CHAPTER 34: CHAPTER 3: SOURCE METAL

After drinking the blood of an ordinary-level demon, the strength gained by Yan Luo is less than a kilogram, but even the smallest mosquito has flesh, and Yan Luo won’t let go of any opportunity to enhance himself.

After drinking the snake’s blood, Yan Luo looked at the snake corpse in his hands, frowning slightly.

Compared to three months ago, he is now much less resistant to eating raw meat.

Snake demons have tenacious life force; even if their heads are severed, they don’t die quickly.

Other demons couldn’t last until he ate their flesh; they would dissipate, transforming into magic power and returning to the abyss.

Why not... give it a try?

Yan Luo deliberated for a long time, finally letting out a deep sigh, and swung the hand axe to peel off the snake’s skin.

Isn’t it just eating raw meat?

The demons don’t have parasites inside them, so what’s there to hesitate about!

Yan Luo opened his mouth and took a fierce bite, like devouring the flesh and blood of an enemy, and swallowed the meat from the snake corpse in big mouthfuls.

In a way, all demons in the Crimson Abyss are his enemies.

After a few bites, Yan Luo couldn’t help but gag.

The texture of raw meat and cooked meat is entirely different; raw meat has a slimy texture and a very pungent fishy taste, and if a person’s will isn’t strong enough, one bite would make them want to spit it out.

Yan Luo also wanted to vomit, but thinking about how this meat is related to his strength growth, he suppressed his instinctive reaction and continued swallowing the snake meat.

Bite after bite, by the time the snakehead disappeared from the ground, Yan Luo had eaten the snake carcass to only bones and outer skin remaining.

He leaned against a stone pillar as if completely exhausted, eyes blankly looking up at the pitch-black sky.

He actually finished it...

Through this event, Yan Luo felt his mental resistance to eating other demon meat had diminished.

After sitting in a daze for a while, Yan Luo stood up, mounted his motorcycle, and continued hunting.

It took him almost ten hours to travel from the Dark Forest to the Wasted Iron Hill, but Yan Luo was full of energy and did not feel tired at all.

This is also one of the effects of eating demons, which Yan Luo discovered during his fourth abyss hunt.

His body can digest magic power, which is converted into something like ’life force’, keeping his body in a constant state of energy.

As long as the magic power inside is not completely consumed, Yan Luo would hardly feel tired.

Only if he doesn’t sleep for too long, he would feel drowsy.

Yan Luo was wandering on his motorcycle in the Wasted Iron Hill when, after hunting three ordinary-level demons, he finally encountered his first dangerous-level demon.

However, this demon was not of much use to him.

Because it was a ’Stone Beast’.

In the abyss, there are various methods to mine resources.

One of them is hunting elemental magic creatures.

Elemental magic creatures are the kind that perplexes Blue Star scientists the most, as they are entirely composed of a certain element, like the Stone Beast Yan Luo found, which is a demon made up of metal, rocks, soil, and some plants.

To kill an elemental magic creature, the outer shell wrapping the ’core’ must be removed first.

——Everything apart from the core is the outer shell of the elemental magic creature.

The outer shell of the Stone Beast is densely layered, with metals and rocks of varying sizes stacked together, the gaps filled with soil, and some plants growing out of the soil and rocks.

In special circumstances, Stone Beasts might cohabit with plant-type demons.

Fortunately, the Stone Beast Yan Luo encountered was very pure, making it the easiest type to deal with.

The feline-like Stone Beast wandered in the valley between two hills, each step causing dust to swirl.

Yan Luo parked his motorcycle, took out several landmines from the side box, and approached from the Stone Beast’s blind spot.

This valley floor was uneven, with oddly shaped rocks standing like a stone forest.

Yan Luo placed the mines behind several stone pillars, then took out an electromagnetic pulse grenade from his backpack, pulled the ring, and threw it towards the Stone Beast.

Immediately, without even glancing at the outcome, he turned and ran.

Elemental magic creatures have high resistance to flashbangs and stun grenades; neither impact grenades nor fragmentation grenades can significantly harm them, let alone firearms.

