On the other side.
Gorn charged out of the tomb tunnel, his heart brimming with fury.
His perception spread out like a spiderweb, instantly locking onto the position of his steel needle.
It was located by a small trapezoidal tomb not far away.
With a sinister grin, he drew his bowstring to its limit, and a dense volley of energy arrows blasted toward the gap!
The expected screams did not occur.
The arrows shattered the rock, sending dust flying, but there was nothing behind it.
Only the fluctuation of the steel needle remained stubbornly in place.
What was going on?
Gorn searched the area and finally discovered the steel needle buried in the dirt.
At that moment, an extremely faint sound of wind reached his left ear!
Gorn turned his head sharply, his pupils shrinking.
An arrow wreathed in dark gray energy was already inches away, its tip pointed straight at his eye!!
“BOOM!!!”
A violent impact exploded!
The arrow was like a heavy sledgehammer, smashing ruthlessly against his protective qi!
The massive force sent him reeling backward, causing him to tumble onto the ground in a pathetic display.
He scrambled to his feet and touched his forehead.
His Legendary protective qi hadn’t been breached, but a tiny crack had appeared at the point of impact.
A Transcendent Rank attack? Why were there no mana fluctuations at all?
Moreover, this violent power... it was demon power. Was it a member of the Demon Race??
Before he could wrap his head around it, another faint whistle came from above!
Gorn’s soul practically left his body as he tilted his head and condensed his protective qi again!
“BOOM!”
The second arrow struck the side of his head with precision, flipping him over once more!
The crack in his protective qi widened slightly!
“Swoosh!” “Swoosh!” “Swoosh!” “Swoosh!”
Suddenly, the sound of breaking wind became dense from every direction!
Arrows seemed to manifest out of the void,
Pouring down on his vital points from every conceivable angle!
Eyes, throat, heart, joints!
Gorn could only dodge, parry, or tank the hits with his protective qi, relying on raw instinct.
In just ten seconds, over forty arrows slammed into his body!
And he couldn't even sense where these attacks were coming from.
“Aaaagh!!! Get out here!!”
Humiliation and rage forced a roar from him. He slammed his longbow into the ground, and his Legendary battle force erupted!
“BOOM!”
The ground cracked and rubble shot outward. The shockwave generated by the battle force temporarily blocked the invisible arrows.
Taking this gap, Gorn rapidly drew his bow.
Three Legendary energy arrows shot into the surrounding ground!
“BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!”
The explosions kicked up clouds of dust, covering a range of dozens of meters.
He stared intently at the smoke.
A slight breeze blew through, clearing the dust... but there was still no one.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a flicker of light from his flank.
His Legendary speed erupted instantly as he lunged to the side!
However, that strange breeze actually chased him with an illogical speed!
Gorn was terrified, twisting his body to brace for the impact.
“Swoosh—Thwack!”
The arrow, which had been gathering momentum for some time, seized the opening and struck the crack on his forehead's protective qi again!
“CRACK—!”
The cracks in his protective qi spread like a spiderweb!
Gorn’s expression changed drastically.
An archer’s physical defense was naturally weak;
If the protective qi broke, a Transcendent arrow would be enough to kill him!
“You cowards hiding in the shadows! Come out! Fight me face to face!!” he roared.
He continued to curse with every foul word imaginable, hoping to draw the opponent out.
What responded to his cursing was an even more violent storm of arrows!
Each arrow seemed to have a life of its own, frantically targeting every weak point or existing crack in his protective qi!
The continuous bombardment forced him back step after step. His protective qi fluctuated violently, and the sound of shattering was constant!
Gorn gritted his teeth, releasing his battle force again to shatter the tide-like assault.
He had to create a larger area of attack to make this ghost-like enemy show themselves!
He drew his bow toward the sky and unleashed his widest-range attack.
“Arrow Storm!!”
A sharp brilliance shot high into the air,
Following which, tens of thousands of arrows rained down, causing the impact points to roar incessantly.
Finally, in one corner, Gorn noticed an anomaly—
The falling arrows there were being batted away.
Gorn broke into a sinister grin.
“Got you! You little hiding rat! I swear that once I catch you, I will tear you into a thousand pieces! Let’s see how you play ghost then!!”
His battle force condensed, and Gorn laughed as he fired his most powerful attack.
After a sharp roar, a white light plowed a hundred-meter trench, piercing through trapezoidal tombs one after another.
“Is that so? I hope you can personally demonstrate with your own body how you intend to do that.”
A flat, cold voice suddenly sounded beside his ear!
The sinister grin on Gorn’s face instantly stiffened, transforming into sheer horror!
