Level up in HxH - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Second Exam begins.

Rocky definitely was not following the main team. But before coming to the Hunter Exam, Rocky was completely prepared.

After all, at that time, he have not awakened his golden finger.

He thought he might need to first pass the exam, then only can he awaken the golden finger.

But his golden finger awakened just when first official exam started.

As for the items he bring are, GPS tracker, Cooking Recipe, Wall Climber Gadget, and Gun.

As for the final exam, he can only depends on luck.

After all, that was a direct fight. Tricks don’t work on that situation.

Rocky take out the GPS tracker receiver, and he got the location.

Rocky put the tracker on Tonpa. Because he know that this guy will pass the exam with least problem.

As it really worked.

After finding the location, Rocky gather aura in his feet, and then burst out in a very small amount.

This is almost like thrust to push him.

His speed is really fast. But its so fast that even his reflexes enable to handle it.

“Hey! Rocky, Gon, let’s get to the front!”

Rocky went forward a bit, and actually found Killua running away.

“Killua, here you are? Where is Gon?” Rocky asked in shock.

“Gon has fallen behind, and there is a good chance he won’t be able to come back,” Killua said with a bit of pity.

“No, Gon has a very good nose. He can follow the smell of Leorio’s perfume.” Rocky pointed at Hisoka who was running away not far away carrying Leorio on his back.

“If what you said is true. Then he is really weird…” Killua raised an eyebrow in doubt.

…

There were no more surprises along the way. Rocky and Killua followed Satotz to the second examination room: a large house in the forest with a clock hanging above the main entrance.

“Let’s find a place to sit down first. Gon and the others will be there soon.” After Rocky said to Killua, he came to Leorio who was placed under the shade of a tree by Hisoka. And he sat next to him and rested.

Not long after, people walked out of Milsy Wetland one after another and came to the second examination room, including Gon and Kurapika.

As soon as Gon and Kurapika arrived here, they started looking for Hisoka and Leorio.

“Here!” Rocky shouted to Gon and Kurapika, who were looking around.

“Leorio, Rocky, are you all okay?” Gon and Kurapika walked over.

“I’m fine, but I feel like laughing when I see Leorio’s face.” Rocky looked at Leorio’s swollen right side of his face.

“Stop laughing Rocky, why is my face hurt?” Leorio looked confused.

“I don’t understand either~” Rocky shrugged, because he shouldn’t know about this, but the fact is that Leorio wanted to challenge Hisoka but was punched and lost his memory. Rocky couldn’t help but laugh when he thought of this.

“It’s better not to tell him…” Gon and Kurapika whispered.

At this time Killua came over: “I didn’t expect you guys to really come back.”

“Haha, why are everyone staying outside?” Gon asked doubtfully.

“Because we can’t get in. You can tell by looking at it. We only heard moans from outside, and we couldn’t get in at all.” Killua pointed at the big house.

“Today at noon, the second exam will begin.” A human voice came from the house for the first time.

“Okay, I wish you all good luck. I’ll take my leave now.” Examiner Satotz said to all the candidates who arrived here.

At noon, the door of the house opened and everyone walked in. They saw a very large fat man and a slender woman sitting in front of him leaning on the sofa.

[Buhara (Lv47)]

[Menchi (Lv51)]

“The second exam subject is cooking. First finish Buhara’s dishes.” The slender woman pointed at the fat man behind her. “After passing, you finish dish for me. The condition for passing is that both of us say it is delicious, and the time is until we are full.” Menchi said to everyone.

“Tsk, I’ve never cooked in my life.” Leorio looked solemn.

“How can there be a test like this…” Kurapika also complained.

“The menu I want is roasted whole pig! As long as it’s a pig from the Forest Park, it can be any breed.” Buhara said to everyone with saliva on his face and an expectant look on his face.

In the following time, everyone walked around the forest park and found only one kind of pig, that is, Great Stamp pig.

Although this kind of pig has an indestructible big nose, its head is very fragile.

Rocky found that Pig level is around 7.

After one of the people discovered and defeated it, the others followed suit. After a while, they were roasted and returned to the big house.

