The third round had begun. This time, there were a total of 8 humanoids that had appeared: 4 of them carrying swords, 2 of them spears, and the other 2 unarmed just like before.
"Damn it, looks like I have to start using mana spells."
The moment all 8 of them appeared, they started running towards me. Taking 2 arrows, I placed them on the bow and applied two spells to it, {haste} and {penetration}. After that, I fired both the arrows. The first one traveled so fast that it pierced both the unarmed humanoids in a blink, while the second arrow traveled to the armed swordsmen, where the first one got pierced, and the second swordsman lost an arm.
Just as I finished firing the arrows, one of the spear holders threw a spear at me. Dodging it, I was greeted with the sight of a humanoid waving another spear at me. Dodging it, I put a bit of distance between me and them. At the same time, I took out a small throwing knife from my pocket, imbued a bit of mana into it, and threw it at the now armless humanoid, who directly lost its life.
Now I was surrounded by 2 swordsmen and 2 spear-wielding humanoids who had started to surround me. And before they could do anything, I blasted a smoke bomb in my place, covering everything with smoke.
As I was covered with smoke, I activated my eyes of truth. As my eyes were covered with gold and black, I could see the small green and red dots on the 4 humanoids surrounding me. This was something that I had found out recently. Not only can I use the eyes of truth to see sensitive spots, but also their weaknesses. As soon as I activated it, I took out an arrow and fired it at a spear-holding humanoid, who died directly. Meanwhile, I got hurt by one of the swordsmen who just slashed at random.
"Bastard!"
Directly taking out 3 arrows, I added {haste} and {blast} to them, which directly blasted the other 3 humans.
The spectators watched as the smoke subsided, showing a mildly hurt Austin.
"Austin!"
"Big brother!"
Hearing my sisters call, I looked towards them and saw their worrying faces. But I just gave them a reassuring smile, while I hid my nervousness inside. And like that, the next 5 minutes passed quickly.
As the bell rang for the 4th round, this time, 12 figures appeared: 4 swordsmen, 4 spearmen, 2 unarmed, and 2 bowmen.
"Damn it, the long-range was my specialty. Looks like it's compromised."
"Looks like it's time to get serious."
Thinking so, I took out an arrow. I then gathered most of my mana into it. Looking, I could see the bowmen arranging their arrows and the rest running towards me.
"Take this, you bastards!"
"{Arrows fall}!"
Saying so, I fired the arrow with all my mana. The arrow flew out of the bow, at the same time it was divided into thousands of arrows, raining upon them. Within minutes, all of them were killed. After that, I sat on the floor.
"Ha...ha...ha...wow, it really is a crazy move!"
Most of my mana and strength were taken away with that move, but it's not much of a problem. Smiling, I brought a container from the system and it was quickly delivered to my hands:
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Item: The Rejuvenation
Description: A potion made by the potion master Markas
Uses: By ingesting it, all your mana and injuries will be healed
Cost: 3000
]
This is one of the reasons for my confidence. As long as I fire the spell continuously like this and drink this portion, I might pass this trial.
Without any delay, I quickly drank it. Suddenly, I felt all the stress and pain leave me, and my lost mana filling me up. After that, I sat up in meditation to regain my focus, and like that, 5 minutes went just like that.
Just as the bell rang, figures started to appear, and this time, there were 20 figures: 4 swordsmen, 4 spearmen, 4 bowmen, 4 unarmed, and 4 mages.
"The hell? Did I miss a level or what?"
While I was in my world, all 20 heads turned towards me. Their eyes, which were their only distinguishing feature, were shining as they looked at me. Seeing their eyes, I got goosebumps on my body. Just as I was planning to continue my same tactics, the 4 mages raised their hands and started chanting. Just as I was about to disrupt them, several arrows fell from the sky.
"Shit!"
Seeing that there was no way to dodge, I quickly created a barrier and hardened my body. Several of the spells fell on the barrier, while the rest scratched my body. Just as the spells finished, arrows, swords, and spears greeted me, and I could hear my sisters shouting.
"Fuck! So you wanna play dirty?"
"System, buy me 5 of the frost, flame, chaos, and void arrows now!"
