CHAPTER 216: FORMIDABLE VENOM!

[Serpent Beauty]: Can actively control the body to secrete poison and determine the type of toxin.

Currently producible types include paralyzing, neurotoxic, mild poison, potent poison...

There is a condition in the world called "pica" which refers to people who enjoy eating things not typically considered food.

For example, some like eating dirt, but dirt can’t be consumed as food.

Lilith’s preference is rather unique—she enjoys swallowing poison.

Through repeatedly being poisoned and detoxifying, she not only developed strong resistance but also formed a Nen ability that allows her to secrete toxins.

This Nen ability is quite similar to Gel of The Twelve Zodiac’s, as both can create poison.

However, Gel’s Nen ability is more comprehensive and practical.

Gel’s Nen ability involves ingesting poison, analyzing and studying it within her body, then creating her own unique toxins.

She can also transform her arms into snakes for attacks.

Lilith’s Nen ability, on the other hand, allows her to ingest poison and retain a "backup" of it in her body.

She can then shape her Nen into that toxin and control its potency by adjusting the amount of Aura used.

Unlike Gel, she cannot analyze multiple poisons to synthesize new ones.

The toxins she secretes must be ones she has consumed before—a form of Restriction and Vow.

But she has one advantage Gel lacks: coverage.

Gel can only inject poison through her snake arms, using fangs to deliver it.

This method has limited dosage and poor efficiency.

Lilith, when necessary, can secrete poison from her entire body, effectively becoming a walking toxin.

Not only can she harm enemies, but she can also deter close combat since opponents dare not touch her.

Overall, both have their strengths.

It is precisely because Lilith’s poison-based Nen ability is renowned across the Six Continents that she earned the title "Poison Woman."

This is why Beyond deliberately recruited her into the team.

After all, Poison as an offensive method holds great potential.

It can be remarkably effective in many situations.

Despite being called "Poison Woman," Lilith is actually a gentle woman who enjoys wearing kimonos and carries the grace of a Yamato Nadeshiko.

She simply enjoys eating poison—nothing more.

Beyond that, she is just a beautiful, kind-hearted woman.

Given the current crisis, she unleashed a potent, fast-acting toxin.

This poison is among the deadliest across the Six Continents—just a single drop can kill all life in an entire lake.

Its onset is extremely rapid, making it one of the most dangerous toxins in her arsenal.

Her journey to the Dark Continent is partly driven by her desire to sample more types of poison—a trait she shares with Gel.

The difference is that Gel consumes deadly toxins to gather knowledge and satisfy her intellectual curiosity.

Lilith, however, does it purely for the sake of indulgence.

What others fear and avoid as lethal poisons, she sees as exquisite delicacies.

The only catch is that these "delicacies" come with risks—one must consume them in moderation.

Having consumed nearly all the worthy toxins across the six continents, she then turned her attention to the Dark Continent...

With a Nen ability like Poison, Muherr had considered this contingency when formulating the initial plan...

It involved injecting the poison into the sea.

Though simple, effectiveness was all that mattered.

Toxins required patience—the top-tier poisons of the six continents weren’t necessarily inferior.

They could very well affect creatures of the Dark Continent, given the sheer variety and unpredictability of toxins.

Sure enough, within moments, the number of dead hammerhead sharks began to multiply rapidly.

This was most evident to Usamen in the control room—his aura consumption had noticeably slowed.

Aside from Lilith’s poison assault, Marione’s offensive methods were equally effective.

Marione was the doll-like girl who resembled Hatsune Miku, with puppet-like seams marking her body and face.

She stood beside Lilith before suddenly stomping her foot, generating a sharp sonic boom.

The next moment, she appeared midair, standing perfectly still as if balanced on an invisible platform.

In truth, it was the flame thrusters on her back that kept her aloft, creating the illusion of hovering.

If Akira had to describe Marione, She’s like Sasori from Naruto.

Both were puppeteers.

Even the way they modified their own bodies into puppets was identical.

Marione spread her hands, and from her ten fingers shot countless Aura Strings of uniform thickness.

The pure white threads wove frantically through the air, swiftly forming a multitude of humanoid puppets in varying shapes!

Like Marione herself, they bore the appearance of wooden dolls, all under her control.

This was a Nen ability combining Emission and Manipulation.

[Myriad Puppets]: By leveraging her knowledge of puppetry, she could manifest diverse puppets from aura.

The puppets lacked autonomy, requiring meticulous control from the user, but each packed considerable power.

Currently, Marione could manipulate up to a hundred puppets at once, though precision would suffer drastically.

In this regard, her Nen ability closely resembled Morel’s.

By her calculations, the optimal number was 68—balancing precision with quantity.

Suddenly, dozens of puppets filled the sky, their eerie presence amplified by the overcast gloom.

Then, a deep black Aura erupted from each puppet, darkening the heavens further.

Marione was the strongest in the group aside from Akira, Ging, and Beyond.

Every puppet at her disposal wielded formidable might!

With Marione and Lilith working in tandem, the underwater swarm was thinning at an alarming rate.

But the situation in the sky was far less favorable.

*****

As Lilith and Marione moved to the ship’s side, Aura Projectiles streaked upward.

They soared toward the Thunderbird in everyone’s line of sight.

Yet the anticipated result... did not materialize!

The thunderbirds suddenly flapped their wings, sending countless white feathers shooting down like arrows toward the Aura Projectiles!

In that instant, the sky was filled with a snow-like storm of feather arrows, each crackling with blue lightning.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

With a series of explosions, all their Aura Projectiles were intercepted mid-air by the feathers.

Moreover, there were so many feathers that some pierced straight through the explosions and shot toward the ship, their rapid flight creating sharp whistling sounds through the air.

These razor-sharp feathers could even slice through the very air itself!

Clearly, these feathers were no ordinary projectiles.

Though the outcome was hard to believe, everyone reacted quickly.

They absolutely couldn’t let these feathers damage the ship!

Facing the incoming feathers, some chose to intercept them with Aura Weapons while others utilized their own Nen abilities.

"Whoosh!"

Ging took a sudden step forward, leaping slightly into the air as his body instantly split into three identical figures.

Nen ability—Double Doppelganger!

Each figure reached out with perfect precision to catch a feather, their hands wrapped in dense aura.

He wanted to study these feathers.

Not content with just catching three, Ging released a powerful surge of Aura from both hands while airborne.

Ping-pong ball-sized Aura spheres shot toward all feathers within several meters around him.

[Aura Ball]!

The moment the spheres touched the feathers, their contained energy interacted with the lightning, triggering immediate explosions.

The feathers instantly turned to ash, vanishing in the wind and rain.

After several consecutive explosions, Ging had cleared all nearby feathers.

Others’ interception methods proved effective too, though none matched Ging’s effortless efficiency.

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