As the battle commenced, I sunk my fangs into the first direwolf's body, causing it to vince and cry out in pain. Then, as I kept a tight hold on it with my mouth, I heard a voice suddenly speak in my head.

Passive Skill [Venom] has activated.

Passive Skill? Does it mean that my bite did more than just bite?
The answer to my question came immediately afterwards, as the direwolf howled in pain before toppling around and then falling to the ground. Letting go of my grip on its neck, I quickly used 'Inspector' on the direwolf's body.

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- Inferior Direwolf-
Level; 10

The weakest version of the Direwolf species. This creature has little intellect and mostly relies on instinct, however can be a bit cunning when hunting in packs.

STATUS;
-Poisoned

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I poisoned it with my bite...
I suppose that does make sense as I am a snake - Most snakes I know are venomous and inject poison or venom with their bites. This will definitely be useful to know for later encounters as well. After I was done examining the dead corpse, I just barely managed to dodge an incoming attack from 3 other Direwolves and then another fury of attacks that had been fired at me by the Poison Lizards, who shot their darts.

I had forgotten that this one direwolf wasn't the only enemy in this place for a second there. The other monsters kept their fierce gazes locked onto me, dashing towards me with high speed - with the direwolves even being smart enough to surround me first, before attacking all at once from all sides - which practically forced my survival instinct and dodge reflex to pop off, as I began to slip past the canines - dodging their attempts at biting me, clawing me or doing anything to me.

In fact, while I was dodging their moves, I actually managed to leap up into the air and fall onto another direwolf, sinking my fangs into its neck and causing it to howl in pain, before tumbling around and falling to the ground - however this time, the passive venom skill did not activate like with the first direwolf. That made me guess that the passive skill most likely has a random chance of kicking in and poisoning my enemy after I sink my fangs into their body - however due to the level difference between me and these other monsters, I guess my bites were a bit too strong for the skill to activate in time and be useful.

Once the second direwolf was dead, I leapt off of its body and began a dead slither towards the Poison Lizards that had been shooting their darts towards me all this time. The lizards, upon seeing me approach, immediately dispersed - attempting to run away and create distance between me and them, however I managed to propel my body onto one of them and sink my fangs deep into the lizard I landed on. The lizard let out shrieks and growls of pain, stumbling around for a bit, before smashing its back into a wall of the dungeon - as well as smashing my body into it, which I will admit - hurt quite a bit. I definitely felt a bone crack at the very least.

After being rammed into the wall, the Poison Lizard shook its body very violently, flinging me off of it as my grip on it fell loose. I flew into the air, with the Poison Lizards immediately opening fire upon me - shooting their darts at a rapid rate while I was midair and unable to dodge much.

Seeing the incoming darts, I panicked a little bit as quite a few of them managed to connect and damage me - sending me down to the ground as well.

[Lizard Poison] has been nullified.
[Lizard Poison] has been nullified.
[Lizard Poison] has been nullified.

Poisons nullified huh? I guess being a creature that creates venom himself, I can't be inflicted by other venoms or poisons... I am not complaining about that. Whatever will save me the most amount of damage I will take, and I will one hundred percent take the fact that I am unaffected by their poison if that means all I have to do is tank their physical darts.

After landing back down, a bit roughly may I add, I flipped around and dashed towards the Poison Lizards again - leaping up onto another one, before sinking my fangs deep into its flesh - I guess the first time I did so, I hadn't bitten hard enough, so perhaps by increasing my bite force and power, I will be able to kill these things with a single bite.

And to my luck, it worked.
As I increased the force and power of my bite, sinking my fangs deeper and deeper into the Poison Lizard's flesh, I managed to even pierce through its neck bone, causing the monster to shriek in pain, before it collapsed to the ground in death.

Experience threshold has been reached.
You have risen to level 16.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] acquired.

A level up again... and then a skill?
Interesting - I had only killed two of these monsters. There are still 5 direwolves, 2 Poison Lizards and the slimes to take care of. I wonder... What kind of level can I reach after killing all of these monsters?

Once the Lizard was dead, the other remaining monsters continued their onslaught, with the Lizards running away and opening fire at me with their darts again, while the Direwolves charged at me all at once. I looked towards the direwolves first - in terms of numbers, these guys had the most remaining members, so taking care of them would decrease their manpower.
Or would it be monsterpower in this case? Hm... Who knows.

As the direwolves approached, I leapt up into the air - using my body like a spring again to land onto the first direwolf, which I immediately bit as hard as I could into the flesh of - hearing the same voice as before.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] has been activated.

I fell a bit confused at first, but then my bite suddenly easily crunched through the direwolf's pelt, before even managing to crush the bones that my bite touched. The direwolf howled in a loud fit of pain, before falling to the ground, while I quickly let go of my grip on it and leapt into the air once more.

"So, that's how I can activate that skill..."

