Archie's "King of Beasts" talent was indeed incredibly powerful.
It allowed her attributes to increase without limit whenever she took damage, while also granting her an immense damage-reduction BUFF.
But there was a prerequisite.
She had to be in a state of "Charging toward the enemy."
Once she stopped Charging,
the damage-reduction BUFF granted by that talent would disappear as well.
Of course...
The all-attribute boosts gained during the Charge would still last until the battle ended.
It was just that after Ling Zhan fired three shots at her, Archie realized that this Jobless Freelancer had no intention of continuing his attack. So she stopped as well, intending to completely shatter the space and leave this Jobless Freelancer with nowhere to stand.
Yet she had not expected that at the very instant she threw her punch,
her opponent would choose to come out and confront her head-on.
What she had expected even less was that he not only succeeded in meeting her head-on, but also hit Archie with an execution skill in the process!
Execution skills generally came in two types.
The first type dealt greater damage the lower the enemy's HP was, making it extremely easy to achieve an execution.
The second type dealt fixed damage, but it was not ordinary damage—it was true damage.
There were also some exceptionally rare execution skills that not only had a low-HP execution effect, but also dealt true damage.
The successful block Ling Zhan had just made granted him an execution.
After being upgraded to SS-rank, this execution would instantly kill an enemy whose HP was below 30%. Its effect was "low-HP execution."
At the same time, if the enemy's HP remained above 30%, the damage would turn into true damage.
Additionally,
the execution after a successful block differed depending on the