The Zoldyck Decision

The fight took an interesting turn before the sun rose, once the other two started attacking him, Skotadi immediately retreated using almost all of his clones as a meat shield ; he stayed away and created too many clones to even count, these dispersed into several groups, like an experienced army, also knowing how to fly the clone troops also filled the sky, it was a memorable sight.

Skotadi had learned several things :

"Gates" was useless on the statue of Kannon, Netero had almost been beheaded the first time, but at that moment Meruem attacked the president which paradoxically saved him, then he withdrew from these Gates before that Skotadi did dispel them, a very short moment was needed to dispel them, and Netero had after the first time devoted about 80% of his attention to this Hatsu, which made him more vulnerable overall but not enough to die from it.

Meruem reacted immediately after the word Gates sounded, he moved with all his speed, it only gave him a slight handicap, his genius mind didn't need much concentration to avoid shifting get killed by this Hatsu.

Hyakushiki Kannon could be forcibly dispelled, it would force Netero out of Hatsu for a few moments, but the effort required for this was colossal, far too much to take advantage of.

Meruem was defensively op, offensively monstrous and he was an absolute fighting genius, combined with "Photons" no feints worked, this guy couldn't be killed right now, so instead of wasting my energy on him Skotadi tried to block him, fully attacked Netero who continued to tire seriously.

Skotadi continued to tire Netero by attacking him with a lot of clones using Kô, as well as with his pocket watch which only works on a single target.

then at daybreak, Netero showed an enormous weakness, sufficiently important, that, in 1 vs 1, Meruem or Alucard could take his life instantly, so the Skotadi rushed himself on Netero by sending all his remaining clones to meruem ; but Meruem didn't allow things to go so easily, although slightly tired, he activated a Hatsu: "Terpsichora".

'Ah shit he also devoured Pitou.'

Meruem was the closest to Netero so although a sea of very resistant clones blocked him, the King still managed to intercept Skotadi before he rushed to Netero and finished him off, he turned on himself very quickly and his fist hit the back of Alucard's skull, Alucard disappeared, a haze of blood escaped the headless neck and the body collapsed lifeless.

'Well I'm saved, but it's only a short respite, from what happened I'm guessing Meruem is much more powerful with this Hatsu...' Netero thought distraught as he thought of using his Zero Hand master card, but if it didn't work he would go blind and all of his energy would be exhausted in that move, and he knew the bomb in his body wouldn't work on the current King.

The King observed the clones behind him with "Photons", all dissipated he focused all his attention on Netero, covered his two hands with Kô and rushed towards Netero with all his strength in the optics to finish quickly, he was slightly exhausted and a King should not be in front of anyone.

Meruem suddenly stopped his assault and remained motionless, Netero let go of the King's gaze and all his attention was on one thing, the lifeless body not far from them, their concentration was such that anyone could attack them by releasing all of them aura, they still wouldn't react for a few seconds.

But the spectators were in the same state, no one even thought they had made a mistake.

'Have I imagined things' after a few moments without anything happening this thought crossed everyone's mind.

Netero focused on Meruem who did the same, the spectators returned their attention to the two fighters.

And the moment Netero was about to knock, everyone thought : 'I knew I didn't hallucinate.'

The corpse's heart was still beating ; the body transformed into a dark and ominous substance, dozens of eyes appeared, a groan was heard, the substance reformed a body, which this time wore shining golden armor.

'It would be cool to take out my legion, but once killed their souls leave me, they really die so better not to use them given the difference in level…' Skotadi thought.

Meruem and Netero realizing that Alucard was more dangerous than the 2 put together if he was truly immortal, Meruem had a body seeming indestructible but once dead he would be dead, they attacked the man thinking about how to treat him

.

They heard two sentences in a soft and sincere tone.

"I sincerely thank you for this combat experience received by fighting two inhuman talents like you. Goodbye, you have earned my respect."

"Cruel Sun"

The day had arrived.

A sun, yes a sun appeared above a finger pointing to the sky, this sun grew bigger, then the finger moved towards the two attacking at a speed disturbing for both.

Meruem used Ken, he didn't have time to dodge and raised his arms outstretched, Netero didn't have any defensive abilities to speak of, this sun was powerful, he knew that simply using Hyakushiki Kannon to block him wouldn't work, he made up his mind and used his ultimate "Zero Hand" movement towards the sun.

Zero Hand was working, it pushed Cruel Sun easily in Alucard's direction, as soon as he saw this, he only said one thing :

"Pride Flare."

The environment within a kilometer radius was destroyed, the rocks were melting, the plants were no more than ashes and the spectators fled at full speed feeling the unbearable heat.

20 seconds later the blinding glow was gone, and what was visible was black, the earth was black, so were the rocks, Meruem was lying still, his eyes still open but his body had melted, he was still able to move, but not to fight.

Skotadi seeing this was shocked, Meruem whose resilience was divine, had ended in this kind of state !

'Damn, how am I doing ? I wanted Netero in my legion! No he's experienced he had to protect himself with Kannon.' Stokadit thought.

He created twenty clones, and everyone extended their En with a radius of 9 meters, then one clone dissipated, he had found Netero, his hair had gone up in smoke, his skin was blackened his upper body no was not moving, he was not breathing.

"Damn ! Damn ! Damn !!"

His aura burst forth violently filled with an unhealthy intention of destruction and anger, Intent to Kill also fled.

"How is that possible ?! It shouldn't have been so powerful ! Although by training me on the sun it was more powerful, the day has barely risen now !"

After a few minutes, Skotadi calmed down.

'That's good, his soul will not be my toy, he was a respectable man who deserves to rest in peace.' He sincerely thought so.

He walked away towards Meruem and bit into a hole where blue blood was escaping.

'You're a guy that I respect too yes yes, but hey I'm angry and my plans aren't going perfectly, so sorry and thank you for your sacrifice.' He really thought that too...

After bleeding him out, Meruem died, but another Meruem appeared standing in front of his corpse. Alucard drank Netero's blood in order to gain his memories, and said with hesitation and remorse :

"Eat it."

The second Meruem ate his own corpse and then after he was done and said how much he enjoyed it and how he probably couldn't eat anything else, Alucard had a connection to his legion members, none of their secrets would escape him.

Meruem had become much more powerful, his Hatsu hadn't improved, but everything else, tremendously.

He made him keep his personality because without a personality, using or create Hatsu is impossible, he had already tested.

Then, he made Meruem eat Isaac Netero's corpse.

He had indeed inherited his Hatsu as well, but if he used it he would have to practice, it wouldn't be instinctive like with the Hatsus of his Royal Ranks.

Then since he doesn't have the same gratitude towards the president's martial art, it wouldn't be as powerful, their personalities were different, maybe Meruem could rather modify and really appropriate Hyakushiki Kannon who knows.

"He is from the Dark Continent, and this thing can afford to destroy or enslave humanity unlike the King. We have to prepare, the V5 is incompetent, they would only realize when that happens, Silva, we may have to use the thing."

"Yes father, but from the way Pariston uses his Hatsu, if there are no other conditions, we can assume that the target's name was not known to him, so it will be difficult to learn his name."

"Leave this to your father will you ?" Zeno replied with confidence.