civilwarnovels Chapter 591 Who is on the field
Chapter 591 Who is on the field
Chapter 591 Who is on the field
After Darkness's defeat, the only players left are Kirito, Alice, Rinko, and Smail.
Looking at the spear user who is the only one among the top four, and who made it to the top four with great difficulty, could he win three championships in a row?
Kobayashi's expression seemed a little conflicted, as if he was thinking of an old man with four sand soldiers.
But it shouldn't turn out like that. Kirito and Alice are both very strong players, so no matter who it is, they won't lose.
After Sato Kazuma's brief summary, the semi-finals officially began.
Four names began to scroll on the huge blue screen. Sato Kazuma, Kirito, Alice, and the audience all became nervous, even Kobayashi could not help but tense up.
And when——
Alice VS Rinko
When he appeared in front of the crowd, he could feel the boos from the audience that were clearly filled with expressions of relief.
Everyone was afraid that Alice would run into Kirito.
Kirito was not well-known before he participated in the Tenkaichi Budokai. Few players knew about the existence of the black swordsman, and his reputation was not as good as Asuna, the master of strategy. But when he dueled with Asuna in the quarterfinals and defeated her with dazzling sword skills, he immediately conquered many viewers and gained many fans.
Among them, everyone in the Black Cat Knights, represented by Xing and Silica, also cheered for him.
Alice also proved that she is not just a pretty face. She is also very strong. Not only did she defeat Diabel, who is also a member of the strategy group, in the preliminaries, she also had a back-and-forth with Kureya in the quarterfinals. Her outstanding performance won her the favor of many players.
After avoiding each other, the two should meet in the finals.
"——Maybe everyone thinks so."
Rinko clenched her two-handed sword with both hands.
She knew very well how much pressure those who became opponents of those popular people would feel after they appeared. She knew this feeling very well in reality.
But looking at Koharu who was cheering for her in the first row of the arena, in the exclusive seat for contestants.
She knew she couldn't lose.
and--
Someone was watching her from the platform behind her!
On the high platform behind the arena, Kobayashi and Heathcliff were watching the duel between the two with great interest.
"Vice President Xiaolin, who do you think will win?"
"It may be a little bit exaggerated, but I think Alice will win."
"Haha, I feel the same way."
Heathcliff chuckled.
He was also optimistic about Alice. Even though he was just a scientific researcher and didn't know much about real-life combat, he was very clear about combat in games. Just based on this point, Alice would definitely be able to defeat Rinko.
"That being said, it will probably take some effort for Alice to defeat Rinko."
“How come you see?”
"Although a two-handed sword is heavy, it has the advantages of long attack distance and wide attack range. Alice uses a one-handed sword. If you want to break through Rinko's defense, you need close combat, but——"
"I see. Rinko's two-handed sword skill can create a large distance and force back players who want to get close."
"That's it."
In SAO, the two-handed swordsman, spearman, and heavy axeman are assigned the task of interrupting the BOSS mechanism instead of the archers and magicians in ordinary games, so they have quite a lot of control skills.
If it were any other player, Alice could probably rely on the characteristics of her profession to win easily. However, facing Rinko, who also has rich dueling skills, it would definitely take some effort to defeat her.
"I want to win!"
As the countdown ended, Rinko took the lead.
She did not raise her two-handed sword high, but ran forward in a dragging manner, which could increase her speed, but at the same time the direction of her attack could also be predicted.
"It's the lower sweep!"
Alice did not retreat, but instead faced forward.
In her imagination, the best solution should be to retreat as well, or wait for Rinko's lower sweep to miss, dodge and then counterattack. But Alice knew that a master would never use skills easily, and Rinko could just swing her two-handed sword normally and use skills again after getting back to the distance.
At this point, just take the initiative to face it and force Rinko to use the lower sweep!
Rinko bit her lip. She didn't expect Alice to take the initiative to attack. She originally wanted to take the initiative, but now she had to use a sweep to force the opponent back.
He pushed his arms outward with all his might, trying to force Alice back with the two-handed sword, but unexpectedly Alice tapped the ground and jumped upward, using the force of the two-handed sword to flip in the air, and in an instant she was behind Rinko.
But when she wanted to take advantage of this gap to attack Rinko's defenseless back, she was forced back by Rinko's Wheel Dance Slash.
"Amazing."
