Chapter 30 : Team

Time flew by, the months passed at full speed in a dark room in York-New City.

A man in his early 22's was sitting on the floor shirtless, his muscles carved like those of a Greek sculpture could scare any professional bodybuilder, he had long hair down to his neck and a three day beard gave him the maturity of a man in his 30's.

Although he was motionless, a sort of draft seemed to surround him slowly spinning around him as his open eyes gazed into the void.

A few seconds later, the sound of a telephone ringing echoed through the room.

The young man's indifferent eyes changed, the draught dissipated, he got up slowly and went to pick up the phone.

"It's time for me to move on."

James turned off the alarm on his phone, which he put in his pocket before getting dressed.

He put a few things in a backpack and left the dark room.

It had been a week since he left Greed Island, Gon and his team had already managed to finish the game, they had even called him and said goodbye before leaving.

Despite the end of the games, he stayed in Greed Island for several days and continued his training.

He only stopped for one reason, the chimera ants were born.

He then stayed in his apartment training while setting an alarm to warn him of the August 1st date.

He called a cab and was dropped off at the airport, he reserved an entire airship before leaving in the direction of Republic of East Gorteau.

. . . . . .

The Extermination Team is a group that Hunter Association Chairman Isaac Netero formed to eradicate a colony of giant Chimera Ants. Although originally composed only of Hunters, it later grew to include a few rebellious Chimera Ants.

The team consisted of : Knov, Morel Mackernasey, Knuckle Bine, Shoot McMahon , Gon Freecss, Killua Zoldyck, Palm Siberia and two Ants named Ikalgo and Meleoron.

August 6, 2000.

Several of them were present in Knov's dimension one of the team members as well as a hunter with teleportation capability.

Gon and Killian as well as Ikalgo entered Knov's dimension and looked at everyone before Gon asked :

"Have you heard from Palm?"

"No."

"Oh..."

Gon looked a little disappointed,

"We'll keep waiting until half

an hour before go time."

Knov interrupted them with a cough and then said in a weak voice.

"I already told you about the hunter who volunteered to participate, he just landed, I'm going to go get him."

" I thought I told you we didn't need any extra members, we agreed to turn him down, a newcomer 'e would just disrupt our plan." Morel says with a slightly angry expression.

"I know, but it's not just anyone, he recently donated over a hundred billion Jenni to the Hunters' Association, it's very difficult for the association to turn down his request."

"Is this the guy who recently doubled the bounty on all the rank A criminals wanted by the association?"

"Exactly."

Knov nodded his head before leaving the room under the curious eyes of the other members.

Wouldn't that be him? Am I wrong? Although he is strong, just thinking about him annoys me!

Killian thought of James' smiling face and clenched his fists in anger.

A few dozen minutes later, Knov reappeared in the room with the person Killian least wanted to see.

"Mr. James!"

"Hi Gon, how are you?"

James greeted Gon with a big smile before approaching the people present and shaking their hands one by one.

"Good evening, I am James Bond, I will help you in this mission."

"Wow, a talking octopus, I've never seen one."

"And you're a chameleon? You can talk too."

James got to know everyone in the room and started chatting happily with them.

Morel then stood up and approached James with a serious air.

"Although you've made it to the team, you're not one of us yet, so if you want us to accept you, show us your power."

James noticed that the world was looking at him early on, making him a little speechless.

Killua looked at Morel lazily and said to him, putting his hands behind his head.

"No need to test his strength, he's so strong that I doubt that all of us together can kill him."

Morel's aura changed and surrounded his whole body, he had entered a state of Ten.

"Even if I believe in your words, Killua, a picture is better than a thousand words, show us what you can do, James".

James seeing that and scratched his head and didn't know what to do for a while before he sighed.

"Well, you asked for it."

His gaze became serious and a dark aura with a sense of death exploded out of his body so violently that Morel was thrown against the wall.

Those present instinctively used the Ten before backing away.

The surrounding air swirled around James as his aura filled the entire room.

"What power, a hundred, no, he has a hundred and ten thousand aura units!!" Knuckle thought as he clenched his teeth as drops of sweat fell from his forehead.

The second, James's aura dissipated, leaving the team members whose legs were still shaking to catch their breath.

"Can I join the team now?!"

James asks Morel with a smile.

Morel unconsciously nodded his head in acceptance and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The others all fell to the ground looking at him as if he wasn't human, but the worst was Knov whose remaining hair fell to the ground making him completely bald.