Henry's eyes swept over the towering Matriarch as he dashed toward her, his gaze locked on the great flow of Mana pulsing through her blue veins. He noticed a concentrated point of energy near her forehead, acting like the source of all the Mana in her body.
"It's from the same species, so it must have one of those cores" - Henry thought, slicing through the spikes the Matriarch hurled at him with ease, not even slowing his pace - "But even if I can reach it, piercing deep enough to kill it will be almost impossible."