Alice praised sincerely.
No matter what game it is, especially in fighting games, back attacks cause the most damage, but Rinko used a forward wheel dance to swing her two-handed sword 360 degrees and forcibly blocked Alice's attack with the second half of the move. She has a very high combat instinct.
But Rinko praised Alice even more!
What's going on? That deft move, he was clearly using a one-handed sword, but he was as deft and swift as a rapier user, or even more deft than a rapier user! If I hadn't used the system to successfully use the skill, I would have been hit by a flaw and lost a lot of health.
Rinko's heartbeat gradually quickened.
She had a feeling that she would lose. Should she say this was the intuition of a master? This was probably the best she could do.
It would be great if I met the spearman.
Rinko couldn't help but fantasize like this.
But soon, she shook her head and put aside the unnecessary thoughts.
No matter what, her opponent now is Alice. Even if she is going to lose, she has to show her strength. Besides, she may not lose!
"Drink!"
Thinking of this, Rinko ran forward with her two-handed sword raised high. After closing the distance, she continued to swing the sword to attack Alice's body. She perfectly utilized the advantage of the long attack range of the two-handed sword, and Alice had to retreat temporarily.
Darkness, sitting in the contestant seat, crossed her arms as she watched Rinko, who was like a berserker on the stage.
"If I were to withstand an attack like that... that would be great!"
The perverted female knight went crazy again, and the other contestants subconsciously stayed away from her.
Even Asuna sighed helplessly.
After more than a year of getting along, Asuna already knew clearly about Darkness's special hobby. Although she would not say anything openly or behind her back, such interests and hobbies always had a huge impact on her as a girl who had not yet reached adulthood.
And on stage.
It seems that Rinko has the upper hand and keeps forcing Alice's position with her two-handed sword, but careful people can find that Alice is actually adapting to Rinko's attack rhythm and gradually guiding her.
Moreover, the two-minute-long violent attack did not cause any harm to Alice. No matter what moves were used, they were perfectly intercepted.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Rinko."
Alice even had the energy to say sorry to her.
"what?"
Rinko also discovered this.
But the disadvantages of the two-handed sword, in addition to the slow attack and long skill stiffness, is that it is very difficult to retract the force. Once she launches an attack, she can only attack continuously like a berserker, and the longer the time, the harder it is to retract the force.
Alice also used the one-handed sword's advanced skills - Roaring Eight Hit Consecutive Attacks and Horizontal Four-Direction Slash with an extremely elegant and relaxed manner, as if teasing, to reduce Rinko's health to less than half, successfully winning the duel and advancing to the finals.
"Let's congratulate Elise!"
"Oh oh oh————"
Even though Sato Kazuma congratulated her, Rinko still couldn't recover from her defeat.
She must have suffered a big blow.
For someone who is only good at playing games, being defeated in the game, even so easily, is unacceptable to anyone. It's like even the meaning of one's existence has been deprived.
Kirito felt the same way when he saw Rinko kneeling on the stage with her hands on the ground in confusion.
At the same time, he made a secret decision.
I must win!
Rinko was taken away by Koharu, and she signaled to her friends to continue to comfort her, so Koharu was not in the mood to watch the next game.
The remaining duels no longer require a big screen.
Kirito VS Smail
This is the last game of the semi-finals, and it will be up to the last two players to decide who will advance to tonight's final.
Kirito slowly walked onto the arena.
He looked at his opponent in front of him. He had an ordinary face, a ramen-like haircut, and eyes that looked like he didn't get enough sleep, with deep eye bags and dark circles - this was a very rare thing. After SAO scanned the player's wool, it would not cause the dark circles caused by long-term lack of sleep like in reality.
He was thin and tall, with a slightly hunched back. If he stood up straight, he would be at least a head taller than Kirito. He carried a white spear on his shoulder, and his expression was very listless, matching his dark circles.
“Does this person have the energy to do this?”
"How did he make it to the quarterfinals?"
"This guy is so lucky!"
The audience protested and were very dissatisfied with this guy.
Even Kirito had doubts about whether this guy was serious, and at the same time, he was slightly careless, thinking that he might be able to intrude into the role easily.
however--
The moment the two men fought, Kirito understood.
This guy is a master!
The thin, listless man in front of him, like Alice and Claire, was also an expert with a spear in real life!
