The person in charge of handling this matter was Razor. After notifying Roy, the clone began entering the game through the normal procedure, then naturally ran into Genthru's two companions, who had already been waiting for him for quite some time.
"You bastard. You kept us waiting for a long time!" said the yellow-haired man with upturned spikes and narrow eyes through clenched teeth, knocking his fists together.
The man beside him, who wore his hair in a long-haired delinquent style, was also staring at Roy's clone with ill intent.
People often said that narrow-eyed guys were all monsters, but that rule clearly did not apply to the yellow-haired spiky guy in front of him.
Before long, that man and his companion were lying on the ground, their faces swollen and bruised. After clone Roy confiscated every card from their Binders, he left again.
When Genthru learned what had happened to his companions, his face darkened. The other side was not only monopolizing the cards, but also extremely powerful. Bara and Sub had attacked together and still had not been a match for that person. They had not even managed to wound him.
They were combat-oriented fighters who had specifically developed highly aggressive Nen abilities meant to injure others.
None of them were weak. Genthru was strong, but he was only somewhat stronger than his two companions. If the two of them attacked together, even Genthru himself would not be able to withstand them.
It seemed this opponent was not someone he could deal with on his own. He would have to extend his time undercover.
Genthru pushed up his glasses and looked toward the green-clothed middle-aged man in the base cave, who was giving an impassioned speech to everyone, instilling the belief that success was close at hand and stirring up the crowd's enthusiasm. A sharp gleam flashed in Genthru's eyes, then quickly receded as he slipped back into the crowd.
"When necessary, these people will make excellent lab rats as well. I can use a few more precise weapons to test their strength."
If this group wanted to clear the game, they would definitely have to face that powerful mysterious player. In any case, he had already planted bombs on them. When they fought that mysterious player until both sides were badly weakened, that would be the perfect moment for him to step in and take the prize.
However, Bara and Sub's injuries were rather serious, and their cards had all been taken. It seemed they would not be of much help.
Gon's group of three also began formally progressing through the game. Since they were much stronger than in the original, their card-collection progress was much faster than in the original as well.
Under these circumstances, Roy finally finished his training retreat.
After three months, when Roy opened his eyes again, a glimmer of light flashed through them. His aura had changed from its original steadiness to something slightly sharper.
"Pseudo Super Saiyan, huh? Forget it. I only had three months, and I really was a little too impatient. Reaching this level already counts as quite good."
Pseudo Super Saiyan was the form Son Goku displayed in the movie when fighting the Super Namekian Lord Slug. After being completely suppressed by the opponent, he unleashed his potential. At that moment, Son Goku's pupils vanished, he briefly lost consciousness, his hair stood up and turned purplish-black, and his entire body burned with golden Ki, raising his strength by dozens of times.
Roy's Pseudo Super Saiyan was different from Son Goku's unconscious version. He could remain conscious while activating it. However, compared to the berserk version, the combat-power increase was reduced by half.
Even so, it was still extremely powerful. The combat-power increase after transforming into a Super Saiyan was fifty times. The unconscious berserk Pseudo Super Saiyan increased combat power thirtyfold. Roy's conscious Pseudo Super Saiyan increased it fifteenfold.
Before obtaining the Kaio-ken or transforming into a Super Saiyan, this was the greatest boost Roy could achieve.
And one had to remember that less than a year had passed since Roy obtained his Saiyan bloodline.
If Roy's bloodline had not been a mix of Saiyan and Earthling blood, and if he had not obtained genius-level martial arts talent early on, he truly might not have been able to reach this point.
After finishing his training retreat, Roy first went to each of his clones and used Touch Perception to learn what had happened over the past three months. Then he specifically went to find Android 18.
The two of them had not seen each other for three months, and they stayed tangled together for three full days and nights.
After all, while Roy had been training, his Nen ability had been active the entire time, manifesting something new every seven days.
Especially now that Dragon Ball had fully entered its final stretch, the things he obtained were getting better and better.
After checking everything over, Roy was extremely satisfied with what he had gained over these three months. They were all good things.
After that, Roy headed to Shonen Magazine in Old Silver Mountain.
As an ultra-popular classic manga that had accompanied the people of the Hunter world for nearly two years, Dragon Ball was no longer merely a manga.
Think back to the original world, when Akira Toriyama ended Dragon Ball. The commotion and voices from every industry in Japan drew the attention of the entire world.
And now, this streamlined version of Dragon Ball had climbed to an even higher level. In the Hunter world, where the manga industry was especially barren, it had stirred up a gigantic wave.
Especially now, when it was about to end, fan clubs everywhere had gone mad.
Political circles, the business world, and even the underground world were all significantly affected by matters surrounding the ending of Dragon Ball.
It was said that a certain country was holding a presidential election at this time, but the voters were all paying attention to the ending of Dragon Ball and had no attention to spare for the election. As a result, the presidential election had no choice but to be postponed.
And that was still only the tip of the iceberg.
The unprecedented influence Dragon Ball had silently accumulated on ordinary days exploded in this instant.
Every media outlet was reporting on this matter overwhelmingly, and friends and relatives everywhere were discussing it.
Because of that, even people who had not really read Dragon Ball before joined in to follow the crowd, which instead caused Dragon Ball's sales to soar once again.
It was like when news of Michael Jackson's death spread through the wider world. Many people clearly had never even heard the name before, yet crowds still followed the trend and mourned Michael. It made MJ instantly become famous everywhere. If MJ were still alive and knew he had become popular in this way, who knew whether he should cry or laugh?
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