My Researching Journey (HxH)

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Chapter 15: Heavens Arena

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The Heavens Arena is a tower combat arena, the world's most popular battle site, where victorious fighters ascend to higher floors as part of its reward system.

It stands at 991 meters tall and has 251 floors. Inside, thousands of martial artists compete daily in order to test their skills and advance to higher floors.

It is on the same continent as the Republic of Padokea, the Zoldyck's country, but is located in the eastern part of the continent, opposite of where Padokea is.

And I'm standing in front of the reception desk of the same tower.

"Welcome to the celestial tournament. Please fill out this form with the required information." The receptionist Said while handing me the form.

'Hmm, fighting experience, let's go with eight years.', I fill out the rest of the room and handed it back.

I entered to find 16 stages each have an ongoing battle, though there doesn't seem to be too many people in the audience, I guess not many people are interested in the lower floors.

I waited for a few minutes before my number got called, "NUMBER #1075 AND #1032 TO RING D, PLEASE."

"CANDIDATES IN THE RING, PLEASE."

I went up to the ring, facing me is a blonde-haired guy with a scar across his face, I can see in his eyes that he is looking down on me.

Well that's normal, even though I'm taller than kids my age I still only look like a 10 years old, I ignored the noisy audience as I waited for the referee to start the match.

"We're on the ring of the first floor, we evaluate the level of the candidates, there's a time limit! you have three minutes to show what you're able to do." The referee loudly instructed.

"ATTENTION!!! BEGIN."

THUD!!!!!!

That was the sound of the opponent hitting the floor as I knocked him out before he can even react nor was anyone in the audience able to see what actually happened.

I basically just hit him in a specific spot in the back of the neck with just enough force to knock him out.

"#1075, you can go to the 50th floor." Said the referee as he handed me the ticket to the 50th floor.

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"Yasuo Passed the 190th floor with one shot again!!!"

It's been 2 weeks since my first match, I took as many matches as I can which allowed me to reach this floor this fast.

"Your money has been transferred to your account." I nodded, now I have about 211,050,000 in my account, hmm I wonder when someone will force me to take my weights off, but for now, let's head to the 200th floor.

I was moving through the hallway of the 200th floor as I noticed the floor clerk standing there as if waiting specifically for me.

"Yasuo, right? the reception is on the other side, please register today for the matches on the 200th floor. 142 candidates are registered on the floor and are waiting.

The floors above the 200th offer no prize money, only fame and glory. All weapons are allowed from this floor onwards.

A fighter has 90 days to prepare for any fight, though it's possible to fight every day if one wants.

The 21 highest ranked competitors are called Floor Masters because they're given their own floor between the 230th and 250th floors.

Losing four matches results in disqualification, while winning ten matches results in being awarded the right to challenge a Floor Master.

The 251st floor of Heavens Arena holds a biennial tournament called the Battle Olympia, and the victor is allowed to live on the 251st floor in an exclusive penthouse."

She explained everything needed to be explained to a newcomer almost in a mechanical manner with an unchanging expression, seemingly emotionless.

I nodded then went ahead and registered then set out to the private room I've been assigned to after I closed my aura nodes.

I'm just more comfortable being in Zetsu though I couldn't use it on the lower floors since I'll be almost undetectable.

I noticed a few candidates along the way though none that I know, they're paying a lot of attention to me while giving me some weird glances which is understandable considering I'm in the state of Zetsu, after all, Nen users are left defenseless in this state.

But I'm confident in my senses, and I'm confident of reacting fast enough to instantly exit this state, and most importantly, no one is allowed to fight within the two unless they're standing on of the rings.

I entered my room put my backpack down. I will have a fight every 2 months starting from the next month which means it would take me about 2 years to finish the requirement to challenging a floor master.

Then I will see if I want to participate in Battle Olympia, The 251st floor of Heavens Arena holds a biennial tournament called the Battle Olympia, and the victor is allowed to live on the 251st floor in an exclusive penthouse.

For now, I will need to train for my main Hatsu, I don't know if I will create another Hatsu in the future but for now, I have two abilities in mind.

The main one which belongs to the specialty category, and the second one which belongs in the enhancement category and will get rid of my weakness and I will be able to target things I wouldn't normally be able to. such as concepts.

My fighting style is close-ranged, inflict as much damage as possible using my hands as a weapon though I'm sure that will change in the future.

The weakness is against people with more compatibility to enhancement than me, which is every other category.

After all, I only have 40% compatibility with it since I'm a specialist, that's why I need an offensive Hatsu, one that makes use of my greatest accomplishment, speed.

It's a Hatsu I will temporarily use as the main offensive method until other methods become available because that's not its main function.

This Hatsu will have a special function allowing me to target intangible things and will possibly be a key factor in my future plans.

Speed is what I focused on the most, I focused a little bit more on my attacking speed though my movement speed didn't lag behind.

Still, even with my weights off I'm still nowhere near Netero's level, after all, he was already in his epitome physical state and he needed to focus on one thing all day while I needed to train everything at the same time, so I still need a while to reach his level...