Chapter Summaries

Beyond learned that Blood-Sucking Worms from the Dark Continent were infecting animals and people in Lade Cape, and Lucky arrived to investigate and contain the outbreak. As alarms sounded across the city, an infected creature suddenly burst through a hotel wall during a banquet.

• Raphael showed Beyond and Charlie parasitic Blood-Sucking Worms inside animals and warned that the outbreak could become catastrophic.
• Beyond contacted the Conrad Family, Lucky, and the Hunter Association to request a lockdown and help handling the worms.
• Lucky arrived in Lade Cape, sensed widespread infections with his En, and mobilized forces from the Conrad Family, Heavenly Arena, and Martial Arts Halls.
• Lucky found infected rats and people, burned infected stray animals, and tested a Nen method to force worms out of human bodies.
• Authorities announced a viral outbreak as alarms sounded, while a hotel manager reassured banquet guests that they were safe.
• A loud bang shattered the hotel wall during the banquet.

Lucky discovered intelligent Blood-Sucking Worms parasitizing people and contaminating food at a hotel in Lade Cape, then captured one for the laboratory. Beyond said Morgan appeared to have left Lade Cape for the Basen Rainforest.

• Lucky entered a hotel banquet hall, bound the parasitized guests, and burned food and drinks contaminated with worm eggs.
• Lucky cut worms from several guests and killed the altered hotel manager before capturing the intelligent worm hidden in his corpse.
• Lucky warned the bodyguards about the worms’ parasitic spread and ordered them to search with En and burn anything suspicious.
• Lucky flew to Beyond’s company laboratory to deliver the captured worms and ask about Morgan.
• Beyond reported that Morgan seemed to have left Lade Cape and headed to the Basen Rainforest.

Lucky organized a response to the Blood-Sucking Worm outbreak in Lade Cape and summoned Heavenly Arena reinforcements. He had Alvin use his Nen ability to trace the worms, but the search had only just begun.

• Lucky left Beyond's laboratory to hunt Blood-Sucking Worms that had infected people in Lade Cape.
• The Conrad Family sealed off Lade Cape, screened people at the exits, and checked transportation records from the past seven days.
• An airship brought Heavenly Arena Floor Masters and powerful 200th Floor competitors to the city, where Lucky explained the outbreak to them.
• Lucky asked Alvin, a Specialization-type ability user, to test whether his Nen ability could locate the Blood-Sucking Worms and determine how many had left the city and where they were going.
• Alvin mixed his blood with a Blood-Sucking Worm's blood and activated his ability.

Lucky discovered that Blood-Sucking Worms had spread throughout Lade Cape and beyond, so he mobilized Heavenly Arena’s forces to contain the outbreak. In the Basen Rainforest, Morgan’s body was revealed to have been taken over by a worm from the Uninhabited City Ruins, which was infecting wildlife as it pursued the Divine Tree.

• Alvin used his Locating Curse to reveal Blood-Sucking Worms across Lade Cape, with trails leading beyond the city.
• Lucky ordered Alvin to lead Heavenly Arena’s forces in tracking and eliminating the worms, then sealed the Basen Rainforest with the Holy Grail’s power and notified the Pachi Tribe.
• Lucky returned to Lade Cape to address the city outbreak, while wondering what the worms were and where they had come from.
• Morgan killed a giant python and implanted it with insect eggs, lamenting that his host’s ability could not locate the Pachi Tribe.
• The worm inhabiting Morgan was revealed to have come from the Uninhabited City Ruins and to seek the Divine Tree as a host.
• Morgan’s worm spread its offspring through the Basen Rainforest, building their numbers to prepare to confront the Pachi Tribe.

Illumi and his companions learned that a dangerous parasitic Danger Beast disaster had affected Lade Cape and Basen Rainforest, then left the Earth Secret Realm to explore together. Their search ended when Illumi noticed the forest had gone unnaturally quiet and a figure emerged from the mist.

• Shermie told Illumi and the others that aggressive parasitic Danger Beasts had caused a serious disaster and might also be present in Basen Rainforest.
• Shermie confirmed that their next King of Fighters Tournament opponent was the Gale Sword School and said she would handle the match herself.
• Illumi and his companions asked the Pachi Tribe how to leave the Earth Secret Realm and learned that the realm had temporarily opened to Basen Rainforest.
• Illumi and the others explored together, keeping close because of the danger and unfamiliar terrain.
• Illumi noticed that the birds and insects had fallen silent, and a figure slowly emerged from the mist.

