Three Legged Crow bug?

[Pirnaloan]

So something very interesting happened in my latest play-through. I ignored the Three Legged Crow for a bit and just did a little bit of grinding (getting up to Late Qi Refining and getting some Reputation), and I think I might have beaten the Crows in the first fight, but the game doesn't like it.

I just dodged to see how long I could last because I just assumed its a literally unwinnable battle, but I ended up killing one of them and had about 1/3 hp left and I kept going to see if I could win. Now my game is stuck in the fight, and the last bird is just sitting in the middle of the map and surrounded by a fire shield that nothing goes through. I can't Run so do I just let myself die or is it just a bugged encounter I could actually win?

[Sayla Massochist]

My assumption would be that the fire shield and forced death is intentional? I mean it is a battle that you are story wise meant to lose. So to prevent the player from breaking the sequence I assume that this is the fail safe to force you to lose.

[Yemon]

Lol, I also encounter one mission similar to that. After that mission, I was told to get the Golden Feather of Harpy Lord and the Branch of the Divine Tree. I ignored the mission and grind the hack out of the game. I get to Late Foundation Heaven and went to killed the Harpy Lord. Funny enough, I killed it and gain the Golden Feather but the new mission was for me to breakthrough to Foundation first and come back later to slay the Harpy Lord. I was like, "What?" there was no harpy lord, I JUST SLAIN the HARPY!!! So I delete the save file and restart over.