Chapter 334: Sakura's Splitting Arrow technique

"And that's the final arrow. Once again, it hit the dead center." The Commentator screamed on top of his lungs as he watched Hyori shot the 60th arrow.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Lee Hyori for displaying a spectacular performance. With perfect accuracy, this girl hailed from Leafway city opened the tournament with a perfect score of 600. It's been eight years since anyone in the college division managed to get such a score. Huge applause for her."

"Whoo…" *Clap**Clap**Clap*

Amid the cheers and clapping, Hyori returned to the waiting hall with her bow. Although she appeared calm on the outside, her heart is beating at a rapid pace with excitement.

Even though the target is only placed 46 meters away, Hyori still never expected to see the date where she would have such a result. She felt that her hard work had paid off. 

Wil's image appeared in her mind and she felt that she made the right choice on getting experience by playing War Online.

Although she hadn't been playing for long, Hyori knew that the game improved her mentality, accuracy, and concentration by a lot.

"I think my limit hasn't reached yet. After the tournament is over, I'll polish my skills even further and get into the world championships, next year." The results not only made Hyori more motivated and hungry but also boosted her confidence in taking on Sakura.

She believed that she has a chance to defeat her in the finals. As for the others, she never thought of them.

Meanwhile, in one of the rooms, two times consecutive Bronze medal winner, Nam Suji was looking at the screen. Her expression was dark. 

She was her senior, who made it through the preliminaries to qualify for the tournament. She was also the one that was responsible for Hyori's injury.

Suji thought everything would be fine after she heard Hyori missed her flight. But she didn't expect to find her, reaching the Wular University before time.

At first, she was frustrated but when she heard the rumors of Hyori not attending practice due to the injury on her dominant arm, Suji felt elated and didn't bother to find more trouble with her. She no longer cared about her and completely focused on her own training.

However, who could have expected Hyori to not only have a perfect score but also made such a score in a beautiful way and gained many supporters.

"Damn… That b***h…" Now, it was too late to do anything. All Suji can do is grit her teeth, curse her inside, and get on with the competition.

At the same time, a smile appeared on Sakura, whose eyes are on Hyori from the start. "Challenge is on."

As Hyori returned to the waiting room, many people especially boys congratulated her. Displaying courtesy of saying thanks to everyone, she took an empty seat in the corner and closed her eyes.

Because of concentrating too much on the target, she felt a little bit of strain on her eyes as well as on her mind. She slowly drifted to sleep.

After gaining respect for Hyori, no one dared to disturb her sleep either.

"Whoo…"

A little more than an hour later, her sleep was suddenly disturbed by a loud exclamation from the other contestants.

As she woke up from her light nap, she saw everyone's eyes were glued to the screens. The two screens in the room were displaying only one person.

Hyori stood up on her feet and walked to the crowd. Still, no one even noticed.

Meanwhile, in the stadium, the crowd went crazy upon looking at the scene before her.

Sakura drew the bow and looked at the nine arrows that were on top of each other. That's right. The first arrow was shot in the center. After that, each arrow split the preceding arrow's shaft, almost until the arrow's head.

So far, nine arrows were struck that way. Now, it's the tenth one.

With a smile on her face, she released the arrow. Like the first nine arrows, this one also split the arrow and she raised the bow.

"Amazing… What an amazing performance. No doubt she's the tournament's favorite. Clearly, this girl will become one of the strongest female Archers, no, one of the strongest Archers in history. What do you think, Mr. Wang?" The main commentator was already standing on his feet while looking at Sakura's target.

Wang Jun, the fellow commentator and also a retired Pro Archer voiced his opinion, "I completely agree with you. To split the arrows, simply having talent isn't enough. A lot of hard work is also necessary  to develop this technique.

Although the distance is less than 50 meters, it's very difficult for even the best of the best pros to perform such a feat. In my view, I think she's ready for the world championships. It's going to be tough for everyone, this year. Let's hope we'll get to see a few more amazing talents."

The competition continued.

By the end of the day, the first round or senior/college division was completed and the winners were announced the same day.

Just as they announced, the top two of each group, a total of 64 members proceeded for round 2. The rest of the girls packed their bags to return.

With the junior/high school division's round 1 going to be conducted on the next day, Hyori and the other contestants of the senior division got a day off.

Some stayed and practiced Archery or watched performances of their juniors while the others decided to enjoy by touring around the city. After all, for the past week, none of them left the university at all.

Sakura leisurely toured around the university with a few admirers. Meanwhile, Hyori became busy with her image training. 

After seeing Sakura's performance, she felt like she needs to polish her concentration skills further. Hyori realized that if she were to make even a single mistake in either of the following rounds, she would fall behind her.

***

Scarlet Apartments, Leafway City;

*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

Wil yawned as he woke up slowly with his eyes closed. "Hmm… Is it already 5?"

He sat on the bed for a while, thinking whether to open his eyes or go back to sleep.

In the end, he forced himself to step down from the bed, change his clothes, wore the shoes, and hit the gym upon realizing that he was becoming fat these days.

After all, due to constant gaming and eating street food without any workout made him a little bit fat. Although he appeared fine on the outside, Wil's perfect abs from four months ago no longer present.

Since he had too much time in the game and had accomplished kingship, Wil didn't feel the need to hurry it either.

As the outdoor gym was occupied by a couple of residents, instead of joining them, Wil decided to go for a run in the park.

Two hours later;

He took a seat on the empty bench on the side with sweat running from head to toe.

"It's really strange. I'm running for like 90 minutes. How come I don't feel pain in the legs, yet? Is my stamina that high in the past?" He wondered.

Right then, a familiar voice disrupted his thoughts, "C'mon Rey, let me play a bit more. There's still time for the school."

"No. It's already 7, Mia. Mom will be angry." Her older brother said to her.

Wil immediately turned his head and looked towards the source and saw a pair of siblings. The older brother was trying to convince the little sister who was playing with another girl in the playground.

"Mia?" Wil was stunned on the spot.