Hunter: I'm Really Not an Exorcist
Chapter 429

A fated showdown

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Chrollo still had some fight left in him.

But he was in terrible shape.

Not only had he suffered injuries all over his body, but he was mentally drained as well.

This was related to the life-saving ability he had just used.

"Voodoo Doll."

A Nen ability that lay somewhere between Conjurer and Manipulator.

However, both its effects and its unusual origins made Chrollo consider Voodoo Doll more of a Specialist ability.

What made it particularly unusual was that its owner was not a Nen user.

This ability seemed to have come into being unconsciously through prolonged sacrifices, prayers, and rituals, taking shape in accordance with its owner's will and beliefs.

Chrollo had stumbled upon its existence while collecting abilities.

At first, he had paid it little attention. After all, there were no Nen users in the tribe where Voodoo Doll originated.

He had, however, been very interested in the tribe's so-called Head-Shrinking Art. After investigating further, he learned that their voodoo dolls were all made from living people, using the Head-Shrinking Art as part of the process.

As far as Chrollo knew, shrinking a human head to the size of a doll's would require numerous complicated processing steps.

Yet the tribe's priest had unconsciously employed Nen to forcibly shrink a living person's head, turning it into the crucial material for making a voodoo doll.

This was plainly human sacrifice, but to the people of that tribe, it was also a way to demonstrate their devotion to the gods.

They firmly believed they could gain divine protection this way.

The phenomenon had piqued Chrollo's interest, but what intrigued him even more were the half-formed evil spirits that constantly swarmed around the priest like ants.

They were not post-mortem Nen, but evil spirits of all different shapes...

And so Chrollo had

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