After Yuuki confirmed that the system recognized the start of sleep, the man who challenged him spoke.
"Young swordsman, I admire your strength. Do you dare to take my sword?"
The man stepped out with his left foot and raised the Western sword to the side of his head. The tip of the sword was pointed directly at the center of Yuuki's body, and the sword emitted a dazzling white light.
It's not dazzling, but it's a sword skill that Yuuki has never seen before. She has slightly corrected her mentality of relaxing because she won too much.
"Here he comes! Lord Fletcher's [Flash Pierce] that can blow away eight knights in one move!" some onlookers shouted.
Immediately afterwards, the man known as Baron Fletcher turned into a comet and stabbed towards her like a huge spear of light.
For Yuuki, she would win by avoiding him and hitting him from behind, but if there are too many onlookers, she has to consider the issue of reputation, and sometimes she has to choose to face the conflict head-on.
Yuuki's sword ignited the purple-black sword of darkness, took a big step forward, and hit the oncoming "giant spear of light" directly.
The purple-black slash was immediately deflected by the light, but it did not fail immediately. The sword skill Yuuki used was a four-stroke sword skill of [Horizontal Square Slash], and three consecutive strikes.
If the posture collapses, the sword skills will be interrupted and become stiff. However, Yuuki forcibly stabilized the sword path, and slashed to the side for the second time, trying to push Baron Fletcher's sword aside, but Baron Fletcher was like
After seeing through it, he slightly adjusted the direction of the impact. The tip of the sword collided with Yuuki's sword again, and the purple-black slash was deflected again.
Yuuki, whose posture almost collapsed due to leaning back, immediately turned her hand at high speed, held the sword in her backhand, turned her body and swung diagonally for the third time. Finally, she tilted the sword and brushed the oncoming shining Western sword and passed by with sparks flying from the side.
The trajectory of the two sides' collision with each other was wrong, and the two of them instantly maintained their posture and stood back to back.
But Yuuki still had her fourth slash. She turned around and struck Baron Fletcher on the back of Baron Fletcher, who had finished his sword skills and was frozen.
The onlookers were talking a lot, sighing that the gentleman also lost or something, he seemed to be a famous local swordsman. There were also people beating their chests and feet, maybe they lost in private.
Baron Fletcher waited until the damage judgment effect of the slash on his body disappeared, turned around, put his hand on his chest and saluted Yuuki, saying something like "There are people outside, I want to practice in seclusion", without a face.
He turned his back on the crowd and left.
"Yeah! I'm waiting for you!" No matter what, Yuuki still raised her clenched fists to express her hearty victory.
Ran came to Yuuki and whispered: "That person's sword skills are up to standard if they are matched with tactics. Tactics can be taught, but if he is a noble, he cannot be invited. Besides, it will be difficult to deal with it next."
"Sister, what's wrong?"
"If the person you defeat is a reputable warrior or a noble, then there won't be any serious challenges. There may be other nobles looking for trouble."
"Ahhh...what should I do? Move away?"
At this time, there was pushing and shoving from behind the crowd.
Yuuki and Ran looked over there. Pushing was not uncommon here. The reason they noticed was that the two neutral NPC cursors there, which were originally yellow, turned into dark red to indicate dangerous enemies.
"I said, Stella, you don't have a weapon, do you?"
"There's no rule against hitting with hands and feet. What should you do if your hat and cloak fall off?"
"If you haven't learned [Taijutsu], what's the way to determine victory here?"
"How can the [physical skills] used by ordinary people here be enough for us? At worst, we can just beat her until she can't get up again."
The two people talking seemed to be girls about the same age as her. One was wearing a hat that looked like a pair of raised animal ears, with clumps of brown hair sticking out from under the brim. She was wearing a cloak that almost covered her ankles, and equipment could be seen through the gaps.
The one with shorts, shorts and short boots looks like an assassin; the other one has blue ponytails and is wearing a priest's uniform that has been changed into short clothes.
Being able to mark a girl NPC with a high risk factor is quite rare in this world. Even if it has nothing to do with the main plot, she is an important figure in some branches.
"Who are those two people?" Lan asked the crowd.
"He runs an orphanage in Rexio Church."
"Most of the people we take in are the children of human adventurers who suddenly appear."
"I heard that he dared to confront the local bad guy who murdered and usurped the position of the lord. Now there will be a good show."
"……………………"
He sounds like a good person. In the final analysis, the hostile color cursor of an NPC only means that the meeting will trigger a battle, and has nothing to do with personality. Rather, the NPC that will help the players is exactly the type they are looking for.
"You two over there, have you decided?"
"Here I am, this level of release is suitable for practice." The one who came up was the blue-haired twin-tailed priest.
"It's a pity that I can only introduce myself like this in this meaningless place. My name is Stella. Please give me your advice."
Just when Yuuki tried to call up the duel confirmation pop-up but it was gray——
"You human adventurers who have descended here can easily have your eyes wandering in a place like this, which is not good."
Stella said, already lying in her arms.
I almost forgot, with a red cursor there is no need for the system to confirm the duel.
The mandatory task of confronting Stella appeared directly in the taskbar, and the duel judgment had started automatically, but Yuuki had no time to look at the taskbar.
Stella's outstretched hand was not wrapped in the light of skills, nor was it equipped with equipment that could increase attack power like tiger thorns or metal armor, only a pair of fingerless leather gloves inlaid with metal.
Yuuki, who had no experience in dealing with this, took a step back, blocked with her sword, and planned to observe for a round first. Unexpectedly, Stella directly grabbed her hand and pulled her, and she fell forward with greater force than her.
, Stella hugged her, turned her over, and hit her head first with a bomb to the ground.
The effective terrain impact damage outside the circle plus a knowing blow to the head and neck simultaneously caused Yuuki to lose a quarter of her HP even though she was not attacked by powerful skills.
In reality, most living people are probably either fainting or suffering from high paraplegia.
But in the almost painless sao, Yuuki's reaction was sensitive enough. He immediately stood up before the pursuit came, dodged the ax kick that produced the ground-shattering effect, and did another backflip to barely avoid the rapid chain of roundhouse kicks.
Take ten steps away and reset your posture.
"It seems like it's not a big deal for you, but taking care of the children, you have to cook like a war from time to time. It's very expensive. Just give me 45,000 col later." Stella hooked her hand and said.
When Yuuki meets this kind of person, she has achieved her goal in a sense. It doesn't matter if she loses money once, but after being ridiculed like this, she really wants to win - she knows that she is the challenger.
They rushed towards each other at the same time.
Fists, feet and swords intersected and collided at high speed...