Lin Yi activated Second Wind.
The skill restored thirty percent of his maximum HP instantly and cleared all active debuffs, the recovery arriving in the specific way that instant healing arrived, not gradual but immediate, the cut's damage partially addressed in the fraction of a second the activation required.
Not healed. Addressed.
The depth of the wound was real and would remain real until proper recovery time was available, but the functional impairment was reduced enough to continue.
He pressed forward.
Cang Yutian did not wait for him. The watcher moved at the same time Lin Yi did, the convergence of their approaches producing a contact point that neither of them had fully controlled the terms of, the space between two people closing when both are moving toward it resolving faster than either predicted position would suggest.
