9

In an open green field, a black-haired boy with red eyes watched a green-haired girl draw a wooden bow and prepare to shoot.

*Swoosh*

The arrow hit a rock floating in the air. It was as big as a fist, and the fact that the arrow hit the stone directly indicated that she was skilled in this area.

"Well done, as expected of you!" - I patted young Atalanta on the head and praised her.

'She just has a crazy talent for archery. It's only been a week since she picked up a bow and already she's getting results like this. It's pretty scary...'

«Mmm-brother-let's-go-hunt!» - Her eyes were full of anticipation and a thirst for adventure, as she was getting bored of just shooting rocks into the air.

"Hmm... well, okay, we'll go straight for the beasts. Give me the bow, I'll enchant it and make it more powerful." - extending my hand to take the bow, I started thinking about teaching her all the magic I know.

«Yes!» - Atalanta was so pleased that she jumped up with a flustered face and quickly handed over the bow.

Enchantment is a more complex type of magic, something like runes. It took me over 3 years to learn it, but I started getting better results just a month ago.

First, you have to understand how the spells work, or in my case, how to seal mana clumps into a figure or a rune, and then picture out exactly how to make it take on the desired appearance when the mana is released. But this bow made of simple materials doesn't need such enchantments, and besides, Atalanta doesn't yet have the ability to control mana to make them work.

'I think a simple strengthening of the physical object and the addition of a magical tip will be enough to effectively pierce the skin of beasts, as wooden arrows are useless against them.'

Picking up the bow, I quickly strengthened it with mana, but unfortunately, the bow itself will break after the strengthening runs out.

While Atalanta watched with a focused gaze, I picked up a quiver of beast skin full of wooden arrows and began to enchant 10 arrows with a magical point that would create a mana point to pierce the beast skin. The trigger for the enchantment would be a flight speed of 1 kilometer/hour.

"Come, we will hunt these boar-like beasts. They will be your first targets. Kill 10 boars with these 10 arrows. If you do that, we'll hunt every day." - Smiling, I waited for her reaction, which did not take long.

She jumped at me with open arms and wanted to hug me, which I did not resist.

«Thank-you!» - Her cheek rubbed against mine as she hugged me tightly.

*Sigh*

"You have to kill the boars first, then rejoice." - I sighed and hugged her too, slowly stroking her back.

"Don't-worry-I-will!" - Still hugging me tightly, she said excitedly, believing that everything would be fine and she would kill them all without much effort.

'Hunting is in her blood. It's best not to restrain her and let her go. We just have to keep an eye on her to keep her out of danger.'

"Okay, that's enough. We need to move faster."

«No!» - practically screaming, her grip only got stronger.

"Stop it or you'll go without dinner." - my tone became harsher and my face sterner. You can't spoil this child too much, or she'll get too sticky and clingy.

In an instant, she let go of me and recoiled with a frightened face, looking at me as if I were a monster.

'So the food is more important than me, huh?' - I thought with a blank face, looking at her.

I guess it's for the best. My target is too dangerous for her, the extra affection will make that target even more of a problem. In the future, I'll have to send her on some kind of journey that will take a long time.

"Never mind, let's go. I'll cook some animal meat for dinner." - Although my cooking skills were not as divine as my wife's, to the people of that era, my food was the food of the gods.

Once I tried cooking animal meat, but it was a bad decision. I just couldn't find the perfect fire that would cook meat in at least an hour. It was either too weak or too strong. I ended up roasting the meat because my nerves started to crack and I cursed all the beasts and cut hundreds of beasts in a frenzy. Another drawback to beast meat is the lack of flavor, as if I were drinking plain store bought water, by the way, the meat I was finally able to roast "well" was the meat of the boar we were going to hunt.

***

"The physical performance is excellent. The archery is also very accurate. Hell...I think I need a teacher to teach her how to use a bow even better. Middle combat can be fixed by sparring with me. I need to teach her how to at least make a fire to improve her chances of survival in the wilderness." - Murmuring aloud, I continued to watch Atalanta kill the boars effortlessly, standing in the trees not far from them and hitting them right in the eye, killing them quickly.

"Good use of the environment and knowledge of weaknesses. Probably an experience from her life in the woods." - I continued to watch and analyze her actions as I stood in one of the trees next to her.

"We need to make her a more powerful bow. I myself need a weapon that can kill gods, or at least wound them. But how to get such a weapon... that's a big problem. Well, a bow can be made from the bodies of beasts, or... kill some mythological monsters, find a blacksmith later, or make a weapon for Atalanta and myself."

"Looks like she's done." - While I mumbled to myself like a sick man, Atalanta jumped to my branch with a waiting bribe.

"You've done well, we'll hunt every day." - My hand began to stroke her head as she closed her eyes and purred.

'Looks like she's going to be very spoiled, and there's no way to stop it... what a wuss.'