She had gotten careless.
—So Big A had actually been a Tarnished. It turned out that spamming weapon arts was the real reason he had become one of the Four Knights of Gwyn.
Not long after the fight began.
Lu Xiu knew she definitely could not beat Artorias in five tries.
Nothing else mattered. If he kept spamming Lion's Claw, Lu Xiu had no way to deal with him.
Boom!!
Artorias's heavy greatsword, wrapped in a wild gale, smashed down hard onto the spot where Lu Xiu had just rolled. Shattered stone sprayed out in every direction like bullets.
And before Lu Xiu could fully steady her center of gravity, that towering figure instantly rose and swept his blade sideways.
Seeing this, Lu Xiu could only roll again, an extremely narrow side roll.
The broad blade tainted with the aura of the abyss almost sliced down right against her scalp.
Then.
The Wolf Knight began his wild dance.
And Lu Xiu began getting chased and hacked at.
After all, she had previously released a Sekiro instance, and Artorias was a hidden boss who did not affect clearing the game.
So when Lu Xiu was constructing him, she had inevitably brought in a bit of her own desire for a challenge. Not only had she drastically shortened the time it took this abyss knight to power up, she had even cut down the recovery on those wide, sweeping moves of his to an utterly perverse degree.
On top of that, she had added quite a few restrictions to shield defense.
Thinking she could raise a shield and block the vast majority of Artorias's attacks was impossible. If someone really wanted to play turtle, then he would teach players what it meant for their green bar to vanish.
And after all that,