Chris and the others encountered Morgan, whose altered body and aura made him a dangerous predator. Chris tried to flee with his ability, but Morgan trapped him in an invisible net.

• Baal approached the stranger to negotiate, but Chris shouted for everyone to run and accelerated their retreat.
• Morgan chased Chris and caught up to him, but Chris struck him with a shockwave and knocked them apart.
• Chris recognized the stranger as a grave threat and created four clones to escape while Baal's group and Illumi watched from a distance.
• Morgan revealed that Chris and his clones could not escape because they had run into his invisible net.

Morgan, possessed by a Blood-Sucking Worm, trapped Illumi, Chris, Baal, and the others in sticky spiderwebs and tried to infect Chris with insect eggs. Chris escaped the web with a Divine Script Light Sword, but Morgan overwhelmed him, leaving the group fighting to stop Chris from being captured.

• Illumi tried to flee into the mist but was caught in Morgan's invisible spiderwebs, which had spread throughout the area.
• Morgan approached Chris to inject insect eggs, but Chris's Protection Badge formed a Barrier and forced Morgan to retreat.
• Chris used a Divine Script Light Sword to cut through the webs, while Baal and the others found their own Divine Script Weapons could not harm them.
• Morgan attacked Chris, and Chris's Barrier broke as Morgan gained the upper hand.
• Baal and the others shot one of Morgan's spider Nen Beasts, weakening the webs, but Morgan cut Chris's hand and knocked away his weapon.

The Pachi Tribe chose not to intervene as Chris fought Morgan, who had been taken over by a Blood-Sucking Worm. Chris unleashed his purple flames and gained the upper hand, but Morgan adapted to his power as the battle devastated the area.

• The Pachi Tribe refused to rescue Morgan and Chris, saying the battle was theirs to fight and they could handle it themselves.
• Morgan injected his eggs into Chris's hand, but the wound shed particles of light instead of blood, and Chris's aura shifted.
• Chris awakened his power, summoned purple flames, and burned away Morgan's spiderwebs as Lucky sensed the unsealing and sent Phoenix from Pachi Village.
• Chris fought Morgan with powerful Nen, protecting Baal and the others as they escaped the webs and ran toward the weapons.
• Morgan gradually adapted to Chris's attacks while the two fighters wrecked the surrounding area.

Morgan and Chris fought as the Blood-Sucking Worm gradually mastered Morgan’s abilities, while Chris’s awakened Purple Flame proved capable of burning through Nen and exposing Morgan’s tactics. The battle continued until Morgan’s aura began to weaken, leaving the Blood-Sucking Worm struggling to understand why.

• Morgan and Chris exchanged attacks as both adapted to their powers, and Chris’s Purple Flame burned through Morgan’s Ken and injured him.
• Morgan used spider Nen Beast tattoos to turn invisible and launch slashing attacks, but Chris’s En and flames exposed his webs and forced him into the open.
• Chris unleashed Dark Orochi Nagi, filling the area with fire, and the two continued fighting at close range as Morgan’s Ryu grew more proficient.
• Morgan tore off Chris’s arm, but it vanished into specks of light, leading Morgan to realize Chris was not human and consider retreating.
• Chris’s arm regenerated, and the two resumed fighting as the mist cleared, while Morgan’s aura began to weaken for reasons the Blood-Sucking Worm could not understand.

Chris burned Morgan’s body, unaware that the Blood-Sucking Worm had escaped underground. Lucky captured the worm and used Soul Search to learn it was a failed Plant Weapon from the Uninhabited City Ruins, though the memories revealed little about its creators.

• Chris blocked Morgan’s escape and burned him alive after his Nen weakened.
• The Blood-Sucking Worm fled Morgan’s body and tunneled underground while Chris stayed cautious.
• Lucky noticed the worm’s escape, teleported it to the Holy Grail Palace, and questioned it.
• Lucky restrained the worm and used Soul Search to extract fragmented memories from it and Morgan.
• Lucky learned the worm was a failed Plant Weapon that needed nourishment to survive, but found no useful information about its creators.

Lucky returned from the Holy Grail Palace to address the remaining Blood-Sucking Worms, while the Five Great Nations and the Republic of Padokea moved to punish Beyond and restrict Heavenly Arena. Beyond accepted that he would operate in secret and seek new sponsors, leaving Lucky to conclude that their cooperation had ended.

