Chapter Summaries

Gelman and the others faced the Snake-headed Giant as it guarded the Nitolomi Longevity Food growing grounds. After its Malice Shriek trapped them in terrifying illusions, Gelman connected their minds, drew on their Nen, and rose to Legend before destroying the monster.

• Gelman drew the Snake-headed Giant's attention while Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku prepared to destroy its three Malice Cysts.
• The Snake-headed Giant used all three cysts to unleash a Malice Shriek that trapped each of the four in a personal nightmare.
• Gelman broke free of the illusion and reached the others through Nen, steadying them and linking their Nen to his.
• Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku empowered Gelman, who transformed, sprouted Silver White Wings, and rose to the rank of Legend.
• Gelman formed a black spear and struck down the Snake-headed Giant before flying away as its body burst into stones.

After reaching Legendary Grade, Gelman discovered he could communicate telepathically and examined the new powers and protections recorded in his Projection. As the group discussed his advancement, an unseen rider watched them from a distant slope.

• Gelman realized he could sense the others’ thoughts and establish telepathic links with Shizuku, Ging, and Biscuit.
• Biscuit, Ging, and Shizuku discussed whether their Nen resonance had helped Gelman advance to Legendary Grade.
• Gelman used Projection to inspect his new gifts, Legendary Aura, Legendary Physique, and the changes to his abilities and traits.
• Gelman concluded that his Legendary abilities had overridden his former runes, traits, diseases, and Contempt Armor effects.
• An unknown figure on horseback watched the four people from a distant slope without Gelman noticing.

Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku harvested Nitoromi while Ging reflected on how Dark Continent history survived in legends and ruins. A cloaked rider appeared beside the dissolving serpent corpses, revealed himself as Don Freecss, and asked the group some questions.

• Gelman inspected the dissolving serpent corpses and learned they were powerful but failed creations.
• Biscuit and Shizuku harvested Nitoromi, while Ging suggested bringing some back for Shubika, Menchi, and Buhara to study.
• Ging connected the Rainforest Swamp and the serpents’ abilities to the legend of the Nekomata, explaining how ruins helped preserve knowledge.
• Gelman sensed a cloaked rider near the corpses, and Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku noticed the stranger after him.
• The rider dismissed his black horse as smoke, introduced himself as Don Freecss, and asked the group questions.

Gelman asked the hooded man claiming to be Don Freecss to prove his identity, and Don used his original book to verify the copy the group had brought. Don then asked how they had defeated the swamp’s ruling monster using only an incomplete fragment.

• Ging asked Gelman through Mental Communication to question Don while he and Biscuit observed cautiously.
• Gelman asked Don what proof he had, and Don explained that he had given copies of New World Journey: East Shore Arc to an exploration team over three hundred years earlier.
• Don opened his original book and said it would resonate with copies derived from it.
• Shizuku retrieved the group’s incomplete photocopy from Evil Tenderfoot, and the two books glowed red in response to each other.
• Don concluded that his identity was proven and asked how the group had defeated the monster that ruled the swamp.

Gelman and his companions traded information with Dong, who explained the Dark Continent’s demigods and warned that contact with them could cause curses. Dong revealed that he had been afflicted by the Flesh Curse, leaving Gelman and the others with new knowledge of the dangers ahead.

• Gelman told Dong how the team had overcome calamities in four regions and collected their hopes, and Dong warned them to avoid the unstable region of the Mist-like Creature Ai and the Three-Origin Water.
• Dong agreed to answer their questions and introduced the True God, the four demigods, and the Chosen People.
• Dong identified Gelman as one of the Chosen People because he could hear others’ thoughts and gain knowledge from his surroundings.
• Dong explained that demigods ruled regions of the Dark Continent and that contact with one could taint a person with a curse.
• Dong removed his hood and revealed his distorted face, explaining that he had suffered the Flesh Curse.

Don explained the suffering and contagious danger of the Flesh Curse, then revealed how his Nen ability, Chain of Knowledge, connected his original book to its copies. Ging revealed his identity as a Freecss descendant, and Don learned that his writing had inspired Ging to become a Hunter.

• Don described the Flesh Curse’s agonizing symptoms, its effects on his perception, and how fresh raw meat and blood eased it.
• Don explained that the curse could spread through prolonged contact and contaminated objects, and said he would soon leave to protect the others.
• Don refused to give Ging his New World Journey, urging the group to return to the Six Continents and publish an updated account of their exploration.
• Don revealed that Chain of Knowledge linked his original manuscript to its copies and let him draw life energy from readers.
• Ging introduced himself as Ging Freecss and recognized Don as his ancestor, Don Freecss.
• Ging told Don that a surviving fragment of his book had inspired him to become a Hunter and seek its author.

