"You can't do it. Having been hit by my Darkness's Wound, never mind killing people - even maintaining a standing posture will be very difficult." Maha's aged and hoarse voice rang out once again. This ET-like old man showed a confident smile for the first time.
"The word 'impossible' doesn't exist in my dictionary. I'm going to cripple both your arms." Meruem, covering his wound, bit his lips tightly. A black crystal-like object had already appeared at the previous wound site.
Was this the Darkness's Wound that Maha mentioned earlier? However, Meruem could sense that although what Maha said was eerie, this thing didn't have the ability to kill him.
As soon as Meruem finished speaking, he launched an attack on Maha with extremely fast speed.
"Then let's see if you can do it." At the same time, Maha's figure disappeared into thin air. Although I can't confront you head-on, if it's just dodging, as the world's strongest assassin, I'm confident I still have this ability. Die in endless humiliation, monster.
Was this the legendary shadow stealth ability that all assassins possessed?
"Just a trivial trick. Moreover, even if I can't kill you, don't you care about Zeno and Silva's lives?" Meruem continuously searched for Maha's traces. As long as he found even a trace of Maha, he would be dead for sure.
But Meruem's threat received no answer. Maha seemed to have truly disappeared.
"For so-called assassins and killers, we maintain the mindset of being killed by others at any time during every mission, as long as we can complete the task. Trading our lives for yours - this deal isn't a loss." Hearing Meruem's threat, Zeno spoke mockingly.
Willing to sacrifice their lives as long as they could complete the mission? If it were assassin families from other worlds, I might still believe it, but with your Zoldyck family's reputation, you have the nerve to say this? If your integrity could be trusted, you wouldn't have assassinated your own employer, the Ten Dons, during the Phantom Troupe incident.
"Found you." Meruem expanded his five senses to the maximum degree, and vaguely felt a trace of disordered breathing near his shadow.
After all, this so-called world's number one assassin, like Netero, was old. His strength wasn't even half of his prime.
"I'll take both your arms." Meruem drifted beside Maha like the wind and tore off Maha's arms with lightning speed. "I said I would cripple both your arms... I do what I say."
"Great Ancestor! Be careful." After completing all this, Zeno's shocked cry finally came through. But everything was too late.
"Old man, you're quite tough." Even after having both hands torn off by Meruem, Maha didn't make a sound, but stared deadly at Meruem. If looks could kill, perhaps Meruem would have been killed N times already.
"I should finish you off early. This has dragged on far too long." Meruem, fearing another accident might occur, finally decided not to play around anymore. As the saying goes, villains often get reversed in the end because they're too talkative and dawdle too much. He should have done this long ago.
Meruem's figure continuously shuttled among the several people. All their legs and arms were crippled, their lives barely hanging on, no longer able to attack. Meruem at full power was truly terrifying in combat capability.
"You shall all die under Netero's signature technique. Hundred-Type Guanyin - Ninety-Ninth Style!" The huge Guanyin statue appeared once again with countless giant palms continuously striking down. This time the target was Zeno and the others. This time Meruem was truly going for the kill. With the Buddha palms falling, the lives of several people finally ended. Simple and brutal - the lives of several of the world's strongest finally ended at Meruem's hands.
"Finally resolved." Having done all this, Meruem let out a long breath, suddenly feeling like something was missing. He seemed to have forgotten something important.
"Yo, young man... finally noticed? Remembered?" A stubbled uncle wearing a top hat walked toward Meruem, his cynical tone ringing out at this moment.
"This guy was with Beyond and the others! Strange, why didn't I notice him before? It was like subconsciously ignoring him." Only now did Meruem remember that weirdo who had been facing off with Pitou when he was fighting Beyond and others earlier.
"That's right, Pitou!" Meruem quickly looked around and finally found Pitou's figure not far away. But Pitou looked strange - why was she just standing there motionless?
"You're the one behind this. What exactly did you do?" Meruem stared at the stubbled uncle with furrowed brows. This guy was definitely not simple. Not only him, but even Zeno and the others who came with this guy seemed to subconsciously ignore this person in the end. What kind of ability was this? So eerie.
