"Kirito."

Kirito heard the blonde girl's call and hurriedly listened carefully.

"If I lose this battle, you will be the new president of the Knights of the Round Table. It's a heavy task, but I hope you'll lead the rest of the players forward after I'm dead. ”

"Saber, you ......"

Hearing the other party's request, Kirito's eyes turned red, and two lines of tears slipped silently on Asuna's pretty face.

"Don't do that, laugh at one, what if I do win?"

Saber's face was still a familiar and confident smile.

"Okay, let's say it, when you win, we'll go back to the real world and settle accounts with you!"

Asuna's smile was uglier than crying.

"Huh~" The blonde female swordsman looked disgusted: "I don't want to eat your and Kirito-kun's dog food." ”

After explaining these things, she turned to look at Heathcliff: "It's okay, please wait for me for so long, please start." ”

Akihiko Kayaba nodded and sent Saber an invitation to the duel.

"Did you accept the player's invitation to a duel from Heatcliff (HP reset mode) yes/no"

The blonde girl solemnly pressed "yes".

The countdown to the start of the duel sounded, and under the obsidian dome, two people, one red and one blue, faced each other.

The bell rang, the countdown went to zero, and the blue figure came to the side of Akihiko Kayaba in red armor in an instant.

Both the two-handed and one-handed swords glowed.

Two-handed Sword, Defense-Breaking Ability Enhancement, "Cracked Silk"

Sacred Sword, Attack and Defense, Sword in the Shield

The former has the ability to reduce the defense of the target for a certain period of time, while the "Sword in the Shield" is a defensive counterattack sword technique that launches an attack while blocking the shield. When activated, it blocks a sword skill that touches the shield once, negating its effect, causing a short pause on the player who activated the skill and increasing the damage of the user's next hit.

The sword technique "Sword in the Shield" used by Akihiko Kayaba can perfectly restrain the skills used by Saber at this time from the basic effect, as long as he is hit by "Sword in the Shield", the moment the opponent pauses, it is enough for him to reduce the opponent's considerable blood volume with the help of the system auxiliary program. But there is a premise that his "Sword in the Shield" must block the opponent's skills.

When the two-handed sword in Saber's hand was about to hit the glowing shield of Akihiko Kayaba, the girl suddenly changed direction flexibly, and the two-handed sword slid in a strange arc in the air and stabbed along the side of the opponent's shield.

"Ding—"

Seeing that the shield block had failed, and the tip of the opponent's two-handed sword was already approaching the vital point of his lower abdomen, at the last moment, Kayaba Akihiko's speed suddenly skyrocketed to an unbelievable point, and the one-handed sword in his right hand was framed from the side of Saber's two-handed sword piercing angle.

The first attack missed, and the female swordsman jumped back two steps neatly to widen the distance.

"Miss Saber, you're really powerful, I didn't expect that the first tentative attack was almost found by you, if it weren't for the system's extreme auxiliary function, I should have been hit."

Kayaba Akihiko was the first to praise.

"You're not bad, especially your judgment and response to sword skills, you are worthy of being a game designer, from seeing me make a starting move to choosing a sword skill response, you probably took less than a second, right?"

The blonde girl took a deep breath, the firmness in her eyes almost revealing her body.

After this temptation, she had already understood that if she wanted to defeat Akihiko Kayaba in a solo battle, it was useless to use the attack sword technique prescribed by the system.

His right leg slammed into the ground, and Saber lunged out again.

Seeing that the opponent launched another onslaught at him, Kayaba Akihiko stared intently, trying to gain the upper hand by anticipating the opponent's sword skills.

However, Kayaba Jinghiko did not see any shadow of any kind of sword skill in the opponent's movements.

Kayaba Akihiko himself is not good at combat, and his combat skills are almost entirely based on familiarity with the sword technique system, but when the opponent does not use sword skills, Crabhiko Kayaba cannot respond.

"Don't you use sword skills to deal with me? Very clever idea, but, without the aid of sword skills, can you really defeat me? ”

Akihiko Kayaba's consideration is not unreasonable, the combat system of Sword Art Online is based on the combat method of sword skills. Normal attacks that don't use sword skills do deal damage, but the damage value is not the same as the damage of sword skills. And more importantly, many sword skills will also cause additional effects, such as bleeding, breaking defense, knocking away, stunning, etc., sword skills can cause a lot of damage in a short period of time, based on the attributes of Akihiko Kayaba's character Hizcliff, it only takes about ten sword attacks, or two sets of skill combinations, to take away all the health of the blonde girl.

On the other hand, Saber needs to attack several times more times than the opponent without using sword skills. In a one-on-one battle, it is almost the same as fighting an opponent with heavy armor without armor, which is extremely difficult.

The battle between the two was extremely fierce, and the sound of gold and iron clashing was endless.

At this moment, Saber has exerted her swordsmanship to the extreme, the two-handed sword in her hand seems to have eyes, no matter what angle the sword comes from, after passing one or several strange arcs, it will always turn to the corner of Kayaba Akihiko's defense. The speed is extremely fast, and the swordsmanship with tricky angles forces Kayaba Jinghiko to only stand left and right, relying on the advantage of his own equipment shield to withstand the opponent's attack, but despite the assistance of the system, his speed still seems to be a little insufficient, Saber's attacks have hit directly before the opponent has time to hit directly, and Kayaba Jinghiko's body, several wounds caused by the opponent are flashing red.

"It's worthy of the president, maybe you can really win if you go on like this!"

Klein whispered excitedly.

Contrary to Klein's optimism, Kirito's face was full of melancholy.

"No, Akihiko Kayaba's HP is dropping too slowly."

"Kirito-kun, is there anything wrong with Akihiko Kayaba's HP dropping rate?"

Asuna asked worriedly. Kirito explained:

"To perform a sword movement as high as Saber's, strength, speed, skill, experience, and a high level of concentration are all required. Skill and experience saber is strong, it's not a problem; In the game world, our characters have been systematically corrected, and the strength is stronger than that of normal people, and there is no need to worry too much about physical strength; However, such a high level of concentration is an unbearable load for the player, and with the current rate of Heathcliff's HP dropping, Saber needs to stay in this state for at least ten minutes without making mistakes, which is an impossible task! ”

Speaking of this, Kirito couldn't help but clench his fists: "I hope Saber can create a miracle with her ability!" ”