And another thing!
He'd thought the dungeon mentors would be formidable! Instead, they were all useless!
The Fighter couldn't match Lu Xiu in hand-to-hand combat, the sword master couldn't match her swordsmanship, and the Gunner was even worse—damn it, she hadn't landed a single shot on Lu Xiu! Some Gunner she was! Nothing but acrobatics from start to finish! Then her Knee Cannon failed, and Lu Xiu sent her flying with one of her own—
Useless!
Ulysses began taking it out on the dungeon characters.
Though even he didn't believe what he was saying.
If those mentors really weren't strong, the fight couldn't have dragged on so long.
Take G.S.D. just now. Even with Lu Xiu landing Perfect Deflect after Perfect Deflect, he'd kept trading blows with her. If those poor devils at Prison Rock had seen him, they'd probably have called him Sifu on the spot.
And although Ulysses hadn't watched the Nine Provinces arena match live, he still had basic judgment.
Those mentors really were strong.
He was just venting.
Well.
Except for Kiri.
Because Ulysses genuinely couldn't see what was so strong about her.
As he'd said—damn it, what kind of Gunner missed every single shot? If that was all it took, he might as well stand in the street and call himself a Gunner mentor.
And that Sixth Apostle, or whatever it was—
Ulysses had barely reached that thought when—
"Roar!"
A howl suddenly shattered the dead silence.
Across the battlefield, the Sixth Apostle Dirge didn't know what it meant to be outmatched. He only knew Lu Xiu was growing more dangerous, posing an ever greater threat to him. The mounting sense of peril made him increasingly frantic.
He flung aside Kiri, who had come hurtling toward him. Then he caught Lu Xiu with her back