With nearly all of the tunnel bees now dead Marcus went around and began the tedious task of picking up all of the magic cores, along with the valuable materials from the stronger tunnel bees.
It took Marcus quite some time even after he summoned an iron golem to help him pick up the cores.
When all was said and done Marcus had collected around one thousand cores when he finally gave up and decided to just leave the rest.
'It is not worth it. Most of these cores are not very high grade anyway and I already collected the cores from the captain level and higher bees along with their wings and stingers.'
Marcus then gave a perturbed glance towards his beast companion that had laid down after the battle, not helping in any way with the core collection.
With the best of the spoils collected Marcus finally told Roxene that it was time to go, and the little wolf pup got up and took a long stretch before walking over to Marcus.
