Naseri swung the crescent-shaped blood-red scythe in her hand at Gu Ding again and again. Crescent-shaped blood-red blade lights sliced toward Gu Ding through the void.
Gu Ding raised his longbow and stood firmly in place without wavering in the slightest. The motion of his right hand drawing the bow became an afterimage. Unless one looked closely, no one would have noticed that he had actually been drawing arrows and firing repeatedly; his successive bow-drawing movements were simply so fast that they nearly overlapped.
Dozens of black Arrow Lights surged forth almost simultaneously, hurtling toward the blood-red crescents.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
The collision of the two attacks sent waves of tremors through the void, and spatial cracks abruptly formed amid the turbulence.
Naseri darted through the tremors and charged at Gu Ding once more. Seeing that ranged attacks were ineffective, she seemed to have decided to engage him in close combat.
From the very beginning, she had known that Gu Ding's archery was astonishing. Moreover, since her earlier close-range strike had succeeded, she had no idea how capable he was in melee combat. In her view, everyone had their specialty. If a Saint Lord could train his archery to the point of contending with a Saint King, then his close-combat ability was surely inferior to his archery.
Unfortunately, she did not know that Gu Ding had always been a close-combat expert. He had only begun learning archery recently.
Gu Ding had naturally guessed most of her thoughts. He truly had not displayed much close-combat strength during this trial, so it was perfectly normal for others to mistake him for being weak in melee combat.
Watching her charge toward him, Gu Ding remained impassive. He drew his bow once more, and another Black Arrow shot out.
This arrow was the fifth