Roy drank another two mouthfuls of wine. The cup was already empty.
"It's gone this quickly?" Roy looked at the cup, then at the round lake. He raised his hand directly, and another burst of Ki exploded across the surface of the water.
Splash!
As the water was blasted upward, dozens of life signatures formed from Ki appeared at the bottom of the lake once again.
"Oh? So there isn't only one batch of these fish. That couldn't be better!"
Roy pressed his hands together. His knuckles cracked.
"Come on! This time, I'm going to have myself a proper harvest!"
...
At the Hunter Association, Ging was standing beneath a tree, basking in the sun. Then, with a whoosh, a figure appeared beside him.
"You're back? It took you fifteen minutes. Huh? Why do you smell like alcohol?"
Ging immediately turned his face toward him. While hiding the envy in his eyes, his nose twitched, and he asked in puzzlement.
"Yeah. This time, I got some pretty good stuff."
Roy burped from the wine, then tossed Ging a small pouch.
"There's soil and rock from the Dark Continent inside. It's yours. You can take it and analyze it."
As a Double-Star Ruins Hunter, Ging was the best suited for this kind of thing.
"Thanks. Also, what's with that smell of alcohol on you? Does the Dark Continent even have wine?"
Ging took the pouch and put it away without hesitation, but in the end, he could not suppress his curiosity.
He did not ask what the Dark Continent was like. In the future, he would definitely step onto that land himself and see it with his own eyes.
But that did not stop Ging from being curious about the things Roy had obtained right now.
"Yeah. It's a treasure I found after using Instant Transmission to teleport to some corner of the Dark Continent. Speaking of which, the Dark Continent really is dangerous everywhere. One careless step and you'll fall there."
As Roy spoke, he took out a large gourd and shook it. The sound of liquid sloshing came from inside.
He had made this using some materials from his Capsules. When it came to storing wine, a gourd still felt better.
"This wine is one of the two things I gained from this trip to the Dark Continent. The flavor is quite good. I'll let you smell it."
As he spoke, Roy directly opened the stopper of the gourd. In an instant, an extremely rich wine fragrance drifted out.
"Hm?"
Roy froze.
When he had been on the Dark Continent, although the scent of this wine had been extremely rich, it had not really spread very far. But looking at it now, this fragrance was rapidly spreading in every direction through the air.
The environment and air of the Dark Continent were completely different from those of the Six Continents. Naturally, the way scents dispersed and spread was different as well.
Roy immediately closed it again, but the fragrance had already spread out and been smelled by many people.
"That smell... it's so fragrant!"
The first to be hit by it was Ging, who was standing right in front of Roy. He first sniffed, then widened his eyes and blurted out.
Roy could clearly see Ging's throat roll hard.
Aside from Ging, before Roy closed the stopper, although the scent had not spread very far, the entire Hunter Association had smelled it.
And so, the Hunter Association instantly erupted into commotion.
"What is that fragrance?!"
"What an incredible wine scent! How many years would a fine wine like this have to be sealed away?!"
"I really want to drink just one mouthful. Just one! I don't care how much it costs!"
"Did you all feel that? After I smelled that wine fragrance just now, it felt like all the fatigue in my body disappeared!"
"Right, right! I thought it was just my imagination! My whole body feels much lighter. My waist doesn't hurt anymore, and my neck isn't sore either!"
"Is this really wine? How can it be this miraculous?!"
"Where exactly is that smell coming from?!"
The development of the Hunter Association could not be separated from these ordinary elites. Most of them did not know Nen abilities and were only responsible for maintaining the Hunter Association's normal operations.
They might not be able to sense where the scent came from, but the Hunters in the Hunter Association who had learned Nen, whose physical perception had been greatly strengthened, clearly knew that the scent was inside the Hunter Association. They could also roughly judge its location.
Just smelling this fragrance already had this kind of effect. Then, if someone really drank it, just how drastically would their strength surge?
The Hunters who were still at the Hunter Association Headquarters went mad. All of them rushed toward the direction of the top-floor conference room.
Even ordinary Hunters could smell this fragrance and detect the growth of power inside their bodies. Then naturally, the Zodiacs standing at the very top of the Hunter Association, as well as Chairman Netero, could feel it even more clearly.
Especially since the Committee meeting had just ended, and the other Zodiacs had not yet left right away...
"This is the first time I've ever smelled something like this!"
Kanzai wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. He grinned, and his body had already shot out at high speed!
"Just the scent alone can make a person's body feel lighter?"
Cheadle and Gel took the same action.
"We absolutely have to get our hands on it and study it properly!"
"It smells so good! This wine must taste amazing, right?!"
Ginta's drool was already gushing out like a broken dam.
Pariston gazed at the direction the scent had come from. No one knew what he was thinking behind that smiling face.
Netero was the same. Even though he had smelled the fragrance, he did not make any move, because he could guess who had caused it.
Netero sat cross-legged on the tatami, his eyes closed.
"Still, I have to stay a little cautious. If that child gets too carried away, one careless move might cause a huge disaster."
Thinking this, Netero opened his eyes, picked up the phone on his desk, and dialed a number.
"Hello? Is this Linne?"
...
When all the Hunters who had smelled the fragrance finally found the source like madmen, they discovered that there was only a lone tree there.
No one else was present.
However, the wine fragrance beneath the tree was richer than anywhere else, proving that this place had indeed been the source of the scent just now.
"Tch. So he still left?"
Kanzai stuffed his hands into his pockets and left without looking back.
"It seems the other party clearly doesn't want to share what he has, so he avoided us. However, if we post a bounty with a generous reward on the Hunter website, we might receive good news."
Cheadle and Gel, who had arrived almost at the same time, exchanged glances, then headed back.
"Just now, I remember that Ging and Roy were the first two to come out. Could this have something to do with them?"
On the way back, Cheadle suddenly had this thought.
(End of Chapter)
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