The Arcane Archer - Chapter 11 Barrier

(A/N: Leo knows German. Why? Cause he was interested in it when he was younger and wanted to learn it. Just kept on forgetting to mention how he knows German phrases and such while never really explaining some stuff about his past abilities and such which I will slowly reveal.)

After being handed the bow, I was just standing in the training area by myself just holding the bow. I didn’t really know what to do now so I did the best thing I could.

Test the new bow.

Going over and grabbing a couple more arrows, I got into a ready position to fire. As I drew back the string, it seemed to be less resistant then all the other bows and seemed to flow to where I pulled.

Once I reached as far back as I could with the string without fear of breaking it, I took my time to aim. Once I was adjusted, I released.

The arrow went flying faster then I could see and went immediately into the center of the target. After a second passed, a small bit of wind went passed and slightly blew up my air.

I continued to practice for a while using the new bow and thoroughly enjoyed my time doing so.

Hours seemed to fly by as I continued to constantly practice over and over. At some point, a ray of sunlight went directly into my eye and brought my attention to the time. When I looked up, I noticed that the first rays of light were now appearing.

I quickly ran back to my room while constantly saying shit while doing so.

As soon as I got to where my room was, a elf was standing outside my door ready to knock on it. Slowing down, I stood right behind them while they knocked on my door.

Waiting a couple of seconds, I watched as she patiently waited for me to open the door.

“Need something?” I asked while standing right behind her.
for visiting.

She jumped up into the air slightly before quickly turning around with a bit of anger in her eyes.

“That was highly unnecessary Mr. Leo.”

“It might’ve been but I saw a opportunity and I couldn’t let it pass. Sorry.”

She scolded me for a bit by saying that I was very unprofessional and not acting like a elf should be and then remembered that I wasn’t a elf so started saying sorry a couple of times.

“Anyways Ms. Anmutig (Graceful in German), what can I help you with?”

“We are preparing to work on the enchantment today that will better help hide our home and I was told to come pick you up so that you would assist us with this enchanting. Also, my name is Fhaertala, not whatever weird language you spoke was.”

I raised up my hands in a sort of self defense. “Sorry sorry. Can you lead me to where I need to go? I feel like I should do this as soon as possible before I fall asleep from staying up all night.”

She nodded her head as she turned to her left and started walking. I followed while also constantly hitting the side of my head to stay awake.

We continued walking for a couple of minutes before we finally got to a giant open area with a bunch of elves standing around in a circle doing a weird chant. To my human ears it sounded ominous but since I knew the language that they were speaking, it also sounded stupid at the same time.

They were constantly chanting that seemed like a children story about a magic barrier that would protect some little kids homes. I almost laughed but made sure I didn’t as I would probably get a lot of confused looks.

Fhaertala turned to me and did a quick bow before quickly turning and running off somewhere. Gael then somehow appeared out of nowhere and replaced her.

“Greetings Leo, I’m glad to see that you’re here. Are you ready to help with the enchanting?”

“Yeah, just show me what I need to do.”

He started walking directly to the center of the circle and directly in the center was a large glowing word in the ancient language that simply said “barrier”. Gael walked up to it and stood directly next to it before turning to me.

“Your task is to enchant this ancient word to erect a barrier around our home. We elves know that there is something your are hiding about your ability to enchant-” I flinched upon hearing this “But we do not care what it is you’re hiding. As long as you help us with this, we will forever be in your debt and we will acknowledge you as one of us. Now, if you would.” He moved slightly away from the stone and kept his arm outstretched to indicate it.

I walked up to it and reached out both hands as if to touch it. Once I was a inch away from it, I kept my hands in place and closed my eyes. Using my mana, I slowly wrapped the giant stone in my mana.

It took a long time and compared to the small objects I usually enchanted, just wrapping this in my mana was already draining my mana to the point of it nearly being exhausted.

Suddenly, I felt a hand on my back.

“Don’t worry, we’re here to help.” I heard Gael behind me.

Slowly but surely, I felt a lukewarm feeling go into my back that started to fill up my mana. The feeling grew stronger and stronger as I constantly heard from more and more elves behind me say “I give you my aid too.”

I continued to create a giant circle using my mana and finally did after around 10 minutes of work. At this points, I was sweating from how much work I was putting into it. If I got any stat points or skills from doing this, I haven’t noticed yet as my full attention was just on enchanting this.

With the circle done, I started doing the writing. In the ancient language, I started writing what I wanted it to do.

(Use the mana present in the world to create a barrier that hides and forbids anyone that isn’t a friend of the elves to enter. If they shall harm the Elves may they be harmed themselves.)

I ever so slowly etched this with my mana in the circle and while doing so heard multiple things behind me fall.

“Leo… Please hurry…”

I myself was feeling very hot as if I was running a fever. Sweat was constantly dripping and making things even worse. Feeling this, I wanted to wipe it all away to remove the annoyance but if I did then I would have to redo the enchanting.

Pushing through I continued to slowly etch more and more. After a unknown set of time, I finally did finish. I slowly backed away from the now enchant stone. With heavy eyes and a heavy body, I turned around to face all the other elves who helped me.

Hundreds of them were lying on the ground with only 3 of them standing up and holding each others hands.

While looking at them, I heard a grinding noise behind me and turned back around to see what was happening. The enchanted stone was slowly lowering itself into the ground and once it touched the ground, seemed to have actually merged with it to create a small alter.

This alter then started glowing at the top before then shooting a bright blue beam directly into the sky. The blue beam after reaching a certain height spread out to create a dome that spread across the entire Elven kingdom.

“Congratulations” I heard from behind me. “You’ve guaranteed a safer future for us.”

[Congratulations for evolving your {Friend of the Elves} title. It is now {Protector of the Elves}. All elves will look up to you for what you’ve done and now see you as one of their own.]