The Weight of a Hundred-Mile Ear of Primordial Ingredient

The six of them stood at the edge of the sea of flowers and looked north in unison.

At the end of the horizon, the massive black silhouette was no longer blurry.

As they drew closer, the outline of the giant corn gradually became clear—heavy, imposing, and oppressive.

It was too tall.

Its thick Corn Stalk shot straight into the sky, its crown vanishing into the clouds, with no summit in sight. The entire Corn Stalk stood alone in the middle of the wasteland. Within a hundred miles, there was not another one like it, like a silent night watchman that had stood between heaven and earth for countless years.

Even from several kilometers away, its overwhelming presence made them instinctively hold their breath.

It was not Nen pressure.

It was not a spiritual energy tremor.

It was simply, purely, unimaginably huge.

So huge that it defied common sense, so huge that it made them feel like ants.

"This is... BB Corn?"

Leorio swallowed, his voice a little tight.

He had originally thought that so-called "giant corn" would at most be a few stories tall.

But this one was at least thirty stories high by his estimate, its ear as thick as a tower. Even the exposed edges of each kernel were larger than an adult's head.

Kurapika narrowed his Scarlet Eyes slightly and carefully examined the surface of the giant ear.

"The shell is made of layered keratinized fibers. It's harder than rock. The kernels are embedded deep in the cob, so you can't pull them out from the front by force."

This was a Primordial Ingredient's self-protection mechanism.

Ordinary beasts could not chew through the shell, while brute force would only crush the kernels inside the cob. Only by striking the back with precision and using vibrations to