"Well done! Kill Breeze and Rain first!"

I charged toward the frozen duo but was immediately blocked by a couple of Beast King Cavalrymen. They moved in crooked lines, and they came at me in a flawless triangular formation and Barrier Breaks burning around their blades. They were clearly experts, and they were trained to deal with a top-tier expert like me.

I raised my sword up high. If I couldn’t breach their formation with skill, then I would do it with stats!

Pa pa pa!

I spurred my mount to move in an arc until I found a good angle to cut into the triangular formation. Then, I charged forward and hit all of them with Burning Blade Slash. Not only that, I even made sure that the final two hits of my skill would hit Breeze and Rain right before it hit its max range and dissipated!

"Grr…"

Breeze and Rain might be frozen, but he had a full view of what was coming for him. He gritted his teeth in anger, but there was nothing he could do except watch the Burning Blade Slash tear apart his armor and wound him twice—

79202!

91023!

I realized I had fucked up, however. The skill failed to one-shot Breeze and Rain because the Frozen status effect increased Defense, and I had forgotten about it!

Whoosh!

I immediately followed up with Coiling Dragon Revolution!

Swhoosh!

While the spinning blade flew toward Breeze and Rain, I...