861 Being Powerful is a Sin Part 1 (2/2)
The silverline golden spearfish laid silently on the ground three miles away. Its head was wrapped with a thick layer of water vapor. The fish breathed with utmost difficulty, not daring to even move by half an inch. It was a delay of the inevitable. The water it was able to create was simply too limited. As soon as the energies in its magic nucleus were depleted, it would die in mere moments.
Saleen was not able to afford waiting for so long. He spoke to Eleanor, ”Shoot it dead. Aim for the heart.”
Eleanor nodded as she took out the Seven Nights, nocking a space arrow on the bowstring.
”Can't do it. Too far away.”
Saleen did not say much. He simply walked forward a bit with her. Eleanor stopped at the distance of about two-thousand yards away, ”My liege, this will do.”
”Do it.”
Eleanor nocked her arrow again on the bowstring, and simply shot forward without bothering to aim.
The arrow disappeared as soon as it was let loose, and appeared on the fish's body at the same time. The silverline golden spearfish detected danger, yet the arrow was lodged into its body before its scales even flicked, piercing its heart without mercy.
From Eleanor's perspective, if she was not able to shoot her target--a fish, which was rendered utterly incapable of movement--down, she would have failed as an elf, and might have as well have called herself a low level creature, like an ogres.
While the silverline golden spearfish possessed powerful defense, space arrow attack worked by tearing through space. The arrow had actually flickered a few times in the air, traversing an unknown number of parallel space, before hitting the fish's heart.
The silverline golden spearfish convulsed after its heart was pierced, thrashing about on the floor, and eventually failed entirely to keep the mist of water around its head. It was not to say that the elf's space arrow was something completely unavoidable. The best method to actually evade such an attack was to avoid being targeted in the first place. When the shooter failed to lock on to the target, the space arrow would simply disappear in some unknown parallel space, not even being able to hit its target at all.
When one was being targeted with the elf's space arrow, one would still be able to beat the arrow down when it returned to its original space. Although such a feat would have been extremely difficult, it was indeed possible for warriors of levels of golden grand swordmasters and above. Grade-9 sorcerers would also be able to achieve similar effects with certain equipment.
Be it golden grand swordmasters or grade-9 sorcerers, none would have been able match the silverline golden spearfish's abilities blow for blow. At that moment, all of the fish's powers and focus were used to enabled itself to breathe, and swift movements were also out of the question, rendering it incapable of casting any powerful magic. Eleanor's shot was simply one that was hitting a fixed target. There was simply no way that she could have missed.
The Seven Nights was a longbow with powerful attributes. The reason why a grade-7 elf like Eleanor was able to simply kill a grade-9 magic beast, was due almost entirely to her powerful equipment.
They stood where they were for half an hour, before the fish finally kicked the bucket. An arrow pierced right through its heart was a critical, fatal damage.
Saleen only walked forward after confirming the fish to be dead. Even with the carcass now laid flat on the ground, it still measured up to about six yards tall. Saleen made directly for its eight yard long spike, slapping at the gourd on his waist and releasing a six yard long water current, before going about cutting the carcass apart.
Saleen was being meticulous about it, not wanting to damage the structures of the silverfish golden spearfish's materials. The root of the spike was connected directly to the fish's skull. He tore off the skin and recorded the bone parts with magic patterns, before actually cutting away at the spike. The spike was hollowed out, filled with silver liquid and a thin silver line, linking it to the magic nucleus inside the fish's head.
After the spike was cut away, Saleen went digging out the magic nucleus. The size of the magic nucleus made him very happy. He stored it directly in his Devil Ring. He then took out the six eyes of the fish even more carefully, crafting them with water flame for a bit before storing them.
The eyes all came with natural magic patterns, enabling it to lock onto its targets. When all six eyes were locked onto Saleen, his body was rendered entirely immobile. If it had not been for Nicholas' prophecy magic, he and Nailisi would not have been able to escape at all.
Saleen stored the six eyes for further study, which would enable him to create powerful weapons. For example, crafting six tiger eye stones and attaching them on arrows. If the patterns were also etched into the stones, that particular arrow would be able to literally lock its target in place, when the shooter looked down at their target.
After Saleen had all top priority parts stored, he began to cut off the fish's scales. The scales could be considered special, as they were invisible most of the time. The silver liquid on the surface of the fish's body allowed it to move in the water without much resistance. The scales could flick into action when danger was sensed, with defensive properties comparable to grade-9 magic.
From Saleen's perspective, the silverline golden spearfish was a rare grade-9 magic beast. Such body structure and such magic-casting abilities would have rendered it almost invincible among the grade-9 magic beasts. The eight yard long spike in particular, was capable of energy attacks, by wrapping an invisible energy spear in front of it, effectively making the spike more than twenty yards long instead. All that combined with the speed at which it moved underwater, it was no surprise that the silverline golden spearfish was able to kill single-horned white whales.