Nara Dan studied Machi's Spiritual Light. It was faint, and its shape and color kept changing,
indicating that she was a Transmuter.
"Rather than Spiritual Light, it's more like some manifestation of one's Rank."
"The higher one's Rank, the more concentrated and brilliant their Spiritual Light, and the stronger the abilities and Divine Abilities it reflects."
"For example, at the level of the Sage of Six Paths, it would only be natural for one's Spiritual Light to be immortal and indestructible."
"One could even create dependents with the same immortal and indestructible Rank—the Tailed Beasts."
"However, it seems that the Spiritual Light of humans in the Hunter World isn't innate, either."
Nara Dan continued examining the wisp of Spiritual Light belonging to Machi in his hand, sensing something unusual within it.
"If someone can produce Spiritual Light from birth, and isn't a reincarnation of a powerful being like Naruto or Sasuke,"
"then they're very likely a Primordial Deity, born with a Divine Ability."
"There's no reason for an ordinary human to suddenly rise to the heavens and Awaken later in life."
Nara Dan's lips curled into an intrigued smile as his speculations continued.
"Perhaps some primordial Nen creature from the Dark Continent was the source, keeping humans penned up in this Möbius Lake,"
"waiting until one day when all of humanity has Awakened Nen, or the number of Nen Users reaches a certain threshold,"
"before harvesting the fruits and devouring all of humanity's Spiritual Light."
"Perhaps that's also one of the reasons the Hunter Association controls the number of Nen Users."
"After all, Nen Abilities are all kinds of strange. It wouldn't be surprising if there were ways to Awaken Nen without any drawbacks."
"Then the idea of everyone becoming a Nen User wouldn't be mere fantasy. With that as