Alex swung his sword and the snake died in a single stroke. Its head fell to one side while the rest of its body slumped on the dry desert sand to the other side.
Alex walked up to the snake's head and checked it for a Sunheart. Sadly, the head didn't have any. Sunhearts were supposed to be in a beast's head, but just in case, he checked the rest of its body too.
It seemed the first monster he met after walking for half a day was not one that had a Sunheart. That was disappointing, but surely he would find more soon.
Alex pulled the beast core out of the snake's corpse and placed all of its body in one place before making several cuts on it to let it leak all of the blood hidden within it.
Then, Alex sat next to it and absorbed the blood aura. Because it was only one beast and its blood wasn't that much to begin with, there wasn't much absorption to be done for Alex.
So, as soon as he was done with it, he left the corpse to be eaten by some other beasts and walked on.
