The Death Spiders that had once chilled countless hearts and sent people fleeing as far as they could now seemed to have turned into flimsy scraps of paper, shattering one by one beneath You Yaqin and the others' fierce rain of arrows.
The sound of arrows tearing through the air intertwined with the cracking of the spiders' fragile shells.
You Yaqin's gaze was calm and resolute. Her red lips parted lightly. "Move. Don't worry about these little spiders. Killing more of them won't help."
With that, she swept both hands out and activated her Second Soul Skill—"Wind Arrow Barrage!"
In an instant, countless invisible arrows of wind condensed in the air, sweeping toward the densely packed spider swarm all around them.
However, the seemingly endless sea of spiders did not lessen in the slightest. Under the cover of the dense forest, they kept surging out from every corner like a tide.
"Fall back to that open ground!" You Yaqin's voice was firm and decisive.
And so, under the flickering firelight, the entire team fought as they retreated, each step keeping time with the edge between life and death, unbearably heavy and difficult.
The spider swarm followed like shadows, hot on their heels, every pair of cold compound eyes burning with hunger for blood.
Whenever one slipped through the net and broke past the defensive line, trying to get close, what awaited it was a dense rain of arrows and the youths' merciless counterattacks.
Arrow-light flashed like lightning, each shot linking into the next. Amid the spiders' shrill screeches, a nauseating stench of blood gradually spread through the air.
At this critical moment, with their lives hanging by a thread, everyone's potential was ruthlessly squeezed to its limit. They were not only fighting the spiders, but racing against time and struggling