Chapter 64: The Marksman
"Don't come here, or I'll kill her!" shouted the leader of the elite assassins, the man in the felt hat, holding a sharp dagger to Elizabeth's neck.
Seeing the blade glowing with a faint blue light, Joyka knew that the dagger had been poisoned with deadly poison.
Seeing that Joyka really had no intention of getting closer, the man thought that his threat had succeeded, and he continued to order, "Throw your sword away!"
"Changdang".
With the crisp sound of metal landing, Joyka didn't hesitate to drop the Mithril Alloy Longsword to the ground.
"Hee-hee. Seeing Joyka so obedient, the "big felt hat" sneered proudly, and then gave the third order, "Turn around and step back!"
However, this time Joyka did not retreat, nor did she turn around, her sharp gaze was like a flying eagle looking down at its prey in the sky, staring at the scalp of the "big felt hat".
"Hurry up and do it, don't you hear?" said the "big felt hat," the "big felt hat" shouted fiercely as he drew the quenched dagger closer to Elizabeth's smooth skin.
Obviously, he got one thing wrong, Joika didn't come closer, and threw away the sword, not because his threat worked, in fact, Joika was a man who would never be at the mercy of any threat when he was in an advantageous position, and he threw away the sword because he wanted to change his weapon, and he didn't get close because the weapon had to be used when he was at a distance.
Joika draws an arrow from the quiver behind her back. When the man in the felt hat saw this, he immediately shrank himself and hid his body completely behind Elizabeth's back, but Joyka did not immediately draw his bow and arrow, and the unusually calm bounty hunter unhurriedly took out a small piece of rope, joined the part that was close to the arrow and the feather, tied two knots, and drew the pole into a slightly curved shape, and only then took the longbow from his back and placed the bound arrow on the bowstring.
"Boom" - Joyka shoots the arrow, but it's not Elizabeth or the man in the big felt hat that he's aiming at, it's the air on their upper left.
The arrow swept past the two of them and flew into the air, and the two knots that held the rope under the arrow mark loosened - Joyka was tied to a slipknot that would loosen itself as long as it withstood enough air resistance - and the bent shaft of the arrow snapped straight at once. Under the action of multiple external forces such as elastic force, inertia and air resistance, the sharp arrow turned around in the air, and pierced the back of the "big felt hat" from behind with a "poof".
"Whoa......" the man screamed, he had never thought that Joyka would bend the arrow, let alone shoot him from behind so accurately. This method of using purely physical means to control the direction of the arrow, without attaching any magic, is unheard of in Olopa.
Of course, he didn't know that when Joyka was standing still just now, he had carefully observed and measured the wind direction, wind speed, and distance, and the amplitude of his bending arrow, the strength of the knot, and the angle of the launch were all controlled quite accurately, and when he left the string, the arrow was destined to shoot into his back.
The arrow wound on his back caused the man to move, and his head shifted slightly to the side, revealing a small patch on the back of Elizabeth's neck.
Although Joyka had just shot the arrow, he was not idle, that is, the moment the arrow left the string, he leaned to the left side, supporting the center of gravity with his left foot, and at the same time kicked his right foot back, and his heel hit the bottom of the quiver, only to see the arrows in the quiver jump up, and two of the arrows were ejected by inertia, and fell down one after the other. Joyka didn't even look at it, he leaned to the side, twisted his head, bit the shaft of one arrow with his teeth, and at the same time reached out to catch the other, and then castrated his waist to place the arrow in his hand on the bowstring.
"Boom" - Joyka shoots the second arrow, and he doesn't even have to aim, because the "aiming" thing is done before he catches the arrow.
The arrow swept across the left side of Elizabeth's face, slicing off a strand of hair that fell from her face, and then into the slightly exposed left eye of the man in the big felt hat behind her.
A piercing scream resounded through the night sky of the harbor. The arrow took away not only an eye, but also pierced the skull and plunged directly into the weak cavernous body of the brain, a pain that no one could have imagined.
However, the man did not fall as Joika had thought, and he threw Elizabeth to the ground and threw the poisoned dagger in his hand at Joika!
This change surprised Joika, he thought that even if the other party couldn't die, he should be unable to act because of the severe pain, but he didn't expect that there was such a strong ability to resist, and looking at the strength and speed of the throwing dagger, it seemed that it was no less than when his body was intact, it can be seen that this man had undergone very strict pain resistance training.
But Joyka was only slightly surprised, and it didn't make him lose his bearings. Joika quickly removed the arrow from her mouth and shot it with a bowstring at great speed.
"Boom" - The speeding poisonous dagger and the urgently fired arrow collided less than 1 meter away from Joyka, sending sparks flying in all directions.
The intercepted dagger was reoriented and nailed into a pile of boxes about four meters behind Joeyka's left.
Seeing that the surprise attack had failed, the man in the felt hat immediately crossed his hands and reached into his waist, pulled out the other two daggers, and threw them at Joyka.
But Joika was quicker than he could draw, and before he could throw his dagger, the fourth arrow from the Mithril longbow had already hit him in the knee of his right leg. The "big felt hat", which had lost its center of gravity, stumbled forward, and the dagger was thrown out of his hand, sliding several meters away on the ground.
But the man did not give up, and on one knee he took another dagger from the barrel of his long shoe, but he had no chance, for Joyka had already put the fifth arrow on the bowstring.
"You're screwed, idiot. Joyka snorted contemptuously and pulled her hand away.
The arrow pierced the throat of the man in the felt hat, and bloody arrows and half-barrels pierced through the back of his neck. The man was unable to make any sound due to the destruction of his vocal cords, and blood poured out from his back, left eye, right knee, throat, and several other arrow wounds, and his body convulsed, but he still made a final effort and threw the dagger at Joyka.
However, no matter how strong the pain resistance is, there is a limit after all, although the dagger is thrown, but the strength is far less than before, the pale and weak flight speed, Joyka turned slightly sideways, and easily dodged.
Eventually, the man's body tilted to the left and fell completely, the large felt hat on his head slipped to the ground, and the only remaining right eye was still glaring at Joyka, his eyes full of anger and unwillingness. Die with a grievance or everlasting regret.
Looking at the breathless and cold body, Joyka sighed softly. He actually had to shoot so many arrows to kill this guy, it can be seen that the other party is by no means an ordinary person, if this battle is not a preemptive strike, I am afraid that it is himself who will be lame.
"Joika!" Elizabeth was overjoyed to see her captor finally killed, and she quickly got up from the ground and rushed towards Joica, "I knew you would come to my rescue." You're finally ......"
"Tuk"!
This sudden arrow, like a plate of cold water, extinguished Elizabeth's joy and enthusiasm. The arrow landed less than half a meter in front of her, stopping her from running and casting a shadow over the two.
"Y-Why?"
Elizabeth couldn't believe that the man she trusted the most looked at her with such cold eyes.