What was the most exciting part after defeating a monster?
Naturally, it was collecting the loot.
Elinalise and Roxy were still reeling from the tremendous shock of that miraculous instant kill of a legendary monster, unable to recover for a long time.
Cui Ciyou, meanwhile, was ready to strip the corpse.
He walked over to the nine savage heads scattered across the floor, each larger than a water vat, and began taking stock of and collecting the spoils.
For most monsters, the most precious materials in their bodies were undoubtedly their Monster Cores.
These were the crystallization of a lifetime of magic power, top-grade materials that every magician and Alchemist dreamed of obtaining.
But what about the Hydra?
Since it could use nine different systems of magic at once, each of its nine heads contained a flawless Monster Core with a different attribute.
With his incomparably sharp longsword, Cui Ciyou easily sliced open the heads and extracted all nine fist-sized Monster Cores, which still pulsed faintly like hearts.
Fire, ice, lightning, deadly poison, earth, fierce wind, holy light, shadow, and the purest healing... Vast magic power of nine different attributes radiated from the Monster Cores, bathing the surrounding air in a dazzling array of colors.
Yet for an ancient dragon species like the Hydra, long since extinct, the most precious parts of its body were not those nine priceless Monster Cores.
They were its indestructible dragon scales.
Materials with "magic nullification" properties were exceedingly precious in this world.
For all practical purposes, they had already vanished.
And according to all known records, the Hydra's dragon scales were the most effective and most stable natural magic nullification material.
Without a moment's hesitation, Cui Ciyou began an enormous, painstaking task-stripping the corpse.
Only after recovering every valuable material from the Hydra—its