BUILDING MY OWN EMPIRE - My Journey from Nothing to Overwhelming Power-Chapter 58 – Training Arc (Monali)

Above a lone rock in the middle of a barren land...

A sixteen-year-old girl stood with unwavering steadiness.

The fierce wind was lashing her shining silver hair,

And her braid adorned with an emerald thread clung to her forehead...

But she did not move a single step.

As if the storm itself feared approaching her.

The sky above her was covered with dense gray clouds, heavy...

Silent...

As if waiting for a signal.

From atop the rock, Princess Monali slowly raised her hands.

Then...

She extended her left hand far forward,

And three fingers rose in a precise hooked motion.

With the same movement...

She extended her right hand backward.

A moment of silence.

And suddenly.

From nothing...

A large arrow of pure yellow light formed between her hands.

There was no bow.

There was no string.

Only pure energy formed between her fists, pulsing, glowing.

She pulled her hands to their limit...

And stretched the light arrow until it reached its maximum length.

The light tightened...

The air around her trembled...

Then.

Swoooosh!

The arrow shot like a fleeting flash, tearing through space toward the giant stone pillars scattered across the plain.

From between the tall pillars...

Three massive shadows moved.

They dashed at different speeds,

Separated...

Then circled from different directions.

Only then did their features become clear.

Yellow skin spotted with black.

Four limbs carrying a body the size of a horse.

A cutting jaw, and fangs half a meter long shining under the gray light.

Leader leopards.

Three.

Princess Monali narrowed her eyes.

The arrow she fired was heading straight toward them...

But.

Before it reached...

It veered.

Changed its course suddenly...

And rose.

High.

Higher than the pillars.

Higher than the clouds.

It pierced the thick clouds and disappeared inside them.

A heavy moment of silence.

Then.

A violent sound roared from behind the clouds.

It was not lightning.

It was not thunder.

It was an explosion of energy.

And in the next moment...

Golden sparks of light began from above.

Drawing closer...

And closer...

Until the black cloud cover seemed like a sieve pierced with hundreds of glowing points.

Golden points of light pierced the clouds and began to descend.

Without sound.

More than a hundred yellow lights.

They accelerated toward the ground.

Small light arrows...

But their density was enough to erase an army.

They surged like a roaring wave toward the three leopards.

Then.

Booooom!

The ground shook.

Stones scattered.

And the beasts’ roars disappeared beneath the falling barrage of light.

...

At the fortieth stage ...

Princess Monali found herself facing a clear challenge:

Defeat three leader beasts at once.

For her...

The matter had seemed close to impossible ..

But she understood ..

That the rewards she had obtained had fully prepared her for what was coming ..

She entered the strange challenge arena with its scattered tall pillars ..

In the first ten stages ..

She found herself in a forest filled with darkness surrounding her from every side ..

She narrowed her eyes .. and spotted it

From between the shadows like a small nightmare.

The Fierce Southern Border Goblin.

It was short in stature...

But its presence was disgusting enough to make any beginner step back.

But she .. was not a beginner

And she would not retreat ..

She faced a flood of them ..

With an insufficient number of arrows .. the first stage was a real challenge ..

But she succeeded in it ..

At the tenth stage she faced a Goblin Leader ..

It was not her equal and she defeated it on the first attempt ..

When the rewards were presented to her .. she quickly chose what she wanted ..

{ Binding Ribbon }

{ A green cloth. It binds the user and their weapon }

The Binding Ribbon allowed her to fire her arrows with all their power without the need to manifest the bow ..

At the end of the tenth stage .. Princess Monali was capable of firing thirty arrows ..

At the eleventh stage .

The princess found herself once again facing another swarm ..

But it was not goblins .. rather Iron-Beak Eagles ..

Their numbers did not exceed twenty eagles ..

But they possessed something else ..

Speed ..

Evasion ..

In the first confrontation between her and them .. she lost all her arrows without bringing down more than 10

After 5 days ..

The princess mastered her control and managed to bring down the twenty eagles with twenty arrows ..

At the twentieth stage .. she faced a Leader Eagle ..

It was massive in build .. it reminded her of the colossal Storm Eagle owned by her commander ..

After several encounters .. she realized it was far weaker than her commander’s eagle ..

Even so .. her individual arrows were not enough to bring it down ..

After several days ..

The eagle fell thanks to tactics and reading the battle ..

The reward she obtained this time .. was not something new ..

Rather it was

{ Transparent Binding Ribbon }

{ A transparent cloth that none but the owner can see. It binds the user and their weapon }

The effect of the Transparent Binding Ribbon increased Monali’s connection with her weapon .. and enhanced her understanding of the power she possessed more clearly ..

In the next twenty stages .

The effect of the two ribbons was clear in Monali’s control over her arrows and her understanding of their composition ..

