Blade Skill Online: With Trash Job ‘Summoner’, Weakest Weapon ‘Bow’, and Rotten Stat ‘Luck’, I Rise

[Master-Disciple Duel, Conclusion!]

When it came to special archery arts, I had thought their effects were along the lines of splitting one arrow into many at best.

But.

“Take this, advanced Tenma School art ‘Raging Dragon Shot’!”

“What the hell?!”

The arrow Tengu Hermit shot turned into a magical large long dragon as it flew toward me!

You’re telling me this is archery!?

“Kh, ‘Arms Barrier’, activate! Defend me, my shields!”

I immediately used my favorite skill to summon seven shields to stop the raging long dragon!

But the moment the long dragon touched the shields, they were all instantly blown away!

“Are you kidding me?!”

The long dragon mowed down everything in its path with the wind pressure it generated—it was essentially the superior version of ‘Gale Shot’, the elementary Tenma School archery art!

The long dragon proceeded to tear through the air and struck me violently, blowing me off the cliff!

“Woaaah?!”

And just like that, I began to dive toward the ground.

I was free-falling from a height of hundreds of meters at a tremendous speed…!

–Still, Master Tengu had no intention of letting me fall in peace.

“This is not enough, Yuri! Seeing you smile as you took on all my attacks made this old man’s desire for violence boil, and now it has reached its limit! I have always enjoyed battles just like you, I will have you know!”

Master Tengu mercilessly pulled his bowstring to the limit.

The moment he released his arrow, it turned into a giant firebird!

“Take this, advanced Tenma School archery art ‘Phoenix Shot’!”

Fire-based attack?! This was bad?!

With my grit skill ‘Tenacity’, I had no fear of strong attacks, but ones that caused me to burn, which dealt damage continuously over time, were my banes!

But I couldn’t dodge in midair–no, I could!

“I’ll put your teachings into use right away, Master! Tenma School archery art ‘Snakebite Shot’!”

I shot an arrow at the rock face!

Right after, the arrow turned into a snake and bit into the ledge of the rock face.

“Good job, Hebitaro! Now contract!”

“Shaaa!”

Hebitaro (named just now) responded obediently to my order.

Since its tail was connected to my bow, I was pulled along to the rock face as it contracted.

A moment later, the giant phoenix brushed past my back. That was close.

“Haa, I barely dodged that thanks to ‘Snakebite Shot’. It sure is useful!”

It could bite into anything and with its ability to expand and contract like rubber, I could also use it to make an emergency evasion maneuver as I did just now.

“…But I’m not out of the woods yet. I’m hanging onto the cliff for dear life while Master can shoot me from above as he pleases.

“But with my newly acquired Tenma School arts…!”

I could turn the tables. I’d settle this in no time–!

“Hey, Master! I’ve been letting you shoot me without fighting back to learn your arts, but training time’s over! Now I’m gonna make you scream begging me for mercy, so you’d better prepare yourself!”

“Fuhaha, try it if you can!”

Master Tengu laughed happily at my words.

I couldn’t tell because of the mask, but I bet he was smiling like an innocent child behind it. That was just how much he loved shooting people, I guessed. Sheesh, what an adorable old man.

“I advise you to brace yourself for this one, Yuri. Advanced Tenma School art ‘Evil Spirits Shot’!”

And so, he released his next special art.

The arrow split into countless numbers of evil spirits that swarmed toward me!

“Trying to overwhelm me with numbers now?!”

Man, that was a hell lot of evil spirits.

100 weak attacks were far more dangerous to me than one super strong attack with my ‘Tenacity’.

…That gramps must have seen through my trick seeing that I didn’t die when I had only initial gear on.

“Well, not a problem, it’s within my expectation!”

The ‘Raging Dragon Shot’ art was the evolved version of ‘Gale Shot’ and ‘Phoenix Shot’ was probably the upgrade of ‘Exploding Shot’ packed with much more firepower. If they were any indications, then it only stood to reason that there was a higher version of ‘Starshower Shot’, whose effect was to split an arrow into many.

So, no changes to my winning plan.

“Let’s gooo, ‘Arms Barrier’!”

I unleashed seven swords from the empty space toward the incoming one hundred evil spirits.

As a cherry on top…

“To deal with projectiles, it’s best to use this, right, Master! Tenma School archery art ‘Gale Shot’!”

In the next moment, the seven swords released wind gales as they faced off against the swarm of evil spirits!

The moment they clashed, the evil spirits instantly disintegrated.

Even if it was an advanced art, all it had was numbers. Each evil spirit was way weaker than the elementary art ‘Gale Shot’. They stood no chance against the seven swords and they proceeded to charge toward Master Tengu without hindrance!

“Wha?! The swords are clad in ‘Gale Shot’?! Are you telling me this is archery?!”

Master Tengu hurriedly backed away from the edge of the cliff.

As a result, the seven swords flew straight up without hitting anything, but…

“It is archery. I mean, I can’t use it without equipping a bow.”

“What?!”

I answered Master Tengu from above him!

–That’s right. At the same time I had activated ‘Gale Shot’, I used ‘Snakebite Shot’ to cling to the hilt of the last sword.

‘Gale Shot’ generated air from the arrowhead. In the sword case, the air was generated from the blade’s tip, so the hilt part was completely safe.

“This is my pseudo flight technique version 2, which uses a flying sword as a driving force! With this, my clothes won’t get torn!”

“Why do you keep flying in the sky so casually?! Kh, I am going to shoot you down right away—”

Master Tengu took out another arrow and pointed his bow upwards.

…but it was too late. The bow’s greatest weakness was the need to pull its bowstring before launching an attack.

By the time Master nocked his arrow, I was already diving straight toward him.

“Wha?!”

“I’m gonna finish this with a bang, Master!”

With that, I pulled my hand holding the bow behind me, and then–!

“Tenma School melee archery ‘King Bison Charge Shot’!”

“Gugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

A magical giant bison manifested and then slammed itself into Master–!