"Oh." Illumi climbed out of the pit without expression, hooked his foot, and hung upside down on the willow tree, his long black hair hanging down like a ghost, staring directly at Roy, "Are you going to hit me?"
A ripple appeared in the boy's hollow and vacant pupils... He seemed quite expectant?
He said, "If it's you, you can do anything to me."
Roy: "..."
Taking a deep breath, he said nothing and left directly.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Perhaps, for the foolish Mamen Beans, hitting him is not a punishment, but a reward?
"Whoosh~" A gust of wind blew, swaying the budding willow branches... Roy walked faster than running, stepping on the Great Success Dark Step, leaving behind afterimages, vanishing in the garden, and reappearing, he arrived at the basement.
"Young master."
"Young master."
Scarface, the one-eyed man, gave a bow and opened the security door.
Roy stepped inside. In the days that followed, with the help of his grandfather Jager's Nenryoku [re: The Game of the Dead], he entered and exited the Dark Continent, comparing the strategy given by Silva, gradually delving into the Ookma Grand Forest, conducting exploration,
and simultaneously broadening his knowledge, encountering numerous bizarre magical beasts and demons.
[Magical Beast Encyclopedia Recording....]
[1. Iron Armor Rhinoceros: D-class Magical Beast. (Note: Rating based on ants. Elite Squad Leader is D, Master General is C, Three Guards are B, Ant King B+)]
[Manifested Nen Amount: D+ (7481/10000)]
[Potential Qi Amount: C- (1250/100000)]
[Enhancement: Life Energy +7....]
[Inherent Nenryoku: "Iron Skin" (Note: When Iron Armor Rhinoceros is attacked, its surface skin will "turn to iron" for both offense and defense)...]
[Tip: "Iron Skin" has been extracted... Suspected to highly overlap with [Ken]... [Ken] +10...]
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[2. Withered Leaf Chameleon: D-class Magical Beast. (Note: Rating based on ants. Elite Squad Leader is D, Master General is C, Three Guards are B, Ant King B+)]
[Manifested Nen Amount: D+ (4715/10000)]
[Potential Qi Amount: C (72540/100000)]
[Enhancement: Life Energy +10....]
[Inherent Nenryoku: "Backdrop" (Note: When Withered Leaf Chameleon is attacked, it will blend into the natural background, camouflaging as part of nature, turning invisible to confuse enemies, or making a surprise attack)...]
[Tip: "Backdrop" has been extracted... Suspected to highly overlap with [Zetsu]... [Zetsu] +10...]
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Three, Dominator Porcupine, inherent Nenryoku "Quill Barrage", under stress will imitate "Emission" to release "Nen Bullet", using its spines as bullets to impose absolute suppression on the adversary...
Four, "One Ping Powder Mist", inherent Nenryoku "Fervor", Note: A foggy mythical creature that feeds on "sexual desire", can enter any living organism with reproductive consciousness, including humans or magical beasts, by releasing powder mist, stimulating the counterpart's reproductive urges, making it feverish... If unable to release in time, or if entering manic state, difficult to calm down....
That night,
in the Zoldyck Family castle, in Roy's bedroom, a lamp was lit.
Under the soft light, the boy was having dinner with Wutong's service while accounting for the gains from the past few days, carefully reading the strategy Silva provided, estimating it was only two or three days to reach the human settlement... "House of the Disheartened" — Biniron City, his father mentioned...
"Young master, I have instructed Haseki Dorou, tomorrow night's plane at nine, arriving in Yorknew City the next morning at seven, then transferring north by car, in less than two hours, we can reach Meteor Street...." Wutong poured a glass of milk and handed it to Roy, tentatively asking, "Are you sure you don't want me to accompany you?"
Days had passed, the young butler adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, seemingly still recalling... the "I" Roy had intriguingly referred to....
Indeed, one cannot imagine something beyond their own cognition...
Roy washed down the last piece of bread with the milk, calculated the time, less than a minute until the "Doppelgänger" unlocks.
A prompt sounded in his mind at this timely moment....
[59...45...32...10...5...3...1...0....]
[Tip: The lifeform named "?" has hatched, please name it immediately...]
A strong, unfading "bloodline bond" surged in his heart,
Roy calmly pulled out a napkin to wipe his mouth and said, "Come out, Taiyi."
"Tai" as in "Sun", sole "One"... "Boom!" The milky white Nen burst out, exploding with Roy at its center, tightening Wutong's face, and catching the butler off guard, with narrowed slender eyes, he suddenly saw...
The surging Nen split into two through Roy's "imagination", "materializing" into a figure....
The person shimmered with faint glows, from blurry to clear, from indistinct to real, gradually taking solid form, revealing... long shoulder-length black hair, a pronounced jawline, standing straight as a pine, resembling the young master, no, it's a complete replica of the young master's appearance!
Wutong was utterly stunned!
"A... a doppelgänger?"
"Yes, a doppelgänger."
[Taiyi: In the name of "Sun", "materializes" as a Doppelgänger, can exhibit 80% of the host's "main body" strength...]
[Current Constitution: 5035.2 (Note: For an ordinary human is 1)]
[Manifested Nen Amount: C- (14283/100000) (Note: Rating based on ants. Elite Squad Leader is D, Master General is C, Three Guards are B, Ant King B+)]
[Potential Qi Amount: C (54992/100000)]
[Nen Ability: 1. "Sharing". (Note: "Taiyi" can share all abilities of the host, including "vision", "smell", "taste", and "Nen abilities")]
[2. "Divine Descent". (Note: "Taiyi" can silently recite the host's name, receiving 100% of the host's true body strength, duration: 10 seconds... Rigid: 1 day)]
Roy tossed a set of prepared training clothes to Taiyi, who caught it with one hand, quickly put it on, and smilingly said, "I'll go for a stroll, familiarize myself with the surroundings."