"Whew..."
In the end, Killer could not resist the temptation to rest. She lay flat on the ground that the surging lava had scorched smooth, too exhausted to speak for a while.
The fatigue from her earlier battle with the rabbit had built up until now. After she finished fighting the dragon, it erupted all at once, pinning Killer to the ground and leaving her unable to open her eyes for a time.
Though she was truly exhausted, she still dragged her weary body overland to the spot where the dragon had died, one restless hand groping wildly in that direction.
"...Let me see... huh?..."
Killer had honed her sense of position through countless monster kills, but now, when she reached toward where the creature had been in her mind, she found nothing but a handful of dirt.
"...What the hell? Did the corpse despawn?"
Still unwilling to believe it, Killer felt around again.
Smack!
"What's this... mm...?"
Killer grabbed what she had found and held it up before her eyes-
It was a Dragon Dagger!
"I don't even have the energy to complain anymore... so the black dragon just turned into equipment when it died...?"
Whoosh!
"And now I've absorbed it into my body!?!!"
Just as she said, she had actually absorbed the Dragon Dagger into her body by accident. Even after frantically turning herself this way and that, she still could not find a trace of it.
"Aaagh... forget it. I'll leave that alone for now."
After wasting her time on a pointless search, Killer finally gave up.
Her allotted rest was nearly over. Next, she needed to leave this place and deal with the seeds.
After all, her only chance of escape right now might lie in collecting and planting seeds. She could not stop here. This