Chapter 158: The Succession War began × Parasitic Nen Beasts
Joey left one thing unsaid: unless you were a Specialist.
Of the six categories, only Specialization, owing to the peculiar nature of its Nen, could allow someone to possess special abilities from the moment of awakening, or develop the corresponding effects after a brief period of study.
Examples included the Fourth Prince's Nen, Meruem's Nen, and Joey's Gold Experience.
With these abilities, either a little exploration after awakening Nen at birth was enough to master them and understand their effects, or having a direction made developing their initial effects extremely easy.
Otherwise, anyone who wanted to develop an ability of their own had to either take a shortcut through vows and limitations or train step by step.
But vows and limitations were hardly something one could establish on a whim.
Whether it was the vows and limitations Joey placed on his Nen abilities, those Kurapika placed on his abilities, or Blackening Gon's vows and limitations in the manga, they all shared one prerequisite: they knew exactly what they wanted and what they could pay for it, and all three had sufficient resolve.
If anyone truly treated vows and limitations as a weapon they could use at any time to strengthen themselves or turn a situation around, nothing good would await them.
Kite had made this very clear to Joey while he was developing his abilities, even giving him several examples.
Of course, if someone really could obtain a chance to turn things around through vows and limitations at the most desperate moment, no one would refuse.
But things in this world were never that simple.
Equivalent exchange was also the key to vows and limitations.
If the limitation you proposed could not balance the vow you wanted, it would not