Third Birthday Sign-in

After Biscuit and Lucky met, they went to the 200th Floor to register again.

After all, Biscuit had reached the 200th Floor before.

"Contestant Biscuit, starting from the 200th Floor, you advance one floor at a time. To move up, you need to win ten consecutive matches on each floor."

"And if you want to challenge a Floor Master, you must first achieve ten consecutive wins on the 251st Floor."

The registration staff explained the situation above the 200th Floor to Biscuit.

To challenge a Floor Master, one could only start with the Floor Master of the 200th Floor.

You could not challenge a Floor Master above your level.

Among the Floor Masters above the 200th Floor, only the 200th Floor Master could challenge the next Floor Master, and so on.

Otherwise, the Floor Masters on every floor would be extremely busy.

It could be said that the 200th Floor Master changed most frequently.

The matches on the 200th Floor were also different from before and from the anime.

Fights on the 200th Floor and above still offered monetary rewards, but they were no longer fixed.

The money came from ticket sales, and the winner took it all.

The more famous the match, the more expensive the tickets and the larger the audience.

After arranging her room, Biscuit did not rush to register for matches. Instead, she began exploring the Heavenly Arena.

The first place she visited was the bookstore Lucky had once opened. It was still within the Heavenly Arena and had expanded considerably.

It had become a library filled with all kinds of martial arts novels. Some had even been adapted into film and television dramas, becoming another pillar industry of the Heavenly Arena.

Selling television dramas abroad every year brought in a great deal of money while further enhancing the Heavenly Arena's reputation.

Besides novels, there were also books related to martial arts, though naturally they were all very basic.

Generally, they were read and borrowed by tourists.

Next, Biscuit went to the Heavenly Arena's "Martial Arts Shop."

Here, one could purchase martial arts-related knowledge. It was also fairly mainstream, but a little more advanced than what the library offered.

It gave independent Martial Artists a direction to pursue. After all, some people disliked joining Martial Arts Halls and preferred to go it alone.

Beyond that, there were all kinds of everyday products for martial arts training.

More than ten medicinal bath formulas for tempering the body had already been made "affordable to the public." For just 100,000 Jenie, one could try one session.

These secret medicines that could assist training varied enormously in quality, from low to high grade.

The cheapest cost only 100,000 Jenie, while the most expensive was a body-tempering secret medicine called Flame Tiger Ointment, which cost a staggering 100 million Jenie.

Those expensive secret medicines made Biscuit's eyes gleam. She wondered whether they could help with her physical training.

No wonder that guy Lucky had been so confident.

Over the years, he had probably used these things to train every day.

At that thought, she felt not only tempted, but envious as well.

Biscuit directly spent money on several of them, intending to test them on herself.

"Money just isn't enough!" Biscuit walked out of the Martial Arts Shop looking ready to cry. She had known long ago that there was never enough money for martial arts training.

After she left the Heavenly Arena back then, she had stopped using such auxiliary training methods.

Later, she became a Hunter, traveled the world, and unearthed gemstones.

She had never again experienced training assisted by secret medicines.

Whenever she had money on hand, she would collect relatively rare gemstones, leaving her with little cash at all times.

Only after arriving at the Heavenly Arena did she truly understand the fact that she was dirt poor.

Of course, not every secret medicine was useful to Biscuit.

But after using some of them, she could feel her body, which had shown no change for a long time, beginning to "grow" again. She was thrilled.

She became even more enthusiastic about competing.

While Biscuit fought for the position of Floor Master,

Lucky quietly welcomed his twenty-fourth birthday.

Just as before, he waited for midnight to pass.

Once midnight arrived,

Lucky's body showed no changes, nor did his Nen surge.

Instead, he simply gained some knowledge.

So birthday Sign-ins could grant knowledge too?

The knowledge Lucky obtained was called the Marine Six Styles, from the world of One Piece.

Likewise, because the world's Rules differed, the Marine Six Styles in this world were not merely physical techniques.

They were skills for applying Nen Ability.

Over the past eight years, Netero had come to the Heavenly Arena once every year to spend a day with Lucky, teaching him a little along the way.

Lucky had also learned some Nen application techniques that were not the common kind.

For example, techniques for seeing far away and jumping high.

The altered Marine Six Styles were also application techniques. Naturally, they involved training in different Nen categories, but they did not reach the level of Hatsu.

The Marine Six Styles were: Soru, Iron Body, Kami-e, Moonwalk, Tempest Kick, and Shigan.

What disappointed Lucky somewhat was that they did not include Life Return.

Soru training simply added Nen, allowing the user to move much faster.

Iron Body combined physical techniques and Nen, allowing Nen to no longer merely float on the surface, but to penetrate deep into the body for defense.

In Lucky's view, this had tremendous potential. It already counted as developing the inside of the body.

Kami-e had become an ability used in conjunction with En. No matter how small the range of En was, so long as an attack entered its sensory range, using Kami-e would allow the user to evade.

Of course, whether one could actually dodge still depended on the gap in strength between both sides.

At the same time, this also emphasized the ability to develop the body.

Moonwalk had not changed much. The added Nen simply made it usable in this world. Back in the Greed Island arc, when Gon Freecss met Genthru, there had been a scene where aura was gathered beneath the feet to jump high, allowing one to remain airborne briefly.

Moonwalk naturally adapted perfectly as well.

Tempest Kick was an Emission training application technique.

The same was true for Shigan, though it also included a bit of Enhancement training.

If it had to be described, it was a striking-type Nen Ability focused on physical techniques while also taking bodily development into account.

And now that Lucky understood this knowledge,

he could master it very quickly.

He went straight to the training grounds to test it out.

Lucky easily mastered all of it.

"I never expected Iron Body, which wasn't valued in the One Piece World, to become like this here." Lucky trained in Iron Body.

By sending Nen deep into his body, he could achieve a kind of Internal Vision through that penetration.

Nen could protect flesh, bones, blood vessels, organs, and more.

This was one application of Iron Body.

But Lucky saw other uses for it. Besides gaining a deeper understanding of his body, perhaps there were also Aura Nodes inside the body?

It felt as though "aura" was really about to become "internal energy."

Was this really not Cultivation?

Lucky had discovered a treasure. In his view, this third birthday Sign-in was incredibly valuable.