The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 307

Chapter 307: Core Problem

On the other hand, one little system turned mecha would have loved to be lectured about gentlemanliness and bedside manners instead of facing an almost one-way ticket to hell.

D-29 was not having a good day.

From having to escape such a perilous location to journeying to the barren lands, it did not expect an additional set of hurdles.

Beasts. Loads of them.

Apparently, the beasts were also instinctively running towards the same location. And if so, did that mean that whatever was rising from underground didn’t discriminate between challengers and beasts?

But what about systems?

Can’t there be an exception? Thought D-29 as Luca swung his arm to fight off another lunging beast.

But what to do when the real issue was not the monsters but the host?

See, halfway through the battle, they noticed something interesting about the slain creatures.

"Host!" D-29 squawked in panic as it swerved to avoid the claws of a crimson, scale-plated cat-beast that had just finished eating the remains of another.

But before Luca could answer, he ended up busy dodging a stone-armored serpent that had grown a second jaw.

Halfway through the chaos, Luca had paused just long enough to observe something disturbing—newer beasts arriving weren’t attacking indiscriminately. No, they went straight for the fallen.

More specifically, they were going for their heads.

"???"

"Why are they eating each other?" Ollie shouted from behind a shield of energy, his voice high and horrified. "That’s already double dead!"

It was not an ideal situation and was frankly disconcerting, especially for Ollie, who was seeing a battlefield like this for the first time.

While they had encountered many monsters earlier, it was only now that they were fighting back.

But then something worse happened as those chomping beasts seemed to have gotten a power-up after doing just that.

Luca witnessed it and tried thinking about the possible reasons for the beasts’ actions until he remembered the beast cores.

The beasts he fought before also had energy cores, but theirs were corrupted during the time he got them.

But what about these ones?

"Brother... I think they’re eating the cores," Luca muttered, his eyes squinting as he saw one do just that.

"What cores?" Ollie asked, flinching as a winged beast swooped too close to the mecha he was on, only to be narrowly avoided by Kyle.

"It’s where they store energy, much like humans."

"But more than storing energy, for high-grade cores, they usually retain the attribute of the beast," explained Luca, who remembered seeing insane advertisements of weapons with S-grade beast cores back in Tesseris.

"Wait, what?!" Ollie squeaked.

It’s coming as a surprise to them because, for a while now, not enough energy has been circulating everywhere that even if they looked for cores, they likely won’t find any on many of the beasts.

And if they do, they likely wouldn’t be of a high enough level to use.

If so, shouldn’t they be collecting these crystals for themselves? Luca blinked, then tilted his head as he thought about it.

They should.

Really, really should.

"Brother, if we can collect these, we should be able to make weapons with unique traits." Luca exhaled as he awakened the spirit of a money-grubber in his brother.

"Say, what now?!" Ollie practically wiggled in his seat, forcing Kyle to manually keep him in place.

"Hey, stop doing that or they’ll be collecting our cores instead!"

"But Kyle! You heard my brother, right?!" He looked up at Kyle as he gathered the stars in his eyes.

The poor adjutant and driver had no choice but to sigh.

"I heard him. We’ll collect what we can, especially from the more powerful ones."

"Yes! I knew you had it in you~" exclaimed Ollie, whose hair antenna was doing a wild rotation.

But just before they could start this new enterprise, D-29 decided to fess up.

"Well, Host! If you’re doing that, you should also collect these materials, most if not all are showing up as rare based on my limited capacity."

In particular, you might want the following:

1. Beast Core