Chapter Summaries

Rhine watched Edward and Julian fight to the brink of death before leaving, while Leo met Bai and discussed the Dark Continent and a possible way back there. Leo gave Bai contact details and departed with Little Azure as the Autumn Hunt continued.

• Rhine watched Edward and Julian exchange a final blow, leaving both princes and the remaining guards badly wounded in the stream.
• Leo asked Bai why he joined the Autumn Hunt, and Bai showed him a recorder score of 8824 after explaining that the magical beasts helped him recover.
• Bai rejected the Kakin Empire's Black Whale and warned Leo that the Dark Continent was filled with dangerous creatures, races, and regions.
• Leo gave Bai contact details so Bai could find him if he wanted to return to the Dark Continent.
• Leo left on Little Azure while Bai headed into the mist-shrouded woods, with eight hours remaining in the Autumn Hunt.

At the end of the Autumn Hunt, Rhine returned after killing the other three princes and gathered new followers, while Illumi collected his fee. Leo arrived and displayed overwhelming Nen Aura, leaving the gathered participants stunned as five golden dragons filled the sky.

• Rhine returned to the safe zone with Doss and his remaining subordinates, and several participants pledged themselves to him.
• Rhine noticed Leo had not returned but decided Leo's lack of interest in the championship would not disrupt his plans.
• Illumi arrived with Hisoka, received the rest of his fee from Rhine, and walked away.
• Leo landed at the entrance on Little Azure and unleashed a powerful Nen Aura that made the nearby participants fall silent.
• Leo formed five enormous golden dragons of Nen Aura, which spread across the sky as everyone watched.

Leo’s Nen attack swept across the Demon Realm and earned him two levels, while Bai transferred his points to him. After the Autumn Hunt ended, the winners gathered at a royal banquet, where the official rankings were about to be announced.

• Leo’s five golden dragons burst apart over the Demon Realm, raining Nen projectiles across it and raising him to Level 102.
• Bai gave Leo his points, bringing Leo’s total to 10,522.
• The Autumn Hunt ended, and the survivors gathered at the exit to await the tally and rewards.
• King Kane Lancelot addressed the winners at a royal banquet while Leo watched and Rhine maintained his composed smile.
• The tally official prepared to announce the rankings after Rhine’s expression had briefly darkened when they were revealed.

Leo won the Autumn Hunt with 10,522 points and received an invitation to meet King Kane after the banquet. The king presented Leo with the champion’s reward, a dark silver badge set with a crimson gemstone.

• The staff announced Leo as first place with 10,522 points, while Rhine accepted second place and congratulated him.
• Leo spent time with Gon, Killua, Leorio, Hanzo, and Ponzu at the banquet before an attendant summoned him to meet King Kane.
• King Kane welcomed Leo into his study, poured tea, and praised him for becoming the Hunter Association president at a young age.
• King Kane presented Leo with the Autumn Hunt champion’s reward, a badge with a dark red gemstone.

The king gave Leo the Nen tool Perfect Blood and let him defer his remaining request, hoping to build goodwill with him. After weeks of relaxing at Colton Manor, Leo returned to Hunter Association headquarters when Beans’s calls and a formal V6 notice made it impossible to keep ignoring his work.

• The king explained that Perfect Blood used Leo’s blood, vitality, and aura to create armor that strengthened his abilities, and Leo accepted the gift with thanks.
• Leo asked to save his remaining request for later, then spoke with the king about his plans before leaving.
• The king privately reflected that he had given Leo the Nen tool as an investment in his potential.
• Leo spent most of the following month relaxing at Colton Manor and occasionally fighting Old Man Netero while Beans repeatedly called about his growing backlog of work.
• After the V6 escalated its meeting invitations to a formal notice, Leo returned to Hunter Association headquarters and found piles of documents awaiting him.

