Conrad slept for the night, and there was no need to do anything for the time being. This was one of the good things about having teammates that can complete orders for him as long as he gives them.
In the morning, he woke up and had breakfast and left the hotel room to think more about his new ability. He stopped thinking about it for some time to deal with some other matters, but there are two matters that have high importance.
The first was the new ability that involves ordinary people and the collection and transfer of nen.
The second was the advantages and disadvantages Black Ring – State Of Calm is giving him.
Right now, Conrad believed and wanted to train his mind and nature to not need Black Ring for calmness in a battle and any kind of other situation. He never expected that he would be so reliant on a new ability and that it would in the future act like something that stops him from increasing his power even more.
"I can feel it... My soul and my mental capability demand that I keep Black Ring – State Of Calm."
"It is like they are screaming from the top of their lungs to keep using Black Ring. I must have felt too much fear while I was in battles in the deep and many other areas... they were collected and blocked by Black Ring."
"My mental capacity working with Nen made me believe that I should not be great without it."
Conrad laughed and nodded as he sat on a coffee and looked, observing people.
"I can use this feeling of my body in my favour."
Conrad, then again, asked for paper and pen and a coffee and took a sip from his coffee and wrote.
"The name of the ability should be changed," he wrote and then added.
"Creational Sacrifice & Condition."
"For this new ability, the name should be decided. 'Black Ring – State Of Calm' nen ability will be sacrificed... Instead of it, Black Ring will be used as a vessel for me to collect the nen that targeted individuals are marked..."
As Conrad wrote these lines on a piece of paper, something from the deep inside of his soul stirred, like a flower blossoming, being watered as it was about to die from the lack of water and sunlight; it flourished.
"Hmmm... I cannot have a better sign than this..."
Conrad then wrote again.
"First Condition: to do good to a target and get a response of a feeling of gratitude."
"The second condition is any kind of physical contact, handshake, or tapping."
"Third Condition: It must be done for the good, not for a motive behind it, such as earning favours from the target."
As he finished the third condition, he changed a name.
"The people who are seeded will be called 'Rings', and I will be the Black Ring Master."
"The previous number of limitations is still effective; the total number of humans at the first stage of the ability cannot exceed ten thousand. For a hundred thousand, I shall complete another 'staging condition' similar to Chrollo's need for stealing national treasures for evolving his ability."
As Conrad finished with this last condition, he felt a huge amount of power rising within, and then within just one and two seconds, the Black Ring changed from a plain brick into a Black Ring with the symbol of a crown with a human figure on it.
"Black Ring Master, The Good For All..." With these words, the new ability of Conrad was created.
It lets him mark people, and with the mark he places a seed on them, which collects 0.01% life energy every day from them. Each week, the total Nen life stored will be shared between the "Ring Individual" and "Black Ring Master".
Conrad must wear the Black Ring that symbolises his status as "Black Ring Master" for collection and transfer to be complete; he can only not wear the ring for one hour every day.
Conrad closed his eyes for a moment as his new ability created them and nodded.
"My total aura pool and feeling inside of me say that I will need three to four months for next ability creation..."
"So, it seems like I have spent a lot of aura to create this ability. But… It is an investment; I think it will be good."
"The conditions are in place, and everything seems to be great enough."
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Nobunaga, Feitan, and Franklin, sitting on a simple bench in a wretched sort of an area from a fallout-like place, nodded.
"So...The Boss wants us to be in Yorknew City before the underground city auction...It seems like we have a job to do." Nobunaga said with a smirk on his face.
"Oh, so the group gathers..." Franklin added.
"Should we go on right now or not right now?" Nobunaga said.
Feitan then added.
"We go now; we meet with Machi in Yorknew City. She needs to notify Hisoka..."
Nobunaga and Franklin nodded and got up from their seats, and they started walking; they just walked like they were about to walk to Yorknew City.
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Inside of a room, a young boy at the age of twelve sat down on the bed with his arm in his bandages; another young boy with white hair entered and shook his head.
"I don't get it, Gon, why you risked your life like that; you saw what happened to those people who fought and got hit by a nen attack while unprotected..." said the white-haired boy, who was none other than Killua Zoldyck.
Gon smiled and showed a helpless face.
"I thought, 'I believe I can take it...' but again, sorry."
A second later, a man with glasses and an untucked shirt entered the room and came to Gon's side.
"Wing... I am sorr—" Before he had his chance to tell he was sorry, he was slapped on the face, not powerfully, not too lightly, just to show that what he had done was pretty wrong in all cases.