CH 112

[‘Bow’ Blackdoll]

“Everyone, fire at will! Kill that abomination!”

――SWISH!

Following the angry shout of the elf man, the surrounding elves all simultaneously took aim at Canaan and shot their arrows.

“Guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Needless to say, being in midair, Canaan had no way to avoid them, and almost all the arrows hit their mark.

“Grr…”

“““““““!?”””””””

Zuzuzu, the arrows got absorbed into his body as if they were sucked in.

Then.

“—!?”

“—Kya!? W-what are you…”

I immediately took the woman into my arms and leaped away while shouting towards everyone there, “—Take cover!”

“““““““—!?”””””””

“Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

――SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSHHHH!

““““Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!?””””

Arrows shot out of Canaan’s body, taking down all the elves that surrounded us.

By Shiva-san’s side, Zana seemed to have been protected by her shield magic, and on a closer look, both of them seemed to be uninjured.

“T-thank you for saving me…”

“No problem! But it’s dangerous here, please stay away! Also, Shiva-san’s shield will protect the ones who’ve gotten injured, so in the meantime, hurry and move them away to a safe place!”

“A-all right…”

“—Zana!”

“Yeah, I’ve got it!”

After seeing the woman nodded, I manifested dual swords and kicked off the ground to launch an offensive on Canaan.

“Haa!”

SWISH! The moment Zana’s cover fire about to reach Canaan first.

“Gugauu!”

――Blech!

““Wha!?””

An arm suddenly grew out of his body and went to grab hold of it.

“Uguaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Or so I thought, but the energy of the light arrow was instantly absorbed and channeled into the arrow that he was nocking with his original arms in converted form, causing the arrow to let out sparks in an ominous way. Canaan then shot the arrow, aiming straight at my eye.

――BOOM!

“Uo!”

BANG! By switching out the dual swords with a shield, I was able to avoid a direct hit, yet I was still blown back by a few meters from the impact transmitted through the shield.

Looked like that arrow had Zana’s power added into it, it was really powerful.

The elves’ arrows were reflected back earlier too; was he invulnerable to long-range attacks?

“You okay!?” Zana ran over in a hurry.

To reassure her, I nodded vigorously, “Yeah, I’m fine. But this is troubling. Looks like he can absorb attacks he received and reflect them back with his own strength added into them.”

“Seems like it. Well, there’s gotta be a limit to it, though. What about close-quarters combat? I don’t think he can reflect back close-range attacks.”

“Me, neither. Which is why I think he’s going to keep his distance from me. Most likely, his fighting style is comprised of him making long-range on his own while also using enemy’s attacks against themselves.”

“I see. His nature stays the same as before, it seems.”

Come to think of it, Zana was fighting Canaan before he got blackdollified.

From what she was saying, his current fighting style must be more-or-less the same as the original.

“In other words, we’ve only had two options to defeat him. One is to somehow engage him in a super high speed close-quarters combat, or second, to bombard him with attacks filled with energy so vast that he can’t reflect it back, huh,” said Zana.

“Yeah. And our choice’s been decided from the start, right?”

“But of course. That’s why I’m here, after all.” When Zana smiled and nodded, our bodies got enveloped in a faint light.

The light was gentle, but brimming with ‘power’ like the one that appeared back when I was with Tirna.

“Guoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

““!””

Canaan might have noticed the change in our atmosphere, too.

The moment he roared, numerous arms jutted out of his body, then the surrounding trees began to wilt and the elves all made agonized expressions and fell to their knees immediately after.