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Chapter 62: Challenge I
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Netero's face couldn't help but twitch, "Underestimating people is not a good thing you know~"
"I'm not underestimating you though, I just stated what I observed~"
"Hoho, well I'm old after all~" Netero let out a small laugh after thinking about something interesting...
Suddenly the door opened with someone entering, a woman of average height with sea-foam green hair cut, at medium length.
She wears a headdress that has a pair of dog-like ears, a conservative, knee-length white dress, and a white caplet with a cross at the front of the neck.
Her upper jaw and nose also look like those of a dog, this is Cheadle Yorkshire a Triple-Star Disease Hunter, and a member of the Zodiacs with the codename "Dog".
"Mr. Yasuo? we already prepared the 2-star hunter license and updated your information in the database. if you can please hand me the 1-star hunter license." Said Cheadle while handing him the 2-star hunter license.
Yasuo nodded and handed her the 1-star hunter license after taking the 2-star one, "Ahm, if you don't mind giving me some of your time, I'd really like to talk about how you created that potion!
Also, I tried contacting you through the hunter's website but you never responded. and do you have any other ideas? Did you find anything new? Are you interested in specializing in the medical field??"
Cheadle threw a barrage of questions at him with expectation in her eyes.
Yasuo raised his eyebrows in wonder, 'Is she the one who sent tens of messages to me? oh well'
"I rarely visit the hunter's Traven and I never check my inbox except in cases like this so sorry. As for..." Yasuo was about to continue answering before getting interrupted by Netero.
"Cheadle why don't you leave this for another time, I need to talk to him alone~" Stated Netero while stroking his beard.
Cheadle had a disappointed look on her face but complied nonetheless leaving only Yasuo and Netero in the room with the latter saying.
"Don't mind her eagerness. she has a good heart and seeks advancement in the medical field so seeing your research results, she wanted to work with you... So what kind of person are you?"
Yasuo let out a smile, "A very simple one. I go by what interests me and what I like,"
A bright light appeared deep in Netero's eyes, "And I'm the same but what interests me is finding a challenge and you might just be a challenge, so how about a spar?"
'Straightforward but not unexpected huh' Thought Yasuo before saying, "Hmm, how about an exchange. I will fulfill what you want by giving you a challenge and in return, you'll make me a 3-star hunter but without all the responsibilities,"
Netero's face twitched only for a smile of amusement to appear on his face, "Quite greedy huh, Let's change the terms a little bit. If we ended up on a draw or you defeat me I'll fulfill your request, how about it, you agree?"
"Sure," Directly answered Yasuo to which Netero raised his eyebrows, "You're that confident huh, well follow me~"
They walked until they reached the elevator where Netero swiped a card he has on him on the card swiper attached to the elevator then clicked on the number 0 three times then the elevator started going down for a while.
What appeared in front of them is an extremely large metallic underground room, "This is the hunter association's specialized training room. only 3-star hunters and the zodiacs are allowed here~"
They walked towards the middle of the large room that has a space of at least 4 square miles, they stood a few meters from each other with Netero saying, "Let's start with a little warm-up to judge each other's strength,"
While saying that, Netero started outputting his Aura creating a large whirlwind around him until it enveloped him peacefully, this 'Ken' and Yasuo did the same without answering.
The white transparent Aura faces the dark purple but tranquil Aura, they observed each other's Aura getting as much information as possible from how it behaves with Netero narrowing his eyes as a burning fire lit up within them.
'From what I can see, he is stronger than me, his Aura poll is at least and his control over his Aura is perfect managing to form his Ken without giving much information and with no waste of Aura I can detect.
Perhaps this will be more of a challenge than I thought especially considering how polished his Aura is, rarely do I see Nen users who focus on polishing their Aura.'.
After getting his domain range to a satisfactory level, Yasuo gave more time to refining his Aura which is something he never tried before since he thought the results will be better if his Aura pool is much larger and the fact that he gave most of his time to training his other abilities especially his control domain.
Refining his Aura produced a remarkable effect of concentrating his Aura more giving him more room to grow.
But the only noticeable effect is increasing his Aura's power which means the damage he deals with the same Aura output now is better than before he refined his Aura though not by much.
Yasuo noticed a while ago that when training to expand his Aura pool, it became much slower to do so as his Aura pool became larger and larger.
It was as if he is reaching his limits or his body is reaching its capacity limit making the process of expanding his Aura pool slower and slower.
If he had to estimate, he'd say his Aura pool limit is around 500000-600000 Aura units though he can push it further if he refined and polished his Aura more.
For him to reach that degree, he will need to solely concentrate on increasing his Aura pool for tens of years so he decided to take a shortcut.
They looked at each other signaling the start of the fight before disappearing only for a thunderous sound to reverberate across the room.
The sound coming from the impact produced by their fist making contact only to be followed by another booming sound as Yasuo sent a kick towards his opponent only for Netero to use his free hand to block while allocating as much Aura on it as possible yet he still ended up getting thrown a few meters away.
He performed a flip in the air landing on his feet while narrowing his eyes, 'He is fast and possibly faster than me though I don't know how fast his attacking speed is or how much power he used in this exchange and neither does he.'
This first exchange was but a mere test for them to estimate the other's strength and what is coming next is them testing each other's limits without the use of their abilities and how far they need to go before inflicting fatal damage on the other.
Netero got into a punching position only to vanquished in the next second punching towards Yasuo with a speed much faster than the last exchange. He appeared close to Yasuo while punching with a speed reaching 0.5 Mach.
Yasuo casually avoided the punch while making his hands sharp then attacking with a speed only a little bit faster than Netero with the latter also avoiding the punch.
The routing continued with their speed increasing and the Aura they allocate when attacking increasing as well with Yasuo always having the advantage.
Something they both noted is how peculiar the other's Aura is, extremely quiet and controlled, this is one of their strongest points, as it is impossible to read their next move from it Though that only applies to Netero.
Yasuo always keeps his domain active never stopping the ability so it's only natural for him to keep it in such a situation though he is only using it to sense things around him without controlling anything.
The ability that allows him to sense anything in the domain also allowed him to detect the smallest movements in the opponent's muscles, blood, heart allowing him to predict the latter's actions.
Though not significantly when observing someone like Netero who has good control over his muscles but there is enough movement for Yasuo to predict most of his actions.
And this is something Netero noticed narrowing his eyes while evading the chop coming towards him.
'He can...predict my actions? I haven't managed to land any hit on him while most of his attacks almost hit me if not for me increasing my speed significantly each time but he doesn't seem to need to increase it as much as he evades before I attack forcing me to change my attack pattern...'
Netero didn't stop the exchange as he tried to find how he can be seen through only to come to the conclusion that he is using an ability of his.