Adrian knew immediately that Caelum would not really be able to shoot the arrows at a useful, lethal speed.

"Do you know any other combat spells?" Adrian asked him.

"Yeah." Caelum nodded eagerly. "I do know how to cast the Vine Forest Trap spell."

"Forest Trap." Adrian repeated flatly. "Such a grand name. But I know how it works, and I do not think it is going to be that useful here."

Caelum sighed and nodded. "Yeah. These monsters are just going to trample right over all of the vines."

"Well, anything else?" Adrian asked.

"Unfortunately, I cannot really use any fire related spells." Caelum admitted. "I never practiced flame magic."

"Well, that is not really that big of an issue." Adrian said. "Fine. Can you produce poison? Do you have a spell where you can conjure toxic gas or something?"

Caelum shook his head.

Adrian crossed his arms. He was actually getting annoyed now.

’Why is this guy so useless in a fight?’ Adrian thought in pure frustration.

"Okay, fine." Adrian waved his hand dismissivelyy. "Just go back to the mansion and stay safe over there."

Caelum nodded in defeat and quickly left the place.

Adrian watched him go. ’Ah, what the fuck is this, bruh? Fourth circle mage, my ass.’

He let out a sigh and walked right up to the wooden crate before he grabbed a steel tipped arrow. He shoved it into Aria’s hand before grabbing another one for himself.

"Shoot one of these arrows." Adrian instructed her. "Just compress the air like I said. You need to use telekinetic magic to make the arrow float perfectly in front of you. And then you need to bring your finger right to the back of the arrow before shooting it."

Aria focused and got the arrow floating first. Then she compressed the wind right against the arrow’s butt. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Bang.

The arrow shot forward like a literal bullet. She did it perfectly on the first try alone.

’God damn, she’s so damn good!’ Adrian thought as he got excited.

But on the outside, he kept his cool.

"Okay, that is really impressive." Adrian smiled.

He just reached out and patted her head. "Papa is getting you a really nice gift later."

Aria beamed at the praise.

But that heartwarming moment shattered instantly.

A loud, terrifying horn blasted across the place and Adrian obviously heard the deep, rumbling noise. He looked toward the sound and saw a soldier holding a massive, curved bone horn. It was incredibly similar to the one Burke used when they attacked Alexander’s city.

Every single soldier on the wall instantly turned to look at the forest in the distance.

Adrian followed their gaze.

Thousands of monsters just poured right out of the forest. They just began sprinting straight toward the stone walls.

"Get ready." Adrian told Aria.

Aria nodded.

She raised her hand and shot one arrow. It flew forward and buried itself into a charging goblin.

She looked over at Adrian to see how he was doing it. And her eyes went completely wide from the shock.

Adrian wasn’t just holding one arrow. He locked his telekinesis onto exactly ten steel arrows. He made them float in a straight line right in front of his chest.

Aria could clearly sense what was happening right behind those floating arrows even though he wasn’t using the same method he had told her about.

She could sense that there was a massive amount of dense mana concentrated right behind the feathers. But since it was pure wind magic, which was basically just invisible air, she could not exactly see it. She could just feel the ten individual, highly compressed spheres of mana hovering right behind every single arrow.

Adrian flicked his wrist.

He shot all ten arrows at the exact same time.

A loud whooshing sound came out and the ten steel arrows completely vanished. They crossed the distance in a blur and punched massive, bloody holes straight through the front line of the monster horde.

Aria just stared at him.

’Even I cannot do that.’ Aria thought in total disbelief. ’Just how far did he train his mana control? Or is it something else?’

Adrian casually reached into the crate. He picked up ten more arrows, floated them, and fired.

Then he picked ten more and fired them.

He just continued doing that relentlessly, and every single one of his arrows flew multiple times faster than the arrows the northern soldiers were shooting with actual, high tension longbows.

’Let me try it too.’ Aria decided, feeling a bit competitive.

She concentrated hard. She managed to float five arrows at the exact same time. But holding five separate arrows with telekinesis while simultaneously compressing five separate wind bombs was incredibly hard.

When she fired all five, the speed of the arrows drastically decreased. They hit the monsters, but they lacked that terrifying, bullet like force in them.

So she dropped the numbers and ended up going to three arrows at a time. At three, her firing speed was high, and her control and output was perfectly stable.

Both of them were firing at a devastatingly lethal rate.

But three was Aria’s absolute limit at this point.

’Even with so much combat experience from my past life,’ Aria thought, feeling slightly dejected. ’It looks like I cannot beat him in the control aspect.’

She felt a little disappointed with herself.

But she actually felt super proud of Adrian at the exact same time.

She honestly had no clue why it made her feel that way. Because she knew she was a ridiculously competitive person in her past life, and she was definitely still competitive now. Whenever she saw someone who was better than her at magic, she usually felt this insane, burning drive to get better and crush them.

But when it was Adrian?

She just did not feel the jealous drive to get stronger than him. That competitive drive was still there, but it was pushed down to the second most important feeling.

The strongest feeling burning inside her chest right now was pure pride.