The erasure effect caused by the Spear of Frost Silence gradually faded.
The extreme cold energy hanging over the battlefield slowly settled, mingling with the blood-soaked stench rising from the ground to form a deeply strange odor.
The construct legion did not cease its operations just because the core target had been annihilated.
The orders Zong Shen had Ice Soul relay could be precisely transmitted to every combat unit through encrypted links.
The steel battle line formed by the heavy constructs began advancing steadily.
Ice-spike plows extended from beneath their massive tower shields, pushing aside the mountain-like piles of beast corpses and clearing a path.
The medium constructs spread out in squads, wielding Rune cutters and mana-harvesting probes to efficiently strip the large magical beast corpses with strong mana signatures, extracting the valuable parts from them.
These included horns containing ice-element mana, scale armor covered in natural Runes, elemental cores that had yet to dissipate, and certain mutated organs.
The remaining Frostwing constructs in the air descended to a lower altitude.
The scanning arrays beneath their fuselages projected pale blue grids of light across the ground, sweeping the area and marking every location with mana residue above the threshold or spatial fluctuations.
Several specialized recovery constructs, shaped like multi-legged spiders with Folded Space containers mounted on their abdomens, moved toward the marked locations.
Using precise mechanical arms, they collected the twisted energy cores and remnants left behind after the beast aberration aggregate had been annihilated.
These cores were only the size of fists, their surfaces flowing with a dark purple-black glow like clotted blood.
Within them were still sealed compressed mad thoughts and fragmented divine laws.
Even after being heavily damaged by the Spear of Frost Silence, they still radiated an unsettling throb.
The specialized constructs placed them into multilayered