Chapter Summaries

Jade confronted Netero with the Hunter Association’s dark history and destroyed government forces sent to Heaven’s Arena, while Asura’s control of the tower came under attack. As Jade threatened Netero, an unknown voice spoke from the sky, interrupting their confrontation.

• Beans received an emergency call and left Pariston behind, while Jade brought Grucia before Netero and used Purgatory to kill him after Grucia implicated a Zodiac in the Canaan Detention Center crimes.
• Beans told a meeting of national representatives that the mastermind’s identity and Jade’s family ties were unrecorded, as Phineas watched Jade’s confrontation and planned to seize control of the Hunter Association.
• Asura released gas against Kastro, who used a prepared gas mask to continue toward the control room, while Gon and Killua fought off armed men on the 100th floor.
• Jade summoned the Hundred Demons' Curse-Rakshasa to destroy seven airships, and Hungry Ghost smashed government armored vehicles before telling a reporter, “It's done, Asura.”
• Kastro entered the control room and fought Asura, while Hungry Ghost encountered Hisoka and began battling him.
• Jade accused Netero of serving the V5 and blamed him for the deaths of his comrades, but an unseen voice called from the sky and startled Jade.

Leo arrived at the tower on Little Azure and linked with the dragon, gaining heightened strength and the ability to fly. After overpowering Jade with his Nen Aura, Leo was struck in the head when Jade launched a sudden kick.

• Leo and Little Azure appeared above the tower, where Leo ignored Jade and greeted the tentacle-bound Netero.
• Jade threatened to destroy the Hunter Association while the airship crew reported that the dragon and its rider were in view.
• Leo linked with Little Azure, sharing their life energy and gaining enhanced senses, strength, and access to the dragon's abilities.
• Leo walked down through the air, landed before Jade, and overwhelmed him with golden Nen Aura.
• Jade attacked before Leo finished speaking and kicked him in the head.

Leo endured Jade’s attacks without moving and unleashed the power of Final Moment, provoking Jade into summoning the Rakshasa. As Kastro killed Asura and the tower’s systems returned to normal, Nico led Biscuit and the others in attacking the guards on the 250th floor.

• Jade kicked Leo and fired a Nen projectile at him, but Leo stood unharmed and crushed the projectile with one hand.
• Leo activated Final Moment, overwhelmed Jade with his aura, and challenged him to make him take a single step.
• Jade attacked Leo with a barrage of punches, but Leo remained motionless and mocked him while the stored damage from Final Moment increased.
• Jade summoned the Hundred Demons' Curse-Rakshasa and ordered it to strike Leo with its enormous palm.
• Kastro killed Asura in the main control room, restoring the tower’s system and disabling the machine guns and spray nozzles.
• Nico told Biscuit, Sophia, Morel, and the others that the system was free, and they attacked the black-clad guards.

Leo endured Jade’s full-powered Rakshasa assault without injury, then struck Jade so hard that he was launched across the city. Leo flew after the unconscious Jade, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Leo used one finger to hold back Rakshasa’s palm, then endured a hundred full-strength blows while hovering above the rooftop.
• Phineas, Liam, Pariston, and Beyond Netero watched the fight through a live broadcast and reacted to Leo’s strength.
• After ten minutes, Jade stopped attacking and saw Leo emerge unharmed from the dust.
• Leo vanished and hit Jade, knocking him unconscious and causing the Rakshasa apparition to dissipate.
• Jade crashed through buildings five hundred meters away, and Leo flew after him.

Leo killed Jade with a massive Nen-powered punch that detonated like a nuclear explosion over the city, shocking witnesses and officials. After gaining life energy from Jade, Leo watched the blast fade while Phineas realized his plans had collapsed and rushed to destroy evidence linking him to Jade.

• Leo struck Jade repeatedly in midair, then launched him high above the city.
• Leo powered up Final Strike with Ko and fired a huge dark-gold sphere of aura at Jade.
• The explosion swallowed Jade, shattered windows, rocked the airship, and left a burning fireball in the sky.
• Leo named the attack Nuclear Explosion Fist and gained life energy, raising his level progress from 25% to 80%.
• An airship crewman told a congressman that the blast came from a man’s fist, not a nuclear bomb.
• Phineas watched the footage, recognized that Leo had upended his plans, and hurried to destroy evidence connecting him to Jade.

