Chapter 68: The ossuary

Uriel spent a couple minutes studying the corpse that rolled down the staircase just like he thought Luna would have done in that situation. Although it was a fairly certain fact, he still needed to confirm it was the same panther he had fought just a couple minutes ago. The deep wound on its eye was all the proof he needed, but he also wanted to extract the flux orb from the corpse.

"What are you doing now?" Nika watched the scene with disbelief on her eyes.

"I want the orb." He nonchalantly replied. "Also, I think its fur would make a great coat..."

"Then you're out of luck, every part of a cryptid disappears after they die so you can't take any parts with you. Extracting the orb should be possible, but one like this is so strong will take hours to disappear but, even if we knew exactly where to find the orb, it would be impossible to dismantle that thing with the tools we have. If only your dagger wasn't blunt..."