Chapter 336: Conquering A Realm - 5
Elaris suddenly ca to her senses after hearing her sister groan.
"W-wait! Don’t hurt her! I will answer all your questions!"
"No, Elaris—Argh... Don’t do it," Elirin tried to stop her, the pain cracking her voice.
Lily loosened the vines’ hold around Elirin’s body and turned toward Elaris.
"Now, answer the question. Was it you people who built the small-scale villages around this place?"
Elaris nodded rapidly.
"Yes! It was us."
"Good. See? It wasn’t that hard," Lily said calmly as she placed her hand over Elirin’s body and used a healing skill to nd whatever damage she had received.
"Now, for the next question. Where are the other—!"
Lily suddenly stopped and ducked to the side as an arrow whistled past her shoulder and landed beside her feet with a sharp thud.
The group was alerted in an instant and looked toward the direction from which the arrow had co.
"Whoever fired that arrow is very far!" Leo exclaid, realizing he couldn’t sense any special movent within his 1800 ters range.
Kaelion studied the arrow’s trajectory.
"Accurate and talented. Whoever it was—shot the arrow into the air. It almost hit the mark if not for a moving target."
But their discussion halted when Leo suddenly felt many presences fill his senses from all around in a tightening encirclent.
Soon, countless arrows charged with varied elents filled the sky around them—most glowing with greenish wood energy. Each arrow was aid with incredible precision, every one targeting one of the four, and not a single shot was in the way of the two sisters.
Among them, Leo spotted two arrows that were unusually strong. One of them was coming at a very steep angle, almost as if fired from an even greater distance.
Kaelion didn’t hesitate. He pulled Miho close as Grivak materialised, forming a translucent magic barrier around everyone in a protective do.
Leo and Lily imdiately reinforced it, raising an extra layer of vines and packed earth beneath the barrier for additional protection.
The elent-coated arrows struck the translucent barrier. Though they pierced straight through it, the elental coating vanished upon contact, leaving them to hit the vine and earth layer like ordinary arrows stripped of their power.
But then—
Thwooossss!
One of the stronger arrows, blazing with fire, tore through Grivak’s barrier without losing its elent. When it struck the vine and earth layer, flas burst outward, engulfing the do in a wave of heat as the arrow pierced through again and shot straight toward Lily.
Leo moved instantly and slashed the arrow mid-flight with his dagger, splitting it in two. Lily reacted just as quickly, forming a blob of water around the collapsing barrier and smothering the fire.
But the final arrow—the other powerful one—ca crashing down from above at an almost perpendicular angle.
The group was forced to scatter.
The arrow slamd into the ground, and large thorny spikes erupted outward in every direction. Once again, the sisters were not targeted, but the violent surge of spikes forced the group apart.
And just like before, the sky filled with arrows of various elents.
"Damn!" Leo muttered, genuinely impressed by the top-notch coordination.
It wasn’t hard to see the situation—they now had the upper hand. The group was separated, and the captured girls were so distance away. Leo could even see both sisters struggling desperately, trying to free themselves.
Lily noticed it as well and tightened the vines’ hold around them. She even forced their bodies halfway into the ground as the vines dragged them downward.
At the sa ti, Leo secretly commanded Shyra to move in stealth and apprehend whichever elves she could.
Shyra was only a mid-3-star beast and could only handle enemies of equal or lower rank—rarely high 3-star if the enemy cannot detect her unique stealth. Shyra could not even perfectly handle capturing the foul-mouthed elf they already had, since she was a High 3-star being. The other, however, the one answering the questions, was a Low 3-star.
Kaelion summoned Singham and sent both beasts in different directions to search for the hidden elves, while he himself remained beside Miho to protect her.
Leo summoned Nyxa and gave her the sa command.
Lily summoned Treant, and then once again proceeded to spirit integrate with Lunaria.
Just like that, the battle began.
Whenever a wood-elent arrow struck the ground, spikes burst outward violently. Leo noticed that so arrows accidentally lodged into tree trunks, causing the bark to split open as the trunk ruptured from within.
It was very similar to his [Spike Pore skill, which caused internal damage to a target.
Occasionally, when a water-elent arrow struck the ground, the soil turned into a swamp with a diater of 2 to 3 ters.
There were no earth-elent arrows. As for the wind ones—they were nearly impossible to detect. Silent and perfectly aid to pierce through soone, they shot past bodies at blinding speed without even a whistle.
The only truly unique elent was fire. Only one appeared at a ti, but each was powerful enough to demand full attention. A single fire arrow could even injure Leo’s Low 4-star body.
And even though they tried their best to stay close to the captured girls, the fire arrows—and the occasional stronger wood-elent arrow—managed to push Leo, Lily and others far enough away that the sisters nearly broke free.
Just before they could succeed, Treant ca charging back from the distance, another elf trapped tightly in its massive arms. The creature returned just in ti to help secure the previous sisters again.
They continued dodging arrows until the barrage gradually thinned.
It beca evident that each beast had found its target.
Kaelion moved beside the treant, whose sole task was to keep the captured elves restrained. He brought Miho with him as she used her wood elent to further secure the prisoners.
Elirin’s foul mouth, however, had not quieted.
"You scumbags! You are even manipulating such noble creatures as guardian treants! Mother won’t forgive you!"
It seed the elves of Aeloria—the wood elves, technically from another world—also had a divine figure like a Mother Elf.
Kaelion simply pretended not to hear and remained alert for any danger.
Strangely, the arrows were not targeting the treant at all.
As if harming it would be blasphemy.
"So easy..." Kaelion muttered under his breath.
Only if we had a few more treants...
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