373 Irene’s Suggestion Part 1 (1/2)

The red phosphorous prawn's pincers were as hard as metal too. The magic beast's material had an advantage in that it could not be replaced by metal, since metal could only hold magic after being mixed with other special materials. However, the shell of this magic beast was born as a magic material.

On the red phosphorous prawn's head where the spike grew was a piece of hard shell which could be made into armor. Although the size was a bit small, Saleen was elated considering the amount they had caught.

”Nailisi, dissect it.” Saleen pointed at their prey on the counter.

Nailisi nodded, drew her dagger, and dissected the body of the prawn. Her movements were smooth and skillful. It did not seem as though it was the first time she had come across it, but as though she had worked with it more than a hundred times.

Nailisi removed the shell on its back and removed the standard magic nucleus from its brain. The magic nucleus was red and of decent quality. If they were to sell it at the market, it could be sold for six hundred gold coins or more.

Nailisi casually sliced off some of its meat and put it in her mouth.

”Master, this thing tastes good. It seems to be many times more nutritious than beef.”

”Oh?” Saleen tried a slice. He then said happily, ”It's really not bad. How fortunate for us.”

It was impossible for every prawn to have a magic nucleus, and even if they did, it would be difficult to guarantee their quality. However, with the meat and spikes, it had already been worth the risk of leaving the city. If they were to buy food, they could not buy much at once since most of the food was under the control of the local noblemen. With the prawns, Saleen had solved the issue of food. At least until Lex returned, no one would starve.

”Let's work for now. The ship is travelling at five miles per hour. It will take at least another two days until we reach our next destination, and we cannot float up for now,” Saleen said, as he took out dozens of prawns from the dimension stone and a strong fishy scent filled the kitchen.

The school of red phosphorous prawns had been unlucky enough to run into Banchajanna. Otherwise, half of such a big school would not have immediately disappeared.

Needless to say, Nailisi could dissect a prawn in a maximum of ten seconds, including the retrieval of the magic nucleus. Sika was slightly slower, but her boomerang was extremely sharp. She slit the back of the prawn's brain and twisted it lightly, and just like that, the prawn was dissected. Jola also used a dagger and dissected them with ease.

The more interesting ones were Saleen and Aini, the two mages. They were not slow either.

Saleen brought out the blue-green water current from his calabash. Controlling it with his mental strength, he could dissect two prawns simultaneously. Meanwhile, Aini was even more astounding. He spat out the death flames, summoned the floral death creature, and had the death creature release a low-level death spell – the Corpse Decomposition spell.

According to the concepts of elemental mages, death magic could only be considered level-0. From the abundant power of the floral death creature, it seemed that it could cast this level-0 magic constantly.

The five of them were equally fast, and thus they began competing.

Since Saleen's hands were free, he segregated the items into three categories and put them into separate dimension stones. Once they were dissected and stored into the dimension stones, their meat would not rot, nor would the magic nuclei degenerate.

The quality of the school of prawns was fairly decent. There was a good quality magic nucleus in every ten to twelve prawns, but most of the prawns had yet to grow magic nuclei. Saleen also noticed that those who had yet to grow magic nuclei could not be made into good quality blades or armor either.

That was alright, since the number they had captured was immense. The armor that was not so great could also be sold for a few gold coins.

Their speed increased relative to their familiarity with the work, and they gradually became faster. Jola became depressed since he thought that he would be the fastest due to his experience in dissecting magic beasts, but the other four looked just at ease.

After four hours, Jola finally broke down and set down the dagger in his hands. He said, ”Let's take a break.”

Aside from Sika, no one listened to him. Sika was hungry. She removed the leather pouch on her waist and took out some seasoning. Then, she cut up a bunch of prawn meat and ate them with the seasoning.

Aini was casting death magic wholeheartedly and had used up half of his mental strength. However, he could recover very quickly given the supply of magic nuclei.

Nailisi looked to Saleen, so if Saleen did not stop, she would not stop either.

Saleen was submerged in an amazing feeling at that time. He was becoming proficient in manipulating the blue-green water current and it was not so rigid anymore. He felt as though the water current itself was a life with wisdom and would get a huge chain of things done if Saleen kept the thoughts in mind.

Since Saleen had previously been continuously facing formidable opponents, he had hardly thought about using the Current Cutter spell and thus the calabash had been left idle. His crystal finger had few achievements to its name as well, and when he released the water from the calabash, some delicate changes seem to have taken place.