No one was willing to give up.
Top-tier treasures grew everywhere they looked, yet they couldn't even touch them. Who could swallow that?
"I don't believe it!"
Gon rolled up his sleeves, and golden Nen instantly wrapped around his body. "If I cover the whole thing with Nen and touch it gently, that should work, right?"
He walked to another Essence Grass plant and gathered his Nen into a thin film, carefully wrapping it around the outermost leaf.
The Nen film had barely touched the leaf.
Whoosh—
Black spread across it again.
The entire plant dehydrated and charred before their eyes, crumbling into ash.
It hadn't even lasted three seconds.
Gon stood frozen, his face full of defiance.
"What if I'm faster? So fast it can't react!"
He took a deep breath and gathered the force of Fifteenfold Rotation at his fingertips. Moving fast enough to leave an afterimage, he reached straight for the roots, hoping to pull the plant out before it withered.
There was a soft pop.
His fingertips had only just touched the stalk above the soil.
The entire plant turned black.
Even that incredible speed had made no difference.
It was as though, no matter how fast someone moved, a single person's touch would make the plant destroy itself instantly.
"Let me try."
Killua came over, icy-blue lightning crackling at his fingertips.
"I'll stimulate its stalk with lightning from a distance. Maybe I can make it go dormant without triggering the withering."
He controlled an extremely fine thread of lightning and carefully sent it toward the Essence Grass's stalk like a needle.
The lightning had barely touched its surface.
Crack.
The entire plant instantly blackened and turned to ash.
Even lightning didn't work.
Killua frowned and tried again, this time lowering the lightning's power to the