To deal with elemental magic creatures, the best weapons, besides rockets, are electromagnetic pulse grenades.

The grenade Yan Luo threw hit the Stone Beast, bounced off the rocks, but the Stone Beast seemed unaffected.

Compared to their other ’distant relatives’, Stone Beasts react more slowly and won’t respond to lesser degrees of damage unless the outer shell is breached.

The next moment, the grenade exploded silently.

A surge of electromagnetic pulse spread out, sweeping over the Stone Beast’s body, silently causing a few pieces of its outer shell to fall off, and the Stone Beast immediately turned to find its attacker.

Most elemental magic creatures lack vision, and the Stone Beast is no exception; it mainly senses the exact position of surrounding creatures through vibrations.

When a Stone Beast steps down, the shockwaves spread out, rebounding if they hit an object, preventing the Stone Beast from colliding with anything.

The Stone Beast stomped its foot, and shockwaves spread out, rebounding off jagged stone pillars but also passing through the gaps, reaching Yan Luo’s feet.

Yan Luo stood in a ’passage’, from where he could see the Stone Beast clearly.

Stone Beasts don’t have vocal organs; they won’t roar or shout, only charge headlong at the enemy.

Boom, boom, boom, boom––!

The massive Stone Beast caused the ground to tremble with each step, and when it charged, it was like an earth-shaking, ground-shattering tremor.

The Stone Beast thundered across the ground, and Yan Luo activated his goggles’ camera feature to take several photos of the two-meter-high, five-meter-long behemoth.

Boom!

When the Stone Beast passed a stone pillar, the landmine Yan Luo placed behind the pillar suddenly exploded, the shockwave unable to shake the Stone Beast, not causing it significant damage.

However, one mine’s explosion was enough to blow off a dozen pieces of stone from the Stone Beast, shedding a large amount of soil.

With excessive soil falling away, the stones became easier to fall.

Yan Luo had been treading carefully, hiding behind stone pillars every time the Stone Beast landed, avoiding getting swept by the shockwaves, all to set a trap sufficient to hunt the Stone Beast.

As the Stone Beast ran, the five mines Yan Luo had set exploded in succession, gradually stripping away its outer shell.

By the time the Stone Beast reached Yan Luo, half of the rocks and soil composing its body had disappeared, exposing the core hidden within.

The core of an elemental magic creature is not fixed in one spot; for Yan Luo’s stone beast, its core was located on the rear knee.

Yan Luo raised his gun, took a step to the side with his right leg, and then took out a collector, prepared to gather materials.

Compared to the shell, the core of elemental magic creatures is fragile, perhaps related to needing the core to radiate magic power and electromagnetic force, attracting materials to form the shell.

Although the Stone Beast has no blood inside it, and even if Yan Luo hunts it, he cannot enhance himself, but elemental magic creatures are reputed for being valuable.

They are colossal and high in magic power, and most of the materials they produce are necessary for making advanced engravings.

With the core broken, the Stone Beast fell heavily, sliding forward, gradually disintegrating, and quickly turning into magic power that dissipated.

At this moment, Yan Luo raised the loudspeaker-like collector, pressing the switch against the Stone Beast’s corpse, the electricity activating the magic crystal inside the collector, releasing magic power to trigger the [collection] engraving.

The dissipating magic power then condensed above the Stone Beast’s body, forming into a piece of metal.

Seeing that piece of metal, Yan Luo’s calm was instantly broken, joy welling up from within.

"Source Metal!"

’Source Metal’ is not a type of metal called ’Source’, but a ’source’ of metal.

As long as the source metal is placed in a pile of metals, and activated by magic power, the magic power constituting the source metal will be released, permeating all surrounding metal substances, transforming ordinary metals into magic metals with corresponding attributes.

Source metal is only produced by elemental magic creatures like Stone Beasts and Gold Beasts, and generally speaking, Gold Beasts have a higher probability of producing source metal.

The piece of source metal Yan Luo obtained was only the size of his fist, but its price could reach three million!

Thinking of this, Yan Luo couldn’t help but hold his breath and clenched his fist hard.

——Made a fortune!