It had been more than a year since everyone acknowledged the Blood Alliance Knights as the strongest guild.
From then on, the leader of the knights was known as the " legendary man ", and even the deputy leader Asuna's top-notch swordsmanship was known to everyone. The nickname " Flash " could be said to be known to everyone in Aingrunt. Now, I finally had the chance to see Asuna's combat techniques against ordinary monsters at a close distance. She was a higher-level monster, and she had already completed the construction of her Rene Swordsman skill.
We are now near the highest point of the 74th floor maze area. There are two corridors with columns on both sides.
We are currently engaged in battle. The enemy is a Skeleton Swordsman named " Demon Servant." Its body was more than two meters long and was surrounded by blue light. It held a long sword in its right hand and a round metal shield in its left hand. Although it did not have any muscles on its body, its muscle strength was extraordinary. It could be said to be a rather troublesome monster. However, even in the face of such a powerful enemy, Asuna did not take a step back.
[Hu lu!]
Accompanied by a strange roar, the sword in the skeleton's hand drew out a blue remnant light and swung down from above. This was the four-in-one skill," Vertical-Square Slash." I watched the situation uneasily from a few steps behind. I saw Asuna taking gorgeous steps from left to right, completely dodging all of her attacks.
Even if it was a two-on-one situation, as long as they encountered an enemy with weapons, they would not be able to attack at the same time. It wasn't that the system didn't allow it, but the biggest drawback of two people attacking at the same time was that it would hinder each other's sword skills. Therefore, in a team battle, they had to use the skill of " switching ", which required a high degree of coordination.
The demon slave lost its balance after dodging the last slash of the four-hit combo. Asuna took this opportunity to counterattack.
The thin sword that shone with a silver light pierced into the enemy's body from the middle. Every attack she launched hit the enemy, and the skeleton's HP decreased accordingly. Although the power of one attack was not very great, the number of attacks was so many that it was difficult to calculate.
After three consecutive mid-range stabs, it would switch to attacking the lower body of the enemy who was preparing to defend. Then, the tip of the sword that was tilted upwards would emit a pure white effect light and deal two powerful stabs to the enemy.
She actually used eight consecutive sword skills. I remember that this is an advanced sword technique called 'Star Fragments Splash'. Even when facing the most difficult to deal with skeleton monsters, the tip of her sword still accurately hit the enemy. This showed that her skill value was really high.
Other than the fact that the sword skill can reduce a skeleton's HP by a third, the user's gorgeous figure when attacking also stunned me. I think that the so-called sword dance must be the scene in front of me.
Asuna seemed to have eyes on the back of her head. She suddenly shouted at me, who was in a daze,
[Kirito, it's time to switch!]
[Oh, okay.]
I hurriedly picked up my sword and repositioned myself. At the same time, Asuna used a single powerful assault sword skill.
However, the skeleton used the metal shield in its left hand to block the tip of the sword, causing a large number of sparks to fly. However, this was only an expected result. After the enemy blocked the heavy attack, they would be unable to attack immediately due to a short period of stiffness.
Of course, Asuna, who had been blocked by the heavy attack, would also be frozen for a while, but it was important to seize this " opportunity."
At the critical moment, I charged into the front of the enemy with a dash technique. Intentionally creating a short gap in the battle and using it to exchange positions with his companions was the so-called " switching."
After using the corner of my eye to confirm that Asuna had retreated quite a distance, I gripped the sword in my right hand tightly again and launched a fierce attack on the enemy. Basically, when dealing with an enemy like a demon slave with a lot of gaps in its body, slashing would be more effective than stabbing. Of course, it would be a different story if it was an expert swordsman like Asuna. Actually, the most effective weapon would be the staff and hammer type, but Asuna and I don't have the skill to strike weapons.
I used the " Four Sides Slash " to hit the enemy four times in a row, which also greatly reduced its HP. Skeleton's reaction was rather slow. This was because the monster's AI had a characteristic, which was that it needed some time to react when facing different attacks.
Yesterday, when I was alone, in order to create this situation, I spent a long time to induce the Lizardman Lord's AI. However, with his companions around, he only needed to switch. This was one of the greatest advantages of team battles.
After using my weapon to deflect the enemy's attack, I began to use my big skills to fight it out. The first attack was to slash down from the upper right corner, then reverse the wrist and slash back in the same trajectory as the golf swing. Every time the enemy's bone-like body was struck by the sword tip, an orange glow would spread out with a clang.
The enemy had raised his shield to defend against the sword that was coming down from the upper section, but to his surprise, I used my left shoulder to hit him. Next, he used a right horizontal slash at the skeleton's empty body that had lost its balance. In the next moment, he immediately used his right shoulder to collide. This was a rare sword skill called " Meteor Impact ", which was used to make up for the gap between continuous powerful attacks. I'm not boasting, but other than the single-handed sword, you also need physical skills to use this move.
After these attacks, the enemy's HP had been greatly reduced to a near-death state. I used all of my strength to execute the last part of the seven combo, the horizontal slash to the left. The sword drew a circular arc with the effect light and accurately cut into the skeleton's neck as if it was sucked in. The bones in the neck were cut off in an instant. As the skull flew into the sky, the body that was left on the ground fell to the ground like a puppet with a broken string, making a crisp sound.
[Well done!]
After putting away her sword, Asuna patted my back hard.
