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

The Barrier of the Dead.

This place was once a sacred cemetery, where the sages and heroes of Ironforge were buried.

But later, an evil curse descended upon this place, awakening the sleeping dead.

They transformed into mindless spirits, wandering day and night on this polluted land, attacking any living person who stepped into it.

As soon as Li Wu stepped into the cemetery, the ground made a "crackling" sound.

One by one, pale white hand bones emerged from the soft soil, followed by broken skeletons that staggered out of the ground.

Their eye sockets burned with a ghostly blue flame of the soul, and their hollow jawbones opened and closed, emitting a silent roar.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of skeleton soldiers surrounded Li Wu.

The Cursed Skeleton Soldier

[Level: 35]

[HP: 8000/8000]

If it were an ordinary player, facing such a large number of monsters of the same level, they would probably be terrified and their legs would have gone weak.

But a satisfied smile appeared on Li Wu's face.

"Good thing you came, it saves me the trouble of searching for them one by one."

He didn't even take out the Arcane Bow.

With a thought, an earth-yellow energy arrow condensed and took shape at his fingertips.

[Rock Solid Army Arrow]!

"call out!"

The arrow shot towards the ground.

"Boom!"

The earth began to tremble, and eight rock golems, each over two meters tall, rose from the ground, forming an unbreakable defensive line that firmly protected Li Wu in the center.

The skeleton soldiers, wielding rusty bone knives, charged forward fearlessly.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The bone knife struck the rock golem, producing a series of metallic clanging sounds, but only leaving shallow white marks.

The rock golem's counterattack, however, was much simpler and more brutal.

They wielded enormous rock fists, smashing the skeleton soldiers to pieces with each punch.

Li Wu stood inside the defensive line, leisurely taking out the Arcane Bow.

【Ice and Fire Spiral Arrow】!

[Chain Lightning Arrow]!

[Fusion Piercing Arrow]!

……

All sorts of arrows flew from his bowstring as if they were free.

A dense rain of arrows covered the entire battlefield.

The skeleton soldiers fell in droves, turning into a pile of broken bones.

Meanwhile, Li Wu's experience bar and attribute points were increasing rapidly.

[System Notification: You have defeated a level 35 'Cursed Skeleton Soldier', gaining 91 experience points.]

[System Notification: Your talent 'Soul Devourer' has been triggered, permanently increasing your Luck by +0.12 and Intelligence by +0.12.]

……

This method of monster slaying is just like playing a tower defense game.

Li Wu only needs to stand still, summon the puppet, and then unleash his attacks without thinking.

Safe and efficient.

He quickly wiped out the first wave of skeletons.

He glanced at his experience bar, which had already increased significantly.

"Not bad, at this rate, we'll definitely reach level 35 in less than two days."

Just as he was about to delve deeper, his friends list suddenly started flashing.

It's Hua Zitong.

Li Wu connected the call.

"Li Wu, where are you?" Hua Zitong's voice sounded somewhat urgent.

"Undead Barrier, level up," Li Wu replied succinctly.

"Stop training for now, get back to Ironforge immediately, something's happened."

"Something happened?" Li Wu frowned. "The dungeon?"

"Hmm." Hua Zitong's voice carried a hint of weariness and helplessness. "We still haven't broken the speedrun record for [Crimson Monastery]."

"We tried everything we could think of for a whole day, and our best result was still three minutes slower than the Iron Blood Alliance's record."

"That record... is like a mountain, we simply can't get over it."

Li Wu fell silent.

He could imagine how devastating it would be for the Steel Shield and Immovable Mountain group, with their competitive spirit, to suffer a whole day of consecutive defeats.

"I'll be right back."

He didn't ask any further questions and hung up the call immediately.

Then, he glanced around.

New skeletons began to crawl out from the ground.

"What a waste of those experience points."

He shook his head, then drew back the bowstring.

A dark red energy singularity reappeared on his bowstring.

【Burning Star Returns to Ruins Arrow】!

Under the effect of the [Burning Star Return to Ruins Arrow], the surrounding monsters were completely cleared out, and Li Wu successfully broke through to level 33!

Once again, they've reached the top of the rankings!

Meanwhile, the players in Ironforge went berserk.

"I...I didn't see that wrong, did I? Level 33? I leveled up to 33 through Fog of the Flowers?!"

"How is that possible? He disappeared for several days, how could he get back up so quickly!"

"Are you kidding me! Ironblood Banner, currently ranked second on the leaderboard, hasn't even reached level 33 yet! How could he possibly level up so fast?"

"One day! From level 30 to level 33, in just one day! Is this even human? This is godlike!"

"I've been grinding from morning till night, I'm exhausted, and my experience bar is only a third full, while others have leveled up three times? Is this game even playable?"

"This is terrifying... This leveling speed is unheard of!"

"Mythical Guild, shrouded in mist... From today onward, this name will be a mountain weighing on the heads of every player in District 21!"

Everyone was stunned by the news.

If the fact that Myth Guild broke the speedrun record for [Wailing Caverns] only surprised them...

Now, Li Wu has left the ranking list far behind with an overwhelming force, bringing them nothing but pure shock and fear.

It's a kind of despair that makes you not even have the thought of chasing after them.

In a tavern in Ironforge.

With a loud bang, Iron Blood Banner slammed the wine glass in his hand onto the table, splashing wine everywhere.

His face was so gloomy it seemed to drip water.

"Seeing flowers through the fog..." he muttered the name through gritted teeth, his eyes filled with jealousy and resentment.

He couldn't understand why, despite having national resources, a top-notch team, and working in shifts 24/7 to defeat monsters, he was still left so far behind.

This unscientific!

On the other side, Fengyun Jiutian, the guild leader who was once again making waves, silently turned off the ranking leaderboard, his eyes becoming extremely solemn.

He knew that an era belonging to "myth" might really be coming.

At this moment, Li Wu, who was at the center of the storm, calmly added all 10 free attribute points he had just obtained to agility.

After doing all this, he slowly and deliberately crushed the return scroll.

Copy record?

He wants to take it back himself.

……

When Li Wu appeared in the conference room on the third floor of Qianjin Pavilion, everyone looked over.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was somewhat oppressive.

Steel Shield, Arcane Light, and Beast Friend, the old members, all hung their heads in dejection, like defeated roosters.

The newly joined geniuses, such as Immovable Mountain, Night Wind, and Ink Mark, although not quite as exaggerated, all had a solemn and unwilling look on their faces.

Lin Hai sat in the corner, tapping his fingers on the table incessantly, his brow furrowed.

Only Hua Zitong's eyes lit up slightly after she saw Li Wu.

"President!"

"President, you're back!"

Steel Shield and Immovable Mountain stood up almost simultaneously.