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

Chapter 456 Lord of the Abyss

Behind the stone gate was a huge circular altar.

In the center of the altar, a monster was coiled up, a sight that would send chills down anyone's spine.

It was a black lump of flesh with no fixed shape, its surface covered with countless eyes and tentacles.

It had no limbs or head; its entire body seemed to be formed from pure malice and corruption.

Mephisto, Lord of the Abyss

Level: 150 (Abyss Overlord)

Health Points: ? ? ?

Another monster whose health bar is invisible.

"What the hell is this thing?" Zhui Feng gasped.

"The final guardian of the Abyss Rift, the Abyss Overlord." Hua Zitong's expression was solemn. "Everyone be careful, the mechanism of this thing is definitely not simple."

The countless eyes on Morpheus's body turned simultaneously, locking onto the ten people who walked in.

There was no roar, nor any unnecessary movement. The space around the altar suddenly distorted, and more than a dozen black void portals opened around them.

Countless Void minions surged out of the portal, rushing madly towards them.

"Defensive formation!" Hua Zitong shouted.

Immovable Mountain and Steel Shield immediately stood at the forefront, protecting the back row.

Li Wu ignored the smaller monsters; his only target was Mephisto.

He drew his bow and unleashed a powerful attack.

【The Ruins of Return: The Arrow of Destiny】!

The jet-black arrow shot towards Mephisto's massive body.

However, just as the arrow was about to hit, a giant eye on Mephistopheles' body suddenly opened and shot out a beam of purple light.

The beam of light and the arrow collided in mid-air.

There was no explosion, only silent annihilation.

The ethereal energy of the Arrow of Doom was actually forcibly neutralized by that purple beam of light.

Li Wu's eyes narrowed slightly.

This was the first time he had encountered a monster capable of blocking the Final Arrow head-on.

A level 150 Abyss Overlord, indeed something else.

"Physical attacks are ineffective! Magic attacks have been absorbed!" Chasing Wind shouted anxiously in the team channel.

The arrows he had just fired hit Morpheus but were like mud sinking into the sea, causing no harm whatsoever.

"It has a layer of law-based shield around it." Li Wu saw through Mephisto's defense mechanism. "We must break the shield first."

"How do we fix this?" Hua Zitong asked.

"Shoot its eyes." Li Wu pointed to the constantly opening and closing eyes on Morpheus's body.

"Each time it attacks, the corresponding eye will open. That's when the shield is weakest. Blinding its eye will weaken the shield."

"clear!"

The tactics were changed immediately.

Immovable Mountain and Steel Shield continued to withstand the pressure from the mobs, while Wind Chaser, Shadow, and Winter focused all their attention on Morpheus.

As soon as one eye opens, ready to unleash magic, their attacks will instantly converge on it.

Although the damage is not high, it is enough to interrupt its spellcasting.

Li Wu became the main shield-breaker.

He abandoned his powerful, long-charge-time ultimate moves and instead used high-frequency, high-penetration arrows.

【Blazing Sun Piercing Arrow】

Beams of pure white light intertwined above the altar.

Each ray of light precisely hit an eye that had just opened.

Mephisto let out a piercing scream as black blood gushed from his ruptured eyes.

As more and more eyes were blinded, the law shield around it began to become unstable, flickering with a faint light.

"The shield is about to break!" Hua Zitong shouted, "Full power!"

Just then, Mephisto suddenly stopped attacking.

All the remaining eyes on its body closed simultaneously, and its massive body began to contract violently.

A terrifying energy surge was brewing in the center of the altar.

Li Wu's sense of destiny issued a frantic alarm.

"Retreat! Everyone retreat to the doorway!" Li Wu roared.

Without any hesitation, the nine men immediately abandoned their defensive formation and ran desperately toward the gate.

Mephisto's body, which had been contracted to its limit, suddenly expanded.

A black energy wave swept outwards from its center.

[Annihilation in the Abyss].

Wherever the energy wave passed, everything, from small monsters to the stone pillars at the edge of the altar, turned to ashes.

The steel shield, which was running at the very back, was about to be overtaken by the energy wave.

"Steel Shield!" The unmoving man tried to turn around and pull him back.

"Don't worry about me! Run!" Steel Shield roared, turned around, and slammed the tower shield in his hand heavily onto the ground.

Absolute Defense!

This is his strongest survival skill.

The black energy wave slammed into the shield.

Steel Shield was blasted away along with the shield, crashing heavily into the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

His health bar instantly dropped to a forced retention state with only one drop of health remaining.

"Banxia! Help!" Hua Zitong shouted urgently.

Banxia frantically spammed healing spells on the steel shield, pulling him back from the brink of death.

The energy wave dissipated.

In the center of the altar, Mephisto's body became somewhat illusory, and the law shield around it had been completely shattered.

After unleashing its ultimate attack, it fell into a weakened state.

"Now is the time." Li Wu didn't let this opportunity slip by.

He did not retreat. When the energy wave erupted, he used Blink Arrow to force his way through the energy gaps and remained in the closest place to Mephisto.

He drew back the arcane bow.

This time, he did not use any known arrow signals.

He closed his eyes, and the structural logic of superordinate language came to mind.

He wanted to fuse the power of the laws contained within the Titan core fragments with his own secret texts.

Seven secret texts lit up in his mind's ocean.

【Blazing】, 【Darkness】, 【Absolute】, 【Law】, 【Balance】, 【Transformation】... and the seventh secret text he had just comprehended, 【Extinction】, which represents "the end".

This was his first attempt to construct a seven-character arrow.

The surrounding space began to tremble violently, as if it could not withstand the arrival of this force.

An arrow without a physical form appeared on the bowstring. It was merely a pure stream of light governed by laws, radiating an aura of despair.

【God's Demise - Arrow of Creation】.

Li Wu opened his eyes and released the bowstring.

There was no sound, and no lighting effects.

The beam of light pierced directly through Mephisto's body.

Mephisto's massive body froze.

One second later, its body began to collapse from the inside.

It wasn't an explosion, but rather like broken glass, shattering into countless pieces and then dissipating into pure energy in the air.

The level 150 Abyss Overlord was instantly killed by a single arrow.

The system notification sounds went off incessantly.