Chapter 79 : Amplification??

Phinks had rotated his arm five times. After calming down, he no longer rushed to attack. Instead, he mocked, "You don't have any other long-range attack methods except for that sling from before, right?"

"My 'Ripper Cyclotron' gets stronger the more times I rotate my arm. If you want to interrupt me, your soft sling won't work."

"You have to get close, and once you're close, you're within the range of my 'Ripper Cyclotron'."

Phinks used his words to apply psychological pressure, especially with his naturally provocative expression, which could disrupt most enemies' thinking.

However, this didn't work on Germain.

"The same goes for you," Germain said. "You don't have any long-range attacks either, and your power is all in 'Ripper Cyclotron', which is too obvious."

"As long as I dodge this attack, you have to start building up power again. Are you waiting for your teammates to back you up? It's different from what I remember. It seems you rely on your teammates a lot."

Hmph! He's trying to provoke me! Don't let his words get to you! Phinks frowned, gritted his teeth, and twisted his arm seven times. The condensed "Nen" now had a faint golden glow.

But looking at his expression, he didn't seem aimless... Wait, the leftmost of the three bars next to him was only one-third blue before, but now it's almost half...

It must be some kind of progress bar, but what exactly...

Phinks suddenly had an idea. He glanced at the wound on his left arm that was still "forced to bleed" and suddenly understood.

"So that's it. Germain, I know what you're doing. As long as I keep getting hurt by your 'Nen ability,' something builds up."

Phinks pointed at the "Nen tank" next to Germain with his left hand.

"The evidence is that bar next to you; that's the progress."

"If I'm not mistaken, your 'Nen ability' is probably similar to my 'Ripper Cyclotron,' which can enhance the power of your 'Nen ability.'"

"But if it's visualization, 'Vows and Limitations' aren't enough. There must be some kind of punishment... ah, I see, hahahaha..."

Phinks laughed and suddenly stopped moving. He had rotated his arms more than thirteen times, and the golden 'Nen' became thicker.

"I almost fell for your trick. You were deliberately cooperating with me, pretending to keep a safe distance just to avoid 'Ripper Cyclotron,' but you had another purpose."

"You were waiting for 'forced bleeding' to meet the conditions so you could counterattack after I swung the 'Ripper Cyclotron,' concealing another 'Vows and Limitations' of your ability."

Phinks suddenly pushed off with his legs, leaping like an antelope, and shot towards Germain like a long arrow!

"The progress will increase, but it will also decrease! And the way to reduce it is for me to harm you!"

Germain didn't respond. The spider silk lasso in his hand shook, now equipped with Cleaver and a leech dagger at each end.

He first stabbed the tip of the leech dagger into Phinks' right hand, then shook the rope to let Cleaver sweep from the side and chop at Phinks' left face. 

Phinks was still rotating his arms, but he ducked to avoid the stab of the leech dagger. Cleaver, arriving at the wrong time, was firmly grasped by his left hand.

"It's useless, Germain..."

In an instant, Cleaver in Phinks' hand disappeared, replaced by the leech dagger. Not only that, the conjured leech dagger was now upside down.

Phinks had originally grabbed the handle of Cleaver, but now he was suddenly holding the blade of the leech dagger!

Germain shook the spider silk lasso.

Swish!

The leech dagger drew a bloody mark across Phinks' palm, and blood gushed out like magma, forming blood-red bubbles.

"Asshole!"

Phinks's face was red with anger. He released his hand and dashed towards Germain at high speed. His right hand had spun more than fifteen times, and it looked like a golden, dazzling blade!

Germain's spider silk lasso vanished, and this time he pulled out a flamethrower. He aimed it at Phinks, spitting out a stream of fire like a snake, hissing and striking at Phinks.

Phinks got close enough, and his "Ripper Cyclotron," which had spun seventeen times, suddenly swung from his right side. A burst of golden light tore through the fire snake and slashed out!

Using the cover of the fire snake being chopped into sparks, Germain threw out the spider silk lasso again. It wrapped around a boulder in the distance, and he swung his body to fly over to it.

The "Ripper Cyclotron" missed Germain and hit the boulder where he had been standing. The boulder was split diagonally in two and then shattered with a loud bang!

"Escape? You can't escape."

Phinks turned around quickly and saw Germain's spider silk lasso shaking. It was tied to the end of a leech hidden blade and stabbed towards Phinks again.

"Do you think the same trick will work on me?"

Phinks dodged to the side without making contact. This time he stretched out his left hand and grabbed the spider silk lasso that held the leech hidden blade. His right wrist spun three more times.

But then, the leech hidden blade at the end of the spider silk lasso suddenly transformed into a heavy crow shield!

Because Phinks was holding the spider silk lasso, the crow shield immediately spun more than 90 degrees around his hand and hit his right wrist!

Bang!

The crow shield was bounced off and fell to the ground with a dull sound, then suddenly turned into "air" and disappeared.

Germain's goal had been achieved.

Phinks' "Ripper Cyclotron" was rotated three times, but because it touched the crow shield, it was judged as an attack, resetting the number of rotations to zero. He had to start over!

At this moment, Phinks was already quite anxious. He had been trapped by one trap after another. It felt like every step he took was calculated, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

He had to rotate his right wrist again. When he looked back at Germain, he saw that Germain had reached within three meters of him.

What was even stranger was that Germain's body was wrapped in a silver-white light, making him look like a saint descending.

"If you want to fight me in close combat, then come on!"

At the same time, Phinks noticed that among the three bars following Germain's side, the bar with the blue progress on the far left had been completely emptied. His eyes suddenly widened in realization.

After a series of attacks, one of Germain's three "Nen tanks" had been filled, and Germain had emptied it to gain "amplification"!

He poured all his "amplification" into the Firearm in his hand, and the silver-white light surrounding his body flowed into the muzzle of the Firearm like a river.

At this moment, Phinks' arm had just rotated again. He sensed something was wrong and tried to evade, but it was too late.

Bang!

The "Amplification Firearm" hit Phinks as he tried to dodge, and the scattered bullets embedded deeply into Phinks' skin despite him being an "enhancer".

Phinks, with his face smashed and wounds causing extreme pain, gritted his teeth but said nothing.

He resolved to fight back desperately, willing to die with Germain if necessary. However, he suddenly found that he couldn't move his entire body and was paralyzed!

He watched as Germain took out Cleaver again and, with a fierce thrust, stabbed it into his abdomen. Bright red blood gushed out like water from a faucet.

During this time, Phinks couldn't even use "Ryu", "Ken", or "Ko". He was as fragile as a novice who had just learned "Ren".

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