"From Chosen One to some errand boy, huh?"
Feihren laughed as he thought about all the requests they handed over to him. He was not complaining about it though. He even thought that these three requests were much better than being burdened by such a sudden heavy responsibility.
Feihren had prepared himself for the travel as he decided to change the robes into his Assault Rogue armor for the meantime. It is not due to it being inferior or anything like that. It is just that it's so eye-catching that it would be weird to look at while traveling in the forest. It would sooner or later attract unnecessary trouble for him. Keeping the crossbow in his inventory, Feihren strapped the Demonic Carbine on his back for the first time since he repaired it, although the Ancient Demon Lord was still not uttering a single word. Feihren preferred to equip a weapon that would guarantee his victory rather than doing something careless like last time.
Placing the pouch and letter in his Inventory, Feihren readied himself as he walked out of the house and into the village. Since he was carrying the two snow tiger cubs in his arms, Feihren could not wave his hands goodbye as he just nodded towards Zow and the other people who are bidding him farewell.
Feihren had passed the place that the 'animal rescue' occurred as he let out a faint smile. Continuing further into the forest, Feihren traveled easily throughout the entire day.
In his camp, as Feihren prepared a meal for himself and the snow cubs... He realized, 'Wait... these are still babies, they can't eat that much solid food right?'
Feihren was definitely someone who had never taken care of an infant in his life. He immediately searched within his Inventory a few times for any Consumables or Quest Items that could be of use in this kind of situation. It only took a few minutes before he found something... useful.
"Aha!"
Feihren had found the perfect item for these cubs' nutrition! 'Some [Milk] quest items from that quest I had forgotten to finish! I'm glad that I forsook that boring quest line. If I hadn't then these poor cubs wouldn't have anything to eat.' Feihren thought to himself to give justification for his laziness and forgetfulness.
"Eh?"
The snow cubs did not even attempt to lick any of the milk that Feihren handed to them. Instead, they timidly crawled towards the roasted meat that was still cooking as they both leapt towards it, toppling it down to the ground.
"Even at this size, they are already vicious meat eaters..."
Feihren was amazed at the fact that these tiny beasts were already capable of eating solid meat. He roasted another batch as he shared the other half of it the cubs and ate the remaining half before they all went to sleep.
...
It was early in the morning and same as always, Samael did the guarding overnight before he returned to his gem form. Feihren decided to skip breakfast as he felt bloated from all the food last night. It also seemed that the puffy cheeks of the two snow tigers were saying the same thing.
According to the map, it would only take about 8 hours before they could reach Sechua City, which would be early in the afternoon if nothing troublesome happened.
Feihren was pretty sure that something would definitely happen as he remembered the escaping poacher back then. Pathetic guys like those tend to take revenge no matter the cost.
Although Feihren himself was confident that he could survive any kind of surprise attack, he could not say the same right now as he was carrying two fragile creatures that were extremely vulnerable. He had to keep in mind that he was responsible for the survival of this two for the meantime.
...
It took all morning before he felt the tingling sense of danger...
'It's still noon though, I would expect them to at least attack at night? Where's the surprise in this?"
Soon enough, a speeding dagger was sent flying towards him.
Carrying the two cubs with one arm, he caught the dagger with his fingers, pinching the blade between them. After the heightened reflexes from his crazily boosted attributes, pieces of equipment, and the raw sense of danger hardened from multiple battles he had gone through, doing such superhuman feats was a pretty casual thing for Feihren.
Feihren glared at the swinging object tied at the handle of the dagger that he caught...
*Poof!
A menacing green smoke exploded from that tea-bag looking object as Feihren inspected the surroundings for more upcoming attacks. Feihren prioritized covering the cubs to prevent them from inhaling the mysterious smoke.
'System Log: Abnormal status effect detected: [Sleep Powder]'
Feihren shook his head as he tried to power through the effects of the smoke while running outside its area of effect.
*Phew! *Phew! *Phew!
A barrage of arrows headed towards Feihren just as he was able to get away from the sleeping powder. Even though he was still tipsy from to the effects of the smoke, he was able to block 30 arrows due to the Assault Rogue armor's passive effect.
'System Log: Abnormal status effect detected: [Paralysis Arrow]'
A single arrowhead landed on Feihren's back. Although it did not pierce through, some weird effect still lingered and had immobilized Feihren...
Feihren struggled for a few seconds as he grabbed hold of Samael's gem...
"Take care of everything for me..." Feihren could only mutter those last words to the gem as he fell face first to the ground, and those two status effects fully kicked in...
