Ronan sliced the black longsword along the exposed side of the Two-Headed Magic Lizard's belly.
As if cutting open a water-filled leather sack, a mass of foul-smelling blood and viscera came gushing out.
Whenever he encountered an obstruction, Ronan applied more force.
Beneath his wizard's robe, his powerful, flawless physique moved like a drawn greatbow. Terrifying force traveled section by section through his muscles, tendons, and bones, and the longsword soon slid smoothly onward again. "Hmm?!"
As he cut, Ronan's expression suddenly shifted.
He felt that the sword lodged in the Two-Headed Magic Lizard's belly had sliced through something, and he had heard a faint crisp crack.
After thinking for a moment, Ronan used the longsword to dig a hole into the corresponding spot on the Two-Headed Magic Lizard's abdomen.
He had dissected the Two-Headed Magic Lizard's corpse mainly to see whether he could find the rumored magic beast crystal core.
It was said that large quantities of energy particles gathered and accumulated within powerful magic beasts, potentially forming crystalline cores.
The composition and structure of such crystal cores were wondrously complex. They were materials used in many potion and alchemy experiments, making them highly valuable.
They generally only appeared in magic beasts of Tier 1 and above, and were rarely seen in Zero-Tier magic beasts. Ronan had merely hoped to try his luck, but now it seemed... he might really have found one? After hollowing out nearly half the Two-Headed Magic Lizard's body cavity and finally finding the source of the crack, Ronan was deeply disappointed.
It was a nest of eggs.
They were the size of fists, stuck together by yellow-and-white blood vessels, seven or eight in total. Ronan had even sliced through several with his sword. They looked rather disgusting.
"I didn't expect this thing to be