A ghostly blue light flickered in the blood-soaked crater.
A few seconds later.
[Deconstruction successful.] [Obtained: Damaged Thunder Ram Horn Fragments ×3, Deformed Variant Sturdy Bone ×1, Incomplete High-Grade Scales ×5...]
Lu Xiu stared at the loot that had appeared, each item marked damaged, incomplete, or deformed.
She took a deep breath.
I knew it!
In the Monster Hunter instance, no matter how she hacked at a monster, its corpse remained intact afterward. That let players carve it for materials. A mangled heap of flesh would hardly look as though it had anything left to collect.
That had given her Deconstruction skill plenty of room to shine.
Reality had no such restriction.
Hit a monster hard enough here, and it became minced meat.
Using Deconstruction on minced meat could only yield damaged materials.
Fortunately, though,
Lu Xiu found one intact material amid the pile of shattered odds and ends.
[Item Name: Ripper Demon's Steel Claw] [Rating: ???] [Type: Biological Material] [Description: Taken from a Ripper Demon's forelimb. Its claw became metallic during Mutation, developing a structure beyond ordinary steel. Virtually indestructible, it even faintly retains the monster's explosive power from when it was alive.] [Note: It used everything it had learned and gave it its all, yet never managed to touch its opponent once. But that wasn't the claw's fault. The claw tried its best.]
"...What a shame."
After reading the intact material's attributes, Lu Xiu dusted off her hands, straightened up, and murmured to herself.
She had only meant to switch to a shield, shove the leopard monster aside as it pounced to throw it off balance, then finish it quickly with another skill...
But once she got going, she went straight for a Super Amped Element Discharge.
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