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Fel was once a deity.
To say the least, the Fenrir is a bizarre creature, even within the context of this fantasy world full of all manner of monsters. His body and eyes glow with a supernatural aura, and his power is off-the-scale. He's under the protection of the Goddess of Wind. Fel is no 'legendary beast', but was formerly a God. It's no coincidence he tracked down and found out Mukohda (who hadn't even begun his travels) for his 'Online Supermarket' skill. He was either stripped of his godhood for meddling with mortals lives, or lost his divinity after a battle with an ancient evil.
  • This is why he wants to be Mukohda's familiar. The Online Supermarket is the only thing that can eventually restore him to the God's Realm.

  • Fel didn't track down Mukohda for his online supermarket skill originally. He only wanted the delicious food Mukohda was cooking, and followed Mukohda for his being able to sate him with a comparatively tiny amount of meat. However, he just seems to be an ardent follower of the pantheon's religion. The God of Creation would not have been all that happy if Fel was trying to work his ways back into the pantheon by consorting with the other gods, and if Fel was a fallen God, then he would likely be trying to claim Mukohda's abilities as his own to gainf avour.

Who's minding the store?
I've noticed something both in the anime and in the manga. There's a question no one has asked, yet it's a very important one: Who is running the magical Online Store? It's not the gods of the world Mukoda is currently in, they didn't have a clue about his special skill. It's most likely a Chekhov's Gun that's waiting for the right moment.

So who is running the store? I can only speculate, thus the WMG, but I think it's a higher being that's in charge of all worlds, and figure Mukoda needed a leg up. We'll see.

  • Maybe the store isn't actually a store. It's something like the appraisal screen, instead, and something created wholly from magic. If there was a deity or other measurable power operating it, Mukohda would not be able to just add stores by levelling up. In terms of function, it might be something like a replicator from Star Trek, with the "store" being a simple interface, and the objects being materialised with magic, allowing them to have effects that don't exist in our world.

At least one member of the Royal family of Reijseger survived it's conquering.
And its the princess. She'll be out for revenge on the heroes for their actions in killing the three elite knights, and undeserved blame for the kingdom's fall.

  • The kids had escaped long before the kingdom fell. It's not as though their escape, and revelation that the kingdom was using slaves as troops is anything particularly new. They could have just been killed by a monster, and the effects would be much the same.

Mukohda will become an immortal.
He's already had his life extended to 1500 years, with the blessing of Demiurge. Considering that he's a friend to many of the gods, and regularly offers them and his familiars good food, it's entirely possible that he'll have his life extended again.

By giving him the "Perfect defence" skill, the deities showed that they would not be willing to let Mukohda die, taking their supply of otherworldly goods with him. That may also hold true when he starts getting old.

From "Old Stories from an Older Dragon", we also know that Mukohda has been more or less travelling around, unchanged for at least 400 years, by Gon's last recollection.

Mukohda's own familiars would be unlikely to want to see him succumb to the downsides that come with age, and would likely petition the gods on their own, if they had to.

Mukohda will likely later become the God of Cooking, if there isn't one already.
Okay, so hear me out. Although he isn't exactly a top-tier chef to begin with, as he leans more into cooking normal at-home dishes that are made from extragavant meats instead of ones you'd expect to see at fancy restaurants, the results of Mukohda's cooking is seemingly leagues better than other cooks in the fantasy world can even hope to match, let alone top. This is a point towards that possibility.

Granted, while most of that is due to him cheating with his skill, even then it says something about Mukohda that Agni, Rusalka and Demiurge enjoys the dishes he occasionally sends them as per their requests or by his wishes.

1500 years is also quite a long time for anything to happen to him, during which he could, at any point, enter a state of apotheosis, most likely due to the Gods and Goddesses (and/or his familiars) not wanting to lose their access to other world stuff and his cooking respectively - or alternatively, he could start turning into a God (by sheer accident, lol) through accumulating enough experience over the years, or from having his many achievements later getting warped into the stuff of legends to the extent that countless people are now worshipping him for whatever reason that might seem plausible.

It would end with Mukohda realising that he actually doesn't mind it, since he now can happily spend his time incognito in the fantasy world like he originally planned to, in between hanging out with his familiars and continuing his offerings to the other divine beings out of habit.

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