…

“This guy definitely have Nen related to digestion or energy storage…” Rocky watched Buhara eat a total of seventy roast pigs. Even though he knew that he could eat so many, he still had to sigh after seeing it with his own eyes.

“As expected, all hunters are great!” Gon exclaimed.

“It’s awesome… but I don’t want to be like that!” Killua scratched his head and looked slightly embarrassed.

In the end, seventy people passed Buhara’s exam.

“I won’t let you go as easily as Buhara. The menu I want to review next is – sushi!”

“Hehehehe.” Menchi said proudly as he looked at everyone’s confused looks.

“Let’s solve it quickly this time… I still have something to do.” Rocky ran out directly after hearing Menchi’s words.

Following a small stream to a small lake, Rocky skillfully caught two big fish.

Rocky has prepared every possible situation.

After catching the fish, Rocky returned along the road and found a group of people rushing towards the small lake just now: “It must be Leorio who called out the key ingredient of fish again…”

Rocky came to the kitchen prepared by Menchi, found a spot and placed the fish on the cutting board.

Rocky who already know the content of the exam, so he practiced a lot before coming to take this exam.

Holding the fish in one hand, Rocky picked up the kitchen knife with the other hand: “Let’s get started.”

After saying that, Rocky slashed at the fish, and Rocky remove scales, remove spines, and slice in one go.

Rocky looked at the neat sashimi on the table with a happy face.

“Next is the rice…” Rocky washed his hands and grabbed the vinegar rice.

“It tastes good.” Looking at the vinegar rice in his hand, Rocky couldn’t help but take a bite. “It sounds like I’m a little hungry. I haven’t eaten anything since the exam started.”

After thinking about it, Rocky found a bowl, scooped the vinegared rice in, put in a few slices of sashimi, and started eating by himself.

“Hey Rocky, you are so smart. I think making us full is probably one of the intentions of this time.” Leorio and Gon saw Rocky who was eating and put down the exam content at their seats, and start eating.

“I think this is unlikely…” Kurapika looked helplessly at the three who were eating during the hunter exam.

“Asshole… I haven’t even eaten yet, but those guys actually started eating by themselves.” Menchi felt unhappy when she saw that among the busy candidates, some were minding their own meals.

After filling his stomach, Rocky carefully pinched the vinegared rice. After pinching about ten pieces in a row, he finally made a decent rectangle. He carefully placed the sashimi on the vinegared rice, and he was done.

Rocky anxiously put the finished product on a plate, covered it with a lid, and brought it to Menchi.

“Not bad, you are the first one, open it and take a look.” Menchi pointed to the plate in Rocky’s hand.

“Okay.” Rocky opened the lid and placed the sushi in front of Menchi.

“Well, it looks good, let me try it.”

“The rice is a bit hard, but it’s still solid and doesn’t fall apart after one bite. The important thing is that the sashimi is cut well, evenly thick, and the cuts are clean and look very whole.” Menchi commented while chewing.

“Well, although the vinegar rice is not very good, the fish is still handled well. You passes the test.” Menchi patted Rocky on the shoulder.

“Oh, someone actually passed.”

“Go up and ask.” After hearing Menchi’s last words of passing, everyone looked at Rocky.

Rocky ignored them, just told Gon, Kurapika, Leorio and Killua how to make sushi, and then walked out of the examination room.

“This test won’t go well. It should be a long time before it ends. I still have something I want to do.” Rocky walked out of the house, looked back and walked towards the forest.

Rocky didn’t intend to change anything, because he can’t cheat as well.

Finding a relatively secluded place, Rocky took out the cup he had just brought from the venue, filled it with water from the stream, picked a leaf and placed it on the water.

After completing the preparations, Rocky sat down.

This ceremony is called Water Divination. If you put your hand close to the cup and start “Ren”, the water will change to show each person’s Nen Type.

Although Rocky has all 6 types of Nen effectiveness is 100%. It means he will not waste his aura when using any of the Nen Type.

But each Nen Type also has levels.

Like Gon Freecss is an Enhancement Type. When he first time tried to use enhancement aura, water increase at very slow speed.