Leo settled into his role as Hunter Association chairman while avoiding meetings and signing a mountain of paperwork. On December 31, 2000, he joined the Association’s New Year’s Eve celebration, which ended with the crowd welcoming midnight.

• Leo signed Association documents, spoke with Beans and Sophia, and continued delegating meetings to Mizai Istom.
• Leo reviewed correspondence, considered the progress of the overseas base, and returned to work as the year drew to a close.
• On December 31, Beans and Mizai Istom’s celebration filled the Association headquarters with guests, food, and conversation.
• Beans addressed the guests, then the crowd counted down together and welcomed the new year as midnight chimes rang.

Leo hosted the New Year celebration, then oversaw a Hunter Exam redesigned to select candidates for future Dark Continent exploration and root out Kakin spies. After all of Beyond’s planted examinees failed, Leo left the Hunter Association and flew to Colton Manor.

• Leo welcomed the New Year at the Hunter Association and reflected on his achievements and hopes for the Dark Continent.
• Leo and the Association prepared a special Hunter Exam focused on skills needed for future Dark Continent exploration, and Leo worked to identify Kakin spies among the applicants.
• Cheadle presented the final examinees with footage of Nasubi Hui-Guo and Beyond announcing their Dark Continent journey, then asked them questions about advance intelligence and its potential benefits.
• Jiulike told Beyond’s followers that none of their planted examinees had passed, and Ging said Leo would not let them get away with further schemes.
• Leo confirmed that no suspicious candidates had passed, left the exam’s remaining work to Beans and Mizai Istom, and flew on Little Azure toward Colton Manor.

The Kakin Empire promoted the Black Whale voyage and assured the public that the Dark Continent’s dangers were manageable. Leo watched the broadcast, rejected the expert’s claims, and suspected V6 was concealing the true risks.

• A media announcer reported that King Nasubi Hui-Guo planned to build twenty more ships and send one hundred million people to the Dark Continent within five years.
• A news anchor asked an expert whether Class C creatures were dangerous, and he compared them to familiar animals such as bears and sharks.
• The expert dismissed fears of more dangerous creatures and predicted a historic immigration-driven gold rush on the Dark Continent.
• Leo watched the broadcast at Colton Manor, called the expert’s claims bullshit, and turned off the television.

Tserriednich learned from Benjamin that the King had approved a succession contest in which the prince who survived the voyage would inherit the throne. He welcomed the chance to kill his brothers without distraction, while Benjamin vowed to kill him personally.

• Tserriednich answered a call from Benjamin, who told him the King had agreed that the last surviving prince on the voyage would become Kakin's next king.
• Tserriednich celebrated the contest as an opportunity to kill his brothers and taunted Benjamin about claiming the throne.
• Benjamin threatened to crush Tserriednich's bones, but Tserriednich hung up on him.
• Benjamin killed the lion he had been restraining and threw his phone onto a metal rack.
• Tserriednich admired his reflection, dismissed his brothers as undeserving, and sat at his desk as the music ended.

Leo tested the Nen item Perfect Blood with Netero, using it to form a thirty-meter armor that he reshaped into a Strike Freedom Gundam. The armor withstood a strike from Netero’s 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva without damage, and Leo decided it suited him.

• Leo explained that Perfect Blood used Nen Aura and blood to form armor, then activated it after the badge absorbed his blood for seven seconds.
• Leo fed Nen Aura into the armor until it grew to nearly thirty meters tall and found that he could control it smoothly.
• Leo reshaped the crude armor into a Strike Freedom Gundam and tested its movements and wings.
• Leo asked Netero to attack the armor, and Netero summoned his 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva and struck it with a golden palm.
• Leo’s armor stayed still and undamaged after the blow, and Leo said it was useful and suited him.

Leo tested his Nen armor’s strength and mobility, then reshaped it into a compact Masked Rider form. After gauging how long he could sustain his powers, he prepared to explore the Dark Continent once his overseas base was built.

