"There is no need to be modest, at least, to learn how to deal with whips."

"I didn't know how to use a whip."

For this answer, Xiangyan's thin lips smiled, "Yi Yan doesn't need to master the whip technique, because this is the last chance, I'll just say it...... Your Ayn Grant stream, there are some tricks that I haven't seen yet! ”

Whew, I was asked by an unexpected word. It was because Lin Yiyan was shaken, and the sword was pushed by five centimeters, and it became a posture like this for Senior Sister Lena looking down at Lin Yiyan.

Blue eyes hidden in the darkness stared at Lin Yiyan, and the female swordsman continued, "A year ago, I pointed you out as my retinue because I felt that you had a similar swordsmanship style to mine, and that you wanted to go far from the idea of the academy's swordsmanship Nolukia Stream...... Not for appreciation, but for victory. Although my Serlulu Terry is also a practical swordsmanship, it is still not as good as Yi Yan's swordsmanship, and I have known this fact in the past year! ”

For her monologue, Lin Yiyan could only listen silently.

The method of using the sword is different, of course. Because Lin Yiyan is not from Under orld. The sword technique used by Lin Yiyan, Ain Grant Liu, as the name suggests, was brought by Lin Yiyan from that floating city. From that every battle is a matter of life, in the world of Dead Game.

And in this Under orld, there is basically no actual combat. Battles are all competitions, and there are rules for the local conventions, and the central high-level tournament is determined as long as you hit the first time. There is no need to fight for your life, so it has developed towards the ornamental aspect of swordsmanship.

But that doesn't mean that the Underorld swordsman's skills are necessarily weak. In the past two years, Lin Yiyan has fully experienced it. The power of the sword skills honed by continuous practice can surpass the insufficient actual combat experience.

It's all that, Der Orld is an imaginary world, but it's completely different from Ayn Grant. The world, the soul, the power of the imagination generated by Fluctlight, can sometimes influence the final outcome of things.

The imagination of a swordsman who has been practicing the same technique for ten or twenty years since he was a child is the strength of the power that he has bred...... There is a clear example at the moment, Lin Yiyan, who has higher OC authority, was suppressed in the strength competition with Senior Sister Lina. The power of imagination is the real power hidden in this world that cannot be reflected numerically. At the same time, this is also something that Lin Yiyan, who has not woken up in this world for two years, and Yugeo, who started sword cultivation at the same time as Lin Yiyan, cannot easily get. Most of the students of the Sword Academy are swordsmanship elites who were born in families with the vocation of "Aristocrats" and began to receive swordsmanship education from the age of three or four. However, only a small part of them have really received actual combat training, and Lin Yiyan and Yougeo need to face these real swordsmanship and defeat them in order to win the first place in the school year.

The only weapon you can rely on for this goal is the Ayngrun Stream, the Sord Skill. Why Sord Skill exists in Under orld is why Lin Yiyan still doesn't understand. However, the swordsmen in this world only know the basic one-shot skills, or they can't use other skills.

A year and a half ago, at the Zakaria Conference, the Zakary Land Stream "Wind Slash" used by the trainee guard Ikongm was equivalent to the one-handed sword diagonal slash slant in SAO, and the Cerlulut flow wheel vortex used by Lina-sa just now was equivalent to the two-handed sword whirlwind slash cyclone. Others, Nolukia Stream Thunder Light Slash, is a one-handed vertical slash, Ha Nolukia Stream Tianshan Liebo, a two-handed sword vertical slash avalanche.

These are the secrets of each school, and there is no special move above this, super special skills, then, the two consecutive hits and three consecutive hits that Lin Yiyan has mastered are the very few means that can fight against the tough swords that elite swordsmen can kill with one hit. In terms of ideas, this is not a perfect expedient measure, but Lin Yiyan's goal is not to be the strongest in the human world. All Lin Yiyan thought about was to enter the gate of the Catholic Church of Santolalu Kashedoraru, an absolutely invulnerable giant tower that stood on a hill a few kilometers away from this Imperial Sword Cultivation Academy.

Eugeo is to reunite with Alice, who has been taken away since childhood. Lin Yiyan, on the other hand, wants to meet with the managers of this world.

In order to achieve the goal of Lin Yiyan and the others, even if all the competitions are blamed and criticized, they will not hesitate. Use the upper Sord Skill, which only Lin Yiyan can do, use one for a game, and keep winning. Until he won the Unification Conference of the Four Empires and obtained the qualification to become a Knight of Integration.

In the year since Lin Yiyan entered school, this is the reason why he has sealed the Sord Skill with more than two consecutive hits. The only thing that can be used is the Rage spike that was launched just now, this kind of rush technique. However, what Lin Yiyan was hiding was easily seen through by this beautiful senior.

Senior Sister Lena brought her face closer by a centimeter and whispered, "The Serlulut family, because the ancestor once made the emperor unhappy, has become a family that has been forbidden to inherit the orthodox swordsmanship 'Ha Nolukialiu'. Therefore, only non-standard weapons such as whips and short swords can be used, and efforts should be made on swordsmanship that is not strong, but flexible. This is the Serluut stream...... Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset. Rather, I'm proud to be the only inheritor of the genre, and I've been training until now......"

