Monster cores? Gemstones? (3)

"Master is something the matter?" asked Tesse from where she was standing guard.

"No it's okay, just keep looking out," replied Gray as he approached the corpse and tried activating his skill on it.

[Invalid target. The target has been dead for more than a week and therefore all abilities previously owned by them have been lost.] replied the voice in Gray's head.

'Then why didn't you tell me about this earlier? The description never said anything about not being able to steal the powers of those that have been dead for more than a week.' complained Gray, angry that he had lost such a powerful ability.

[The restriction is not on the ability but a rule presented by the higher beings. The ability 'He who pleasures death' does not have a time limit on its casting, rather the higher beings have removed the ability from the corpse, hence there is nothing to steal,] replied the voice.

"Fuck!" exclaimed Gray angrily, kicking the sand in a show of dissatisfaction.