On the other side.
After Gorn charged out of the tomb corridor in a fury, his perception spread out like a spiderweb, instantly locking onto the location of the steel needles.
They were at a small square tomb not far away.
Grinning savagely, he drew his bowstring to the limit and unleashed a dense rain of energy arrows toward the gap!
The expected scream did not come.
The arrows shattered the rocks, kicking up a cloud of dust, but there was nothing behind them.
Only the fluctuations of the steel needles stubbornly remained in place.
What is going on?
Gorn searched around and finally found the buried steel needles in the dirt.
Just then, an extremely faint sound of rushing wind echoed by his left ear!
Gorn snapped his head around, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks.
An arrow wrapped in a dark gray mist was already close at hand, its tip pointing straight at his eye!
“Bang!!!”
A violent impact rang out!
The arrow struck his protective qi barrier like a heavy hammer!
The immense force threw him backward, sending him tumbling awkwardly to the ground.
He quickly scrambled to his feet and touched his forehead.
His Legendary protective qi had not been breached, but a tiny crack had appeared where he had been hit.
A Transcendent Rank attack? Why were there absolutely no energy fluctuations?
And this violent power... was demon power. The Demon Race?!
Before he could figure it out, another faint whistling sound came from above!
Scared out of his wits, Gorn tilted his head and condensed his protective qi once more!
“Bang!”
The second arrow struck the side of his head with pinpoint accuracy, knocking him over again!
The crack in his protective qi widened slightly!
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
From all directions, the sound of breaking wind suddenly grew dense!
Arrow after arrow seemed to materialize out of thin air, pouring down relentlessly on his vital points from all sorts of tricky angles!
His eyes, throat, heart, and joints!
Gorn could only dodge, block, or endure the blows with his protective qi, relying entirely on his instincts.
In just ten seconds, more than forty arrows bombarded his body!
Yet he could not even sense where these attacks were coming from.
“Ahhh!!! Get out here!!”
Humiliation and rage made him roar. He slammed his longbow onto the ground, and his Legendary energy erupted with a bang!
“Boom!”
The ground cracked, sending shattered rocks flying, and the shockwave generated by his energy temporarily blocked the invisible arrows.
Taking advantage of this gap, Gorn quickly drew his bow.
He shot three Legendary energy arrows at the surrounding ground!
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
The explosions kicked up a massive cloud of dust, enveloping an area of dozens of meters.
He stared intently into the dust.
A gentle breeze blew past, and the dust cleared... but there was still no one there.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimmer of light to his rear flank.
His Legendary speed erupted instantly, and he dodged to the side!
However, that strange breeze caught up to him at an illogical speed!
Horrified, Gorn twisted his body, preparing to brace himself.
“Whoosh—pfft!”
The long-prepared arrow seized the opening, striking the crack in his forehead's protective qi once again!
Crack—!
The cracks in his protective qi spread like a spiderweb!
Gorn's face paled.
An archer's physical defense was already weak; if his protective qi shattered, even Transcendent Rank arrows would be enough to kill him!
“You cowards who hide in the shadows! Show yourselves! Fight me face-to-face!!” he roared.
He spat out a stream of filthy curses, hoping to force his opponent to show themselves.
But the only response to his curses was an even more violent storm of arrows!
Arrow after arrow, as if possessed of their own life, flew frantically toward all his vital areas where his protective qi was weak or cracked!
The continuous barrage forced him backward step by step, his protective qi fluctuating violently as the sound of shattering echoed incessantly!
Gritting his teeth, Gorn unleashed his energy once more, shattering the tide of incoming attacks.
I have to create a wider area-of-effect attack to force this ghostly enemy to reveal themselves!
He drew his bow toward the sky and unleashed his widest-range attack.
“Arrow Storm!!”
A sharp, bright light shot high into the air, and then tens of thousands of arrows rained down, causing continuous rumbles where they landed.
Finally, in a corner, Gorn noticed an anomaly—the arrows falling in that direction were being deflected away.
Gorn grinned savagely.
“Got you! You little hiding rat! I swear that once I catch you, I will tear you into ten thousand pieces! Let's see how you play tricks then!!”
Gathering his energy, Gorn laughed wildly as he shot his most powerful attack.
Following a sharp roar, a white light plowed a hundred-meter trench, piercing through square tomb after square tomb.
“Is that so? I hope you can personally demonstrate with your own body how you'll do that.”
A flat, cold voice suddenly rang in his ear!
