"It seems the apocalypse that happened before got lots of aspects that I never heard about," William clenched his fists, before sheathing his sword and storing away his glaive. He knew before seeing these leopards that this battle was going to be hard and long. And now he knew it was going to be at a hellish level of difficulty.
He never intended to transform into his fox form, never intended to use his glaive or sword, nor his techniques. Instead, he took out something that he didn't use for a long time; his bow and arrows!
After five years, William already got himself a nice dark gold bow. It could augment the speed and ferocity of the arrows thrown by it, and was long enough to satisfy the launch of dozens of arrows at the same time.
That wasn't all, as William focused on making lots of high grade arrows as well. His power and resources experienced a great boom since the time he made such arrows in the academy. So it wasn't a surprise that he made different sets of arrows, each with a unique effect.
He got explosive arrows, blinding arrows, sealing arrows, and even berserk arrows. The latter would explode, release some sort of gas in the air, enough to turn monsters and enemies enraged and act berserk.
They'd attack anything and everyone standing nearby. No matter who they were, enemies or allies, they'd all attack them in a crazy way.
As for the sealing arrows, they were empowered with arrays that could entrap a large number of enemies inside a hard to crush prison. The blinding arrows would release pulses of bright lights, enough to blind any target for a minute or little more. The explosive arrows weren't like the ones he made back at the academy.
Those got much fiercer explosive damage, could cover up much more enemies, and their shockwaves were quite brutal. The goal of these arrows wasn't just to kill the enemies, but also to meddle with the enemy lineup and formation, messing all this up. Besides, they would leave behind lots of wounded enemies as well.
William planned from the start to use his bow and arrows. First he got an seemingly endless supply of arrows to use. And by using the bow, he could hit monsters far away without and keep kiting them slowly down while marching back to the city.
This was the best strategy he could think of to slow down such a monster tide. He didn't need to use his techniques, spirit elements, or his weapons because they would slow his killing speed down.
As he took the bow out, he threw tons of arrows in the air. He then used his technique to dash for ten metres, each dash had five points he'd jump at, which he'd grab arrows and release them.
In a flash, he turned into a deadly arrow releasing machine, throwing endless explosive arrows towards different directions without a single moment of pause.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
Each arrow exploded and released a giant ball of fire that enveloped monsters in a one hundred metres radius. The fierce explosions rocked the entire forest, but William was attentively watching something else.
"Damn! I know my arrows can take down a group of early stage dark gold masters and monsters, but this… These monsters only suffered wounds!" William kept his eyes fixated over the areas he hit first with his arrows.
And there he spotted the leopards getting out without losing much of their numbers. He knew the strength and limitations of his arrows. They might not be enough to kill middle stage dark gold masters and monsters solely, but if they got released in torrents, then their combined and stacked damage would make up for their lack of deadly might.
And yet in front of these leopards, they mostly left behind superficial wounds. This came as bad news to William. "It's lucky that I prepared the vibrant ores before coming here," he shook his head while knowing that he got to use his ores much earlier than he intended to.
He wanted to first draw monsters slowly towards the city, killing as many as he could. Then around the city, he'd start a round of attacks targeting these ores. Like this, he could kill many more of these monsters, even to the extent of penetrating deeper into their lines and killing more as well.
Yet when he saw how useless his arrows were, he decided to start using the ores soon enough. "But first I need to give my berserk arrows a try," he knew this was a new type of arrows, one that wasn't even commonly found in the outer world.
So he replaced the arrows he was using by simply switching the rings on his fingers. As he grew wealthy, had tons of war supplies and other stuff, he decided to arrange them into different rings. Like this, and just as he was stuck in such a fervent battle, he could easily switch gears without the need to worry about anything.
The arrows he used now didn't release the same explosions like before. Instead, they hit the ground and released a thick bellow of green gas, before it spread fast and thinned out at a large area.
William knew the toxin he used wasn't on par with the level of monsters in front of him. But when he stacked the effect of hundreds of arrows togethers, it was expected to affect the monsters at last.
*Roar!*
The green cloud started to expand and get thicker with more arrows he released. He concentrated his efforts at a spot first, to check things out. "They are eating up each other, reminding me of those bears, hahahaha!" William laughed when thousands of leopards stopped running at him, turned around and attacked each other using their deadliest claws and fangs.
Seeing this scene made William recall the previous battle at the walls of the Long clan. He was dying to repeat the same amusing experience, and now he got the chance to do it with these arrows.
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