Dong explained that he abandoned his journey across the west shore after the Flesh Monsters infected him with a contagious Blood Curse, and that the pages the group found were his old complaints. He revealed that the west shore’s Flesh entity had called him to become its messenger, then reacted with shock when Gelman pointed to the sky as the presence calling him.

• Dong told Ging that he had never finished New World Journey: West Shore because the Flesh entity infected him with the Blood Curse.
• Gelman showed Dong the rubbing found in the Moose Centaur Tribe, and Dong explained that he had left the pages there during a night when the Curse flared up.
• Dong apologized for putting the Moose Centaur Tribe at risk and explained that the pages contained complaints written in several now-lost systems.
• Dong told the group that he had felt called by the Flesh entity and was meant to become its messenger, but had fled the west shore.
• Gelman pointed to the sky as the presence he believed had called him, and Dong was stunned that Gelman might have been chosen by a True God.

Gelman learned from Don that the Dark Continent’s Disasters were failed creations of the fallen Gu Gu Yuan, made for an Ascension Ritual. The group traded Don fifty stalks of Longevity Food Nitolomi for his knowledge, while Ging and Biscuit remained uncertain about humanity’s prospects in the Dark Continent.

• Gelman placed a Teleport Lantern and explained his dream to Don, who considered whether the Red Moon might be calling Gelman to become its apostle.
• Don described how Gu Gu Yuan and Flesh fought a Divine War two thousand years earlier, leaving Gu Gu Yuan fallen and Flesh weakened.
• Don told the group that Ging had nearly reached his limits and could not begin an Ascension Ritual because he was not Chosen by the Gods.
• Don explained that the Disasters were failed creations and core requirements of Gu Gu Yuan’s Chaos Ritual of Disaster and Hope, trapped in their regions after Gu Gu Yuan fell.
• Gelman asked Shizuku for fifty stalks of Longevity Food Nitolomi, packed them in a box, and offered them to Don in return for his information.

Dong revealed that the Outer God would devour the planet in a little over five hundred years, but Gelman argued that humanity could defeat the Red Moon and demigods, develop spaceflight, and escape. Dong departed, promising to guide Gelman to the Flesh Demigod’s territory if Gelman proved his resolve.

• Dong accepted Gelman’s gift and asked whether Gelman would continue exploring despite the danger of becoming like him.
• Dong explained that the Outer God would devour the planet once it ripened, and that the Red Moon and demigods were preparing to survive the apocalypse.
• Gelman described modern technology and proposed that humanity could defeat the demigods and Red Moon, then leave the planet before the Outer God arrived.
• Dong laughed at Gelman’s ambition, summoned a Night Raid Black Horse, and left after offering to guide Gelman to the Flesh Demigod’s territory.
• Ging regretted that he had not asked Dong more questions, while Gelman looked up at the sky.

After deciding to hunt the planet’s gods, Gelman discovered that his Legendary Perception could connect to a Teleport Lantern and let him observe its surroundings from afar. Back at the Ancient Labyrinth Tower, the group discussed using the ability to monitor disaster resurrections, while the others began testing the Nitoromi they had brought back.

• Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku supported Gelman’s decision to hunt the demigods and the Red Moon.
• Gelman discovered he could perceive the area around the Ancient Labyrinth Tower’s Special Lantern Teleportation Point from the Rainforest Swamp, then teleported there with the others.
• Gelman confirmed his Lantern Perception was real and the group considered using it to observe disaster resurrections remotely.
• The returning team woke Knuckle, Menchi, Buhara, and Shubika, and Shizuku showed them the Nitoromi they had brought back.
• Biscuit recounted the expedition while leaving out the truth about the Red Moon Gods and Outer Gods, and the group began testing Nitoromi.
• Buhara ate a Nitoromi fruit and praised its exceptional nutritional value, while Shubika’s examination showed his health had improved.

Gelman and his companions continued studying Nitoromi and managing threats on the Dark Continent, defeating several revived creatures and gathering useful resources. Biscuit failed to reach Champion Grade, while the group wondered whether the colonial fleet had reached the Fake Continent.

