Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

The orcish youths instantly lit up with excitement.

They didn't care who their target was, nor how many there were.

As long as there was a chance to go berserk, they wouldn't miss it.

The sound of the wind whipped up by their mad dash along the hunting trail was, to them, the greatest pleasure.

"waaaaagh!"

"waaaagh!"

The chorus of "waaaagh" filled the air.

Bai E shook his head helplessly and took the bow slung at his waist.

With a light flick, the mechanism unfolded.

There was a concept that had been brewing in his mind for a long time, never finding a suitable target.

Spiritual Energy came from the heart, and without a sufficiently strong practical target, summoning it during ordinary training just wasn't as satisfying.

Now was the chance to test it out.

Four fine-steel arrows were placed on the bowstring at the same time, their black diamond-shaped tips reflecting a cold, sharp metallic sheen in the sunlight.

Watching dozens of orcs charging from various directions, a massive surge of Spiritual Energy burst forth from his sea of consciousness, transforming into a power that was drawn but not loosed, accumulating wildly.

Dai Lian, who had just turned back to look at Kuang Xin again, suddenly faltered; the image of that figure emerged unbidden in front of his eyes.

The black uniform of memory overlaid with the figure that had suddenly appeared, and in the blink of an eye, Kuang Xin turned his head back and saw the tall, dark silhouette standing atop a distant mountaintop.

And so he saw again the scene that would be etched in his memory for life...

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"

The black arrows traced four completely different arcs through the air, arcs that even Kuang Xin's eyes, enhanced after ascending to a war boss, could barely capture.

But capture was all he could do.

Four tornadoes of wild wind entwined with each other, only beginning their rampant dance upon this earth after the arrows had flown past.

The howling wind stirred up yellow sand and red dust, lifting tumultuous rocks and pebbles.

What followed the hurricane brought about by the arrows was a flattened ground with only large stones remaining.

The orcs running toward Bai E were flipped in an instant, tumbling through the air along with countless severed limbs and dismembered arms.

Perhaps having learned from past lessons, the orcs' charge was so scattered that it was nearly impossible to find any bodies aligned in a straight line from any angle.

Yet even the deliberately spread formation was no match for the arcing, shuttle-strike of "Arc-hit".

Arrows, imbued with the power of "Piercing Wind Breaker," swam through the paths of as many orcs as possible like fishes, the four shots fired simultaneously almost covering every single charging orc's body.

What came were dozens of pieces, and what left were hundreds.
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The green rain of blood had not even touched the ground before it vanished into nothingness in the wind. In the direction where the arrows had come to a stop, orcs waiting on standby sat dumbfounded on the ground, staring at the affected area that stopped just short of their feet.

The view slowly shifted upward to reveal the bruised and swollen orcs' faces, battered by the rocks.

Seeing the havoc he had wrought with "one arrow," Bai E raised his eyebrows.

Not bad... the experiment was a success.

It just used up a bit too much Spiritual Energy.

A regular powerful shot cost 3 points of Spiritual Energy per arrow, but using techniques like "Control Wind," "Arc-hit," "Multishot" together with Piercing Wind Breaker required even more formidable Spiritual Energy to sustain, driving the cost up to about 5 points of Spiritual Energy per arrow, then multiplied by four.

This was the most reliable number of multishot levels Bai E could currently maintain. Even though his level 4 specialization had a chance to fire a quintuple shot, the probability was so minuscule it was not worth the risk.

With one arrow, he struck awe into both gods and ghosts.

Dozens of orcs turned into a field of fragments in an instant, and such a fierce feat left the circle of humans, guarded by orcs in the distance, all agape with shock.

How could those at the bottom of Grey Iron City ever witness such a scene?

Even the occasional magma behemoth attack seemed like child's play compared to this.

Is this an attack that a "human" could possibly unleash?

With a bow and arrow?

"That's our lord!" Though Kuang Xin was bound, at that moment he still jumped up with a gleeful face and called out loudly.

"Die, beastmen plant creatures!"

To these beings called beastmen who in fact have no gender—a plant people—Kuang Xin, who had originally come for the sake of a beastwoman sister, felt completely disillusioned, thus his love turned to hate.

"Lord..." Yafei, propped up from behind by two beastmen, opened her pale pink lips in shock. She stared blankly in a mechanical way at Dai Lian, who was half-lying on the ground, her large eyes with their distinct black and white brimming with questioning—"This is the lord you spoke of?"

'Damn it, if your lord was this fierce, why didn't you just say it and let those beastmen go find him? Why go through all this suffering here?'

"..." The only response Yafei got was Dai Lian's equally confused face.

He knew the lord was fierce, but he didn't know the lord could be this fierce!

This archery skill had never been displayed in their previous encounters, of course... it might also be because the opponents they had all encountered before didn't require the lord to use such a level of archery.

I have a profound (strike-through) understanding of this world

I know nothing about this world!

However, this miraculous arrow that could probably drop the jaws of everyone present failed to quench the fervent heart of Kuang Xin, the beastman with a blade for a face.

That's right!

That's right!

It was this familiar sense of danger and thrill, like the icy sharpness of a blade grazing one's neck, that he had always been in pursuit of!

"Waaaaaagh!" The beastman raised a meaningless cry, lifting a massive axe as big as a person with one hand.

The axe, either rusty or haphazardly covered in a combination of abstract colors, and the blade, looking like it was coated with a thick layer of grime and wear, seemed to be enveloped in an invisible aura of light around Kuang Xin, including his weapon, amidst the soaring "waaagh" cry.

The impassioned voices energized the entire tribe, an odd, almost imperceptible force field rising imperceptibly in the area.

The quick recovery sensed this field's presence, slightly increasing the rate at which Spiritual Energy was restored to Bai E.

Watching the gigantic beastman charge towards him, Bai E's gaze turned icy. He drew with a reverse grip, with a fluctuation of Spiritual Energy in the air manifesting a huge Bug-Slaying Blade that Bai E's slender hands gripped by the hilt and suddenly pulled out.

Like fighting?

Then let's have a satisfying battle!

After his last fight with the War Demonic Prince, some innate craving inside Bai E had seemingly been unwittingly sparked.

Compared to the cold sniping from a distance, a close quarter, real sword and spear clash were far more exhilarating.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The Spiritual Energy-enhanced Bug-Slaying Blade and the "waaagh" force field-enhanced battleaxe created a spectacle like missile explosions.

Watching the endless explosions rise on the spot with sounds that only grew louder and more frequent, both humans and beastmen widened their eyes, trying to discern what was happening inside.

"Gulp!"

The four-person team watching from the safety of their vehicle through a drone swallowed their saliva in unison at the sight.

"Whoa~" Stone exclaimed in awe.

"This beastman is pretty fierce..."

You, still remembering the role she was supposed to play within the team, calmly analyzed based on the data accessed through her upgraded clearance after several military successes, "Beastmen believe that the person who can become their leader must be the strongest, and this belief also enhances the one they believe in. Being the leader of hundreds of beastmen here, their chieftain is already considered high-level combat power among beastmen."

"Bang!"

With a deep thud, even the team observing from afar through the drone could clearly hear the noise transmitted by the drone.

Within the lingering view, only a dark shadow was seen being smashed and sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into a distant rocky mountain... rocks shot out, and the small mountain collapsed.

Metal-clad boots stepped lightly out of the dust cloud; Bai E's calm face showed no sign of having just been through a fierce battle.

"Shing!" The Bug-Slaying Blade thrust into the ground, Bai E stood with arms crossed, waiting for the beastman to return.