"Cough!"

William plunged his longsword into the heart of the seven-headed hydra and began to stir it violently, as if searching for something. A moment later, he presented a metallic gem to Xu Milu.

“Your Excellency Qingluan, according to the distribution rules, the strongest person in the team should take the magic core, and the remaining teeth, claws, snake skin, and bones should be divided equally among the three of us. However, since Ella and I each received no less than ten liters of purified beast blood, we voluntarily withdraw from the rest of the distribution.”

His expression was quite sincere:

"Please don't misunderstand, I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that with our strength alone, it would be difficult to kill a seven-headed hydra so easily. Besides, if it weren't for Fanny's help, I wouldn't have been able to cut off its head before it sprayed the magic powder. Oh, God of Light, believe me, you don't want to experience that."

"Fanny is amazing!!"

Fanny, who was standing nearby, wagged her tail happily when she heard someone praise her.

"Fanny, amazing! Lady Qingluan, amazing!"

"I'll save your share for you first."

Xu Milu patted Fanny's head approvingly before taking the magic crystal and examining it closely.

—Judging from its appearance alone, the magic crystal is more like a gemstone on Earth, with an irregular rhombus shape. The one in her hand is about the thickness of her little finger, with a slightly bluish color and a vague halo in the center of its core.

"This is the magic crystal of the seven-headed serpent? Its color resembles the sky; is that because the seven-headed serpent is a wind-type magical beast?"

Although she had long understood that magical beasts were different from ordinary animals, she still found it somewhat unbelievable that the life support for such a colossal creature was merely a small "gem".

Monsters do not have hearts; the energy that powers them comes entirely from the magic crystals within their bodies. However, not all monsters produce magic crystals containing powerful magic, and the stronger the magic, the higher the flawlessness of the magic crystal.

Magic crystals have a wide range of uses: drawing magic circles, researching magical energy, providing energy for city-protecting magic circles, manufacturing advanced magical items for lighting, cooling, heating, and storage, and some magicians even choose to embed corresponding magic crystals into their staves to enhance the power of their spells.

This is why some high-purity magic crystals can be used directly as currency.

Xu Milu had even heard from some adventurers from the capital that a self-propelled carriage had appeared in the capital that did not require magical beasts to pull it. It was said that a magic circle was drawn on the wheel and then activated by magic crystals.

—It's practically an otherworldly version of a clean energy electric vehicle.

"Yes, this is a wind-type magic crystal, worth about fifteen small gold coins."

William's eyes flickered, and he casually brought it up as if in jest:

"Did no one use magic crystals where Your Excellency Qingluan once lived? That's a real pity. I've even seen some magicians inscribe magic circles on their staffs for use. I've heard that it can enhance the power of spells."

"Ah, indeed."

Xu Milu answered quite calmly:

“Where I used to live, magical beasts were rare. Some species of magical beasts had become extinct, and humans had to protect them and help them reproduce. In some places, people would even put precious magical beasts in cages for people to see. Killing magical beasts was even illegal, so I basically had no chance to come into contact with them.”

In a sense, she didn't tell a single lie.

If this were on Earth, let alone the fact that she just killed a seven-headed hydra, the wild game she and Fanny ate would be enough to get her imprisoned for several years.

? ? ?

"For people to visit?"

William looked around. The seven-headed serpent's corpse, its head pierced by spikes, lay submerged in the swamp. Its ferocious head still showed traces of its former savagery, and its wide-open mouth revealed a set of sharp, venomous fangs—enough to bite through a knight's armor as easily as tearing through paper.

Adventurers were working together to bury the magical poison powder left by the seven-headed serpent with sulfur, while knights in heavy armor cursed as they pulled horses, corroded to the point of being only half-corroded, from the monster's mouth.

Large patches of blood remained on the ground, human blood mixed with animal blood, creating an extremely strange and foul odor.

Are Warcraft creatures kept in cages for people to visit?

In order to protect monsters, is it even necessary to legislate to restrict humans?

And they also want to help Warcraft reproduce?

O God of Light!

Do these people know what they're doing?

Or are the dungeon guards all top-tier mages?!

"Gulp."

William swallowed hard, his mind filled with images of dark dungeons specifically used to imprison magical beasts, and he felt that the aura surrounding this "Lord Qingluan" was becoming increasingly mysterious.

What are they doing?

Xu Milu pretended not to know anything and stared at the adventure team dealing with the monster corpses not far away for a while:

They drained the snake's blood, skinned it, removed the bones and loaded them onto the vehicle, and even scraped the magical poison powder from the snake's head and nostrils, leaving only large chunks of bloody snake meat.

William composed himself and, with a forced laugh, began to explain to Xu Milu:

"...The skin of the seven-headed serpent is quite tough and can be used to make leather armor. Its teeth contain deadly poison, and some adventurers like to use it to forge daggers. Oh, and of course, the bones of magical beasts can be made into bone meal, which can promote crop growth and is a very popular magical fertilizer. However, the meat of the seven-headed serpent is not tasty, and sometimes it contains poisonous snake meat, so no one is willing to recycle it."

"Yeah?"

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