Chapter 66 ~ Trash Abandoned by the Times
When she had introspected her domain effects, Tilisa had already planned her weapon combination. Elasticity could be set aside—the most important thing was toughness. It could be said that as long as the bow didn’t break, she could remain completely unharmed.
Most poisons needed to enter the bloodstream to take effect. Unable to even pierce the skin surface, the poison lost its meaning. In other words, before Tilisa, the ranger goddess’s divine authority was completely useless.
As for Laro, dealing with him was even simpler. This conceited horse-faced man’s divine authority was also pathetic. It looked unstoppable in close combat, but that required getting close to people to release it. After all, creating illusions couldn’t possibly increase attack range. Tilisa just needed to maintain distance from him.
However, Erin in the distance naturally wouldn’t let Tilisa maintain distance from Laro.
After her divine authority was dodged, Erin also realized that the transformed Tilisa was somewhat difficult to deal with. She gripped her long whip tightly and became serious.
She stared intently at Tilisa, looking for openings in the golden-haired girl’s defenses while she constantly maneuvered against Laro, seeking an opportunity for her divine authority to hit Tilisa.
As long as she could restrain Tilisa, Laro and the ranger behind could easily finish off Tilisa—at least, that’s what Erin thought.
Although she had become somewhat serious, Erin still didn’t consider Tilisa qualified to be their opponent. In her view, Tilisa’s elimination was only a matter of time.
“Yah yah yah!” Laro charged left and right at Tilisa like a crazed rhinoceros. What infuriated him was that this golden-haired girl was incredibly agile, repeatedly slipping past him at close range, like a slippery loach he couldn’t catch.
In his anger, Laro smashed his knuckle guards into the ground, digging up dirt to throw at the constantly dodging Tilisa.
Seeing this, Tilisa leaped lightly, avoiding Laro’s tantrum-like fighting style. She stepped lightly on Laro’s shoulder, her snow-white, delicate jade toes curling and gripping Laro’s shoulder as a leverage point to leap away. In mid-air, she arched her waist backward and drew her great bow.
As her pale, slender fingers pulled the bowstring taut, golden wings extended from both ends of the bow, making the entire longbow look like an angel’s harp.
A light arrow condensed above it, nocked by Tilisa at the bow’s eye.
Whether in her previous life or this one, this was Tilisa’s first time touching archery, yet she didn’t find it strange at all. It was as if archery skills were already inscribed in her instincts, as simple as eating and drinking. Not being proficient would have been the strange thing.
Holding her breath, focusing her mind, finding the optimal force point on the bowstring.
Arms lowered, elbows rotated inward, tiger’s mouth pushing the bow, shoulders drawing the bowstring, bow eye aimed at the target, three fingers released, light arrow flying from the string.
On the ground, Laro, who had just been stepped on the shoulder by Tilisa, lost his balance slightly. Fortunately, Tilisa was light-bodied with little weight, so he quickly recovered. Looking back, he witnessed the light arrow rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.
“Gah!” Laro seemed to want to say something or do something to stop it, but it was too late. Almost simultaneously with his turning around, the light arrow pierced his neck.
However, this wasn’t enough to kill Laro. No matter how low his domain’s divine authority resistance was, it could still function. Plus, Tilisa’s domain was only LV1—one hit to a vital spot wasn’t enough to eliminate Laro.
This was also within Tilisa’s expectations.
If one shot couldn’t finish him, she’d just add a few more.
However, just as she landed and was about to draw her bow, a thorned black vine bound her pristine white wrist.
“Heh.” Seeing her divine authority hit, Erin smirked coldly.
From the beginning, she had been looking for openings in Tilisa’s defenses. Finally, she had caught her opportunity.
Although they knew nothing about Tilisa’s divine authority and domain, no matter how much she jumped around, once her hands were bound, she wouldn’t be able to draw the bowstring, right?
Seeing this, Tilisa didn’t panic. She noticed that Erin was far from her, and Laro hadn’t yet recovered from the previous attack.
To simulate real battlefields, the tokens could resist damage but would feed back pain, meaning Laro was currently enduring the agony of having his neck pierced by divine authority.
She was temporarily safe.
So she decisively chose to drop the bow in her hands. Because the bow was no longer on her person, the pain from the vine’s thorns seeped into her skin.
First Divine Authority [Sacred Annihilation], Blade Forging.
Tilisa’s hand touched the sunlight above, and golden light rays transformed into substance, condensing into a brilliant, dazzling knight’s light sword.
This was the effect of Tilisa’s first divine authority—forging blades with different effects according to different elements touched.
Raising the knight’s light sword, Tilisa decisively and powerfully slashed, cutting the black thorned vine binding her arm in two.
Where did that sword come from?!
Erin was dumbfounded.
Wasn’t this guy a ranger-class goddess who primarily used bows? Since she used bows, where did this light sword come from?!
Could it be that using bows was just a front, and her real divine authority was knight-class blade generation?
This time Erin had guessed correctly, but it was too late. Tilisa hurled the light sword in her hand, stabbing it fiercely into Laro’s abdomen as he had just recovered.
“!” Laro staggered back several steps, his token showing obvious cracks. Clearly, the durability the token assigned him was nearly zero.
Picking up her bow, Tilisa continued her attack. Another precise and vicious arrowhead perfectly hit Laro’s Adam’s apple.
This arrow’s nearly terrifying accuracy and seasoned cunning made Erin and the goddess beside her break out in cold sweat, feeling their necks grow cold.
In life-and-death combat, pursuing precision was unwise and impractical. Even the most seasoned archer would need a brief moment to aim for precise shots, but in that time they could have fired two arrows. If the enemy was also an experienced archer, over-pursuing precision would be the last time he drew his bowstring.
The first time, when Tilisa aimed and instantly fired in mid-air to hit Laro’s neck, Erin could still consider it coincidence. But when the same coincidence happened twice, it was no coincidence at all…
This wild goddess had been hiding her skills that day when fighting her!
Otherwise, even without domain and divine authority, such terrifying archery would have been enough to fight her!
As for the idea that Tilisa had never picked up a bow before this, Erin never even considered it.
What a joke! Just looking at this precision and proficiency, you could tell she was definitely a naturally gifted archer who had been in constant combat with bows for years, with rich experience. Calling her an archery grandmaster wouldn’t be excessive. To say she was encountering bow weapons for the first time today—Erin absolutely wouldn’t believe it!
Since her archery was so good, that day could only have been her hiding her skills.
This scheming bitch… not only had she occupied the moral high ground, but she had humiliated her so thoroughly!
The token materialized, the light arrow embedded in the token. With a crisp sound, the token shattered, and Laro was teleported out of the secret realm.
‘Team 57’s knight-class goddess Laro has been defeated by Team 30’s ranger-class goddess Tilisa.’
The cold incantation announcement echoed through the secret realm. Watching the golden-haired girl who had casually eliminated Laro, equally cold was Erin’s heart…
The sound of wind carrying scattered leaves and fluff, the girl’s gaze as calm as ancient wells fell upon Erin.
Before the golden-haired girl standing proudly upright like a white swan, solitary and proud, Erin felt like trash abandoned by the times.