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Sure enough, before the words had even faded, the "Sniper Arrow God" Karin Ling in the water mirror had already drawn her bow and released an arrow. A flash of green light was seen in the mirror, and then it shattered with a loud crash.

In the real elven capital, the miracle had just begun. Standing atop the Primeval Golden Tree, Karin Ling, with the help of the magic circle and the elven mages, temporarily gained the ability to harness the golden tree, thereby mobilizing the super-combination magic. With all sixteen elemental forces within her fully activated, she finally managed to control the light condensed from the mana of tens of thousands of mages, continuously gathering it onto her legendary weapon, the "Shiyu Cold Bow." At the same time, her spiritual power was entrusted to the phantom of the Nature Goddess. After a moment of concentration, she finally found the trajectory she needed amidst the chaotic sky's radiance and immediately shot the emerald arrow without hesitation.

It was an incredibly miraculous arrow.

The arrow's trajectory was as swift and zigzagging as lightning, splitting rapidly with each change in direction—one arrow became ten, ten became a hundred, then a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million. By the time the countless emerald arrows made contact with the water-based forbidden spell composed of countless bubbles, their numbers were beyond estimation.

Each emerald arrow met a sapphire bubble, and upon contact, both instantly annihilated. The destroyed bubbles lost their ability to multiply and obediently vanished into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, countless emerald arrows twisted and turned, dodging the oncoming bubbles, navigating through the gaps between them, and advancing inward.

"Crack crack crack——————"

"Crack crack crack crack crack crack——————"

"Crack crack crack crack crack crack crack crack——————"

The sounds of countless bubbles bursting rang out. Though each individual sound was not very loud, the combined noise of hundreds of millions of bursts was as overwhelming as a torrential downpour.

In just three minutes, all the sounds abruptly ceased. The vast space to the west of the "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array" suddenly became eerily quiet—no bubbles, no arrows, no noise. The "Sniper Arrow God" Karin Ling had, in this short time, used arrows of light created with only half the enemy's mana to shoot down all the nearly ten billion destructive bubbles of the water-based forbidden spell. The entire "Dreamlike Bubble" dissipated into thin air, leaving only a ravaged plain behind.

At the peak of the Primeval Golden Tree, Karin Ling's body swayed, and she tumbled down, but was immediately caught by the prepared elves, who took care of the exhausted Arrow God.

"Poof————" With the destruction of the "Dreamlike Bubble," Grand Mage Jia Ruoling's figure suddenly turned into a cluster of bubbles and vanished without a trace, leaving no last words.

On the mountaintop, only Grand Mage Falayer, wreathed in lightning, remained, driving the thunder-based forbidden spell "Rhapsody of Collapse" toward the elven capital.

"With the 'Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array' destroying the 'Desolate Sands,' and the Sniper Arrow God combining with the super-combination magic to shatter the 'Dreamlike Bubble,' how will you, now mana-depleted elves, withstand my wrathful lightning?" the old mage muttered to himself, continuously pouring his life-force mana into the forbidden spell's magic circle, causing the purple-gold lightning raging in the distant sky to grow even more ferocious.

Above the elven capital, the "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array," now reduced to a quarter of its strength, was showing signs of collapse. Under the pressure of the purple-gold lightning, its defensive layers crumbled one after another, retreating to the outskirts of the old capital. Any further retreat would reduce the recently summoned "Xilin Meilidania" to ashes.

Meanwhile, to the north of the elven capital, the battle between the two young sword saints and the two elves had taken a strange turn.

"It seems the outcome is clear. There's no point in us charging in now," Xian Lan said, shaking his long whip.

Hades, leaning on his "Frostmourne Sword," nodded in agreement. "Indeed, the elves' doom is upon us."

The two had been held back outside the "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array" by the combined efforts of the "Star-Hunting Arrow God" Hekler and the dark elf girl Ye Ge. While part of the reason was the excellent coordination of the elves' ranged and melee attacks, the two young sword saints had also not fought with their full strength. Even if they were willing to sacrifice themselves, they had no desire to die meaninglessly. If the forbidden spell mages had been at a disadvantage against the elves, they would have charged into the elven capital to slay the elven mages at all costs. But the elves had been at a disadvantage all along, and even though they had managed to destroy two forbidden spells in a final burst of strength, their own power was now nearly exhausted. It seemed inevitable that they would be destroyed by the final thunder-based forbidden spell. In such a situation, if the two young men forced their way into the elven capital, it would be nothing but a suicide mission.

Just as they were thinking this, a strange sensation suddenly washed over them.

"What's this...? There's a new power emerging from the elven city."

"Damn it, the elves still have hidden strength. We must stop them!"

Their sensitivity to power allowed the two young saints to immediately sense the change, even though they didn't yet understand what it was. They reacted instantly.

But two whistling arrows came flying toward them, cutting off Hades and Xian Lan's advance.

"Huh?" Both men, having caught an arrow each, were startled. Through the previous battles, they had become familiar with the Arrow God's power. Such powerful arrows could only be shot one at a time by the "Star-Hunting Arrow God" Hekler. The appearance of two arrows simultaneously meant...

"The elven Arrow God Afrani is here. You two shall not advance any further."

A proud female figure suddenly appeared on the battlefield, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Hekler, firmly blocking the path of the two human youths.

"Afrani? You're the 'Dreammoon Arrow God' of the moon elves. Why are you here?" Xian Lan asked, frowning.

The elven woman named Afrani sneered in response. "Moon elves... I'm sorry, but the title of moon elves no longer exists. Since the birth of the new Queen of the Elves, the old titles of high elves, wood elves, and moon elves have all been abolished. From now on, there is only one elven race in this world—the elves who originated from the Primeval Golden Tree and made their capital in Xilin Meilidania."