"Whoosh~!"
The black giant eagle's wings suddenly spread, kicking up a gust of wind on the ground.
Illumi stood up from the stone pillar and leaped onto the giant eagle's back.
At the same time, a black rope shot out from the eagle's back, binding the immobile Killua and pulling him to its side.
"This, this is..."
Kamuran, trapped within the purple sphere, stared at the giant eagle before him, too astonished to speak.
"Do you need me to finish off the target for you?"
Illumi looked at Hisoka, who lay motionless on the ground. Killua gently shook his head, and two Nen needles appeared in his hand, which he threw towards the ground.
"Pfft!"
With a soft sound, the Nen needles deeply pierced Hisoka's right temple.
Hisoka's eyes immediately widened, blood vessels engorged, and he quickly fell silent.
Illumi glanced at Kamuran inside the purple sphere. The giant eagle beneath him suddenly vibrated its wings with a "boom," soaring into the sky amidst a gust of wind.
"It seems they truly have no way to deal with me."
Kamuran looked up at the rising black giant eagle, thinking to himself.
But just as he thought Illumi had given up on doing anything to him, the already airborne giant eagle circled in mid-air and swooped down towards the purple sphere on the ground.
"Clang~!"
The giant eagle's talons snatched the purple sphere, and it flapped its wings, flying off into the distance.
When the rapid response team arrived, they could only see a black eagle "fading into the distance" high in the sky, and a ground full of ruins.
"President, Mr. President!"
The rapid response team immediately searched the scene and found the unconscious President and the wide-eyed, lifeless Hisoka.
On the other side, Illumi controlled his Nen Beast to fly rapidly towards the coast.
"Hey, where are you taking me!?"
Kamuran slapped the purple sphere, shouting, high up a thousand meters above the northwest coastal area of the Kukan Kingdom.
But unfortunately, at such a high altitude and high speed, his voice couldn't reach Illumi and Killua.
"Where are you taking him?"
On the giant eagle's back, Killua looked at Illumi, his face filled with curiosity.
"Since I can't break through it, then I won't," Illumi chuckled lightly, a sinister smile on his face. "I'll throw him into the deep sea. Let's see how he survives then."
Killua blinked upon hearing this, his small mouth slightly agape.
Speechless.
He instinctively felt that doing so was a waste of time and energy.
However, he felt a hint of envy in his heart.
Envy for Illumi's ability to have such malicious thoughts, and the power to put them into action.
An hour later, Illumi arrived with Kamuran, still inside the purple sphere, in the deep-sea area outside the Kukan Kingdom's western territorial waters.
"This should be about right."
Illumi looked at the deep, dark sea below, and with a thought, the eagle's talons loosened, and the purple sphere plummeted towards the ocean.
"Hey hey, are you kidding me!?"
"This is the deep sea zone Ahhhhhhh!!!"
Kamuran frantically slapped the barrier inside the purple sphere, but could only shout powerlessly, watching himself fall towards the sea surface.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a loud crash, a colossal wave several meters high surged up from the sea surface.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
Kamuran slumped powerlessly inside the purple sphere, staring at the increasingly dark seawater around him, his heart sinking into despair.
He didn't know if he would die from oxygen depletion inside the sphere, or if he would die under the deep-sea pressure when the barrier's duration ended, or if he would be swallowed by a deep-sea monster before the barrier's duration ended, ultimately ending up in a fish's belly.
However, at least before he died, he got to see many unique creatures of the deep sea.
High above, Illumi controlled the giant eagle to slow its flight to normal speed, his legs crossed on the eagle's broad back.
Killua's empty, lifeless eyes looked at Illumi, scanning his current appearance from top to bottom, and curiously asked, "Do you always keep a stranger's appearance?"
Hearing this, Illumi's body shimmered with a white light, returning to his youthful appearance, and he looked at Killua.
"Do you need me to send you home?"
"Where are you going?" Killua also sat on the giant eagle's back, tilting his head and looking at Illumi, asking back, "Are you not planning to go home again?"
A thousand meters high, Illumi controlled the speed to that of an airship, still with the strong wind blowing in his face.
"I still have many things to deal with."
As Illumi spoke, he took out his phone from his pocket and checked the videos and data sent to him by Ickshonpe.
"Then take me to see your main base. You won't not welcome me, will you?"
Killua made a request. Illumi looked at Killua with a serious expression, staring at him for a long time.
"Rarely do you make a request to me."
Illumi smiled, then a white light shimmered around him, and he transformed into the appearance of a twenty-four-year-old young man.
"However, I've actually always used this appearance when acting outside."
"Who is this person?" Killua looked at his current appearance, tilted his head, and asked, "Is he someone you killed before?"
"No, it's me." Illumi didn't lose his composure because of Killua's words, his expression calm. "My former self looked like this."
"You're only twelve? Where did this 'former self' come from? In a dream?"
Illumi's expression froze, and he closed his mouth, no longer speaking, lowering his head to flip through the documents.
He now realized that besides being narcissistic, Killua also had a tendency to be a chatterbox.
Killua also stopped talking, just sitting quietly on the giant eagle's back, staring blankly as Illumi's finger scrolled across the phone screen.
Suddenly, Illumi saw something on his phone and frowned.
"What's wrong?"
Killua asked, but Illumi didn't respond. He only got up, sat down next to Illumi, and leaned his small head closer.
Illumi glanced at him, not bothering with him.
Because his attention was currently focused on the unknown monster on his phone.
"Oh~ is this a movie trailer?"
Killua wasn't surprised at all. He saw the video playing on Illumi's phone.
On the boundless sea, a snake-like monster suddenly emerged from the seabed, followed by a fierce bombardment from three destroyers and four fighter jets targeting the monster.
But in the midst of the battle, destroyers were destroyed one after another, and even one fighter jet was damaged.
And in the last few seconds of the video, a black giant suddenly appeared, blocking the monster's attack on a cruise ship. After a series of shocking tremors, it submerged into the sea surface and disappeared.
The video clip ended there.
"This isn't a movie trailer; it's something that actually happened."
Killua, who had just been watching with great interest, was stunned by the words. He looked up and saw Illumi's solemn gaze.
"And it happened today, between 09:05 and 09:15 AM."
"Hold tight."
Illumi said in a deep voice, putting away his phone. A large number of black ropes appeared on the giant eagle's back, securing Killua, while he himself slowly stood up, controlling the giant eagle to accelerate its flight.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a sonic boom, the giant eagle violently flapped its wings, carrying Illumi and Killua towards the nearest city.
They were going there to board an airship and travel together to Pyro's main base.
Coincidentally, a month ago, Engineer-in-Chief Amedeo of the [Abyss] base informed him that the construction of the headquarters base had been officially completed.
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