Without the slightest hesitation, she grabbed at the air with her left hand, and an ancient-looking longbow instantly appeared in her grasp. At the same time, her right hand drew the bowstring, and an arrow gleaming with a sharp, icy light formed in an instant.
She drew the bow to a full moon.
There was no warning, nor any unnecessary talk.
Whoosh—!
The bowstring let out a piercing crack.
The arrow tore through the air with a sonic boom, becoming a streak of light almost impossible to catch with the naked eye as it shot straight at Qianyi, whose leg was being hugged by the black-haired Ishtar.
Faced with this sudden attack, Qianyi did not dodge. He did not even pull his leg or hand free from the embraces of the two goddesses.
Almost at the exact moment Hippolyta released her arrow, Qianyi raised his free left hand. Pure, highly condensed divine energy instantly gathered, compressed, and solidified in his hand into a massive, extravagantly shaped bow.
—True Hundred Head Slayer Bow.
Qianyi did not deliberately draw its string. He merely raised the hand holding the bow and slightly turned his body to one side. With an incredibly casual yet impossibly precise movement, he evaded the arrow and flicked his wrist in the process.
The bowstring struck the fletching of the incoming arrow hard at a strange but precise angle.
Under the force from the side, the arrow's direction abruptly and bizarrely shifted. Its entire trajectory changed. Rather than flying straight ahead, it twisted to one side, spun, and spiraled away.
In the end, it was precisely caught on the bowstring.
But that was not all.
Because the arrow itself carried enormous kinetic energy, that energy also conveniently pulled the bowstring in Qianyi's hand to its fullest extent.
Qianyi did