An Unscrupulous and Arrogant Young Man!

As he studied his status panel, Li Xing reflected on some things he remembered learning in the past.

Just then, a familiar voice came from the forest across the road.

"Hehehe! I never expected that, instead of finding that mysterious ball of light, I'd find someone who could interact with the rune stone carvings. This Elwynn Forest has certainly given me quite a surprise! Hehehe~~"

Upon hearing the voice, Li Xing reacted quickly on instinct, drawing his sword and pointing it at an elderly man with a long goatee in the woods beside the road.

"Caster, you've crossed the line again."

Faced with the killing intent Li Xing radiated, the old man who had confronted him before said excitedly, "Young man, why not join us? With an ability like yours, you shouldn't be stuck in this remote place.

"Given your value, the master will surely grant you limitless life and fulfill your wishes."

Tch! The same old spiel again. Can't you go to northern Myanmar and brush up on your skills before trying to scam people? If your master is really that damn powerful, why doesn't he fulfill his own wishes first?

Even putting two baskets of gold bars in front of someone would be more convincing than the empty promises you're making here. Li Xing grumbled inwardly about the situation.

He was an aspiring young man who had grown up under a constant bombardment of domestic and foreign entertainment and all kinds of anti-online-scam campaigns.

The understanding that "nine out of ten offers to grant wishes for no reason are huge traps, and the last one is a series of traps" was etched into his mind and would always accompany rational thought.

Just as people online said, "Free is always the most expensive." Everything good that seemed to come at no cost had long since come with everything else tied to it!

At that moment, it was as if Li Xing had been possessed by a multitude of wise netizens.

Faced with such a low-tech scam, he watched the other party in silence, his expression three parts disdain, three parts mockery, and four parts nonchalance, before offering a suitable taunt.

"Big words. I want to plant the red flag all over the world. Can he do that?"

"Hmm? What are you talking about?"

"Tch! Then can he eliminate oppression and liberate minds?"

"..."

He watched the other man's expression grow increasingly "pleasant" with each question.

"Looks like he can't. But I do have a small request I need your help with!"

"Speak!"

"Some time ago, when I was out traveling with a friend, we ran into a certain mage's black-clad underlings, who threatened and harassed us. Although the hunters from town and I wiped them out, their leader, the mage, was nowhere to be found."

"It was you..."

Li Xing instantly activated his clone and shouted, "Might I ask you, esteemed caster, to lend me your head to resolve the hatred in my heart and help me cultivate? I'm sure your beloved master would be willing! Am I right?"

As he finished speaking, his killing intent erupted in full. The insects around them fell silent, and flocks of birds fled into the distance from beneath the shade of the trees.

The necromancer wearing a goat skull gave his staff a simple wave.

Nearly ten skeleton warriors appeared in the woods behind him and charged toward Li Xing.

"Young man, let me teach you one last lesson. When facing a caster, don't be arrogant, or death will be your fate. Even if you're a master of martial skills, it makes no difference!" The old mage with the long gray-white beard did not forget to taunt him as he retreated.

Proud and headstrong, Li Xing took the bow and arrows his clone handed him, aimed at the old man, and spoke.

"Hmph! I, Li Xing, know what I can do. Besides, if a young man isn't arrogant, can he still be called young?"

With that, Li Xing shot an arrow at the necromancer behind the skeletons.

As the arrow sped toward the undead caster, a skeleton warrior stepped in front of him with its shield raised.

The necromancer had misjudged how hard Li Xing could draw his bow. The arrow pierced the skeleton's shield and went straight through the skeleton warrior's spine as well.

The entire skeleton warrior immediately fell apart!

The arrow was knocked off course as it pierced the spine, flying past the necromancer's right arm and embedding itself in a thick tree trunk behind him.

"You~~~have no martial virtue! As a warrior, how can you indulge in the advantages of a bow and arrow? Where is your honor as a swordsman?"

Seeing this, the necromancer cursed Li Xing while ordering the skeleton warriors that had just advanced to retreat and gather around him. They concealed the old man from view, protecting him while obstructing Li Xing's line of fire.

By then, both of Li Xing's clones had already taken weapons from the carriage and equipped themselves. With bows drawn and arrows nocked, they searched for and aimed at the old man protected behind the skeleton warriors.

You think I'd be stupid enough to simply take a sword and go chopping at people? Come on, I grew up in the twenty-first century. Truth was already determined by range, so how could I be stupid enough to fight with nothing but a sword?

Faced with the unscrupulous shots from Li Xing's clones and their powerful bows, the necromancer was at a loss. Having long immersed himself in the study of necromancy, he could control more skeleton warriors with his vast spiritual power. But this was the first time he had encountered a situation like this.

In the past, his underlings had usually done the fighting and charging, while he had only needed to sit back and provide some support. But now the surrounding forces had wiped out his underlings, and he had thought skeleton warriors could take their place in battle. He had never expected to put himself in such a dangerous position.

If he sent the skeleton warriors charging forward, those left behind could not guarantee his safety. If they all protected him, he would lose the initiative in battle.

Feeling his skeleton warriors pierced one by one by Li Xing's powerful bow and slipping out of his control, and hearing the sound of skeletons falling apart around him, the necromancer realized he was in trouble. He instinctively climbed onto a skeleton warrior beside him and controlled it to flee into the woods behind him.

As Li Xing and his clones played at shooting "chicks" with their bows, he noticed the skeleton warriors behaving strangely.

The skeleton warriors that should have been defending were rushing toward him one after another. Meanwhile, the necromancer was fleeing into the forest under the protection of three skeletons.

Just as the necromancer had not expected Li Xing to abandon his sword for a bow without regard for martial virtue, Li Xing had not expected the necromancer to just run away.

"Damn! I was careless."

After firing an arrow, Li Xing hung his bow and arrows at his side. He drew the Flame of Delight, left his clones to meet the enemy, and entered Gale State, circling around the charging skeleton warriors to give chase into the forest.

"No, there still aren't enough skeleton soldiers! Take me back to camp so I can use corpses to summon more warriors and fight our way back!"

The necromancer directed the skeleton warrior carrying him, urging it on without pause.

Perhaps sensing something, the necromancer suddenly leaped off and fell onto the soft earth to one side.

At the same moment, Li Xing descended from the sky and split the skeleton that had been carrying the mage in two with a stroke of his sword.

"You dodged even that! Did you turn on evasion?"