[Request heard...processing request.]
[Ding!]
[Items brought, 100,000 points withdrawn.]
Hearing this, my heart bled. So many points are gone just like that. As I was inwardly crying, different arrows started to show up in my quiver.
Without hesitation, I pulled the frost arrow:
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Item: Frost Arrow
Description: An arrow made by the great blacksmith Loki
Uses: It's an AOE-based arrow, which once fired, blocks your enemies in ice for 10 seconds
Cost: 5000
]
Distancing myself from the attacks, I drew two frost arrows, added {multiply} to them, and fired. The 2 arrows were quickly divided into 6 arrows landing in different areas. In a second, the battlefield became a frozen land in which all of them were frozen.
Wasting no time, I quickly brought in my remaining mana, brought out a normal arrow, and quickly fired {arrows fall}, instantly breaking the ice and killing all the enemies. After that, I sat on the floor. Currently, I have some broken ribs and am bleeding from several areas. I can still hear my sisters shouting.
"Fuck! So you wanna play dirty?"
"System, buy me 5 of the frost, flame, chaos, and void arrows now!"
[Request heard...processing request.]
[Ding!]
[Items brought, 100,000 points withdrawn.]
Hearing this, my heart bled. So many points are gone just like that. As I was inwardly crying, different arrows started to show up in my quiver.
Without hesitation, I pulled the frost arrow:
[
Item: Frost Arrow
Description: An arrow made by the great blacksmith Loki
Uses: It's an AOE based arrow, which once fired, blocks your enemies in ice for 10 seconds
Cost: 5000
]
Distancing myself from the attacks, I drew two frost arrows, added {multiply} to them, and fired. The 2 arrows were quickly divided into 6 arrows landing in different areas. In a second, the battlefield became a frozen land in which all of them were frozen.
Wasting no time, I quickly brought in my remaining mana, brought out a normal arrow, and quickly fired {arrows fall}, instantly breaking the ice and killing all the enemies. After that, I sat on the floor. Currently, I have some broken ribs and am bleeding from several areas. I can still hear my sisters shouting.
Just as the next 5 minutes passed, 30 new humanoids started to appear. Even though I drank the potion, my body still felt sluggish. Even though I don't feel pain, my body still reacts like a normal hurt body.
Seeing the new lineup, I can see all the other humanoids and even newly added assassins with daggers. Within the new group, there were even shield wielders too!
"Now I can understand why I only had a 0.0001% success rate. The 6th round itself is very hard, how will the others be? No, how many rounds are there?"
This time I didn't want to take any risk. I quickly pulled out a flame, void, and chaos arrow and placed them in the bow.
[
Item: Flame Arrow
Description: An arrow made by the great blacksmith Loki
Uses: It's an AOE-based arrow, which, once fired, covers the whole area with undying flames
Cost: 5000
]
[
Item: Void Arrow
Description: An arrow made by the great blacksmith Loki
Uses: It's an AOE-based arrow, which completely defies defense and wipes the enemy off the map
Cost: 5000
]
[
Item: Chaos Arrow
Description: An arrow made by the great blacksmith Loki
Uses: It's an AOE-based arrow, which creates chaos. Once fired, all the enemies will be confused and might attack their allies
Cost: 5000
]
Just when I was about to fire at them, I felt some danger from my back. The senses that I developed from battling several beasts came in handy. I directly ducked and rolled. Just as I stood up, several dagger-wielding humanoids appeared. I quickly raised the bow to defend myself and blocked some of the attacks, but at the same time, the void and chaos arrow broke!
I quickly blasted some smoke bombs to cover myself. I quickly activated the band on my hand, causing me to completely disappear. Within the smoke, at the same time, I heard screams from my sisters.
I quickly left the smoke to see several of the humanoids attacking the barrier. Swords, spears, and several spells were being forced into the barrier.
"Oh, it's no problem. The barrier can take hits from origin level 10 warriors."
Just as I was relaxing my body, I saw some cracks appearing on the barrier.
"How the hell? Didn't Eleanor say that it could hold on for at least 2 hours? Why the hell is it breaking?"
