Art of Assassination

Skotadi didn't feel really safe anymore, this being was dangerous, without touching him he could have used such a frightening ability, who knows maybe even that he could have teleported him on his territory even if Skotadi was in another universe, he should have been less arrogant knowing the existence of this creature.

A day later, he arrived at his destination, Kukuroo Mountain.

"Hello mister Alucard, how are you ?" Zebro stands up and bows.

"Hi Zebro I'm fine, please don't bow ahah that's bad for an old man like you and just call me Alucard."

"Well, if you insist, Alucard, what are you doing here if I may ?" Zebro asked somewhat disturbed.

"Don't worry, old man, I just stopped by to see my closest friends."

'Well if you have that kind of relationship with your closest friends I wonder how an interaction with your enemies goes' Zebro thought with a mental laugh.

"Well, I'll open the door for you right after I tell them you're coming."

Alucard nodded silently, a semblance of normality was pleasant, only entering oneself would be faster but less pleasant.

"Hello to you, Mr Alucard." Gotoh bowed while giving a look to Zebro who nodded and left.

"No, please don't, I had to tell the old man the same thing, besides, aren't you ashamed of not letting him enjoy his ahah retirement?"

After driving Skotadi to the house, Gotoh left him.

Zeno opened the door, walked forward then after observing Alucard, smiled slightly and spoke to him in a friendly manner: "Hello Alucard, it's been a while since we saw each other, please follow me in the guest room."

"Ok Zeno how are you ?"

"Pretty good, but I'm starting to feel the effect of old age taking hold."

"Killua ? He went on an adventure with his friend, he got pretty strong, yeah, and they were the last time I talked to them, in a rainforest, they're having fun." Maha smiles.

"I see, this kid really has incredible potential, say I wanted to ask you, could you introduce me a little bit to the art of assassination? You see, I've become much stronger, I mean, I've had a better control of my Nen, but my body, it's even more different than this art would make anyone dream after being able to observe your incredible skills."

"Ahhh yes of the control you have, it's really incredible, I guess you were guided ? Well, I don't see why not, but the strength you have won't help you much." Maha ended casually while a voice was heard :

"So you're the one who killed the squad ? Why did you do that, I liked them."

"Kalluto I guess, yes and I killed them but didn't really kill them, yours look." Alucard responded and summoned the members of the Phantom Troop.

"I see, they are still themselves good." With that Kalluto didn't glance anymore and left.

"Even if you are immortal, you are always affected by poison, there is an immense quantity of poisons, their effects are almost never a simple death which would suit you, poisons have interesting effects some paralyze, but in several ways, others blind, in many ways also, the number of poisons varied would be in my opinion comparable to the number of different Hatsu, it is without limit, which is dangerous, because a person is limited by the Hatsu he can create but with sufficient poisons a man can do anything.

Our family is immune to all poisons? Ahah do not be ridiculous, it is impossible even if we had the means, another poison can be created or found the next day, no it is impossible.

What we focus on first is to have a resistance with the maximum of different poisons, of course we can immunize ourselves against a few hundred of them currently, but even I am currently only against less than half of them.

The problem is not only to die, even if you are immortal you cannot quickly become immune to all, time is always the master, but you can be faster concerning some of them yes.

You have traveled to the Dark Continent you tell me, so I don't need to explain to you the danger of poisons, our methods to guard against them are not only to inject a distilled dose, it doesn't work with the most complex or dangerous poisons, No, we use Nen.

For example, if we take a poison in gaseous form, then we place our aura around the jar, we need an excellent control, and a very dense Nen, trained, then we open the jar and hold this poison inside the Nen, then we inject it, the maximum aura must be around at the beginning, and we inhale it for example, the hardest is not to do it to ourselves either, the hardest is to do it to others, then little by little depending on our feeling or the reaction of the person to whom we do it,

we despaissit the Nen layer, until we can inhale this poison without problems, this is done in several times for the most powerful, then according to the violence of the poison, we can or not become immune, this is done by inhaling poison in the same amount by feeling its effects little by little, and after a while one can inhale as many as one wishes and we are immune.

But some poisons require to inject the poison in huge quantities to be immunized, the problem is sometimes that one does not possess much of this poison and that it is difficult to aquérir or create.

As you have guessed the art of assassination is very varied and complex, poisons are one of the important bases of this art." Maha taught Skotadi with patience and making sure he understood every point.

"Tell me, the assassination was created to kill humans, wasn't it ? So how do we do it for non-humans ?" Skotadi spoke extremely respectfully to this man whom he respected more and more.

"Exactly, murder is very different from killing for revenge or whatever, the man killed first to feed himself, then he killed his fellow man for different reasons, but they weren't murderers, they were hunters or mere killers.

The assassination is pure, no feeling towards the target should exist.

It's as pure as helping a person without any ulterior motives, it's not really bad, it's an action like any other.

But what prevents the murderer from reaching the peak of his art, is the reason why he kills, the employer's money, this money must not be the priority in the mind of an assassin, if the work is done, either the employer pays or he dies too, If the job is not successful the murderer does not have to compensate the employer or anything else, only his reputation will suffer.

In short, I step aside ahah, yes assassination is an art, has bases to know, but the better one becomes and the more personal this art becomes, each assassin must have his own way,

concerning the nonhuman, We have details on many of them, but there are too many of them, and every assassin has to look for them himself. You'll have to test yourself, fighting an unknown race as soon as you can, well it's ahah theory nobody really does that."

Concerning the handling of weapons and martial arts, an assassin of the Zoldyck family learns as much as possible, and appropriates, develops or not what he has learned.

About the psychology and control of his emotions, they learn everything easily from childhood, but everyone is unique, there is no absolute rule, we must be aware of it.

There is no remorse on a target that we think nothing of. Remorse is natural for others, but for us absolutely not during a mission.

Maha taught Skotadi a lot of things, he felt that Maha was hiding absolutely nothing from him, which of course was untrue, but what he learned was a mine of an inestimable thing.

Skotadi already had a lot of knowledge about a lot of things but it was really nothing compared to what he learned from this family.