Boom!!
Two massive steel-reinforced doors were blown open in an instant by Morin's punch!!
Gon: "..."
Killua: "..."
Leorio: "..."
Kurapika: "..."
Lippo and the two guards watching from the screen: "..."
Well, that's certainly a simple and straightforward way to clear the level, leaving everyone speechless!
After all, if you have enough strength, you can completely break the rules with confidence and ease.
Thus, the third round of testing, the Trap Tower, is cleared! GET!?
When Morin and his group emerged from the short and easy passage, it had taken them just three minutes. It was a slope from top to bottom, effortlessly crossing the entire vertical height of the Trap Tower.
As the five of them reached the bottom floor, someone had already arrived before them.
"Everyone's here, huh?"
Hisoka, who was building a card pyramid, glanced at the five of them.
"Hmph, it would be strange if you didn't make it."
After just a glance, Hisoka withdrew his gaze, focusing intently on the card pyramid in front of him.
"Luckily, we're among the first batch of examinees to arrive!!"
Leorio looked around. The room was a 360-degree circle, allowing everything and everyone inside to be seen clearly at a glance.
"So, the remaining time is ours to spend freely."
Killua also glanced at Hisoka, who was sitting cross-legged, and instinctively moved away. Not just him, but Gon and Kurapika also silently sat as far away from Hisoka as possible. However?
"Is Hisoka injured?"
Gon and the others noticed a deep knife wound on Hisoka's shoulder, emanating a bloody aura.
"Even Hisoka can get injured in this Trap Tower, it seems this round of testing is quite dangerous..."
"Fortunately, we have the 'Guiding Angel' and Morin, otherwise..."
The group exchanged looks, realizing their own insignificance and the dangers of the Hunter Exam.
Feeling deeply inadequate in strength, their eyes grew more determined.
They need to become stronger!!
"There are still over sixty hours left..."
Morin checked the time on his wristwatch. Their group didn't waste much time in the five-on-five match.
Reaching here, they hadn't even spent ten hours yet.
The remaining time could be used for a temporary rest.
Then, Morin took out that pink 'Door to Nowhere' sticker again.
"Morin..."
The others were curious when they saw him taking out a new tool.
"For the next few dozen hours, I plan to rest. If anything happens, just knock on the wall."
With that, he ignored the astonished looks from Gon and the others, placed the 'Door to Nowhere' sticker on the wall, opened the door, and walked in.
Then the door sticker disappeared.
The entire wall was left bare, looking as clean as before.
Gon: "..."
Killua: "..."
Leorio: "..."
Kurapika: "..."
He just... left like that?!
They glanced at the empty hall, then at Hisoka, who kept letting out creepy chuckles.
They swallowed hard in unison.
Don't leave us alone in a room with that pervert Hisoka!!
Feeling severely lacking in security, they shivered where they stood.
As time ticked away, more and more examinees began to pass through, reaching the bottom floor.
After Gon's group of five, the next to arrive was Hanzo.
"Yo-ho! I must be the first to clear the level and reach the bottom!!"
Just as Gon and the others were on high alert for Hisoka, a flamboyant voice reached their ears.
Accompanied by the rumbling sound of a stone door opening, a shiny bald head reflected light into their eyes.
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Hanzo walked in with a smug expression on his face. Then, his expression froze. Scanning the room, he twitched at the corner of his mouth.
"What the... turns out I'm only the sixth to arrive here."
His face fell, "I thought I might be the first, or at least in the top three!"
His tone carried a hint of disappointment, and the previous joy and thrill were gone.
"Not quite," Gon kindly reminded him, "You're actually the seventh to arrive."
"Huh??"
Hanzo counted again, then looked at Gon with a 'you've got to be kidding me' expression. There were clearly only five people present, so where was the sixth?
"Morin went to... rest inside the wall. He said to call him when it's over." Gon didn't know exactly how the door sticker worked, so he could only describe it as being inside the wall.
Hanzo: "..."
Resting inside the wall, is that even possible?
But thinking about it being Morin...
Hanzo was about seventy to eighty percent convinced. If it were that man, it might indeed be possible.
While Hanzo was pondering, Gitarakuru, also known as Illumi, strolled in leisurely. The reason for his slight delay was likely due to his peculiar walking style, which slowed him down considerably.
As time passed, at the next time point, besides a person whose face and hairstyle resembled Aokiji from One Piece, but with a completely different height and skin tone,
dark-skinned, wearing sunglasses making it hard to distinguish his eyes, number 34 Greta arrived here. When the countdown hit "40," no other examinees showed up.
This meant that in the first thirty hours of the third Trap Tower test, only nine people had cleared and arrived here.
When the countdown reached "30," a peculiar door in the waiting area opened, and a rack filled with food was pushed in by the Trap Tower guards.
For examinees who had already cleared the test, the Hunter Association wouldn't treat them harshly. Providing enough water and food to maintain basic physical strength was necessary.
There was plenty of food on the rack, so there was no need to worry about not having enough to eat.
Gon was the first to get up and grab some food, then handed it out to Leorio and the others in turn.
They silently ate the simple, tasteless compressed biscuits.
They all glanced at the wall.
Morin must be eating and drinking comfortably in that room.
As they were dining, two more doors slowly opened.
Two examinees stepped into the waiting area almost simultaneously.
Carrying a bow and arrow and various poisons, looking like a standard hunter or perhaps a poacher, was Bokeur.
And someone eager to challenge the strong, holding a wooden spear, dressed more like an Indian than the black-skinned Greta, with face paint, was Goushi.
After Bokeur arrived, he let out a long breath. The journey through the Trap Tower had been tough, mentally exhausting.
Reaching here, he could finally relax a bit.
After a brief rest, he headed to the rack to grab some food and replenish his energy.
As for Goushi, he glanced at the people already present. His gaze lingered on Hisoka for a moment, eyes flaring with fighting spirit before it quickly faded, as if searching for someone else.
After their arrival, more examinees steadily made their way here. There was Scar-Peng who played with snakes, Pens who played with bees, Shiba who played with guns, and Somi who played with monkeys.
There were also the Amori Brothers, martial artist Botobai, Tonpa, and several other miscellaneous characters. Soon, the dozens of hours passed in the blink of an eye.
"Time's up."
When the seventy-two-hour limit ended, and the timer hit zero, Lippo's voice came through the loudspeaker.
"Number of people who cleared the third test: twenty-eight!!"
A massive stone door at the center slowly opened.
At the same time, on the inside of the wall, a pink door slowly appeared in the sight of the examinees.
Morin pushed the door open and walked out.
"What is that?!"
The examinees were stunned by this sight.
That door, and the room behind it, what was going on?!
However, when they saw Morin emerge from it, they felt a strange sense of normalcy.
Yes, Morin had brought various surprising stimuli to the examinees, leaving them somewhat numb to his antics.
Instead, the more bizarre phenomena associated with Morin seemed to become ordinary occurrences.
As the examinees exited one by one, they saw a short, fox-eyed examiner with a rooster comb hairstyle, standing with his arms crossed.
"First of all, congratulations on making it out of the Trap Tower. The first half of the test is now over."
He wore a sinister smile on his face.
"Next, all examinees, please..."
Director Lippo snapped his fingers with a "snap" and continued:
"Immediately board this airship."
As he finished speaking, a large airship flew up directly from below the cliff.
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