Rise My Elementals! - Chapter 758: Leo’s weakness and tricking Edgar Pierce again

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Whooosh! Whooosh!

Two arrows travel in the air and straight towards the hiding spot of Edgar Pierce.

Whiiish! Whiiish!

Bang! Bang!

Two small holes soon appeared in the vines where Edgar Pierce was hiding behind. Fortunately, he was a few inches away from those holes.

Seeing this, Edgar Pierce heaves a sigh of relief while slowly backing away from the holes, intending to hide in another location before Guild Leader Loki would shoot another arrow. At the same time, he unsheathed his lance by his waist and prepared himself to launch an attack. He already determined the location of Guild Leader Loki. All he has to do now is to let the latter shoot his arrow again, and while he is in the midst of taking out a new arrow from his quiver, he will lunge himself towards him.

Meanwhile, seeing that he had missed Edgar Pierce with his arrow, Leo took out two more arrows from his quiver. Inside his mind, he thought, “From the location that Edgar Pierce was hiding before, his only way to escape is to crawl to the back. As such, he should be somewhere around that place right now, still hiding and waiting for an opportunity to attack me,”

Leo slowly moved his bow and pointed it to where he expected Edgar Pierce to crawl towards and look for another area to hide. He said, “I don’t know where exactly you are, but based on the small place you can hide from me, you should be somewhere around there,”

Whoooosh!

After Leo finished his line, one of the arrows he nocked onto his bow shot towards a vine.

Whiiish!

Bang!

Another hole was soon created. But unfortunately, Edgar Pierce wasn’t hiding in that place.

In the next moment, a figure suddenly jumped out from the opposite corner of where Leo had shot his arrow towards.

“There you are,” Leo muttered with his hand tightly holding the string of the bow while pointing the arrow accurately to the approaching Edgar Pierce. He added, “Did you really expect that I won’t be prepared for this?”

As someone who has trained with the bow for many years in the past, Leo had already learned that the best opportunity for his opponent to attack him, especially in his current case, is when he is taking out another arrow from his quiver. Only a beginner archer won’t expect this to happen, which he just happened to not be one.

Whoooosh!

Bang!

Edgar Pierce easily destroyed the arrow while saying, “That’s why I had my lance prepared!”

Waving his hand, Leo stored his bow and quiver inside his Storage Ring and took out his Death Wake Dagger.

“Finally!” Edgar Pierce felt delighted after seeing Guild Leader Loki taking out his dagger. After all this time, this was the moment that he had long been waiting for! A melee combat! A frontal clash! A frontal assault! Whatever it is, he believes that he can triumph over Guild Leader Loki easily at this moment!

Contrary to what Edgar Pierce was expecting, though, the head of the arrow on the ground nearby him suddenly shone with a bright red-colored light.

“Don’t tell me…”

Booooom!

An explosion erupted beside Edgar Pierce, causing his figure to fly a few meters to the opposite side. There was only so much space on top of the earth wall, so he fell shortly after to the ground and landed on his back. Luckily, he was wearing armor that reduced the damage of his fall. Otherwise, it would have hurt a lot, and there might even be a slight chance that a few of his bones would be broken.

“Was that the reason why there was a series of explosions over the side of my two Sword Mantises?” Edgar Pierce asked Guild Leader Loki despite already knowing the answer to his question.

“Probably,” Leo chooses not to reveal the truth. After all, there are still plenty of chances that he would fight Edgar Pierce again in the future. So, he should keep all of his methods a secret and just leave things as a mere assumption.

“Since when?” Edgar Pierce continued asking.

“I truly don’t understand what you are talking about. What do you mean since when?” Leo pretended to be oblivious.

“I get it! I get it!” Edgar Pierce slowly stood up from the ground. It was pretty evident already that Guild Leader Loki didn’t plan on telling him anything and wanted to keep his method a secret so he would be left wondering what it was.

Honestly, the method that Guild Leader Loki had chosen is indeed effective. Currently, Edgar Pierce is still feeling unsure of what exactly happened. The only thing he could think about was that Guild Leader Loki had added a Magic spell in his arrow.

In his mind, Edgar Pierce is asking, “Was that really the method Guild Leader Loki had used? Or did he plant a Fireball spell in advance right in front of him and waited for me to come in that specific place? If that’s really the case, then did he also do the same in the location of my two Sword Mantises? And if so, were all the things that happened until now all according to Guild Leader Loki’s plan?”

Edgar Pierce can’t help shuddering from that thought. Because if that’s the truth, then was he actually just a puppet attached to a string, and Guild Leader Loki was just controlling him to make him dance around the palms of his hand?

Unbeknownst to Edgar Pierce, what he was thinking was actually the truth. The only reason why he can’t confirm it is because Guild Leader Loki did not confirm it as well. And knowing who Guild Leader Loki is, what appears to be the truth could always just be a façade to hide the real truth. Edgar Pierce is cautious about such a possibility. That’s why he doesn’t dare believe that his assumption is correct unless Guild Leader Loki confirms it or he sees it with his own eyes.

Leo doesn’t know what Edgar Pierce is thinking right now. But regardless of what it is, he would ignore it and start preparing for the following exchange.

Although he had defeated Edgar Pierce in their first exchange, that doesn’t mean that he could continue beating the latter in the future.

Truthfully speaking, the real reason why he still didn’t engage in a frontal clash with Edgar Pierce until now and choose to attack from afar using his bow was simply because he’s not confident that he could win using the former method.

He might seem to have the advantage right now, but he’s more aware than anyone else that once he engages in a frontal clash against Edgar Pierce, everything would change in the latter’s favor.

The main reason for that is because he uses a dagger as his weapon, while Edgar Pierce uses a lance. Just with the length of their two weapons alone, one could already guess who has the advantage.

Moreover, Edgar Pierce could also combine Magic spells with his weapon, making it even harder to deal with him.

Even though he can also do the same as what Edgar Pierce could do, but that still doesn’t change the first advantage of the latter, his weapon.

Furthermore, Edgar Pierce still has his two Golems slowly approaching his location right now. Any moment from now, the Golems would arrive to assist Edgar Pierce. By that time, without even needing to tell him anything, Leo can already guess that going for a frontal clash would be the most stupid thing for him to do.

His best advantage right now is his long-range attack. As much as possible, he’d like to retain that advantage and not engage in a frontal clash with Edgar Pierce. That’s the reason why he threw the latter below the wall so he could continue using his bow. As to why he had stored his bow and quiver inside his Storage Ring just now, it was to simply distract Edgar Pierce into believing that he would finally do what the latter wanted him to do. In the short moment that Edgar Pierce is distracted, he can activate the Fireball spell that he had embedded in his arrow secretly.

As everyone can already see, his plan had succeeded in the end.

“There’s no time for me to waste!” Leo waved his hand again and stored his Death Wake Dagger inside his Storage Ring before replacing it with his bow and quiver. This time, he had taken out a new quiver full of arrows as a precaution for the latter events that could happen.

Seeing Guild Leader Loki taking out a bow and a quiver, Edgar Pierce could already expect what would happen next. So, without any hesitation, he jumped to the earth wall nearby to hide before an arrow shoot at him.

Whoooosh!

Bang!

A small part of the earth wall was chipped away right after Edgar Pierce passed through the earth wall.