121 The Drakes Cores. (1/2)
”Don't damage their bodies. Take the cores as efficiently as you can.” Ozul ordered the duo while the mercenaries were all in a heated debate about what had occurred on the sides.
Although he felt nothing about their death, Ozul decided not to disrespect the dead bodies of the drakes. This was only because of how the male drake showed completely different emotions than any other beast would have had.
Raven and Blaze complied. They just thought that Ozul did not want the body parts to be damaged because they were valuable.
Raven materialized her daggers to make a small incision at the chest of the drake. Just then, when she turned to look at her side, she saw Blaze standing there with a large ice blade floating by his side.
”What?” Blaze asked when he saw her looking at him like he was some sort of an idiot.
”Uh... Blaze, I think Raven is best suited for this task,” said Ozul to Blaze before Raven could even start her lecture on how dumb he was again.
”Eh? But I can do that too! I have learned how to take the core out without making a mess! Really!” Blaze desperately defended himself.
When Ozul heard his words, he swept his eyes at the giant ice blade, which looked like a drill used to mine before he again looked at Blaze and said, ”No.”
”Aw. But can I just-”
”No.”
”Not even-”
”No.”
”Okay...”
Ozul did not even let him speak before rejecting him with a straight face. At last, Blaze sighed, and the large blade or the drill made of ice disappeared.
Raven smirked at the misery of Blaze, who had already gone into the corner, drawing circles on the ground.
Ignoring Blaze, Ozul gave a look towards Raven, and the latter was forced to focus on her job.
In just a few seconds, Raven efficiently took out the two cores from the corpses of the drakes. Ozul noticed the state of the dead bodies and nodded his head.
”Good job,” praised Ozul before shifting his eyes at the two fist-sized mana cores in Raven's hands. Meanwhile, Raven beamed with happiness after being praised and shot a smug look towards Blaze again.
Usually, the mana cores are larger in the Beasts compared to the Mages. However, even rank 8 Beasts would not have mana cores this big!
But the people who saw the cores were not surprised. They had already read about them, and they knew that they were abnormally big in size. Nevertheless, they were still mesmerized when they looked at those crystal balls.
The mercenaries all stood with greed visible in their eyes. Even Clive had to control himself from staring at those mana cores for too long.
Brud stood beside Barry with his fists clenched in jealousy. In his mind, one of the mana cores should have been theirs, but now the kid who he had thought to be a nobody.
It seemed that he wanted Clive to do justice for them and give one of the cores to their party as he pointed his finger at the cores.
Brud was expecting the mercenaries to support him, but as he looked around, all he got was people whispering in their ears while some laughed at him.
When Brud turned to Clive, he noticed that the latter was not only glaring at him, but his face also darkened by the minute.
It seemed that Brud didn't even think that all this was their leader, Barry's, fault that Clara had just been in danger. And if something had happened to her, the consequences would not have been light.