So how is it that Bateman can interact with the world while in his parallel universe if he's maintaining zetsu with his eyes closed? Is his power an out of body experience where he controls himself as if in 3rd person?

this is king crimson.

Whoa, the third phase of his power is way too OP.

Foretelling future at the cost of maintaining zetsu (and the world still running real time when he does, which means his ability is 'blind' to the future between him starting zetsu until the "instant 10 seconds review of the future" starts and he's totally vulnerable when doing all that) is still a balanced power.

The second part is "reviewing the future in real time", which is kinda normal. This is actually less powerful than the first part, because he is looking into the future while the world runs in real time.

But the third part isn't really clear yet:
1. Is it creating a whole universe that affect every single other people outside him? This is way too OP, things like illusions should have a certain activation condition which in turn affect only certain people or constrained to an area of effect, which wasn't clearly shown in this chapter.
2. Is it transporting his 'real self' into a 'safe space' while conjuring a doppelganger in the real world running on auto-pilot that follows the 'foretold' scenario? This is still very OP (doppelganger is emission+materialization, which are least compatible, adding to it is the auto-pilot which is manipulation). Not to mention the concept of 'safe space' or wherever his real body actually is in 10 seconds after he opens his eyes.

Togashi-sensei probably wringed his brain too much and went into hiatus thinking about all this stuff.

Delete this.

@Poipoy you are right i completly forgot about that one he used it like 2 times and it wasn't for an important reason. Maybe he could pull the "Hehe you thought i only had chains on my right hand, but no i also have on my left" thing XD.

@ixsaz you forgot the dowsing chain, he have shown all his 5 chains

this guy is kinda op. stacked with foresight, the effect of "future illusion" an opponent experiences, guardian nen beast, physical ability, and then whatever other powers he'll unlock as he completely masters nen.

can't imagine gon being able to compete with him unless it's a grown-up version of himself (not to mention the fact he can't use nen right now). maybe killua would be able to make use of his electric affinity to auto-attack/defend

kurapika probably has the best chance...but isn't he limited to just 2 of his chains with a non-spider/non-eye collector/non-enemy of his tribe?

Just remember Sven from Black Cat with his ability

@Loksel maybe with an ability that is able to Autoattack even if he isn't aware of what is trying to attack him.

If my memory doesn't fail me, he has only used 4 of his 5 chains, the one that seals,the one that can heal,the judgement chain, and the copy-cat or dolphin .

Wonder how Kurapika will deal with this kind of opponent.

This is just like King Crimson and Epitaph combined into a single ability. Pretty damn menacing.

KING CRIMSON IT JUST WORKS

KING CRIMSON!!!!!

za warudo !! toki wo tomare !!

Getting some Jojo Flashbacks

Getting this weird subliminal message.... "IT JUST WORKS"...

Whoa....

Utility is op.