Lu Xiu was a little frustrated.
It wasn't that she couldn't stand losing, or that she was so proud she thought she should never get hurt. It wasn't that dramatic.
Part of her frustration came from a feeling familiar to anyone who had played an action game: rolling away with a sliver of health, certain she'd timed the invincibility frames perfectly, only to get clipped by the edge of the boss's hitbox anyway.
Her first reaction was, Huh? That hit me? You've got to be kidding!
It just felt awful.
But that was purely a player's reaction, and it accounted for only a small part of her frustration.
What truly bothered her was the danger the mistake revealed.
In one sense, it wasn't a big deal. This was only an instance. She'd slipped up, but she hadn't lost. Even if she had, it would only have meant failing the instance. The loss wouldn't have been much.
But it certainly wasn't a small matter, either.
After all, she had personally constructed every enemy in this instance.
Once a construction became an instance, the system took over. Monster stats rose to some degree, their moves changed, and every intelligent character became smarter according to their background. From what Lu Xiu had observed, the NPCs in this Versus Instance were already nearly as intelligent as those in offline instances.
But no matter how the system changed the enemies and NPCs after taking over, their underlying core mechanics stayed the same.
For example, no matter how much the system tinkered with G.S.D., his settings would never allow him to conjure a lightning dragon for Lu Xiu.
Not unless the system abandoned all pretense and bypassed her original design as the Architect.
So Lu Xiu knew the ins and outs of every enemy in this