But after he practiced for 3 months, water increment is several times faster.

“Let’s register these Nen type~” Rocky slowly reached out to the cup and started releasing aura.

Rocky looked at the glass in front of him, and soon found that his water color started to change, along with weird crystal started to appear, volume of water is also started to increase, and leaf also started to twist.

Ting~

[Enhancement aura conversation registered]

[Transmutation aura conversation registered]

[Emission aura conversation registered]

[Manipulation aura conversation registered]

[Conjuration aura conversation registered]

[Specialisation aura conversation registered]

————–

Aura: Lv14 (0/120) [+]

Nen Type: Enhancement (Lv1) [+], Transmutation (Lv1) [+], Emission (Lv1) [+], Manipulation (Lv1) [+], Conjuration (Lv1) [+], Specialisation (Lv1) [+]

Nen Skill: Ten (Lv2), Zetsu (Lv2), Ren (Lv2)

Nen Ability: None

[Point: 19]

…

[Training Quest]

Pushup: 0/100

Situp: 0/100

Squats: 0/100

Run: 124/10

————–

Rocky thought for a second, clicked on ‘+’ behind Enhancement.

Ping~

[Enhancement aura conversation Level up]

After that, Rocky started to exercise.

When Rocky was running in the first exam, this Training Quest appeared in front of him.

He want to see how many point he will earn from exercise.

He started to pushups, with the speed of 1 pushup per second.

Rudra’s level reached level 14. With this level of power, he can’t get tired even after running for 124 kilometers.

In just 20 minutes, he finished 1200 Pushups.

After finishing that, he started to do Squats.

He done total 1200 Squats.

When he started to do Situps, with every 100 situps, his Training Quest is completed, and he earn 4 points.

Until about four o’clock in the afternoon, the sound of propellers was heard in the sky.

“It’s time for me to go back.” Rocky looked up and saw a missile-shaped spacecraft flying through the sky.

Rocky returned to the house. The door was full of people, and everyone looked up into the sky.

In the air, the door below the spacecraft slowly opened, and a figure jumped out of the spacecraft.

“Pap~” With the crisp sound of clogs, an old man who looked bald but had a single braid appeared in front of everyone.

“It’s amazing, he jumped from such a high place without breaking any bones.” Someone said in surprise.

“Not only that, there are no cracks in the ground under his feet, which shows that his control of aura is extremely exquisite. Definitely around 70% to 80% Aura control…” Rocky said secretly.

[Isaac Netero (Lv86)]

“The person in charge of the hunter examination, President Netero.” Menchi said nervously.

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was instantly surprised.

“Menchi, do you think everyone in this test lacks the courage to challenge new things?” President said.

“No… it’s just the attitude of the candidates and various reasons that made me lose my sense of judgment… I am not qualified to be an examiner.” Menchi was like a child who made a mistake in front of President Netero.

Just now, Menchi gave everyone except Rocky a failing grade because he was dissatisfied with the sushi dishes served by the candidates.

“Why don’t you continue to serve as an examiner and become a candidate yourself, how about challenging yourself with the questions?” President Netero expressed his opinion.

“That’s what you said.” Menchi was stunned for a moment, then agreed with this statement. “But there was one person who passed the exam just now.” and then said.

“Who is it?” President Netero asked and looked around.

“Me.” Rocky raised his hand and walked out of the crowd.

“Okay, then you don’t need to participate in the next new test from Menchi, but directly enter the next test. Is everyone okay with that?” President Netero said to everyone.

“Thank you, President.” Rocky nodded slightly towards President Netero.

“Then the next question I’m going to ask is boiled eggs. President, can you take us to that mountain?” Menchi pointed to a high mountain in the distance.

“Of course, no problem.” President Netero nodded.

After that, everyone got on the airship and headed to the mountain.

Not long after, the airship arrived at its destination, and everyone got off the aircraft, except Rocky.

“Why don’t you go down and take a look?” President Netero looked at Rocky.

“Okay!” Rocky also walked out.

Rocky want to see if eating egg will provide him points.

With his current level, getting the egg is just too easy.