These Familiars Are Strange

It was a small bead that was in the hands of the Scavenger Rabbit that it raised up for me to see.

There seemed to be this faint glow coming from this bead, but it wasn't strong enough that it was hard to look at.

This bead seemed completely normal if one ignored the faint glow that it had.

It didn't seem like any of the other items that the Scavenger Rabbit had found before, but I knew that anything that the Scavenger Rabbit found with its skill wouldn't be a normal thing.

Since it was dug out by the Scavenger Rabbit, it had to be something special.

The only thing that I was waiting for was the notification to pop up.

This certainly wasn't something that I could appraise outside of the dungeon since it was something that was obtained by performing the taboo.

But it didn't seem like the notification was about to pop up which made me a bit anxious.

That was until I focused hard on the bead and it finally popped up.

Skill Orb (Boost Strength)

Grants the Boost Strength skill when used.

Boost Strength

Increases the user's strength by up to 5 times, depending on how much mana the user uses when activating the skill.

"Skill orb?" I couldn't help saying in a confused voice.

That was because I had never heard of this kind of thing before.

Even though I had studied quite a bit and had learned all kinds of different things, I had never heard of an item like this before. But the fact that it was actually able to give a skill meant that there was no doubt that this item was a very valuable one.

Skills weren't things that humans could acquire, skills were only things that familiars could acquire through hard work and training.

So something that would be able to give a skill was without a doubt something that broke the balance of this world.

At the same time…

"Is this something that can be used by humans or is it only used by familiars?" I couldn't help asking myself this.

I had never seen such a thing, so it was only natural that I would ask such a question…

There was a part of me that really wanted to check this, but I held myself back in the end.

In this situation, it really felt like the first one would be a waste since there should be a limit to how many skills a person could have. If I were to use this, wouldn't that mean that I would be wasting the potential slots that I had to learn skills?

Though in the first place, I didn't know if the potential slots were even something that existed.

So before using this Skill Orb, I wanted to see if there were other options.

As such, I had the Scavenger Rabbit…

"Go and use your skills on the other corpses." I said to the Scavenger Rabbit who just immediately jumped to another nearby corpse.

While it was doing this, I had the Echo Bat control the Fanged Wolf to drag the other corpses that I had left in the shadow of the trees over. These were also corpses that could be looted, so I would be able to get more Skill Orbs from these corpses hopefully.

If I could, then there was the chance that I might be able to get a good skill.

So I waited for the Scavenger Rabbit to finish off looting all of these corpses.

It was just a pity that I was disappointed with what it found in the end.

The Scavenger Rabbit dug through all of the corpses and all of them gave Skill Orbs, it was just that the skills that were pulled out were skills that weren't that powerful.

These were skills that were considered support skills.

Sharp Eyes, Wind Walking, Hide Presence.

These were all skills that would be used with other abilities to have the greatest effect, but I didn't have these other abilities in the first place. If I were to take all of these skills, then there was no doubt that I would be relegated to being some kind of support in parties.

At the same time, there really weren't any attackers in our current party.

If we were all support characters, then it really wouldn't work.

We needed some kind of attack power or else we wouldn't be able to defeat powerful enemies even if we could restrain them.

So I wanted some kind of attack ability.

In the end, the only one that was considered an attack ability was the first Skill Orb that the Scavenger Rabbit obtained from Yu Xiang's corpse.

"If it's this one…" I said to myself in a resigned voice.

But even though I sounded resigned, I took the Skill Orb in my hand and used it on myself.

I didn't know how to use it at first, but then I found that all I had to do was crush the orb.

The moment that the orb was crushed, there was this flow of light that entered my body and filled it with this strange kind of power. It was a kind of power that almost felt like there was something warm flowing into me.

It turned out that this Skill Orb could be used on humans as well.

Once the warm flow of energy disappeared, I couldn't really tell what was different about me.

But I walked over to one of the trees nearby and put my hand up against it while trying to focus on something vague inside of me.

As I did, I felt this flow of power coming from within and then I pushed against the tree in front of me.

"Krrack!"

There was this loud sound that came in front of me and I saw that the tree was being pulled out of the ground as I pushed against it. It was actually being pulled out by the roots, that was just how hard I was pushing against it.

I suddenly pulled back my hand and looked at it with a shocked expression.

"Did I really do that?" I couldn't help saying to myself as I looked at my hand.