I watched as the hound went limp and dropped to the floor after its legs buckled under it. Its eyes had already become dull, indicating that it was already dead.
'There is no point in using life drain on it now is there... It lost most of its power after my first attack and now has less than 10% of its life energy left. If that wasn't enough, I am certain that I will not get anything out of absorbing its soul core since I had already maxed out all the stats that it might give me...' Sighing in annoyance, I still moved towards the corpse and put my hand on it before quickly activating the life drain by lighting up the smaller red rune within the void world.
I had done this because of two reasons. One, I am extremely paranoid and will think about this corpse for the hours to come, asking myself the question "What if it gave me something?"