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After the assessment, Lucky directly obtained the authority to referee matches from the 1st to the 90th floor. For the 100th floor, he would still need to go through the other assessors.

Through this, Lucky gained a rough understanding of Heavenly Arena's personnel structure.

Although they were all part of the same "Heavenly Arena," the people in control of each floor could come from different Martial Arts Schools.

None of this had been mentioned in the anime.

Of course, that was hardly surprising. The protagonist in the anime had only participated as a contestant, and the story arc had been fairly short, so there had naturally been no detailed introduction.

Lucky now counted as someone with special privileges.

Rather than rushing to the higher floors, he first had Martha arrange referee work for him on the 50th floor—twenty matches as well.

If he still gained nothing, he would raise the floor level tomorrow.

On the 53rd floor, at a certain arena, Lucky once again served as a referee.

Unlike the simple arena matches on the first floor, matches on the upper floors took much longer.

There was a preparation phase, and the audience had to be arranged and admitted as well.

Starting from the 50th floor, the contestants were indeed different.

Most possessed fighting techniques. Even those who did not were exceptionally gifted fighters with physical advantages.

Lucky "copied" a few moves, which counted as a modest gain.

By the end of the morning, he had finished his "work."

No more "work" was arranged. Lucky was, after all, someone with special privileges.

After lunch, he returned to his room.

He opened the window. A clear birdcall rang out as a bird flew in from outside and landed on the perch in the room.

"Phoenix, you're back." Lucky walked over and gently stroked it.

It was a fiery red bird about the size of a goose, with golden claws. Everything about it exuded nobility.

This was Lucky's first Nen Ability.

Fantastic Beast: Phoenix.

It came from the Harry Potter World.

Nen Beasts were not rare among Nen Abilities, but Nen Beasts that possessed their own consciousness were still extremely uncommon.

Lucky's ability was more like directly obtaining an Phoenix.

Of course, maintaining its existence consumed Lucky's Nen.

For now, he could sustain it completely, provided he did not use the Phoenix's abilities.

As a Fantastic Beast from Harry Potter—and an exceedingly rare one at that—it naturally possessed considerable power.

Of course, after becoming a Nen Ability, it had changed somewhat as well.

Its flame magic had become the ability to control fire. It could also carry people through the air and use an ability similar to Apparition.

It could help ward off attacks, while its tears possessed healing and purifying abilities.

With this ability alone, Lucky possessed considerable combat strength. He could even be called a "mage" outright.

As an Phoenix with self-awareness, it naturally did not want to return to that "dark" dwelling.

So Lucky gave it plenty of time to fly free every day.

He also used Phoenix's eyes to learn more about Keli City.

This city had not been revealed much in the anime, and the current era was not the same period as in the anime.

There were bound to be major differences. For one thing, Keli City was far from peaceful.

Martial artists defied the law through force. How could a city filled with so many Fighters possibly remain quiet?

Moreover, the Mafia was a major force in the Hunter World, so they naturally had a presence in Keli City as well.

Aside from the areas around Heavenly Arena and several airship terminals, the rest of the city was rather chaotic.

After soothing Phoenix for a while, Lucky recalled it.

He began his daily Nen Ability training.

At this point, Lucky had already begun training.

He had practiced Ten and Zetsu since childhood and knew them like the back of his hand.

His Ken could now be maintained for a full 175 minutes outside of combat, which showed just how deep his Nen reserves were.

He was also getting the hang of Ryu, though it improved more quickly through actual combat. Ko training was included within Ryu as well.

He had also trained Zetsu, but lacked a suitable location.

Gyo had previously been part of his training plan, but now that he had the Sharingan, Lucky had pushed it back.

As for Invisibility, Lucky practiced it every day. Phoenix was formed from Nen, so it could also be given an Invisibility effect.

What Lucky was mainly training now was En.

It was one of the scouting techniques among Nen Ability applications.

It involved expanding one's aura outward from oneself as the center, allowing one to detect intruders within the area covered by the aura.

En was defined as a technique that spread Nen to a range of over two meters around oneself and maintained it for more than one minute.

The range of En varied according to each person's skill, but En did not represent the overall strength of one's Nen Ability. Sometimes, it merely reflected differences in how one used En or what one needed it for.

Lucky's En could currently expand to a radius of around two meters. Of course, it could be expanded further, with a maximum range of seven meters.

However, that consumed Nen, and there was also the matter of precision.

The size of one's En did not represent the strength of a Nen user.

But unless En was combined with one's Hatsu, like Nobunaga of the Phantom Troupe, an En without a sufficiently large range could not be considered the mark of an expert.

In Lucky's view, a true Nen expert was a mountain-shaped Nen user—someone highly skilled in their own category of Nen Ability while also being competent in the other categories, capable of handling all kinds of situations.

Lucky placed great importance on the use of En.

The Chimera Ant Arc in Hunter could be called a high-level battlefield. Catwoman's En had once been an extremely troublesome obstacle for the extermination team.

If not for Komugi, the extermination team's plan likely would not have gone so smoothly.

There was also the battle between Hisoka and the Phantom Troupe. The means Chrollo used to defeat Hisoka—if Hisoka's En had possessed a certain level of range and strength, the outcome of that battle might very well have been Hisoka's victory.

There was also the battle between Gotoh and Hisoka. If Gotoh's En had possessed a certain level of range and power, he would not have been killed so easily by Hisoka.

En's ability to locate enemies was simply too powerful.

In Yorknew, Zeno Zoldyck had used En to find Chrollo, while the Reborn Ant King's En during the Chimera Ant Arc had instantly located Knuckle and the others among tens of thousands of people.

What Lucky was training now was the duration for which he could maintain En.

With an En of this two-meter radius, he could maintain it for a full forty to fifty minutes. Of course, if he used it in battle, the duration would be much shorter.

Only after truly beginning Nen training did he realize how terrifying the Chimera Ants' talent was.

Lucky thought of Neferpitou—the terrifying range of her En, as well as the terrifying length of time she could maintain it.

After his Nen was exhausted, Lucky began practicing the moves he had "copied" today.

His physical qualities allowed him to perform them with ease.

But he soon stopped training.

"Looks like I still need to find a suitable place to train." His room simply did not have enough space for him to go all out.