Leo ended the Heaven’s Arena incident, freed Netero, and gave him a Witch’s Rejuvenation Potion before leaving. The next morning, a V5 security meeting reviewed the attack and its dangerous revelations, while Phineas concealed his role in supporting Jade.

• Leo removed the dagger from Purgatory, ending the black tentacles that had bound Netero, and urged Netero to make changes in the Hunter Association.
• Leo gave Netero a Witch’s Rejuvenation Potion and left Heaven’s Arena.
• Hisoka defeated Hungry Ghost in the lobby, while Biscuit, Wing, Morel, and the others subdued the attackers on the two hundred and fiftieth floor.
• Nico told Sophia that Leo was coming down and that the incident had been dealt with.
• At the V5 Joint Security Bureau meeting, a staff member explained Jade’s attack and the sealed dark history, warning that someone had supported Jade from behind the scenes.
• Phineas attended the meeting and remained composed, believing he had destroyed the evidence linking him to Jade.

A secret assessment rated Leo a B-level threat capable of destroying multiple cities, prompting Phineas to order Pariston to activate plan B rather than risk Leo developing post-mortem Nen. Three days later, Leo watched his allies train against the enlarged Little Azure, whose increasingly powerful attacks pushed them to their limits.

• Officials reviewed a report rating Leo a B-level danger and recommended observing him and restricting his movements through the Hunter Association.
• The staff officer warned that killing Leo could trigger post-mortem Nen and raise his danger rating to A.
• Phineas called Pariston after the meeting and told him to activate plan B.
• Three days later, Leo watched Kastro, Goreinu, Kalluto, Sophia, Shizuku, Nico, Morel, Knuckle, and Shoot train against Little Azure in a clearing behind Colton Manor.
• Little Azure attacked the group with fire, its tail, and its tough scales while Nico recorded its abilities and the others coordinated their defense.
• After Little Azure swept the clearing with flames, Sophia charged forward and called for the group to continue training.

Leo trained Sophia and the others while investigating Pariston’s ties to Canaan Detention Center, then traveled to Tirk City and attacked four V5 officials at a security summit. He left the city after killing them and planned to deal with Liam next.

• Leo watched Sophia and the others train with Little Azure while waiting to share his abilities with them.
• Mizai Istom told Leo that Pariston’s Special Forces had secretly sent supplies to Canaan Detention Center and that Pariston had spoken with a man named Sterling.
• Leo traveled to Tirk City after Liam sent him the locations and security arrangements for four officials and warned him that the V5 was watching him.
• Leo entered the Golden Oak Hotel and incapacitated Phineas and three other officials in separate rooms.
• Leo left the rooftop through a portal, noting that Liam was not among the four targets and would die soon.

Leo granted his companions the weakened Proof of Humanity ability, which cost him lifespan and energy, so they could grow stronger before exploring the Dark Continent. After sending them to level up at Colton Ranch, he contacted Hisoka about joining the expedition.

• Leo offered Sophia, Goreinu, Kastro, Kalluto, Shizuku, Asher, Nico, Morel, Shoot, and Knuckle power in exchange for a small part of his lifespan, and they all accepted.
• Leo granted Kalluto the ability first, giving him a dark red spiral tattoo and information about its leveling system and restrictions.
• Leo granted the ability to the rest of the group, and ten minutes later everyone had received it while Leo felt drained.
• Leo told the group to level up by killing livestock at Colton Ranch before they explored the Dark Continent together.
• Leo considered recruiting Hisoka, called him, and invited him to consider going to the Dark Continent.

Leo gave Hisoka a dark-red spiral mark that let him grow stronger, and Hisoka agreed to hunt wanted criminals while they prepared for the Dark Continent. A month later, Leo had reached level 86, but dwindling creature stocks and funds continued to slow the group’s progress.

• Hisoka tested Leo’s durability with aura-coated playing cards, then learned that humans and demi-human races might live on the Dark Continent.
• Leo offered Hisoka a chance to become stronger, and Hisoka accepted without asking for a price.
• Leo placed a dark-red spiral mark on Hisoka, whose ability imposed a restriction against killing people indiscriminately.
• Hisoka decided to hunt A- and B-rank wanted criminals to gain strength, then left to wait for Leo’s call.
• Leo resumed training, and a month later Colton Ranch’s creature stock had nearly run out as Leo reached level 86.

