The Reimagining of the Bow Hero

Chapter 25 - Ghost Ship Wave

Chapter 25 – Ghost Ship Wave

Author's Note: This has been a hard chapter to write. So far, I've written 51 chapters in total, all the way to Glass' World, which I'll release periodically.

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The wave timer hit zero as an echoing sound vibrated around us. The next moment, we found ourselves near a village, standing on a grassy area. The sky was cracked up as usual, with purple spirals whirling above, and the village was starting to become overrun with monsters.

We had all chugged stat boosting potions before the fight, something that we had not done during the last wave. That would hopefully address the likely level gap between ourselves and the wave boss, something that we had painfully learned in the fight against the 8 eye 16 leg monster in that mountainous cave.

Next to me, I saw the three other heroes and their parties. Naofumi even brought some other people with him.

"Everybody listen up!" I bellowed, loud enough that everybody turned around and looked in my direction. Naofumi, Raphtalia, Rishia, the knights and I will defend the villagers and attend to the evacuation, while the rest of you will deal with the monsters, mainly outside the village!"

"Yes!" They all replied in unison.

Indigo seemed quite surprised that Naofumi also possessed a filolial king, or should I say queen. I was utterly shocked as well, not encountering a single other filolial royal during my entire time here.

"Uh, Naofumi..." Indigo questioned, still remaining in his human form. "Why do you have a filolial queen?"

"I don't really know." Naofumi replied.

"Cut the chit chat." I butted in. "We got a wave to beat and people to save. We can discuss this later."

"Alright then." Indigo pouted as he followed Motoyasu's party towards the wave boss.

Naofumi, the knights, Rishia and I rode on two separate carts towards the village. When we approached, I moved to the front of the cart and started providing cover fire for the defenders.

As we arrived, though, an old lady was completely annihilating the monsters that were troubling the village. It was as if she didn't need our help.

Turning to Naofumi, she greeted him while karate kicking another goblin.

"Hi, Holy Saint! You were a big help!"

From what I could tell, Naofumi probably helped her at some point. Though, why would such a tough grandma need any help? Certainly not with crossing the road.

I used my Sky Blue Bow, which was an excellent tool for crowd control, to absolutely mow down the weak monsters that were terrorizing the villagers. Rishia was doing a good job getting them to safety, while Naofumi and the lot were fending off the attackers.

Instead of perching myself above the rooftops like last time, I used an unconventional strategy and charged headfirst towards the enemy, using the speed of my reloading to compensate for the short range. I slaughtered monsters left and right, saving countless villagers who were cowering in fear.

Rishia and Raphtalia were slashing at the enemy with their swords, while Naofumi was protecting a child with his shield. Meanwhile, Granny was obliterating monsters left and right.

After shooting an arrow through an interdimensional lizard-man's head, causing him to fall over and die, Granny complimented us for our effectiveness.

"Good job on wiping out the monsters here. However, there is another village nearby which also needs your help. You should head over there now and assist them."