The reason was that Li Shuyi was used to fighting side by side with Bai Xiaowen. With the protection of the Skeleton Swordsman and Bai Xiaowen's strong control skills, she could attack without hesitation. However, without Bai Xiaowen, she had to pay attention to protecting herself in a one-on-one battle.
After repeated failures, Li Shuyi gradually became familiar with the rhythm of the one-on-one battles. Her winning rate began to increase again.
By the end of the summer vacation, Li Shuyi's battle record remained at Bronze Stage Two. She had fought two rounds in the promotion matches but had not passed.
"My one-on-one battle strength is about this high. It's equivalent to a Level 5 Awakened in a standard profession. In terms of battle experience, there's still a lot of improvement. "Li Shuyi felt that she had gained a lot.
During the summer vacation, the two of them took time to practice their battle specialties in addition to the Awakened platform.
With the improvement of their basic attributes, their battle specialties, which had been stuck at a bottleneck, naturally had a breakthrough. Bai Xiaowen's Advanced Combat and Advanced Single-handed Swordsmanship had both reached Level 4. With the bonus from the Strongest Academic Genius, she had the ability to advance to Level 5.
Li Shuyi had leveled up twice in the King of Fighters' realm. Her basic agility had soared to 18 points. Her Single-handed Swordsmanship had a continuous breakthrough. In her sparring with Bai Xiaowen, she had reached Level 5.
This was Level 5 without the bonus of a title. Miss Li's talent in swordsmanship was indeed very high.
On August 31st, Bai Xiaowen played her last match in the live broadcast ranking match.
"Okay, I've found an opponent … School starts tomorrow. Now, we'll play the third round of the promotion match. After that, we'll go to sleep …" Bai Xiaowen said with a sigh of relief.
"The streamer is so confident. Will she win?"
"The commenter above must be new. Xiaowen has never lost a single match since she started playing solo."
"None of the opponents she's met made Xiaowen use her full strength."
"Don't curse her. This is a crucial match. If she wins, she'll reach the silver rank."
Now that the live broadcast was full of comments, it was impossible to reply one by one. Bai Xiaowen did not reply and directly entered the arena.
As usual, Bai Xiaowen opened the battle interface and glanced at the opponent's ID and level. The viewers in the livestream could also see it.
"What? Level 7?!"
"A Level 7 Awakened is actually a Bronze rank. That's rare. This awakened one called 'Old Devil', who is he? "
"One Liang Liang for the streamer."
Bai Xiaowen was a little surprised. This familiar ID and level … It couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
Even if the opponent was really an old demon from the same guild, they still had to fight. Taking the fight seriously and not going easy was the greatest respect for the old demon. But then again, Old Yao's strength was not necessarily weak. After all, he was still a Level-7 Awakened, a veteran of the Second Division League.
This match was a hilly terrain with low bushes.
Bai Xiaowen led the four skeleton shield bearers to the top of a stone hill. He looked around but did not find the old demon.
"I remember that the old demon seems to have a group invisibility skill. It seems that he's hiding."
Bai Xiaowen spread out his spirit scan and did not catch the old demon.
There were two possibilities. Either the old demon's invisibility skill had a high priority, or the old demon did not immediately approach after invisibility and was currently out of the range of his spirit scan.
Since he couldn't find him, he would search for him.
Bai Xiaowen cast a Puppet Charm and summoned two Scarecrow Demon Soldiers. He spread out with the four skeleton shield bearers and the skeleton mage wrapped in a tattered robe and began to search in an orderly manner.
With a wolf howl, the Wrath Claw was summoned to guard Bai Xiaowen's side. On the other side, the Shadow Assassin was lurking.
This was the first time Bai Xiaowen summoned all his creatures since the start of the battle. Suddenly, it attracted a lot of exclamations in the bullet screen. Bai Xiaowen's number of summoned creatures reached nine. Many advanced summoners might not have this number.
This hill map was only a few hundred meters in radius. The range was not large. Soon, near the hills on the other side, a skeleton sword-and-shield soldier encountered the old demon and broke his invisibility.
Bai Xiaowen immediately commanded the army of summoned creatures to advance in the direction of the old demon. At the same time, he used an insight skill.
[Meng Gui]
[Race: Humanoid/Human]
[Class: Monk (Level 7)]
[Attributes: Strength 15, Agility 14, Constitution 20, Spirit 28]
[Skills: Blessing, Flash, Refractive Barrier]
Looking at the old demon's attribute panel, Bai Xiaowen finally understood why the old demon, a Level 7 Awakened and a member of the main team of the Super Gods, was always in the Bronze category. His position was that of a support!
[Blessing] was an AoE skill that increased shields, [Refractive Barrier] was a 3-star AoE stealth skill, and the last skill, [Flash], could be used for both offense and defense. It could be used to heal allies or deal damage to non-allies. It was quite average.
Let's talk about the determination of 'allies' and 'non-allies'.
Teammates on the same team were allies by default. However, if the old demon's purpose was to "attack the target," then [Flash] would cause "forced damage" even if it landed on an ally.
This situation usually happened when an ally was controlled by a skill such as Fear. It was used to wake the ally up.
The target in a state of battle was the enemy by default. However, if the old demon's purpose was to "heal the target," then [Flash] would help the enemy recover their HP even if it landed on them.
Of course, this situation was relatively rare, but it was not unheard of. For example, in the "Capture Kyo Kusanagi" mission, if Kyo Kusanagi's HP was only in the single digits and he was bleeding, he could die at any time and cause the mission to fail. A timely healing could save this extremely important S-rank elite mission.
This was also because the [Flash] skill was relatively special, so the judgment of friend or foe was based on the old demon's will.
In most cases, the judgment of friend or foe for an area of effect skill was the default.
When Bai Xiaowen used the "Thunderstorm Scroll" in the Three Kingdoms world, the default was that Guan Yu and his soldiers were allies, and the Yellow Turban Army was the enemy. Therefore, the large-scale offensive item "Thunderstorm Scroll" would not attack Guan Yu's army, only the Yellow Turban Army.
In comparison, the judgment of normal attacks and single-target skills was not as complicated. As long as a normal attack or single-target skill hit, it would definitely cause damage. Even if it hit an ally, it would cause "forced damage."
For example, when Miss Li Shuyi first started practicing basic shooting in the wilderness, her small crossbow accidentally hit a skeleton soldier, and the crossbow bolts pierced through the skeleton soldier's ribs. Although Miss Li did not want to hurt the skeleton soldier, it still caused forced damage.
Another example was in the Kusanagi Manor, when the Shadow Assassin ambushed Kusanagi Aishi. Although Bai Xiaowen and the others had joined the Kusanagi camp and were considered allies by default, the Shadow Assassin's single-target skill still caused damage.
Similarly, when Soundwave killed Professor Muhara in the base.
Speaking of which, two and a half of the old demon's three skills were support-type skills. It was no wonder that it could not fight solo.
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