• Menchi cooked Nitoromi for the group, and Shubika found that the dish had lost almost none of its nutrients.
• Knuckle introduced small insect-eating animals to the Ancient Labyrinth Castle, and Gelman approved of keeping them there.
• Gelman and Shizuku killed the revived Disease Spreader and collected an unused Teleport Lantern and 38 Alchemy Plants.
• Gelman later killed Rift of Joy and Tongue of Theft, placed a Lantern by their respawn point, and returned to the Ancient Labyrinth.
• Biscuit fought the revived Painful Bloodthirsty Apostle but needed Gelman's help to defeat it, while the others collected 74 All-Curing Herbs.
• The group considered whether BW1 and its accompanying ships had reached the Fake Continent after setting sail on August 8.

At Ancient Labyrinth Castle, Gelman used Lantern perception and discovered that BW1 and its fleet had likely crashed on the hypothetical continent amid a storm and chaos. He sounded the bronze bell to alert everyone, leaving the fate of the Hunter Association exploration team unknown.

• Biscuit questioned the Kakin Royal Family’s plans for a second Kakin Empire, and Gelman and Ging considered its possible connection to Gu Yuan and the Egg in the Pot Ritual.
• Gelman left the banquet and climbed the tower, where he used Lantern perception to survey places he had previously visited.
• Gelman saw that only four of the eleven special Lantern Points were within his range and learned he could not perceive places he had never visited.
• A crimson light revealed that a huge ship had crashed on a rocky shore during a storm and chaos, while vengeful spirits slaughtered people and the sealed area of Gu expanded.
• Gelman recognized the location as Gu Yuan Isolated Island on the hypothetical continent and suspected BW1 and its fleet were in danger.
• Gelman rang the bronze bell to summon everyone at the banquet.

Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku arrived at a devastated yacht on BW1 and found it completely devoid of life. They uncovered signs of a massacre and saw that fires were spreading across the enormous ship.

• Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, and Shizuku used the Teleport Lantern to reach a rain-soaked site with fourteen empty hibernation pods and a destroyed central pod.
• Gelman recognized the site as a yacht on BW1 and sensed no living beings nearby, while Ging identified the distant mountains as likely part of the Imaginary Dark Continent.
• The group found soldiers and other people dead in the corridors, and Ging noticed that no Nen remained among the bodies.
• Gelman explained that the dead men's Grudge had been drained away by an ability like his own.
• The group reached the yacht's deck, where they found a mound of severed heads and a wreck-strewn lake filled with corpses.
• They saw fires burning in several places on BW1 as thick smoke rose into the sky.

Tokalinu and Shutaner escaped the monsters by using Tokalinu’s Nen ability to return to the wreckage of BW1. They sheltered beneath overturned metal as Shutaner tried to understand how the ship’s chaos had unfolded.

• Tokalinu and Shutaner emerged from a warped space and took shelter from the rain beneath overturned metal.
• Shutaner checked his watch and told Tokalinu it was just past one in the morning.
• Tokalinu recalled how the Great Chaos erupted aboard BW1, monsters attacked the passengers, and the ship crashed into the fake continent.
• The monsters pursued the surviving group and focused on Nen users, forcing them to send Tokalinu away with Shutaner.
• Tokalinu used her Spiral Slide ability to carry Shutaner back to an entrance she had set beside the BW1 wreckage.

Amid the Great Chaos aboard BW1, Shutaner asked Tokalinu whether he could learn Nen, but she warned him that he was too old to master it in time. Tokalinu then shared rumors about Gelman’s extraordinary rise as a Hunter, leaving Shutaner stunned and wondering why Gelman was not on the voyage.

• Shutaner asked Tokalinu what they should do next, then said he wanted to learn Nen to protect himself.
• Tokalinu told Shutaner that learning Nen took time and that he had already passed the best age to start.
• Tokalinu explained that Kurapika, Killua, and Gon had learned Nen unusually quickly, and said Gelman was Kurapika’s teacher.
• Tokalinu claimed Gelman became a One-Star Hunter in three months after killing members of the Shadow Beasts and the Phantom Troupe.
• Tokalinu said Gelman and his companions later wiped out both groups, leaving Shutaner astonished and wondering why Gelman was absent from the voyage.

Tokalinu and Shutaner were attacked by three monsters during the storm, but Biscuit, Shizuku, Ging, and Gelman arrived and rescued them. Tokalinu introduced the newcomers to Shutaner, who learned that the missing Hunters had joined the voyage after all.

