Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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Throughout history, wisdom phoenix has been known for a lot of things, one of which was the fighting abilities of some of the members who were added to this house.

"You can do the first attack if you want, Lucifer."

"Oh? I wouldn't say no to that, Captain."

Both Lucifer and Zoe were amazing fighters even though neither of them were conventional fighters like mages or swordsmen.

"Alright then…"

While Lucifer was an archer with an extensive knowledge of spells and magic, he could not use those things and was restricted to only his Aura and the sword skills that he had.

While on the other hand, Zoe had a very strong physique as the members of her blacksmithing class knew.

"We should start now."

She also had perhaps the finest control over Mana in their class. She had created most of the artifacts that they had used in this battle with that fine control of energy so, people knew even if she did not have any proper weapon mastery, she still was as strong as the dwarves in their class.

"You can start whenever you want."

But that wasn't all… thanks to her unreal insight into artifacts, the way she creates them, and the kind of functions these things have, she was regarded as one of the most prominent students of this batch.

-Oooooooooooong!

People compared her and Lucifer when it came to their intelligence and skills while they compared her and Uriel when it came to the simple strength that the students of this batch possessed.

"That's a nice shield, captain."

An archer with the skills of a mage and a relatively normal person with the intelligence of a scholar and strength of a high ranking knight… as well as golden hands of a master craftsman.

The two of them were now facing one another.

And, since Zoe had activated a barrier artifact to create a three-layered multifaceted barrier already, even the teachers were looking at this fun development with great interest. Explore more at empire

"I'm sure you can break it down easily though, Lucifer."

They were facing one another.

With Eon standing against her with a strong looking enchanted bow in his hand… There was a quiver of arrows hanging on his back, three unique arrows with more than six enchantments overlapping on them placed on the ground before him.

"I can break it down, certainly." He looked at her crimson eyes that resembled the pretty eyes of her mother, a smile on his face as he took out of the three arrows from before him.

"But, you should hold onto something, captain."

Placing the arrow on his bow, chennling not Aura, but the Mana in the environment with the power of his Aura like a whirlpool sucking it in, he supercharged the enchantments on the arrow and, with another smile at his Opponent, he released arrow.

-Swish!

However, no one saw the arrow leaving his bow.

-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM…!

The only thing they all, even the teachers looking at these things through the unique magic screen from the distance, saw was the extreme explosion that was created at the point of impact…

-Ghrrrrrrrrrrrrr…!

The impact was so great that it shook the entire area around them, sending a tremendous gust of force in all directions, knocking down a few students that were standing near the two of them.

"What the hell?!"

"What was that just now…!"

"What kind of arrow was that…?!"

Not just the arrow, what made that one blast so impactful was the energy that was put into that one attack, the Mana that was filled in the enchantments that weren't even related to a destructive attack.

Lucifer simply overloaded some highly complex enchantments and made them explode under a condensed force, a technique that high level mages used in the wars to make simple objects into high grade explosives.

"That was quite something…"

The force produced from the explosion was so great that the shield of Zoe's artifact that could rival even the barriers of the base grade (tier-4) spells was destroyed in an instant, shattered completely when the force hit it.

However, since he had advised her already, Zoe made a quick escape using, perhaps a movement skill, and used another artifact to create a barrier around that existing barrier and trapped most of the force inside it.

She wasn't thrown away thanks to that, however, she had done that in a mere second so not just the mages that were impressed by that shield but even the knights around there were impressed by the speed at which she had moved and reacted.

"Well, is this my turn now?"

Zoe didn't get hurt this time, there was in fact a smile on her face right now.

She enjoyed that initial moment, so she was ready to pay back just as much as she had received this time.

-Oooooooooooooooong!

She had a bunch of artifacts on her, most of which were currently on her- like the bracelets that had created those barriers- so she raised her palm and pointed her ring in a certain direction.

Lucifer had vanished from that place after that one attack, but she knew he was still there.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiish!

Thanks to their connection and her heightened senses as a unique being, she knew that he was here even though he was using a unique technique to completely erase his presence.

"That was dangerous, captain."

What Zoe did was simply to create a magical spell shaped like a javelin and threw it towards a certain direction with all intention to hurt him.

And, even though he wasn't in that place at that moment, right when the javelin reached a certain point, it somehow changed its trajectory and swung in the direction where he actually was at that moment.

Thankfully, he had heightened senses as well and was able to, by the breath of his hair, avoid getting hit by that dangerous spell.

"Well, I expected that much."

Neither of them were acting right now.

This wasn't some kind of a play that they were putting on for the audience.

Though they were holding back a lot, even though they knew a lot about them and their powers, they were fighting for real this time.

This was a rare chance for both of them, so they were trying to get past their opponents' minds and read them, calculate what they could do, calculate how much they can calculate their own calculations, and move in a way that would at least make some kind of change.

-Swiiiiiiiish!

-Boooooom!

They were fighting right now, and even though they were only using simple things and not something highly complicated, the mental process involved in this fight was much deeper than anyone present there could think about.

It was the same as outsmarting their opponent's outsmarting. It was a pure game of predictions, and it required so much of focus that if they missed even a single step in their higher degree calculations, they would end up giving their opponents the chance that they needed and would lose the battle.

-Swish! Swish! Swish!

Eon didn't want to lose, and Zoe wanted to win so that he could be proud of her.

She was a divine beast, but that didn't mean she could think as well as he and Lucy combined could.

-Swish! Swish!

Even if she was a divine beast, she was still young and was developing while on the other hand, Lucy- who was helping Eon closely on each step he was taking- had all the memories and cognitive abilities that Zoe's mother wanted her to have.

Technically speaking, Lucy was a few moments older than Zoe as well, and she had learned through constant analysis of the environment around her, the memories that were given to her, as well as all kinds of worldly experiences that even Zoe had yet to experience.

-Swiiiiiiiiiish!

While Zoe inherited his master's life force and the talents that she had, the memories that should have been passed down to her as her offspring did not go to her and instead were given to her successor, to Eon, in the form of Lucy, who contained not just the memories that she had left behind for him, but also much more.

He was her successor, but still…

"Are you going to use the other two arrows or should I use them instead?"

Zoe was a divine being who was much stronger than even the teachers that were watching them right now.

As someone possessing unawakened divinity, she was not yet strong enough to be noticed by the worldly forces, but she most certainly was beyond the level of the teachers of the academy.

But… she wasn't here to flex her strength.

"Oh I will use them. Don't worry."

As she wanted, in the eyes of the rest of them, she was merely a simple human with not so simple level of strength.

She didn't use any weapons and she didn't want to use any.

She could use magic if she wanted, but aside from some simple spells, she had never used any specific special magic in the academy either.

"You won't be able to use them anyway."

She was strong, yes, and she was highly talented when it came to creation.

But she was still a student of the academy and a house captain.

"Oh? I won't?"

-Swish! Swish! Swish!

All the strength that she needed to show was the strengths that She, as the house captain of the Wisdom Phoenix possessed.

She was strong even without her unique powers anyway.

"Will you try it?"

"You want me to, don't you?"

"Do I?"

He was the most important person in this world for her.

That's why she was going to do all that she can and defeat him, at least in this battle…