It's a power source. You can use it to power weapons, but it also works for all sorts of other things. Barriers to keep monsters out of towns, powering ships and machines... there's a lot of stuff. People use them so they're powerful enough to defeat monsters on their own, but even with a bodhi blastia it's still dangerous to fight monsters.
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[AND IT'S NOT EVEN FUN because they're too weak.]