Chapter 10: Chapter 9: Unarmed and Dangerous

“Hey, before we forget, what dropped from the monster? Was it a core or materials?” Ker asked.

“Oh, right.” Tess replied, checking over the drops. “Materials.”

Ker grinned. “Nice, you should have a pretty good ability to set limitations on what you get, then. You can go back to getting cores now if you want, just wanted to check.”

“Yeah, I’ll do that. I don’t need the materials for anything.”

With that, the two cleared the rest of the floor. The fights went pretty similar to how the one with the dire deer had, the monsters just charging at Ker and letting Tess wallop them for massive damage.

While the monsters didn’t give her enough experience to level up herself, Monster Breeder was a different story. Once they had finished with the floor, she stopped Ker before exiting. “Hey, Monster Breeder leveled up.” She said, “I think I’m going to absorb one of Big Bertha’s cores, so let me do that before we go further.”

Ker raised an eyebrow. “That was fast, usually Classes level a lot slower than that…” He trailed off. “Right, your blessing. Forgot. Go ahead, but don’t bother looking through them for size differences; whenever a boss drops a core, it’s identical to any other core they drop.”

Tess nodded and took out one of the cores from her bag. She was still holding onto them, as The Rumors didn’t take her and Ellie to sell their drops from their session at the other dungeon, and she hadn’t had a good opportunity to give Gramps her drops anyway.

The core was about twice as large as the slime’s core she had absorbed the day before and was glowing a pale blue in the dim light. She took a moment to steel herself, then absorbed it. The process took a bit longer, the amount of smoke coming from the core being understandably larger than the amount that came from the other cores she had absorbed.

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