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

Li Wu didn't even use any fancy area-of-effect skills, relying solely on the Blazing Sun Piercing Arrows to fire one arrow at a time.

Because it is not needed.

With a magical attack power of 3,480, each arrow deals over 32,000 damage, and nine arrows would amount to nearly 300,000.

A lord with 350,000 HP? Not enough to defeat.

Li Wu turned around and continued walking towards the direction where the monsters were most concentrated.

The communication panel flashed; it was a message from Hua Zitong.

"How is the situation?"

Li Wu thought for a moment and replied with two words.

"very good."

Hua Zitong remained silent for a few seconds.

"Your level... I just saw the leaderboard update, you're level 43?"

"Um."

"You've only been gone for three hours."

"There's more experience here."

Hua Zitong remained silent for a while.

"be safe."

"Um."

Communication lost.

Li Wu put away the control panel and continued his monster-hunting journey.

In the time that followed, he rampaged through every corner of the cursed land like a tireless beast.

The Burning Star Return to Ruins Arrow exploded in a wide area, the Chain Lightning Arrow swept away the remnants, the Blazing Sun Piercing Arrow killed elites, and when encountering lord-level enemies, a few arrows were used to take them out one by one.

The efficiency is astonishing.

By the sixth hour, he had reached level 44.

My luck stat has exceeded 2,500.

His intelligence level has exceeded three thousand.

The magic attack exceeded four thousand.

By the tenth hour, he had reached level 45.

The numbers on the attribute panel had reached a point that even he found somewhat absurd.

Every arrow he fired was more powerful than it had been ten hours earlier. And the more monsters he killed, the stronger he became; the stronger he became, the faster he could kill; and the faster he killed, the more his power increased.

Positive cycle.

An endless positive cycle.

Li Wu stopped after the twelfth hour.

It's not because there are no monsters to kill; the respawn rate in the Cursed Lands is now five times faster, and the monsters he kills will be replenished very quickly.

The monsters in the Cursed Lands are no longer high-level enough. Level 45 elites are like cutting vegetables to him. Although the efficiency is high, the experience given per monster has started to decrease.

He needs to find a higher-level area.

The next area marked on Hua Zitong's map—

"North of the Blackwater Swamp, there is an area with levels 48 to 50."

At that moment, the communication panel flashed again.

This time it wasn't Hua Zitong, it was Ye Feng.

"President, there is something I need to report."

"explain."

"My Shadow Squad discovered something very strange while scouting outside Ironforge."

"What is it?"

Nightwind spoke cautiously: "At the northern entrance to the Cursed Lands, there's a small group of five people. They don't have guild insignia, but their equipment is excellent, at least rare or higher. They're observing the distribution of monsters and have marked them."

"Make a mark?"

"Yes, marking them on the map. It looks like they're counting monster density and spawn rate."

Li Wu's eyes narrowed slightly.

Did you see their IDs?

"No, they used stealth titles and hid all their IDs. But my people followed them for a while, and they communicated via private chat. Their actions were very professional, and they maintained excellent formation; they didn't seem like lone wolves."

"Follow them closely," Li Wu said. "Don't reveal yourselves, just observe, don't alert them."

"clear."

Communication lost.

Li Wu leaned against the rock, closed his eyes, and a question mark appeared in his mind.

While everyone else was too afraid to leave the city, a well-equipped, professionally trained group of people, who also deliberately concealed their identities, went to the Cursed Lands to collect monster data.

This is not the behavior of an ordinary player.

This was an organized reconnaissance operation.

People from Dragon Shield?

Or is it another force?

Li Wu didn't continue thinking about it; there wasn't enough information, so speculation was meaningless.

Besides, he doesn't have that much time to think about useless things!

He still has many monsters to kill.

……

The 24th hour.

Li Wu spent a full day and night killing in the cursed land.

He had stopped counting how many monsters he had killed.

Because it's meaningless, there are too many of them, so many that the system logs have already been automatically folded.

He only looks at the attribute panel.

[Level: LV47 (8000/55000)]

Intelligence: 4556

Luck rating: 4000

[Magic Attack: 5889]

Magic attack: 5,889.

This number has exceeded his own estimates.

Just a day ago it was a little over 2,400, now it has more than doubled.

He's a level 47 player, and his magical attack power is probably higher than that of the level 100+ mages in the first server.

And it's still rising; as long as it doesn't stop, the number will keep rising.

But now he faces a problem: the monsters in the Cursed Lands no longer pose any challenge to him.

A level 45 elite ghoul can be wiped out with a single Starburst Arrow. His Chain Lightning Arrow doesn't even need to be used with Multi-Shot Field; a normal shot can kill one ghoul with a single shot.

Too much efficiency has become a problem.

Although the monster respawn rate is five times faster, the killing speed is even faster. After clearing an area, it takes several minutes for a new batch to spawn, which creates a gap period.

He needs a larger hunting ground.

Li Wu found his next target on the map: the corrupt core deep within the Cursed Lands.

According to Hua Zitong's map, it was a circular valley where a level 50 lord-level monster was permanently stationed, surrounded by a large number of level 47 to 48 elites.

Just as he was about to leave, something in his hand suddenly vibrated slightly.

It is not a communication panel.

It's an item in the backpack.

Li Wu opened his backpack, rummaged through it, and his gaze fell on something.

Lucky Gambler's Amulet (Special Accessory) (Rare)

The amulet is vibrating.

To be precise, it was the effect of the Balance Path on the amulet that was constantly flashing, emitting a faint light.

This has never happened before.

Li Wu took out the talisman and held it in his hand.

The tremors intensified.

A strange sensation came from the amulet; it wasn't pain or heat, but rather... a sense of direction?

It was as if the amulet was guiding him.

He looked up and followed that direction.

Northeast.

A desolate place where the Cursed Lands and the Blackwater Swamp meet.

The system notification popped up without warning.

[Warning: Your extremely high luck stat has attracted a wandering entity that is highly sensitive to fate.]

The entity is approaching you.

Li Wu immediately drew his bow and entered battle mode.

A wandering entity?

His gaze swept quickly around him. To his left was a patch of charred remains of a forest, to his right was an undulating wasteland, and in front of him was a clearing he had just cleared.

No monsters were seen.

But the soul that devours fate is still throbbing.

It wasn't the pulsation of absorbing energy, but rather a kind of... alertness.

Effect 2: Perception of fate.

His intuition told him that what was coming was not a monster.

They are not enemies.

But it's not harmless either.

"I've been looking for it for a long time."

The voice came from behind.