Chapter 501 ( Situation )

Unbeknownst to anyone, a month had passed since the girls had entered [Greed Island], time that Cloud had not wasted.

Thanks to the help of cluck, Gel and Kanzai, he had managed to almost complete his main mission, leaving only one more criminal to hunt, a B-Rank criminal. Now, they were on the trail of an S-Rank criminal because he had heard that he was one of the strongest criminals of the rank.

He thought at first that the criminals would be a huge threat, but the vast majority of the ones he had managed to hunt were of a similar level to those of the [Ghost Brigade], which made him wonder why the danger level was so high.

Cloud asked cluck about the reason, only to be dumbfounded when he heard that the danger level had been assigned only because those idiots had managed to kill a member of the royalty of one of the different nations of the world, managing to escape the place alive.

The blond knew this had merit, but this was ridiculous because any sufficiently prepared assassin could accomplish such a feat.

"If so, why did you come with me?" - Cloud asked with a frown.

"Because not all S-Rank Criminals, are simpletons, like for example the man we are going to hunt now" - replied Gel calmly as she looked at cluck for help.

"The target is just a few meters away" - said cluck with a frown - "And it looks like he's waiting for us."

"Oh?" - Kanzai raised an eyebrow in excitement when he heard this, only to run in the direction where their prey was, and see how indeed a middle-aged man, his face covered by a bushy beard, was looking at them with cold eyes.

"At last they appear" - muttered the man with gray hair and a huge amount of scars around his bare arms - "I've felt them breathing down my neck for hours."

"You're different from the rest of useless we've encountered" - said Cloud curiously because he didn't expect his last prey, to be the most exciting one.

"Other prey?" - asked the gray-haired man as he raised an eyebrow, only to understand what he was trying to say - "You mean the useless ones who made it to S-Rank by sheer luck?"

"Exactly" - Cloud replied as he narrowed his eyes.

"Don't insult me by putting me in the same group as them" - snorted the middle-aged man - "I've killed entire villages, destroyed ancient buildings, assassinated top leaders of different nations, I've even killed top leaders of different religions of the world"

"Yamato Ryusuke" - Kanzai said while squinting his eyes - "One of the few criminals that have been chosen to enter a possible new category, the SS Rank"

"Oh, it's an honor, I hope they give me an award if I'm the first, now if you'll excuse me, I have to go contribute a bit to get promoted as soon as possible" - said Ryusuke sarcastically, only to back away when he saw how a spear fell a few centimeters from where he was - ". . ."

"You're funny, why don't I kill you, so you tell the joke to god?" - Cloud asked sarcastically as he made his spear return to his hands - "Not a bad plan, is it?"

"Very funny" - replied Ryusuke as his body was surrounded by a wet aura - "Let's see if you can keep making those remarks with your throat full of water."

Cloud didn't say anything else, he just smiled as his shadow trembled slightly.

"He's not going to let us fight, is he?" - Kanzai muttered as he growled in irritation as he watched the blond put his spear aside and engage against Ryusuke in close combat - "That's a no."

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"I have to admit that Cloud is fast and skilled" - Netero said after reading the report that the [Zodiac] members had sent him - "If he keeps this up, he'll be done in a few more days."

Netero quickly shook his head as he waited for news about the return of the blond's escorts, only to notice how nothing seemed to have changed.

"Sir, we have received news about a change on the Yorbian continent" - the secretary said as he entered his leader's office.

"Changes?" - Netero asked with a frown - "What do you mean?"

"Nothing for sure, but something unknown produced a huge change in the ecosystem of the place, causing a lot of the fauna of the place, to mutate or die during the last few days" - answered the secretary as he left a report on his leader's desk.

Netero frowned even more when he heard this, only to take the report and read it carefully - "No clues as to the start of this?"

"Negative, such seems to have been a matter of course" - replied the secretary seriously - "What are your orders regarding this?"

"Negative, it seems that it was something natural" - answered the secretary with seriousness - "What are your orders regarding this?"

"For now we will do nothing" - answered Netero seriously while shaking his head - "Let's wait for the members of the [Zodiac] to finish their missions, so we can talk about it in more detail because honestly I'm not sure what is going on"

"Ok, I will inform the members of the [Zodiac] who are in town, and I will try to contact those who are not" - replied the secretary with a serious expression.

"Thank you very much, now if you need me, I'm going to read these reports more calmly because something tells me that things are not as simple as we think" - Netero said seriously as he put the report of Cloud's actions aside, and concentrated on the incident on the Yorbian Continent - "Strange, the events are not happening in full continent, but rather on an island far from the place"

Netero was confused because this didn't make sense, unless the events were caused by a human who is trying to do an illegal experiment, but according to the report, no signs of human intervention have been shown.

"I better send someone, the problem is that I don't know what kind of situation we are facing" - Netero muttered with a frown as he started to think - "It's also not sure if this affects humans."

Netero was silent for a few seconds before shaking his head - "It's better to be safe than sorry, I'm going to wait for the [Zodiac] to meet so I can plan the next step, I might even try to send Cloud-san, with him things would be much calmer"

The old president of the [Hunters Association], quickly shook his head at this idea because he was unconsciously becoming dependent on the blond's actions, after all, he had been cleaning up some sectors that no hunter had wanted to go for different reasons.

"Maybe it's time for me to retire because I feel like I'm getting senile" - Netero muttered, only to let out a laugh at such stupidity - "No, it's not time yet"

Netero, without knowing it, had let the fate of the world take its course because if he had intervened, many things would have changed, although this was not a product of his negligence, but of the direct intervention of the will of the world.

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"You're not so bad" - Cloud said as he thundered his neck with a huge toothy grin - "Your melee skill, not bad, but you still have a long way to go."

"You're an insolent man, blondie" - Ryusuke said with a frown as he looked at his hands because he could feel how they were shaking.

Blocking the attacks, had caused massive damage to his arms, but none of that mattered because he could feel his martial arts experience, growing with every second of combat he had against the blond menace.

No matter how much he had walked this dark path, the fact that he was a martial artist, made his desire to fight other martial artists, grow bigger and bigger, that's why he would also go to certain dojos and kill everyone in his path.

"I don't understand how someone as young as you, has such an imposing strength, but it doesn't matter, your death will make my martial art continue to evolve" - Ryusuke said coldly while his body was surrounded by his aura, creating what appeared to be a disheveled karate uniform.

"Your ability Nen is a costume change?" - cluck asked disdainfully.

Ryusuke paid no attention to the woman's sarcasm-filled words, he only focused on the man in front of him.

His ability, the [Way of the Force], meant that as long as he used his ability, he would learn all the martial arts he saw, as long as his body was compatible with it. It also increased his physical power to impressive levels, with the restriction that he could not learn other skills.

"cluck, be quiet, that skill is lethal" - said Kanzai, who could feel how the aura around Ryusuke had changed drastically.

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