• Lucky preserved the main Blood-Sucking Worm's corpse as a possible medium for a Holy Grail curse and as research material.
• Julia reprimanded Lucky on behalf of the Republic of Padokea, while Netero relayed the Five Great Nations' demands to detain Beyond and seize his assets and Dark Continent gains.
• The Five Great Nations pressured the Hunter Association and Republic of Padokea, targeted Heavenly Arena, and planned a large airship airport in Keli City.
• Professional Hunters arrived at Lade Cape to deal with the escaped Blood-Sucking Worms, as dozens of special airships also reached the area.
• Beyond said he had expected to face prison and planned to operate in secret while seeking funding, and Lucky recognized that their cooperation had ended.

Lucky negotiated with Beyond over the division of his research intelligence before agents from the Five Great Nations arrived to arrest Beyond. Lucky demonstrated his Divine Script power, subdued the agents, and left after warning them to challenge him at Heavenly Arena.

• Lucky concluded that Beyond would gain more support by cooperating with the Five Great Nations and discussed what information Beyond would provide him in exchange for a share of the gains.
• Ten Voyage Bureau agents entered the room and announced that Beyond Netero was under arrest, while their superiors decided not to target Lucky.
• Lucky teased one agent who appeared eager to fight him and told him that he would have to become a Floor Master on the 240th floor to qualify for a challenge.
• Lucky summoned a Divine Script formation that selectively crushed and sealed the ten agents with immense Gravity, leaving them unable to move or use Nen.
• Beyond expressed shock at Lucky's use of Divine Script, and Lucky left the building while the suppression remained as a warning.

Lucky’s strength deterred the airships while the Voyage Bureau arrested Beyond, and the parasite crisis from Lade Cape was contained. In the Basen Rainforest, Gel and Kanzai investigated a Secret Realm linked to Lucky, while Chris’s team discussed their stalled tournament run and Secret Realm exploration.

• Lucky vanished after assessing the combat airships, and the Voyage Bureau arrested Beyond and removed him from Lade Cape.
• The Floor Masters and Hunters eliminated the detected parasite hosts, while Gel cleansed Lade Cape and Kanzai tracked parasitized birds; Lucky later confirmed the escaped hosts had also been dealt with.
• Gel and Kanzai explored an undiscovered Secret Realm in the Basen Rainforest and suspected Lucky Phoenix had encountered a true Nen Secret Realm.
• Gel and Kanzai headed toward the mist to investigate the Pachi Tribe settlement.
• Chris told Kahn he disliked using his Orochi Chris transformation, then asked Baal and the others about their progress exploring the Secret Realms.

Baal's team discussed developing detection abilities after struggling to find Secret Realms in the Basen Rainforest, while Illumi considered the fundamentals that mattered in battle. Meanwhile, Lucky observed Kanzai and Gel discover their Adventurer Marks and saw Kanzai's bird ability reveal a new goal: studying the Divine Tree.

• Baal's team decided to develop detection abilities to find Secret Realms more easily in the Basen Rainforest.
• Shermie said she would return to the Martial Arts Hall and told Chris and Illumi to watch the time.
• Illumi reflected on the importance of physical fitness, Nen, and Ryu, and decided on his next direction for growth.
• Kanzai and Gel noticed their Adventurer Marks and realized they might have been under observation.
• Kanzai summoned birds with her ability, attracting many aura-bearing Phantom Beasts and drawing Lucky's attention.
• Kanzai learned information from the birds and became eager to study the Divine Tree, while Lucky formed plans concerning Kanzai and Gel.

Kanzai and Gel were brought to the Wood Secret Realm, where they encountered its High Priest’s Tree of Life and learned how the Pachi Tribe hoped to preserve the Nen of its dead. Lucky watched the meeting unfold and realized the High Priest had invited the women after Lucky suggested they meet Pachi Tribe men.

• Kanzai tried to persuade the rainforest birds to show her the Divine Tree, but they refused and threatened her.
• Gel attacked a woman from the Pachi Tribe, who explained that the Wood Secret Realm’s High Priest wanted to see them.
• Kanzai and Gel followed the woman into the Wood Secret Realm, where the forest and its mutant Blood Jade Bees impressed them.
• The Pachi Tribe showed Kanzai and Gel the Tree of Life, a Nen tree cultivated by the High Priest of the Wood Secret Realm.
• Lucky realized the High Priest had arranged the meeting because Lucky had suggested introducing the women to Pachi Tribe men, and left the matter to the High Priests.

