Gourmet Hunter (HxH Fanfic)

Because they had to wait for Sanbica's Aura to be fully depleted, Dove was willing to wait a few more hours before implementing the plan.

And because they waited for a few hours longer, an invader came. But even then, Dove was sure that he could kill the invader here and obtain Sanbica's ability.

His confidence stemmed from the nature of Sambika's virus zone. Based on his calculations, it would take roughly another hour before Sanbica's Aura was completely drained, causing the dark green restricted zone to disappear.

That was plenty of time. Not to mention an hour, even five minutes would be enough for him to mobilize his companions and artificial creatures to completely defeat Law.

However, what he didn't expect was, the intruder would simply ignore the lethal virus and scoop up Sanbica like it was nothing.

What shocked him wasn't Law's decision to pick her up, it was the fact that Law's entire body was basically engulfed by the green virus and yet, he showed zero signs of being affected.

Boom! Boom!

Kuro used its claws to break through the walls, taking the shortest route possible.

In no time, he'd burst through the last wall with Law and Sanbica in tow, emerging from the prison building.

At this time, the people in the prison hadn't yet managed to form a proper perimeter, so Law's group managed to escape from the building unchallenged.

However, before they could climb onto the back of the Zoldyck Family's dragon, they couldn't say they had completely escaped danger.

After leaving the building and arriving at the open space, Kuro used the same brute-force method to blast a hole through the thick outer wall. Then he and Law bolted through it, heading straight for the edge of the island. Just a few more steps ahead is the lake.

Law pulled out a small, strange-looking instrument, which looked like a big walnut. It had small holes on its rough texture and a jutting flute mouthpiece.

Putting the mouthpiece into his mouth, Law took a deep breath from his abdomen and blew hard, but no sound came out.

After blowing it, Law slipped the instrument back into his pocket and waited for the Zoldyck Family's dragon to arrive and pick them up.

Suddenly, from somewhere in the distance, a beastly roar echoed out.

Hearing the roar, Law felt relieved and looked back at the prison behind the hole in the wall. Even without trying hard to sense it, he knew that a crowd was already gathering behind.

If it weren't for the fact that 70% of his Aura had been taken away by Kuro, and if it weren't for the fact that he had to take Sanbica to treatment as soon as possible, Law would never have chosen to retreat temporarily and would have stayed to kill that guy in the white coat.

The first one to chase out was Dove. As soon as he exited through the breach, he heard the roar and noticed the distant silhouette of something large flying toward them through the sky.

Not even ten seconds after he came out, people in black uniforms rushed out from the holes in the wall. There were twenty-one of them in total, all of them were Nen Users. Judging by first impressions, none of them were weak.

Dove, who is wearing a white coat, stood out starkly among the sea of black uniforms. He looked coldly at Law and Kuro, who were standing by the lake. He didn't believe for a second they had any real chance of escape.

At this time, Law looked at everyone deeply, as if he wanted to memorize the faces of these twenty-two Nen Users completely.

Then, without hesitation, Law pushed off the ground and leapt into the lake, still carrying Sanbica in his arms.

His leap was sharp and fluid, like a swordfish slicing through the air above the sea, plunging into the cold lake with barely a splash and shooting several meters forward in an instant.

Law had trained with Biscuit for a year, and part of that training took place underwater, in powerful, fast-moving currents. That experience had honed Law's swimming ability to something far beyond ordinary.

In fact, even in his previous life, Law had been a strong swimmer. It's just that he was even better now.

Even while carrying Sambika, Law's speed in the water was still very fast, and he could swim several meters in a single second.

Seeing Law jumped directly into the lake, Kuro instantly shrank to his housecat form and turned into a streak of black smoke, following right behind.

"There are giant venomous jellies in that lake. They're as good as dead." Someone in the team muttered coldly.

The sea lake where the Demon Island is located is filled with massive venomous jellyfish. Any creature that falls into the lake will have zero chance of survival.

In fact, giant venomous jellyfish may have no interest in creatures that fall into the water. And, their danger lies in the fact that they have no intention of hurting people, but can easily take human lives, and the reason for that is their extreme toxin.

Like most of the creatures on the island, the giant venomous jellyfishes also carries deadly toxins, with even a small amount being lethal.

Their dense, slender tentacles spread through the water. Any living creature whose skin touches these tentacles would be infected with the jellyfish's deadly venom.

After the venom takes effect, the first half hour brings weakness in the limbs along with various symptoms of poisoning. This is the golden treatment window, as beyond half an hour, death is certain.

If the military wanted to create biochemical weapons based on poisons, the giant venomous jellyfish would be one of the materials. To put it directly, Demon Island possessed many materials suitable for creating biochemical weapons.

It was precisely because the lake was filled with numerous venomous jellyfish that the man believed Law and Sanbica were certainly dead.

"Should we pursue them?" Eagle asked Dove, holding a fan-shaped knife in his hand.

"The venomous jellyfish in the lake can't do anything to them, so of course we have to chase them." Dove said in a deep voice: "That woman is very important to our plan. We must recapture her no matter what."

When everyone heard this, they all remained silent, waiting for Dove's deployment.

Just then, the sound of wings flapping came from within the prison walls, and ten tall figures flew out from behind the walls.

The shadows covered everyone present. Looking up, they saw ten flying magical beasts, which were their artificial creatures.

Out of a total of one hundred and six artificial creatures, only ten were of the flying variety.

In the lake, Law dived into the water holding Sanbica and swam toward the shore like a fish.

The lake water was unusually cold. With the light coming from the surface of the lake, he could clearly see the giant blue jellyfishes with their dense, long tentacles swaying around them.

For any creature in the lake, these giant blue jellyfish would be a disaster. And now, after Law carried Sanbica into the water, the giant blue jellyfishes met their own disaster.

The virus spread silently. The blue jellyfishes swayed gently in the water and slowly sank to the bottom.

In this way, Law did not suffer any attack from the aquatic creatures, and swam towards the shore at the fastest speed holding Sanbica.

He could hold his breath for a long time, and before entering the water, he had used his God Hand ability to create a spherical air bubble around Sanbica's head. As long as he swam quickly enough, they shouldn't need to surface too many times before reaching the shore.

Kuro didn't enter the water, but instead flew at high speed above the lake surface. He was not stupid, and chose a different direction from Law to mislead their pursuers.

On the island, Dove didn't order the ten flying artificial creatures to carry his companions to intercept at the shore. Instead, he first commanded them to directly find the dragon flying toward the island.

This was his judgment. As long as they could kill that dragon, they would cut off Law's escape route from Demon Island.

Although he was well aware of the importance of Sanbica as an invincible biochemical weapon, he was able to calmly watch Law disappear above the water holding Sanbica and make such a judgment.

Under Dove's control, the ten flying artificial creatures headed toward the dragon, which was five or six times their size.

When Law, soaking wet, climbed onto land with Sanbica, he saw the Zoldyck Family's dragon shedding large amounts of blood as it fell from the sky.

With his eyesight, he could clearly see the ten artificial creatures flying in the air.

Those were... human heads on magical beast bodies.

'This is bad…'

The dragon was dead, but Law had no time to think about how to explain this to the Zoldyck Family. His heart sank, and he made a quick decision to rush into the dense forest not far away.

The dragon had been their means of escape, but now it was gone...