Shovels In Spades

Daz wheezed as he caught his breath. Wiping the blood away from his face - whether his or a monster's, he wasn't sure - he slumped down onto his rear end and laughed, resulting in several bubbles appearing from his mouth.

Reika floated down and looked at him with an anxious expression painted on her face. 'Are you okay, Insolent Fool?'

Daz smiled. He shook his head and showed the tiny spirit an 'ok' sign with his hand. 'It's sweet of her to worry, but I'm just cracking up at how I almost died.'

He leaned his head against the trench wall behind him and closed his eyes while he let his Regeneration stat slowly fix him up. He'd already long expended all of the daily Lifeforce that his halo could provide him with. Thankfully, he still had both of the halo's chances to save him from a fatal injury, so that wasn't a concern.

'System, you can show me my quest reward now as well as my status, please, ah, but omit all info on my status save for my stats and energies. I can't be bothered looking at it all right now,' Daz requested.

Just as he started engaging with the monsters, he'd received a quest to kill them all, which worked perfectly for him since he intended to do that anyway seeing as how he had very little choice in the matter.

He'd also absorbed every single soul that he was able to as he killed the monsters. Only a handful of them held higher souls, while most of them possessed lesser souls and a couple dozen had medium souls, which was an even spread that Daz could appreciate.

After confirming his request, the system did as he had asked.