Chapter 53: Unknown Archer(2)
Dozens of arrows flew towards him, the unknown, hooded archer not even having to pull the bow back each time, but instead just shooting out of nothing, as if he was using magic, a magic that Cades had never heard of before as he couldn't feel any magical movement resembling that which he already knew.
Cades however didn't think about the terrain, instead he could feel how the endless onyx chain was wildly swinging with each of his steps that was using magic to push himself forward with great power and consequently even greater speed.
The archer however didn't really care, he just continued shooting forward the arrows that seemed to be varying in size, power, speed and even elemental attributes, some of them exuded fire, heat, cold, some nature, and some other, unknown elements that Cades had no idea what it consisted of.
As Cades ran forward the arrows also began to be further and further spread out because of the great shaking of the endless chains, until Cades was almost there and the archer seemed to be panicking, his body tensing up further and assuming a defensive stance, putting the bow away to somewhere but somehow still continuing his bombardment even now, without the bow.
After that a sword suddenly appeared in the hand of the unknown archer and his hood was finally blown off by the immense speed of Cades, a speed he had no idea on how to measure because the onyx links of which the endless chain consisted were greatly decresaing in size not that he was this far ahead, a sign that another island may be near once more.
Perhaps even another temple, considering the fact that the chains decreased in the same way and relation before he arrived at the first temple island, perhaps these were twin temples, perhaps these temples are connection points for the chains, perhaps these temples might be everywhere in this endless void, but Cades was certain that he had not met the only temple in an endless expanse of nothing.
But as he was thinking that he was finally able to see the face of the unknown archer and for just a small moment he actually hesitated.
For just a fracture of a moment he thought that the archer was a female ehetrian, but then in the next fracture of the very same second he realized that the archer was neither a woman nor a ehetrian, the archer obviously didn't have wings and Cades just had a feeling that he wasn't a woman, but Cades wasn't entirely certain on how to tell that with this species, though from what he had been able to gather up to now it kinda seemed like this species was very similar to ehetrians.