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

Qianjin Pavilion, second-floor conference room.

Hua Zitong sat at the table with a document spread out in front of her.

The document contained the following lines:

"To the Blood Wolf Guild and the forces behind it: We are aware of your entire plan, including the cross-server killing operation in seven days – Myth Guild."

Simple, direct, and without any unnecessary words.

Hua Zitong glanced at the document one last time, then handed it to Ye Feng, who was standing next to her.

"Execute as planned."

Night Breeze took the document and nodded. "Vice President, are you sure you want to use this method? Deliver it directly to Blood Wolf Battle Soul?"

"Yes," Hua Zitong said. "Don't go through a third party, don't beat around the bush, just have someone put this directly on Blood Wolf War Soul's table."

"If we do this, the other side will know that our intelligence capabilities have infiltrated their ranks."

"That's the goal." Hua Zitong leaned back in her chair. "Let them know we know everything, make them panic, and only when they panic will they make mistakes."

Ye Feng thought for a moment, then didn't ask any more questions. He turned and left the conference room.

Hua Zitong sat alone in the empty conference room, her fingers tapping unconsciously on the table.

She was thinking about what Li Wu had said.

"Notify them, let them know that I already know."

This strategy seems crazy at first glance.

If you know someone is going to kill you, a normal person's reaction is to hide or take precautions in advance.

But Li Wu chose the most unusual approach, directly telling the other party, "I understand."

But Hua Zitong understood his logic.

The other side has invested a lot of resources. One hundred and twenty undercover spies, cross-regional observer visas, and assassins of level one hundred or above—all of these combined make for an extremely high cost.

If they withdraw now, their explanation to their financial backers will be "failure."

No one wants to admit defeat.

Therefore, they will not withdraw.

But they will panic.

Once they panic, their plans will fall apart.

A meticulously planned ambush can be distorted due to a change in mindset.

This is what Li Wu wanted.

"However..." Hua Zitong muttered to herself, "What if the other side doesn't panic? What if they speed up their actions instead?"

This possibility cannot be ruled out.

If the other party decides, "Since we've already been exposed, we might as well take action now," then the seven-day preparation time may be shortened.

Hua Zitong picked up the communicator and added a command to Ye Feng.

"Increase the monitoring frequency of those 120 chess pieces from once per hour to once every 15 minutes, and report any abnormalities immediately."

"receive."

After putting down the communicator, Hua Zitong sent a message to both Steel Shield and Immovable Mountain.

"From now on, all guild members are prohibited from acting alone. When going out to level up, they must form groups of three or more, and the core members must be in groups of five or more."

They replied almost simultaneously: "Understood."

Hua Zitong relaxed a little after making these arrangements.

She glanced at the time; Li Wu had been gone for almost ten hours. At his pace, he should have leveled up one or two times by now.

"Level 95..." Hua Zitong murmured.

She knew better than anyone how crazy this goal was.

It takes a normal player at least two months to go from level 81 to level 95.

Even for Li Wu, at his previous pace, it would take more than ten days.

But he said four days.

Hua Zitong did not question it.

Because she had seen it too many times; every time Li Wu set a seemingly impossible goal, it was eventually achieved.

All she could do was keep the rear secure until he returned.

"Lin Hai." Hua Zitong pressed the communicator.

"Vice President, what is it?"

"How are the guild's war supplies?"

"As per the guild leader's previous request, the amount has already doubled. Three hundred return scrolls, two hundred teleport scrolls, and five thousand bottles of various potions."

"Double it again."

"...What?"

"Double it again," Hua Zitong repeated, "and finish it within three days."

Lin Hai paused for two seconds. "Vice President, regarding this amount, what about the funding..."

"Don't worry about funding. Deliver the Soulforger Set orders ahead of schedule, and the revenue will be enough to cover the costs."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Hua Zitong hung up the call, stood up, and walked to the window.

Outside the window was the night view of Ironforge. Players came and went on the brightly lit streets, most of them still immersed in the joy of victory after the world event.

Unbeknownst to them, a much larger storm was brewing.

Hua Zitong turned around and returned to the table, opening a new document.

Document Title: Contingency Plan for Cross-Regional Killing Operations

She started writing.

Article 1: Confirm the number and level of the enemy.

Article 2: Confirm the method and time by which the enemy enters Area 21.

Article 3: Confirm the ownership of the battlefield selection right.

Article 4: Confirm all forces that we can mobilize.

Article 5...

Hua Zitong paused for a moment.

Article 5: Confirm the guild leader's level and status upon return.

She added a parenthesis after this: (Expected to be level 95 or above)

Then continue writing.

Hua Zitong did not sleep that night.

The deepest part of Wanlong Tomb.

Three ancient skeletal dragons charged towards Li Wu at the same time.

They were larger than any of the dragonborn we had encountered before, each one being twenty meters long.

The golden bones emitted a blinding light in the dark underground space, and six eerie blue eye sockets locked onto the same target.

Li Wu's first reaction was to create distance.

Flash Arrow.

