635 Elf archer!? (1/2)

”I don't think it's dangerous.”

Yomi indeed responded. However, that was the only sentence she would say.

Since his bonded female spirit was saying so, Seiji felt that there was no need for him to worry too much about it.

”It doesn't seem like anything dangerous… Just pay attention to it by yourself. Let me know if you feel like anything changes about it,” Seiji told Hoshi.

Hoshi nodded as he glanced at the green marking again.

The next instant, he felt as if he was in another dimension. He was now in a dark forest, standing on a large tree branch high in the air. He was shooting a sharp arrow at a dark shadow by using a dark-green longbow!

Notching the arrow, drawing the bowstring, aiming, and shooting… all these actions felt so concrete and even familiar to Hoshi.

Just as he was confused, this illusion suddenly vanished.

Hoshi felt that his right hand was burning. He could faintly sense something within this marking, and had a sudden epiphany.

He decided to try out this idea.

Hoshi summoned a spiritual eagle and had it stand on his right hand. This gave him a mystical sensation as if some power was about to burst forth from his hand. Simultaneously, a word he'd never heard before popped into his mind.

”Artadus…”

Hoshi reflexively knew that this wasn't a word from the language of Sakura Island.

He then saw the green marking begin to glow. The spiritual eagle then started glowing red, before it speedily transformed into mist which formed itself into a longbow!

”This is…” Hoshi widened his eyes in surprise.

Apart from the fact that this bow was a different color, the longbow… more accurately, this recurve bow was identical to the one Hoshi saw in the illusion just now! This bow had elegant curves and exquisite runs. It looked like a masterpiece of craftsmanship.

Seiji and the others were also rather surprised to suddenly see Hoshi's spiritual eagle transform into a weapon.

Before any of them got a chance to ask Hoshi what was going on, Hoshi held the bow with his left hand as if it was only natural. He then drew the bowstring with his right hand as the marking on his hand began to glow. A feathered arrow suddenly materialized on the bow from midair!

Hoshi drew the bow, aimed, and fired!

*Shtick!* The sharp arrow accurately pierced through a black wolf's head and directly transformed it into mist.

*Shtick shtick shtick shtick!* The beautiful boy used well-practiced movements to continuously shoot out arrows which each accurately hit their targets. Every single arrow killed a spiritual monster in a single shot. Hoshi soon eliminated all the small monsters in this area all by himself!

An elf archer!?

Seiji couldn't help but think of this famous fantasy job class when he saw this impactful scene of Hoshi shooting arrows.

”Hoshi, how…”

”I don't know… I suddenly felt that I possessed such a power.” Hoshi looked at the marking on his right hand. ”I think that this marking gave me this power.”

The mysterious marking gave Hoshi the ability to use archery and the elf archer job class?

Seiji thought about the teaching that he received from Minamoto no Raiko which helped him to learn a new technique. Was Hoshi's situation similar to his own…?

Could this marking be what the ”Cliff Squad” wanted to fight for and obtain at all costs? Seiji suddenly came to this realization.

If that was the case, this meant that the green spell array on Hoshi's hand was incredibly valuable! It likely had great power or potential.

Did Hoshi pick up a great treasure by chance?

”Do you feel any negative side effects from using this newfound power of yours?”

”Not at all… my right hand isn't even burning up anymore.”

”If it doesn't have any negative side effects, then go ahead and use it as much as you want.” Seiji glanced at the longbow. ”Congratulations on job class changing to elf archer.”

”Eh?” Hoshi paused in surprise.

”This humble one agrees!” Hisashi commented. ”As long as our Knight of Light changes his clothes and puts on a fake set of pointy ears, he'll become a perfect and alluring elf archer!”

”You'll be quite beautiful, Amami-san.” Mika also praised Hoshi.

Hoshi had a rather subtle expression after hearing this.