Have You Ever Heard of Invincibility Frames?

As a genius diviner, Gexi had always been extremely confident in her divination abilities.

Since her debut, her divinations had almost never failed. Even when facing Teacher Likewei, whose level was far beyond her own, she only failed to see clearly because her own abilities were insufficient, resulting in a blurred vision.

Teacher Likewei had once told her that the principle of divination was actually quite simple. In the eyes of a diviner, everyone was a book. That book recorded the person's past and present. All a diviner needed to do was open that book to see everything related to them.

However, flipping through the pages was no simple task. After all, it was like stealing, a very offensive act. Anyone even slightly stronger than her could easily detect it and strike back.

Therefore, when facing someone more powerful than herself, it was difficult for her to succeed in 'stealing' the book.

But whether she succeeded or not, the book was always there. She knew the book existed; she simply lacked the strength to open it.

But a blank meant she saw nothing at all. The book she was looking for did not exist in this world.

In her nineteen years of life, she had never encountered such a situation, yet in the city of Yiertaya, she had encountered it twice!

If they existed neither in the past nor the present...

Then there was only one possibility: the person before her was a non-existent ghost!

She had only heard Teacher Likewei speak of such things. A ghost was born when three conditions were met simultaneously: intense resentment in a specific area, a high concentration of mana, and the absence of any deity statues. Only then could a ghost be born.

Ghosts were said to be entirely immune to physical damage and naturally filled with malice toward humans. They were extremely dangerous creatures that had to be killed on sight if encountered.

Thinking of this, Gexi's previous fear vanished, replaced by a thick killing intent.

Although Grinya didn't know exactly what the other was thinking, it wasn't hard to see that she was being treated as an enemy.

Why did people always mistake her for a cultist these days?

Did she really look that evil?

"Wait, wait a second! I'm really just an innocent bystander!" Grinya said hurriedly.

But clearly, such pale and powerless words could not sway Gexi's killing intent.

Gexi raised her hand. Within the pure glass orb, blue electric arcs flickered like a tangled mess. A thick bolt of ball lightning flew out at a staggering speed.

Her entire movement was incredibly smooth, without a hint of hesitation, giving Grinya no time to react.

Grinya knew at a single glance that there was no way she could dodge that lethal ball lightning on her own. Her face turned deathly pale, and her inner voice screamed:

'Evil god, save me!'

"Boom!"

A violent explosion erupted, swirling into a thick cloud of greyish-black smoke. It carried dust from the ground and the faint blue glimmer of residual electricity, churning wildly within the cramped space.

Watching this, Gexi breathed a sigh of relief. In such a narrow alley, the opponent had no room to dodge, which meant that once the ball lightning exploded, it was guaranteed to hit.

That ghost was only level 20. That ball lightning would certainly leave a mark.

Just as she thought everything was settled, a loud voice suddenly rang out from the smoke and dust.

"Impressive. I just entered the dungeon and got hit with a point-blank, no-telegraph instant cast. If my reflexes weren't so sharp, I would've been one-shot. A monster this cheap should just go eat shit!"

The dust slowly cleared, and a somewhat disheveled figure stood up from the rubble-strewn ground.

However, the dishevelment was merely a bit of dust on her clothes. In fact, she hadn't taken any damage at all!

"How is this possible?" Gexi's expression shifted. She tossed the man aside, her gaze turning solemn.

In such a narrow space, she was completely unharmed. How did she do it?

Although ghosts were immune to physical damage, magic attacks should theoretically work on them.

Gexi couldn't find an answer. The curiosity was gnawing at her, and she couldn't help but ask, "How did you dodge that attack just now?"

At this moment, Lu Xun had just finished loading in. He was scanning the dungeon environment at top speed.

【Peerless Fencer's loyalty has increased by 20 points, currently at 99 points.】

Uh... her loyalty went back up. Did he even do anything?

No, it happened for no reason at all.

Rising and falling like this—was the game just playing with him?

Lu Xun didn't bother thinking about it further. Suddenly, he heard the boss in front of him angrily questioning how he had dodged the attack.

Interesting. Was there even an interactive segment?

Lu Xun smiled slightly.

Gexi suddenly felt something was very wrong. Although the other party was wearing a cardboard box and she couldn't see their expression, she could see the eyes through the two holes.

Those were a pair of cold eyes, calm and hollow, yet hiding a sense of mockery.

From the moment the dust cleared, the other party's aura had become completely different. Although her body told her it was the same person as before, her soul denied it!

'I have to use my full strength here, or I'll die...'

'I will definitely die here!'

She suddenly froze because she heard the other party speak.

"Isn't it simple to dodge an attack like that?"

The cardboard man's voice was full of sarcasm, possessing the arrogance and insolence of a high-ranking official mocking a peasant who had never entered a city.

"You lowly creations, have you ever heard of invincibility frames?"

Gexi was stunned. Invincibility... frames? What was that?

It was a term she had never heard before, but from the other's absolute confidence and that gaze that looked at her like an ant, she realized this unknown term might be some high-level array that few people knew about.

The fact that the opponent could so easily mention something she had never heard of made it clear that they were far more powerful than they appeared.

No wonder she felt such fear.

She had to use every trick in her book, or she would surely be killed. This was the intuition of a genius diviner!

Her crystal ball suspended before her, and a massive amount of mana surged with violent frenzy. Her long grey hair flared behind her, and her eyes turned ethereal.

In that moment, the air itself seemed to pause.

Needless to say, Lu Xun saw at a glance that the boss was charging up a big ultimate move. However, he didn't panic at all. Since this game had the mechanic of invincibility frames, wouldn't defeating the boss be simple and easy?

'It's your own fault for showing me your health bar.'

This was much more useful than the Air-Piercing Sword Dance. After all, the dodge cooldown wasn't that long and didn't consume any mana.

He wore a very confident smile, keeping his eyes fixed on the charging boss, waiting for the right moment to dodge the ultimate move.

Then, he saw his health bar plummeting!

Lu Xun: "???"