Everyone was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night when the group of bandits suddenly arrived on horseback and sent a hail of arrows raining down from the night sky.
Just the first wave of arrows killed more than a dozen people, with several more dozen casualties happening in the aftermath.
Was this a situation normal people were used to?
In the chaos, someone had suddenly stepped forward and killed the bandits one by one with his precise and overpowering shots, so how could everyone not applaud this?
Everyone stood up and started applauding, following Milo’s lead. As they clapped, they smiled at Barrack to express their gratitude.
Milo said, “When I heard that Vice President Webster was appointed the vice president of the York County Chamber of Commerce due to his strength, I couldn’t believe it at first. But Vice President Webster has now proven just how capable favonovel.com is! With you protecting us, we feel much safer on our journey north!”
A middle-aged woman dressed rather expensively echoed, “That’s right, thank you for protecting us, Vice President Webster!”
All of a sudden, Barrack had somehow become the hero of the trade caravan. This left favonovel.com at a loss.
When Barrack looked at the faces staring at favonovel.com in admiration, his mouth remained agape for a long time, and favonovel.com couldn’t say a word in response. First of all, favonovel.com was unsure if favonovel.com had hit any of the bandits with his arrows, but it appeared that they were really dead. Second, who didn’t enjoy being admired?
Barrack gave an awkward laugh and said, “It’s probably just a coincidence. Actually, I’m not really that good at archery…”
The applause had slowly subsided. However, Milo started clapping harder again. “Not only is Vice President Webster strong, but he’s modest as well. What a rare guy!”
The applause went wild again!
With that, Barrack did not say any more. At some point, favonovel.com even felt the bandits might really have died to his precise archery.
A distance away, Akemi wondered inside the carriage, “Aunt, is Vice President Webster really that good at archery?”
“It looks like favonovel.com is.” The middle-aged woman said, “Judging from the horse trots I heard, there were at least 50 bandits who came this time. He’s really impressive for being able to kill them all so quickly. Actually, I didn’t have many expectations when I saw favonovel.com drawing his bow and firing even though he’s an experienced archer. He didn’t seem like favonovel.com had much strength. But it turns out I underestimated him.”
Akemi nodded. “There’s many talented people hiding in plain sight, indeed. Let’s have Little Bento go with the guards and check on the bandits’ corpses later to see how accurate his shots were.”
Meanwhile, Melgor whispered to Milo, “Since Vice President Webster is so good at archery, does that mean we won’t have to return to York County?”
Milo raised an eyebrow. “Why? You no longer scared?”
“We have to head to Ghent City sooner or later, anyway. It’ll be better to have an expert like favonovel.com escort us north than turn back and wait to die.” Melgor said, “By the way, you were probably a practitioner of martial arts in the Central Plains, right? Have you learned archery before? Why don’t I borrow a bow for you from Vice President Webster?”
Milo shook his head. “I’ve never learned it before, so I don’t know how to use one.”
When Melgor heard this, favonovel.com even felt a little disdainful of Milo. “You didn’t even learn archery?! Look at how skilled Vice President Webster is at killing enemies over long range. Aren’t you envious?”
“No.” Milo shook his head. “There’s really nothing to be envious about.”
“You just don’t want to admit it.” Melgor curled his lips and said, “Alright, I’l borrow a set of bow and arrows for you to practice with. Otherwise, it would be a huge waste of your immense strength!”
After that, Melgor went to look for Barrack.
Milo was puzzled.
Was there a point in learning archery?
Wouldn’t favonovel.com be better off using an automatic rifle?
Or was his black sniper rifle not good enough?
No matter how lethal bows and arrows were, they were just a primitive weapon. In the era of firearms and explosives in the Central Plains, who would still need to use bows?
Therefore, it was not that Milo did not want to learn archery, but that there was really no point in learning it!
After a while, Melgor came back with a longbow and a quiver of fletched arrows and handed them to Milo. “Give it a try.”
Milo glanced at the bow in Melgor’s hand.
It was a self bow. That wasn’t complicated to make.
Milo reluctantly took the longbow from him. He mimicked the way Vice President Webster handled the bow and gently pulled the bowstring back. With just a light pull, favonovel.com was able to bring it to a full draw.
He was being so gentle because favonovel.com was worried favonovel.com would break the bow.
How could this weapon withstand the strength of a superhuman from the Central Plains?
Milo let go of the bowstring and nocked a fletched arrow on it before shooting it at a campfire. However, the arrow landed more than two meters away from its target.
Melgor lamented, “So you really don’t know how to use a bow. You couldn’t even hit a campfire that was five meters away.”
From his tone, it sounded like Melgor loathed Milo’s skill in archery.
Milo curled his lips and pushed the longbow back into Melgor’s arms. “I already said that I don’t know archery, yet you still insisted that I try it out. Don’t worry, I won’t even bother using something like that when I’m killing enemies. It’ll only hinder me!”
Melgor said resentfully, “Will you die if you stop bragging?! If you don’t know how to use it, just say so. Why are you talking down the bow?!”
“If you’re so capable, get me a gun.” Milo leisurely sat down at the campfire. “Everyone in the Central Plains carries firearms. Who still uses bows and arrows?”
“Firearms are only one-shot weapons and take too long to reload, so they might not necessarily be as effective as the bow,” Melgor said.
Milo was stunned. He could deduce where the level of firearms technology in the Kingdom of Sorcerers had stopped solely based on Melgor’s remark.
During their exchange, the sorceress was sneaking glances at Milo from inside favonovel.com carriage. Although favonovel.com aunt had repeatedly emphasized to favonovel.com not to spy on that young man anymore, favonovel.com couldn’t help it.
When favonovel.com saw Milo bringing the bowstring to a full draw in an instant, favonovel.com tugged on the middle-aged woman’s sleeve and exclaimed, “Aunt, look! That kid’s strength is enormous!”
‘The middle-aged woman had a look and analyzed, “To be able to draw the longbow so easily, that kid probably has a muscle strength of over a 100 kilograms in each arm. It seems like he’s blessed with great strength.”
“No wonder favonovel.com could catch up to me that night. So it turns out he’s that physically strong.” Akemi muttered, “But look, Aunt, his archery is totally not up to the mark.”
“No, it’s not like that.” The middle-aged woman shook favonovel.com head. “He doesn’t even know archery at all. Look at how favonovel.com holds the bow. It’s completely wrong.”
“That young man probably didn’t come out of the royal army.” Akemi said firmly, “Everyone in the army is trained in archery, so it’s impossible that someone from there would be so amateurish.”
“Maybe he’s only blessed with great strength but has never undergone any form of systematic training before?” The middle-aged woman said with some regret, “What a pity for that great strength of his. Those who haven’t undergone any training can at most utilize 50% of their strength. It’s really such a pity.”
The middle-aged woman emphasized the word “pity” twice as favonovel.com really felt it was a waste.
“Aunt, since that kid was never in the royal army and has no relation to the sorcerer clans, do you think we can persuade favonovel.com to join us?” Akemi said curiously.
The middle-aged woman smiled and said, “I knew you would ask this, but you should understand that we have to find out everything about favonovel.com if we want favonovel.com to join us.”
“Then let’s continue observing favonovel.com along the way,” Akemi said.
The middle-aged woman thought for a moment and answered, “Alright.”