The Ant Queen survived a grievous injury and began eating fish to recover, while Leo and Chairman Netero began a serious sparring match at Colton Manor. The two fighters vanished from the clearing as their battle started.

• The Ant Queen crawled into a cave, vowed to fulfill her duty to give birth to the King, and rested.
• The next day, the Ant Queen devoured fish but decided she needed to recover further before hunting larger prey.
• Two men watched the Ant Queen from a mountaintop, then took her severed limb and left to report back.
• Chairman Netero arrived alone at Colton Manor, and Leo welcomed him without asking why he had come.
• Netero challenged Leo to spar, and Leo agreed, summoning Sophia and the others to watch.
• Netero and Leo unleashed their nen auras, agreed to skip the warm-up, and vanished from the clearing as their fight began.

Leo and Netero escalated their sparring match from a test of strength into a full-powered clash between Leo’s Final Moment and Netero’s 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva. Netero’s chained palm strikes overwhelmed Leo but failed to knock him down, and their fierce battle continued.

• Leo and Netero traded blows for more than ten minutes, with Leo matching Netero while using only seventy percent of his strength and neither using a Nen ability.
• Leo and Netero unleashed their full auras, activating Final Moment and the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva as Sophia and the others watched.
• Netero struck Leo with the Bodhisattva’s First Hand, but Leo caught the palm with one arm and emerged uninjured.
• Leo used Conversion to increase his agility and charged Netero, meeting the Bodhisattva’s Second, Third, and Fourth Hands with his fists and leg.
• Netero chained repeated palm strikes to control Leo’s position, balance, and momentum, but Leo stayed on his feet and kept fighting.

Leo fought Netero’s 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, first enduring its relentless palm strikes before shifting his power toward strength and agility. He began battering a path through the statue’s attacks and steadily closing the distance to Netero.

• Leo dodged and endured Netero’s palm barrage, sensing that Netero was fighting at full strength while neither could quickly defeat the other.
• Netero remembered his desire to face a powerful opponent in earnest and intensified his attacks, relishing the fight with Leo.
• Leo refused to use Life Sharing with Little Azure, determined to defeat Netero with his own strength.
• After pausing to let Netero recover, Leo used Switch to maximize his strength and agility while reducing his defense and regeneration.
• Leo met the Bodhisattva’s palms with his fists and steadily pushed through the barrage, advancing from ten meters to seven meters from Netero.

Leo defeated Netero by overpowering the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Netero admitted his loss. As they walked away, Netero revealed that V5 had sent him to restrain Leo, while Leo warned that a greater problem was coming.

• Leo smashed through the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva's arms and advanced until Netero's aura ran low.
• Netero let the statue dissipate, admitted defeat, and accepted Leo's respectful bow.
• Morel, Goreinu, and the others marveled at the battle as Leo released Final Moment.
• Netero told Leo that V5 had wanted him restrained and bound to the Hunter Association, but he would not do so after losing.
• Leo said V5 would soon face a much bigger problem, and he asked Netero again about using a card to restore him to his peak; Netero put off the decision.

Leo accepted a secretive commission requested by the V5 and began investigating the Chimera Ant queen, unaware she had already been released on the human continent. The queen recovered in a cave and prepared to lay eggs, setting her colony’s growth in motion.

• Netero watched Leo and the others train, offering advice before sparring with them and quickly overwhelming the group.
• Mizai Istom told Leo that the V5 had specifically requested him for a suspicious commission, and Leo agreed to accept it.
• Leo learned he was to visit the Oukima Federation’s Diplomatic Licensing Office in three days, then considered whether to stop the Chimera Ant queen and the people behind her release.
• Leo asked Vivian to send a team to the southern tip of the Ulubian Continent to investigate reports of strange creatures.
• The queen, already hiding in a cave, healed by eating fish and decided to lay eggs so soldier ants could capture more prey.

