Herbert didn't say anything more regarding their shocked expressions.
After putting away that incredibly precious earth-attribute core, he simply handed the bag of magic stones to Sutton with a calm expression.
Clearly, in his eyes, how the rest of the spoils were distributed was not worth wasting any more of his energy on.
Sutton reached out and took the cloth bag.
As the heavy weight settled into his palm, his single eye narrowed slightly, and he slowly turned to look at Matthew.
In that single eye, the faint trace of appreciation that had already been there grew noticeably deeper.
“Your spiritual shock just now—”
Sutton began slowly.
“Your timing was perfect.”
“If you hadn't disrupted it at the last moment, allowing Herbert to seize the opportunity to cut off its core energy flow, we might not have dealt with this golem so smoothly.”
He had always spoken directly.
There was no exaggerated praise or deliberate flattery.
But the more straightforward he was, the more genuine the recognition felt.
Matthew was slightly taken aback.
He had originally thought his minor contribution wouldn't amount to much in the eyes of two Third-Grade Apprentices.
But looking at it now, they had clearly taken note of it.
“According to contribution.”
Sutton hefted the cloth bag in his hand.
“You deserve a share.”
With that, he directly began the distribution.
Soon, a small pouch was handed to Matthew.
Matthew instinctively reached out to receive it.
The moment the pouch settled into his palm, he immediately felt an extremely warm and gentle energy fluctuation.
The sensation was completely different from the low-quality magic stones he had encountered before.
It was far more stable and much richer.
It was as if the mana stored within was no longer just scattered, floating energy, but had been compressed and settled into a condensed state by some special structure.
Matthew's heart couldn't help but shudder slightly.
He looked down and opened the pouch.
Lying quietly inside were two magic stones that were clearly more translucent, their internal flowing luster far deeper than that of ordinary magic stones. Aside from those, there were dozens of standard-specification ordinary magic stones.
On the other side, Sutton casually handed over two dark-silver metal plates that had been dismantled from the golem's joints as well.
“Take these as well.”
Matthew reached out and received them.
The metal plates were ice-cold to the touch. Their surfaces were covered in extremely fine natural patterns that intertwined like blood vessels, and he could still faintly sense an incredibly weak energy residue.
They were clearly no ordinary materials.
Matthew looked down at the items in his hands, hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but ask:
“Mr. Sutton...”
“These magic stones seem a bit different from ordinary ones?”
Sutton was not surprised to hear this.
In his view, Matthew was, after all, only a newly advanced apprentice, so it was normal for him to have a limited understanding of these basic resource systems.
So he casually picked up one of the medium-quality magic stones and tossed it in the air with his fingertips.
“Of course they are different.”
“There is inherently a difference in quality among magic stones.”
“Most of what you encountered before were only the lowest-grade ordinary magic stones, which have many mana impurities and a limited storage capacity.”
“But this kind—”
He shook the medium magic stone in his hand.
“—belongs to the medium-quality tier.”
“Both its storage capacity and mana purity are far higher than those of ordinary magic stones.”
Matthew's eyes flickered slightly.
“Can the quality... go even higher?”
“Naturally.”
Sutton nodded calmly.
“Generally speaking, magic stones are divided into four tiers: lower-quality, medium, upper-quality, and top-grade.”
“The exchange ratio between them is theoretically one to ten.”
“In other words, one medium magic stone is roughly equal to ten ordinary magic stones.”
“One upper-quality one is worth ten medium ones.”
“As for top-grade...”
Speaking of this, even Sutton paused slightly for a moment.
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