Chapter 45: The Undercurrent After the Storm

One-Hit ......

This attack power is really impressive......

In SAO, where skills and levels are combined, the maximum HP increases as the level increases, so no matter how good the skill of the sword is, as long as the level is high, it will not be so easy to die. Especially since the people who participated in the team today are all high-level players, even if the boss attacks well, he should be able to support it with a few consecutive skills--but only one hit-

"That's an exaggeration......"

Asuna snorted in a hoarse voice.

The skeletal entertainment beetle, which had taken three lives in an instant, raised its upper half of its height high, let out an earth-shattering roar, and then rushed towards a group of new players at a violent speed.

"Wow, ahhh

Players in that direction let out screams of panic. I saw the bone sickle raised again.

Just at the moment of crisis, a figure suddenly rushed directly under the scythe. And that man was none other than Heathcliff. He raised his massive shield to fend off the scythe's attack, and the sound of an ear-shattering thud rang out, followed by sparks flying in all directions.

But the enemy has two scythes. While his left wrist continued to attack Heathcliff, he did not forget to raise his right scythe and slash down at a group of players who were frozen on the spot.

"Bell!" A dark rope wrapped around the scythe, causing it to hesitate for a moment, followed by "Bell! With a thud, a long, dull-colored knife slammed into the side of the scythe, shifting it a little and chopping it to the ground.

It was Ye Chi, but this move put him in danger.

The other scythe left Heathcliff and slashed at him.

Directly a lazy donkey rolled, put away the steel rope, flashed a knife, and rolled towards the front.

Given that structure, it was slightly more difficult to slash under his chest and abdomen, so Ye Chi successfully dodged the rest of the attacks.

But others don't have such good luck.

lost Ye Chi's figure, and the boss directly locked his eyes on other players - this guy can't pull hatred, originally Ye Chi wanted to rely on himself to pull hatred to regroup below, but this can't be done.

A scythe slashes at a player - two-handed block - this would have been the right way to do it, the guy has a two-handed sword in his hand, it has a lot of durability, and his own strength is not low, as long as the boss is holding on to him, it will give people an attack window.

But he failed, he was crushed to the ground and directly suppressed to death!

This is really open...... He is fast, powerful, and has six blood grooves, and he definitely can't say that his life is low--this kind of isn't open-and-nonsense?

Then Ye Chi had no room for emotion, because the next one that the boss was eyeing was Asuna......

Ye Chi was like an off-string arrow in front of the boss's scythe, and the wrist armor of his left hand was on the knife and headed towards the sickle grid.

If it's a slash from top to bottom, you can easily dodge it as long as you come from the side, but the horizontal slash is no way, although it's not impossible to dodge, but once he dodges, it's Asuna who is cut in two.

Fortunately, the horizontal HP decreases slowly, otherwise Ye Chi would have knelt down in minutes......

Suddenly, there was a light in his hand, and there was a bright blade on the back of the swordβ€”it was a flickering light, Asuna!

At this juncture, Ye Chi suddenly exerted his strength, and finally pushed the sickle back with the strength of the two of them, and then rushed forward and retreated with a tacit understanding, avoiding the horizontal slash of the other sickle.

"If two people bear it at the same time - they can stop it! We can do it!"

"Okayβ€”then please!"

Ye Chi was a little enthusiastic, and the two of them resisted the scythe together - the two of them together were meat shields, and they were separated from powerful DPS, and they sealed the front of the boss together with Heathcliff.

But even this is not foolproof, the boss's tail and even the ribs have attack judgments, and from time to time someone is knocked off by the tail or scratched by the ribs - fortunately, it will not be fatal with one hit......

Blocking a wave of attacks again, Ye Chi and Asuna spread out with a tacit understanding, and pounced on the boss's sternum one by one.

Asuna struck first, unleashing a furious wave of swiftleter from below, each stabbing into the joint that connected to the scythe on her left.

Then Ye Chi smashed the joint with the long knife like a bullet, and the long knife slashed into the joint fiercely, and then said goodbye (four sounds).

To everyone's surprise, the scythe that took the lives of several people was chopped off.

There was only one scythe left, and with Heathcliff carrying it, Ye Chi and Asuna, two powerful attackers, were able to join the battle.

