The lack of luminescence was a pretty good indicator that the monster was dead, but Sheena wanted to make sure. Silently creeping forward, the ninja crouched down, her weight on the balls of her feet, and poked the monster.

Nothing happened, there was no response, so Sheena poked it again, a little harder. Still no reaction; it was dead.

Breathing out a sigh of relief, Sheena put her back to the wall and sat down. She needed to rest her leg a bit before moving on. She wished she'd been able to gather more energy with her Life Seal, but this was going to have to do. As she sat, she gave a vaguely disgusted look at her hand, feeling the stickiness from the monster's blood on it.

Gold blood. That was new.