Ging's team launched Greed Island in Keli City, while Lucky let the seven self-aware Nen Beasts decide the Superpower Martial Arts Hall's future. The chapter ended in 1993, when a white-haired boy arrived in Keli City with his older brother.

• Ging's team released Greed Island as a limited Secret Realm Card, and its healing rewards drew attention from Martial Arts Halls.
• Ging disappeared after Greed Island began operating, while the rest of its production team stayed inside to oversee it.
• Illumi returned from the Basen Rainforest and learned that Beyond's arrest had caused the Superpower Martial Arts Hall's staff to leave and its plans for him to stop.
• Lucky told Athena, Chris, and the other five that they could develop or leave the Martial Arts Hall as they wished, and explained that they might eventually become Artificial Humans.
• Athena, Chris, and the other five chose to stay and support the Superpower Martial Arts Hall.
• In 1993, a white-haired little boy arrived in Keli City under his older brother's guidance.

Illumi brought six-year-old Killua to Keli City to learn Nen and climb the Heavenly Arena, where contestants now needed Nen even on the first floor. After losing both matches and earning no lodging money, Killua went looking for work and came across a recruitment notice near a Secret Realm Dungeon.

• Illumi brought Killua to Keli City and told him to learn Nen and fight his way to the Heavenly Arena's two-hundredth floor.
• Illumi left Killua to register while he went to look around and make a routine report.
• Killua lost his first match to a white-haired girl and his second match to another Nen Ability user.
• Killua realized nearly all Heavenly Arena contestants knew Nen and worried he might go hungry without winning matches.
• Killua heard the Silver Wing Adventure Group was hiring miners and went to apply, where he saw a legendary Secret Realm Dungeon.

Killua explored Keli City, tasted his way through an egg fried rice competition, and discovered how expensive the city’s restaurants were. While settling down in a grove for the night, he witnessed a black-robed man use Nen to draw a glowing Magic Circle that began forming a humanoid figure.

• Killua was rejected from recruitment because he was too young and was not an adventurer, so he entered a cooking competition offering free egg fried rice.
• Killua tasted the dishes and voted for contestant number six, whose egg fried rice he found the most outstanding.
• Killua found the prices at Keli City’s restaurants prohibitively expensive and chose to sleep in a secluded grove.
• Killua heard someone enter the grove and concealed himself as a black-robed man drew a Magic Circle with white powder.
• The black-robed man poured Nen into the glowing Magic Circle, which began forming a humanoid shape as Killua watched in shock.

Teren summoned Saber and encountered Killua, whom he took home instead of harming. As the other contestants prepared for the Holy Grail War, the chapter explained its rules and revealed that Teren wanted to win for a particular Nen Ability.

• Teren summoned Saber, who nearly killed Killua before Teren stopped him and ordered Saber to capture the boy.
• Teren questioned Killua, learned about his situation, and decided to keep him safe rather than let him leave and expose the Summon.
• Teren brought Killua home, fed him, and arranged for him to stay overnight before taking him to Lade Cape the next day.
• The six other people in Keli City sensed Teren's completed Summon, while one contestant had waited until the last moment to summon.
• The chapter explained that Lucky had created a card-based Holy Grail War with seven participants, Nen Beast Servants, three Command Spell lives, and a limited wish for the victor.
• Teren viewed the Holy Grail War as a way to obtain a specific Nen Ability.

Teren tried to send Killua away after Killua witnessed him summon Saber, but the two agreed that Killua could stay away without revealing Teren’s ability. Soon after the seventh Servant was summoned, an attacker struck Teren, while three Floor Masters revealed that they were Masters who had agreed to cooperate.

• Teren told Killua to leave Keli City because he had seen Saber, but Killua promised not to tell anyone about Teren’s ability.
• Teren accepted Killua’s promise, and Killua finished breakfast and prepared to leave.
• An attacker bombarded Teren’s house, and Teren carried Killua to safety before calling Saber to block more attacks.
• Teren concluded that another Servant was targeting him and ran toward a secluded area while Saber confronted the attacker.
• Piccolo, Diana, and Gante Patch watched the battle from the Heavenly Arena and confirmed that they were Masters who had agreed to cooperate.