Choosing to Become an "Anzu Noble" Means...

Choosing to Become an "Anzu Noble"—Isn't Having Terrible Luck Only Natural?

Huen Highmountain was an unlucky fellow.

After living an extravagant and glorious life, he had naturally arrived in Ardenweald as a "Wilder," and thanks to his top-tier hunting skills, he had been invited to join the Wild Hunt, becoming a powerful "Eagle-Eyed Hunter."

Seriously, that name was incredibly cringey.

He had not come alone. His spirit beast companion, the great horned reindeer Eliot, who featured prominently in every legend about Huen, had accompanied the antlered bull here as well.

Just as they had in life, the two spent their eternal existence hunting through this beautiful woodland, eliminating every potential threat to the Winter Queen's domain.

For a powerful hunter who had hunted Greater Demons and driven off the King of Black Dragons, such an afterlife of "eternal hunting" was undoubtedly the perfect ending and final home.

Huen had hunted in Ardenweald for ten thousand years and knew this forest like the back of his hand. As one of the Wild Hunt's higher-ups, he also knew many secrets that ordinary Night Fae did not.

By all rights, Huen Highmountain should have had some sense of confidentiality. Yet while leading Diakum toward the Heart of the Forest, he spilled everything, whether he should have or not. Not only Diakum, but even Willow Wisp, the fairy following them, listened with great enjoyment.

The fairy sat on Diakum's shoulder, cradling her pet Mao Mao as she blinked her large eyes and listened to the Eagle-Eyed Hunter boast about secrets even she did not know.

For example, the Wild Hunt had not turned a blind eye to the increasingly rampant "spirit seed theft cases" of recent years. Lord Herne had specifically dispatched an elite team to investigate in secret, and they had already made