Rat number two takes a turn

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Teleportation, then... Haha, what a world-balance changing ability, a whole new doctrine, a whole new way of waging war, of doing any business, of leading a life.

Every Hunter has different abilities that make them useful in different things. Some knew how to spit fire, some knew how to create their own clones, all very useful abilities in their niche. And some, like His Majesty, Osmond the Third, knew how to wipe out entire cities and armies and hordes of Grimm at the snap of their fingers. Their ability turned the site of their battle into a scorched wasteland for kilometers around.

Different Hunters had different abilities, different levels of training, different weapons, and different reputations to them.

There were Hunters who are only one in name only, self-taught Hunters with primitive self-made shivs or bows, who people scoffed at calling 'Hunters' because they could run a hundred meters a little faster or lift a little more weight. Some others used their Auras solely as a bar gimmick or to seduce a young gullible girl they'd picked in a bar, telling their incredible stories of how they'd single-handedly scattered hordes of Grimm. Confused whether the horde was of manticores, deathstalkers, or something in between.

Some were true professionals. They are unstoppable killing machines, equipped with the latest weapon technology, that at times the untrained observer might have thought they were encountering a character from legend or fairy tale. They strolled through battlefields, bringing death and terror to the enemy, causing even the most hardened veterans to gasp in mute admiration at the power of the supermen fighting alongside them, guarding Remnant.

And some very rare individuals like His Majesty could simply keep entire nations at arm's length, serving as both leader and strategic armament, controlling world politics.

In any case, for all Hunters, there was at least one extremely important trait in common – uniqueness.

Uniqueness was a positive feature in image building. When a Hunter had a recognizable image, it was much easier to find them in magazines and was much more valued in Remnant than a gray jacketed figure, with a plain-looking rifle slung over their shoulder. Hunters are colorful people, they have to be, whether it's the Semblance, weaponry, or even dress style, every Hunter is different to tackle all possible crises or missions.

However, that uniqueness also presents a huge problem for the Kingdoms – the impossibility of standardization. And the impossibility of standardization meant the inability to replicate and reproduce the capabilities of Hunters.

No, of course, the most eminent scientists had tried to understand the essence, the nature of Semblances, the nature of aura, to best replicate the Hunters' abilities – but it was not easy. After all, there were few reasonable scientific hypotheses as to how, in an instant, quite reflexively and instinctively, a Hunter could learn to turn into smoke or start attracting metal to themselves.

And for every Hunter, the process needed to be replicated – not exactly an easy endeavor.

So while various Hunters, including His Majesty, could use their abilities well, sometimes even enough to make entire nations pause, the whole of world politics even. In the end, these were all isolated capabilities, affecting a particular place, but not resulting in a world paradigm shift. No Hunter could be everywhere at once after all, until now, that is.

His Majesty, King Osmond the Third, Jonathan Goodman, has taken a step that until this point seemed impossible to skeptical observers.

An army is made to solve problems, and different armies solve different problems, King Osmond just made one to suit all occasions.

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