PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

Just to be clear, Desmond was a cautious man, of course, he bring a backup jacket in his suitcase in the armored car and it was what he had been wearing after fighting the panthers.

But he ended up losing that jacket because of the harpy he met recently, well, to be more precise he had to give the jacket to Athena because he could no longer bear to have the girl running naked around him; Especially after the harpy’s honey pot overflowed a bit after her pecking session (kissing).

Not even the holiest man in the world could stay focused with such a scene in front of him, much less Desmond who was far from being a saint.

Recalling the deal he had made with the harpy, Desmond had another headache as he thought about sticking to his end of the deal, not that it was particularly difficult but the amount of paperwork that awaited him in the next few days made Desmond question the meaning of life for the second time today.

Nor is it that Desmond was losing with the deal they had made, on the contrary, Desmond had won the lottery in his encounter with the harpy, leaving aside the visual delight that was the naked harpy, Desmond had convinced the harpy of stop hunting in the mountain area so that it would stop scaring the beasts in the direction of the city.

That’s right, all this time it was the harpy who had been slaughtering the mutant beasts in the surroundings and opposed to what Lyoid and Desmond had believed, she did not do it for fun or a territorial issue.

The short version? Athena accidentally entered the territory of these mutant beasts and they attacked her, then Athena turned them into mincemeat.

In fact, part of the deal Desmond had made with the harpy was related to that, knowing that Athena would continue this tendency to slip into unfamiliar territory in the vicinity of the mountain; Desmond decided to move the harpy’s home.

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But such a task would require a fair amount of work on his part, as he had to use the help of Kyuru and Sasha to build the harpy’s new home and then make sure to isolate the area to prevent people from the city from roaming around. the area; Just thinking about the paperwork involved made Desmond want to cry.

If it weren’t for the basket full of strange fruits that he carried with him, Desmond would really burst into tears, as to why Desmond was carrying a basket of fruits ... well, he was not very clear about it.

According to Athena, now that he was her partner she gave him those fruits as thanks for blessing her with his offspring or something similar ... As strange as this seemed, Athena seemed to consider it as a normal thing which left him quite puzzled because he did not remember that birds had such a ritual.

In the end, Desmond was forced to accept that as different as Athena was from her ancestors it was highly likely that the animal kingdom had changed too much from what it used to be.

Although Desmond had to admit that when he learned that Athena was the equivalent of a harpy owl, he realized that many of Athena’s strange behaviors made more sense; especially that adorable sound she sometimes made when she spoke.

In any case, once Desmond left the harpy in charge of Kyuru and returned to the forest, he was curious about the fruits given by the adorable harpy so without much thought, he used the analysis function of the notebook on them.

One can imagine his surprise when he discovered that all the fruits in the basket were fruits classified with some kind of strengthening effect and although none were powerful enough to be considered a heaven-defying treasure; they were still valuable and useful enough to strengthen Claire’s physical complexion.

As for Sasha ... even if the girl wasn’t a close combat specialist like Desmond, she was by herself much stronger than Desmond right now and had grown up consuming all kinds of natural treasures so her physique was nothing to be despised.

Putting all unnecessary thoughts aside Desmond realized that he would soon be leaving the interior of the forest into the agricultural area on the outskirts of Green Seed Town, so he stored the fruit basket in the notebook and left the forest on foot.

With only his torn clothes still stained with blood and his assault rifle in hand, Desmond left the forest with a calm expression, one thing that needs to be mentioned is that before being kidnapped Desmond had gone down to meet with his team and collect more ammunition for his weapon; but now he did not carry a single cartridge on himself.

Only Desmond knew how many mutant beasts he kill on his way back to town, but once he ran out of ammo Desmond was too lazy to continue hunting so he knew his squad would have to make a couple more trips to the forest to be able to declare it clear.

Once again Desmond wanted to cry thinking about how busy he would be in the days to come, but he comforted himself by thinking that he would soon be home and could have a good time with Claire in bed to let all the stress out.

Of course, that was until he completely left the forest and what greeted him were six military squads armed to the teeth ready to enter the forest with full force, one can imagine the amount of cold sweat that Desmond spilled when he had more than thirty rifles assault guns and assorted weapons pointed in your direction.

“Why is my luck so bad?” Desmond said bitterly when he saw his life pass before his eyes ... Nah he’s just being dramatic, the truth is that the reason all these soldiers were here is that a certain idiot lieutenant was kidnapped in the forest and had not returned in hours so a rescue team was dispatched.

In fact, it was not only Desmond who was surprised by the encounter the rescue team sent to search for him also did not expect their target to appear right in front of them as soon as they reached the entrance to the forest.

And just as Desmond expected, he spent the next two hours explaining/lying to his superiors about what happened inside the forest and spent another three hours doing the corresponding paperwork.