Shuyi's Solo Kill

Time ticked by.

After the first few exchanges, Li Shuyi found the Overlord Python easier and easier to fight.

Both of her passive abilities had stacked, boosting her combat strength by more than thirty percent. Her boots' speed boost had expired long ago, but with her current agility, she ran and reacted faster than she had at the start, even with the boost active!

The Overlord Python was fierce, but it couldn't touch a hair on her head.

It was like a player in World of Warcraft back in the Common Era soloing a boss by exploiting a bug: she was taking virtually no damage. The only frustrating part was how slowly the boss's health bar fell...

There was no helping it. The Overlord Python had high damage reduction and regenerated health quickly. A low-damage Elite Class might fight it for ages and still leave the boss at full health.

The fact that Li Shuyi could break through the giant python's defenses and steadily wear down its health showed just how formidable her damage output was.

Of course, though Li Shuyi remained unhurt, every moment of the fight was perilous. The Overlord Python was huge and clumsy, making it hard for it to hit her, but a single hit would leave her half-crippled and staggered by the injury. The giant python's follow-up attacks would give her no chance to recover...

In this difficult battle, Li Shuyi gradually put the Elvenkind sword techniques she had learned to the test. Her Swordsmanship Specialty proficiency had stalled at level 9, but the bottleneck was finally beginning to loosen.

Nearby, Eswan watched her fight the whole time. Occasionally, when she had a moment to catch her breath, he explained a Sword Bard's techniques for generating power in melee attacks and pointed out shortcomings in