"Get away from the King!"
Youpi's face twisted in fury, and he concentrated his Aura on the human-faced gun barrel.
With a blinding flash, a baby-arm-thick Nen Beam tore through the air, heading straight for Moses's chest.
Faced with Youpi's long-range attack, Moses had no means to block it. He could only gather his Aura under his feet and instantly dodged to the side.
Sssrrr-
A shrill sound rang.
The Nen Beam, containing cold killing intent, shot over and hit a distant building, causing a violent explosion.
But Youpi's attack did not end there.
In order to force Moses away from the King, Youpi didn't care at all about the drain on his Potential Aura and fired more Nen Beam at Moses.
In an instant, one powerful Nen Beam after another tore through the air, each one aimed directly at Moses.
With an arm missing and running low on Potential Aura, Moses had no choice but to keep dodging Youpi's relentless barrage.
In this situation, he naturally could no longer suppress the King.
But what made matters worse was that Youpi's offensive was accelerating the depletion of his Potential Aura even further.
'The temperature is starting to drop...'
Moses's eyes were solemn.
As his Potential Aura neared depletion, the heat radiating from the scorching sun above was noticeably weakening.
Youpi and Pouf, who were in the high temperature range, instantly sensed the shift in temperature around them.
"Youpi!"
Pouf's expression changed, and he rushed towards the King while shouting Youpi's name.
But before he could say more, Youpi snapped back irritably: "I know, you go protect the King!"
Without missing a beat, Youpi continued his beam barrage while pressing in on Moses.
Pouf swallowed the words that were about to come to his throat and rushed to the King's side as quickly as possible.
After seeing the King's charred and blackened body, Pouf's face was suddenly shrouded in a shadow.
"King!!!"
He completely ignored the severe burns on his body, lowered his head and called out the King's name anxiously.
As if he could hear Pouf's cries, two thin slits slowly appeared on the King's charred face, and then it opened slightly, revealing part of his eyeballs.
When Pouf saw the King open his eyes, he was overcome with emotion and tears burst forth.
The King first opened his eyes, and then slowly tried to move his mouth.
But after a few weak attempts, not a single word came out.
The scorching sun released through the power of Pain Packer didn't reach the heat levels of the Poor Man's Rose,
However, at such close range, the intense burning had still cost the King more than half his life.
"King... it's okay, I have a way to make you recover!"
The image of the King eating Pitou and instantly recovering from his injuries flashed through Pouf's mind.
'If I just let King eat me...'
'As long as my cells enter King's body...'
'He'll be healed down to every last cell!'
'But I can't do that right now...!'
Pouf's thoughts churned, and he squinted his eyes suddenly, looking at the scorching sun that was no longer so dazzling above.
His Nen Ability, Beelzebub, allowed him to split into countless nano-scale cell clones.
With this method, he could send an endless stream of his cells directly into the King's body.
After that, the King will be able to recover in a short period of time, just like when he ate Pitou, and his strength will also be greatly enhanced!
However, the huge fireball that is emitting high temperature will burn all the nano-scale cell clones into ashes in an instant.
In this situation, Pouf couldn't recklessly use his Beelzebub.
In other words, if he wanted to use this method to heal the King, he had to wait for the fireball to disappear.
With that thought, Pouf retracted his gaze and looked towards Youpi.
Under the pressure applied by Youpi, Moses, who had injected most of his Aura into the scorching sun, could only passively defend and dodge.
As a result, the blazing sun also began to weaken.
'It's just a little bit short...'
Moses suddenly let out a long sigh.
At this time, the scorching sun hanging in the sky suddenly dimmed, and then vanished into nothing.
The only evidence it had ever existed was the scorched King and the glowing-hot firestones scattered across the battlefield.
If he had just ten more seconds, he might've been able to finish off the King.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs.
The arrival of Pouf and Youpi made it impossible for him to breathe life into the final push.
However, he could also tell from this that Kurapika and the others had most likely retreated to Knov's Fourth-Dimensional Apartment.
Moses did not blame his teammates for their decisive decision.
At a time when it was impossible to receive real-time battle updates, and with the scorching sun released a life-forbidden zone, one could only make the safest choice.
In the final analysis-
In terms of vitality alone, humans were like newborns compared to the Chimera Ant Royal Guards and the King, whose bodies held the genes of countless creatures.
So Youpi and Pouf were able to come here despite the high temperature, but Morel and the others couldn't.
That's the difference.
'No helping it.'
After recognizing the situation, Moses had no choice but to accept the situation.
At the moment-
Whether or not his dwindling Aura would let him teleport far enough away didn't matter. He had to use the rose now.
There was no energy left to worry about the 'consequences'...
And right at that moment, both Pouf and Youpi sprang into action.
As soon as the scorching sun disappeared, Pouf quickly thrust his right hand into the King's open mouth and used Beelzebub.
In an instant, Pouf's entire body split into densely packed cell clones, which were then poured into the King's body.
After being freed from the high temperature environment, Youpi suddenly burst out with amazing speed.
He did not hesitate to abandon the convenient and easy-to-use long-range attack method, and rushed straight to Moses.
Moses's eyes narrowed, and he decisively took off the tribal outfit used to resist the high temperature, as well as the conjured black sword.
This move recovered a small portion of his Aura, but it is still barely a drop in the bucket.
[Godspeed]
Black arcs of electricity flashed as Moses dodged Youpi's descending arm blade by leaning sideways, and then countered with a powerful elbow strike to Youpi's gut.
Bang!
Youpi was hit and was pushed back more than ten meters.
'This guy…'
Youpi has experienced this kind of electric attacks from Killua several times.
But comparing the power, Youpi suddenly felt that Killua was too gentle.
After repelling Youpi, Moses raised his finger and lightly tapped the Rat Jewel's bead.
Suddenly, the bead burst with white light.
"Chuu!"
As the light faded, Rat Jewel revealed itself.
Since the rose was taken directly from Netero, unlike Netero who had the rose implanted in his body under the arrangement of V5, Moses could only put the rose in Rat Jewel's 'treasure bag'.
Without needing Moses to say a word, Rat Jewel took out the Poor Man's Rose directly from its 'treasure bag' according to the plan they had discussed in advance.
Moses then took the rose from Rat Jewel's hands.
But at this moment-
A tsunami-like surge of Aura flooded in from the front.
Along with it came countless shimmering particles of light.
This more powerful and majestic Aura belongs to the King.
And the countless tiny particles of light that came with the shockwaves also belonged to the King.