• Leo activated Final Moment and expanded his armor into a fifty-meter giant, whose punch sent a powerful blast of wind across the clearing.
• Leo leaped two thousand meters into the air and returned to the estate, concluding that the armor could not fly and deciding against testing its full attack power.
• Leo compressed the armor into a faster, more defensive bodysuit and transformed into Masked Rider ZZZ, the Calamity King.
• Leo performed the transformation again with a shouted “Henshin!” while Netero watched, then felt embarrassed when Netero politely pretended not to have seen it.
• Leo withdrew his Nen constructs and estimated that he could sustain Final Moment and the badge together for about five hours before planning to explore the Dark Continent after his overseas base was built.

Five months later, Leo continued training his companions while the overseas base neared completion. In Kakin, Tserriednich learned the Succession Contest’s rules and began the urn ritual by placing a drop of blood into it.

• Leo reached level 106 as his companions also advanced, and construction of the overseas base approached completion.
• Leo and Little Azure put Sophia and the others through intense one-against-ten pressure training at the island base.
• Three days later, a suited man explained the Kakin Succession Contest’s rules to Tserriednich and presented him with an earthenware urn.
• Tserriednich dropped a bead of blood into the urn.

Tserriednich underwent the Seed Urn Ceremony, while Nasubi explained the guardian spirit beasts tied to the Kakin succession contest. At Hunter Association headquarters, Leo approved the departure plans and prepared to explore the Dark Continent separately, giving Mizai Istom a teleportation medium for emergencies.

• Tserriednich put his hand into the urn, and a tiny girl spirit delivered a glowing drop into his mouth before disappearing.
• A man in a suit explained that the Seed Urn Ceremony was an ancient Kakin royal ritual for heirs seeking the throne’s power.
• Nasubi Hui-Guo recalled how the urn created guardian spirit beasts that reflected their hosts’ natures and protected them.
• Mizai Istom reported to Leo that Beyond had been invited to the departure events and that six princes were recruiting guards; Leo approved Beyond’s attendance and said not to interfere with recruitment.
• Leo declined Kakin’s invitation to board, saying he would lead his own team to the Dark Continent, and gave Mizai Istom a teleportation medium to use if the Association needed help.

After completing preparations at the island base, Leo and ten companions set sail aboard the Flying Dutchman for the Dark Continent. The voyage began smoothly, leaving Leo and Hisoka anticipating the dangers and opportunities ahead.

• The island base completed its inspections and stocked supplies as Leo prepared to depart aboard the Flying Dutchman.
• Bai confirmed its plan to remain at the base until Leo reached the Dark Continent, then travel there through Asher's portal.
• Leo led Sophia, Kastro, Shizuku, Nico, Asher, Goreinu, Kalluto, Morel, Shoot, Knuckle, and Hisoka aboard and ordered the ship to set sail.
• Asher navigated using the route transcribed from the animal-hide map, with the journey expected to take about two weeks.
• Hisoka told Leo he hoped to kill creatures on the Dark Continent, and Leo warned that Hisoka might be unable to take a single step there.
• Sophia wished Leo luck before going below deck as the Flying Dutchman continued toward the horizon.

During the voyage to the Dark Continent, Leo and the others passed the time with card games, training, and fishing aboard the Flying Dutchman. As the weather cleared on the sixth day, an unexplained vibration passed beneath the yacht, unnoticed by the passengers.

• The travelers grew bored during the week at sea, so Hisoka organized card games in the cabin and repeatedly won against the others.
• Leo chose to travel by yacht rather than have Little Azure fly nonstop, and he spent time training and occasionally joining the card games.
• Leo watched the others play cards, then rested alone on the upper deck beneath the stars.
• Heavy rain confined the group to the cabin before the skies cleared on the sixth day.
• Leo, Kastro, Goreinu, Morel, and Kalluto fished from the deck while Sophia and Shizuku sunbathed nearby.
• An unseen presence or large fish caused a faint vibration beneath the yacht, but no one noticed it.

