Yuuki and Stella were engaged in a high-speed battle with swords, fists and kicks.
Yuuki attached magic to the sword. She didn't learn any efficient attack magic. She was so active that she couldn't calm down. However, she used this to imitate the high-power sword skills without stiffness. She used her own will and cooperated with [Awakening] to achieve the goal of the sword.
The acceleration effect of the skill can still be achieved.
In form, there is only one magic sword skill [Explosion Slash] that causes an additional explosion after hitting it, but she does not intend to use it on opponents who do not want to take their lives and do not want to make enemies.
Therefore, her sword was unable to achieve a clean-hit in front of Stella, who she considered a master in physical skills. However, the magic splash generated by wielding the obsidian sword also continued to accumulate damage on Stella, and her HP slowly increased.
decline.
However, Yuuki understood that if it was a scoring duel like boxing, she would have already lost. During this period, she was hit by Stella's fists and kicks in several places on her face, abdomen, neck, and head. If Stella hadn't used her skills
, unable to meet the requirements of the system to determine victory, and the equipment's bonus to attack power is too poor, Stella has already won.
What Yuuki can keep herself at an advantage is to be wary of Stella's use of terrain impact damage and knowing blows to inflict heavy damage on herself.
Ran watched the battle nervously for Yuuki. At this moment, there was a rustling sound from the tree nearby, and the figure of a girl wrapped in a common hood and cloak hung upside down until her eyes were roughly at the same level as Ran.
"Melida, since you started practicing [Taijutsu], you have become more and more fond of cosplay ninjas?" Lan asked, tilting her head slightly.
"I haven't learned it yet. Kirito-san told me not to hate him. I can only work hard." Merida pretended to be calm and replied.
"Is the punishment for failing to practice [Taijutsu] to become ugly?" Lan remembered that Merida had been covering her face since that day. Wasn't she more focused on cosplaying as a ninja?
"No, that's not the case. It's just that I think I know that 'Rat' must have failed too."
"The punishment for failure... is to grow a beard?!" Lan pretended to cough and said, "It doesn't hurt to show your face, the 'mouse' is very cute."
"No... Well, the appearance of the beard does not seem to be uniform. I can imagine how hard Kirito-san worked hard to practice [Taijutsu]. My word... because the distribution of STR points was not up to standard at the beginning, and there was not much promotion.
A few levels cannot meet the basic conditions at all, so this can only be done temporarily... Wait, that's not what I want to talk about now."
"what is that?"
"The girl who fought against Yuuki, her name is Stella... She is a good taijutsu player at first glance, but her attack power is insufficient due to her lack of skill [taijutsu]. Isn't the balance of this NPC too bad?"
Although I don’t want to praise SAO for this death game, SAO’s reasonable combination of NPC combat power and character design is indeed amazing.
On the other side, the battle has entered a fever pitch.
Seeing that Stella's HP was about to turn yellow, which was equivalent to defeat, Yuuki aimed carefully and quickly, and when she couldn't dodge another punch, she thrust out her sword. Whether it was a change of moves or a fight, she won.
Unexpectedly, the stabbed Stella disappeared immediately.
"Afterimage? Is there such a skill?"
There was a sound of wind coming from behind, and as soon as Yuuki turned around, her left hand was caught.
Yuuki felt cruel, and held Stella's hand with her left hand. The sword in her right hand activated the sword skill [Horizontal Slash] and added [Awakening] to further accelerate, and pulled out the dazzling sword light to slash towards Stella's waist.
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However, Stella also grabbed Yuuki's left hand with her other hand, pulled her towards Yuuki, suddenly raised her leg, and hit her knee on Yuuki's sword-wielding hand, causing the sword to fly into the air.
Then he put his hands on his shoulders and threw Yuuki over his shoulders, slamming her feet to the ground.
Yuuki's HP dropped again, but due to preparations, the knowing blow was not achieved, and the HP of both sides was almost the same.
She flicked her right hand upward, Stella blocked it, and then——lost.
Yuuki has learned [Taijutsu], so she can activate the skill [Flash] with her bare hands to form a clean-hit effective judgment. It was obvious that she was asking for the information for the character design that Merida likes, but in the end she didn't.
Learn carefully.
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"Oh...financial management is also very important." Fosse looked at the items filling the item column and Cole, who only had two digits, and sighed.
"I didn't expect Stella to lose, and I was furious. I must learn a lesson."
"Fosse, didn't you lose worse than me? What happened when you fell down and got stabbed?" Stella also complained.
"In terms of weight-bearing, this [Phantom Book Technique] is as convenient as a space prop. But in terms of weight-bearing, it does not have the feeling of carrying a heavy object, but it will affect the speed of movement and explosive power. I usually don't feel it, so I am careless. Stella
Should I take half?"
"At that time, I didn't even have time to say, Fushi, you packed all the supplies yourself, right?"
"In the end, I didn't make any money at all. I still have to pay them 10,000 kel. I can only go back and see if Nim has any cash. If that doesn't work, why don't I sell some supplies to pay off the debt?"
"How about the casino? People are not good at using their brains like this."
"I'm not good at saying that, so I might as well fight a few monsters on the road."
After a moment of silence——
"However, I didn't expect that the master would arrange such a rigorous training. During the training process, I can't feel the feeling of my body getting stronger, and it has such a great impact on my motivation. In the past, my motivation was not reduced even if I was bruised and bruised. If this continues
How are we going to face Milim-sama?" Stella said.
"Although I expected that it would definitely not be easy, not only has the power been sealed to this extent, but also our ability to control our own physical condition and the habit of using power have been sealed, leaving us to explore from scratch."
Although Crounpis just randomly threw them in quantum form and waited for processing, they all thought of this as a difficult practice.
Now that they are using polygonal bodies, the only true self they can feel is the astral body. In addition, the system greatly limits the power that can be exerted. For them, who have finally managed to sublimate themselves as material life forms to a very advanced level, it is really difficult for them.
A big challenge.
The painless body and the HP gauge marked in the upper left corner of the field of view are very convenient for ordinary players, but it is also very troublesome for them who rely on body sense to control their physical condition. Normal warriors will aim at the upper left corner of the field of view when they have nothing to do. That would be too distracting.
ah.
But in fact, even without looking at the HP gauge, they can vaguely feel the status of their polygonal characters with their astral bodies - this is the first step in the transition from material life forms to higher spiritual life forms.
After all, Otohime intends to make SAO a reality, so it is impossible to achieve this without the possibility of sublimating and transforming life.