Chapter 2023

Xiang Yuan: 【I'm heading toward Su Qin's coordinates, I'll arrive in 4 minutes, I can already see Su Qin's elves and the werewolves】

Su Qin looked up toward the south.

Sure enough, a dense mass of white skeletons appeared in the distance.

Those skeletons seemed to be part of the wall of fog, surging in the distance.

The Skeleton race's stats are very weak, naturally only 15 base stat points.

But the daily new spawn count is 1 times more than ordinary races.

Moreover, there's a population growth method exclusive to the Skeleton race — after all, skeletons can't reproduce, so they have to use other methods.

All things considered.

The skeleton numbers increase very quickly.

They also have no emotions and will charge to their deaths without flinching; losing low tier skeletons doesn't hurt either.

Under certain circumstances, they're extremely useful.

Xiang Yuan's skeletons numbered 4,000, all wearing tattered iron armor, but the weapons in their hands were brand new.

Su Qin breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Su Qin: 【Fu Yi, the enemies have turned to charge at me, you keep advancing, you can just flank the werewolves from behind】

Fu Yi: 【Understood, we'll head over right away, you be careful】

Su Qin closed the system.

At this moment, the 1,500 warriors under Su Qin were still wandering at the edge of the woods.

Su Qin waved her hand:

"Fall back, retreat into the woods!"

"Understood!"

These warriors' mission was to take hits for the elves, but there was no need to lose them for nothing.

The elves' pale, soft arms had reddened, even stiffened somewhat, aching and swelling, urgently needing rest.

But the moment they entered the woods, their arms seemed to hurt much less.

Half of their expended stamina had also recovered somewhat.

The gene effect of Wood Affinity was clearly taking effect at this moment.

"How are your arms? To what extent have they recovered?" Su Qin asked the elven female archer beside her.

"Much better. Using Sky-Piercing Arrows is still not possible, but we can use combat techniques."

"Excellent! Everyone up the trees, prepare volley fire! Melee troops keep retreating!"

"Understood!"

The elves kicked with their long legs, grabbed branches with their arms, and nimbly flipped up into the treetops.

"All units, listen up! Those using Armor-Piercing Bows, activate Rapid Shot. Those using Elven Bows, charge up another Sky-Piercing Arrow!"

"Yes!"

Once the elves entered the woods, it was completely like being on home ground.

Even though branches blocked the way in the woods, they all had the boost of Far Sight — a slight angle adjustment and they could see distant enemies.

Su Qin swallowed a spiritual power potion, rapidly recovering spiritual power.

Li Hua also swallowed a spiritual power potion, quickly channeling spiritual power from her body to Su Qin.

"How is it, Su Qin, enough spiritual power?"

"Hehe, barely enough… Armor-Piercing Bows, ready, draw together!"

The sound of bowstrings echoed through the woods.

"…Shock Arrows plus Rapid Shot, loose!"

Swish Swish Swish!

Over a thousand bowstrings vibrated in unison, the twanging rebound of bowstrings never ceasing.

In an instant, 7,000 arrows flew out, as if the woods had grown hair.

"Sky-Piercing Arrow, last one, charge up!"

Su Qin exhausted her remaining spiritual power, and with 50 elites also drew their longbows, gathering astonishing force once more.

"Loose!"

Outside the woods.

Kitano Rina cursed: "Damn it! How did those female elves run so fast? Did they use wind-type spiritual techniques?"

Iwata Hirota said: "We can't see them anymore, they must have rushed deep into the woods. We can send the Golden Body Warriors and Royal Warriors in first, they'll definitely catch up to them!"

Kitano Rina vetoed: "No. Those melee soldiers just entered the woods too, rushing in recklessly could easily get us surrounded. We still charge in as one. Better to sacrifice some ordinary werewolves now than let our elites get hurt."

"Sigh, once in the woods the visibility is even worse, and it's hard to build up speed! The most troublesome thing is that bow skill of theirs — it's too strong."

"It's fine. A skill at that level must be high tier, they can't use it too many times. They've already used it twice, they probably can't use it again. We just need to charge in and we'll win. At this point, we have to gamble."

"Fine… I'll follow your lead."

Whooooooo!

A sudden gust of wind came from the sky.

The two werewolf lords looked up together.

"Not good, the enemies are volleying! Scatter, dodge!" Kitano Rina frantically ran away.

"How can they still use skills? This elven lord is too strange." Iwata Hirota fled along with her.

The werewolves instantly scattered, fleeing in all directions.

Swish swish swish swish swish!

Seven thousand arrows approached like dark clouds.

The werewolves stared at the sky, raising their wolf claws in vain.

Arrows without light were even harder to block.

The werewolves watched the plummeting feathers from the sky, yet barely managed to stop a few.

Bang Bang Bang!

This time the werewolves didn't go flying.

Instead, they slammed heavily onto the ground.

As if giant hammers had fallen from the sky, pinning them dead into the dirt.

"Holy shit…"

"How is the impact of these arrows so strong?"

"Ptooey ptooey ptooey, my mouth and eyes are full of dirt!"

"Good thing the power is just average."

Iwata climbed up from the ground for the third time.

He had no time to wipe the dirt from his face, immediately checking the losses.

"Not good… another 600 were shot dead."

Kitayama Yashino pulled her legs out of the dirt: "It's fine, most of the dead are civilians, only 100 warriors died."

"Then what do we do now? We can't get close at all."

"What else can we do? At this point we can only hold on. After all, their combat power is twice yours. Damn it, you actually dragged me along to be your cushion…"

"Stop saying that, didn't we agree to live and die together?"

Kitayama Yashino was about to explode with rage: "Live and die together, my ass…"

At this point, Kitayama Yashino suddenly turned her head.

"Look quick, there are several thousand skeletons charging from the south, let's go deal with the skeletons first!"

"Skeletons?"

Iwata Kouta also saw those 4,000 skeleton soldiers charging over.

"Why do you keep changing your mind? First you wanted to go north, then you wanted to fight the elves, and now you want to go fight skeletons."

Kitayama Yashino said angrily: "How is it me changing my mind? Weren't you the one who wanted to fight the elves? But they're so fast we can't catch them at all, and they keep shooting those impact arrows, we just can't charge through! Better to smash those skeletons first, we have to fight them anyway."

"Damn… you always have so many excuses."

"You can give excuses too. What you just said made sense, didn't I agree to chase the elves?"

Excuses?

Iwata Kouta's brows furrowed tightly.