A certain aristocrat once said: Study? Learn nothing. It does not matter if your brain cannot learn it. Just use your body to remember it.
Animals are living creatures too. The energy of life is aura. Naturally, Lumos himself possessed aura. Every time Liam possessed him and Jaku, even if he did not do it intentionally, he would subconsciously use the Four Principles of Nen. Ten, Zetsu, Gyo—these were the most commonly used ones, repeated countless times.
When Liam possessed them, he undoubtedly needed some skills to use their bodies to plant Stars on others. Doing it once or twice was nothing. Lumos and Jaku might not feel a thing. But being possessed, manipulated, and left by Liam again and again caused these experiences of channeling aura to linger like muscle memory. Not only could they successfully reproduce the techniques when Liam used the Star to give instructions, but the beasts could also imitate them based on feeling during their ordinary routines. At the very least, maintaining a basic Ten was no problem.
Thinking of this, Liam opened the Death Energy Panel and took a look. His own Conjuration qualification had reached 96.4 %. He was not far behind the perfect 100 % of a purely natural Conjurer like Shizuku. Getting there.
Liam activated the Star Mark under the abdomen of Lumos, initiating the first Manipulation mode. With just a single thought, his consciousness shifted into the beast. He looked through the golden eyes of Lumos and saw his own body sitting casually across the room.
A low, pained groan broke the quiet of the ward. The vegetative woman lying on the hospital bed shifted slightly, her face pale. She was about to wake up.
"I said stop," Liam said, turning his real body to face her. "The redeemer has not come yet. Please just keep sleeping for a while."
With that command, the tiny, rose-gold Star embedded in the palm of the woman fluctuated with a soft light. Her body reacted uncontrollably, taking the initiative to find the feeling of sleeping. The residual, agonizing memories of her spine and brain being crushed flashed by like an activated alarm, but she bypassed her body's self-protection mechanism completely. She quickly fell back into a deep sleep.
"Redemption?" Bisky smiled from her seat, a wicked expression on her face. "You are quite self-aware of your own behavior."
Liam chuckled. "What did the old lady say? You—"
Before the sentence could leave his mouth, a small fist buried itself into his side. He was sent flying across the room, his back slamming into the wall with a heavy thud.
The door to the ward was pushed open immediately. Tsezguerra and the bodyguard captain stepped in, looking at Liam with utter confusion.
"Healing her? Why did he slam himself into the wall?" Tsezguerra muttered.
Tsezguerra glanced at Shizuku, who looked as if absolutely nothing had happened, and then at Bisky, who was sitting quietly reading a book. Sweat beaded on the forehead of the Hunter.
"This is..." The bodyguard captain trailed off, particularly bewildered by the situation.
"It is okay." Liam slid down the wall, his shoes hitting the floor. He casually straightened the hem of his coat and adjusted his sleeves, offering a polite nod to the two men at the door. "Everything is okay. The treatment process is going well. Wait for the good news."
Still looking deeply doubtful, the bodyguard captain and Tsezguerra left again, closing the door behind them.
Liam sat back down, rubbing his side. "Next time, I will definitely stay farther away."
Bisky chuckled softly, her eyes shifting thoughtfully toward the massive tiger that was still practicing.
It turns out that when he was controlling the possession, the consciousness of the possession was completely dependent on the brain of the possessed tiger for thinking. This allowed him to achieve a true dual-purpose focus. His main body could act as usual, and the split consciousness attached to the tiger would not be disturbed.
According to this principle, as long as this child was willing, the number of targets he could manipulate was probably endless.
Nen ability reflects a person's true heart. Bisky watched him. This kid possessed such an ability but did not endlessly turn everyone he met into his own puppet. It could be seen that although he joked alot and had a chaotic attitude, he was still kind after all. He might not even be aware of how unimaginably destructive he would be once he started doing evil.
He was like a pure and flawless gem, blurred between pure white and pure black, surrounded by an ambiguous gray mist.
Dangerous, but also beautiful.
Bisky showed an intoxicated smile. She glanced sideways at Shizuku, who was idly pulling a Gungi board out from Blinky to amuse herself. This little girl was actually the same. Her heart also resided in a blurred middle ground of black and white.
