As for Menthuthuyoupi, with his intelligence and mind, it's probably very difficult for him to carry out this task properly.
Among the three royal guards, the only one who could be considered somewhat reliable is Neferpitou.
If she were entrusted with watching over Komugi, she could faithfully carry out the Ant King's orders.
However, staying in the Republic of East Gorteau is no longer an option, as both she and Komugi are at risk of being exposed. The best place for them to hide, without being disturbed, would be a small island that normal people cannot reach.
So, after sensing the intense aura inside the royal palace hall on the second floor dissipated, Lan directly pulled out his phone, found the familiar number, and immediately dialed it.
"Beep beep beep beep~click, hello?"
After the call connected, a slightly out-of-breath voice came through.
"Are you alright?"
Lan casually asked: "From the tone of your voice, it sounds like things aren't going too well?"
"It's fine, I'm not dead yet."
Ging spoke in a low voice: "Although things turned out to be a bit more troublesome than I expected, it's finally settled. You timed your call pretty well, so what's up?"
"It's nothing particularly important."
Lan didn't leave any suspense and directly said: "The Ant King has been dealt with; everything went well."
By 'everything went well,' he meant that there were no casualties, and even Chairman Netero was safe and sound.
Ging can naturally hear it: "Is that so?"
He nodded on the other end of the line: "Mm, got it."
This outcome didn't surprise him. Even though Chairman Netero had a stubborn side.
With Lan being around, he wouldn't leave him alone to face such dangers at his age.
If Netero had actually died there, that would have been more of a surprise to him.
"So, you called to report this good news?"
Ging asked lightly.
"Well then, I'll share some good news with you too."
On the other side of the line, inside the royal palace hall, Ging stood alone, holding the phone.
The vast hall was eerily quiet at this moment, with no sounds except for his voice.
The other party he had been fighting earlier, Shaiapouf, who had burned everything just to unleash his strongest power, was now nowhere to be seen.
It was as if he had vanished, no longer existing in this world.
"I played an interesting game with that seemingly mad and perverse Chimera Ant..."
"It's a pity he couldn't win, and he lost to me. But after losing, he couldn't handle it and didn't want to admit it."
"For someone who can't accept losing, I had to resort to some unconventional methods."
"For example, banning them and blocking their accounts so that they can no longer participate in any games or competitions..."
Ging was speaking in gaming terms, but Lan understood the meaning behind them.
This world was, in a sense, one giant absurd game, especially since Ging himself had created a place where real players could come and play games.
As for the terms like banning and blocking, they were quite straightforward; it meant being knocked out of this world.
Lan didn't ask further about how Ging had blocked Shaiapouf of his account, just as Ging hadn't asked how Lan had defeated the Ant King.
Lan could roughly guess some of Ging's methods.
Shaiapouf was not a combat-type royal guard, and even if he had burned his own body to gain greater strength and aura, Ging was very skilled at handling these types of reckless opponents and had a lot of experience with this.
The various item cards and spell Cards he had developed on Greed Island proved his abilities and solutions to these kinds of problems.
Ging could treat an island as a battlefield for a game, so it wouldn't be surprising if he created a temporary space for constructing a game where both parties could become players.
"In this game space, he created, both parties should become players in this game."
"By following the same game rules, the winner can leave the space."
"And the loser will suffer the appropriate punishment for losing the game."
"This punishment can be something like putting the person into a state of despair or making them temporarily unconscious or immobile..."
"But no matter what, it's enough for Ging to easily deal with them."
"Of course, all of this depends on Ging being able to win the game."
"And with his gaming abilities... I'm afraid there aren't many people in this world who can defeat him."
Lan's mind raced with many possibilities about Ging's abilities.
Ging had deep expertise and understanding of games, and he enjoyed them a lot.
This was evident from the time he took Gon to Greed Island when Gon was very young.
Later, he even created Greed Island.
A place in the real world for role-playing games, and made it a form of training for Gon. His many companions settled there, too.
During the chairman election arc, he was even nominated as an applicant by the hunters. That Hacker Hunter, Ickshonpe, who only existed in the digital world, openly challenged Ging to another game.
This shows that even if Ging's abilities weren't directly related to games, they were certainly related to them.