Contrary to what was said, the white hand trembled slightly, causing the crossed swords to make a dry grinding sound. Maybe this was a good opportunity to push the sword back, but Lin Yiyan didn't do it, but kept his posture and waited for the next words.

"But my father, who wants me to graduate from this academy as president and win the royal competition, is looking forward to the restoration of the reputation of the Serluut family. But isn't there a contradiction? Suppose I received the inheritance from the Emperor as my father wished? Allowable ...... of Nolukia Stream At that time, didn't you want us to abandon the Serlut Flow? So...... What was the pride I had since I was a child......? ”

Lin Yiyan couldn't give a quick answer to this question.

Recently, Lin Yiyan almost forgot that Senior Sister Lena in front of him, as well as Lin Yiyan's important partner Yougeo, the students and teachers in the academy...... And the whole crew living in Underorld, in a sense, der orld is an imaginary world, and they are the human?unit that is configured in it.

However, it is completely different from the NPCs in existing VRMMO games. Copying the human soul, Fluctlight, and then preserving it with a special medium, becomes an artificial Fluctlight.

However, the feelings they show sometimes feel richer than real human beings. They think purely about the world and their own destiny, worry about it, and finally accept it, or rise up to resist. Whenever Lin Yiyan saw such a figure, he had to be moved by it. They...... No, the existence of Senior Sister Suolutilina, who is now competing with Lin Yiyan, feels like something can be produced because of a miracle......

“…… Senpai! For Lin Yiyan's words, Senior Sister Lena appeared with a slight self-deprecating smile.

"As for me, before I entered this academy, I had this confusion in my heart. In the past two years, the reason why he hasn't surpassed that guy once is probably because of this confusion......"

That guy is the senior swordsman who is firmly in the chairmanship this year, a man named Uro Ribontein. As the heir of the second-class lord of the swordsmanship guide of the Northern Imperial Knights of Nolan Gals, his sword style is very strong. The imaginary strength of the blow that was swung down from the big upper section was second to none in the academy, and Lin Yiyan had seen him cut off the wooden stakes he used for practice with a wooden sword before.

They are all high-level sword cultivators who are the top elite of this academy, but they have to be sorted from the chairman to the twelve. This order is the order of the results of the examination four times a year. Of course, the three competitions held so far, Lin Yiyan has watched them in the special seat. In the same elimination system as in Zakaria, there are 12 players who compete twice and there are three left, and the highest ranked player before the competition is the seeded player. The combination of the three finals is Sister Lena VS Chairman Uro. And the senior sister lost to Uro three times.

As far as Lin Yiyan can see, the strength of the two as swordsmen is indistinguishable. The strong Chairman Uro to the pliable Lena-senpai. The fierce slashes that came one after another were successfully defused, and then a sharp counterattack was given, and the senior sister's strategy was very good. There was no gap between offense and defense in the competition - however, Uro must have used the mystery of Ha Nolukia, and in the upper stage, Lina-senpai failed to catch it in three competitions. The wooden sword was bounced off twice, and once it was cut off.

All three matches went to the final decision, but the referee's flag had to be raised to Uro's side. In this way, during this year, the order of Uro as the chairman and the senior sister as the second seat has not changed. Anyway, the third seat has not changed, and the one who loses to Senpai Lena in the semi-finals every time is a giant named Kruklon Barut. By the way, the entourage of Kluclond's predecessor is Lin Yiyan's friend Yougeo.

Before the start of the competition, Lena would say, "This is the last time," because the fourth graduation test will be held two days later. At the same time, the final ranking will be decided, and the next day, the advanced practitioners, including these twelve sword cultivators, will graduate from the academy.

That is to say, the chance that Senior Sister Lena can win over Uro is only the competition the day after tomorrow, and this is the only one.

To be precise, after graduating, the first two can attend the Imperial Sword Martial Arts Conference, and there is also the possibility of meeting Uro again, and the senior sister herself doesn't think that she can defeat in the imperial competition before the academy.

“…… Let's be honest! When the two swords were clasped together, Senior Sister Lena said even more quietly, "When I was facing that guy's Tianshan Liebo...... will cringe. No matter how much I practice, I'm not sure I'll be able to give that sword to the next. From the time I was a beginner practitioner...... No, but I've been thinking about it since I first saw that guy's sword on the entrance exam two years ago......"

Lin Yiyan, the first time she saw a senior sister with such a fragile side, was surprised at the same time, but also deeply agreed with her words.

Sure enough, there is no strength gap between Senior Sister and Uro. Unique, imaginative...... In other words, there is a difference in the strength and degree of self-confidence.

As with Lin Yiyan's speculation, if this underorld is an imaginary world constructed by mnemonic·visual·data, imagination will become a huge factor that determines the outcome of things. Because, what Lin Yiyan and Senior Sister Lina saw and heard was not polygondata, but memory imagination extracted from Fluctlight.

