The mother beast's enormous body slowly collapsed, then gradually disintegrated in mid-air, turning into wisps of black mist that merged back into the darkness.
However, the nest above the mother beast's head was glowing with a strange light, making it look like it wasn't just a simple dropped item.
Besides the drops from the mother beast, countless swordfish drops are now densely packed in this area ahead.
These dropped items resemble the front half of a swordfish, and are all materials in the form of a sharp sword.
With so many items, it would take quite a bit of time to collect them all.
Fortunately, both the mother beast and the swordfish move at the same speed as the island during the battle, and the same speed is maintained when the dropped items appear, so they are not left behind when the island moves.
Lin Xu instructed Xiao Yu to adjust the island's flight angle and arranged for Tao Yao to gather people to pick up all the fallen items.
The girls of Peach Blossom happily accepted the order, as they were very interested in picking up the dropped items.
Speaking of which, Tao Yao has been eating peaches these days, which has not only made her grow bigger, but also improved her various skills. Now she can summon 7 peach spirits every day, and her total number of peach spirits is now more than 30.
These elves move very quickly, and because they can fly, they are also very agile.
When they pick up dropped items, they simply need to get close to them and then use their thoughts to put the items into their personal space, so the women can handle dropped items very quickly.
It took about half an hour to collect all the loot in the area, including the miniature nest dropped by the mother beast, as well as materials dropped by the swordfish and killer whale.
Furthermore, after the mother beast's corpse disappeared, a new object materialized at the spot where the mother beast had vanished—a strange compass, about the size of a palm. Tao Yao excitedly picked it up and presented it to Lin Xu.
Lin Xu was examining the compass at that moment.
【One-time Use Relic Compass】
[Description: This is a rare treasure, but it can only be used once. Please do not make any further strange modifications to it.]
[Function: If it provides loot from dark creatures, it can search for the corresponding dark ruins. This compass will disappear once the ruins are found.]
Lin Xu looked at the compass's functions, his eyes lighting up slightly.
Although he has not yet found any relics, the preciousness of this thing has already spread throughout the human world.
Most of the advanced technologies and rare resources in the human world are obtained from ancient ruins.
This compass can actually find ruins; even if it can only be used once, it is still quite valuable.
Lin Xu estimated that this kind of compass could only be obtained by killing boss creatures such as the Dark Mother Beast, and even then, it wasn't guaranteed to drop.
He must have been incredibly lucky to get this compass.
However, looking at the "warning" on the compass's description, it actually advised him not to use special methods to modify the compass. Wasn't this a very obvious hint to him?
If it can be modified, why not modify it?
It seems that stacking talents can also affect this compass. If you can obtain items of the same type, you can enhance the compass's functionality.
Perhaps this one-off restriction will also be lifted.
With that in mind, Lin Xu wasn't in a hurry to use the compass. He put it back into his personal space and then checked the other dropped items.
Needless to say, the droppings from a typical orca are still the same kind of back skin.
Although the orcas ridden by their mothers were not yet orca princes, the items they dropped were no less valuable than those of orca princes, and were all of excellent quality orca back skin.
As for those swordfish, the items they drop are quite interesting; they're a material called "sword spine."
According to the instructions, this material can be used to make a sharp sword with considerable power.
Lin Xu estimated that he had killed at least 100,000 swordfish, and the number of sword spines that fell off was naturally just as many.
If all these materials were forged into sharp swords, he could arm an entire army.
Lin Xu had also learned swordsmanship in the course, and his grades were exceptionally good, but he had not yet mastered any black technology or island inheritance in swordsmanship, so he could only be considered to be at the top level among mortals.
Therefore, although these sword spines were useful in his hands, they were not of great use.
After all, in the age of firearms, without extraordinary abilities such as sword skills and sword energy, close combat skills like swordsmanship were not very useful.
Lin Xu decided to collect all the sword spine materials for now, and then forge a few swordfish swords and stack them together to see how it would look.
However, if there is no sword-fighting skill to pass down, he still does not intend to spend too much time on swordsmanship.
Besides these ordinary drops, what Lin Xu was most curious about was the special nest where the mother beast dropped the items.
This mother beast's nest must contain rare resources, since you can only get this kind of drop by killing a mother beast.
Ordinary newcomers, even those from noble legions, can at most fight against the mother beast; killing it is still very difficult.
Lin Xu then checked the information about the mother nest:
The mother nest of the dark killer whale
[Introduction: You actually got this?! The odds of getting this are about the same as winning the lottery!]
[Function: Rare-grade material; after processing, it can generate a miniature orca nest. Dark orcas will periodically spawn, with a chance to produce elite dark orcas, and even a Dark Orca Prince. Defeating these nest-spawning creatures triples the item drop rate.]
"Turns out it's just monster-killing material!"
Lin Xu was very surprised.
This was the first time he had ever heard of such dropped items in the island world.
So, dark creatures don't just spawn in the wild; island owners can also create various nests to periodically spawn these creatures?
So, as long as there are enough nests, wouldn't there be a stable source of dark creature materials, making it easy to create dark creature products?
Lin Xu realized that he might have uncovered another nobleman's secret.
The nobles wield immense power in the island world, so it's impossible that they were unaware of information about these types of nests.
However, this information has never appeared in the general education courses, and ordinary people are not even aware that the nest exists.
Nobles monopolize the resources of the island world and can produce many things that ordinary island lords cannot. One of their methods is to monopolize these nests.
Lin Xu decided to keep the nest hidden away. Once he obtained the technology to build the nest, he would set up a monster-spawning spot on the outskirts of the island.
Then he will be able to produce Dark Orca materials stably.
With the continuous accumulation of such resources, he may be able to control the production lines of some unique products in the future.
Lin Xu has now collected all the dropped items and confirmed that Tao Yao and the others have completed their work. There are no more dropped items missed in the entire sky.
Then, he looked down.
That's the patch of loose soil that the mother orca dragged.
This patch of topsoil has at least 200 blocks and two layers, so it's not small.
But there's something even more valuable on this loose soil than expanding territory.
That is the Dark Ruins.
The orca mother was tasked with guarding a dark ruin. Now that she has been defeated, it's time to explore the ruin she was protecting.
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