• Tokalinu heard monsters approaching and told Shutaner to stay quiet while she recovered enough Nen to teleport them.
• A monster hooked Shutaner and dragged him from their shelter, so Tokalinu rushed to save him.
• Gelman and the others swiftly killed all three monsters, while Biscuit rescued Shutaner from the attack.
• Tokalinu recognized Biscuit and met Shizuku, Ging, and Gelman as the group gathered around the rescued Shutaner.
• Tokalinu introduced herself and Shutaner, then identified Gelman, Ging, and Biscuit as professional Hunters and Shizuku as an Amateur Hunter.

After the Great Chaos destroyed much of BW1, the survivors realized rescue could be months away and set out to find others. Oito watched Izunabi and Kurapika face a bloodthirsty monster until Gelman arrived, saved Kurapika from exhausting himself, and killed the beast with a single arrow.

• Tokalinu accepted Biscuit's cover story that she, Gelman, and their companions had been hidden as part of Chairman Netero's special mission.
• Shutaner explained that BW1's emergency signal would prompt V6 and the International Voyage Permit Office to consider a search fleet, though Ging warned that aid might take half a year.
• Oito hid while Izunabi and Kurapika fought Zakuro, who had grown stronger by absorbing the fallen monster and draining blood from nearby corpses.
• Kurapika activated his Hokage Eyes and prepared to risk his life to defeat the monster, but Gelman appeared and gave him Menchi's Nitoromi rice ball.
• Gelman fired a Murky Black Arrow from his Crimson Bow, pierced the monster's defenses, and destroyed its head.

Gelman reunited with Kurapika, Izunabi, Princess Oito, and the others after rescuing them from monsters, then followed a mechanical messenger toward a fortress. Along the way, he confirmed that the attackers included transformed BW1 passengers and Chimera Ants, and suspected Pariston had brought the ants to the Fake Continent as part of a plan tied to Beyond and King Nasubi.

• Gelman examined the defeated bloodthirsty monster and identified a Chimera Ant among the bodies, while Kurapika recovered after eating Gelman's life-restoring rice ball.
• Ging, Biscuit, Tokalinu, Shutaner, and Shizuku joined Gelman's group, and Shizuku brought in Princess Oito, who had been hiding nearby.
• Kurapika, Izunabi, and Princess Oito explained how monsters had overwhelmed BW1 and forced them to flee, and they reported hearing an explosion from the yacht on the first level.
• A mechanical flying sphere arrived and signaled the group to follow it; Gelman and Ging recognized its Mobius Ring route marker and suspected it had come from Greed Island.
• Following the sphere through attacks, Gelman confirmed that some monsters were transformed passengers and others were Chimera Ants, then reasoned that Pariston may have moved ant eggs to the Fake Continent for a scheme involving Beyond and King Nasubi.
• The group reached a mountainside fortress with a harbor, where cannons fired on attacking monsters below.

Gelman and his group reached a fortress where the survivors were treating the injured and mourning the dead, then met with the Hunters coordinating its defense. They learned that Beyond, Pariston, and Xiyou had escaped by ship and that the fortress held evidence of decades of secret preparations, while Gelman’s team remained confident they were still ahead in the exploration race.

• List led Gelman, Ging, Biscuit, Shizuku, and Princess Oito into the fortress, where 1,313 survivors were gathered.
• Melody soothed the distressed survivors with her flute, while Gido and Geru treated the injured and handled the dead.
• Gido directed Princess Oito to rest and sent Gelman’s group to the control center, where Koukou and Piyou coordinated the fortress defenses.
• Koukou explained that Beyond, Pariston, and Xiyou had escaped aboard two ships after BW1 crashed, while the Hunters took control of the fortress and rescued nearby survivors.
• Piyou showed Gelman’s group preserved remains that indicated the fortress had collected Dark Continent specimens for about thirty years and linked Beyond’s faction to the Chimera Ant disaster.
• Gelman’s group concluded that Beyond and Pariston had planned to delay their expedition, but they believed their own progress still kept them ahead.

Koukou assigned Biscuit, Shizuku, Ging, and Gelman roles in helping the fortress’s survivors and defenses. Outside, Meleoron teamed up with Illumi for protection, but as dawn approached, Illumi sensed something coming.

• Koukou asked Biscuit to calm shaken people and Shizuku to help treat the injured survivors.
• Ging chose to defend the fortress while Gelman went outside to rescue survivors, leaving at 2:41 a.m. with one of List’s mechanical spheres.
• Meleoron revealed himself to Illumi after observing him fight, and Illumi accepted his offer to work together.
• Meleoron used God's Accomplice to share his concealment with Illumi, who protected him whenever he needed to breathe.
• As Meleoron gasped for air near dawn, Illumi sensed something approaching and told him they should hide.