I thought, before landing onto the next direwolf, repeating the same move and biting as hard as I could into the monster's neck. Once again, I heard the voice announcement.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] has been activated.

And then, just like before, I felt my bite easily tear into the wolf's pelt before crushing its neck bone and causing the wolf to let out a small cry of pain, before falling on top of the previous Direwolf I had killed with this method. Letting go of it, I smirked to myself.

Now that is what I am talking about - I finally can do a bit more than just bite. Well... technically it is still biting, only harder, but I will still assume this is some sort of special ability someone would be able to gain in an MMO or some similar game. Reminder, I am new to this after all.

As soon as I let my grip go off of the Direwolf, I was forced to dodge a flurry of incoming darts from the two remaining poison lizards, who had fired so many of their darts, that they even hit the remaining Direwolves, damaging them. I quickly slithered off of the two stacked direwolf corpses I was on, before dashing towards one of the lizards. I was planning on leaving these little shits for last, but I guess they want to be the next ones to die.

As soon as the Poison Lizard noticed me approaching, it tried to run away, however I quickly leapt forward and sunk my fangs into its right back leg, tightening my grip and biting as much as I could, to activate that skill I had acquired.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] has been activated.

As soon as the voice announced that, I felt my fangs easily pierce the Poison Lizards skin and then bones crushing both of them and causing the lizard to shriek even more horridly in pain, as it collapsed, unable to continue its run. I then quickly let go of its leg and slithered up its body and up to its neck, where I immediately sunk my fangs into - as hard as I could.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] has been activated.

"Yes! Get out of here you annoying as hell cold blooded ripoff of the Dinosaurs!"

I thought, as I crushed its neck bone and even bit so hard, causing blood to spew out of its neck in such a large quantity, that it painted a large area around it in its green blood, before the monster fell to the ground and went lifeless.

Experience threshold has been reached.

Level seventeen? I will take it.
After I killed the poison lizard, I wasted no time and hopped off of it, dashing towards the last Poison Lizard, while dodging the darts it shot at me and the last three direwolves that leapt at me in an attempt to grab me and squish me under their claws.

However, I was far too slippery for the reckless canines and eventually leapt towards the last Poison Lizard, flying straight into its neck with a wide open mouth. As soon as I bit into its neck, I immediately began to tighten my grip on it, successfully activating the 'Hard Bite' on it and biting through its neck, before biting off a part of it and falling to the ground, while the Lizard just spewed blood from its neck, unable to even shriek due to blood even filling its mouth.

After tumbling back a bit for a small moment, the Lizard collapsed to the ground and turned lifeless. That's all three of the most annoying enemies down, now it is time to take out the remaining ones. As I flipped around, the Direwolves immediately charged me, forcing me to leap out of the way and quickly slither across the area to dodge their attempts at grabbing me.

"Despite not being as annoying as those Lizards, these wolves are proving to be a bit troublesome.."

I thought, before sharpening my gaze as I dashed towards the piled up two Direwolf corpses that I had taken out earlier.

I quickly slithered up to the two corpses, before leaping up and over them, immediately pressing my entire body against them, before the Direwolves leapt over them. After they landed, they threw their aggravated and aggressive expressions around, bearing their teeth wide open, before looking at me and growling loudly, as they slowly approached me.

All three of them in one place, just like I wanted. I have noticed that despite moving quite a lot and doing a lot of maneuvers, I wasn't getting super tired and exhausted. In fact, I barely even felt like I had done any sort of exercise. Perhaps this was a benefit of being a small snake instead of a large human...? ...I hope?

After a quick exhale, I watched as the middle Direwolf of the three remaining ones leapt at me, trying to grab me with its teeth. However, I quickly slithered out of the way, causing the direwolf to sink its teeth into one of the corpses of the dead Direwolves, before I quickly coiled my body up and sprung onto its back, immediately sinking my fangs into its back, aiming to activate hard back and crush its spine.

After a bit of trying to tighten my grip and increase the power of my bite, I eventually heard the announcement that was like music to my ears.

Common Skill [Hard Bite] has been activated.

Immediately, my bite easily tore through the pelt and then flesh of the monster, before reaching its spine and crushing a part of it, causing the direwolf to howl loudly in pain, as it lifted its head up and attempted to start running around, as if about to attempt and throw me off, but it collapsed upon taking just three steps forward, its body bleeding out as it breathed heavily.

It wasn't quite dead, but it wouldn't be able to continue the fight. I let go of my grip on it, before turning to look at the other two remaining Direwolves, who both were already sprinting at me. I smirked lightly, before coiling up my body once more and springing towards the closest direwolf, just barely dodging its bite, before sinking my teeth into its neck and very quickly activating 'Hard Bite' to crush its neck. Once the Direwolf fell to the ground dead, I let go of it and quickly dodged the last Direwolf, before slithering rapidly after it and springing up onto its head, wrapping my tail around its neck for some 'grip' before sinking my teeth into its neck as well.

