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

"Three hundred thousand blood, guild leader," Mohen couldn't help but say.

"Yes, 300,000." Li Wu turned to look at him. "You do the math. Each of my Ice-Fire Spiral Arrows deals about 15,000 damage. How many arrows would it take to take down 300,000 health?"

Inkmark quickly calculated: "Twenty shots."

"At one shot every three seconds, that's one minute," Li Wu said. "Adding the time it takes to maneuver during its berserk phase, it'll be finished within two minutes."

Two minutes to take down a lord with 300,000 HP?

Mohen opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

He was no longer interested in being amazed by Li Wu's output capabilities. Too many surprises would numb him.

"Night Wind, does it have any special skills?" Li Wu asked.

"Not sure. But I observed it for a while, and occasionally it would plunge its greatsword into the ground, and then the surrounding ground would crack open, spewing out pillars of fel fire. The range was about... fifteen meters."

"Area attack." Li Wu nodded. "Anything else?"

"There are six fel hounds at its feet, like its guard dogs. Once the battle starts, those hounds will definitely be the first to charge."

Six hounds and a lord.

In a normal difficulty dungeon, this would require a team of twenty to thirty people to complete.

But there were only five of them.

To be precise, only one person can deal damage.

"The plan is simple," Li Wu said. "Mohen, you're in charge of controlling the hounds. Freeze one at a time, slow one at a time. Hua Zitong and Yefeng, you're in charge of drawing the hounds' aggro away, leading them as far as possible. Zhuifeng, lock onto the lord's location and movements, and report back to me in real time."

"And what about you?" Zhui Feng asked.

"I'll take on the lord all by myself."

The words were spoken casually, but everyone present knew what they meant.

A level 40 player is taking on a level 50 boss monster in a one-on-one fight.

A ten-level difference, 300,000 health points, and unknown skill mechanics.

Moreover, he also had to be constantly careful not to be harassed by the hunting dogs.

"Sure," Hua Zitong said first. "Ye Feng and I will take care of the hunting dogs, so you can focus on the hunt."

"I'm fine with that too." Zhui Feng patted his bow. "Leave your eyes to me."

Mohen took a deep breath and gripped his staff tightly: "Even if I can't freeze it, I have to. Every half second counts."

Li Wu nodded.

"Three, two, one, open!"

Li Wu was the first to draw his bow, and a bursting, burning arrow pierced the air, shooting towards the distant Abyss Watcher.

The arrow left a scorching trail in mid-air and struck the guard squarely in the chest.

boom!

Flames exploded, and damage numbers floated up.

-2145!

The guard let out a deafening roar, jerked his greatsword up, and turned to look in the direction from which the arrows had come.

The six fel hounds at its feet were the first to move, howling as they charged toward it.

"The hunting dogs are here! Leave them to us!" Hua Zitong rushed forward immediately.

She unleashed a barrage of attacks on the leading hound, but the damage was still pitifully low. However, it had generated maximum aggro, and the hound immediately turned and chased after her.

Night Wind appeared from another direction, using a series of attacks—stun, blind, trip—to draw the attention of the two hounds away.

Mohen unleashed a Frost Nova, which didn't freeze any of them, but the slowing effect still took effect—lasting for less than two seconds, but enough for Hua Zitong and Yefeng to create distance.

The six hunting dogs were successfully separated.

Three chased Hua Zitong, two chased Yefeng, and one was stuck due to Mohen's slowing effect and was struggling in place.

The battlefield instantly became a one-on-one duel between Li Wu and the Abyss Guardian.

"Chase the wind!"

"The Watcher is charging up! Sword raised overhead! Dodge to the right!"

Li Wu rolled to the side, and a ten-meter-long green sword aura grazed his scalp, leaving a half-meter-deep trench in the ground behind him.

"How fierce," Li Wu muttered under his breath, then drew back the bowstring.

Ice and Fire Spiral Arrow.

This time, he didn't aim for the core of the chest, but instead targeted the guard's joints—he needed to test the distribution of the thing's weaknesses first.

-3876!

It's not a weakness.

But the damage is still very high.

The implosion effect is then triggered.

-8234!

The total damage was a little over 12,000.

"The weakness is in the core of the fel rune array in the center of the chest," came the voice of Chasing Wind. "I just saw it; the light there is brighter than elsewhere."

"receive."

The second arrow was aimed at the center of the rune array on the chest.

-5012!

-11567!

More than 16,000.

The guard cried out in pain as the greatsword plunged violently into the ground.

"Watch out! An area-of-effect skill is coming!" Chasing Wind shouted.

The ground beneath their feet began to crack, and large columns of green fire shot out from the cracks within a 15-meter radius.

Flash Arrow.

Li Wu disappeared and reappeared twenty meters away.

A pillar of fire shot into the sky from where he had just stood, and a wave of heat hit him.

"It's okay, continue."

The third arrow!

The fourth arrow!

The fifth arrow!

Every arrow struck the guard's weak point precisely in the chest, and the guard's health visibly decreased.

Three hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, two hundred thousand...

"It's going berserk!" Chasing Wind's voice became urgent. "It's moving faster; its sword speed is at least 30% faster than before!"

During the brief moments of dodging, Li Wu fired his eighth and ninth arrows.

150,000, 120,000, 80,000...

The Abyss Watcher let out its final roar, raised its greatsword high, and the fel flames on its blade surged threefold as it unleashed its most ferocious strike at Li Wu.

Li Wu dodged to the side and simultaneously fired his twelfth arrow.

The ice and fire spiral arrow pierced through the core of the runic array on the guard's chest.

The guard froze abruptly, the greatsword slipped from his grasp, and he crashed to the ground.

[Defeat the Abyss Guardian (Lord) and gain 2000 experience points!]

The lord with 300,000 HP fell in one minute and forty seconds, from the start of the battle to his demise.

Li Wu said he could resolve it within two minutes, and he did.

Zhui Feng stared in disbelief at the fallen body of the guard and the six hunting dogs that had scattered and fled because of their master's death.

He wanted to say something.

But he found that he could no longer speak.

Along the way, his understanding has been refreshed countless times.

From the initial 16,000 damage from the Hellfire Vanguard to the instant kill of the 300,000 HP Lord in one minute and forty seconds, he only did one thing throughout the entire process—be Li Wu's eyes.

Li Wu did only one thing the whole time—shooting arrows.

"What are you spacing out for?" Li Wu's voice came. "Go and pick up the hound's carcass, see if it dropped anything good."

Zhui Feng snapped out of his daze, gave a wry smile, and obediently ran off to pick up the things.

Li Wu glanced ahead. "We've arrived at the fortress entrance."

Everyone's eyes followed his gaze.

After passing through the passage guarded by the Abyss Watchers, a massive archway made of obsidian and bones appeared before them.

Beyond the archway lies Hellfire Citadel.