Scales and Bones (Part 1)

"There, there. One day you'll have the Eyes. There's no need to cry." Friya caressed Faluel's head, not knowing what else to say.

After a while, the effects of the greed and the booze faded, and the Hydra went back to her old self.

"I guess you want to know how to refine the corpse of a powerful Divine Beast, correct?" She said, pretending that nothing weird had happened during the last few minutes.

"Correct." Everyone was eager to put that outburst behind and acted accordingly.

"Well, the first thing that you must know is that the value and use of Dragon scales vary with their quantity. When you have just a few, like those I gave you for your Scalewalker armor, then you can only employ them in your crafts as ingredients.

  "When you have a decent amount, instead, you can use them as a working material in place of rare magical metals.