Cursed Immortality

Chapter 1247: Riding for a Fall! (6)

The Myth of Black Archer instantly felt something was wrong, but it wasn’t just the end there, as at that moment, it happened.

The ethereal arrow, an attack empowered by his Quasi-Myth strength and law, guided by space itself, and capable of bypassing countless defenses, arrived!

The hooded skeleton merely raised one hand, but no laws erupted, or an overwhelming aura appeared, nor did any grand technique or spell manifest.

He simply flicked a pitch-black finger, and the next instant, the arrow shattered!

‘CRACK!’

Space collapsed around it, and darkness dispersed as the attack ceased to exist, freezing the Myth of Black Archer.

Thereafter, a chill ran through his spine, and for the first time in countless years, a hint of fear surfaced within his heart because that attack should not have been stopped so casually.

Yet the unknown figure had destroyed it as effortlessly as one might brush away dust.

Right at that moment, the skeletal figure slowly raised his head, and the pale white-golden flames intensified as if burning away the thousands of miles, mountains, folded dimensions, and hidden space between him and the Myth of Black Archer.

Thereafter, those burning eyes locked directly onto him, and the Myth of Black Archer’s entire body stiffened!

‘Impossible!’

The Myth of Black Archer was hidden inside folded space where, even Quasi-Myths struggled to locate him once he activated his bloodline abilities, yet those ghostly eyes seemed to be staring directly at him, at his exact location!

At that moment, only a single thought appeared in his mind, ‘I’ve been noticed! Could it be that this is a high-ranking Undead under the Undead Lich King’s command, or perhaps the Lich King himself!’

No matter the identity of that skeletal figure, his assassin instincts erupted, and every warning he possessed screamed of extreme danger.

A terrifying realization dawned on the Myth of Black Archer. This was neither prey nor a target. This was not an opponent he could investigate, and something else entirely.

Without even attempting another attack, the Myth of Black Archer immediately chose to retreat, confident he could escape even if discovered, since it was his specialty.

Abruptly, space folded around him, and his figure rapidly dissolved before his body merged into the surrounding dimensions, and then he vanished completely. The mountains returned to silence.

Only after escaping countless miles away did he finally slow down, yet the feeling of dread remained.

Because for a brief moment, when those white-golden flames met his gaze, he felt as though he had been looking into an existence that shouldn’t exist. An existence standing far beyond the limits of his understanding.

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, Jacob remained standing in the space currents as the shattered remnants of the arrow slowly dispersed around him.

The pale flames within his eyes quietly flickered as he used the Eyes of Judge to look at the assailant and toward the place where he had disappeared.

Although the ‘assailant’ had been quite discreet and possessed a powerful stealth-type talent, under the Eyes of Judge, nothing can remain hidden. In a sense, the Eyes of Judge were the bane of the Myth of Black Archer or experts like him.

With a peculiar glimmer in his eyes, he thought, ‘Interesting. He’s a quasi-myth, yet he didn’t belong to the Undead Race or a Dark Being. Which means that the fleet I saw on the way here…the Mythical Coalition is already on the move.

‘If this guy is one of the Quasi-Myths of the Mythical Coalition, then all I need is to capture him, and everything else will become much easier…’

Jacob’s icy gaze remained fixed upon the distant horizon where the Myth of Black Archer had fled, the pale flames burning within his eyes seemed to contain endless thoughts.

Despite the Myth of Black Archer’s best efforts to leave no trace, the trail of invisible particles remained visible only to Jacob. The Myth of Black Archer had absolutely no idea whose path he had just crossed.

Jacob finally moved, but to the Myth of Black Archer, who had been closely watching the former while fleeing, it felt as if space itself had moved.

With the terrifying authority of the Eyes of Judge locked on the Myth of Black Archer, Jacob descended upon reality, and the next moment, the endless distance separating them suddenly compressed.

It was the First Concept of Space Law, Space Compression!

The vast region between them folded inward, mountains, clouds, death mist, and empty sky all seemed to collapse into overlapping layers.

The Myth of Black Archer’s expression changed instantly.

“What?!”

His pupils contracted as a chill exploded through his soul; as a unique being who specialized in Space Law, he understood better than anyone what had just happened.

This wasn’t some crude spatial movement technique; this was a Law Concept, a genuine First Concept, and it was terrifyingly refined almost to the boundary of the second concept, on the same level as himself.

The distance that should have required dozens of breaths to cross was instantly reduced to a fraction.

Jacob appeared incomparably closer, and the Myth of Black Archer immediately activated his movement technique. Darkness and spatial fluctuations erupted around him as countless black ripples spread beneath his feet.

Yet before he could even stabilize himself, Jacob moved again, this time he used the First Concept of Light Law, Light Blink!

His body suddenly dissolved into pure jade-gray light itself as a single ray flashed across the heavens.

The speed surpassed all conventional movement, where Jacob’s eyes could see, his body could arrive. This was the Light Blink!

The Myth of Black Archer felt his scalp go numb.

‘He also comprehends Light Law?!’

For the first time since becoming a Quasi-Myth, genuine fear surfaced in his heart, and he finally realized that this wasn’t merely an enemy but a nightmare. A monster possessing mastery over both Space and Light.

The very combination that made escape nearly impossible meant that before he could retreat again, Jacob was already closing in.

‘Dammit!’

The Myth of Black Archer finally stopped holding back as darkness erupted and space trembled, a massive black longbow appearing in his grasp. Countless spatial cracks formed around him.

This was his signature technique, which he had developed after countless years of refining his assassin arts, and the first concepts of Space and Darkness, the Black Archery!

‘BOOM!’

Thousands of black arrows instantly materialized. Each arrow was forged from condensed darkness and fragmented space. Every single one carried enough power to obliterate a Legendary King and gravely injure Quasi-Myths.

The sky darkened, and the world seemed covered by a rainstorm of annihilation.

“Die!”

The arrows descended, and space itself fractured under their passage.

Yet Jacob remained expressionless, and the next moment, astral radiance exploded around him. It was the power of his Innate Aspect surging, the Astral Transcendence!