The world spins around me. The clarity from the revelation is gone, replaced by deep shock and nausea. The confirmation about magic in this world is shocking enough, but to be in a familiar world as well? And Hunter x Hunter on top of that! That’s incredible! It is the best popular world to be in! Or at least from what anime I watched. There are a few better worlds, but most of them are from lesser known novels, who don’t even have a tenth of the viewers HxH had. Anyone who has ever watched anime, has at least heard of the masterpiece before.

So why is Hunter Hunter the best world to be in? It’s because of the intent based power system. You can do most things with nen and aura. It’s not like qi or chakra, where you can only do limited things with it. If you are not a god, you can’t do many things with them. While with nen, as long as you have the drive and the knowledge necessary, you can do literally anything. If you are too weak but need to have the ability, you can just put lots of restrictions and conditions on it. The only downside is the limited amount of Hatsu you can have and your efficiency with them. Most hunters only have 1 to 5 hatsus, which is a far cry from the countless techniques in other worlds. But there are ways to get around that, like doing something similar to Bandit’s secret, aka Chrollo Lucilfer’s hatsu stealing ability. But it too has great limitations. Nonetheless you need to be powerful enough to be able to do it. There is just no way for an average hunter to create such abilities. One of the reasons why Chrollo was able to do it was because of his unique personality. His lack of identity made him create the spiders, which is the extension of him. He grows with the spider. Growing with an ideal or an organization is truly fearsome. Might be something worth looking into *wink* *wink*. You can truly achieve god-like powers and be unrivaled.

[END OF AUTHOR NOTE / INFO DUMP / ALAN’S THOUGHTS]

As Alan was thinking about it, he heard another piece of information. He heard a loud voice sounding through the air:

“Everyone! The ship leaves the port in 5 minutes! All that are not on board by the end will have to wait 4 more years for the hunter exam or find a way to get there from other islands! Don’t forget, this year is the 200th hunter exam and it will be far grander than others. Again, this is the last call!”

Alan was curious. Wasn’t the hunter exam supposed to happen every year? And wasn’t it supposed to be in january? It’s april and this ship would need a month to arrive. So was it in june? Given that it takes a month to reach the site, this place should be extremely remote. And what was with the 200th hunter exam? Wasn’t canon happening in the 287th exam? But wasn’t that 87 years before canon? That can’t be it. Right?

Just as he was thinking intensely about the topic something changed. The overflow of new information hit him.

His head was pounding. He never expected such an intense reaction. The shock made his knees tremble. If anyone looked at his face, they could see a mix of excitement, anticipation, adventurous spirit and the determination to grow stronger. To surpass all others. To conquer the very universe - no! The very omniverse! The desire to swallow even the gods!

The beast within has been unleashed. Existence in its entirety will tremble beneath its feat. The endless hunger for power and greed for information dwarfs the might of heavens themselves! Its ambition was truly fearsome.

But Alan's body couldn’t handle it. He collapsed to the ground, but an innocent smile remained ever present. It would warm the hearts of any who looked at it. The contrast was obvious. That day, a child could be seen lying on the ground, sleeping in satisfaction.

***

A week has gone by and a child still sleeps unconsciously. A young girl worriedly stood over the bed with signs of dried tears in her eyes. The only comfort was a smile on the patient’s face and the insistent words of the nurse, reassuring her that the patient was fine.

It wasn’t before evening that the child woke up. The girl saw this and hugged him. The two pairs of eyes looked at each other. One as blue as and as vast as the sky while the other shined like the purest of emeralds. But the link didn’t last long. The blue eyes became clouded as they slowly closed in exhaustion.

The next day, I woke up energetic. A wide grin was visible on my face. When Tina saw this, she smiled as well. She picked me up with increasing difficulty. I already weigh more than 8 kilos. After the hug was over we went outside, but not before eating. We went for a short walk before I was returned to the hospital.

***

It was time to make the game plan. I allowed myself to think of the topic. Before that, I suppressed it in my head to act naturally, but it was difficult. Incredibly so.

First of all, what do I know about nen? It’s an intent based power that all living beings can use. It can somehow extend your life beyond the Heyflick limit of 120 years. Netero was at least that old when he died and could probably live for a while older. But he didn’t want to die on a sick bed so he went out with a bang. A literal one. This means that life preservation is possible and I should be able to live far longer. I won’t be one of the pathetic transmigrators who die at 80. But this is still far in the future. First I’ll recap the basic knowledge.

Every living being has aura within them. It is ever present and without it the entity dies. There were no recorded instances where a person not under a curse was unable to awaken their aura nodes. So everyone should be able to do it.

Secondly there are two sets of techniques that utilize aura. The techniques are sorted into basic and advanced. The name of the technique is nen. Basics techniques of nen are [Ten], [Zetsu], [Ren] and [Hatsu]. [Ten] is a technique that allows you to control your aura on the outside. [Zetsu] is to contain your aura within yourself. [Ren] means to release your aura freely to the outside and [Hatsu] is a personal interpretation of nen.

There exist several advanced techniques which are just combinations of basic ones. Besides that, there are also nen types which determine what kind of abilities you are most suited for. They are [Enhancer], [Transmuter], [Conjurer], [Specialist], [Manipulator] and [Emitter]. Each of them specializes in something. From the online tests I did, I am most likely a [Conjurer] or a [Specialist], but it is yet to be confirmed when I perform water divination. Conjurers are typically high-strung or overly serious, stoic, and nervous. It doesn’t fit my personality completely, but it is far more similar to other categories. The only pariah is the [Specialist] nen type. Their abilities revolve around a general theme, which I call a gift. For example, Pakunoda has a memory gift. It gives her abilities revolving around memories. She can perform things like mind reading at a far lower difficulty compared to everyone else. The gifts don’t seem to have any limitations. Not even time. The only thing clear about them is that they are given based on the wielder's personality.

“For now, all I have to do, is to find a way to awaken my aura nodes. Everything else is for the future,” I remind myself, trying to not get side tracked. Since the basics of nen have been recapped I turn towards aura (or nen) awakening. There are three ways to do it. The fastest is to have someone direct malicious intent towards the target. Your body will protect itself by awakening the aura nodes. It causes great damage to the target and may be lethal. The mid tier method is less violent. A proficient nen user directs his own nen inside of you, giving you higher chances of sensing it. This method leaves less damage, but it is still existent. The last method is through meditation. The target meditates while trying to sense aura. The teacher can emit some of his aura to make sensing it easier.

Given that I don’t have anyone else and I don’t want to damage my aura nodes, methods one and two are out. I’ll choose the 3rd method, which is meditation. And a lot of it.

And so I started meditating.