Dozens of spatial portals lit up at once inside the Fourth-Dimensional Apartment.
There was no further briefing, no stirring speech.
The hunters picked up their equipment and filed through the portals.
Every face was calm, as though this were just another routine assignment.
But the Nen Pressure rolling off them made the entire extradimensional space tremble.
"Move out."
Chairman Netero stood in the center of the hall, pressed his palms together, and spoke softly.
Outside, above the Green Valley Ruins.
The Worldbreak Behemoth still prowled the same spot, its red eyes sweeping the ground.
Since those irritating little bugs had vanished, it had grown restless. Its wings beat faster and faster, poisonous miasma spilled from its mouth, and the swarm beneath its feet spread toward more distant towns.
Just then.
A huge pale-gold magic circle lit up on the ground beneath it.
Botobai rose from the center of the circle, arms spread as his Nen surged.
"Barrier: Heaven's Canopy!"
Hum—
A massive translucent shield expanded from him in an instant, covering dozens of kilometers in every direction.
The miasma hissed against the shield but could not advance another inch.
The swarm beneath the beast was blocked by the barrier too, unable to move toward the towns.
The Worldbreak Behemoth lowered its head, looked at the human who had suddenly appeared, and let out a threatening growl.
It beat its wings, sending a huge blade of wind slashing toward Botobai.
Boom!
A towering figure stepped in front of Botobai.
Mizaistom Nana, the Ox of the Zodiacs, was a top-tier Enhancement fighter whose body was his greatest weapon.
He took the wind blade head-on. Only a few ripples spread across the armor of Nen covering him.
"That all you've got?"
Mizaistom flexed his fists, his joints cracking. "You're a lot softer than