Cades stood there, in front of the bloody pulp and looked at it with a surprisingly calm mind.
There, in the bloody pulp there was something that had not yet been transformed into a blood smoothie with fleshy pieces.
As Cades was heavily breathing with his chest heaving up and quickly going down as it expended he saw a large piece of metal, barely even molten, it looked sturdy and very powerful, the monster must've eaten it at some point.
Cades bend over, tinting his knee into the bloody gore and picking it up.
The huge ore, of about 2 meters circumference was incredibly heavy, Cades assumed that it weighed about twenty five tons and was filled with an intense amount of magical energy, filled to the absolute brim, so much so that it was practically vibrating and sending out waves of mana.
He carefully placed the incredibly heavy piece of raw metal into his bag of holding that instantly became many tons heavier as he began walking outside.
Cade himself hadn't realized it yet but he was at the peak of the lord rank now, so the task of walking with all that weight around his weight wasn't particularly heavy, the bag of holding wasn't tortured with the weight of all the things inside at all.
Finally letting go of his clamped hand and releasing the broken sword of which practically only the ghostly pale sword remained as it felt into the puddle of blood that now filled almost the entire room and even parts of the outer cavern system.
Cades had some small problems as he tried going outside of the cavern because of all the blood, it was so much, at least in the lower parts of the system, that it reached up to his ankles.
He had to walk for multiple hours in the dark and freezing cavern as he finally, finally saw the daylight again, for the first time in a month.
Cades knew that he had to create a new weapon and he had long since realized that a sword isn't exactly useful for him right now, after all he simply fought with brute power, oftentimes causing massively devastating explosions of magical energy to "vaporize" his enemies.
There is nothing related to strategy belonging to that and even without that he needed something much more stable than a sword if he wanted to weapon to withstand his continuous magical maltreation.
Especially since he didn't exactly need the blades anymore to crush others carapaces.
He needed a powerful, blunt, stabile weapon.
Cades thought about it for quite some time until he finally had a solution.
He needed a staff and now he had the material to create one.
After all this time he finally had everything he would need to create that very tool out of the magical metal alloy that he had found, at least Cades assumed that that material consisted of something like that.
Once he was finally outside Cades turned back around, planning on creating his new weapon inside the ancient cavern utilizing the little bit of ambient mana left inside after he had slain and absorbed the mana of all the harpies inside the icy cavern.
As Cades went back inside he began smell the metallic sense of blood.
With each step he came closer to his goal, the bloody puddle in which he had first found the metal.
If he was able to bathe his new weapon in the blood of a highest rank lord it would gain great powers and be overloaded with even more mana that he would then be able to utilize in his attacks.
Cades sat down in the middle of the bloody pulp, took out the metal and began heating it using a intense flame pointed at it, a more useful way to create the staff than with a flame that affected a wide place.
In the ancient cavern in which the blood of the hundreds of harpies was flowing there sat a winged being in the leftovers of a gigantic monster that had been turned into nothing more than a bloody pulp, in the small, bloodied hands of that being there was a brightly burning violet flame that turned the entire cavern bright for hundreds of feet into every direction.
The being slowly spoke countless magical formulas and drew runic sequences in the blood of the pulp, a formation around the metal orb that was slowly melting down into an equally distributed batter.
Finally, the being used gravity itself and formed the molten metal into a staff, during this entire time the molten metal exuded an extreme heat that began melting down the ancient ice into water once more while it was continuously burning in a blinding glow that exuded even more heat than before.
After the first step was finally done Cades utilized that very same telekinesis spell and slowly pillars of the bloody pulp rose from all around and descended onto the staff, surrounding it in a cloud as it rose high up onto the ceiling.
And slowly it began descending once more in the form of a bloody tornado, right into the hands of Cades who was indeed surprised by the great weight of the staff but still able to hold it up, albeit with a slight difficulty.
But he wasn't nearly done with his project yet.
He wanted a weapon more powerful than any before.
Its main engravings consisted of a gravity amplifying runic sequence that strengthened the momentum of every single one of his potential strikes.
Other than that he used various strengthening spells that worked similarly to a wand in amplifying his ability to channel mana through the weapon and consequently also strengthen the explosive attacks that he constantly used.
He had real difficulties with carving the runic sequences into the long staff and even greater difficulties with the miniature hammerhead and a sharp cone form of about five inches at the other side of the end of the great staff that was about six feet long and had a circumference of about five inches.
It was beautiful with a dark silvery tone and without a single flaw on the slender staff.
Cades picked it up, stored it inside his bag together with the remnants of the raw metal and began his journey back to the library inside of which Hekima had claimed to have been preparing something.