The members of this hidden army that dwells in the darkness are the dead soldiers that the king of Kajin has been cultivating since he succeeded to the throne.

10 years, 20 years, 30 years......

At the same time, supplemented by national strength, it has created a terrifying army that can only walk in the dark.

That's what a superpower is all about.

And one of the purposes of Ash Pot Meat's cultivation of this secret mobile force is to secretly protect those concubines who have inherited his bloodline after many years.

He began to plan for this matter from the day he succeeded to the throne, and did not hesitate to devote time, effort, and even national strength to it......

This kind of fatherly love is not because the heart of the ash pot is full of the brilliance of being a father, but because the "egg in the pot" ritual passed down from generation to generation in the Kajin Kingdom makes him have to do it.

"In the Egg in the Pot Ceremony, the princes who are qualified to inherit the throne rely on the power of the 'Afterlife Gu Pot' to give birth to guardian spirit beasts that can strongly reflect their will, and then the princes will kill each other by any means, and the last person who survives will be the next King of Kajin."

Kajin was able to rise to prominence in a war-torn ancient period and become the superpower it is today, thanks to the "egg in a pot" ritual that has been passed down from generation to generation.

This ceremony will determine Kakin's next successor to the throne.

And before the ceremony begins, every piece of the Kajin royal family's bloodline is particularly precious.

Because these bloodlines are essential nutrients for the next King of Kakin!

Ash pot meat is one of the most important "bloodlines" among the kings of Kajin in the past dynasties, so his image of "guardian spirit beast" will show an extremely strong "nurturing" characteristic.

The secret troops who were sent to secretly protect the royal bloodline were the manifestation of his strong will.

In other words –

This stealthy force, which has never been seen in the sun, has a powerful force that is not known to outsiders.

Even the protected princes had no idea of the existence of these members of the secret force.

The members of the Covert Force have no names, and throughout the ages, they have always been numbered by numbers.

The members of the secret force responsible for protecting the Four Princes, Celidonig, were codenamed "Four".

Under normal circumstances, Codename 4 will judge whether to make a move based on the real-time situation.

The control of this degree will be related to the growth of the princes.

It can't be overprotective, and it can't be overprotective......

And after Codename Four noticed Hisoka and Kurapika, relying on his keen sense of smell, he immediately came up with the judgment that "the other party can't get close to the fourth prince".

And so—

Codename Four doesn't care about the true intentions of Hisoka and Kurapika, or the relationship between the two of them and the Fourth Prince.

He came to the judgment that "it needs to be strangled", so he decided to strangle the other party before he stepped into the territory of the fourth prince.

This was a crude and unreasonable judgment, and it was later confirmed.

Kurapika and Hisoka, disguised in disguise, do not resort to stealth.

Because in such a high-rise building with cameras everywhere, there is no point in diving in.

So Kurapika and Hisoka attacked from the front, and before they reached the top floor where Cellidonich was, they killed all the black-clad bodyguards who were guarding outside.

"Weak defense ......"

The number of black-clothed bodyguards killed along the way is not small, but none of them are mind-ability.

Therefore, this level of defense is useless in front of Kurapika and Hisoka.

However, this thought only lasted until after reaching the top.

Two throwing knives with lingering telekinesis shot out of the corner, pointing straight at Kurapika and Hisoka, who had just arrived at the top floor.

The speed of the throwing knife is extremely high, and the angle is particularly tricky.

And before the knife struck, Kurapika and Hisoka didn't feel any breath at all.

It can be seen that the person who throws the throwing knife has at least mastered the extremely high level of "absolute".

Faced with the throwing knife that came to him in an instant, Hisoka reflexively activated the "flexible love" reserved in advance.

With the abrupt contraction of the pink sticky line, Hisoka's upper body jerked back, making an extremely standard iron bridge movement.

The flying knives flew straight above him, piercing through the wall behind him, leaving a delicate hole in the light of the sound.

Kurapika doesn't have the same tactics as Hisoka, but he often wears the embodied chain on his hand in advance due to tactical needs.

This habit allowed him to save the step of manifesting the chains when facing the attack of throwing knives.

And the less than second contained in this step is precisely the capital for Kurapika to defend against the enemy.

He hastily raised his hand, and the chain on it thickened from his fingers, blocking the path of the throwing knife.

Clang!

