Damon looked at the giant mana shards and exhaled deeply. Right now, mana cores and even these mana shards might seem pretty much useless for most of the players except for people who chose alchemy or smithing, but all of that was going to change now.
Today, people dismissed them as crafting scraps; tomorrow, they would be the currency of power. Once a person reached C rank, leveling became a lot more complicated. It wouldn't be simple monster farming anymore.
At that time one needed a huge amount of resources make any progress. An inevitable bottleneck would strangle even so-called geniuses when they finally hit that wall.
When that time comes, a lot was required just to take a small step forward and along with that a shit ton of mana cores were also needed.