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After Darkness was defeated, the remaining players were Kirito, Alice, Rinko, and Smail.

Looking at the only spear user among the top four who had to struggle to enter the top four, he couldn't win three championships in a row, right?

As if thinking of an old man with four sand soldiers, Kobayashi's expression was a little tangled.

But it shouldn't turn out like that. Kirito and Alice are both powerful players, and no matter who they are, they shouldn't lose.

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After Sato Kazuma's brief summary, the semi-finals officially began.

On the huge blue light screen, four names began to scroll. Whether it was Sato Kazuma, Kirito, Alice, or the audience, they all became nervous, even Kobayashi couldn't help but tense up.

And when——

Alice vs. Rinko

appeared in front of everyone, one could feel the boos of the audience that were obviously filled with joy.

Everyone was afraid that Alice would run into Kirito.

Kirito was not well-known before participating in the World No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament. Few players knew about the existence of the black swordsman, and even his reputation was not as good as Asuna, the ghost of the strategy. When he dueled with Asuna in the quarterfinals and defeated Asuna with dazzling sword skills, he immediately conquered many viewers and gained many fans.

Among them, represented by Yuki and Silica, everyone in the Black Cat Knights also cheered for him.

Alice also proved that she was not a vase. Her strength was also very strong. Not only did she defeat Diabel, who was also a member of the strategy group, in the preliminaries, she also fought back and forth with Kureya in the quarterfinals. Her outstanding performance was even more favored by 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 were popular would feel when 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 position for contestants.

She knew she couldn't lose.

And——

Someone was watching her on the high platform behind her!

On the high platform behind the arena, Kobayashi and Heathcliff were watching the duel with interest.

"Vice President Kobayashi, who do you think will win?"

"Although there may be some content in saying this, I think Alice will definitely win."

"Haha, I feel the same way."

Heathcliff chuckled.

He was also optimistic about Alice. Although he was just a scientific researcher and didn't know much about the battles in reality, he was very clear about the battles in the game. Just looking at this point, Alice would definitely defeat Rinko.

"Having said that, it will probably take some effort for Alice to defeat Rinko."

"Why do you think so?"

"Although the 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 to fight in close combat, but-"

"I see, Rinko's two-handed sword skills can open up a large range of distance and force back players who want to get close."

"That's it."

The tasks of the two-handed sword, spear, and heavy axe in SAO are to replace the archers and magicians in ordinary games to interrupt the BOSS mechanism, so they have quite a lot of control skills.

If it were another player, Alice could probably rely on the characteristics of the profession to win easily, but facing Rinko, who also has rich duel skills, it would definitely take some effort to defeat her.

"I want to win!"

As the countdown was over, Rinko took the lead.

She did not raise the two-handed sword high, but ran forward in the form of dragging the ground, which could increase her speed, but at the same time, the number of attacks could also be predicted.

"It's the lower sweep!"

Alice didn't retreat, but went forward.

In her imagination, the best solution should be to retreat as well, or wait for Rinko's lower sweep to be empty, dodge and then counterattack. But Alice knew that masters would never use skills easily. Rinko could just swing the two-handed sword normally and use the skill again after pulling back the distance.

So, she simply took the initiative to go forward and force Rinko to use the lower sweep!

Rinko bit her lip. She didn't expect Alice to take the initiative to attack. She wanted to take the initiative, but now she had to use the sweep to force the opponent back.

She pushed her arms outward with force, and tried to force Alice back with the two-handed sword. However, Alice jumped up with her feet on the ground, and after using the force of the two-handed sword, she turned over in the sky and came to Rinko's back in an instant.

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.

"Awesome."

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 the 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 clever move, obviously using a one-handed sword, can be as clever and swift as a rapier user, or even more clever than a rapier user! If I hadn't forced myself to use the system to successfully use the skill, I would definitely be hit by the flaw and lose a lot of health.

Rinko's heartbeat gradually accelerated.

She had a feeling that she would lose. Should I say it was the intuition of a master? She should only be able to go this far.

If only she had met that spear user.

Rinko could not help but fantasize about this.

But soon, she shook her head and threw away the unnecessary thoughts.

No matter what, her opponent was Alice now. Even if she was going to lose, she had to show her strength. Besides, she might not lose!

"Hah!"

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 played the advantage of the long attack distance of the two-handed sword, and Alice had to retreat temporarily.

Looking at Rinko on the stage like a berserker, Darkness, who was sitting in the contestant's seat, hugged her chest with both hands.

"If I had to withstand such an attack... 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 Darkness's special hobby. Although she would not say anything openly or secretly, such hobbies always had a huge impact on her, a girl who had not yet reached adulthood.

And on the stage.

It seemed that Rinko had the upper hand, constantly forcing Alice's position with her two-handed sword, but careful people could find that Alice was actually adapting to Rinko's attack rhythm and gradually guiding Rinko.

Moreover, the two-minute violent attack did not cause any damage to Alice. No matter what the move was, it was perfectly intercepted.

"Sorry, Miss Rinko."

Alice even had the energy to apologize 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, are that it is very difficult to retract the force. Once the attack is launched, she can only attack continuously like a berserker, and the longer the time, the more difficult it is to retract the force.

Alice also used the one-handed sword's upper-level skills, Roaring Eight Hit and Horizontal Four-way Slash, in an extremely elegant and relaxed manner, to reduce Rinko's health to less than half, successfully winning the duel and advancing to the finals.

