Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 198: The Overpowered Shield

With a shield on his back, Don nocked the arrow on his bowstring as the bow's runes started to glitter.

"Boom"

The loud booming sound of the arjuna bow was heard again as the werewolves startled to see one of their companion's heads explode.

The count had become forty-nine as the werewolves quickly formed groups. One ground was running towards him with lightning speed as one group kept its distance and fired spikes made of life energy at him.

The third group of the werewolves started to dig into the ground and buried themselves. Everyone expected him to kill the werewolves that were running towards him but he evaded them and fired arrows at the werewolves that were casting spells.

Every time the loud boom sounds, the count would decrease and a werewolf's head would explode. While he was evading the werewolves trying to attack him in close range, a couple of werewolves suddenly jumped out of the ground beneath him. The shield on his back blocked the attack of the werewolves that appeared at the right time and saved him from the gorilla attackers.

Don realized the danger of standing on the ground as he hurriedly used the arrows in the wall as steps and rained arrows from above.

When Audrey first saw him, he was barely surviving the battle with the centipedes and didn't look very skilled but now, the way he moved, his aim, and everything showed his battle prowess and superior talent.

"Look likes he's better than your friend, Chase"

It was no surprise that the prodigies like Amara and Rosaline didn't like each other and since Chase was a friend with Rosaline, Amara used this opportunity to ridicule her.

Rosaline didn't reply to Amara as she was thinking about where Chase could have gone without taking part in the arena.

"Did he drink a monkey potion or something?"

Rodrigo saw Don leaping from wall to wall using the arrows as support.

"Look at him"

The girls shouted in envy when they saw Don running on the wall and almost standing upside down on the ceiling and firing arrows at the werewolves.

The werewolves destroyed all the arrows in the wall to prevent him from running and leaping like a monkey as some werewolves mimicked his movements and started to run on the walls.

There were blood and guts everywhere in the arena and the blood splatters on the wall made running on the wall tricky and hard. The count had become thirty as twenty werewolves already lost their lives to his arrows.

But that didn't stop him from stepping on the werewolves' heads and use them to move around and stay away from the gorilla attackers who were hiding under the ground.

"Gurr"

The werewolves who got stepped on by Don growled as Don killed the last spell caster werewolf by sending an arrow through its eye.

"Ouch"

The tigress said when she saw one werewolf land a hit on him and throw him off from balance.

The moment he landed on the ground, the gorilla attackers emerged from the ground and started to attack him with their sharp claws. The hit he just received almost took a huge chunk of flesh from his arm and left a nasty cut on his arm.

The gorilla attackers overwhelmed him by their superior number and didn't give him time to use his bow.

"He's finished"

The crowd saw the werewolves surrounding him and preventing him from using the bow.

While he was dodging and evading their attacks, the shield vibrated on his back. Just after it vibrated, the shield circled Don and cut the werewolves surrounding him.

"I want that shield"

Everyone who witnessed the shield saving him from the tight situation, they looked at it with sparkling eyes as even Audrey and Rosaline were surprised at the shield.

Looking at the deep cuts on their bodies, the werewolves didn't try to get too close to him again as the shield did not come back to his back but floated in the air before him.

He guessed what the shield wanted him to do and jumped onto the shield.

Even though the shield looked lighter, it held Don's body as it took him a few seconds to balance himself.

He ordered the shield to fly forward in his mind as the shield soared through the air.

"Wow, slow down"

He said as the shield flew too fast for a space like this arena.

"It can be used to fly too?"

The shield appeared to be too overpowered for the youths as Arrora wondered that her shield could do these cool things too.

"He's always a lucky bastard"

Knight silently said with a smile and looked for the people who might try to take the shield from him when he returned from the arena.

Many of the youths had greed in their eyes but none of them would have the guts to fight for him except Amara and the crown prince of the star empire as they had powerful backing. At the moment they didn't seem like they would fight for the shield but Knight decided to keep an eye on them in case they tried anything funny.

With the flying shield beneath him, Don got back into the killing as he fired arrows in lightning fast. The werewolves count decreased to fifteen as only five werewolves remained on the ground while ten remained in the ground.

The five werewolves were fast but the shield was faster and it took him only a few moments to kill all the five werewolves.

"I think he's going to complete this wave"

"You think? Look at him, the werewolves in the ground have no way of reaching him, it's only a matter of time before he kills them too"

After seeing his skills, no one raised a voice against this youth's statement.

"Your royal highness, are you alright?"

Philea noticed Audrey's troubled face.

"I'm fine, it's just that I need to have a long talk with the teacher and my so-called advisors when I return"

Audrey ordered her advisors to notify her about the prodigies and talents like him on the continent but no one had told her about this archer.

She didn't get to her level by only depending on her teacher and her family but learning from other prodigies as well as adventuring through the empire to get more battle experience. If her advisors had mentioned about him, she would have learned a lot by watching him and learning the same techniques that he did.

Until now she had learned from Sears, Aqualis, and the head of the Lansor and because of this, she had confidence in defeating Rosaline or Amara or Chase or anyone of the prodigies in the moon empire from her generation as she still had a lot to learn before challenging her elder brother or her sister.

At the moment, Don was firing arrows at the ground to force the werewolves in the ground out, yet, no matter how many arrows he fired, the werewolves didn't come out.

"Alright, let's do this the hard way"

Don put the bow on his back and decided to use the earth bending to flush out the werewolves.

Magical fluctuations around him spiked as he raised his arms pointing at the ground beneath him. Everyone standing outside noticed the arena's ground shake and after a few seconds, ten hands made of mud emerged from the ground.

"Is that?"

When they looked closer at the hands that just appeared, they saw each hand was holding a werewolf while they struggled to free themselves from the hand.

The hands moved themselves to form a line as Don turned the werewolves into target practice dummies. He didn't let the werewolves struggle for long, he swiftly fired arrow after arrow through their heads and killed the werewolves in a few seconds.

Even though Don made killing them look easy, with their suppressed cultivation level, no one could have killed the werewolves if they were in his shoes except Knight and Audrey had much less chance of beating them than Knight.

Some of the youths cheered and clapped after Don finished the wave as Prodigies of both empires looked a little gloomy. The familiar black lightning bolt landed before him and left the reward for beating the wave.

To be honest, the youths looking from outside seemed more excited to see what he got. He looked won to see a shiny black arrow lying on the ground. The arrow was etched with runes and symbols as he picked up the arrow from the ground but he was surprised at the weight of the arrow.

He felt like he's holding a huge boulder in his hand as the symbols started to glow. The symbols floated out from the bow and flew into his mind.

Don closed his eyes while the symbols turned into words and etched into his mind.

The symbols were instructions on how to use the arrow and a spell to cast to unleash its power. When he opened his eyes, there were no symbols or runes on the arrow as he realized that without the spell he had just learned and the symbols etched into his mind, no one could use this arrow and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to unleash its full power.

"The destroyer"

Don said looking at the arrow before putting it into his space ring.