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

Li Wu led ten members of the Myth Guild through the stone gate.

Caesar watched their retreating figures and gritted his teeth.

"Boss, what do we do?" Iron Wall asked.

"Keep up!" Caesar waved his hand. "They fight from the first floor, we fight from the first floor too. I want to see what tricks he can pull!"

The ten members of the Heavenly Punishment Guild also followed into the stone gate.

In the rest area, the veteran players looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What an arrogant brat," the Iron-Blooded Emperor sneered. "They'll know how powerful they are after they die a few times in there."

Hua Yufengyin remained silent, staring at the stone gate with a complex light in his eyes.

He always felt that the young man named "Seeing Flowers Through the Fog" possessed something about him that was impossible to understand.

Perhaps, he really can create a miracle?

Behind the stone gate was a teleportation platform emitting a faint light.

The console has a virtual screen that displays numbers from 1 to 88.

These are the levels that have been unlocked.

Li Wu stepped forward and pressed the number "1" without hesitation.

With a flash of white light, the ten people were teleported to a dense forest.

"Tower of Despair, First Floor: Lost Forest"

The system notification sounded in their minds.

"Completion conditions: Find the teleportation array hidden in the forest within two hours. Hint: There is fog in the forest, which will interfere with your senses and sense of direction."

A thick white fog enveloped the area. Visibility was less than five meters.

Zhui Feng tried to activate Eagle Eye, only to find that the skill, which usually allowed him to see clearly several kilometers away, was completely ineffective here.

"This fog is strange," said Zhui Feng, frowning. "My vision is blocked, and I can't even tell which way to go."

"It's not just about vision." Hua Zitong closed her eyes and sensed it. "This fog contains a faint mental interference. Staying in it for too long can cause hallucinations."

He drew his shield, remaining motionless, and warily surveyed his surroundings: "Are there any monsters?"

"Nothing has been found yet," Shadow reported from the shadows.

Li Wu did not rush to take action.

He stood still, closed his eyes, and used his perception of destiny.

In his perception, this forest was not chaotic.

Those mists are actually woven from countless tiny lines of laws.

"It's a combination of the two secret texts, 【迷】 and 【幻】," Li Wu analyzed to himself.

This combination is ingenious.

It doesn't directly attack the player, but rather misleads the player's perception by altering the laws of the environment.

If players follow the conventional method, they can only wander aimlessly through the forest like headless flies, relying on luck to find the teleportation array.

Moreover, during this process, one must resist mental interference and may be driven insane by hallucinations at any time.

But Li Wu doesn't need to rely on luck.

He sees through the essence of the law, and thus he can find a way to break it.

"Follow me." Li Wu opened his eyes and walked straight in one direction.

"Boss, do you know where the teleportation array is?" Steel Shield asked in surprise.

"I don't know," Li Wu said as she walked.

"Then why..."

"But I know how to break these lines of law."

Li Wu drew back the arcane bow.

He did not use any destructive arrow signals.

He simply condensed a most ordinary energy arrow, and then attached the two secret runes, [Break] and [Straight], to this arrow.

【破】 means to break through falsehoods, and 【直】 means to extend in a straight line.

Whoosh!

The arrow shot into the thick fog.

A miraculous scene unfolded.

Where the arrow flew, the white mist seemed to have encountered its nemesis, quickly retreating to both sides.

A clear passage, unobstructed by any fog, appeared before them.

"Holy crap!" Zhui Feng's eyes widened. "You can do that?"

"Let's go." Li Wu didn't waste any words and quickly moved forward along the passage.

Whenever the passage was about to be filled with mist again, he would fire another arrow to continue clearing the way.

Ten minutes later.

They arrived at the heart of the forest.

A teleportation array emitting blue light lay quietly on an open ground.

"That's it... we've cleared the game?" Immovable as a mountain stared at the teleportation array, feeling a bit unreal.

Veteran players say this tower is very difficult, but it feels like a game to them?

"This is just the first level," Hua Zitong reminded her. "The mechanism is relatively simple. It definitely won't be that easy later on."

Li Wu looked at the teleportation array and nodded.

This first layer was indeed just an appetizer. But by deciphering the fog, he had already validated his ideas.

Each floor of this tower is a specific application of the rules of higher-level language.

Once you can see through the essence of these rules and use the corresponding cipher syntax to crack them, you can easily pass the level.

"Enter the teleportation array and go to the second floor."

A flash of white light.

