Chapter 92: Bird Chase (1/2)

After a while of dashing over the buildings of the slums, Lex found a nice flat roof with not many people nearby.

”This place is fine, now to open my rewards” he mumbled excitedly.

Just as he was about to sit down and open his rewards he heard a sudden notification that stopped him before he could open his rewards.

{Ding, Mission Issued: Catch the red delivery bird that is headed towards the inner country and kill it and take the letter it was delivering before it reached the border - Reward - The C-Rank Eye Power Draw will be elevated to a B-Rank Eye Power Draw.

Consequences - The host will gain the unwanted attention of powerful elders within the Voltiac Guild} the system announced.

Being the first mission Lex had been given that had a consequence, he realised just how serious it was and knew he had no time to waste and needed to chase after the bird.

But he had no idea where it was.

Suddenly he felt his vision forcefully turn in the direction of the inner city and in the distance he could see a small red bird rapidly flying away.

His eyes seemed to be locked on to and targeted at the small red bird and seeing the distance between them, Lex knew he had no time to waste as he burst off his feet, off the building he was on.

Jumping from building to building, using his strong legs and reinforcing them with energy, Lex was dashing from building to building at rapid speeds as he felt the exhilarating rush of his face crashing against the wind without a care in the world.

However, the nice moment was short-lived remembering his mission and how serious it was as he withdrew a black longbow from his inventory and a quiver filled with arrows that he latched onto his back.

Perceptive Eye

With his vision already targetted on the bird that seemed to be due to the mission, Lex activated the Perceptive Eye that caused his eye to form a target with a red centre.

As his eye transformed, Lex felt as though his mind was working faster as he planned his route over the buildings within his more perceptive state.

Lex was slowly gaining on the red bird, but was anxious that he would begin to tire out before the bird and decided that he would take it down as soon as possible before he became fatigued.

Now within a distance of 5 miles, he knew that the distance was still too far for him to get an accurate shot on the small red bird.

Streaming more energy into his legs for explosive power, Lex began to skip over buildings as he burnt larger amounts of energy to increase his speed.

After a few minutes of catching up to the bird, he finally entered the 1-mile radius range around the bird.

”It's now or never” roared Lex as he burst forth and pulled back his bowstring.

Estimating the trajectory of the arrow and factoring in the wind and shooting ahead of where the bird is, Lex released the fully pulled back bowstring.

Lex's shooting form was very basic, but wasn't incorrect, so it would still be mostly accurate but still could be majorly improved as he continued training.

The arrow whistled through the air as it blitzed towards the red bird.

Withdrawing another arrow in preparation and drawing the bowstring, Lex continued to dash towards it.

Just as the arrow was about to pierce the bird, it seemed to sense a disturbance in the air behind it and abruptly turned away.

Instead of completely piercing through the bird, the arrow merely managed to slash past its left wing.

Despite not taking down the bird in one strike, Lex could instantly see its flying speed was lowering and it was beginning to falter, but seemed to be heading to the ground wanting to hide.

Releasing is bowstring once again, Lex's second arrow managed to slash the birds back, that dove down to the ground to hide.

It was still day and people were about and Lex had been led closer towards the centre of the Outer Country, so there was much less poverty and people should also be more powerful.

Returning his bow into the inventory, Lex continued jumping from building to building and jumped down to the area he saw the bird dive down to.

He was receiving weird looks from those around him, but they weren't of disgust, but of curiosity, seeing a hooded figure in white robes dashing over there heads at fast speeds.