Chapter 494 (2/2)

Wu Shun did not expect the Nameless Swordswoman to roll behind him as he lifted his shield. A single strike from her sword took away half of his health bar!

She was the final boss, alright!

Wu Shun was not fighting a scripted NPC. She had to be a real person!

While watching his back, he quickly used his regenerative potions. He saw an opening and thrust his zanbato. It was quickly deflected with a swing of her blade, followed by a pommel strike that stunned him! He was nothing but another slice of the beautiful sword

A computer-generated scene triggered. The sword had slit his throat!

The Nameless Swordswoman did not resort to any fancy skills. She only depended on a common block and hit style. Very effective!

Usually, a computer-generated scene would only be displayed if monsters were killed in a second. Wu Shun was now that monster that had been killed in a second. Wu Shun went mad in his broadcast, mocking Zha Feng for being off his rocker. Suddenly he had this thought, “If I had killed the boss when she was wounded, how would the story have proceeded?”

The audience responded to his question. Could he even defeat a wounded boss. Has that latest defeat robbed him of his sanity?

Wu Shun was left suffering for a long time. His flawless tactic of counterplaying with a shield and zanbato was totally useless against the master of the Anonymous City. His equipment made it far too heavy to keep up with her agility, he was just like target practice

When fighting a boss, forget honor. Anything goes. Wu Shun plotted using his ultimate weapon of blood-letting, the Zhuge crossbow![2]

He would bleed the master of the Anonymous City to death!

He almost cried after that attempt. No matter how he let his arrows fly, she merely tumbled beneath them. In this game, tumbling granted you momentary invincibility.

Timing was all it took to master tumbling. Most of the bosses had a tell before their skills were released. A player simply had to time it and dodge at the precise moment. If your character happened to straighten up just as the skill lands, you’ll be in a world of pain

“Damn it! How do I even do this! Even if she seems open and harmless, she’s a flawless fighter! I can’t touch her at all!” Wu Zhun roared.

Translation Note:

[1] Zambato, or known as zhanmadao (Chinese: ; pinyin: zhnmdo; literally: “horse chopping sabre”) was a single-bladed anti-cavalry Chinese sword. It originated during the Han Dynasty (206 BC 220 AD) and was especially common in Song China (9601279).

[2] The repeating crossbow (Chinese: ; pinyin: Lin N), also known as the magazine crossbow, or the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhg n, previously romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181234 AD), is a Chinese crossbow that appeared in ancient times. The repeating crossbow combined the actions of stringing the bow, placing the bolt and shooting into a one-handed movement, allowing for a higher rate of fire than a normal crossbow. A top-mounted magazine containing a reservoir of bolts fed the crossbow through gravity, and the mechanism was worked by moving a rectangular lever forward and backwards.