The beam explodes on impact, knocking over the tower. The bokoblin is just gone.

The other monsters all react - mostly by panicking, but a few head towards Link. 

The Guardian has about a six or seven second charge between shots, it seems.

She keeps an eye out. If there are stragglers she can aim for them, but she'd rather not hit Link if she can help it. 

Plenty of stragglers. Link fights a retreating battle with the main body of monsters, trying to create space for Naomi to shoot.

And then, barely a second after her recharge is complete -- "bang" -- that time against one hiding behind a log. 

The battle continues, Link running and jumping and swinging - and getting hit a few times and getting some of the monsters herself - until there are no more.

"Whoooo. That was fun." She waits for Naomi to 'wake up'.

It doesn't take long. "Whew. That took more out of me than I was expecting. Which way's town again?"

"Through the pass, past the fort, and a day's hike. But first, let's gather our loot. Monster horns, claws, and guts especially make good elixirs."

"Ew. Okay, sure. Is there a method for cleaning them properly?"

"Have a look!"

All the monsters have mostly faded away in flashes of smoke and black dust, leaving only a few bony claws and their weapons. 

"I'll gather them all up, you don't need to help. You get half for elixirs or selling to merchants, your choice."

"What kinds of elixirs could I make from those?"

"Anything you have the other ingredients for. Monster bits are bulk and power, plants and bugs and such pick the kind of elixir."

"Do they keep well?"

"Probably. My Sheikah Slate keeps everything perfectly so I don't actually know. Soup I cooked a week ago is still hot in there."

"So you should probably hold onto everything until we get to a merchant. I'll definitely take some elixirs if you end up making any. I'm sure you'll know better than me which are useful where."

"Depends on what you're going to get up to. There's a bunch of kinds."

She slurps up all the loot and they start along the dirt road again.

"I could have one of each. Or I could keep following you around for a while to get the lay of the land."

Naomi and her pet tentacle robot follow close behind. 

"I think you'll want speed and defense ones? Those are the best for getting away from danger. Maybe stealth."

All this mostly undeveloped wilderness is really quite pretty. There's ruins of old structures here and there. They are almost at the Dueling Peaks now, two tall mountains with a narrow, high chasm between them - or one mountain split down the middle, depending on who you ask. The river they've been following goes right through the gap.

"It's so pretty here."

"It really is. Hyrule is a beautiful place. Most of Hyrule. Death Mountain or the badlands are not so pretty."

"I'd expect a place called Death Mountain to become ugly retroactively."

"It's a volcano. The Gorons seem to like it. But their bodies are good for living there, they eat rocks and everything."

"Living ... in a volcano?"

"Well, near the volcano."

"Got it."

They keep moving.

They pass other travelers! Who are all kind of scared of the Guardian and run the other way.

"...So when the road bends north up here we should probably cut south and keep following the river, get up to the fort that way. Bit swampy, but less people to freak out that way."