"Young man, don't be so fierce. I just came here to borrow something from you." The stubbled uncle somehow now wore a deep black evening suit, and even his image had changed from the initially sleazy, decadent uncle to a handsome uncle.
Disguise? I feel like I've seen this image somewhere before. And why can't I sense any trace of Nen ability from him? And it's not just Nen - even this person himself gives me an ethereal feeling, as if he doesn't exist at all.
Meruem couldn't figure out this weirdo in front of him. There didn't seem to be this person in the original work, right? Could he be a hidden character that FJ hadn't drawn yet?
"What do you want to borrow? Don't tell me your next line is 'your life'?" Although Meruem spoke lightly, he was actually already secretly on guard. This guy's allegiance was unclear, but he probably wasn't a member of that so-called Chimera Ant Subjugation Army. Even when Zeno and the others were killed by him, this guy didn't make a sound. Damn, Pouf and their battles have probably reached their conclusion too. I hope not too many subordinates died.
"No, no, no, I wouldn't do something so tasteless." The stubbled uncle chuckled and pulled down his top hat slightly, just enough to cover his eyes so his expression couldn't be seen at all.
"Then what do you want?"
"Something that's not particularly needed by you - that treasure that lets you leave this world!" Along with the stubbled uncle's words, an inexplicable chill made all of Meruem's hair stand on end. He had never mentioned this to any outsider.
Even the three Royal Guards didn't know - this was his biggest secret. Why did this guy know? Although he called it a treasure, anyone would understand this guy was talking about that system!
"What exactly are you?" Meruem said in a low voice, but before his words even finished, he launched an attack on the stubbled uncle. No matter who he was or where he learned this from, after knowing his secret, he had to die. This guy's threat was simply too great.
"Oh my, young man, you're really too barbaric." The stubbled uncle seemed to predict Meruem's attack like a prophet and dodged it very easily.
"It's just borrowing one thing from you. If you won't lend it to me..." The stubbled uncle's top hat tilted to the left, revealing his right eye glowing red and a mouth full of shark-like sharp teeth.
"Then I'll have to take it myself." A claw-shaped arm reached toward Meruem.
The stubbled uncle's speed was also extremely fast, but Meruem barely dodged it. However, five bloody scratches were clawed across his chest. The body that even Netero's full strength couldn't break through was actually injured so simply by the stubbled uncle.
This kind of speed, this kind of attack power - this guy was probably not human.
"No matter who you are! You must die today! Night Parade of a Hundred Demons - Lord of Demons and Spirits." A hundred different types of demons and spirits appeared behind Meruem, then merged together to become that giant shadow with glowing eyes.
Meruem immediately launched another attack on the stubbled uncle, this time with full power.
"Wow wow wow wow, I thought this technique looked really cool before, and seeing it up close makes it even cooler." The stubbled uncle admired while observing that giant black shadow. But the instant the shadow attacked him, it passed through his body as if hitting a phantom.
Then that phantom-like thing gradually disappeared from Meruem's field of vision.
"Where are you attacking, young man?" The stubbled uncle's voice rang out from another direction as his figure appeared simultaneously.
It wasn't a spatial ability - he felt absolutely no fluctuation in space. What kind of technique was this? Meruem's mind continuously pondered corresponding countermeasures. But without even knowing what the opponent's ability was, how could he respond? For a moment, Meruem and the stubbled uncle were at a standstill.
"Time tick, tick, tick. Young man, since you're not attacking, then it should be my turn to act?" The stubbled uncle gave Meruem an evil smile.
Damn, what exactly is this guy? Why do I always feel like I've seen him somewhere, and I have a bad premonition. Damn, how much longer until I can cross to other worlds? For the first time in this world, Meruem felt danger, and extreme danger at that.
"Move, move, please move! The King is in danger!" Sharing the same feeling as Meruem was Pitou not far away. She also sensed the danger the stubbled uncle posed to Meruem. So she desperately tried to regain control of her body, and finally through her efforts, her fingers regained a tiny bit of feeling.
"Good, in that case! Terpsichora!" An object like a demonic clown appeared behind Pitou, with many black strings appearing like a marionette and sticking to Pitou's body. This was Pitou's Nen ability - Terpsichora.
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