The source of the chill was a bone-white wolf fang with a cold touch, placed together with the rhombus-shaped crystal gifted to Xia Nan by Mage Vior. Judging solely by its appearance, the wolf fang seemed nothing special.
In reality, it truly had no noteworthy enchantment effects.
Ever since Xia Nan obtained it, it had remained quietly in the waist pouch he kept close to his body.
Its presence was so faint that sometimes Xia Nan even forgot he was carrying such a thing.
Even so, whenever he became aware of the wolf fang while taking a Healing Potion from his pouch or sorting through his equipment after completing a mission,
he had never once thought of throwing it away from his precious spatial waist pouch.
Because, in a certain sense, this wolf fang could even be said to be the most valuable thing on him apart from [Dreamweaver Corridor] and [Proof of Unweariedness]. The wolf fang itself might not be worth much.
What truly held value was what the wolf fang represented:
a favor from a powerful Transcendent existence who was advancing toward "Legendary."
The wolf fang came from the Barbarian Fugan.
Xia Nan remembered that over a year ago, when he was still struggling on the outskirts of Thin Mist Forest beside River Valley Town as a low-level adventurer,
an unexpected experience during a mission had allowed him to meet Hain, a Half-Elf noble from Newm City.
Through Hain's connections, he met Fugan, a Transcendent-level Barbarian who had passed through River Valley Town while tracking an enemy.
Through the Half-Elf's channels, Fugan agreed to teach Xia Nan a battle technique suited to his fighting style—namely, Tooth Hunt. Perhaps because Xia Nan had always been unusually lucky in this regard, Fugan should have been misled by his enemy along