But at the moment when the flying knife touched the chain, the powerful force that came from it directly shattered the chain.

"Huh!?"

Kurapika's pupils shrank sharply.

I saw that the flying knife had already flown past my cheeks like a rainbow through the sun.

Snort –

A trail of blood quickly appeared on Kurapika's face, and then blood flowed down, instantly staining half of her cheeks red.

Although the chain was shattered just now, it reluctantly changed the direction of the flying knife.

Otherwise, the knife will not land on the cheeks......

Ignoring the bleeding wound on her cheek, Kurapika looked solemnly at the front of the corridor with a tightly wrapped figure.

"Reinforcement Department."

In just one face-to-face encounter, Kurapika judged that the opponent was the one who strengthened his telekinesis.

Hisoka jerked up her upper body, glancing out of the corner of her eye at the wound on Kurapika's cheek.

If he hadn't been accustomed to having a back hand at all times, he might have suffered at least a skin injury like Kurapika.

Speaking of which—

This habit of reserving a back hand at any time was "taught" by Mo You.

In this way, it is not without benefit to be yin by Mo You so many times.

"He's a master."

Hisoka propped the back of his right hand on his waist, squinting at the seemingly invisible figure.

Not to mention the power of the flying knife in that hand, the amount of manifestation qi that lingered around his body alone was enough to show that the opponent's strength was very strong.

Originally, I thought that Celidonishi, as the fourth prince of the Kajin Kingdom, was really lacking in defense......

But the appearance of this figure is undoubtedly a testament to the weight of Cellidonig's status as a prince.

"Don't take the knife hard."

Kurapika didn't respond to Hisoka's assessment of the figure, but reminded him.

Hisoka mumbled in a nasal voice.

He had just dodged the throwing knife, so there was no way to collect combat information by "contact".

However, he trusts Kurapika's abilities and judgment.

Since Kurapika thinks that the other party is a reinforcement system, it is basically eight or nine and ten.

"Compared to the enhanced system, which is mainly hand-to-hand combat, this type of opponent is ...... At times, it's tricky. ”

Hisoka muttered to himself.

Acknowledging the strength of the other party, and the feelings that arise with it, that is-

Excitement that has not been seen in a long time!

The corners of Hisoka's mouth suddenly grinned in an exaggerated arc, and the pupils in his eyes began to jump with excitement.

After all, it's been held back for too long-

During the time when he was parasitized by the "disaster", he could only hide in places that were rarely inhabited.

But he waited for a few months just to be able to have a hearty fight with Mo You.

The result was a one-sided crush......

This kind of development is like a pervert who has been in prison for an unknown amount of time and finally survives until the day he is released from prison, and then wants to release his desires freely, but he is faced with a tough man.

Instead of letting go of his desires, Hisoka became even more depressed.

Those guys who can't even be called a "combat unit" can't satisfy him now.

But the person who suddenly appeared to strengthen the ability to connect with the mind of the throwing knife was undoubtedly the prey that could best meet his requirements.

Hmmm-

Unable to suppress the almost pure fighting spirit in his heart no longer, Hisoka suddenly rushed straight to the figure of unknown origin in front of him.

Maybe we should be glad to have done so.

The top floor of this building seems to belong to the fourth prince of the Kajin Kingdom.

So that there is no stinginess in the area, take the corridor as an example, usually in this kind of city where every inch of land is valuable, it is eager to cut a square meter and use it.

But the corridor of this place -

No

Rather than a corridor, it's actually more like a wide entrance lobby.

The open space invisibly gives more evasion possibilities, so in terms of location, Sisoka and Kurapika still have a little advantage.

It was because the place was spacious enough that Hisoka dared to rush towards the figure of the throwing knife from the front.

The man who attacked Sisoka and Kurapika was naturally Codename IV, who was responsible for guarding Celidonig.

"Change and Embodiment ......"

Codename Four-One wears a black combat suit with a closed visor on his face, leaving only one pair of eyes.

His emotionless gaze quickly swept over Kurapika farther away, and then shifted to Hisoka, who was heading straight for him.

The two throwing knives just now were intended to kill the invaders.

Although it was unsuccessful, it also provided some intelligence for the code name four.

Compared to Hisoka's ability to turn telekinesis into something like viscose, Codename Four focuses more on Kurapika's ability to manifest chains.