"Let's congratulate Alice!"

"Oh oh oh——————" xN

Even though Sato Kazuma's congratulations came, Rinko didn't recover from the defeat.

She must have been hit hard.

For someone who can only play 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 empathized with Rinko, who was kneeling on the stage with her hands on the ground and lost.

At the same time, he secretly made up his mind.

He must win!

Rinko was taken away by Koharu, and her friends signaled to her to continue to comfort her, so Koharu was not in the mood to watch the next game.

The remaining duels no longer needed a big screen.

Kirito vs. Smail

This is the last match of the semifinals, and the last two will decide who will advance to the finals tonight.

Kirito walked slowly onto the arena.

He looked at his opponent in front of him, with an ordinary face, a ramen head, and deep eye bags and dark circles as if he didn't get enough sleep. This is a very rare thing. After SAO scans the player's wool, it will not have dark circles like in reality caused by long-term lack of sleep.

He is thin and tall, with a slightly hunched body. If he straightens his back, he is at least a head taller than Kirito. He carries a white spear on his shoulder, and his expression is very listless, which matches his dark circles.

"Does this guy have the energy?"

"How did he get into the quarterfinals?"

"This guy is too lucky!"

The audience protested and was very dissatisfied with this guy.

Even Kirito had doubts about "Is this guy serious?", and at the same time, he had a slight carelessness that he might be able to break into the role more easily.

However——

When the two of them fought, Kirito understood.

This guy is a master!

The thin, listless man in front of him, like Alice, Kureya and the others, is also a good hand with the spear in real life!

And not only that, this man has also integrated the skills in the game into his own skills!

The spear, which is faster than the rapier, was hit by this man with his agility, constantly stabbing his body, even Kirito was a little difficult to resist, and his health value continued to decline.

And when the spear was used with Shadow Assault-speed attack, and Flow-reducing stiffness skills, Kirito could only use a one-handed sword to protect his vitals and prevent his health value from falling rapidly.

"What, what?"

"This man... is so strong!"

"Playing dumb to eat the tiger?"

Because the contrast is too great, many people have such thoughts. Seeing Kirito, who can obviously defeat Asuna on the stage, being suppressed by others now, this feeling is really hard to describe.

Diabel muttered 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 is a long-range attack. Its main task in the strategy battle is to interrupt the stiffness of the BOSS. The difference is that the two-handed sword relies on power, the heavy axe relies on power and distance, and the spear should also rely on power, but now the attack of the Smailu player is very weak."

"That can only prove that the main points of the Smailu player are agility."

"No, the spear is different from the rapier. SAO has high requirements for strength and agility. If the strength is not up to standard, the spear cannot be equipped. Therefore, if the spear is used, the attack power should not be weak anyway."

"Huh?"

Sato Kazuma also found the problem.

Because SAO attaches great importance to weapons, the dagger, short knife, rapier, one-handed sword, spear, two-handed sword, heavy long axe, sickle, etc.... These weapons have different requirements for the strength, dexterity and agility of the user. In addition, the attack power of the dagger can never be the same as that of the two-handed sword. In that case, everyone chooses to use the fast and convenient dagger.

"So, Smailu deliberately used a weapon with low attack power?"

"That's probably right."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

If Smailu's level is low, it would be fine if he couldn't get good equipment, but his level is level 72, which is only two levels lower than Kirito. With such a high level, his equipment shouldn't be so bad, and his armor is obviously top-level equipment, but his weapon is so bad...

Diabel couldn't understand the reason either.

As the duel became more and more intense, Kirito also found that Smailu's attack did not cause much damage. He had to concentrate in the battle so he couldn't think about the reason, but he understood that since this was the case, he might as well exchange blood with the opponent!

As long as the opponent's health value dropped below half first, he would definitely be the one who won the final victory!

So Kirito simply gave up defense and took the initiative to use skills to attack Smailu.

On one side was Kirito, who had strong attack power and ordinary attack speed but counterattacked late, and on the other side was Smailu, who had fast attack speed and ordinary attack power but attacked first. The health values ​​of the two continued to decline 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 as if nothing could shake him.

Kirito also gritted his teeth and persisted.

He knew that if he continued like this, the opponent would be the first to drop below half of his health, because his attack was very high.

The health was reduced little by little, little by little...

Suddenly -

Just when Kirito's health was reduced to an extremely dangerous level, Smailu's eyes suddenly emitted a terrifying light. He leaned back as if he had planned for a long time, and at the same time, his right hand suddenly pulled down to open the system menu.

All the actions seemed to have been rehearsed thousands of times, and in just a moment, the spear in his hand was replaced by another one.

The spear shaft was pure black, and there seemed to be a strange pattern groove engraved on it, which was connected to the spear head, and the spear head was a blood-red spiral. Anyone who saw it at a glance knew that this was a bloodletting killer!

At this time, Smailu's spear head flashed scarlet blood, which was a sign of skill activation.

- Vent!

Catharsis is a high-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 high-quality equipment.

"What?!"

Kirito's expression changed.

He seemed to have noticed something wrong.

This duel method of deliberately reducing the health value to less than half, and then forcibly reducing the health value to zero with a powerful skill, this is————

However, when he reacted, Smail's spear had suddenly pierced Kirito's chest!

Seeing this, Asuna stood up suddenly.

"——Who is on the field!"