Chapter 12: Testing the lightning element
In the end, Alex didn't level up nor did he use his exp points to try out his new skills; he would keep it like that for now and keep exploring, he was confident that he should be able to hunt some weak beasts with his current strength which was at the Low level of the Core rank.
After having this thought, he jumped down from the tree and approached the two dead beasts on the ground.
One of the reasons he had come out was to farm exp points, the other reason was to get beast corpses and cores that he would sell for money.
Alex got close to the two corpses and easily located the two mana cores in their bodies. As a former bookworm, he knew a lot about magic beasts and where their cores were located.
Alex first dug out the core of the one-horned snake using his hands. A small crystal that contained mana could be seen in his hand, and small blood stains could be seen on it.
"A grade one beast core, better than nothing," Alex mumbled to himself as he stored the beast core in the storage bracelet.
Just like the five ranks of magic beasts, beast cores were also classified into five ranks, starting from grade one to grade five. Grade one beast cores were found in common rank magic beasts while grade five cores could be obtained from calamity rank magic beasts.
Beast cores were very valuable items in Eldora, hence the reason they were sought after and expensive. They were practically the energy supply for anything that required energy to work. Vehicles, machines, magic items, formations and barriers, mobile devices, and even power supplies for buildings.
The higher the grade of the beast cores, the more useful and more valuable they were. This was also the reason why grade-one beast cores were not completely useless despite the weak amount of mana in them.
After storing the core of the Three-colored rabbit, Alex proceeded to store the bodies of the two beasts as well; their cores weren't the only valuable items after all.
He got up after storing the two beasts' corpses and looked around to make sure that no other beasts were hiding in wait; Alex shook his head and lamented that he probably should have done this before coming down from the tree; whatever might have been waiting would have attacked him long ago while he was looting.