And for the first time .. she managed to make her arrow split into several parts ..

At the thirtieth stage .. she faced another swarm .. of iron-beaked eagles ..

In the midst of battle .. a goblin swarm appeared ..

Then a Goblin Leader ..

Then an Eagle Leader .. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

After numerous encounters .. the confrontation was fierce ..

The princess’s accumulation was on the verge of depletion .. and the Goblin Leader stood unharmed ..

And time ran out ..

After several days .. the princess stood with a smile .. in the midst of the field of defeated corpses of her enemies ..

And once again ..

She obtained the Binding Ribbon .. Spiritual

{ A spiritual cloth. It binds the user and the element of their weapon }

In the following stages .. the confrontations were more violent .

A large group of killer leopards appeared before the princess ..

Fast and brutal creatures ..

The princess could not hit any of them with any arrow ..

And each time ..

She found herself struggling to save herself while waiting for time to end ..

After 10 days ..

She failed again to pass stage 31 ..

But she gained a valuable understanding ..

Of the beasts and of the ability of her new spiritual ribbon ..

Each time the battle intensified .. black clouds filled with darkness appeared ..

Time after time .. the princess uncovered when and how the clouds appeared ..

Once again .. she returned to the early stages to train on the new trait ..

Dozens and hundreds of attempts . And long days

Then ..

The princess gained full control over the clouds .. and gained the understanding hidden within them

How and when and to what extent the clouds could be utilized ..

The princess consumed more than 30 days of continuous training to understand that ..

Then .. she decided to attempt again ..

In the first attempt .. she found herself bringing down the leopard swarm without effort .. even without using the clouds ..

Round after round .. she passed them consecutively ..

Then at the fortieth stage .. the princess found herself before three leader leopards ..

The leopards launched toward her like shadows from the intensity of their speed ..

The princess drew her arrows and fired more than ten arrows at once ..

Booooom .

Booooom .

Booooom .

Dust scattered ..

Several pillars were destroyed

But the massive leaders .. continued advancing ..

They were not ordinary leopards ..

Their bodies were solid .

And all the arrows Monali fired did not affect them at all ..

After a while ..

The princess raised her hands and formed a gigantic arrow ..

Two meters long ..

And fired it ..

A roaring sound surrounded it .

It reached one of the leader leopards quickly ..

Suddenly ..

The leopard swerved like a shadow to the side ..

Booooooom ..

The gigantic arrow destroyed a tall pillar and shattered it to fragments ..

And the leader leopard stood away from it .. revealing a pair of large sharp fangs

For a moment .. at the beginning of the battle the princess thought the leader leopard was a power-type creature that confronted directly ..

Her assumption was confirmed by her release of a barrage of thunder-accompanied arrows .. and its receiving them without fear

But she understood afterward ..

That the beast was intelligent .. it chose to take the group of small arrows because they would not cause it harm .. unlike the gigantic arrow .

The princess narrowed her eyes and smiled ..

She continued attempting until the mission failed ..

After .. ten attempts

The princess stood atop the high rock above one of the pillars ..

The wind played with strands of her hair .. and her mind played with the thoughts of her precise plan ..

" The first step .. " she whispered " is complete "

Earlier .. she had fired a gigantic arrow then directed it toward the dark clouds ..

With her deep and accumulated understanding from intensive training .. she gained hidden knowledge of the nature of the clouds ..

If not for the special training dimension and those stages .. she would have needed years to acquire that knowledge ..

Her arrow pierced the clouds high above then .. she commanded the clouds to support it with their latent lightning ..

The arrow began to grow in size and became enormous ..

Then ..

She made it split into hundreds of small arrows .. and surge toward the leopards ..

The leopards did not flee .. rather they received the strike ..

The beasts knew that hundreds of those arrows would not cause them harm ..

The princess knew as well .. but she was not aiming for that ..

At that moment .. the princess used a movement similar to the one she had used against the Great Catastrophe Beast Radian ..

She released the small arrows like a wave .. to pin the beasts down ..

The dust cleared ..

The leopards lay pressed against the ground pinned .. but they were stronger .

And they began to regain movement ..

Boooooom ..

Suddenly ..

A new wave of light arrows descended upon them ..

Slamming them against the ground ..

Then ..

Booooom ..

A third violent wave ..

The leopards’ movement became completely restrained ..

" The second step " Monali whispered with a smile .. then

Her eyes turned upward ..

Three gigantic arrows ..

Descending violently from above the clouds ..

Each arrow five meters long with intense light ..

The lightning-empowered arrows descended ..

And struck the pinned leopards violently ..

Booooooom ..

The sound of the strike echoed loudly ..

And with it ..

A blue light appeared above ..

{ Mission Completed Successfully }