Surpassed...

Chapter 43

Title: Surpassed...

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I grab Komugi's head and summon a floating chest, simply throwing the head inside.

*poof*

And the chest pops out of existence. This thing is very useful for storage, it is truly convenient and useful. Also I sense Pouf and Youpi go towards where their king went... welp... I guess they will reach there in half an hour or more. Flying is truly convenient for covering large distances of travel.

During all of the time I have been in the palace, I haven't really interfered that much with Gon, Killua, Knuckle or any of the hunter's battles. Because they are all unimportant to me, and it doesn't even matter if they die. Plus I DO want Pouf and Youpi to go and look for Meruem.

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After some minutes of walking around I look to my left and see a centaur like creature flying around. It seems to have noticed me as it looks at me.

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-General POV-

Youpi just looks at the human who is walking around with his hands in his pockets, the human is up in a wrecked tower while he is down below. Even though the human seems so… normal, his animalistic instincts screamed that the human up there is dangerous… no… not just dangerous. He is the most dangerous creature he has ever met, even when compared to the king.

'That is impossible, a human can make me feel like this.' Thinks Youpi as he suddenly  looks at his arm and sees that it is shaking in fear. 'How can this be, I am afraid of someone that feels so average.'

Suddenly he hears a voice that seems strangely playful. "You can go to your king now little ant."

As Jax says that, contrary to even his expectations, Youpi turns around, his shield like thing on his arm that stores up his anger just flares a little. Suddenly wings appear on his back as...

*fwosh*

He flies away, making the right decision by deciding to trust his instincts… not knowing that he truly would have been killed in one shot if he didn't listen.

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Jax just looks at Youpi as he runs away towards the king. 

'So… it seems like soon I will have to fight the King before he dies.' Thinks Jax, contemplating different scenarios and outcomes of this simple battle. His playful attitude is no longer here, knowing that Meruem will easily surpass him in raw power soon.

'That ability  is way better than mine. Giving him so much strength just by eating. The conditions and everything else really, it is so much better than my Gamer Ability.' Contemplates Jax, already having everything in place to fight an even stronger Meruem. He is glad, knowing that the king will die soon no matter what. So he can never grow enough to surpass him.

Suddenly Jax's Nen overflows around the palace, stopping everyone in place as they suddenly see a giant metallic chinese dragon fly away. 

Jax is atop the dragon too, as it flies away under his command. He sees the palace disappear behind him as he flies towards the place where he will meet the Ant King halfway to the palace. Everything is in place and everything has been planned for.

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On the other side, Pouf and Youpi look for their king in the flaming hell that surrounds them. They scream for their king as Pouf flies in the sky and Youpi uses his hooves to stop on the molten hot goround, together with tentacles with eyes as he tries to look for the king.

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They search for fifteen minutes when they suddenly fund the Ant King. Pouf is still flying around the perimeter, in case the king got blown away by the explosion. But suddenly….

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."  A deep monstrous howl is heard into the fiery land.

Pouf's heart immediately stops as Youpi's howl is all he needs for his worst fears to be confirmed.

Pouf's face is already covered in tears even before he even sees the body.

Immediately when his many clones go buy and see the thing in Youpi's arms, he too can't help but howl. "NOOO!!! My King!"

He sees that the king's body is completely molten, he has no arms or legs and cannot seem to talk. But there is still life on him. Tears come out of Yupui's eyes. He can see that his king is infinitely close to truly dying. 

But Pouf has a different idea, as his body starts releasing the cells that he uses to make clones and he uses them to spy… this time he closes his eyes and thinks. 'O cells of mine… give yourself to heal the king.'

As the king starts getting better, Youpi also turns his cells into liquid to give to them too.

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After that process, slowly the king easily walks through the fire and smoke. Pouf and Youpi, whose bodies have now turned into miniature versions of themselves. Have giant smiles on their faces. 

'His heartbeat, his power, his whole body is better now. He has gotten stronger.' Thinks Pouf, glad that he can at least help the King be stronger like that.

Youpi on the other hand had a strange reaction. 'The king is stronger than that human now.' Once he was reassured of that. Youpi things on the more important  things happening in front of him. 'But more importantly… why is it that the king seems confused.'

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In another place close by, Jax is sitting upon a pillar of rock. His hair is slicked backwards and he is wearing glasses again. But these reading glasses aren't normal, they are the ones created by his Nen as a form of observation and supercomputer.

'The king most likely already has raw power over me now. Truly frightening, that thing surpassed my decades of hard work in a simple motion of days. I am no longer a match to him in raw power. But I have something that he doesn't have though, and that is my knowledge of technology on my side. Thankfully the Ant King spent his free time playing gungi instead of learning about humanity's strength.' Analyses Jax, already knowing that gungi did help the king win against Netero. But that is only because of his intelligence to be able to turn a game like gungi into a fighting strategy. Though he used the simple strategy of always attacking, he still had to remember every sequence of attacks that Netero did, so he will attack him again in another way to reveal a new move from Netero. He then will keep perfecting his rhythm to slip right through Netero's guard.

A simple but terrifying strategy that will only work for the King. As he can essentially defeat anyone like Netero by using this method.

'That is a dangerous intelligence that he has going on for himself.' Thinks Jax, as his Nen flares around him like a perfect flowing black fire. He has already sensed the King coming towards here. He knows that he can't necessarily outsmart Meruem. But… his glasses are like a supercomputer, something like a fleshy brain will never be able to keep up with its calculating power, even if the King was 1000x smarter, he won't even get to the 0.1% of the calculating power of a supercomputer.

As the king is flying closer and closer to him. Jax just simply takes his hands out of his pocket and gets up. He has to also end this battle fast too, or he might get poisoned too.

So Jax just looks at the king and his two little mini royal guards. The King stops when he sees Jax and senses his Nen. 

"Are you going to stop me?" Asks the King, already predicting what Jax is going to do. But he still asked, just to be sure.

Jax just looks at the King flying so close to him. But he still simply answers with a simple; "Yes."

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A/N: We can see that the King's Aura Synthesis Ability is better than Jax's Gamer Ability. The fist surpassed the latter truly fast in raw power. 

P.S: Like always, you get +1 chapter for that day if the story reaches 1000 power stones. (when it reaches 2000 you also get a new bonus chapter that day)