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

Li Wu's voice brought everyone back to reality.

The Hellfire Vanguard had a transparent hole pierced through its chest by an Ice and Fire Spiral Arrow, and green fel blood gushed from the wound, dripping onto the scorched ground with a hissing, corrosive sound.

But it didn't die.

With 150,000 health points, one arrow took away nearly 16,000, leaving only 130,000.

This thing has really thick skin.

"I'll control it!" Mohen was the first to react, and the tip of his staff lit up with an icy blue light as he slammed it down with a deep freeze.

However, the moment the icy blue light touched the body of the Hellfire Vanguard, it evaporated instantly, like water droplets falling onto a red-hot iron plate.

【resistance! 】

"Can't control it?" Mohen's expression changed instantly.

"The level difference is too great!" Hua Zitong's voice quickly rang out. "Level 50 elite monsters have a natural, high resistance to your level 36 control skills. The duration of your control will be greatly reduced, or they may even become completely immune!"

The Hellfire Vanguard roared as the wound on its chest, blasted open by the Ice and Fire Spiral Arrow, began to heal at a visible speed—though not fast, it was indeed healing.

It raised its stone axe and chopped at the nearest ink mark.

"Get out of the way!"

Inkmark reacted extremely quickly, creating distance in a flash. The stone axe cleaved the ground where he had just stood, the earth cracked, debris flew everywhere, and a crater three meters in diameter appeared on the spot.

"If that axe blow comes down, I'll be dead in no time." Zhui Feng swallowed hard.

Li Wu remained silent, and the second Ice-Fire Spiral Arrow was already nocked.

He knew very well that in this area, only he himself could effectively damage these level 50 elite monsters.

It's not that his teammates weren't strong enough.

The difference in levels is too great.

With a level difference of over ten levels, Ink Trace's spells were like scratching a thorn, and Chasing Wind's ordinary arrows probably wouldn't even deal a hundred points of damage.

As for Night Wind, no matter how high a thief's burst damage is, when faced with a level difference of more than ten levels, those skills are no different from tickling a level fifty elite.

"The second arrow is coming."

Li Wusong drew the bowstring.

Another streak of red and blue light struck precisely the half-healed chest wound of the Hellfire Vanguard.

-4812!

Immediately afterwards, the ice and fire energies within his body exploded once more.

-10987!

The damage of 27,000 has already been dealt.

The Hellfire Vanguard's health bar dropped by nearly one-fifth.

It let out a painful roar, abandoned its pursuit of Mohen, and turned to charge at Li Wu.

"President, watch out!" Zhui Feng instinctively drew his bow and fired an arrow.

-47!

Forty-seven points of damage.

Zhui Feng stared at that pitiful number, his hands stiffening.

When he was leveling up in the Tanaris desert, he could hit two or three hundred points with a single arrow.

Forty-seven?

"Don't waste your arrows," Li Wu said as he created some distance. "Hitting it now is like scraping a itch; save your energy."

This was a very direct statement, but no one had the confidence to refute it.

The facts are right in front of us.

Li Wu fired two more ice and fire spiral arrows, each hitting the Hellfire Vanguard precisely in the chest—its core and weakest point.

Four arrows struck, dealing over 60,000 damage.

The Hellfire Vanguard's health has dropped below half.

"Aww!"

It suddenly stopped, and its entire body began to expand violently. Green fel flames shot out from every crack in its body, and the temperature soared.

"It's going to self-destruct!" Hua Zitong shouted.

"It wasn't a self-destruction," Li Wu said calmly. "It was a berserk rage."

He was right.

The Hellfire Vanguard didn't explode; instead, it became even more ferocious in its berserk state. Its speed increased by at least twice, and it charged towards Li Wu in a single stride.

The stone axe, wreathed in scorching fel flames, cleaved straight down toward Li Wu's head.

"Flash Arrow".

Li Wu shot an arrow, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot, reappearing twenty meters away.

The stone axe cleaved through the air.

Another hole appeared in the ground.

"Again."

The fifth ice and fire spiral arrow.

-5201!

-11876!

The Hellfire Vanguard's health is now less than 40,000.

Li Wu gave it no chance to breathe, firing the sixth and seventh arrows in quick succession, each one aimed at its weak points.

A dozen seconds later, the Hellfire Vanguard's massive body crashed to the ground, its fel core shattered, and the green flames gradually died down.

[Defeat Hellfire Vanguard (Elite) to gain 1200 experience points!]

"It's resolved." Li Wu sheathed his bow.

The battle lasted less than a minute from start to finish.

Throughout the entire process, he was the only one dealing damage.

The other four people watched the whole thing from the sidelines.

This feeling was extremely unpleasant for Chasing Wind, Ink Mark, and Night Wind.

The three of them were all top elites in the Myth Guild. Chasing Wind's archery skills were praised by everyone, Inkmark's control crushed the Iron Blood Alliance's undercover agents in the recruitment assessment, and Night Wind was even personally selected by Li Wu to be the strongest thief in the Shadow Squad.

But there's nothing they can do here.

"Guild Leader." Zhui Feng walked to Li Wu's side, his face somewhat grim. "I just fired an arrow, dealing forty-seven points of damage."

"I know."

"Then what's the point of us coming here?" Zhui Feng asked directly. "You can handle this by yourself. Aren't the four of us just a burden?"

Li Wu glanced at him.

"You think I brought you here so you could just be the damage dealers?"

Zhui Feng paused for a moment.

"If I wanted damage output, I wouldn't have been able to carry Rushan and Steel Shield over here," Li Wu said. "They're plate armor classes, after all; they won't die instantly from taking a couple of hits."

"Then bring us here—"

"Night breeze." Li Wu suddenly turned his head.

Nightwind emerged from the shadows and nodded: "Five hundred meters ahead, there are two identical Hellfire Vanguards patrolling. Further away, I saw a group of smaller demons, about twenty or so, like some kind of scouts."

"What's the route?"

"By going around that lava field on the left, we can avoid those two patrolling elites. But the scouts' patrol area is too large to avoid."

"Then we won't avoid it." After saying that, Li Wu turned to look at Zhui Feng, "Did you hear that?"

Zhui Feng understood.

Night Wind was in charge of reconnaissance and exploration.

"Ink marks." Li Wu looked at the monk again.

"I understand." Mohen pushed up his glasses. "Although the duration of my control will be greatly shortened, 'having control' and 'not having control' are two different things. Even if it only freezes you for half a second, it can still give you a window of opportunity to deal damage."

"right."

"Wind Chaser, your Eagle Eye skill is the strongest long-range detection method. In this environment with extremely low visibility, you are my eyes."

Zhui Feng nodded vigorously.

"Hua Zitong is in charge of tactical coordination and emergency handling." Li Wu glanced at Hua Zitong. "If I get focused down, you're in charge of drawing the monsters' aggro."

"Understood," Hua Zitong said.

"So, you guys aren't here to deal damage." Li Wu looked at the four of them. "You are my eyes, my shield, my control chain, my tactical brain. Without you, if I charged in alone, I wouldn't even know how I died."

These words greatly relieved the frustration in Zhui Feng's heart.

Although they can't deal damage, their role is truly irreplaceable.

"Alright, let's not waste any more time." Li Wu glanced ahead. "Ye Feng, lead the way."

"Yes." Night Wind's figure once again disappeared into the shadows.