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!”
A series of arrows, stronger and faster than before, appeared out of nowhere to cover his entire body!
This time, the arrows seemed to possess a collective will, slamming with precision and continuity into the densest cracks on his head and his right arm joint holding the bow!
One hit! Ten hits!! One hundred hits!!!
The terrifying impact blasted him off his feet!
“SHATTER—!!!”
His protective qi completely collapsed like glass!
Icy fear gripped his heart! Even at this moment, he still hadn't seen his opponent!
If the other party were Legendary, he would have died countless times over by now!
Run! He had to run immediately!!
Gorn lost all will to fight. Using the force of the blast, he pushed his Legendary speed to the limit, transforming into a streak of light as he fled desperately toward the tomb tunnel!
However, before he had even covered fifty meters,
An arrow wreathed in a gloomy aura that seemed to devour light quietly emerged in the empty air ahead, its tip pointed straight at his brow.
A silver figure manifested like a phantom!
A scarlet flash glinted in her blood-red eyes, and the Azure Echo longbow in her hands was already drawn to its limit.
The arrow, wreathed in demon energy, condensed terrifying Transcendent battle force. It was less than half a meter from his face!!!
He could even see the distorted expression on the elf’s face, a mix of hatred and determination,
And he could feel the icy murderous intent radiating from the arrow tip!
“Go to hell.”
The elf’s cold voice sounded like the final judgment.
“Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh—!!!”
This time, the attacks were no longer invisible!
Theia went all out. Emerald arrows fired like a machine gun, frantically hammering Gorn’s vital points from point-blank range!
The continuous arrows sent Gorn—who had just landed and whose protective qi was shattered—flying backward like a ragdoll, with blood blossoms constantly blooming in the air!
“Aaaagh—!”
A shrill scream rang out.
Gorn forced himself through the agonizing pain and fear. His battle instincts as a Legendary archer drove him to try and draw his bow for a counterattack.
Just one shot! Just one shot would be enough to kill her!
The moment the bowstring was pulled tight...
The elf before his eyes vanished without a trace!
There was no magic chant, no mana fluctuation—she just disappeared into thin air!
The strike missed completely.
“Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Four arrows shot out from his blind spot—the flank—as if they had been waiting there for a long time. With incomparable precision, they instantly pierced into his right shoulder, which had just exerted force and was still burdened by old injuries!
“AAAAAH!!!”
Gorn let out a pained howl. The wound was completely torn open, and his right arm holding the bow instantly lost all sensation.
The threat to his life drove him into a frenzy!
“Come out! Come out and face me!!”
He stopped aiming and began firing wildly in all directions.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!”
Thousands of arrows containing terrifying battle force poured down like a torrential rain,
Completely plowing the surrounding ground into ruins. Several small trapezoidal tombs collapsed and shattered amidst the roaring.
Gorn stumbled back toward the large trapezoidal tomb while firing frantically.
He prayed desperately in his heart for the teammates he usually looked down upon to appear.
The wound on his shoulder continued to tear and expand due to the constant firing, and blood soaked more than half of his body.
The massive expenditure of arrows caused his strength to drain rapidly.
However, no matter how much Gorn fired in a full-coverage pattern,
He was, in the end, not a Legendary mage; he could not achieve total coverage.
Arrows constantly shot from the void around him, piercing into his flesh.
Finally, Gorn’s hands were shattered, and his bow slipped from his grasp.
He stared desolately at the magic glowstones on the ceiling, his body riddled with arrows carrying an ominous demon energy.
He collapsed heavily to the ground, blood gushing.
He thought he would die then and there, slain by an enemy who existed like a phantom.
However, after waiting for a moment,
Gorn did not receive the expected fatal arrow.
The familiar sound of iron boots treading on the ground rang out. Gorn clutched his severed arm and struggled to look up.
When he saw that familiar Stellar-tier Armor, his heart was filled with absolute joy!
“John!! Why the hell are you only getting here now!! Quick, find that hiding rat for me!!”
“Locas!! Use your magic perception! Lock onto their location!”
“I’m going to tear them into a thousand pieces!!”
However, Gorn’s furious roar received no response.
Gorn looked at John in confusion.
He saw that this Legendary knight no longer possessed even a hint of a living aura.
His eyes were dull, his pupils vacant; he had long since died.
And the members of the knight order behind him were all the same.
Necromancy... Gorn felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
“Oh dear, I accidentally stole my kin's prey.”
A man cloaked in a mantle stepped out from behind John.
When Gorn saw those blood-red eyes and the curved twin horns on his head,
Despair washed over his face.
It was a member of the Demon Race.
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