With her guardian knight gone, Arthur dealt with Maya in less than twenty seconds. Isaiah had been carrying heavily in that fight and with him out of the picture, Maya quickly followed. Arthur spent the next few minutes going through the corpses of all his slain enemies, searching for loot. He'd yet to find a single monster core in all the deepstone gremlins he'd killed and he was beginning to think the creatures just didn't form them.From the two dozen other monsters he'd killed, he only managed to find three cores which was terrible considering all these creatures had been well over level 200. it was one of the many downsides of battling fallen creatures. Corruption tended to destroy their monster cores long before they were killed and there was little use for their body parts.Arthur still collected anything he thought might prove useful; venom sacks, stingers, a slimy substance that acted as a potent acid and a few other titbits that he thought looked interesting, if Arthur's plans worked out, he'd find use for the ingredients that had succumbed to corruption. The tainted monster cores were marginally more useful than anything else found in a fallen creature's body. They could be purified using certain resource-draining rituals, but their true use was in experiments to better understand the fallen realm and develop weapons to more effectively deal with it.Finally, Arthur approached Isaiah’s skeleton. The vast majority of sapient creatures possessed no parts that could be harvested which Arthur was grateful for, though they tended to be far more lucrative to loot by virtue of their possessions. Case in point, Isaiah's sword and shield were both epic+ items. The kite shield had its force absorption effect and a function for self-repair and the great sword ignored 30% of a target's defence and dealt extra damage the more consecutive attacks it landed in the span of forty seconds.While the weapons were great, Arthur (...)