Chapter 12 Shaar the Road Robber (2/2)
Not only that, Martha demonstrated a proudly smile, raised her chin and declared in a heroic tone: “Look carefully, I will shoot the third bird in the middle in the right eye!
Her elegant performance easily made others believe in her!
Whilst Shaar was admiring this archer, he heard the bowstring making an acoustic oscillation sound and a sharp arrow shot to the sky and made an elegant arc……
Wosh!!!
The shot must have been quite accurate…… but somehow it felt a little strange in Shaar’s view.
A realization flashed across his mind and he immediately understood what went wrong!
The shot itself was quite accurate, but it was missing on power. The arrow that was shot seemed too weak!
Such little strength might be enough to kill a house sparrow or a pheasant, but this flock of birds consisted of Mountain Goose which built its nest in Primal Wildfire. It was highly aggressive and even common eagles feared them.
As predicted, the arrow shot by that “goddess” flew towards the Mountain Goose in the middle. Almost hitting its mark, the bird made a contemptuous cry, turned its body mid-air and faced that weak arrow with its peck. With one movement, it fended off that arrow with its peck.
Before flying off, it deliberately screamed a few times towards Martha.
The goddess archer’s face suddenly turned purple and tried hard to maintain her composure. To cover her shame, she desperately tried to make an excuse: “You stupid animal! I tried not to harm your life with a warning shoot and you dared to mock me for this……” Her backhand pulled out another arrow and shot again.
Phew!
This Mountain Goose turned around and evade with ease……
The goddess archer could not take it anymore! Getting ashamed, she became angry and took out the eight remaining arrows from the quiver. In succession she shot all of them one after each other!
Hiding on the tree, Shaar was exactly twenty steps away from the circling flock of birds. While this goddess archer initially gave him a good impression, he did not expect that a misfire would fly towards his tree during that female archer’s rapid-fire. Not having the time to respond, Shaar’s nose suddenly got scratched from by that past flying arrow!!
While still appreciating the archer, who would have thought he would receive such a “surprise attack”? Shaar was not prepared for this attack at all and this “archer” almost killed him without knowing.
When that arrow scratched the tip of his nose, Shaar immediately broke out in cold sweat! That Bloodthirsty Great Wolf could not even kill him when he was weaponless and now his poor life was almost done for by that woman’s bad aim?
Shaar got enraged!
Shit, they actually dared to call this archer the Dark Moon Goddess?!
Fuck! She missed by 8 meters when shooting a bird – if she was the Dark Moon Goddess, then I am the god of war Achilles!!
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Emptying her quiver, Martha became tired and was out of breath. She put down her bow while panting and her whole face reddened. No one could tell if it was from the fatigue or from the shame, maybe a bit of both.
Her companions nearby stood there dumbfounded for a while before that golden haired swordsman Gary managed to get back his composure. He cleared his throat and walked next to Martha and patted her shoulder. With a loving face he comforted her in a gentle voice: “Martha, it’s all right, you ……uh… You were tired from all the walking and your strength is still weak. Occasionally missing something is nothing worth mentioning.”
Martha lowered her head and respond in a pitiful voice: “I don’t understand how it could happen. I am usually very accurate when shooting sparrow in our house……”
The golden haired swordsman stared maliciously at the gigantic man: “Nigal, this was your great idea!”
The gigantic man Nigal smiled embarrassedly and from the look of it, this golden haired swordsman was the leader of this group. Nigal did not dare to refute and turned his head towards that magician to change the topic: “Master magician Bidaldo, please have a look at the vicinity, we should be almost at our destination right? Didn’t that profiteer on Black Alley say that Ferocious Lions had their dens nearby?”
The magician smiled and did not respond while taking out a parchment with a map from his pocket. He then carefully took out his compass, observed it for a little while and looked at the terrain. Finishing his analysis, he pointed his finger to the east and confidently said: “Yes, it’s that way.”
Still observing this farce on his tree, Shaar silently sighed: “Idiot, it’s the opposite direction! It should be to the west instead ……If you really dared to go toward the east then you can meet those lovely goblins tonight.”
At that moment, he loosened his hand that covered the pitiful creature’s mouth and stretched his arms a bit. While lightly patting the face of that pitiful creature, he declared in a low voice: “Hey, for the time being we can’t leave here. There is work.”
“Huh? What kind of work?”The pitiful creature’s face blushed while asking in a low voice.
“Down there …… there are four fat sheep.” Shaar squeezed his jaw and announced: “It seems like it was destined by god that I would have to make a guess performance as a robber today.”
Finishing this sentence, he put the pitiful creature on a thick branch: “Sit here carefully and do not fall down.”
With one jump, he leapt from the tree.
Those four people with high skills were still discussing something when suddenly seeing a person falling from the sky in front of them and got startled!
“Who is there?!”
The golden haired swordsman Gary immediately drew his longsword, with its ruby mounted on the hilt and its sharp blade. From a closer look, Shaar saw that the blade was unexpectedly made of silver.
“Haha!!” Giving a loud intentional laugh, Shaar tossed his long black hair which smelled of the wild and used his hand to swing his rust stained axe. After taking a deep breath, he stuck out his chest, stared at them and shouted with a clear voice:
“This mountain ……uh, this mountain was not discovered by me! This tree ……uh, this fucking tree was also not planted by me! Nevertheless, if you want to cross here then you have to pay the safe passage fee!” While saying this sentence, his face intentionally made a ruthless expression: “If I hear a word from your mouth, hehe – then I will kill chop off your heads!”
Tightening his face, Shaar’s heart was relaxed – This should be right. He heard those lines from the bards in the tavern and it took him a long time to remember it. Yes, he should have remembered it correctly.
Those four expects stared dumbfounded at the robber who suddenly felt from the sky:
A ragged beggars equipped with a rotten rusty axe was pretending to be a robber…… Uh? His body was wrapped in a bandage?
The most ridiculous thing was, that bandage cloth had a pretty butterfly knot tied at the front……