Vine Whip

Even after the Vine Serpent dropped to the ground, I didn't move towards it.

Instead, I had the Fanged Wolves and the Leaf Snakes attack the Vine Serpent a few more times to make sure that it was really dead.

By the end of it, with the wound that had been afflicted on the Vine Serpent previously, it was completely ripped in half. There was no way that it would be able to survive after it had been ripped in half like this.

Or at least that I was what I thought…

It wouldn't become a zombie and jump up to bite me, right?

So instead of approaching it myself, I actually sent the Scavenger Rabbit forward.

"Go and use your ability on it." I said to the Scavenger Rabbit as I pointed at the corpse of the Vine Serpent.

The Scavenger Rabbit looked scared at first when it saw the Vine Serpent's corpse, but then it started moving forward as if it wasn't afraid of it once it saw that it was just lying there.

The Scavenger Rabbit really was the best way of determining if something was dangerous or not with how cowardly it was.

If there was any danger, the Scavenger Rabbit would have started running right away.

But since the Scavenger Rabbit was able to approach the Vine Serpent normally, it seemed like it was alright. It seemed like the Vine Serpent was really dead with how the Scavenger Rabbit was acting.

Though I didn't let my guard down until the Scavenger Rabbit was done.

Once the Scavenger Rabbit reached the corpse of the Vine Serpent, it did the same thing as before. It just started digging right into the corpse of the Vine Serpent without hesitation as if it was looking for loot.

With the look on its face, it was almost as if it was enjoying itself.

This was the first Elite Monster that I had let the Scavenger Rabbit use its ability on, so it was only natural that it was excited about this.

At the same time, I couldn't help feeling my heart ache at the loss that I had suffered earlier by giving that Kong Gorilla corpse to Iris.

Still, there was no point in regretting it now.

It seemed like it took the Scavenger Rabbit longer than usual to dig through the corpse of the Vine Serpent.

Seeing this, I couldn't help feeling a bit expectant.

In the end, I wasn't disappointed.

When the Scavenger Rabbit was done, it turned around and showed me the item that it dug out.

Or I should say that it showed me the items that it dug out since it dug out more than a single one from the Vine Serpent's corpse.

It almost seemed a bit much for the Scavenger Rabbit to hold in its hands, but it proudly held them up for me to look at.

I took one of the things that the Scavenger Rabbit offered me and looked at it closely.

It was the one that attracted me the most, which was why I chose this one to pick up, even though I had no idea what this thing was.

It was a whip that seemed to be made of some kind of vine.

Vine Whip

A durable and flexible whip made of vines. Has the ability to create thorns using the user's mana to deal damage to targets that it's used on.

A trace of a bitter smile appeared on my face again when I saw this.

I didn't expect it, but there it was again.

I didn't know what it was that was triggering this, but this notification appeared from time to time whenever I picked up items that the Scavenger Rabbit obtained for me.

As far as I knew, I didn't have an Appraisal Skill, so how was this happening?

It didn't seem to make sense at all…

Though I had to admit that it was quite the useful skill since it allowed me to see what kind of abilities these items that the Scavenger Rabbit got for me had.

But it really confused me since I had no idea where this was coming from and if it could even be trusted.

What if one day…this appraisal gave me the wrong information and that caused my death?

Things that couldn't be explained were not reliable and if they weren't reliable, I shouldn't be using them…

Only it was very useful…

Could it be that I have some kind of appraisal skill that's hidden just like with the familiars that I summoned?

No, in the first place, humans didn't have skills. They could only borrow the power of their familiars and nothing else. If humans had skills in the first place, then there wouldn't be a need for familiars.

Wait, what about the Boost Strength skill that I got from the Skill Orb?

What was that supposed to be?

There were so many different questions that filled my mind as I tried to figure out what this was.

But in the end…

"There's no point in thinking too much about this." I said to myself with a sigh before throwing out all these thoughts.

I was in a dangerous dungeon right now, it wasn't the time to get distracted by this.

I looked at the other two items that the Scavenger Rabbit presented to me and the same thing happened where appraisals appeared.

The three items that it got seemed to be from the same set as they all had the word 'vine' in their names. As well, all three of these items seemed like powerful items based on the description that they had.

The loot from an Elite Monster really is different from the loot of normal monsters.

If only I had been able to get the loot from the Kong Gorilla as well…

With a sigh, I looked forward and got on the back of one of the Fanged Wolves.

There was no point in regretting it now, the only thing left was to keep hunting and get as much loot as I could.

So I headed off to find my next target.