When they reappeared, the surrounding environment had turned into a sea of ​​fire.

"The second floor of the Tower of Despair: Lava Hell".

"Clearance condition: Defeat the Lava Lord. Hint: The ground temperature is extremely high, which will continuously cause a large amount of fire damage."

The ground beneath my feet was dark red rock, with molten lava flowing from its crevices. The air was frighteningly hot; even breathing felt like my lungs were on fire.

"It's so hot!" As soon as Banxia landed, her health bar began to drop at a visible speed.

"It's environmental damage! We're losing 5,000 HP per second!" Bai Zhi quickly cast a group healing spell on everyone.

However, under such continuous high damage, healing spells can only barely maintain the health level.

If the fight drags on too long and the priests run out of mana, they will definitely be burned to death.

Roar!

A deafening roar came from the depths of the sea of ​​fire.

A giant stone figure, over ten meters tall and covered in magma, rose from the sea of ​​fire.

[Lava Lord] Level: 150. Health: 50000000.

"A boss with 50 million HP!" Immovable as a Mountain gritted his teeth. "Boss, I'll go up and draw aggro!"

"No need," Li Wu said, pressing down on his shoulder.

He looked at the lava lord, then at the lava beneath his feet.

"The laws of this layer are enhanced versions of [Blazing] and [Domain]," Li Wu analyzed in his mind. "The system turned the entire space into a fire domain and then concentrated the fire energy on that BOSS."

If they try to fight it head-on, they'll not only have to contend with the boss's high damage output, but also suffer continuous health loss from the environment. This would be an absolute nightmare for an average level 100 team.

But Li Wu had an even simpler method.

Since the law of this level is fire, then we should use ice to counteract it.

Li Wu drew his bow.

He didn't attack the lava lord. Instead, he aimed his bow at the sky above.

The advanced version of [Blizzard], Seven Arrows - [Absolute Zero: Winter's Arrival].

Secret text combination: [Flow] + [Condensation] + [Domain] + [Cold] + [Extreme] + [Seal] + [Annihilation].

An icy blue arrow, radiating extreme cold, shot into the sky and exploded in mid-air.

There was no deafening explosion.

An indescribable chill instantly swept through the entire space.

The burning inferno was instantly frozen upon contact with the cold air.

The flowing lava turned into hard, black rock, and the sparks floating in the air turned into ice crystals.

The sweltering lava hell that was just moments ago turned into an icy wonderland in a mere three seconds.

The lava lord, which was over ten meters tall, remained in its roaring posture, but the flames on its body had been completely extinguished.

It turned into a giant ice sculpture.

Snapped.

Li Wu snapped his fingers.

Countless cracks appeared on the surface of the enormous ice sculpture.

Then, it shattered with a crash, turning into a pile of ice shards.

The battle is over.

Time taken: 5 seconds.

"..."

The nine members of the Myth Guild fell silent as they watched this scene unfold.

They knew their leader was very strong, but this method of directly altering the entire spatial laws and instantly killing a level 150 BOSS along with its home ground was still beyond their comprehension.

"Let's go, to the third level." Li Wu put away his bow and walked towards the teleportation array that had just appeared.

He's becoming increasingly interested in the tower.

This was simply a perfect testing ground, allowing him to fully experiment with the seven-character arrow language he had just mastered.

Shortly after they entered the third floor.

The teleportation array on the second floor lit up, and Caesar teleported over with the members of the Heavenly Punishment Guild.

"Everyone, get your fire-resistant potions ready! This level is Lava Hell, the environmental damage is very high!" Caesar shouted as soon as he landed.

But he froze as soon as he finished shouting.

He looked around at the vast white world of ice and snow, felt the biting cold wind, and saw the pile of broken ice shards on the ground.

"This...this is Lava Hell?" Ironwall shuddered, tightening his armor. "Was the intelligence wrong? This is clearly the Ice Age!"

Caesar walked up to the pile of ice shards, picked up a piece, and looked at it.

Dark red rocks were also encased within the ice shards.

He took a deep breath, his eyes becoming extremely complex.

"The intelligence was correct. This is indeed a lava hell." Caesar threw ice shards on the ground. "It's just... the rules have been forcibly changed."

"The rules were changed? You mean it's all a smokescreen?" Silverwing gasped. "How could he possibly do something like that!"

Caesar gave a wry smile.

"He did it. And he's more terrifying than we imagined." Caesar looked at the teleportation array leading to the third level. "We're not competing against him. We're just watching his show."