She needed about six seconds to teleport, which meant that if she guarded those six seconds, she would have a chance to escape and do that.

So, Natsume, who confirmed this fact, launched a frantic attack around him.

Dynamic vision captured the figure of the [Maggot Cracked Dragonfly] rushing towards the two people on the side, and its movement trajectory was to bypass Natsume to attack Asuna behind him, but this action was forcibly cut off by Natsume, and his slash began to swing like a scythe of death, crushing the monster's left chest.

With four seconds left, Vision spotted the stone falling from the top of his head, and Natsume immediately rushed to Asuna's back and slashed the blade in his hand.

The attack of the Wind Blade shatters the sharp stones falling from above, scattering the stones to the ground, and the other monsters immediately trample them into powder.

Without stopping, Natsume turned around and held his sword in both hands, locked on the three monsters that jumped up, lowered his body, increased his speed, and then performed a cross slash.

The cross-crossed light burst through the blades of their raised hands, and the impactful cross-slash fell on them, shattering their skin in an instant, revealing white bones and rotting flesh.

The shattered weapons and their blood turned into data and scattered in the air, and Natsume realized that even if he didn't kill them completely, he could gain some experience by killing them once.

A large amount of experience began to pour into his database, and Natsume gasped for a spinning slash, this time blessed with the effect of [Storm Blade], and the wind tornado with a cutting nature blew Asuna's hair, shattering the feet and heads of the six monsters behind her.

Suddenly, Natsume picked up speed. A monster suddenly ran into the blind corner of his vision. Crawling it does not aim at itself. It's Asuna in the distance.

Natsume rushed back, but on the way, he was restrained by two [maggots].

The creeping monster that jumped up was wielding its nauseous slime-laden blade.

No matter!

Using the sword in the lake to cut open the lower abdomen of the monster on his right, Natsume ignored the [maggot cracked dragonfly] on the left, and couldn't deal with it in order to save time.

Speed up!

Faster!

Stretching out his left hand, at the same time, the two halves of the blade fell.

Her left arm was pierced by the blade of the creeping monster, and her right shoulder was slashed by another [maggot-cracked dragonfly] that did not cope, and Asuna, who was wrapped in light, showed a surprised expression. Just as she was about to speak, she was teleported away.

Closing his left eye and enduring the pain, Natsume turned sideways, and this force drove the two monsters to move, and while knocking away the other monsters that flew over, Natsume also took advantage of the situation to carry out a large-scale rapid horizontal slash in a semicircle around him.

Breathing more and more rapidly, Natsume confirmed the paralyzing toxins on the blades after shaking off the two monsters that had been close to him just now.

His right shoulder was losing strength, his left arm was beginning to feel uneasy pain, and his blood bar was slowly being eroded by something beige.

That's a sign of complete poisoning.

Once the health bar is eroded, it is estimated that the whole body will be immobile.

Natsume glanced at the [Maggot Cracked Dragonfly] that surrounded him. After looking at the left hand and right shoulder, which can barely hold on for a while, now it is only necessary to lead them to one place. Just put them all in front of themselves.

To put it simply, do you have to break through to the wall?

Looking back, the closest wall to me, and the weakest point in defense is-

"Left?!"

Here it begins, the final shock.

When you step on the ground, data fragments burst out, which is a sign of smashing the ground.

Use some of your stamina to create a Wind Blade enchantment to defend yourself, and clash forward with the sword in the lake.

There are only a dozen [maggots] guarding that road, and it is estimated that they think that there is no possibility that any player will run towards the dead end.

Facing Natsume who rushed over, more than a dozen [maggot cracked dragonflies] greeted him together.

As I said just now, the single combat strength of the [Maggot Cracked Dragonfly] is not strong, and the only factor is to rely on a large number to make up for this shortcoming.

The boss on the twentieth floor is a very strange setting, similar to a bug, which is both the strongest and the weakest.

As long as the player is given a second chance, they can easily pass.

Natsume's feet moved each other, holding the hilt of the sword with both his left and right hands, so that he could be sure that it would not fall.

Emergency braking, Natsume knows that their attack patterns are relatively simple, both in the form of jumping and in the form of direct assault.

Faced with the cooperative attacks from above and below, Natsume calmed down and sank down, feeling the wind flow.

In the end, the Wind Slash in the form of Half Moon was sent out through Natsume's movements, and the second stage of [Storm Blade] was used, and the [Severed Slash] in the form of an external release was released.

Sting!

The invisible wind blade sliced through the bodies of the seven [maggot-cracked dragonflies], and Natsume used this action to slash in reverse, dodging the [maggot-cracking dragonfly] that wanted to hit again was split in two in an instant.

Looking at them who were about to split and resurrect, Natsume stepped on the mud-like stinking body and came to the target location.

It was an uneven wall, with many cracks in the pitted wall, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Distanced from this group of monsters, Natsume saw that the [Maggot Cracked Dragonfly] ten meters away were all looking at this side together.

They stood in place and crossed their rubbing blades, and as many as two hundred monsters rushed over.

Natsume felt the ground shaking, and the number of [maggots cracked dragonflies] that were too large was like a swarm of bees, and a sense of oppression followed.

However, Natsume did not panic.

Before they could rush over, he had raised the golden sword in his hand.

It's the wind current, it's the sun, it's the energy fluctuations mixed with the wind and the light.

Let me show you, among the SAO, the large-scale city treasure should be the strongest group skill!

Both arms were shaking and heating at the same time.

Energy surged throughout his body, and the golden light and magic of the sword body turned into dazzling sunlight.

So.

Right in the next moment.

The sun erupted.

The voice that came out was-

“Excalibur！！！！！！”

Not a slash of light, but a blast of light.

A wide-range destructive energy blast, like the sun descending on the earth, the fan-shaped golden light swallowed everything it encountered.

Natsume's body rebounded like a heavy blow, and the lack of STR caused his arms to snap in response to the backlash.

But the scene in front of him gave Natsume a satisfactory answer.

All of the Maggots were consumed by the light, and an oversized gully appeared on the ground that almost took up the room.

The opposite wall was also shattered, and everything, the objects that existed in the path were instantly shattered.

The whole room is like an apocalypse, everything except Natsume has become fragmented, and the completely destroyed [maggot cracked dragonfly] is not left at all, only an empty and lonely space.

Natsume coughed, and his HP was still one-fifth.

If you want to stand up, you can't stand up with the support of your hands, so you can only get up with the help of your feet and the wall behind you.

Suddenly, Natsume heard footsteps.

Looking at the entrance, a surprised girl was holding on to the door with both hands, looking at the scene in disbelief.

"Asuna?"

"Shall I say how are you?"

With that, she ran through the door. (To be continued......)