At the same time.
Astera, open-air restaurant area.
By the dining table.
Lu Xiu sat in a chair with Shen Nian and Jian Li, watching the Chef perform juggling tricks while they chatted and studied the rewards the instance had just given them.
"Lu Xiu."
Shen Nian looked at Lu Xiu. "Do you really think this skill is useless?"
She had seen Lu Xiu's Corpse Mountain, Blood Sea skill.
They had clearly cleared the instance together.
Yet Lu Xiu's skill was so much stronger than the one she had received.
Shen Nian was utterly shocked.
For the first time, she understood the true value of an Architect getting the first clear of an instance.
But what shocked her even more was what Lu Xiu had said.
Lu Xiu had said that—for her—the skill was useless—
"Do you like getting hit or something?"
Lu Xiu tilted her head at her. "I don't, anyway. So it's not very useful to me."
"That's so enviable."
Shen Nian looked at Lu Xiu's pretty face, recalling her fighting style, and sighed. "It makes me so jealous I want to kiss you!"
"? That's called being jealous enough to want to beat me up. What do you mean, kiss?"
Lu Xiu rolled her eyes at her. "Do you even know how to talk?"
Shen Nian's beautiful eyes widened slightly. "You'd rather be beaten up than kissed?"
"That's right."
Jian Li sat beside them, holding a wooden cup bigger than her face with both hands as she drank water. She put down the cup, suddenly tugged at Lu Xiu's silver hair as it fluttered in the wind, and said, "I won't let you get hit."
Lu Xiu turned around and looked at Jian Li's earnest, pretty face. She could not help smiling as she reached out to