Why can we share different image?data for everyone...... This is probably due to the fact that the data output from a large number of Fluctlights is processed by the main memory device and then averaged. Then, if there is a Fluctlight that emits a strong imagination that affects the processed data, things will change due to the individual's willpower, and this is possible. The same is true of the sword represented by Uro Nippontein, which can make such a strong sword.

His own sword skills, and then the absolute confidence of the imagination that the genre has built, can make a blow extremely powerful. And Lena-senpai, on the other hand, has a slight confusion about her swordsmanship. This reason is the establishment of the Serlut stream just mentioned. The notion that the inheritance of Ha Nolukia was forbidden, as a last resort, as a school that was created in its place, made a certain sense of inferiority form in her heart. In this way, it is helpless to resist the sword that Uro slashed with absolute confidence......

However, Lin Yiyan hopes that Senior Sister Lena can win this time. Regardless of the structure of the world, whether imagination is a rewrite of reality, Lin Yiyan only hopes that she can graduate from this academy with her head held high. The senior sister has this qualification and power. Because she was more ...... than the rest of the eleven in the year.

“…… Working harder than anyone else, this long period of time, the senior sister has indeed practiced very hard. Isn't that enough to build your self-confidence......? In response to Lin Yiyan's question, Senior Sister Lena was silent for a while and waved her head.

"Ah...... As if that weren't enough. The more you practice the Serlut stream, the deeper the tip of the horns will be. If it's not a wooden sword, but a real combat with a steel sword. If I had the use of a whip and a short sword, I don't think I would have lost to Ha Nolukia. That's an excuse, though. Because of this world, actual combat ...... That is, a real battle is impossible. As long as I admit this excuse, I will never be able to catch Uro's sword......"

For this sentence, before Lin Yiyan wanted to say something, Senior Sister smiled and continued, "However, you are different, Yi Yan. It's also a user of your own genre, but in front of an orthodox genre user, you don't feel any inferiority complex. After a year of observing you, I feel like I finally know why, as I said earlier...... Your Ayn Grant stream isn't just something of this magnitude, is it? There's many, much more to learn after this. So your heart will not waver. I've heard of it before, and the big cedar trees that stand in the forest of my hometown ...... Kigas Sida! ”

“…… Cut it down with your own hands! After Lin Yiyan said this, Senior Sister Lena laughed rarely.

At some point, both sides relaxed their strength and just gently touched their swords together. It is better to say that the senior sister straightened her body, pressed her weight on Lin Yiyan, and said in a low and soft voice unique to women, "Then that tree is still in your heart." No matter what kind of storm he experienced, he looked up to Soluth in the sky...... Yi Yan, I want to see the strong side you hide! ”

“……”

"It's okay to compete with Uro or anything like that, it's just that I want to see it...... No, I want to know. Before graduating from this academy, I want to know what you're all about as a swordsman! "In front of me, in the blue pupils that are like blue sky, it feels like starlight is twinkling.

It was so beautiful that it seemed that the whole soul would be sucked in, and Lin Yiyan subconsciously moved his face closer by five centimeters. However, because he touched the front hair, Lin Yiyan immediately sobered up. Blinking his eyelids, Lin Yiyan thought again.

The reason why Ayn Grant's "Essence", that is, the upper-level Sord Skill, was not shown to Senior Sister Lena was not because Lin Yiyan wanted to hide these as secret means.

But there is a simpler reason.,The Class15 wooden sword used in the competition and practice.,It's not possible to launch.。 You can only use Snake Bigt and Vertical Arc for a maximum of two hits, and you can't use skills for more than three hits no matter how hard you try. I tried it with the same class sword, and the result was the same.

The only one, only by equipping the Class45 artifact "Sword of the Green Rose" that cut down Kigas Sida, Lin Yiyan can use the Sord Skill of the Class with four consecutive hits. The reason is that Lin Yiyan still doesn't know, at least, there is no such restriction in the old SAO.

However, what the senior sister wants to see is all of Lin Yiyan's sword skills, and Lin Yiyan will not be fooled with just two consecutive blows. Then there's only one way left. It was to borrow the Sword of the Green Rose from Eugeo, and then use the strongest five combos of Lin Yiyan's limit here.

If you ask Yougeo, I don't know if he can lend it to Lin Yiyan happily. Because the sword of the green rose is a thing of Eugeo, and the sword is the soul of the swordsman, Lin Yiyan thinks so. As long as Lin Yiyan realized that he was using a borrowed sword, he would feel that he would not be able to use the strongest sword technique. However, it was also not possible to borrow the sword of the highest priority from the academy's arsenal, because this was not Lin Yiyan's sword either.

Sure enough, there was no other way but to make up his mind to borrow the Sword of the Green Rose, Lin Yiyan said, "-Understood." Sorry, though, please wait a day. Tomorrow at the same moment, it will definitely be shown to you...... The highest sword skill I can use! ”

After that, Sister Lena, who heard this, immediately smiled, but immediately frowned as if she noticed something.

"But tomorrow is the Sabbath. It is forbidden to practice, and this training ground cannot be used. ”