Including taking advantage from the military, from the start of this chaos until now, Law absorbed the remaining Nen from six perpetrators.
Currently, Law wasn't sure how many perpetrators were still causing trouble on-site. Plus, the military decisively abandoning perpetrator corpses and quickly moving elsewhere made Law give up the idea of intervening.
Since he could follow behind and take advantage, there was no need to take risks doing certain things.
Avoiding meaningless fights had always been one of the basic qualities of Pro Hunters.
The air was filled with the scent of blood… piles of corpses were everywhere. Blood converged into countless streams, like fine veins spreading across the open ground.
The eleven perpetrators and the Nen Exorcist, Elaine, twelve individuals total, ruthlessly tore many large gaps in the dense queues.
Each gap represented hundreds or even thousands of lives. At this moment, no one had the mind to care how many people those 'terrorists' had killed since they started.
Most fleeing people reached relatively safe positions. The military formally intervened, barely suppressing the perpetrators' massacre.
With less crowd cover, Law couldn't get too close to the military-perpetrator combat circles.
He moved with the crowd while monitoring the fights on-site.
At least five.
This was his conclusion after observing.
Meaning not many perpetrators remained on-site, unless some perpetrators hid without acting. Otherwise, it differed from the intelligence Ging obtained.
The beneficiaries of Etude of Love should number: twenty-three.
Counting the three Ging killed, plus several Law killed later, the final count shouldn't be around five.
The reasons, Law didn't want to spend energy pondering deeply. He just wanted to get 'experience' from these last few perpetrators, then immediately leave this place after his Nen unsealed.
The military discipline was strict. Led by officer-level soldiers with Nen, they gradually formed effective suppression against on-site perpetrators.
However, there were over a hundred thousand civilians on-site, all things perpetrators could utilize. And perpetrators weren't stupid… they wouldn't stay in one spot.
Their Nen was indeed strong, and blocking bullets wasn't a problem.
Using this advantage, they mostly ignored bullets shooting from surroundings, continuously approaching crowds.
Killing ordinary people along the way, increasing experience, then using ordinary people's corpses as shields or attack tools, coordinating with their awakened Nen Abilities, slaughtering civilians while engaging the military.
From start to finish, perpetrators never intended to approach the sunshade area. Even if some smart people moved towards the sunshade area, perpetrators chose to ignore them.
'Just a few little mice.'
Every second, civilians fell dead, not affecting some big shots' indifferent views in the sunshade area.
Including Kakin Empire's forces stationed here… in this chaos, they became undoubted spectators.
Among the crowd, Law also became a spectator.
He waited patiently, not worried at all about being separated by combat circles.
As long as perpetrators maintained 'mobile' status, he'd have chances to access corpses.
"M-monster!"
Suddenly, terrified shouts came from another direction in the crowd where Law was.
In an instant, dense gunfire overpowered the frequent screams.
'One there too. But for proximity, I don't need to go there.'
Law glanced at the direction of commotion, then turned his gaze to the two nearest combat circles.
Barely discernible as one male, one female perpetrators.
The male one was clearly an Enhancer, treating military attacks like mosquito bites.
The female one was a Manipulator, as Kakin soldiers instead became puppets for her to harvest experience.
No matter how strong ordinary people's physical fitness and mental will were, against a skilled Manipulator Nen User, they'd have no resistance.
…
At the location where terrified screams came from.
"Fast."
Elaine's right shoulder gushed blood. Before her, a red carpet-like blood path extended to three meters before Nobunaga.
A pale severed arm lay on the blood path, as white as bones in blood.
Just now, Elaine launched a swift fierce attack at Machi, but Nobunaga's quick-draw slash, too fast for eyes to catch, not only repelled Elaine's assault but also cleanly severed Elaine's right arm.
"Thought I got the head."
Nobunaga seemed somewhat disappointed, still maintaining his horse stance posture, right hand on the hilt. The sword momentum released earlier now transformed into sharp breezes swirling around him.
He hadn't dispersed his Aura and maintained sword momentum.
Uvogin, though not as quick as Nobunaga's counterattack, stepped in front of Elaine's attack trajectory first, blocking in front of Machi and Salin with his body.
Compared to Nobunaga's counterattack speed, Uvogin was also fast… a protective kind of fast.
"This woman is strong, you step back a bit," Uvogin cracked his knuckles.
"You idiot? Protection is what you should do now," Nobunaga's eyelids drooped, showing dead fish eyes.
Uvogin was about to counter Nobunaga's comment but instantly shut up upon seeing Elaine's actions, surprise appearing on his face.
Not just Uvogin… Nobunaga and Machi's reactions were the same.
They saw Elaine release seemingly viscous pink Aura, forming an arm outline at the severed area out of thin air.
This was a quite familiar ability to them, from a deceased person.
Uvogin didn't care anymore, stepping forward abruptly, wanting to interrupt Elaine's arm restoration process.
However, Nobunaga's hand on the hilt left for the first time, blocking Uvogin.
"Look clearly behind her."
"Huh?"
Uvogin looked closely, and surprise on his face turned into displeasure.
Spiderweb-like pink traps spread behind Elaine, extending to numerous corpses behind.
"Hisoka."
Machi coldly uttered the deceased person's name.
She was one most familiar with Hisoka's abilities. When Elaine formed an arm outline out of thin air, her attention was also drawn, so like Uvogin, naturally overlooked Hisoka's traps laid behind.
This had always been Hisoka's habitual trick.
Nobunaga could notice the spiderweb-like traps because he remained fully unleashed, closely watching Elaine.
Under Machi and the others' gaze, Elaine calmly formed a new arm.
"You're here, so he's here too, right?"
Before her words faded, many corpses stuck with pink threads were pulled by force, flying towards Machi's group of four.