Hunter x Hunter: God-Tier Harvest Chapter 159 159: Are You Ready for the Dark Continent?

The Blood Soul Card violently detonated!

But it wasn't an explosion of concussive force. Instead, it burst into thousands of impossibly thin, crimson blood-threads, each finer than a human hair and practically invisible to the naked eye!

These blood-threads moved like a nest of living, venomous vipers. Completely bypassing the hastily erected Nen defenses Illumi had scrambled to form (as most of his aura was still tied up in his lted needles), the threads instantly wrapped around his torso, his limbs, and his neck!

The threads dug deep into his flesh, but they didn't cause physical lacerations. Instead, like parasitic maggots burrowing into bone, they frantically began to siphon and corrupt his life force and ntal energy!

A wave of profound, soul-deep weakness, sluggishness, and freezing malice instantly washed over Illumi's entire being!

"Urgh!"

A muffled groan of agony escaped Illumi's throat, and his movents instantly stiffened!

The invisible Nen thread he had attached to Gotoh—the psychic link carrying the absolute command to capture Killua—stuttered and warped into chaotic static!

And that microscopic fraction of a second of delay was fatal!

Killua, whose body had been completely paralyzed by the deeply ingrained terror of his older brother and the apocalyptic pressure of his grandfather, felt the invisible chains snap.

As Gotoh's massive, tallic hand descended toward the back of his neck, the absolute limit of Killua's repressed rebellion and the dormant instincts of the Zoldyck Family's greatest prodigy finally erupted like a dormant volcano!

"GET OFF !!!"

Killua let out a feral, beast-like roar!

His ice-blue pupils instantly transford into a blinding sea of pale-blue lightning!

BZZZZT—!

The frantic lightning was no longer confined to his fingertips. It exploded outward from every single pore of his body like a detonating EMP! His silver hair stood perfectly on end, and his entire being transford into a literal deity bathed in a storm of electricity!

[Godspeed: Whirlwind]!

BOOM!

Gotoh's massive hand—coated in Enhancer Nen capable of crushing solid steel—slamd violently into the spot where Killua had been standing... only to crush a blinding afterimage of residual electricity!

The violent voltage surged directly up Gotoh's Nen-coated arm, violently paralyzing his muscles and forcing him to freeze mid-strike!

And the real Killua had already seemingly teleported directly to Gotoh's flank!

His right hand ford a knife-edge, his entire arm completely engulfed in a hyper-compressed blade of pale-blue lightning! The aura vibrated at such a high frequency that it emitted an ear-piercing, air-tearing screech!

This was no longer a simple assassin's hand-blade. It was a blade of absolute judgnt forged from pure lightning!

"Lightning Flash: Raikiri!"

SQUELCH—!

Fast! A speed that entirely transcended the limits of human thought!

The pale-blue lightning blade—carrying all of Killua's pent-up rage, his lifelong terror, and the absolute resolution to break his own limits—effortlessly pierced through Gotoh's paralyzed Nen defense, plunging flawlessly into his left chest!

Ti seed to freeze.

The vicious sneer on Gotoh's face instantly solidified, morphing rapidly into absolute shock and complete disbelief.

The butler slowly lowered his head, staring blankly at the horrifying, charred hole blown straight through his chest by the pale-blue lightning. Through the gaping wound, he could clearly see the collapsed ruins of a stone pillar behind him.

"You..."

Gotoh opened his mouth, managing to spit out a single, garbled syllable before the light rapidly drained from his eyes. His massive body collapsed like a felled oak tree, kicking up a heavy cloud of dust.

Dead silence swept the battlefield!

Every single person was struck dumb by the lightning-fast reversal of life and death! A microsecond ago, it was Gotoh executing a flawless, guaranteed ambush. The next, it was the stage for Killua to shatter his trauma and execute a lethal counter-kill!

That frantic lightning, that absolute, decisive strike—it was permanently seared into the retinas of every survivor present.

"Killua!" Gon scread in absolute joy, his eyes shining with profound excitent and pride.

Biscuit let out a long breath of relief. She looked at Killua, whose lightning aura was slowly receding, panting slightly but with eyes as sharp as daggers. A look of deep gratification flashed in her eyes. "This kid... he finally crossed the threshold."

"Gotoh!"

Zeno's roar sounded like a wounded lion, dripping with absolute fury and shock!

He never in his wildest dreams imagined that under the overwhelming pressure of his standoff with Ryker, a seasoned butler like Gotoh would fail—and worse, be counter-killed by the very grandson who had been terrified of his older brother for his entire life?!

That roar completely incinerated the last shreds of Zeno's rationality!

Ignoring Elena and the stabilized crystal, he swung his hand-blade down with apocalyptic force! The roaring Nen dragon behind him dove toward Ryker and Killua with world-ending montum! He intended to wipe this entire sector of the arena, and everyone standing in it, entirely off the map!

"Grandpa! Stop!"

Killua suddenly threw his head back and scread at Zeno. His voice was hoarse from adrenaline and the sheer exertion of his power, but it carried a resolve harder than diamond.

"I choose my own path! If you push any further..."

The pale-blue lightning exploded in his pupils once more, and he spoke, word by bloody word: "...I'll fight you too!"

Zeno's descending strike staggered for an infinitesimally small fraction of a second, completely derailed by Killua's earth-shattering declaration.

On that ancient, weathered face, fury, shock, and a deeply buried, incredibly complex emotion tangled together. The Nen dragon behind him let out a low, confused growl, its energy signature wavering slightly.

And in that microscopic window—that absolute sliver of a second between the fading of the old intent and the birth of the new!

"Old man, look at the crystal!"

Ryker's freezing voice whispered directly into Zeno's ear like the breath of the Grim Reaper!

