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Chapter 632: Exposed!
Three arrows sealed off different positions almost simultaneously.
Gabriel moved almost at the same moment as Crimson Judgement swept outward in an instant.
Clang!
The first arrow was knocked away.
The second scraped against the blade and changed direction before slamming into the ground.
The third arrow was not aimed at Gabriel. Instead, it struck less than two meters in front of him.
Boom!
The soil exploded, and a clear boundary appeared before them.
“…”
Sophie stared at the line, her expression darkening.
“They don’t want us to continue.”
Gabriel did not answer. His attention was not on the arrows at all. It was on the people firing them!
Whoosh!
A blurry figure flashed past the canopy on the left.
Gabriel immediately turned his head, but he didn’t find anyone.
Another figure appeared on the right, then behind them. Farther away. Even directly above them.
Those people were constantly moving at high speed, but not one of them had truly exposed themselves from beginning to end.
With Gabriel’s current perception, he could detect the faint disturbances caused by their movements, but he still could not clearly see the full appearance of even one of them.
It was not because their speed surpassed his. Rather, it was because they were far too familiar with this forest.
They did not rely on speed alone. The tree trunks, branches and leaves, shadows, differences in height, and even the routes they chose after firing each arrow seemed to have been perfected through years of training.
After one person fired an arrow, another would immediately change positions. A third would observe, and a fourth remained positioned in Sophie’s direction at all times.
Their coordination was extremely practiced.
A trace of interest appeared in Gabriel’s eyes as he saw this. He was genuinely impressed.
From the look of things, they were not monsters but an intelligent race.
And one exceptionally skilled in forest combat.
Whoosh!
Another arrow came. This time, it was truly aimed at Gabriel.
The arrow suddenly emerged from the canopy ahead. It was faster than any of the previous attacks, and its arrowhead had already reached him before the sound of it cutting through the air could fully arrive.
Gabriel did not raise his sword.
Smack!
His right hand suddenly rose. His five fingers closed directly around the shaft.
The tremendous impact pushed his arm back by less than half an inch before it came to a complete stop.
The feathers at the end of the arrow continued trembling violently.
Gabriel lowered his eyes. This arrow did not have a metal arrowhead.
The entire arrow had been carved from an extremely pale kind of wood.
However, this wood was far harder than ordinary steel, and a very faint natural energy still lingered across its surface.
The moment Sophie saw the arrow, her expression suddenly changed.
“This…”
She instinctively stepped forward.
“The aura on it. It feels very similar to the power I’ve been sensing.”
Gabriel turned and looked at her.
Just then, a cold voice came from the depths of the forest.
“Leave.”
Gabriel immediately looked in the direction of the voice, only to see an empty space.
The next moment, another voice sounded behind them.
“Outsiders are forbidden from entering the Sacred Forest. Leave now. This is your final warning.”
The entire forest fell silent once again.
Sophie clenched her fists.
Gabriel merely raised his hand and casually tossed the arrow onto the ground.
“If you truly wanted to kill us,” he said calmly, his voice spreading through the forest, “the first arrow would not have missed.”
There was no response. But Gabriel could clearly sense it.
The auras hidden around them all changed for an instant.
As expected, he had guessed correctly.
They were not repeatedly warning them because they were incapable of killing them.
They had simply never intended to kill them in the first place.
At least, they had never intended to kill Sophie.
As for the reason, Gabriel turned his head and glanced at the girl beside him.
Perhaps from the moment they entered the forest, he had never been the person these people were truly watching.
With that thought, Gabriel stopped waiting.
He raised his foot, then stepped forward.
Thud!
His boot landed on the other side of the boundary created by the arrow.
The next instant, the entire forest seemed to come alive.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless sounds tore through the air from every direction.
Dozens of arrows had been released simultaneously from different heights, angles, and directions.
The trajectory of every arrow had been precisely calculated, leaving almost no room for any normal form of evasion.
Sophie’s pupils contracted. Before she could react, Gabriel’s left arm had already wrapped around her waist.
And with a mighty stomp on the ground…
Boom!
Both of them soared into the air.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dozens of arrows passed just beneath their feet and struck the earth, instantly blasting open a web of cracks across the ground.
Gabriel did not fall from the terrifying altitude they were currently at. Quite the opposite. He activated his gravity manipulation skill in reverse and charged directly toward the upper reaches of the forest.
The attackers hidden in the shadows clearly had not expected him to respond this way.
Several figures that had been moving at high speed paused for an instant.
Gabriel’s gaze immediately locked onto one of them.
The figure had just leapt from an enormous ancient tree toward another branch. Her entire body was still suspended in midair, moving so quickly that under normal circumstances, she would never have given an enemy the opportunity to approach.
Gabriel’s eyes turned cold.
[Bull Rush!]
Boom!
His already terrifying speed increased explosively.
The air directly in front of Gabriel burst apart.
The figure in midair was visibly startled.
She did not even have time to turn her head.
Gabriel was already in front of her. One arm remained wrapped around Sophie.
His other hand closed directly around the wrist of the hand holding the bow.
Smack!
The rapidly moving body was forcibly brought to a halt.
Only now did Gabriel finally see one of the attackers clearly for the first time.