the mountains and decided not to avoid it.

• Kevin identified the jagged peaks as the Spike Mountain Range and continued along its coast, judging the region too harsh for a base.
• After another half month, Kevin left the mountains, entered colder terrain, and crossed the boundary of the Sky Overlord’s territory after traveling roughly a hundred thousand kilometers.
• Kevin decided to head inland and make a broad loop back to camp, using his journey to assess which areas might suit a base.
• Three-Tails sensed a dangerous creature in the mountains, and Kevin scanned the area with his Nen Aura until he located it.
• Kevin sensed that the approaching Lord Level creature was humanoid and showed no obvious hostility, so he decided not to avoid it.

Kevin met the Wearer Ghost, a Lord who wore human bodies and retained their memories, and agreed to visit its home. As they traveled, it described its duties and enemies, including Frost Wind and Slash Ghost, leaving Kevin curious about the dangers ahead.

• Kevin sensed the approaching humanoid was nonhuman and confirmed she was a Lord recognized by the Sky Overlord.
• The Wearer Ghost introduced herself, explained that she preserved human bodies, and said she had come because she had not seen a human for 113 years.
• The Wearer Ghost recalled meeting Dong more than three hundred years earlier and invited Kevin to visit her home; Kevin accepted.
• As they walked, the Wearer Ghost described protecting the environment, helping the Overlord defeat the Sand Worm, and becoming a Lord after that incident.
• The Wearer Ghost described Frost Wind and Slash Ghost as further enemies, revealing that Slash Ghost was a troublesome being made from humans and other things.
• The Wearer Ghost explained that she walked slowly to protect her last intact human body, and Kevin continued with her while asking questions.

Kevin traveled with the Wearer Ghost to his manor in the Spike Mountain Range and learned how the creature used human bodies to experience emotions. The Wearer Ghost showed Kevin time-stopping bubbles, but a sudden murderous presence interrupted their conversation as he prepared to change outfits.

• Kevin and the Wearer Ghost rode a three-headed python to the Wearer Ghost's manor, built into a towering rock spire.
• Kevin learned that the Wearer Ghost treasured human emotion and could no longer use bodies after they grew old.
• The Wearer Ghost showed Kevin four elderly humans suspended in bubbles that stopped time.
• Kevin discovered the bubbles came from a creature the Wearer Ghost had received from the Sky Overlord.
• A bloody stench and killing intent disturbed the manor, and the Wearer Ghost summoned a bubble to change outfits.