Leo caught a gigantic fish, but the yacht was then attacked by an enormous deep-sea creature. He blasted the yacht forward to evade a rising tentacle, leaving the group facing a colossal squid-like monster.

• Leo reeled in a five-meter fish, which Knuckle and Shoot carried away to prepare for dinner.
• A heavy impact struck the yacht, and Leo used En to sense a creature so large he could perceive only part of it.
• The creature repeatedly probed beneath the hull before retreating into the depths, and the group took defensive positions.
• Leo sensed the creature change direction and punched a shock wave across the sea, propelling the yacht more than five hundred meters forward.
• A tentacle nearly a thousand meters tall erupted from the sea behind the yacht, and Morel warned that the creature was trouble.

Leo and his companions encountered a gigantic octopus in the Dark Sea, and Leo severed one of its tentacles with a Super Destruction Punch. As the octopus attacked the yacht, Leo prepared to transform with his badge while Little Azure took to the air.

• Leo destroyed the octopus's descending tentacle with a Super Destruction Punch, and its cry shook the yacht.
• Leo ordered Asher to speed away as the octopus rose from the sea, revealing a body over thirteen hundred meters tall.
• Sophia, Kastro, Goreinu, Morel, Kalluto, Shoot, Knuckle, and Hisoka prepared for battle while Leo told them to protect the boat.
• The octopus fixed its gaze on Leo and sent four enormous tentacles sweeping toward the yacht.
• Leo fed Nen Aura into his badge, and Little Azure grew to full size and circled above the yacht.
• The badge spread a dark red liquid over Leo, forming a membrane that began expanding into his chosen shape.

Leo transformed into Gundam Mode and unleashed a series of powerful attacks on the colossal octopus. The chapter ended as his Nuclear Explosion Fist struck the creature’s head in a blinding flash.

• Leo activated Final Moment and expanded his Gundam into a fifty-meter machine, astonishing Sophia and the others aboard the yacht.
• Leo and Little Azure attacked the octopus, with Leo breaking four of its tentacles while Little Azure burned its skin.
• Leo summoned five giant Nen Aura dragons and sent them crashing into the octopus’s head, destroying nearly half of it without killing the creature.
• Little Azure scorched the exposed wound as Leo gathered his remaining aura into a massive sphere and launched his Nuclear Explosion Fist at the octopus’s head.
• The sphere struck the octopus, and the world turned pure white.

Leo defeated the colossal octopus and gained five levels before his group continued toward the Dark Continent. Three days later, they encountered a serpent-like creature at least ten thousand meters long, which passed without attacking, and Leo ordered the yacht onward.

• Leo's attack destroyed most of the octopus's head, and the creature sank beneath the sea as the blast shook the yacht.
• Leo rose from level 106 to level 111, grew taller, and brought a piece of the octopus back for Shoot and Knuckle to prepare as food.
• The group sailed for three days while Leo kept En deployed to watch for danger underwater.
• Leo detected a serpent-like creature larger than the octopus, and Asher stopped the yacht as it passed nearby.
• After the enormous creature swam away without showing interest in the yacht, Leo told the others to keep going.

The Flying Dutchman neared its destination, and Leo expected the crew to arrive the next day. At Black Whale Port, King Nasubi Hui-Guo, Beyond Netero, and the fourteen princes boarded the Black Whale as the Kakin Empire celebrated the voyage to the New Continent.

• Leo traced the route on the hide map and told the crew they would arrive tomorrow if they made good time.
• The hosts introduced King Nasubi Hui-Guo at the crowded port celebration, and he declared himself the great king of Kakin.
• Beyond Netero and the fourteen princes appeared before the crowd, each concealing his ambition to claim the throne.
• Nasubi boarded the Black Whale by royal airship, followed by Beyond, the princes, and their attendants.
• Ferries began carrying passengers to the Black Whale as boarding entrances opened and the port celebration continued.