One was the excitement and exhilaration of finally finding a powerful opponent he could fight with his full strength—an emotion so intense he could hardly contain it.
At the very start of their clash just now, the two of them had exchanged blows, and his opponent had clearly used martial arts and special techniques he had never seen or even heard of before.
Fangs like the wind, a bizarre boxing style that produced afterimages so real one could not tell truth from illusion, and an odd palm technique that released golden-green electric currents from both hands.
His opponent had given him far too many surprises.
Later on, Netero had even witnessed powerful techniques being fired from the other man's palms and fingertips like shockwaves.
Explosions with such tremendous destructive force!
He was overjoyed. At last, he had found an opponent truly worth fighting.
Even if that opponent looked so young.
He had waited for this for decades.
Ever since his martial arts had reached perfection, he had never again found anyone who could truly match him.
The road ahead of him had been lonely. His martial arts had stagnated, and as he aged and time passed, even his strength had begun to decline.
But now Roy had appeared, displaying overwhelming power, like a candle relighting the flame in his heart.
The other feeling was the seriousness and focus that came from facing an opponent on the same level.
Heaven knew how long it had been since Netero had shown such an expression.
Thirty years? Forty? Or perhaps fifty?
The result of these two emotions appearing at once was that Netero brought his palms together.
The secret pinnacle of his martial arts was about to reveal itself once more!
…
Just as the battle was about to vanish from everyone's sight, right there in the direction of the explosion, before the stunned gaze of all present—
A gigantic statue suddenly appeared, radiating golden light, towering in size, with countless arms and an endless aura of majesty, resembling a many-armed Bodhisattva!
"I… what did I just see?!"
"That… what is that?!"
"My god!!!"
"T-This can't be real, can it?!"
Amid the examinees' cries of disbelief, Satotz and Menchi's eyes widened at once.
"100-Type… Guanyin Bodhisattva!"
The two of them mouthed the words soundlessly.
"Chairman… did he just go all out?" Menchi's voice trembled slightly.
She simply could not believe it. At first, she had thought that examinee merely wanted to ask the Chairman for some guidance—but who would have imagined it would turn into what looked like an evenly matched battle?!
Earlier, back at the Hunter Association, they had already heard some rumors about Chairman Netero's Nen ability.
Neither Menchi nor Satotz had ever seen the Chairman's ability with their own eyes, but they had vaguely heard of it.
And the golden statue rising within the forest at this moment seemed to be Netero using his Nen ability.
A divine pressure like that of a god, possessing the ultimate attack power, destructive force, and speed—a power so overwhelming it could drive opponents to despair. It was the Nen ability Chairman Netero would never use lightly!
100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva!
"Is that examinee really that strong? Just who in the world is he, to make Chairman Netero bring out the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva?!"
At this moment, Menchi and Satotz were shaken to their very core.
"Chairman…"
Mr. Beans's tiny eyes were filled with shock.
As Netero's secretary and the one who oversaw many of the Hunter Association's affairs, he knew very well what Netero's ability was and just how strong he truly was!
And for someone to force the Chairman to bring out the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, that examinee was absolutely formidable!
At the very least, he was on the same level as that someone from the Zoldyck family the Chairman occasionally mentioned—the one with the horse-something, ha-something name.
The moment the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared, the airship flew into a bank of clouds, and no one could see what was happening anymore.
For a time, the entire airship sank into an eerie silence.
Killua licked his already chapped lips and said in disbelief,
"Hey, hey, no way! Don't tell me this is also power brought by 'that'?!"
As he spoke, a trace of fervor flashed through his eyes.
This kind of overwhelming power, enough to shake heaven and earth, was something everyone yearned for!
Gon's pupils widened slightly as well.
"Roy never showed it before… so he's actually this strong!"
"Hah! That nearly scared me to death. First an explosion, then a giant statue? Roy really gave us one hell of a surprise. Seriously, just how many bizarre things are stored inside his Gold Finger?"
Leorio was the first to recover his composure, but the sweat still running down his forehead revealed just how unsettled he truly was.
Kurapika, on the other hand, who was usually the calm one, had lost his usual composure.
"So this is the kind of overwhelming power Nen can display? If it's power like this, then the Spiders—those who slaughtered my clan—must also possess terrifying strength!"
"I always thought Roy's Gold Finger was only a support-type ability. Now I see I was wrong. An ability itself is neither good nor bad. What matters is whether it suits the user, and how the user wields it."
"If Gold Finger were in someone else's hands, maybe at most it would only be used to access information or reference materials. But in Roy's hands, it can unleash power on this scale!"
"I need to develop my Nen ability sooner! I need to become stronger!!"
(End of Chapter)
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