I am the Arcane Archer, and all my skills are self-created.

The player faction from Beginner Village #102 hid at the very back of the battlefield, like a flock of frightened quails.

Zhao Tianyu huddled behind a huge rock, only daring to peek out half his head and stealthily glance at the center of the battlefield.

When he saw the overwhelming crowd, the scene of elites from the three super guilds all coming out, and especially the real battle between the Blood Wolf Guild and the Flower Language Guild, he was glad that he had made the right decision.

"Damn, thank goodness we didn't rush in. This was like gods fighting!" Zhao Tianyu patted his chest, still shaken.

His henchmen next to him nodded vigorously, their faces filled with lingering fear.

"Yeah, boss, look at those people who rushed to the front, they died like wheat being harvested, it was so tragic."

"The Blood Wolf Guild has really gone mad. Instead of fighting such a powerful BOSS, they had to provoke those two. I really don't know what they were thinking."

"Those two people?" Upon hearing this, Zhao Tianyu's heart skipped a beat, and his gaze instinctively drifted towards the distant hillside.

Because of the distance and the chaotic scene with its mixed light and shadow, he could only vaguely make out a figure holding a longbow, standing on the hillside.

Every time the figure drew its bow, a white beam of light shot out.

Each beam of light would precisely take the life of a Blood Wolf Guild member.

That composed demeanor, that precise and deadly attack, that terrifying strength to suppress a hundred-man group single-handedly, made Zhao Tianyu's eyelids twitch.

"This...this is the 'Seeing Through the Fog'?" Zhao Tianyu's voice was somewhat hoarse.

"Yeah, boss, it's him! The killing god from newbie village number 101!" A henchman's tone was full of awe.

"Look at his attacks, one arrow per person, like it's nothing. The nearly two hundred members of the Blood Wolf Guild were completely suppressed by him at the bottom of the hillside, and they couldn't break through at all."

Zhao Tianyu stared intently at the figure, and for some reason, a strange, extremely familiar feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.

That figure from behind...

That bow-drawing posture...

It seems like... I've seen it somewhere before?

Another figure involuntarily appeared in his mind.

The classmate he looked down on the most, Li Wu, who had been ridiculed by him in the Awakening Hall but remained calm throughout.

impossible……

Zhao Tianyu immediately shook his head, banishing the absurd thought from his mind.

Are you kidding me!

Li Wu? That piece of trash who awakened the garbage class "Arcane Archer"?

How could he possibly be this being who is like a demon god before him!

Absolutely impossible!

I must be seeing things, I'm overthinking it.

It must be like this.

Zhao Tianyu kept reassuring himself.

But his gaze was as if drawn by a magnet, unable to look away from that figure.

The more he looked, the stronger the sense of familiarity became.

The more he looked, the stronger his unease and fear became.

"Tianyu, what are you looking at?"

A soft voice sounded beside him.

It is Li Qiuyue.

She was also following Zhao Tianyu's gaze, looking at the distant hillside, her beautiful face filled with shock and disbelief.

"Qiuyue, do you... do you also think that person looks familiar?" Zhao Tianyu's voice trembled slightly.

Li Qiuyue did not answer.

Her eyes were fixed on the figure, unblinking.

As Li Wu's childhood sweetheart who grew up together, she was all too familiar with that figure from behind.

Although we were far apart and I couldn't see their faces clearly, the feeling, that deep-seated familiarity, was absolutely unmistakable.

It's him.

It must be him.

Li Wu.

When this name clearly emerged in her mind.

Li Qiuyue felt as if her heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.

An indescribable, complex emotion—a mixture of regret, shock, jealousy, and a hint of...fear—instantly overwhelmed her.

How is that possible?

How could it be him?

The man she saw as having a worthless career and no future was the one she abandoned without hesitation.

How could it have become such a legendary existence in just a few days, one that even the five super guilds have to take notice of and even wage war against?

Arcane Archer...

Wasn't it said to be a useless profession?

Why is it that in his hands, such devastating power can be unleashed?

One arrow kills hundreds of people instantly...

One person suppresses an entire guild...

Are these really things that Li Wu, who is taciturn and even somewhat introverted, could do?

Li Qiuyue's mind was in complete chaos.

She remembered the words she had said to Li Wu in the Awakening Hall.

"I need a man who can give me a future, not a boy I need to worry about."

"Tianyu can give me the stability and future I want!"

Looking back now, how ridiculous and ironic those words were.

Her so-called "future" and "prospects" were as insignificant as a speck of dust in the face of that man's devastating arrow.

The man she chose, Zhao Tianyu, whom she thought could give her everything, was now trembling in a corner of the battlefield with her, like a frightened rabbit.

The man she abandoned stood in the center of the stage, under the spotlight, single-handedly fighting against a super guild while enjoying the highest level of protection from another super guild.

Who is the man who can give her a future?

Who exactly is the real loser?

Reality gave her the loudest and cruelest slap in the face.

"No...it's impossible..." Li Qiuyue murmured to herself, lost in thought, "How...how could he..."

"Qiuyue? Qiuyue! What's wrong?" Zhao Tianyu saw that her face was pale and she looked distraught, so he quickly nudged her.

"Huh?" Li Qiuyue seemed to wake up from a dream. She looked at Zhao Tianyu's face, which was full of concern, but a strange sense of disgust and irritation welled up in her heart.

"It's nothing," she said coldly, looking away.

Zhao Tianyu felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he saw her distant manner.

He followed Li Qiuyue's gaze and looked again at the figure on the hillside. The absurd guess in his mind became clearer and clearer, and it also made him feel more and more frightened.

in case……

If that person really is Li Wu...

Then he...

Zhao Tianyu dared not think any further.

He felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head.

He recalled all the mockery and humiliation he had inflicted on Li Wu.

If that person really is Li Wu, given his current display of a vengeful and ruthless personality...

Will he let himself go?

Just thinking about this made Zhao Tianyu's legs go weak.

"Boss... what's wrong? Why is your face so pale?" The henchman next to him asked with concern when he noticed that something was wrong.

"N-nothing!" Zhao Tianyu forced a smile that looked more like a grimace. "It's just... I'm a little nervous. It's my first time seeing something this big, haha..."

He dared not voice his suspicions.

He was afraid; he was afraid that once he spoke it, it would become a reality.

He could only pray frantically in his heart.

Please, please, it can't be him!

Please, please, it can't be him!

……

While Zhao Tianyu and Li Qiuyue were both in shock and fear.

The situation on the battlefield has changed once again.

With the three super guilds sparing no expense and even sacrificing lives to save it, the terrifyingly long health bar of [Rotten Beast - Glathos] finally began to slowly decrease at a visible rate.

90%...

85%...

80%...

Although it is still very slow, at least everyone has seen hope.

As the BOSS's health decreases, its attacks become increasingly frantic.

Giant tentacles, like the lashes of death, lashed wildly through the crowd.

Deadly corrosive rays continuously spewed from its mouth, leaving terrifying deep pits in the ground.

The area affected by the withering plague also grew larger and larger.

The entire battlefield was shrouded in a gray-green mist, filled with the aura of death.

Players fell in droves, and then, in droves, they rushed out from the temporary respawn point not far away and rejoined the battle.

Death, at this moment, becomes cheap and numb.

All that remained in everyone's eyes was the BOSS's ever-decreasing health bar and the elusive "incredibly generous reward."

This was a mad, brutal war, a war in which victory was built with lives and time.