Sitting in the mana pool he was looking at the strange crystal that dropped from the taller hobgoblin, it was red and shaped like a usb stick.
It had turned night seconds after the two of them disappeared, so after quickly collecting the bodies of the 4 worms he went back to his soul sea. While he did want to explore at night time he was even more unfamiliar with the strange desert than with the forest.
Thankfully due to the intense heat he was on the verge of breaking through to the red stage. Combined with the 4 surprisingly large orbs of soul power from the worms and the remnants from the hobgoblins his stats grew to 353.5.
"I thought that my increase in strength would have slowed down by now but I guess with enough soul power anything is possible."
He shifted his attention back to the crystal. He tried many ways to interact with it, but nothing that he tried had any effect. As far as he knew it was just a strangely shaped clearish object that the hobgoblin happened to be carrying.
"Plus if this was valuable in any way then there's no way that he would be clumsy enough to drop it. Though I doubt that the color of the mist and the color of the crystal being the same is just a coincidence."
Making no progress to find out what it was, he just moved it into storage in case he knew more in the future.
"I want to go see what that thing was in the center of the pit but I have almost 20 hours until it is day again. And I don't want to be out there at night."
With nothing else to do he teleported to where he was storing the 4 giant worms, they were massive so he put them on the second continent, which at this point was already as large as the first one. He intended to eat them as they would provide food for him for multiple weeks if he was eating only when hungry. As an awakened, especially one with such high vitality, he needed to eat much more than a normal person.
As such he had to butcher them into manageable pieces, he wasn't going to bite a piece off of the corpse every time he needed food.
The first thing that he did was scan one of the bodies with his PC, he still didn't know what they were and while he called them worms they in fact did not look anything like a worm.
It took a while to fully scan the body as it was so big but it didn't take long for him to find out what it was.
[Entity Identified.
Name: Earthen Wyrm
Rank: A
Species: Greater Draconic Beast
Race: Lesser Wyrm
Affinity: Earth
Growth stage: Infant(34 years)
Description: A beast with a faint relationship with the dragon race wyrm, but it is so mixed that it is only a dragon in name. Similarly to their flying cousins, the aero wyrm which is also a type lesser wyrm, they can move through earth as easily as water using their innate magic. They use this earth magic to hide their presence in the infant stages when they are not strong enough to overpower their usual prey.
Special note: Not long after hatching they grow to their full size and over their life they get stronger and stronger before maturing at 500 years old where they have accumulated enough energy to go through their first transformation.]
"This thing is a dragon? Well I guess close to one." He was scratching his head until he read the special note. "Oh, this thing is practically a baby. That makes more sense. There's no way that a Draconic Beast would be so weak."
"And what is the first transformation? This is the first I am hearing about something like this." He scanned the others and besides showing different ages they all said the same thing, with the oldest being the first to make its appearance at 50.
He wasn't familiar with the age process of beasts so he just assumed that this was just common amongst them and moved one.
Since he was now aware of what this thing was he was going to be a lot more careful with its body, any part of such a beast was bound to be valuable. In the old world anything that had anything to do with dragons was much more valuable than others and not for nothing was this thing technically a dragon.
The first thing that he did was to drain the blood, dragon's blood was especially valuable when making potions and the 3 that he killed were bound to have a lot of it. The one that was killed with blood magic was drained completely by the spell that she had cast and the blood arrows turned into mana after the beast had died so there was nothing left.
He made 3 giant holes in the ground the size of Olympic swimming pools and started to drain the bodies. He didn't know how much blood they had but he was going to make sure that he wasn't going to waste any. To do this he simply made a cut in its mouth, while the outside was extremely hard the insides were as soft as any other beast.
He looked over to the drained one and was contemplating how he was going to start.
"I have to find a way to remove the scales, but they are extremely hard. Even when the bigger hobgoblin injured it its scales weren't damaged."
He pulled out his blade and struck it hard and as expected it simply bounced off.
"How am I going to do this?"
All of the scales were stuck on its skin so he had to find a way to remove them without breaking them. If he set his mind to it then he could definitely shatter them but he wanted to collect them for later use.
If push comes to shove he could always superheat it and then drop it in water, the quick change in temperature would be more than enough to make the scales brittle.
He touched them to see just how he could safely remove them and noticed that while they were difficult to move in one direction, in the other they were very loose.
Finding this strange he bent the scale that he was holding back and with a little extra force it popped right out.
"Well that's convenient." He tried it with a few other scales and observed that all of them were like that. "I'll keep that in mind, but I doubt that this weakness would be shared for all draconic beasts. Maybe it's like this because of how young it is, if you could call 50 young."
There were thousands of scales so he wasn't going to remove each and every one of them by hand so he was going to make it a lot easier for himself.
"And even if they did there's no way a living one would lie there and let you tear its scales off."