This time, before my 'Hard Bite' had activated, the voice announced the fact that I had managed to poison the Direwolf using my passive 'Venom' skill, which was an amazing thing to hear. After a moment or two of the canine struggling, it stopped its movement, stopped its breathing and then collapsed to the ground, slightly 'crushing' a part of my body, which did hurt a bit.

Pulling myself out from underneath the Direwolf, I looked at the massacre I had just caused before exhaling lightly.

"I had a lot more fun with this than I had expected... And despite being a total newcomer to this whole concept of RPG, I still managed to kick some ass here."

I thought, reflecting a bit on my actions in this singular room.

Experience threshold has been reached.
You have risen to level 19.

Rare Skill [Venom Pellet] acquired.
Common Skill [Trickster] acquired.

Two skills and two levels from one enemy? Or did it wait and accumulate experience from the enemies I just took out? No idea... But with this, my 'stats' must be looking a lot better now, right?

"Status Open." {Primal Language Translation; 'Graifrius Hasil.'}

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Name: Faofa Shin
Species: Inferior Serpentine
Level: 19
Rank: F

Stats:

Health; 4700
Strength; 700
Defense; 600
Magical Energy; 2500
Stamina; 650

- Overall Power; 1560

Skills:
-Speech; Active Skill
-Venom; Passive Skill

-Inspector; Common Skill
-Devourer; Individual Skill
-Huntsman; Rare Skill
-Hard Bite; Common Skill
-Venom Pellet; Rare Skill
-Trickster; Common Skill

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Well, my stats did increase - I am not sure by how much, but they look a lot higher than before? I guess? Well, at least I know that they did increase. As for my skill list.. It is looking a lot more full now.

Previously I only had three skills, before entering this dungeon, but now after hitting the nineteenth level, my amount of skills has hit a decent - or at least, I think decent - number of six - eight, if you count the active and passive skills as also part of the entire repertoire. Overall, I think my stats and skills are much better than before - I mean, I feel a lot stronger.

After examining my stats a bit more, I exhaled lightly and closed the menu, before looking around. I spotted a large opening that led deeper into the dungeon, with dim lights down the corridor that it led into. I guess there was more to the whole place than I had figured. As soon as I was about to start moving towards the opening and the corridor, I heard heavy panting and almost crying behind me, which caused me to freeze up and turn my head slowly around in a little bit of fear. Had I forgotten to kill one of the Direwolves?

As soon as I looked back, I noticed the direwolf I had not finished off earlier - the one I had crushed a part of the spine for. Exhaling in relief that it wasn't another enemy capable of fighting me, I slithered up to the monster that was crying in pain, blood pouring out from its back and soaking the ground around it in a decently large area. I moved up close to the direwolf, who was breathing heavily as it cried - almost like it was begging for me to put it out of its misery.

"I know this thing tried to kill me... but... I can't help but feel bad for it while it is in this state."

I thought, a slight expression of pity across my face. As I just watched the direwolf continue crying in pain, breathing heavily and its body twitching every moment here and there, I continued to just feel more and more bad for it.

Maybe I should just end its suffering...
I have given everything else in here a quick death, why should this guy be the only one who has to suffer?

Right as I was about to bite down on the direwolf's neck in order to kill it, a sudden menu appeared in front of me, scaring me lightly as I backed up from the suffering direwolf. The menu had scared the living daylights out of me, why and how did it appear in front of me at this time? I didn't accidentally activate my 'Inspector' skill now, did I? After catching my breath for a moment, I slithered up to the menu that had opened moments earlier - looking at what contents it had.

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Individual Skill [Devourer] can be used.

Would you like to use the skill?

(Yes) (No)

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...'Devourer'? Isn't that one of the two skills that I had gained after I made that promise with Arabor and accepted his entire being and power into my body? It has been laying dormant for so long with me having no knowledge of how to use it or what it does this entire time that I had almost forgotten about it.

But right now, the menu was saying that I can use the skill...
But on what and why? Is it offering me to use it... on the suffering Direwolf? Wait - If I say yes, will I straight up 'eat' the direwolf? I am unsure if I want that to happen...

I hesitated to pick the 'Yes' option from the two it had given me, quite nervous about what it could possibly do if I picked it, however after a bit of overthinking it and debating it inside of my mind, I exhaled. Honestly, what is the worst that can happen if I say 'Yes'? Even if I straight up eat the entire direwolf with no control over my body, that isn't exactly anything negative... Well, at least it doesn't affect me negatively.

And so, after a little bit of more hesitation, I selected 'Yes' as my option.
Then, the menu closed, with a voice speaking in my head.

Activating [Devourer]. . .

Immediately afterwards, I felt this strong and warm feeling exit my body, as a dark red aura or mist came out of my snake body and engulfed the Direwolf's body, before also extending and engulfing every single other dead creature inside this room. I panicked a little for a bit, wondering what on earth was happening, however