Asuna and I didn't divide the spoils of war for the time being and continued to advance deeper into the maze.
So far, we have encountered four monsters, but we have successfully defeated them without taking any damage. In contrast to me, who liked to use a series of big moves in battle, Asuna's favorite move was to burden the enemy's AI with continuous attacks of small and medium sword skills. Of course, the burden didn't mean that the CPU would have difficulty in calculating, but that the enemy would hesitate to move within the reasonable system rules, so as to form a state that was beneficial to her in battle. From this point of view, our sword skills could be said to complement each other. Moreover, their levels should be about the same.
We moved cautiously along the corridors lined with columns. Although he was not afraid of being ambushed by the enemy with the help of the Enemy Search skill, the echoing footsteps on the hard stone floor always made him feel uneasy. Although there was no light source in the maze, it was still possible to see things because the surroundings were filled with an incredible glimmer of light.
He carefully observed the corridor under the light blue light.
It could be seen that although the lower half of the maze was made of reddish-brown sandstones, as they gradually climbed up, the building materials became moist blue stones. There were gorgeous but uncomfortable carvings on the column, and the bottom of the column was completely submerged in the waterway that was lower than the road surface. On the whole, the buildings gave people a feeling of " heaviness." At this moment, there was only a little bit of blank space left on the map file. If Sixth Sense wasn't wrong, there should be-
At the end of the corridor, a grayish-blue door was waiting for us. The door was embossed with the same monsters as the pillar. Although this was a world made entirely of digital archives, he still felt an indescribable demonic aura coming from the door.
The two of us stopped in front of the door and looked at each other.
[This…should be…]
[That should be right…It's the leader's room.]」
Asuna tugged at the sleeve of my coat tightly.
"How is it…? Do you want to see what it looks like inside?"
This sentence sounded fearless, but there was a strong sense of unease in his voice. Even the strongest swordsman would still feel fear in such a situation. However, this was only natural, because I was also afraid.
"... The leader monster will never leave the guard's room. It's just that opening the door should…be fine…"
Asuna put on a rather helpless expression in response to my lack of confidence towards the end.
[In short, it's better to prepare the transfer props first.」
[Yes.]
Asuna nodded and took out the blue crystal from her skirt pocket. And I did the same.
[Are you ready... It's time to start...]
My right arm was still being held by Asuna, so I could only place my left hand, which was holding the crystal, on the door. If this was the real world, his palms should be covered in sweat.
I slowly opened the door with force. The huge door, which was twice my height, unexpectedly began to move smoothly. The moment the door started moving, it opened the left and right doors at the same time before we could react. Asuna and I held our breaths as we watched. The door that was completely open and the strong impact stopped at the same time. Then, the scene hidden behind the door was completely revealed.
Although the door was open, it was still dark inside. Although the blue light illuminated the corridor where we stood, it could not shine into the room. No matter how much we stared, we couldn't see through the dense darkness.
「…………」
Just as I was about to open my mouth, a blue and white flame suddenly ignited on the floor on both sides of the entrance. This gave both of us a fright, and our entire bodies shrank back.
A little further away, flames immediately ignited on both sides. Then, it continued one after another.
With the continuous sounds of popping, popping, popping…At the same time, the pale blue light illuminated the entire scene in the rather deep rectangular room. This room was quite spacious, just enough to fill the empty space on the map.
Asuna couldn't stand her nervousness anymore and grabbed my right wrist. However, I wasn't in the mood to enjoy that feeling. Because a huge figure was slowly appearing in front of us from behind the fiercely shaking pillar of fire.
The tall body we had to look up to was wrapped in muscles that bulged like thick ropes. The color of his skin was a deep blue that did not lose out to the flames around him. The head above his thick chest was not a human's but a goat's head.
Thick, curved goat horns rose from both sides of its head to the back. Although its eyes were also glowing with a bluish-white flame, it was clear that its gaze was on us. Its lower body was covered with dark blue fur. Although it was not very clear because it was covered by flames, it did not seem to be a human's lower body but an animal's. To simply describe this appearance, it was what we call a demon.
Although there was still quite a distance from the entrance to the center of the room where the guy was, we were still too nervous to move. Up until now, although he had fought with many monsters, this was the first time he had encountered a monster that looked like a demon. Although this kind of posture had appeared in many role-playing games, it was still impossible to suppress the primitive fear that surged out of his heart when he was " directly " facing each other like this.
We stared timidly at the monster and read the words that appeared above the arrow. " The Gleameys." That's right, it was the leader of this level. The proof was the definite article in front of the name. Gleameyes-Glittering Eyes.
When I read this, the blue demon suddenly raised its nose and let out a thunderous roar. At the same time, the entire row of flames shook violently, and the feeling of vibration was transmitted to us through the ground. Then, it sprayed bluish-white steam from its mouth and nose while carrying the greatsword in its right hand on its shoulder. In the next moment, the demon rushed straight towards us at a fierce speed, and its speed even caused the ground to shake violently.
[Waaah!]
[Wahahahaha!]
The two of us screamed at the same time and immediately turned around and sprinted forward with all our might. Even if we knew that the boss monster would not leave the room, we still could not stop our footsteps. The agility that I had gained from training came into play at this time. Asuna and I ran through the long corridor like a gust of wind and escaped with all our might.
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