The savage grin on Gorn's face froze instantly, turning into sheer horror!
“Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!”
A series of even stronger and faster arrows materialized out of thin air, enveloping his entire body!
This time, as if guided by a single will, the arrows struck precisely and continuously at the densest cracks on his head and his right arm joint holding the bow!
One shot! Ten shots!! One hundred shots!!!
The terrifying impact blasted him off his feet!
Crack—!!!
His protective qi barrier shattered completely like glass!
Cold fear gripped his heart! Even now, he still hadn't seen his opponent!
If his opponent were Legendary, he would have died countless times already!
Flee! I must flee immediately!!
Gorn had no more will to fight. Using the momentum of being blown away, he pushed his Legendary speed to the absolute limit, turning into a beam of light as he fled desperately toward the tomb corridor!
However, before he could even cover fifty meters, an arrow wrapped in a dark aura that seemed to swallow light quietly materialized in the empty air ahead, its tip pointing straight at the center of his forehead.
A silver figure actually materialized like a ghost!
A crimson glint flashed in her blood-red eyes, and the Azure Echo longbow in her hands was already drawn to the limit.
The arrow, wrapped in demon power, condensed a terrifying Transcendent energy, and was less than half a meter away from his face!!!
He could even clearly see the savage expression of hatred and determination on the elf's face, and feel the icy killing intent radiating from the arrow's tip!
“Go to hell.”
The elf's cold voice sounded like the final judgment.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!”
This time, the attacks were no longer invisible!
Theia went all out. Emerald arrows fired in rapid succession like a machine gun, violently bombarding Gorn's vital points from point-blank range!
The continuous barrage of arrows sent Gorn—who had just hit the ground with his protective qi shattered—flying backward like a ragdoll, blood continuously blossoming in the air!
“Arghhh—!”
A shrill scream rang out.
Enduring the intense pain and fear, Gorn's instincts as a Legendary archer drove him to try and draw his bow to counterattack.
Just one hit! Just one hit is enough to kill her!
Just as the bowstring was pulled to the limit...
the elf in front of him vanished without a trace!
No magic chant, no energy fluctuations—she simply disappeared out of thin air!
His attack completely missed.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Four arrows, as if they had been waiting for a long time, shot out from his blind spot—they materialized from his rear flank and pierced with absolute precision into his right shoulder, which he had just used to exert force and which was still suffering from an unhealed wound!
“Ah!!!”
Gorn let out a painful howl. The wound was completely torn open, and his right arm holding the bow instantly lost all sensation.
The mortal threat drove him into madness!
“Come out! Get out here!!”
He stopped aiming and began shooting wildly in all directions.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!”
Thousands of arrows containing terrifying energy poured down like a torrential rain, completely plowing the surrounding ground into ruins. Several small square tombs collapsed and shattered amidst the rumbles.
While shooting frantically, Gorn stumbled backward toward the massive square tomb.
In his heart, he prayed desperately for his teammates—whom he usually looked down upon—to show up.
The wound on his shoulder kept tearing and expanding due to the continuous shooting, and blood dyed most of his body red.
The massive consumption of arrows caused his energy to drain rapidly.
However, no matter how Gorn attempted a blanket attack, he was ultimately not a Legendary mage and could not achieve complete coverage.
Arrows kept flying from the surrounding void, continuously piercing his flesh.
Finally, Gorn's hands were shattered, and his bow slipped from his grasp.
He stared despairingly at the magic glowstones on the ceiling, his body riddled with arrows infused with ominous demon power.
He collapsed heavily to the ground, blood spurting out.
He thought he would die just like this, slain by a ghostly, nonexistent enemy.
Yet after waiting for a moment, Gorn did not receive the fatal arrow he expected.
The familiar sound of iron boots stepping 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 leapt with wild joy!
“John!! What took you so long?! Find that damn hiding rat for me right now!!”
“Locas!! Quick, use your magic perception! Lock onto their location!”
“I want to tear them into ten thousand pieces!!”
However, Gorn's furious roar received no response.
Gorn looked at John in confusion.
Only to see that this Legendary knight no longer possessed even a shred of life.
His eyes were dull, his pupils dilated; he had been dead for a long time.
And the members of the knight order behind him were all the same.
It was necromancy... Gorn felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
“Oh my, it seems I accidentally stole my kin's prey.”
Behind John, a cloaked man stepped forward.
When he saw the man's crimson eyes and the curved horns atop his head, Gorn's face filled with despair.
The Demon Race.
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