Level up in HxH - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Earning points!

Rocky jumped to take out 1 egg, and after boiling it, he ate it.

This 1 egg instantly gave him 1 point.

Now this is even more shocking.

Rocky jumped a few more time, and he take out several eggs, and boiled all them, and started to eat it.

He ate it until he can’t ate anymore.

But in total, he only able to eat just 4 eggs.

Finally at night, Rocky with others return to the spacecraft again. Successfully passed the second exam.

On the spaceship, President Netero gathered everyone: “I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the forty-one candidates present. I am Netero, the representative person in charge of this hunter test. The arrival time of the next destination is tomorrow. At eight o’clock in the morning, you can move around freely until then.”

Since then, the number of hunters remaining in the test: 41.

…

Next Morning

The dazzling light broke Rocky’s sleep. Rocky opened his hazy eyes and looked out the window of the airship.

Rocky stretched his body a bit, and went to the restroom.

After getting fresh, and he took a nice bath.

After that, he went to take a big breakfast.

…

At 8:30 in the morning, aircraft arrived at the top of the Trick Tower. Everyone got off the airship.

Everyone stood on the top of the tower and looked at the empty place except the ground, wondering: “There is nothing and no one here, why do you want to come here?”

A bean-headed man came to everyone: “Hello everyone, I am Bean. This is the top of Trick Tower, where the third test begins. The test content is to reach the ground within 72 hours.”

After the message was conveyed, Bean returned to the airship, and then aircraft took off. As everyone watched, the horn of the aircraft sounded: “The game begins now, I wish you all a victory.”

Then he completely Disappeared from everyone’s sight.

Under the time limit, everyone began to look for a way to return to the ground.

“Killua, Kurapika, Gon, Leorio, come here.” Rocky called four people’s names in succession, and then found that it was troublesome to call so many people’s names at once…

“What’s wrong?” The four of them gathered around Rocky.

“Did you hear it?” Rocky tapped the floor under his feet twice, making a crisp sound.

“Hollow!” Kurapika and Gon reacted at the same time.

“Yes, there should be a secret door down there.” Rocky nodded.

“How did you find out?” Leorio asked curiously.

“Maybe it’s because my shoes are heavier. The sound I hear when I step on the ground changes obviously.” Rocky gave a random excuse to deal with Leorio.

“But only one person can enter a secret door. I just saw a person go in and find that the door cannot be opened.” Rocky added.

“Then you go down first, and we’ll find others later.” Gon said.

“No need, there are a total of five secret doors nearby. Let each one choose one.” Rocky pointed to the five nearby locations.

Everyone chose the secret door.

“It seems we have to say goodbye for now.” Killua said.

“See you on the ground.” Leorio looked at everyone.

The five people pushed the secret door gently and fell down at the same time.

…

Rocky stood firm and looked around and said seriously: “Well, I am indeed an unlucky guy.”

Rocky was the only one in this room.

And in another room that Rocky didn’t know about, Gon and four others fell into that room at the same time.

In the room, Rocky looked around. The whole room was empty except for the walls.

But there are two doors on one of the walls, with “Shortest Route” written on the left and “Safest Route” written on the right.

“If the words written on these two doors are not lies, then I have won the lottery.” Rocky said in surprise as he looked at the two doors.

“Which one should I choose?” Rocky came to the two doors and sat down.

“Theoretically, surviving the hunter test is the first, and the second is to consider passing. Then I should choose the safest route.” Rocky looked at the door on the right.

“However, although the word safest look good, when compared with shortest, one has to think about what if the safest route is the longest route, if it is so long that it takes all 72 hours. What to do if you can’t get there.”

“Similarly, the shortest route may also be the most dangerous route…” Rocky couldn’t choose the door he wanted to enter for a moment.

“Just choose this.” After thinking for a long time, Rocky finally stood up and walked to the door of “Shortest Route”.

“Difficulties are meant to be overcome!” Rocky pressed the button on the door.

The stone door slowly opened to both sides, and a small space like an elevator appeared, and Rocky walked in.

“The shortest route, open now.” As a voice sounded, Rocky felt his body suddenly levitate.

Looking down, the stone slabs under my feet disappeared, replaced by a bottomless black hole.

“It’s actually a vertical passage, so why didn’t I just jump off the top of the tower? Are you kidding me?!” Rocky looked down to see a trace of light, which should be the ground that candidates need to reach.

“No, if I don’t think of a way, I’m going to be smashed into pieces.” Rocky looked around anxiously.

“This is the only way, there is nothing but walls around.” Rocky released his ‘Ren’, then use ‘Gyo’ to concentrated his aura on his left hand, and grabbed the wall next to him.

“Hiss~~~~” Even with the protection of aura, Rocky’s hand was still splattered with blood and flesh due to the intense friction, but the speed of descent finally slowed down a lot.

Rocky bit his lip to endure the severe pain, and slowly began to reduce the protection of his left hand by aura. The pain became more intense, and blood continued to drip from his left hand to Rocky’s cheek.

