__________ POV Ashton__________
For breakfast we didn't have anything too fancy, poisoned pancakes are always tasty with syrup.
Maha and Zeno were also there. Today, they will be properly burying Zigg. And I won't stay around to see it. I already overstayed my welcome long enough.
Illumi didn't say anything about his little mess up yesterday night. I also forgot to bother about it all that much. I did like seeing him be awkward in his own way.
It was amusing enough. But my departure was something they expected. Maha bid me farewell and thanked me one last time.
'I don't think we will ever be able to meet again... Thank you, for everything.' Were his exact words. And, to be fair, he stuck around much longer than any human ever could.
His long life was probably out of pure hatred towards those snakes. He survived with the hope that he would see their heads on a platter one day.
He is at least ten years older than Netero. The only person that could top that is Don Freecs if he's even alive still...
Now, he's completed his objective, his only reason now is to see his family prosper, even more, to observe the next generations silently.
After all, Silva does have 5 times as many children as every one of his predecessors. And two of them are highly talented. Namely, Kalluto and Killua. Who are both extremely young Nen users.
Zigg would be proud. Or he would laugh at them for not learning about Nen sooner. It's hard to say with him. He did find out about Nen at around 7 years of age, which is even better than me.
Well, I was technically stranded in a strange place where no one could teach me anything.
The only being that thought me how to manipulate Nen properly was my teacher. And I only met him after a dozen or so years.
I was around 17 then, I already knew about Nen, finding it out by myself at the age of 8, and trying my best to develop moves using it.
Details of what happened back then can be a bit blurry. But I can't really complain much. I remember Teacher saying I was pretty average, but it seems that humans would consider me a 'one in a million genius'.
It's quite obvious that the Dark Continent would have different standards of strength, as most species there could cause the downfall of the human race.
When I eventually reached my laboratory, I dragged the huge chest out of my void space. Slowly piecing the key together with the pieces I had collected.
I didn't want to rush the process too much, I won't be jumping straight into the continent after opening it anyway.
After half an hour of slowly fiddling with the lock, I managed to get it open. An old air came out of the box as if I just opened the door to a dusted over library.
These relics are ancient after all. I don't even know what civilisation lived on the dark continent in the past, because the beasts there wouldn't have been able to build such complicated items.
The Chimera Ants only became able to do similar things because they devoured humans. So they don't count.
Inside the chest, I could see my old pair of gauntlets.
'The Gauntlets Of Neith', an artefact that allowed me to strengthen my own body with Nen to a much more focused degree, disregarding any Nen compatibility.
They also allowed my Nen to travel smoothly. It allowed me to completely bypass the pacifist condition of my Parasitic Explosion.
After all, in the dark continent waiting for your enemy to attack first is like asking for death.
Near them was my most favourite book. The Compendium of the Wild Hunt 'Wōden's Diary'. It was an endless book, that collected information about the world's beasts in real-time.
The book didn't look large, but the more pages you cross, the more appear. It only shows the species that are currently still alive.
The Chimera Ant's weren't on the book the last time I read it. But a lot can happen in a century.
Besides those two, there are many trinkets with varying abilities and useful attributes. Some granted me protection from poison, others from physical damage.
In the box, among the varying powerful relics, I could see a familiar pair of beads. 'The 1000-Bead Mala' A small looking bracelet that Netero managed to get his hands on whilst travelling with me.
It made his prayer a hundred times stronger. It was obviously named by him. It could grow larger or smaller depending on the user's wishes.
At some point, the prayer beads would separate and multiply, turning into a bead necklace for his 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.
That would circle around the body of the statue and crush his enemies while he used his hands.
I could also see Linne's trinket here. 'Ukanomitama's Field' a small ring with a strange inscription on it.
The ring greatly strengthened her En's range. It also added different effects to it depending on the seasons. Summer was quite deadly, turning all of the targets into fertilizer for more life to grow.
It took a lot of Nen to use though, so she could only use it in emergencies. Running out of Nen on the Dark Continent after everything went mad was as good as being dead.
And finally... Zigg's relic. 'Yama's Nail' a small dagger, everything even scratched by it would die instantly, at the cost of an appropriate amount of Nen of course.
The strongest the target the greater the price. If you run out of Nen, you would need to use your own vitality to appease the god of death, lest the relic decides you are unworthy of its prowess.
These things aren't exactly sentient. But they aren't mere objects either, they are obviously somewhat animated. I could see some of them wriggle around a bit.
Seeing all of these artefacts makes me feel safe. But I know that even with them I can't really be careless.
'Yama's Nail' is more of a trump card than anything, no matter how strong it sounds. And being reliant on it would make you weaker in the end.
Zigg knew better than to be too excited about it. He didn't hesitate at all to seal it away, even if it was the perfect weapon for an assassin.
Netero didn't care much about his relic. Even though he named it himself. He said it just didn't feel like his own strength.
And Linne only liked her's because it helped her survive.
Overall, these relics are all overwhelmingly powerful, especially in the hands of someone with an unbelievably large amount of Nen.
Now, I'll just clean them a bit and start the next part of my departure plan.
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