"Thanks for the help man my name is Leorio, what's yours?"
"I'm Buck, nice to meet you," Buck said while stretching his hand out for a handshake which was met in kind with a very sweaty hand and subtly wiped his hand after on his clothes.
"Hey, Leorio who's your new friend?" a small Gon approached them followed by a sharp-eyed Killua in toe.
Buck didn't want to associate with them but didn't want to entirely dismiss these young monstrous geniuses in case he needed help in the future after all they were always there for friends and what harm can having potential nen masters at your beck and call harm you aside from the Hisoka problem
"Im Buck. you can rely on me if you ever need help in the exam, although I'm not the toughest I do know how to fight." Buck said while keeping a smile on his face trying to garner some trust from these young monstrous before they start to grow up.
"Buck this is Killua and Gon I also met them during the hunter's exam, although they look small they are very strong, I guess what they lack in height they make up for in stamina and strength, hahaha" Leorio introduced his newfound friends to Buck while missing out one
"Aren't you forgetting me Leorio, my name is Kurapika"
Gon turned to the examiner and asked "Hey Mr Satotz, is this where the second phase begins?"
"No, it isn't. We have quite the way to go"
Buck then looked around at the other examinees but it was hard to see everyone due to the heavy mist in the area.
So while the mist was blocking most people's vision and the ruckus was going on regarding the fake Mr Satotz with the man-faced ape impersonating him, Buck moved away from Gon and the others.
they were keeping up their guard against other possible human-faced apes after that show, they saw the examiner run and they quickly ran after him, Buck was still marveling at the man-faced ape as the others began to run
Buck wanted to know more about this world as it seemed so interesting to him and he knew that the anime didn't show a lot of what's in this world
Some of the other applicants saw Buck at the back of the pack who seemed absent-minded and wanted to take advantage of their superior numbers to quickly take him out of the competition
The first man approached Buck thinking it would be an easy fight considering he himself was a mountain of muscles with a towering height
Buck looked down and shivered, but in actuality, he was slowly moving his hand closer to the knife in his waistline, when his hand reached the knife's handle he quickly swung it out and in one motion cut the stomach of the man
The man then stumbled back as blood began to flow down from his stomach and, he touched the blood spilling out of the cut with his hand which he slowly brought up to his face his eyes went wide then he fell back onto the ground
Blood slowly came out from the back of his head as his body lay there, Buck looked up at the 6 men standing behind the dead body with a cold glint in his eyes like he was an experienced hunter and this was a usual sight for him
Then Buck ran towards the six remaining people who were fuming with anger and shouting out curses at Buck
"You can't take all of us on just let us break one leg and will leave you here, though it's not our fault if you die to the magical beasts here."
He first went to the one at the front and quickly swept his legs, letting his head hit hard against the floor knocking him out, this quickly awoke the rest of them to what was happening and they got ready in a fighting stance.
"If you surrender now, I'll knock you out with less force so you will wake up sooner"
Seeing no one taking his offer he sighed.
"It's unfortunate that you didn't take my offer but ill at least try to spare you from death, since this is a competition and you're only trying to win it, id put more blame on the organisation that's promoting this fighting and giving opportunity to it" Buck muttered.
He then threw a right jab to the person on the right hitting him straight in the nose and causing him to squirt a fountain of blood and faint.
While at the same time receiving a quick attack from the person on the left, who sent a roundhouse kick towards Buck. Buck promptly blocked with his left leg, then kicked straight into the guy's chest, sending him flying away and colliding against the wall of the tunnel they had come out of.
"Ouch he isn't getting up after that one, three down three to go"
Buck then looked at the remaining three. One pissed his pants and fainted, while the other two stood there in fear.
"I surrender," said the remaining two men at the same time.
They then looked at each other then it was lights out for both of them as Buck knocked both of them out by hitting them on their heads.
After that, he turned around and ran after the examiner following behind everyone.
As time passed and monsters took out more contestants, Buck began to think if even taking out those guys from earlier made any impact on the number of applicants. After all, they weren't important characters and might not have even had the strength to get through this round.
Buck began to run in the direction the participants followed mr Satotz, although the area was very foggy Buck still managed to notice where the earth and sand were disrupted by a stampede of humans running through with some trampled shrubbery and the slight silhouettes of people around the area fighting some more magical beasts that Buck was very interested in looking at but thought he didn't have time to and might be too dangerous to check out considering this is the hunter's exam.
Authors note- had my first two tests that went as well as I can have hoped so I wrote another chapter even though I have another one tomorrow morning anyway hoped you've enjoyed the story so far and feel free to drop some ability ideas to do with swords.