Chapter 51: Ether Bowhand

The soles grind on the cross‑section of the earth block, as if being cut by a knife.

A bowstring snap rings in the ears again.

Buzz~!

Like plucking a string, the intangible notes on the great bow turn into solid arrows.

Swish!

The arrow shoots forward!

Su Ya's pupils contract slightly, he leans forward a bit, presses his palm hard against the rapidly falling earth block, and, cradling Mei Li, springs out, rolling onto the ground.

At that moment his toes oddly arch, constantly scraping the ground; the veins in his whole foot bulge, and the meridians beneath the arch protrude in a twisted shape.

In the next instant,

Having hurriedly practiced the Swift Step all day on Dagonite's advice, he activates it!

Even though he is still rolling, still bearing the leftover inertia from the fall, Su Ya at that moment darts out like a bird soaring at high speed over flat ground, flying parallel!

"Sss—Bang!"

Su Ya turns his head slightly and sees a crystal‑clear blue arrow lodged at the previous landing spot; in the blink of an eye, cracks appear on its surface, and it explodes with a roar into countless 1‑centimeter cubic blocks!

"What the heck is this!?"

From the vibrating sound of the bowstring, Su Ya discerns that it came from a single‑piece bow at least 1.5 meters long.

It must be a rather archaic single‑piece bow, traceable back to the Greek Bronze Age, not the composite bows that Macedonian armies of this era learned from the East.

But the problem is,

It shoots too fast!

It's as if the step of nocking an arrow is omitted; merely drawing the bow makes the arrow appear on it, and it fires at such speed, repeatedly attacking Mei Li!

And whose bow and arrow fly out looking like a fragmentary hand‑grenade!?

At that moment, Mei Li's voice sounds in his ear:

"These are ether‑transmuted imaginary arrows, an imaginary magic known as Ether Bowhand."

"By manipulating deconstructed concepts, it refines the 【Wind Element】 into tangible ether arrows and fires them."

"A sophisticated imaginary magic."

At this moment, Mei Li wriggles out of Su Ya's arm, climbs from the ground, fixes her gaze on the scattered ether chunks not far away, her eyes turning cold,

"Tsk, trying to kill me?"

"Su Ya!" She steps forward instantly, shields Su Ya in front of her, and shouts.

"Hm?" Su Ya is startled, thinking to himself that this fierce‑looking buddy would have charged straight ahead to tear the ambusher in half,

but… what's going on?

Meanwhile, Mei Li hides behind Su Ya, lifts her hand, draws the ruby dagger from her sleeve, and whispers to Su Ya:

"Their 'origin' is deconstruction: they deconstruct concepts, recombine elements, compile logic, and then use this 'logic' to fight as magicians."

"With your sword, that magical blade can cut the 'structure of logic' and reverse the 'collapse' of the imaginary arrows."

"I don't understand."

"It can slash the arrows away, mute them, and stop them from exploding."

"Got it."

Su Ya draws his sword, grips it with both hands, and stands in the cubic pit, alert to the enemy's next move.

With his eyesight and reflexes, cutting projectiles is no problem; in his past life his body couldn't keep up, but now that his muscle strength has reached E, he can accomplish this via a 'massive‑force brick‑fly' technique.

And now,

The enemy seems to realize that the person blocking Mei Li—Su Ya, who isn't even a proper professional—has turned out to be so troublesome,

Both successive imaginary arrows were evaded by him in a manner almost impossible at this level,

Thus, after the two arrows missed, he did not rush to attack; instead he remained hidden in the shadows, silently observing.

Meanwhile, Mei Li quickly analyzes:

"The principle of this barrier is to convert the earth element within its range into the other four major elements, to trap or attack the enemy."

"Four complete barriers can form the 'Great Magic: Lü Ke'ang's Corridor', which can arbitrarily re‑script the four elements inside, warp reality, and impose the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of motion on everything within the barrier."

"But now it's incomplete, so…"

"I already said I don't understand!"

Su Ya's face darkens, and he says in a low voice, "You damn it, at least speak simply!"

Mei Li's face instantly turns black as well,

Damn, you're the big illiterate who doesn't understand; how can you blame me?

She grits her teeth hard, pauses, then switches to a wording even an elementary student could understand, and says:

"Beware attacks launched from the earth."

"Then, constantly shifting between different plates; as long as the movement is fast enough, he won't have time to control that region to attack you."

"Finally, instead of slowly searching for ley lines, there's now a simpler, direct way to overturn everything—"

"Kill that magician!"

At this point, a resolute gleam flashes in Mei Li's eyes; she lifts her hand onto Su Ya's shoulder and calls out clearly:

"First restraint, release!"

"This battle is a quest for truth!"

"Acknowledge—"

"You've been empowered, hurry up!"

The words hang in the air,

Mei Li ran out from behind Su Ya at a light jog, while running she silently chanted a spell and raised her hand to summon sixteen pink flower petals that circled herself,

Her gaze swiftly swept through the air, then quickly locked onto the direction on her left side,

Then,

She threw the ruby dagger in her hand toward the sky, crossed her fingers with both hands, and quickly chanted three sections of the spell:

"Fairy Eye of the Eternal Abyss (EtherisRevelare),"

"Woven from thorns, the end of lies (SpinaeMendaciumColligo),"

"Reveal your true form in the vortex of the stars (StellaVortexOstende)!"

The ruby dagger spinning in midair halted at this moment, and under the magic's impetus its tip was aimed at Mei Li's left side,

And Mei Li, at this moment, opened her palm, raised one hand, and spread her five fingers,

She coldly shouted:

"Abyss of the Aether, reveal the falsehood!"

The next moment,

A magnificent red light accompanied by a sudden crisis!

After Mei Li swiftly ran out and revealed herself by casting magic, the enemies lurking in the dark immediately seized the opportunity to launch an attack,

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Three massive azure arrows,

They shot out consecutively amidst three loud bowstring twangs!

Su Ya originally intended to rush forward to help Mei Li block these three arrows,

However,

But he saw Mei Li give him an almost imperceptible shake of the head,

The next moment, the dagger floating in midair transformed into a red silk sash that wrapped around Su Ya's wrist, and his vision suddenly revealed the magical trajectories in the air that the human eye could never see.

Su Ya looked in the direction indicated by the sash, his eyes slightly narrowed,

The next moment,

He hesitated not at all, raised his hand to draw his sword to his chest, tipped his toes slightly and pressed against the ground, and leapt up with his whole body!

With a swift, large step, empowered by the strong propulsion granted by his combat technique, he leapt onto the block to the upper left and strode fiercely toward the direction indicated by the dagger!

He climbed onto the platform, leapt down into the depression, stepped on the withered branches of the wax tree and climbed onto the next parcel of land,

Finally,

Finally, deep within the bone forest divided into an endless sea of blocks, at a position about twenty blocks, roughly two hundred meters away, he saw a gray-haired man standing with a phantom longbow, one eye closed!

Fisherman, Bo'ergesi!

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