"The key question is where the control console is!" Kurapika naturally thought of the same thing.
After Ronin explained his idea while making new sealing scrolls, Kurapika immediately identified the crucial issue.
"The most likely location is the centre of the city," Shizuku offered her opinion, which was rare for her.
However, reaching the city centre while under constant threat from the Gold and Silver Ingots would certainly not be easy. Judging from what they had encountered in the short time since entering the city, there were likely dangers hidden here that were even greater than the Gold and Silver Ingots.
"This is going to be difficult," Ronin sighed.
After entering this city, they practically had to proceed one cautious step at a time to avoid total disaster.
Even Ronin, who had mastered a vast number of ninjutsu and increased his aura reserves beyond one hundred thousand, did not dare claim he could survive every danger within this city.
There were simply too many threats here.
"We need to find somewhere large enough to bring out the giant's corpse and examine it. We might be able to discover some useful information from its body," Ging suggested.
However, finding a sufficiently large place inside the city was equally difficult.
Every building was guarded by large numbers of Gold and Silver Ingots. If they wanted to occupy one, the problem was not how to eliminate the Gold and Silver Ingots silently, but how to avoid being detected by them in the first place.
Ronin thought carefully and soon remembered a technique.
The Water Prison Technique.
He wondered what would happen if this highly restrictive technique were used on a Gold and Silver Ingot.
However, the Water Prison Technique primarily worked by restricting the target's movement and depriving it of oxygen until it suffocated. What effect would that have on plant-like beings such as the Gold and Silver Ingots?
Another key problem was that after activating the Water Prison Technique, the user had to maintain physical contact with it continuously.
A Gold Ingot would not be too troublesome. Even if it released golden beams, Ronin was confident he could evade them.
But the Silver Ingot's absorption ability was much harder to predict.
Regardless, Ronin intended to try.
Even if the Water Prison Technique failed, he still had another idea—using a sealing technique on the Gold and Silver Ingots.
Based on his previous encounters with them, Gold and Silver Ingots normally did not immediately break open their shells, expose the trees inside, and unleash golden beams. More often, when a target approached, they preferred to use the Silver Ingot's ability against it.
Ronin explained his plan to the others.
This time, he would not send only shadow clones. His real body would also participate.
"I'll support you," Ging volunteered.
So far, everyone only knew that Ging could imitate any Emitter-type Nen ability. As for the ability he had personally developed, he had never revealed it.
"Stop looking at me like that." Ging seemed to sense everyone's curiosity. At this point, he no longer intended to keep it hidden. "I haven't actually developed any particularly special ability. In my opinion, the basic applications of Nen are the strongest, so my ability is simply mastery of the fundamentals. You could call it basic training.
"These fundamentals don't only include Emission abilities. They also include the abilities of the other categories. However, right now I mainly command the upper three categories. The lower three—especially Specialist abilities—are much more difficult to master."
As he spoke, Ging seemed concerned that they might not understand what his ability actually did.
Right in front of everyone, he activated it.
Chains identical to Kurapika's quickly materialised in his hand.
"Conjuring different objects is simple, but imitating the special effects that others apply to those objects involves vows and limitations."
As Ging spoke, he dismissed the chains. In the next second, he stretched the aura in his hand as though pulling noodles.
"You all know Hisoka, right? I learned this after briefly coming into contact with him. It's aura that possesses the same properties as chewing gum."
His aura transformed again.
This time, Ging clenched his fist, and a large amount of aura gathered around it.
"Enhancement-type aura—the kind Ronin used before."
"Are you a Specialist?" Ronin asked the crucial question.
He and Kurapika had noticed the same important detail.
When Ging imitated Kurapika's ability, he had only said that adding special effects to the chains required vows and limitations. He had never said whether he himself could also do it.
Ronin simply assumed that Ging could.
But if Ging truly could, then he must have mastered an ability—one capable of cancelling the effects of vows and limitations.
Or, more accurately, an ability that allowed him to manipulate vows and limitations!
If such an ability truly existed, it was terrifying.
Was this what he called "basic training"?
There was nothing basic about it!
"Not at first," Ging answered. "Originally, I was an Enhancer, just like you, Ronin."
Ronin wanted to tell him that they were not the same.
He knew his own circumstances better than anyone. His ninjutsu ability was fundamentally abnormal and could not easily be classified as a Specialist ability.
To him, it was more like a special advantage granted to him as a transmigrator.
Only Enhancement truly belonged to him.
Still, Ronin understood what Ging meant by using him as an example. He even began to understand how Ging viewed him.
An Enhancer who had unexpectedly awakened a Specialist ability and used it to master "ninjutsu."
"Did something unusual happen to you as well?" Ronin thought of another possibility.
As he spoke, his eyes rapidly transformed into the Mangekyō Sharingan.
He had no intention of activating its abilities. He merely displayed those unusual eyes.
"Yes." Ging no longer intended to hide anything.
He raised a hand, and a peculiar Nen beast slowly formed above his palm.
It resembled a sika deer, except a pair of antlers glowing in seven different colours grew from its head.
"I possess a rainbow-coloured Nen beast. It can provide me with any kind of aura I need."
"What?"
Everyone stared at Ging in shock, unable to understand what he meant.
"You all know about the Seven Great Beauties, right?"
Ging opened his palm. The aura appearing above it constantly changed colours, just like the antlers of the small deer-shaped Nen beast he had summoned.
Each colour of aura gave off a completely different sensation.
Although they still did not understand exactly what Ging was trying to say, everyone immediately thought of Ronin's and Kurapika's eyes.
The Scarlet Eyes were one of the Seven Great Beauties.
"Among the Seven Great Beauties is something known as the Rainbow Egg. It is the egg of a special Nen beast. I obtained one and successfully hatched it.
"At that moment, it became my Nen beast and granted me Specialist abilities, giving me the possibility of using powers from every Nen category."
Ging waved his hand.
The little deer-shaped Nen beast leapt through the air, and various abilities appeared with every bound.
Emitter-type aura bullets formed stepping stones beneath its hooves. Scarlet ribbons were conjured around its body and fluttered through the air.
Even more astonishingly, crackling lightning appeared across its body.
That was the power of Transmutation!