Chapter 3131 Timeless Radiance. Infinite Radiance.
The skies split open and the world overturned. For a moment, the Inbetween World gained light. Violet rained down, and the flames that smoldered at the end of all things made themselves known. An enormous portal took shape, and a spirit on the other side began to struggle.
Leonel was already raining down arrows as though he didn't care whether the Weapon Spirit listened to him or not. However, slowly but surely, with every pluck of the bowstring, a resounding TWANG! echoed, and the Weapon Spirit was pulled closer and closer.
In truth, this wasn't fake. Leonel didn't care very much about the Weapon Spirit. As far as he was concerned, he and his wife could create a stronger weapon given enough time and the proper resources. Though, the latter would be harder to find than he gave it credit for.
However, it was also because of this that he wanted this Weapon Spirit now as a stopgap measure. It had been a long time since he had wielded a truly powerful bow. Remembering how it had felt to use the White Lion Bow initially, he felt his blood boil.
He wanted that feeling again.
Ile had always had the greatest affinity for Bow Force, even above that of his Spear Force, despite the fact he had only been born with a Lineage Factor for the latter but not the former.
However, now he felt like he truly understood why that was. Or... maybe he always had, in a way.
The answer had always been on the tip of his tongue.
Control.
There was no other weapon that could control a battlefield to the same level as a bow. He found that he didn't even prefer a gun nearly as much.
One might think that a gun was superior... but he had never agreed with that either. There was a reason he had stopped crafting sniper rifles. It wasn't as though he lost the skill to do so along the
way.
There was a certain flexibility and added control that came with using a bow and arrow that he simply couldn't replicate with a gun. Even if he could add a bit of crafting magic to replicate that sort of control, it would never be the same... because whatever he could add to a sniper rifle, he could add to a bow and bolster the control he already had over it even further.
About the only thing that was superior to a bow was the overt and oppressive power a gun could unveil in a single brief instant. However, in exchange for control....
Leonel would trade that away ten out of ten times.
The bow was the ultimate form of who he was. person who wanted to not just control his own body perfectly, but even the world around him.
When his Dream World bloomed and covered the battlefield in full force, the Weapon Spirit finally couldn't seem to protect itself any longer.
It was ripped away from its location and tore a path through time and space, drilling into the beautiful golden bow.
ROAR!
The roar peeled through the skies like a clap of thunder.
All of a sudden, the bow blazed with life.
Leonel, who had already become what looked like a twelve-pointed star in the skies, became even larger as though a true sun was descending from above.
There was nothing else to do. Such a person appearing on a battlefield meant death for them all.
However...
BOOM!
An arrow landed and exploded an entire island.
Despair colored the expressions of the Laevis family members. The others of the Four Great Families seemed to pick up on what was happening late, but when they did, their despair was no less.
Infinite Radiance.
To think that an outsider would comprehend not just one, but both of their greatest states.
Not only was he using them, but he was using them continuously as though they didn't mean much to
him at all.
Timeless Radiance was able to strike with an instantaneous arrow. There was no lag between the pluck of the bowstring and the death of the target.
It was faster-faster than even the laws of the world themselves-so much so that they didn't have the speed to act on the arrow.
But even so, that was only the first of their two shocking abilities.
Infinite Radiance was a strike that carried infinite mass. No matter what it crashed into, it would be heavier, denser, more destructive.
It was even more shocking than Timeless Radiance because light shouldn't have any mass. It represented a level of law-breaking that exceeded Timeless Radiance by a step.
The bow seemed born to be in Leonel's hands. He was killing so fast that the Fawkes warriors found themselves standing around without enemies to face off against.
The Third Imperial Prince stood gasping for breath, a hint of paleness on his face from the earlier injury. He realized that if the elder who sneak-attacked him had such an ability, let alone standing here trying to catch his breath, he would be a dead man.
He couldn't even track the arrows at all.
The only saving grace was that the Timeless Radiance arrows didn't carry enough punch to rip
through his defenses... But what about Infinite Radiance?
It seemed that Infinite Radiance was at least slow enough for him to react to, but...
Something told him that Leonel was still holding back.
To him, this was only the beginning.