The sun blazed overhead.
The dirt across the wilderness had been baked scorching hot.
Gon and Killua were covered in mud.
They had just climbed out of a deep, dried-up well.
Both of them gasped for breath.
They barely had the strength to stand.
Biscuit sat on a massive rock.
She held a branch she had snapped off somewhere.
She kept tapping it against her palm.
"Too slow."
Biscuit berated them sharply.
"It took you fifteen minutes to lure out one low-level cyclops."
"With combat reactions like that,"
"you wouldn't even qualify as a snack in the high-level areas."
On a patch of grass nearby,
Luo Ye lay on the leather sofa he had brought, leafing through an auction catalog.
Shizuku carefully peeled grapes beside him.
Luo Ye tossed the catalog onto the table.
He sat up.
"Big sis."
Luo Ye stretched lazily.
"Your teaching philosophy is seriously behind the times."
"This game's core is card collecting and monopolizing resources."
"You're making them lure monsters out of dried-up wells one at a time."
"With that kind of low-end grunt work, they'll never clear the game."
Biscuit snapped the branch in her hand.
She turned back with a vicious glare.
"Shut up."
"How else are they supposed to improve their fine control over Nen without life-or-death combat?"
Luo Ye stood up.
He walked into the clearing.
He clapped his hands.
"They do need combat practice."
"But we should make the experience packs come to them."
Luo Ye snapped his fingers.
"New hire."
"Bring out the props."
Shizuku immediately put down her grapes.
She conjured Blinky.
She aimed its cavernous mouth at the clearing ahead.
Clatter.
A piercing clash of metal rang out.
A huge heap of rare ores glowing in a rainbow of colors spilled out.
These were the spoils they