Because embodied things usually have some special abilities, many times they have to be guarded against.

And when he saw the chains flying into fragments of mental energy, Codename Four was keenly aware that Kurapika was the type that was good at using tactics.

The basis for this inference is Kurapika's practice of disguising embodied chains as normal chains before entering battle.

"If you have the opportunity to ......"

Between the four thoughts of the codename, Kurapika is considered a priority target.

Before that happens, though, deal with the threat from Hisoka.

In the face of Xisoo's wanton deformed aura, Codename Four was not affected in the slightest, and between raising his hand, a silver light that pierced the sun pointed directly at Xisuo's door.

The speed of the throwing knife is extremely fast.

At such a distance, it is basically difficult to react.

However, under the premise of being mentally prepared, Hisoka predicted the approximate trajectory of the flying knife in advance by observing the body movements of Code Four.

"Flexible Love"

Before the throwing knives struck, Hisoka spread a pink veil on the upper half of his body.

The flying knives in the air pierced the pink veil like an iron ball that fell vertically on the suspended rubber skin, and in the blink of an eye, it stabbed a long sharp cone on the rubber skin.

But the iron ball can't break the rubber skin, and the same is true of the throwing knife code-named four.

This is the nature of flexible love.

Throwing knives that are hindered to a certain extent naturally suffer in terms of speed.

Sisoka took advantage of this, leaning sideways slightly, allowing the flying knife to keep moving forward against the pink film.

When Codename Four saw this, he immediately realized that Hisoka was trying to use the rubber's aura to bounce the knife back.

But apparently he underestimated the force he exerted on the throwing knife, so much so that it would have taken at least two or three seconds to "bounce" it.

And this is a long time in battle, enough for Codename Fourteen to take Hisoka's life in one fell swoop.

"It seems that you don't trust the judgment of your 'companions.'"

Codename Four muttered to himself in his heart, and a flash of fierceness flashed in his eyes.

If it were assumed that he was a reinforcement, it would have been impossible to make such a stupid counterattack.

Codename Four's hands touched the undershirt from his waist, and two throwing knives appeared in his hands.

But just as he was about to raise his hand and throw the knife at Siso, a shiny sharp object burst through the air.

The sharp object resembles a thorn in appearance, with chains linked to the ends.

But it's Kurapika's chain of thorns.

The reason why Hisoka made such a risky counterattack was naturally because he knew that Kurapika would make a timely move.

On a personal note, Hisoka would prefer to go head-to-head with Codename Four.

But he knew exactly what Kurapika would do.

So since you can't go one-on-one, you simply count Kurapika's "role" in the battle.

The Chain of Thorns attacked Codename Four's side like a snake, and then suddenly split into spiked chains in midair, wrapping around Codename Four in the form of a cage.

"Monotonous."

Seeing the ability of the Chain of Thorns, Codename Four quickly gave an evaluation, and at the same time suppressed the idea of attacking Hisoka, and instead waved the flying knife in his hand.

Suddenly, two sharp rays intertwined an impermeable barrier in front of the codename four.

The chain of thorns flying in the sky shattered the moment it touched the fierce barrier.

The advantages of the reinforcement system are undoubtedly revealed at this moment.

And this hand slash also shows the attainments of Code No. 4 in "knife technique".

However, Kurapika's shot did buy time for Hisoka.

The throwing knife, which was deeply trapped in the pink film, was finally bounced out by him.

Hmmm——!

The throwing knives flew faster and more ferociously towards Codename Four.

In the face of this blow, Codename Four threw the two throwing knives in his hand unmoved.

The flying knives turned into sharp rays, and the speckled light that broke through the chain of thorns was lost in mid-air along with the bounced knives.

The other throwing knife was still aimed at Siso.

But at this moment, Hisoka had barely adapted to the speed of the throwing knife, and avoided the flying knife sideways.

But just as he and the flying knife staggered, the flying knife exploded without warning.

With a sharp sound, the fragments of the blade rained down on Hisoka's body, sending out tiny blood flowers.

Hisoka was struck suddenly, and the forward momentum suddenly collapsed.

"...... with explosives in the knife?"

Hisoka, who had been overshadowed, narrowed his eyes as he looked at Codename Four.

This guy ......

It's not a normal reinforcement system.

(End of chapter)