Led by a dark-gold metal warrior, several hundred golden metal warriors wearing horned helmets surrounded Eruhis's chariot in a tight ring. Within a radius of nearly twenty meters, the chariot—adorned with countless green vines and lilies—had been hacked into a mess by heavy axes. Deep cracks covered it everywhere, with splintered wood jutting out from behind the tangled flowers and vines.
If the chariot had not itself been a rare top-grade demigod defensive artifact, the combined assault of these golden metal warriors, all of whom possessed late-stage or peak demigod strength, would have smashed it to pieces long ago.
Eruhis stood rigidly atop the chariot, her face ashen. Her left hand gripped a golden longbow while her right continually drew its string. Sunlight from the sky turned endlessly into threads of golden radiance and flowed into the bow, condensing into golden arrows a meter long upon the string. Amid dull explosions, streaks of golden light shot continuously from the longbow, blasting away the metal warriors who approached the chariot.
The archery of the elf race stood unrivaled in the world. Nearly every elven deity possessed a longbow as their life-bound divine artifact. The longbow in Eruhis's hand had been bestowed by the Daughter of the Golden Oak Leaf, an elven goddess worshipped by the Sun Elves who commanded the laws of sunlight, forest growth, life soothing, and more. It was a mid-grade divine artifact.
Although Eruhis possessed only mid-stage demigod strength, with the might of the divine artifact, the golden light she fired possessed terrifying penetrating power. What was more, it carried a dreadful heat—one of the forces the metal warriors feared most. Every metal warrior blasted away was left riddled with holes large and small, golden flames winding around their wounds and ceaselessly searing them, gradually melting their bodies