A wide avenue led straight to the square.
Kurapika's footsteps suddenly stopped.
He raised his head, his body tensed, and his gaze slowly moved into the distance.
At the end of the road, in the square in the center of the ice and snow city, was a high platform.
On the high platform, one could vaguely see a blurry outline.
A magnificent seat carved from ice.
Someone was sitting on it!
And this person...
Although Kurapika couldn't see clearly who it was!
He could feel it from the faintly transmitted aura.
"It's Loki."
Kurapika's words made the other two players, who were preparing to continue exploring forward, suddenly stop.
The two of them followed Kurapika's gaze.
In the distance! That blurry figure was reflected in their eyes.
"Is that Lord Loki?"
Another player shook his head. His gaze began to become fervent.
"If it's really Lord Loki, then that's great. It's my honor to be able to see Lord Loki in person."
"Don't be in a hurry to get excited. Isn't it better to obtain victory and get the Devil Fruit in front of Lord Loki?"
While speaking, Menchi looked around.
On the strange high platforms around the ice and snow city, there seemed to be many heads flashing.
Even the sharp-eyed Menchi saw Buhara waving at her in the crowd.
"Oh! It seems our performance has a lot of viewers!"
After taking a closer look, the audience realized that there seemed to be stands all around the ice and snow city! Stands formed from ice blocks.
"Did he turn the entire town into a coliseum?"
Kurapika narrowed his eyes and raised his head to stare in Loki's direction. "This should be Loki's doing."
"No matter who did it, my goal is the Devil Fruit. I won't waste time here with you. I'm leaving first."
Saying this, Menchi ran towards the distance.
Whether there would be any danger on the wide road seemed to be completely outside of Menchi's consideration.
Neon glanced at Kurapika and also prepared to go.
The other two people were also completely unwilling to be outdone.
They raised their feet and followed, rushing towards the square.
But Kurapika didn't move from the spot.
His gaze was searching for something in the stands. Soon, he found the people he was looking for.
Cheadle and Botobai were giving him hand signals.
Menchi, who was the first to successfully step into the square,
didn't encounter any danger along the way.
"What! There aren't any traps or anything? This is too simple."
Saying this, she raised her head, looking at Loki, who was sitting in the center.
"Chairman Loki"
Seeing him again, Menchi felt strange.
It had only been a short time, and her examinee had become her chairman.
Loki's eyes turned slightly, looking at Menchi.
In front of him, inside a crystal box, was the Devil Fruit.
By placing the box in such an obvious place on purpose, even without Loki's prompting, people would naturally notice it.
Menchi looked at Loki. She didn't know why Loki would appear here, but the box in front of her was her target.
"As expected, it's Lord Loki"
"I actually really met Lord Loki"
The two players who came later seemed to be completely excited now.
Menchi sighed. Were these two guys here to compete for the Devil Fruit or to see Loki?
Shaking her head, she raised her foot and walked forward.
However, the first step she took suddenly stopped.
Boom!!!
In front of her, an ice sculpture suddenly cracked open.
A guy whose whole body was wrapped in armor suddenly broke out of the ice.
He stared intently at her.
Menchi was stunned for a moment. "Is this the final test?"
"Using game monsters as the final test." A huge black shadow slowly rose from behind the other party.
The black shadow gradually enveloped down, completely covering Menchi's entire person.
Loki drew the Shadow Black Unit One hundred-man team.
This was just one of them.
The shadow beast summoned by Shadow Black Unit One made Menchi's movements pause for a moment.
Not only was Menchi a little surprised, but even the players had never seen this kind of game monster.
It could actually summon something similar to a Nen beast from behind. "This monster doesn't look easy to deal with!"
"Such a large body, holding a sword in one hand, even if you only look at its appearance, its power is definitely not weak!"
The shadow beast's first appearance happened to be with a good test subject.
Loki narrowed his eyes and looked at Menchi.
Menchi's strength among the hunters was also very good.
As a test subject for Shadow Black Unit One, she was a good choice.
Shadow Black Unit One began to attack.
Of course, it wasn't Shadow Black Unit One itself that was attacking, but the shadow beast behind it that was attacking Menchi.
The shadow beast, wielding a giant longsword, slashed at Menchi with a sword.
Menchi drew out her twin swords from behind and blocked them in front of her.
Clang!!
A fierce collision of metal rang out.
Menchi's figure retreated slightly. "What strong power!"
As expected, it wasn't just a large body; even its power was not ordinary.
Menchi narrowed her eyes and looked at the Shadow Black Unit One that was controlling the shadow beast to attack.
"Judging from the black shadow connected from behind, this guy should have some kind of manipulation-type ability."
"In other words, if I solve this strange metal robot, this huge monster should also disappear, right!"
She saw through the key point to solving the shadow beast at a glance.
This wasn't too difficult for hunters or Nen ability users.
After all, the black shadow connecting the shadow beast and Shadow Black Unit One was very conspicuous.
With a little thought, one could discover this point.
Not to mention Menchi, a hunter whose observational skills weren't weak in the first place.
Menchi dodged the shadow beast's second attack with a flash, and rushed towards Shadow Black Unit One in an instant.
The twin swords in her hands stabbed fiercely at Shadow Black Unit One.
However, Shadow Black Unit One's armor wasn't just for show.
Ding ding!!
The Shadow Black Unit One's metal armor that was hit directly bounced Menchi's attack away.
However, although it bounced the attack away, the cracks on the armor were also visible to the naked eye.
It probably couldn't withstand a few more attacks, and this Shadow Black Unit One would be solved.
Against a first-class ability user like Menchi, Shadow Black Unit One's combat power was clearly no match.
The shadow beast was attacking Menchi, but after dodging a few times, Menchi closed the distance again, and the two small knives slashed fiercely at Shadow Black Unit One.
This time, Menchi gathered all of her aura on the blades.
Even metal armor would be shattered.
Crack! Crack! Boom!
The Shadow Black Unit One, whose armor had cracked, exploded instantly.
Then, it turned into specks of white light and dissipated before her eyes.
The shadow beast also disappeared with it.
Menchi slowly put her twin swords away. "This was too simple! The final trial"
Not only did Menchi think it was simple, but even the watching players thought it was too simple.
Although this game monster's attack power was very strong, its defense power didn't seem to be good.
The summoned monster moved very quickly, but the movement speed of the main body controlling the monster wasn't good.
"Is this the final trial? This is too simple!"
"Idiot, this is a game designed by Lord Loki. These game monsters are just decorations."
A player who seemed to understand everything said very confidently.
"The real battle isn't the fight between players and game monsters. There's only one Devil Fruit, and there are five players competing for it."
"The thing is placed there. Now it seems that the real highlight should be the battle between the five players."
Hearing this, the expressions of the watching players changed slightly.
However! For Loki, the mutual fighting between players wasn't interesting either. He selected five people in order to have Neon do fortune-telling.
The players selected from a hundred top players should all be very close to the system's requirements.
And to select the most suitable ability user for the Snow-Snow Fruit, Loki only had a slight uncertainty in his heart.
Now, the main thing was to test Shadow Black Unit One.
'One is too few?'
Loki looked at Menchi, who had an unsatisfied look on her face.
His index finger gently tapped the armrest formed of ice crystals.
Crack crack crack crack!!
Suddenly, the other ice sculptures on the square began to crack.
Boom boom boom!!
Several sounds of breaking out of the ice rang out one after another.
Five Shadow Black Unit Ones appeared.
Swish swish swish!
Five huge shadow beasts suddenly appeared.
This scene made Menchi stunned for a moment.
Although she didn't think these monsters were very strong, as long as she spent a little time, she could solve them.
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