I really want to induce the two of them to go astray, Bisky thought, so their truly broad possibilities can be revealed.
"Imagine this tiger paw turning into a hollow and simple piece of tiger skin," Liam muttered.
The Liam inside Lumos and the Liam in his real body both stared intently at the raised paw of the beast.
As long as the power of thinking was strong enough, the Nen that reflected the heart would respond. Moreover, this was transforming into tiger skin, not transforming into a Gundam. The body of Lumos was already a tiger. If he wanted to transform into tiger skin that he got along with day and night, the difficulty should be very low.
The Liam inside Lumos only felt his vision go dark. He could not see anything.
Of course, through his own human eyes, Liam silently discovered that the body of Lumos was responding to his thoughts: transforming into tiger skin, into tiger skin, into tiger skin.
All the aura in the body suddenly surged toward the head. The muscular head of the big tiger actually shrank and shriveled, turning into a flat tiger skin that looked like a torn bag hanging around its neck. It swayed slightly in the air.
The attention of Shizuku was attracted. She crawled over and sat cross-legged on the floor. Reaching out, she lifted the tiger scalp hood hanging around the neck of the tiger. She saw two tiger eye that seemed to have become two-dimensional, floating on the fabric of the hood. From the front, the golden eyes were still moving vividly.
"This can be considered... barely successful... half, right?" Liam said uncertainly.
Bisky gave it a glance, completely speechless. What kind of speed is this training! Are you sure you are a Nen user?
Shizuku glanced at the tiger skin hood in her hand. "You can see the surge of aura without Gyo," she commented. "In the practice of reality, it will not be higher than Level 2."
At this moment, the ward door was knocked on aggressively. It was Battera, arriving to deliver the money.
Oh no, Liam thought. Battera came to see his girlfriend.
The Liam inside Lumos shook his head. The empty hood was already highly uncertain, its aura fluctuating wildly. After shaking twice, it quickly filled up with air and mass like a blown balloon, returning to its original shape.
As soon as the old man entered the door, he looked at the woman who appeared completely unchanged on the hospital bed. "She..."
"You..."
Liam sat on the ground without moving, looking at the rich old man with the exact same tone.
Battera took out a beautiful black-gold box from inside his suit. He turned it upside down and popped it open in front of Liam, revealing a bank card of the same black-gold color displayed inside.
"It is the same password. There are eight hundred billion Jenny in it," Battera said, his voice tight. "Sorry, I could only get together this amount of cash at the moment. If I liquidate a lot of fixed assets, it will take a lot of time to convert..."
True love, this is it.
Not only was Liam in silent awe, but the bodyguard captain who followed Battera into the ward was also shocked. Tsezguerra almost turned red. The Hunter had to take a few deep breaths before he managed to calm down, but his eyes were still staring fixedly at the hand of Liam.
Liam calmly took the bank card offered by Battera and closed the black-gold box with a sharp snap that made the heart of Tsezguerra tremble.
Liam walked over to Shizuku and muttered quietly, handing her the black-gold box. He was ready to find some free time later to stuff it directly into Blinky.
Eight hundred billion. Even if Liam had experienced Heavens Arena in his life and was financially free by now, an amount like this had to be treasured.
"Eight hundred billion. There is a place not far from the door," Liam said. "You can verify at any time..."
Battera thought something had gone wrong with the treatment and nervously added, "What is the situation of my lover..."
"Greed Island?" Liam suddenly raised his head and glared.
Shizuku was about to ask a question when she realized Liam was loudly scolding her.
"What is Greed Island? Who needs Greed Island! Is eight hundred billion not enough? Do not be too greedy. This girl... do not think that because Battera has money, you can feel like others have everything!" Tsezguerra shouted.
"Wait! Greed Island, I do have it!" Battera said quickly, raising his hands in a panic. "I have collected a total of thirty sets of JoyStation consoles. As long as my lover wakes up, I will offer thirty sets with both hands. It would be disrespectful not to..."
"You have all this? Why didn't you say so?" Liam dropped the act and waved his hand. "Okay, she is already awake."
Bisky nodded with satisfaction.