His figure instantly appeared behind a huge dragon bone pillar on the left side of the altar.

The attacks of the three skeletal dragons missed their mark. One of them unleashed a breath attack that struck the spot where he had just stood, burning a three-meter-deep crater in the ground.

"Dragon's breath damage is not low." Li Wu noted this in his mind.

He emerged from behind the dragon bone pillar and fired a blazing sun-piercing arrow.

The target is the left eye socket of the nearest skeletal dragon.

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Weakness critical strike.

But this skeletal dragon has five million health. One hundred thousand damage is only two percent of its health.

Li Wu did not stop.

The second and third Blazing Sun Piercing Arrows were fired in quick succession, all hitting the same skeletal dragon.

After three shots, the skeletal dragon's health dropped by six percent.

But the other two skeleton dragons had already circled around to his side and behind.

Li Wu was forced to teleport again.

This time he appeared on the other side of the altar, more than fifty meters away from the three skeletal dragons.

"We can't fight like this," Li Wu frowned.

With three lords attacking simultaneously, his attack window was too short.

You can only fire two or three shots at a time before you have to dodge, which is too inefficient.

At this speed, it would only take more than fifteen minutes to finish all three.

Fifteen minutes of intense dodging was extremely mentally taxing.

He needs to change his approach.

"If only we could separate them..."

Li Wu's gaze swept over the terrain surrounding the altar.

Although the space is not small, it is actually quite limited for three 20-meter-long skeletal dragons to move around in.

In particular, the numerous dragon bone pillars and stone platform remains around the altar formed natural obstacles.

If he can use these obstacles to separate the three skeletal dragons' paths...

Li Wu had an idea.

He ran toward a narrow passage directly behind the altar.

The passage is only about ten meters wide, just enough for one skeleton dragon to pass through, but a second one would get stuck.

Three skeletal dragons caught up with them.

Sure enough, the first skeletal dragon rushed into the passage, but the second and third were stuck at the entrance.

They were too big to squeeze in at the same time.

Li Wu turned around and faced the solitary skeletal dragon in the passage.

"One-on-one, that makes things easier."

The blazing sun pierced through the arrow.

Charge for three seconds, then fire.

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Weakness critical strike.

Second shot, third shot, fourth shot.

The skeletal dragon cannot unleash its dragon breath in the narrow passage; the passage is too narrow, and the dragon breath will bounce back from the walls on both sides, injuring itself.

It can only attack with claw strikes and tail sweeps.

But the passage was over thirty meters long. Li Wu stood at the other end of the passage, out of reach of the skeletal dragon's claws.

This turned into a one-sided shooting practice.

Li Wu maintained a steady rate of fire, firing a Blazing Sun Piercing Arrow every three seconds, all of which struck the Skeleton Dragon's weak spot in the eye socket.

One minute later, the first skeleton dragon's health dropped to 60%.

It went into a berserk state.

Its speed increased dramatically, and it charged directly towards Li Wu.

Li Wu used Blink Arrow to pass through the passage and appeared behind the Bone Dragon.

The skeletal dragon burst out of the other end of the passage and entered the open area.

But that's alright. Because the other two skeletal dragons are still stuck at the other end of the passage entrance.

Li Wu continued to attack.

Another minute passed, and the first skeletal dragon fell.

[Defeat the Ancient Skeleton Dragon (LV96 Lord) to gain 280000 experience points]

"One."

Without pausing, Li Wu immediately ran back to the passage.

The second skeletal dragon has already squeezed into the passage.

Same tactics, same result.

Two minutes later, the second skeletal dragon fell.

The third one.

By the time the third skeletal dragon entered the passage, Li Wu had completely mastered the rhythm.

He even started calculating experience values ​​during the intervals between shots.

"The three together give a total of 840,000 experience points, plus the altar rewards..."

The final blazing sun piercing arrow struck the forehead of the third skeletal dragon.

It crashed down.

[Defeat the Ancient Skeleton Dragon (LV96 Lord) to gain 280000 experience points]

The system notification sounded continuously.

[Level Up! Current Level: LV86]

Li Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

Level 86.

He walked to the center of the altar and picked up the golden dragon egg.

[Obtained Special Item: Ancient Dragon Soul Essence]

[Permanently increases Intelligence by 50 and Spirit by 30 upon use]

Li Wu used it without hesitation.

Intelligence +50.

This number may be a lot for others, but for him it's just icing on the cake.

But even a small mosquito is still meat.

Li Wu checked his attribute panel.

"Not enough."

He checked the time; about fourteen hours had passed since he entered the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons.

In fourteen hours, I rose from level eighty-one to level eighty-six, a level five increase.

At this rate, I'll reach level 95 in four days...

"We need to speed things up," Li Wu frowned.

He's cleared all six altars. Now he either has to wait for the monsters to respawn or go deeper into the area.

Heart of Ten Thousand Dragons.

The area marked "Recommended level 95-100, recommended team size 20 or more".

Li Wu stared at the red marker on the map and remained silent for a few seconds.

Then he started walking towards the deepest part of the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons.