Novel Full Chapter 336: Conquering A Realm - 5
Chapter 336: Conquering A Realm – 5
Chapter 336: Conquering A Realm – 5
Elaris suddenly came 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 mend 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 come.
“Whoever fired that arrow is very far!” Leo exclaimed, realizing he couldn’t sense any special movement within his 1800 meters 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 encirclement.
Soon, countless arrows charged with varied elements filled the sky around them—most glowing with greenish wood energy. Each arrow was aimed 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 dome.
Leo and Lily immediately reinforced it, raising an extra layer of vines and packed earth beneath the barrier for additional protection.
The element-coated arrows struck the translucent barrier. Though they pierced straight through it, the elemental 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 element. When it struck the vine and earth layer, flames burst outward, engulfing the dome 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—came crashing down from above at an almost perpendicular angle.
The group was forced to scatter.
The arrow slammed 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 elements.
“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 some 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 same time, 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 same command.
Lily summoned Treant, and then once again proceeded to spirit integrate with Lunaria.
Just like that, the battle began.
Whenever a wood-element arrow struck the ground, spikes burst outward violently. Leo noticed that some 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-element arrow struck the ground, the soil turned into a swamp with a diameter of 2 to 3 meters.
There were no earth-element arrows. As for the wind ones—they were nearly impossible to detect. Silent and perfectly aimed to pierce through someone, they shot past bodies at blinding speed without even a whistle.
The only truly unique element was fire. Only one appeared at a time, 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-element arrow—managed to push Leo, Lily and others far enough away that the sisters nearly broke free.
Just before they could succeed, Treant came charging back from the distance, another elf trapped tightly in its massive arms. The creature returned just in time to help secure the previous sisters again.
They continued dodging arrows until the barrage gradually thinned.
It became 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 element 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 seemed 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…