Lin Yi looked at the three new cuts, the shoulder cut, the chest cut, and the accumulated absorption cost across all his passives, and made the calculation that his body was making independently of any tactical assessment.
He was losing.
Not slowly. The gap between level 230 and level 240 in a Deity class was not a gap that combat technique and skill diversity could bridge at his current state.
Because every exchange was costing him more than it was costing Cang Yutian. The watcher's counters were the product of a perception and execution that operated faster than Lin Yi could generate approaches, which meant the combat was not a contest of capability but a contest of attrition that had one outcome if it continued.
Cang Yutian stepped forward.