Not only that, this man also integrated the skills in the game into his own techniques very well!
The spear, which was faster than the rapier, was used by this man with his agility to strike out, constantly stabbing his body. Even Kirito found it difficult to defend himself, and his health points continued to drop.
And when the spear was used repeatedly with Shadow Strike, a skill that accelerated the attack, and Flow, a skill that reduced stiffness, Kirito could only use the one-handed sword to protect his vital points to prevent his health from dropping quickly.
"W-what?"
"This man... is so strong!"
"Pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?"
Because the contrast is too great, many people have this idea. Looking at Kirito who can obviously defeat Asuna on the stage, but is now being suppressed by others, this feeling is really indescribable.
Diabel murmured to himself: "It's very strange..."
"Oh, President Diabel, do you have any opinions?" Sato Kazuma quickly handed over the microphone.
"Well... players should know that the spear user is a long-range attacker. Its main task in the strategy battle is to interrupt the boss's stiffness. The difference is that the two-handed sword relies on power, and the heavy axe user relies on power and distance. The spear should also rely on power, but the current Smailu player's attack is very weak."
"That only proves that the main points added by Smailu players are agility."
"No, a spear is different from a rapier. SAO has very high requirements for strength and agility. If your strength is not up to standard, you cannot equip a spear. Therefore, if you use a spear, its attack power should not be weak anyway."
"what?"
Sato Kazuma also discovered the problem.
Because SAO attaches great importance to weapons, there are daggers, short knives, rapiers, one-handed swords, spears, two-handed swords, heavy axes, sickles, etc. These weapons have different requirements on the strength, dexterity and agility of the users. In addition, the attack power of a dagger can't be the same as that of a two-handed sword. In that case, everyone chooses to use a dagger that has a fast attack speed and is convenient.
"In other words, the Smailu player deliberately used a weapon with low attack power?"
"That's probably true."
"What's the reason?"
"do not know."
If Smailu's level was low, it would be fine if he couldn't get good equipment, but his level was level 72, which was only two levels lower than Kirito. With such a high level, his equipment shouldn't be so bad, and his armor was obviously top-level equipment, but his weapons were so bad...
Diabel didn't understand the reason either.
As the duel became increasingly intense, Kirito also discovered that the damage caused by Smailu's attacks was not high. He had to concentrate in the battle so he couldn't think of the reason, but he understood that since this was the case, he might as well exchange blood with the opponent!
As long as he can make the opponent's health points drop below half first, he will definitely be the one who wins in the end!
So Kirito simply gave up on defense and took the initiative to use his skills to attack Smailu.
On one side is Kirito, who has strong attack power and average attack speed but counterattacks late. On the other side is Smailo, who has fast attack speed and average attack power but attacks first. The health points of both of them kept declining and soon reached nearly half.
Normally, at this time, Smailu should use his agility to dodge the attack, but he ignored it and continued to reduce Kirito's health at the same speed.
It was like nothing could shake him.
Kirito also gritted his teeth and persisted.
He knew that if he continued like this, the opponent's health would drop below half first, because his attack power was very high.
The health value is reduced little by little, and reduced little by little...
Sudden--
Just when Kirito's health points were reduced to an extremely dangerous level, Smail's eyes suddenly emitted a terrifying light. He leaned back as if he had planned it for a long time, and at the same time, his right hand suddenly pulled down to open the system menu.
All the movements seemed to have been practiced thousands of times, and in just a moment the spear in his hand was replaced by another one.
The gun barrel is pure black, and there seems to be a strange pattern of grooves carved on it, connected to the gun tip, and the gun tip is a blood-red spiral. Anyone who takes a glance at it will know that this is a deadly bleeding weapon!
At this moment, the tip of Smailu's gun flashed scarlet red, which was a sign of the skill being activated.
——Vent!
Catharsis is a higher-level skill for spear users. It is a powerful single-target skill that requires a proficiency of at least 800 to learn. In addition, its weapon is obviously high-quality equipment.
"what?!"
Kirito's expression changed.
He seemed to sense something was wrong.
This duel method of deliberately reducing the health value to less than half, and then using a powerful skill to forcibly return the health value to zero, this is————
However, by the time he reacted, Smailu's spear had already pierced Kirito's chest!
Seeing this, Asuna stood up suddenly.
"——Who is on the playing field?!"
(End of this chapter)