The next morning, just as dawn was breaking.
Someone was already training on the estate's practice grounds.
Gon stood in the center of the field, took a deep breath, and frantically gathered Nen in his right hand.
"Rock-Paper-Scissors—Rock!!!"
30x Rock-Paper-Scissors!
The Nen Drill struck the boulder in front of him. With a thunderous boom, it punched a huge hole straight through it.
But Gon's right hand was trembling. The pain from his strained muscles made him frown.
"I can still only use it three times..." He shook his right hand. "The goal is ten!"
He gritted his teeth and gathered Nen again.
Nearby, Killua stood before a row of wooden posts, blue arcs of electricity flickering across his fingertips.
He did not use a wide-area electric attack. Instead, he condensed the current into needle-like points and precisely pierced the same spot on the wooden post.
"Crackle—!!!"
The wooden post was pierced by the Electric Needle, leaving behind a tiny hole.
"My precision still isn't good enough..." Killua frowned. "And it consumes too much power."
He flexed his fingers and continued practicing.
Kurapika stood in the center of the field with his eyes closed. A dozen golden Chains danced around him as if they were alive.
Each Chain was wrapped around a wooden post, pulling and strangling them all at once.
"Crack—!!!"
More than a dozen wooden posts were crushed simultaneously.
But beads of sweat had appeared on Kurapika's forehead.
"Controlling fifteen at once... is already my limit." He opened his eyes, a trace of fatigue flashing through his Scarlet Eyes. "The goal is thirty."
Leorio stood before a training dummy, the Nen Scalpel taking shape in his hand.
He brought it down, and the blade of light split the dummy in half.
But the blade of light dissipated after lasting