Chapter 149: Tip of the Iceberg (4)
The bombardment that felt like it was tearing the world apart finally came to an end. A thick cloud of dust blanketed the entire island. From the sky, fragments and debris hurled upward by the explosion came raining down.
The audience watching this unfold was going insane with curiosity.
“What the hell just happened...?”
“K-Keter shot an arrow into the sky and it just kept getting bigger. Then it went boom, and... I saw that these arrows of light rained down, but...”
“Can an archer—or a knight—do something like that?”
“It has to be magic. That was definitely magic!”
“Wait, isn’t magic banned in our kingdom?”
“If that’s magic... then what kind of monster of a mage is he?!”
Reactions varied wildly, but everyone had one desperate question: what happened next? Did everyone die? Was the island obliterated? Magic or not, monster or not—people wanted answers. Even the nobles, who were normally composed, were blinking blankly like cavemen discovering fire. What Keter had just displayed had gone far, far beyond archery. It was something that surpassed magic as well.
“I had no idea Sefira’s archery could be this powerful!”
The nobles all assumed this must be part of Sefira’s legendary Zodiac Archery. After all, Sefira was not only the strongest archery family in the kingdom but also among the top five across the entire continent.
They wondered why they hadn't shown something of this scale before. But one thing was clear: just that single technique proved that Sefira was not a weak family. If this had been cast not on an island but in a city, or on a battlefield...