The two of them cooperate quite tacitly, without opening their mouths or even looking at each other, there is a sense of super-conduction as if their thoughts are completely connected, allowing both people to respond with the same skills at the same time, and block the enemy's attacks that do not give people a chance to breathe.

Even a tail attack is not something that can be easily dealt with - or even cannot be blocked at all, and if it is judged to be fatal, it will inevitably fly.

At this moment, in this life-and-death deathmatch, Ye Chi experienced a sense of oneness that he had never felt before. Asuna fused with him, becoming a combat-minded and constantly wielding her swordβ€”in a sense, an incomparable sensory experience. Although sometimes when you are injured by the aftermath when resisting the enemy's heavy attacks, your HP decreases little by little, but at this time, you don't care about it at all.

In fact, there is no such margin at all, and even the lack of a primary weapon is not something that can be easily put down.

The battle continued for another hour, during which it appeared that there were more victims.

But it doesn't matter anymore, when Ye Chi smashed down from the zenith and launched a kill with several people, the fate of the boss was already decided.

It doesn't matter whose FA it is, it doesn't matter how much it loses, everyone is limp on the ground under the light effect of Congratulation.

It's not quite right to say that everyone.

There was also a man, Heathcliff, who had the name of a paladin, looking out over his shield.

Ye Chi and Asuna sat down with their backs to each other, Kirito spread out to the side without any image, Klein also sat on the ground as if he had pulled off a bone, and the axe warrior Achill was similar.

Is it over......?

Uh-huh-it's over-

What Ye Chi could accept from that transcendent feeling, the last message from Asuna was like that.

Victorious.

This is an indisputable fact.

But it was a pyrrhic victory.

Twelve people were killed, and if it weren't for Ye Chi cutting off a sickle, there would have been more dead.

I have personally confirmed the number of people, but it is still hard to believe this fact.

Each of them is a top-notch player who has been through countless battles. Even if you can't get out or recover instantly, as long as you take a survival priority, you shouldn't die right away - I think so, but-

"Liar, don't ......"

Akyll's voice also lost its usual vitality. A gloomy air hung over the heads of the survivors.

Three-quarters of the way through - and twenty-five floors above. Although there are still thousands of players, there are probably only a few hundred people who are at the forefront of the game. If there are so many victims in the first layer of the Raiders, then we will face the dilemma of - in the end, there may be only one player left who can face the final boss.

This is the future that Ye Chi once feared.

And the one who survived...... It must be that guy......

Ye Chi looked over Asuna's shoulder and looked at the man.

Heathcliff, the presence of a cluster in the midst of a crowd.

Even in such a fierce battle, his HP only fell a little more than halfway, not even yellow.

His leisurely and standing figure made it impossible to feel any mental fatigue at all. It's an incredible amount of tenacity. It's like a machine -- like a fighting machine equipped with a perpetual motion machine......

Machine......

Ye Chi's eyes seemed to have a bit of a problem focusing......

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the man carefully.

The guy ...... It's too laid-back, isn't it......

Ye Chi couldn't help but be a little jealous of him......

The legendary man's expression has always been so steady. He just looked down at the KOB members and the other players lying on the ground without a word. His warm, compassionate eyes - as if -

It's like looking at a swarm of white mice playing in a delicate cage.

Ye Chi's head seemed to be overpowered.

This look......

It's a bit of a beating......

Ye Chi seemed to remember the deeds of being bounced off by a shield at that time...... The doubts in my heart became more and more intense.

Ye Chi stretched out his arm, patted Kirito, and pointed at Heathcliff.

He was a little confused at first.

As if he had thought of something, he looked at Ye Chi suddenly.

Ye Chi nodded slowly and made a gesture.

- You come first, I follow.

- Really?

- Nonsense, there's no better chance.

After a simple exchange of glances and gestures, the two of them strengthened their thoughts.

And then.

The two men looked at Heatscliff together.

Kirito clenched the hilt of the sword, and the little finger of Ye Chi's left hand curled slightly.

Asuna seemed to anticipate something, and suddenly looked at the two of them.

Then Kirito kicked the ground violently, and slashed at Heatcliff with both swords!

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