V5 followed its usual practice and suppressed the news of giant Chimera Ants wreaking havoc in NGL and the Mitene Federation.
As a result, few outsiders truly understood the entire Chimera Ant incident, but the Kakin Kingdom was one of them.
The Hunters who had first encountered the Chimera Ant Queen's remains through a biological survey commission had actually all been hired by the Kakin Kingdom.
Those Hunters included Kite's team, Pokkle's now-deceased team, and many Amateur Hunters who, like Pokkle, had died during the mission.
Strictly speaking, then, the Kakin Kingdom had been the first to obtain firsthand information and notice that something was amiss.
However, the Kakin Kingdom had not intervened. Instead, it had monitored the entire Chimera Ant incident as an observer.
And then—
There was the king of the Kakin Kingdom, Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.
This round-headed, fat-faced man, who seemed utterly devoid of bearing or majesty, possessed a boldness and resourcefulness far beyond those of ordinary people.
He had single-handedly ushered in sweeping reforms across the Kakin Kingdom, causing its national strength to grow explosively over just a few decades.
As a result, this vast, ancient kingdom, long plagued by war and fragmentation, had risen to a position befitting its territorial size, with national strength rivaling that of other major powers.
Nasubi Hui Guo Rou had achieved this not only through his own boldness and methods, but also with the aid of a Guardian Spirit Beast born from the post-mortem entity known as the Seed Urn.
Guardian Spirit Beasts were, in essence, Nen Beasts.
More precisely, however, they were Nen Beasts created through post-mortem Nen.
Their origin lay with the first king of the Kakin Kingdom, who had conjured the Seed Urn.
His intense desire for his descendants to flourish endlessly had persisted after death,