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Twenty minutes into the battle, Yu Xunge's HP fell below 400.
Yu Xunge had already given up attacking Black Mistblade. She was now putting everything into dodging.
The Warden was arguably even harder to fight than Mountains Xunge. All the damage Yu Xunge dealt was fed back to her, and this feedback wasn't even Damage Reflection, because every attack could also trigger her own [Absurd Story].
It was as though... she was attacking herself.
Only now did Yu Xunge realize why Black Mistblade could remain completely unharmed within [Bird in a Cage]'s skill effect: [Bird in a Cage] would not harm her, its caster.
Although she didn't know how long this skill could last, Yu Xunge hadn't resigned herself to waiting, pinning her hopes on the unknown.
While testing and deducing Black Mistblade's game mechanism and fending off her attacks, Yu Xunge was also closing in on Mistblade's actual body. Since the separated Warden was nearly invincible, her first choice was naturally to approach the actual body and find a weakness.
The upper ends of the Scarlet Chains stretched all the way into the Star Sea above the Clock Dial, as though reaching out of the void. They extended down to bind Mistblade's wrists and body, then continued to the ground, firmly nailed into the Clock Dial.
It was as though the Warden, Black Mistblade, had taken all of Mistblade's dark emotions away. Mistblade watched Zai Jiu Xunge approach with a smile in her eyes, her presence pure and free of gloom.
Yu Xunge felt as though she were seeing the Mistblade from the Moonlight Wetland.
For the first time, she perceived so clearly how Mistblade had changed between childhood and adulthood.
It wasn't a change in her appearance, figure, or number of tails. Strictly speaking, judging by her