You guessed right, Brian Carter was completely influenced by Xiao Li Fei Dao when he created his own throwing knives. However, with his intellect, he could easily calculate how to make the knives hit their targets, almost reaching Li Xunhuan’s level of “Xiao Li Fei Dao, never misses.” The throwing knives he made were forged from gold coins in his spatial pouch—each throw cost a gold coin. Of course, he also crafted several special-purpose superalloy throwing knives.

Additionally, Brian Carter could use water elements to condense ice throwing knives, and he even created a water-element magic that attacks with thousands of knives at once. Although the single-target attack wasn’t as strong as one knife, it was extremely effective for group battles. Many magical beasts in the forest had fallen to his throwing knives.

In terms of magic, Brian Carter could use any element, but he always cast spells in his own way, often channeling them through his Blowing Snow Sword. Wind elements were a perfect match for his movement techniques—Brian Carter’s current speed far surpassed that of the little cat. In terms of pure speed, there were probably very few people in this world who could rival him.

The wind element also allowed him to float in midair. Brian Carter had tried hovering in the air before; as long as his stamina held out, he could use the inexhaustible wind element to stay aloft, with his record being half a day. He could even fly for quite a long distance.

He only used a few functions of the earth element, mainly to increase the hardness of objects—an idea inspired by the magic spell Stone Skin, most often applied to his Blowing Snow Sword.

He also used the earth element to build a stove, then used a pot forged with fire element, washed food with water element, and finally cooked with fire element. If anyone knew he used magic like this, they’d be utterly shocked. And if they found out he first comprehended magic because he wanted to grill fish, those rigid mages would probably want to kill him for insulting magic.

After Brian Carter and the little cat returned fully loaded, Brian Carter used his magic to catch the fish, then killed them with his throwing knives, and finally used his magical cooking method to stew the fish in a pot.

The little cat, wanting to prove it was still useful, added fire with its own flames. Brian Carter skillfully took out one seasoning after another from his spatial pouch—all of which he had collected and processed in the magical beast forest.

Now, his spatial pouch was filled with seasonings, magic cores, and some food. All the junk from before had been burned as firewood. His weapons were kept in his ring, while the Blowing Snow Sword hung at his waist, just like those ancient Chinese people.

When the fish was ready, Brian Carter gave the whole pot to the little cat. He himself took out a piece of magical beast meat and started roasting it, watching the little cat enjoy the delicious fish. Brian Carter was a bit worried that after he left, the little cat might stop eating, since its tastes had been spoiled by him—it wouldn’t eat anything except the fish cooked by Brian Carter.

It wasn’t that Brian Carter didn’t want to take the little cat out of the forest, but he didn’t want to take it away from its “home.” He couldn’t act selfishly just because of his own feelings.

He had actually wanted to leave the forest three months ago, but the little cat had refused to go with him at the time. To help the little cat become more self-sufficient in the forest, Brian Carter had stayed on.

Over the past three months, he had deliberately trained the little cat, and only in the past few days, when he felt it could protect itself, did he decide to leave again. Brian Carter’s standard for self-protection was that there were no magical beasts in this part of the forest that could hunt it. He forgot that the little cat had originally lived here, and also forgot how he used to be chased all over by it. Worry clouds judgment—that was Brian Carter’s current state of mind.

After finishing this somewhat somber dinner, Brian Carter went to rest in the same cave as always. He pondered where to go tomorrow—should he head north to see the orcs, or south to see the phoenixes? Maybe west would be nice, but he definitely didn’t want to return east for now. If he ran into Ethan Harris’s family, he wouldn’t know how to deal with them, and Ethan Harris had a ton of enemies. In Tianxiang Imperial City, no one liked Ethan Harris, except for those drinking buddies.

Sigh... If Ethan Harris hadn’t been so annoying, things wouldn’t have ended up like this, and he himself wouldn’t have ended up in Ethan Harris’s body. Thinking back, those four people had gone to such trouble to use others to kill him, especially that princess who even sacrificed her looks. If it weren’t for the powerful Long family, and Jack Harris having so many loyal brothers—one of whom was now the emperor—he would have been torn to pieces long ago. In fact, if the Long family hadn’t been so short on heirs, Jack Harris wouldn’t have spoiled him so much.

Thinking of the princess and the others, Brian Carter suddenly realized that the Long family would eventually find out about this incident. For the safety of those four, he needed to go to the Tianxiang Empire first. As long as he returned, the matter would be dropped.

So Brian Carter decided to set out for the Tianxiang Empire in the east tomorrow. Fortunately, Brian Carter would arrive first; otherwise, those four really would have been doomed.

Chapter 8: G-Rank Mercenary

Brian Carter was now strolling leisurely on the road outside the magical beast forest. From Ethan Harris’s memories, he knew this road led to the nearest small town, but at his current pace, it would take three days to get there. Brian Carter was in a great mood, mainly because of the little cat on his shoulder—he really was reluctant to part with the companion that had been with him for a whole year.