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Not only was Kafi watching from the sidelines, but more and more other heroes also came over to see what was going on.
An Yi suddenly remembered something and continued, "Of course, not all situations require a counterattack."
There is one situation where you need to run.
That's when you encounter an enemy you absolutely cannot defeat.
"Fighting to the death with the opponent may make you seem like a hero, but you are a brave person, and you still have room for improvement."
One day, you will be able to easily defeat the enemy you could never have defeated before.
Therefore, life is the most important thing.
"When you encounter an invincible enemy... you usually can't escape, right?"
It wasn't Elsa who asked the question, but Kafi, who had been observing from the sidelines.
If you encounter a demon you can't defeat, the only outcome is that you can neither escape nor win.
That is, death.
An Yi nodded and continued, "Demons have eccentric personalities, but they all have the same flaw."
arrogant.
If you're the kind of insect that runs away at the mere sight of them, perhaps they'll lose their intent to kill you.
Even goblins who enjoy toying with their prey, once they become high-level goblins, no longer bother wasting time to torture weaker prey.
They'll kill any enemy that retaliates, won't they?
The heroes around them looked at each other, their minds replaying all the goblins they had encountered.
琢腫'}转:△－yi±《倃炩/≌-8±°鲮磨琢磨……感觉好像真的是那么理！
Goblins enjoy torturing prey that has some ability to resist, but can only despair when faced with a large number of goblins.
They enjoy watching each other struggle for survival, desperately trying to stay alive.
Prey that is too weak is of little concern as its life or death is uncertain, and therefore has no value in being tortured and killed.
What's so fun about watching an ant struggle under your finger?
"But isn't the reason they don't torture and kill them because the heroes are already stronger than the goblins, so they can't torture and kill them anymore?" a hero suddenly asked, offering a different perspective.
The goblins don't kill the heroes not because they are too strong, but because the heroes are too strong, so the goblins have no choice but to find a way to kill them.
"I told you to run away as soon as you encounter a demon that is far stronger than yourself. They might be in a good mood and let you go."
If you encounter a goblin weaker than you, why don't you kill it?
"If you encounter a demon weaker than you, are you still going to run away? Are you going to let it go?" An Yi glanced at him.
"Hahahahaha-"
The heroes burst into laughter.
The hero initially thought he had touched on a sensitive topic, but it turned out he was just being presumptuous. He blushed and shrank to the side.
At this moment, the heroes all thought that An Yi was just stating common sense that everyone already knew.
If you can't beat someone, run away. Who doesn't know that?
But they hadn't realized that this was actually An Yi's most extreme understanding of the demon race.
Because of the eccentric nature of demons, there is a chance of them successfully escaping, and there have actually been successful cases before.
When Wu [Sword Hero] Shiro was not strong enough, he escaped from a group of level 5 or 6 demons.
At that stage, none of the heroes were a match for that group of level five or six demons.
Although the other party let her go, if she had chosen to fight them directly, she would have only faced death.
While the heroes were laughing, they didn't see that Elsa was unaffected by the others, but stood there blankly, as if she were immersed in her own world.
She was recalling the battle that day.
She only vaguely understood what An Yi had just told her, and she even forgot about things like being wary of any intention to attack as soon as she turned her head.
4. She was just thinking...
Fight back.
How should we retaliate?
The scene before Elsa's eyes shifted, as if she were back in the moment when she was being chased.
The dense forest was destroyed along the way, and time froze at a certain moment when she was retreating. In front of her were several trees that had been thrown from one side to the other, and the goblin's appearance was blurred on the other side.
Elsa watched silently, shifting from a first-person perspective to that of a third-person observer.
She fought back... but it was all ineffective.
She was thinking about how to kill the enemy, since all attacks were aimed at the enemy.
But... I feel like something's not right.
I did exactly what An Yi said, so why didn't it work?
"Oh right... I'm afraid... afraid of punches..."
Elsa suddenly remembered this word.
She retaliated, and she wanted to kill the enemy, but she attacked while retreating in fear.
What if you weren't afraid?
The scene before Elsa shrank, and another scene appeared in front of her.
That's how An'i chased after the Goblin King's servant.
If you put the scenes together, the way the Goblin King's servant was being chased by An'i and the way she was being chased by the Goblin King's servant are strikingly similar.
Both were severely injured, all their attacks were meaningless, and they were being relentlessly pursued.
However, before this, An'i had also been attacked by the Goblin King's servant.
How did he deal with it?
The scene reverses time, returning to the moment when An'i and the Goblin King's servant first clashed.
On the other side, Qi's scene also returned to the time when she fought the Goblin King's servant. ˇ【qi｝；8〈、”
At this moment, Elsa's attention was not on Anyi, but on her own battle scene.
In her own footage, her attack missed, and she paused for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, he was slapped away.
"?!"
Elsa suddenly realized something.
afraid?
Why are you afraid?
Because she was attacked from the very beginning, she became afraid and found it difficult to cope later on.
What if she hadn't been hurt in the first place?
Will the ending be different?
Thinking of this, she shook her head.
No, since you've already been injured this time, you might get injured again next time.
She didn't think she could dodge all attacks like An Yi, nor did she think she was that strong.
So... the counterattack has to start with getting injured?
But it would be better to avoid getting injured, right?
Shouldn't we avoid getting injured in the first place?
To avoid getting hurt, you have to hide; hiding means being afraid; being afraid prevents you from fighting back; you keep hiding, then you get hurt; getting hurt makes you even more afraid, and then...
"flutter!"
Suddenly, Elsa froze and fell straight down.
An Yi: "?"
All the heroes: "?"
? ? ? ?
Why did the hero who was about to kill suddenly fall down while everyone was chatting?
An Yi leaned closer to look and saw Elsa with her eyes rolled back, her mouth slightly open, and her face flushed, as if she had suddenly fainted.
"?"
No, what happened?
Kafi stepped forward with a smile: "Sword Hero, I have some healing abilities. Let me try to help her recover."
"Okay, please." An Yi nodded.
Kafi's fan transformed into flower petals that fluttered in the air, and a faint floral fragrance wafted past everyone's noses. Instantly, everyone felt invigorated and their bodies seemed to lighten considerably.
"This skill can restore certain status effects to those who smell the fragrance of flowers, including restoring health, stamina, and mana, and removing simple abnormal statuses," Kafi explained.
Perhaps the fragrance of the flowers stimulated her brain; Elsa's eyes darted around, and she suddenly woke up.
She sat up dazedly from the ground, scratched her head, and looked around.
The heroes who were seen by her quickly averted their gaze, some even turning and running away, as if to say, "Don't look at me, it's none of my business!"
"What's wrong?" An Yi asked directly.
“…I don’t know.” Elsa shook her head. “What’s wrong with me?”
“She suddenly fainted,” Annie said.
"..."
Elsa frowned, wondering what had just happened and how she had fainted.