"Wait a minute, could it be?"
"System, is everything within this area suppressed to origin level 3?"
[Affirmative]
Hearing it, I was almost tempted to curse the ancestors of complete past generations. So without any delay, I quickly took up some distance from the battlefield and removed the effects on the band.
Quickly, the rest took note of me appearing somewhere else and moved towards me. So I quickly took another chaos, void, and fire arrow and fired them while multiplying them.
The chaos arrow hit the mages and the swordsmen, causing them to quickly turn against each other, while the flame arrow created a wall of flames among the archers. The void arrow quickly took out some of the shield-carrying humanoids.
I couldn't use {arrows fall} as I might hit the barrier and affect my sister. In a way, right now, it's affecting part of my power. Quickly, I took out my normal arrows, added {haste}, {penetrate}, and {target} to them, and fired quickly along with {multiply}.
A huge chunk of my mana was taken away, and my tired body was catching up to me. Just as I was taking my breath, several daggers arrived at my location. Seeing that I could not dodge them, I quickly moved my body to avoid the fatal points.
A few daggers lunged onto my arms, thigh, and shoulders. Quickly, I activated a spell, {discharge}. And before these humanoids could react, several stone spikes appeared from the ground, impaling those close to me.
While at the time Austin was attacked with several daggers, Grace almost fainted from it.
Just as I killed all of them, I forced myself to take an arrow and fired it directly at the remaining 3 humanoids, killing them.
"Hah...finally, it's over."
Just as I was going to rest, a dagger quickly appeared and moved towards my chest. As I was too tired and couldn't move, I was unable to dodge it. I could only helplessly watch as the dagger plunged into my heart, scaring all those who were watching.
Just as the dagger was about to move closer to my heart, some runes quickly activated on my body, causing intense light, and forcing me to close my eyes. After a few minutes, I opened them and saw a tall woman with black hair standing in front of me.
"Master?"
Before I could ask, I saw the humanoid in front of me explode and die. Then she turned to me, and I quickly moved to talk to her. But one looks into her eyes, and I shut up.
I could see it in her now cold eyes, rage, an extremely highly burning rage. Just as she was about to talk to me, space wrapped around her, causing her to be thrown out.
In the viewing room, everyone was holding their breath as they saw a dagger being plunged into Austin's heart. Grace almost had her heart leap out of her chest.
It was at this heart-wrenching moment that a twist happened: a bright light appeared around Austin. And when it resided, a woman was standing in front of him. She had black hair and a veil on her face. She was holding the face of the humanoid, which exploded shortly after.
Just as she turned towards Austin, she was suddenly wrapped and disappeared. Moments later, she appeared in the viewing room. The people in the room tensed up, but before they could move, Grace did.
"Stop, she's the Bow Empress, not an enemy."
Hearing what Grace said, all of them calmed themselves down and started looking Eleanor up and down with interest. Even Olivia was interested.
As a rare female imperial, Eleanor was indeed the goal of several young aspiring girls, not to forget that Eleanor herself created the path for the bow users.
As everyone was looking at Eleanor, the said person was looking at the screen. To be more precise, the image of Austin, currently bleeding. Seeing it, the hidden bloodlust in her almost started to spread, causing everyone in the room to stiffen up.
"That's enough, Bow Empress. You're not the only imperial here."
Bruce interfered to stop Eleanor from rampaging anymore. The bloodlust went away as quickly as it came. There was silence for a minute before she spoke.
"What happened?"
Two words were said, but each word was cold without any emotions. At this time, Grace took up her confidence and came forward to explain the situation.
The more Grace spoke, the more she felt that the anger in Eleanor was increasing. When the story was finished, Eleanor was in the room, taking deep breaths to control herself.
"You people let this happen?"
The moment Eleanor spoke, she released her power, causing many people to step back.
"That's enough."
Bruce shouted and released his power to counter Eleanor's.
"Continue this, and you shall be making an enemy of the Ezraeil empire."
Right now, a tense situation was taking place, but a fight did not take place. Instead, Eleanor reeled in her power and switched her focus onto the screen.
As of right now, the 7th round has begun, and Austin does not seem to be ready.
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