{Edited Loki}
Thinking that's strange since if it was just a few, you'd understand, but all of them? Soon he realized why they did it, it was to avoid spreading the smell of insect blood and calling attention to insect vexation. Especially when someone in their groups very quickly used something to hide the smell of blood.
However, it must be something expensive, not to use on insects after they are dead and only to pick up the magic cores. Also, each group of living beings used something different to mask the smell of blood.
It was very common, too, to have fights between races for prey or even to steal from each other. Many mercenary groups came here to steal the hard work of others.
Sighting a centipede crawling on the forest floor, Theo made that centipede his next target.
"Only on the 4th Layer of the Magician Apprentice Kingdom... well, it'll turn into my points anyway. He thought.