All the reduced energy in his left hand was transferred to his right hand. Rocky waited for a pause when his left hand grabbed the gap between the stone walls, and then slammed his right fist with all the energy into the wall.

Following the inertia of his right fist, Rocky swung his left hand and jumped into the opened hole.

If he hadn’t slowed down and found a stopping point with his left hand just now, even if he smashed open the stone wall, his body would not be able to stop its falling. It would just continue to fall without being able to enter the hole.

Being able to think of the right solution in such a short time meant that Rocky had to adapt to circumstances.

Jumping in, Rocky rushed into the room together with the broken stones.

Looking down, there were two people fighting.

“Those below, get out of the way.” Rocky shouted.

“Huh?” The two stopped at the same time and looked up at Rocky.

“It’s too late…” Rocky stepped on the face of one of them, then rolled on the ground to stabilize his body.

“I’m sorry, I shouted, but you didn’t hide away.” Rocky stood up and said to the person lying on the ground.

“Hey…” Seeing that he didn’t respond, Rocky slapped his face twice.

“Did you faint completely?”

“Little guy~” Rocky’s attention has been on the person he stepped on. At this time, he heard another teasing voice and suddenly realized that there was another person.

“Hisoka?” Rocky turned to look at Hisoka and exclaimed in a low voice.

“Hehehe~ You know me?” Hisoka leaned over with a weird smile.

“Well… listen to what Gon said.” Rocky took two steps back and observed the surrounding environment. If possible, Rocky doesn’t want to have too much interaction with this moody monster…

“From the starting of Hunter Exam, I have eyes on you. You are not that strong before. How did your power increase so fast?” Hisoka squatted down, his height was the same as Rocky’s, his face full of anticipation.

“Except for where I came in, there is only one door here, and this door is behind Hisoka.” Rocky bit his lip and thought, realizing that he seemed to have no way to get rid of him.

“I don’t know.” Rocky didn’t expect that he would be targeted by Hisoka.

“That is not a problem. Fight me, and I will check myself what is different about you!” Hisoka narrowed his slender eyes with a smile, and the corners of his mouth curved in a terrifying arc. The energy in his body continued to increase, as if he was telling Rocky “I’m ready.”

“I really don’t know!” Rocky tried to faint ignorance.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk! You should be happy that I gave you chance to attack. Because if I started, you won’t even have chance to attack.” Hisoka’s face moved coming closer to Rocky.

“We can only give it a try.” Rocky used his ‘Ren’ at full power, and rushed forward.

Currently Rocky’s strength is literally equivalent to Gon Freecss fight against Hisoka in Heavens Arena.

Except there is difference that Rocky’s Aura control reached 100%. So he waste much lower aura compared to others.

Rocky used his fully power to attack Hisoka’s face.

But Hisoka just dodged with slight movement, and Rocky punch was completely missed.

Rocky landed on the ground from the air, and instantly he sit down, and he kicked Hisoka’s leg with full power.

So much so that that Rocky literally actually used ‘Ryu’ skill.

[Ryu is the term for use of Gyo while in a state of Ken to perform real-time offensive and defensive value adjustments. If Ko dedicates 100% of one’s aura to offense or, much more rarely, to defense, and Ken splits it evenly between the two, Ryu is redistributing one’s aura according to any other percentage (e.g., by focusing 70% of one’s aura in one fist and 30% everywhere else as one is about to strike, or 80% in one’s leg and 20% everywhere else to block an incoming kick)]

This is an advance skill of Nen, but Hisoka just lift his leg, dodged that attack as well.

Its just his eyes are covered with aura, and he can see it.

In less that 1 minute, Rocky use more than 50 moves, but he still unable to touch Hisoka’s cloth.

Bang!

Suddenly a palm break all the defense of Rocky, and directly fall on his chest.

Rocky body flew atleast 5 meters before it stopped.

For more than 20 seconds, Rocky unable to even take breathe, and felt he gonna die from suffocation.

“You are weak… really weak. Become stronger, the next time we meet, I will not hold back.”

After saying that, Hisoka just turned around, and walked out of the room.

Rocky did not answer Hisoka’s question. Instead, he choose another door, and decided to run.

Hisoka is interested in him, but not as much as he is interested in Gon Freecss.

Sometime he felt that Hisoka is also hired by Ging Freecss to help him from time to time.

Helping him pass the Hunter Exam.

Even warned Illumi Zoldyck to stay away from Gon Freecss.

Then helping him not register to 200th floor before learning Nen.

Then showing him the real strong people power.

Helping him when he is in Phantom Troupe.

Even helping him clear the Greed Island game.

Only time he missed was when Gon Freecss was with Kite. Another training partner arranged by Ging Freecss.

For protagonist team, Hisoka although showed his criminal personality, but always helped them.

Rocky who walk out of the door, he started coughing, and actually blood came from the cough.

Hisoka didn’t even attack seriously, but he still got injured internally.

Rocky slowly walking along a two- to three-meter-wide sewer: “The water is flowing downwards. Let’s follow it and see where we can go. The distance we just fell left me with a lot of distance left. There should still be plenty of time.”