Ivan's thighs suddenly tensed at this moment, and the power unleashed by his strong, slightly bent legs propelled Ivan's body to shoot up.
The warehouse on the first floor was over seven meters high, a height sufficient for Ivan to leap over Pat, who was blocking his way, and reach Zalan.
Pat had considered all possibilities but never thought Ivan would choose to leap directly over his head.
Who gave him such courage?
Pat's eyes had turned into yellow vertical pupils, like a Dinosaur's, and his head had become rounded, his body hunched. A thick brown tail extended from his back, and equally thick Dinosaur feet pushed off the ground, causing his body to leap slightly.
Something's not right!
Despair flashed in Pat's eyes, for he had already realized what was wrong.
The Dinosaur species he transformed into was incorrect; it wasn't a Velociraptor like his opponent, but a herbivorous Pachycephalosaurus.
The fist he habitually threw out was significantly shorter, unable even to reach above his head, and his open mouth lacked sharp teeth.
His opponent's choice was to nullify all his weapons!
Pat watched unwillingly as Ivan leaped over his head, but the flicker of hope in his heart did not extinguish, for he knew his companion still had a trick up his sleeve.
Ivan leaped over Pat, who was no longer a threat to him, and the moment he landed, he swung his sharp claws at Zalan, who was no longer far from him.
However, in this process, Ivan's heart skipped a beat.
Because as he landed, he discovered that the ground beneath his feet was not flat; there was a hard object.
It was a toy Dinosaur!
Boom!
An explosion occurred beneath Ivan's feet, throwing him backward just as his sharp claws were about to touch Zalan.
Ivan clearly saw a mocking smile on Zalan's face, who was within arm's reach.
But that smile lasted less than five seconds!
Because as Ivan was thrown back by the explosion, landed, and struggled to get up, another brown Dinosaur suddenly leaped over Ivan's previous position and, under Zalan's incredulous gaze, crashed into Zalan.
It was a fully Dinosaurized Pat!
Ivan endured the pain in his foot and stood up. His gaze fell to his left foot, which was already a bloody mess.
However, he could also see that Death Nen wrapped around him was rapidly surging towards his left foot. An itching sensation appeared there, but the pain was quickly diminishing!
It was the same feeling as when his injured tail was repaired after Pat had previously struck him.
He was being healed!
Ivan's gaze shifted from his left foot to the spot where the explosion had occurred.
The moment he was blown away, he already understood Zalan's intention.
The opponent used Pat's obstruction to move the toy Dinosaur into his blind spot and ambush him.
This setup should also be a tacit understanding between him and Pat, one attracting the opponent's attention, the other setting up a trap.
If Pat hadn't become anxious due to Dinosaurization and had to take a desperate risk, then perhaps the next step would have been for Ivan to be led into a minefield and endure continuous explosive impacts from hidden toy Dinosaurs.
If so, the toy Dinosaurs should also have the ability to break through the ground and hide; otherwise, they wouldn't achieve the desired effect against people with normal vision.
Additionally, the toy Dinosaurs should also have had "In" applied to them, an advanced technique of "Zetsu" that concealed the Nen on the toy Dinosaurs.
The Dinosaurized Pat was still continuously attacking Zalan.
However, the ManipulationZalan seemed not to be skilled in close combat; after being knocked away the first time, he completely became the object of the DinosaurPat's unilateral Ravage.
Screams and pleas for mercy soon echoed through the large warehouse.
However, these sounds did not last too long, because Zalan, who was constantly being ravaged, also showed changes in his body.
When Pat, controlled by Ivan, stopped his attack, Zalan, who was barely breathing on the ground, had already begun to transform partially into a Dinosaur.
This was the infectious spread effect of the Scary Monsterst's ability!
"Who are you?" Ivan did not approach.
Even now, he was still cautiously guarding against the toy Dinosaur bombs scattered somewhere nearby.
Under his super dynamic vision, his static vision was extremely weak; the ground appeared to him as merely a background, making it impossible to distinguish any abnormalities.
"Quickly stop your ability!"
Zalan weakly shouted; he did not want to become a Dinosaur, even though he truly liked Dinosaurs.
"You are not in a position to negotiate now. Tell me, who are you, which faction do you belong to, and why are you here?" Ivan asked three questions directly.
Zalan struggled on the ground, trying to crawl up. His eyes held resentment and fear.
"If you want to die, I can grant your wish, but it will be by being killed by your companion in the form of a Dinosaur." Ivan had already retreated from his Dinosaurized state; his left foot was almost back to normal under the repair of the black aura. "I think, since you like Dinosaurs, you should also like this way of dying!"
"No, I'll talk." Zalan stopped struggling, because in his sight, he saw the Pachycephalosaurus that Pat had transformed into was already approaching him again.
It seemed that if he hesitated for even a moment longer, what awaited him would be the Pachycephalosaurus's headbutt attack.
Ivan waited patiently, secretly calculating the time in his heart.
Zalan's expression was conflicted, as if he was preparing himself mentally, or perhaps stalling for time.
Just as Ivan was growing impatient, Zalan looked at his rapidly shrinking Dinosaurized arms in terror and quickly said, "I'm Zalan, he's Pat, and we are both members of the Cha-R Family. We are here to find Judge Leiman, who was led away. I've told you, quickly stop your ability!"
Ivan nodded to himself.
He did not detect any falsehood, and as for the rest of his words, apart from the target, he couldn't determine whether he was lying or not.
"How many of you came? How many ability users are in this vicinity, and who is leading them?" Ivan asked three more questions.
Zalan's voice began to change, becoming coarse and hoarse: "I only know that the leader is Vice Family Head Yituoku, and the rest are still..."
Zalan's words stopped abruptly here, because his head had also completely transformed into a Dinosaur's at this moment.
This time it wasn't a Pachycephalosaurus, but a Velociraptor, similar to Ivan.
"Three minutes, much slower than Pat's transformation into a Pachycephalosaurus earlier. Is it due to secondary infection?" Ivan couldn't quite determine.
However, he secretly recorded this time.
The precision of the Scary Monsterst, according to the panel, was rated C. In that case, the variation in the time it took for infected individuals to turn into Dinosaurs would be understandable.
As Zalan completely Dinosaurized, all the nearby toy Dinosaurs also lost control and released the Nen that had been hidden within their bodies.
Ivan used Nen to determine the exact locations of these toys. He moved his left foot and walked out.
Five minutes.
This was the time it took for him to be injured and then healed. There was no sign of Death Nen decreasing; instead, the Nen locked within his body seemed to have been partially consumed.
Ivan suspected that this part was absorbed into Death Nen because his Nen orifice had been continuously open.
Good stuff.
This was his evaluation of Death Nen.
An ability that could repair and heal the body, even in the Hunter x Hunter manga he had read, could be said to be one of the few types of abilities.
The downside was that he temporarily had no way to make Death Nen Entanglement him less conspicuous, and at the same time, this thing had no defensive effect and even blocked the release of his own Nen.
Therefore, if possible, he either needed to gain control over Death Nen, or he could only painfully remove Death Nen.
Otherwise, even with the Scary Monsterst ability, he would mostly only be able to constantly dodge when facing other ability users.