Leo accepted a B-rank commission to investigate a missing ethnic minority group in the mist-covered Ataxus Mountains, despite realizing the situation had been arranged to draw him in. After traveling to the nearby town, he noticed that someone was photographing him as he headed out to meet his contact.

• Leo left Sophia and the others at the manor, collected the commission details at the diplomatic Licensing Office, and signed the declaration.
• Leo overheard two men discussing his acceptance and their plans to notify Nathan and the others, then let them go and concluded that the commission was suspicious.
• Leo read that the Ataxus Mountains were shrouded in mist, that everyone sent in had disappeared, and that the Oukima Federation had promised to fulfill a reasonable request if he resolved the matter.
• Leo boarded an airship and traveled to a small town near the mountains, where a traveler secretly photographed him.
• Leo left town to meet the person waiting for him.

Leo entered the mist-covered Atacus Mountains alone to investigate the spreading phenomenon and find out whether the Omsai Tribe had survived. His Nen could not penetrate the mist, but his body resisted its physical and mental effects as he continued toward the tribe.

• Leo met Ryan at the Warm Home, received a silver badge, and learned that someone was waiting near Atacus Forest.
• Leo showed the badge at the military camp, where Flynn warned him that the expanding mist disabled electronics and swallowed signals, then gave him supplies.
• Leo sent Vivian an encrypted message and entered the forest alone.
• Leo found that his En could not penetrate the mist and felt it press against his body and consciousness, but his Flesh Immaculate resisted its effects.
• Leo saw no living creatures or signs of people in the mist and considered whether the phenomenon was a Dark Continent-like calamity before heading toward the Omsai Tribe.

Leo found a hidden record linking the Omsai Tribe to an altar in the Ataxus Mountains and set out toward the cave. Meanwhile, the Chimera Ant queen’s soldier ants hatched and began hunting as she prepared to move her nest.

• Leo searched the empty Omsai village and found a parchment hidden behind a board in the largest house.
• Leo learned that the tribe had guarded something in a cave on the highest peak for over three hundred years, and the damaged record mentioned an altar, whiteness, and a warning not to approach.
• Leo ate and rested in the village overnight, then left the next day to head toward the cave.
• The Chimera Ant queen watched a batch of eggs hatch into more than a dozen soldier ants and ordered them to find better food.
• The queen decided she needed more nourishing food and a larger, safer nest, while the soldier ants began their first hunt.

Leo confronted a wall of mist blocking his way to the highest peak in the Ataxus Mountains, but his attacks failed to break it. Meanwhile, Kite and his companions examined and acquired claws from a strange insect limb at an auction in Nempis, then set out to find its discoverer.

• Leo found a lake beneath the mist, checked that its fish were ordinary, and continued toward the peak.
• A wall of mist blocked Leo’s path, resisted his Nen Aura and physical attacks, and quickly restored itself after each explosion.
• At the National Investigation Agency, a staff member told Kite about a strange creature’s limb being sold in Nempis and secretly reported that seven groups were interested.
• Kite and his companions examined the insect-like limb at the Nampis Auction, noting its unusual size, hairs, shell, and six-clawed tip.
• Kite removed two claws from the limb and left with his companions to find the person who had discovered it.

Leo broke through the mist after fifteen days and found an underground altar where Bai was draining life from thousands of creatures and people to regain strength and escape its seal. Bai revealed it came from the Dark Continent, leaving Leo facing a dangerous confrontation with the Omsai Tribe and other captives at risk.

• Chimera Ant Soldier Ants massacred a village in the Barusha Archipelago and captured its surviving villagers for the queen, who eagerly ate them.
• Vivian reviewed reports at Colton Manor, found no unusual activity on the southern coast, and decided to activate the contingency plan if Leo remained missing for seven more days.
• Leo blasted the mist for fifteen days until it parted, then followed its passage to a hand-carved cave at the highest peak of the Ataxus Mountains.
• Leo entered an underground chamber and discovered an altar linked by threads to tens of thousands of immobilized creatures and humans, including members of the Omsai Tribe.
• Leo spoke with the mist, which called itself Bai, said it came from the Dark Continent, and explained it was draining life to restore its strength and break free of a seal.
• Leo realized Bai had trapped him because he was strong and considered the danger to the captives if he fought it.