His fully charged right hand didn't fire at Zeno. Instead, he spread his fingers and aid straight at the [Ruler's Blessing] crystal, which Elena was desperately holding together with her pillar of white light!

In the center of his palm, the hyper-compressed white lightning core flared to life once more. But this ti, the light wasn't chaotic. It vibrated with a bizarre, ultra-high-frequency oscillation!

"Lightning Core: Resonant Detachnt!"

VMMMM—!

A highly condensed beam of white lightning, carrying a terrifying, high-frequency vibrational force, shot past Zeno entirely and slamd with surgical precision directly into the milky-white pillar of light Elena was using to stabilize the crystal!

CRACK!

The sound of shattering glass echoed across the crater!

The incredibly resilient stabilization beam—powered by Ga Master administrative privileges and a special core crystal—lasted less than half a second against the dual properties of annihilation and high-frequency resonance before completely shattering!

Freed from the suppression of the stabilization beam, the [Ruler's Blessing]—already pushed to absolute criticality by the previous energy clashes—suddenly erupted from the inside out!

The seven-colored light twisted, spun, and expanded with a hundred, a thousand tis its previous intensity!

An ancient, primordial will—saturated with endless malice and the suffocating aura of absolute darkness—violently awakened from the core of the crystal like a slumbering prehistoric leviathan!

"NO—!"

Elena let out a scream of absolute despair as the white crystal in her hand exploded into fine powder!

KABOOOOOOOM!!!

Unable to contain the terrifying will expanding inside it, the seven-colored crystal violently detonated!

There was no earth-shattering physical shockwave. Instead, an invisible, apocalyptic tide of pure, pitch-black Dark Nen—a tide capable of twisting the very boundaries between reality and the ntal plane—swept outward in every direction like the bursting of the River Styx!

The first to be hit was Elena, who was standing closest.

She couldn't even finish her scream. The mont the dark tide washed over her, her physical body rapidly dissolved like a sandcastle in a hurricane, instantly disintegrating into nothingness without leaving a single trace behind!

Next were the few players and Ga Masters who had strayed too close. Their bodies contorted silently, lting away like wax figures thrown into a vat of acid!

Zeno's face underwent a catastrophic shift!

The sheer malice and absolute chaos embedded within the sweeping dark tide made even his heart palpitate in terror! He completely abandoned his attack on Ryker. The roaring Nen dragon behind him instantly coiled back, transforming into a massive, multi-layered shield of dark-red aura, locking him inside!

The dark tide slamd violently against his shield, emitting a sickening, corrosive sizzle as the shield's light rapidly began to die!

Ryker pushed the [A.T. Field - Modified] to its absolute maximum output! The pale-gold light flickered stubbornly against the tide of darkness, shielding himself, Gon, Killua, and Biscuit. The surface of the forcefield rippled violently, looking as if it could be corroded through at any second.

And just as the dark tide swept across the entire arena, pushing the chaos to its absolute zenith!

VMMMM—!!!

An even grander, more ear-piercing hum—sounding like billions of cicadas screaming simultaneously—violently erupted from the center of the Ga Master team!

It was Razor!

The [Ga Core: Alluka's Yearning] he had been holding this entire ti was flashing and vibrating at an unprecedented, frantic frequency! The soft white light pulsed violently, as if it were fiercely resonating with—and simultaneously battling against—the dark tide released by the exploding crystal! Or perhaps, it was being violently invaded and corrupted by that very darkness!

Across the surface of the glowing white orb, countless microscopic, writhing black veins began to rapidly spread and infect the core! The white light was losing ground!

"The Core... the Core is being corrupted! The rules... the island's rules are collapsing!"

List stared at his Ga Master administrative terminal, watching the runes scramble and the screen flash blood-red as he let out a scream of pure despair.

"Razor! Cut the connection!" Dwun yelled in absolute horror.

But it was too late.

The humming reached its absolute peak!

The [Ga Core] violently erupted with one final, blinding flash of light, instantly swallowing Razor's silhouette! From within the blinding glare, an endless cascade of chaotic, corrupted data streams poured out like a waterfall, twisting and weaving into the air above the arena!

Before the terrified, disbelieving eyes of everyone present, those violent data streams, mixed with the residual energy of the seven-colored crystal and the dark tide, frantically converged, compressed, and began to take shape!

The blinding light slowly faded and stabilized.

A silhouette—sketched entirely out of pure light, corrupted data, and dense, suffocating darkness—hovered clearly in mid-air.

It was the phantom of a man.

He was tall, wearing a worn, faded exploration jacket covered in dust and unknown stains. His ssy, untad black hair looked like a bird's nest. His face bore the deep lines of a man who had weathered countless storms, yet his lips were curved into a cynical, world-weary smile that looked like he had seen through the very fabric of reality.

But the most striking feature was his eyes.

They were bright, impossibly deep, and filled with an endless, burning desire for exploration and curiosity, as if they could contain the entire cosmos.

The phantom's gaze slowly swept across the ruined, apocalyptic wasteland of the arena. He looked past Zeno, who was still locked behind his defensive shield. He looked past Ryker, whose body was still crackling with residual lightning.

Finally, that smiling gaze locked perfectly onto a boy whose face was completely frozen in shock, who had just involuntarily whispered the word: "Dad?!"

The smile on the phantom's face widened. It carried a hint of teasing, a deep sense of gratification, and... the unmistakable, chaotic excitent of a man who loved watching the world burn.

A clear, magnetic voice—dripping with absolute malice and a terrible sense of humor—rang out like a massive bell directly in the depths of everyone's souls:

"Yo. You guys playing around with my kid's ga... Are you ready to face the real 'Dark Continent'?"

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