Everett was a tall, middle-aged man dressed entirely like an adventurer, wearing leather clothes, leather boots, and a deerskin hat.
He was a very cautious person—so cautious that the moment he saw Olivia appear, a bow manifested in his hand, and he swiftly aimed it at her.
In this hidden location, no one else should have appeared besides him.
Anyone who did show up was highly suspicious.
Furthermore, the person was wearing a nun's habit, clearly belonging to the church.
However, although Everett drew his bow, he did not fire immediately. Out of caution, he asked a question first.
"Who are you? Why have you come here?"
"Why don't you guess?"
Olivia walked up at a leisurely pace.
This made Everett even more certain that Olivia did not come with good intentions.
Although he didn't know why he was being targeted just after returning to Kaliron, especially since he hadn't been back for a long time.
No, that wasn't right. The person might not be targeting him... perhaps they were targeting Thales.
He had come here specifically by following Thales's tracks.
If the other party's goal was Thales, then it wouldn't be strange for them to run into each other here.
Realizing this, Everett no longer hesitated.
He released his grip, and a fiery red arrow formed from the elements shot out from the drawn longbow, flying toward Olivia with extreme speed.
Since she was an enemy, he would take her down first and ask questions later.
In an instant, the fiery red arrow reached Olivia. She felt a wave of scorching heat rush toward her, almost as if it were about to melt her.
The man's simple strike contained remarkably formidable power.
Olivia decisively used the King's Domain, vanishing from her spot with a teleportation.
'A Skywalker-level Hunter... luckily, we're underground.'
As Olivia dodged the attack, information about her opponent flashed through her mind.
Everett's transcendent path was that of a Hunter, specializing in long-range combat.
The reason he could find Thales was also related to the Hunter path; they were experts at tracking and could determine a target's location based on the slightest clues.
As information about Everett flickered through her mind, a thunderous boom echoed as the arrow he had just fired struck the underground passage, causing a violent explosion.
Having missed his mark, a look of surprise inevitably flashed in Everett's eyes.
He hadn't expected his attack to succeed instantly, but the way Olivia had dodged his strike left him somewhat baffled.
How did that dodge look so much like instant movement?
Because the method of evasion was so startling, Everett did not fire a second arrow after drawing his longbow again. Instead, he paused to consider how to respond.
He lacked too much information about his opponent. He didn't know who she was or which transcendent path she followed, leaving him momentarily passive.
But he quickly made a decision. For him, the first step was to determine the opponent's class rank and transcendent path. To do that, he just had to keep attacking.
He pulled the longbow back heavily, and a silver-white arrow naturally manifested upon it.
As he released his hand, the silver-white arrow shot forth. Mid-flight, it began to split—from one into two, from two into four, then eight, sixteen, and thirty-two.
In the blink of an eye, countless silver arrows had split off, filling the entire underground passage and surging forward frantically, leaving no room to dodge.
Yet, faced with such an attack, Olivia simply teleported again, vanishing from the spot and letting the strike hit nothing but air.
This time, Olivia's landing point was directly behind Everett.
The moment she appeared, she was already tightly gripping the Cross Grace, which had transformed into a sword, and swung it heavily toward Everett's back.
A red glow flared atop the Cross Grace—it was the Wrathful Slash!
"Bang!"
The Cross Grace failed to strike Everett. At the critical moment, Everett violently twisted his body and whipped the staff in his hand behind him, clashing with the Cross Grace.
With a crisp sound, both of them were thrown back by the force of the impact.
"So you're just a Domainist. Is your path the Arbiter?"
This single collision allowed Everett to make an immediate judgment.
Regarding her rank, he was very certain. As for her transcendent path, he was less sure.
But since she was from the church and skilled in close combat, she was likely an Arbiter.
In any case, since the opponent was only a Domainist, he wasn't particularly worried.
As for the method of constant flashing she used, in Everett's experience, it likely came from the power of a forbidden artifact.
Such power definitely had limits and couldn't be used indefinitely, so he didn't need to overthink it.
With that thought, Everett decisively drew his bow and continued firing. Arrow after arrow, like soaring dragons, roared as they closed in on Olivia.
In an instant, Olivia's vision was again filled with a massive number of arrows.
This time, she did not choose to teleport away, as the magic mirror had already provided a specific combat plan.
She knew that while Everett appeared to be attacking her current position, he was actually guarding against her teleportation. Once she completed a teleport, he would immediately launch an attack at her landing point.
So, this time, Olivia channeled elemental power, letting a vast amount of it manifest and surge forward.
The elemental power transformed into a tide of converging wind and fire, instantly colliding with the numerous arrows. Amidst the thunderous explosions, it crushed the arrows and continued to sweep toward Everett.
This scene left Everett stunned once more. He clearly hadn't expected Olivia to have such a trick up her sleeve. Was that person's actual transcendent path an elemental mage?
Or was this another method produced by some forbidden artifact?
But could such a terrifyingly powerful forbidden artifact be used so casually?
There was no time to think. Everett lacked the ability to teleport away from damage, so he could only continue firing arrows, unleashing even greater power to neutralize the sweeping elemental force.
In the next moment, a golden-yellow arrow was shot by Everett. An incredibly sharp aura instantly filled the underground passage; the mere presence of the aura caused the stone walls of the tunnel to crack and crumble.
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