=I don't get it. Why not just kill them all? It'd be faster.=
=Seriously?=
=Fine...=
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Three hours.
Gio spent three straight hours looking up and down the entirety of the Jade Lake, only to find jackshit.
Well, mostly jackshit.
At some point he got attacked by a Giant Indigo Crab while swimming around, shot it in the brain and ended that fight real quick.
"Looks like crab for dinner tonight."
It even came with a 2nd grade aether beast core, a little victory as it were.