Chapter 233: What would you like to know?

Chapter 233: What would you like to know?

“Level at least 220, ranged base class, get into formation 5, full power from the start!” Obelia shouts, lightning immediately cracking around her.

A few of her guild with heavy armor immediately get to the front, mana surrounding their armor or shields and further strengthened by the barrier of their teammate.

More members get further back, mana surrounding their weapons or fire floating around them. Two of her members put their hands on Obelia's shoulders and the amount of mana she releases intensifies.

(Why would we fight, dear child?) Without the arcane archer's mouth moving, the words sound in the room.

The voice is quiet, yet chilling, lacking emotions.

(I don’t sense any invaders in between you, nor did I identify you as a traitor yet.)

The archer takes a step, reducing some of its mana signature, and to that, Obelia does nothing. She doesn’t attack, but she also doesn’t stop carefully observing the corpse in front of us.

I also take a step ahead, passing by Hadwin and Maya who moved to the front of our group the moment the corpse moved. Nice reflexes, something they built up while hunting with our group.

The archer looks at me for a moment, the eyes made of mana stones shining brightly, but then they move past me and he examines everyone in the room, all in a matter of a few seconds.

(Are you looking for death or knowledge?)

The voice that sounds a bit robotic continues to sound in the room and I slowly start realizing what the thing in front of us is. An imprint similar to what Lissandra did, an extremely delicate web of mana circuits able to store knowledge and personality.

Yet there is a huge difference. Where Lissandra created an imprint on my body with her Potent mana, the thing in front of me contains the imprint on one of the mana stones, either in the eyes or on the chest.

The imprint of the archer is much less intricate than Lissandra’s.

“We didn’t come to fight, we came looking for knowledge,” Obelia says in her calm voice and I can’t help but admire how quickly she got back to herself.

(Ask then, child of Nabulon.) the archer says, weirdly cooperative.

“You said child of Nabulon, what does it mean?” Obelia asks the first question.

(Nabulon is the name of the planet we are on.)

“Is Nabulon a planet where only humans live?”

(It used to be before the lynthari came.)

“How,” guild master of Storm Brigade shakes her head, “Tell me first who you are.”

(I’m a personality imprint of Champion Orven’s disciple, Reynar.)

I can hear a few people muttering, not because they recognize the name, they just seem amazed that something like this is possible. For them, titles like Champion, or Champion's disciple are something they only heard in legends.

“Are the real you and Champion Orven already dead?”

(With high probability. The imprint was created and imbued into this body before we collected the remaining force for the last try to fight the lynthari’s Absolute.)This chapter's initial release occurred on the n0vell--Bjjn site.

“What happened then?”

(I do not possess the knowledge of that.)

The entire time they talk, I keep looking at the arcane archer, and dozens of questions swirl in my head, yet Obelia is asking the right ones so I just listen, collecting kinetic energy within me. My body with Arcane Resilience is capable of holding a terrifying amount of it.

The mana arrow digs through the barriers as if they are not there, and the legs of one of Obelia’s guild members explode.

Immediately another one flies over, hitting Hadwin and throwing him to the side while he tries to shield Lily.

My [Mana Domain] encompasses the room and I radiate much more mana into it.

When an arrow flies at me, I create an anchor and teleport away, the arrow piercing through the wall.

Then I use [Infusion] to fill my [Mana Domain] with [Resonance]. Having seen and perceived the arrows, I continue to track them and every single one that enters my domain or tries to pass through it to hit someone gets disrupted.

One after another, a dozen arrows get destroyed like that while attacks continue to shower on the corpse. When they stop for a moment, all the effects of them disappear and in a massive crater created by them, a movement appears while even the walls around it are cracked.

The body, the personality construct of the disciple of the Champion stands up slowly, entirely inside a spherical barrier made of pale blue mana. The surface of the barrier ripples like calm water when a stone is thrown into it.

That’s when another attack flies at it, an arrow made of gray mana, and it hits the barrier. For a moment the corpse ignores it as the attack just crashes against it as if it’s made of smoke, but then we can see big chunks of the barrier get dissolved, disintegrated without any resistance.

As if awaiting that, I feel a strong pulse of mana from Tess and the javelin that flies towards the archer is glowing in red and white lightning, the material of the spear barely visible through it.

When Tess's attack is just an arm's reach away from it, the archer turns and looks at Lily.

And then he disappears.

I activate the anchor I left next to group 4 and mana flows inside my body at the same moment he reappears behind Lily. Another arrow forms in his hand, but he moves it down and stabs Lily with that arrow, the pale blue projectile made of mana piercing her back.

The black-haired girl barely staggers under the force of the attack and a few of her fingers disappear, and for a split of a second she moves terrifyingly quickly, grabbing the hand of the archer. Gray mana envelops it and [Disintegration] eats into the hand that she is holding.

When I reach them, the archer disappears again, missing a hand Lily destroyed. Instead of that hand, a limb made of mana is created and he starts shooting again.

The arrow stabbed inside Lily’s back glows brighter and brighter and I'm sure the following explosion will kill the girl if we don't do anything about it.

“Save your mana!” I shout at her, seeing she is about to use [Disintegration] on it and maybe [Sacrifice] a limb to do so.

Unable to destroy the arrow from the distance I reach out and touch it, finally breaking the resistance that blocked me from destroying it. [Resonance] tears it apart and Lily starts healing again.

I jump backward and the arrow meant for my head pierces the walls. In just that short moment, the archer killed two members of Obelia’s guild and Maya is barely keeping her [Armament] active, with a few wounds on her body.

Sophie is using her [Manipulation] to change the direction of arrows and her mind blender thingy doesn't seem to work. Yet her redirecting the arrows seems to be the main reason why no one in group 4 is dead.

Her and Biscuit.

A dozen dark purple tentacles swirl around the corgi while he floats in the air, even his eyes glowing in a similar purple color.

Each arrow shot is met with some of the tentacles, no matter how fast is that arrow. Biscuit just continues to deflect the ones Sophie can ́t take care of while floating in front of Isabella. He even uses one to grab Hadwin and throw him towards Lily, only Hadwin ́s [Strenghtening] keeping him standing with a massive wound on his chest.

The arrows pierce almost through everything.

[Regalia] forms around my body and I force more mana into it, the armor turning dark blue. At the same moment Tess steps to my side, [Stormcrown] made of lightning floating over her head and her body surrounded by flashes of red and white lightning.

“Together?” she asks.

“Together,” I answer as simply.

My domain expands and both of us rush at the corpse.