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The 5th Star Explosive Air Slash

Time passed by little by little, and the sun in the game gradually set.

The sunset slowly sank below the horizon, and the afterglow filled the sky, dyeing the sky a warm orange. The sun's rays gradually became soft, making people feel lazy and indolent.

However, today's sunset did not dampen the enthusiasm of the players. As time went on, the scene became heatedly discussed.

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"Hey, who do you think will be the winner?"

"I guess it's Her Highness Alice! Because I bet all my wealth on her!"

"What a coincidence, me too!"

The audience all believed that Alice would win.

But I always felt that they did not support Alice based on professional analysis, but simply because they thought Alice was cute.

In fact, it was not just them, other players with ideas were also a little confused.

Both of them are one-handed sword players, with top levels and equipment. It seems that the only way to decide the winner is by their own skills. However, they have already defeated so many powerful enemies and entered the finals. How could their dueling skills be bad?

Diabel, Klein, Asuna and others don’t know who will win in the end, but this duel will definitely be recorded in the history of Aincrad!

On the viewing platform

Heathcliff also noticed the audience's thoughts and turned to say, "Vice President Kobayashi, who do you think will be the final winner?"

"Alice." Kobayashi answered without any hesitation, "I know her strength very well, and she is my sister, there is no reason for me not to vote for her."

"Oh, really."

Heathcliff seemed to have seen through everything and said, "I think Mr. Kirito will win."

"President Heathcliff, you didn't say that on purpose, did you?" Kobayashi turned his head and looked at him, "To create suspense, or to take this opportunity to bet with me and seek some benefits?"

"No, I don't mean that, and I'm not deliberately creating suspense, but I really think Mr. Kirito will win."

Heathcliff shook his head.

Kobayashi could feel his seriousness, as if he had seen through everything and thought that the winner of this world's No. 1 martial arts competition was Kirito from the beginning.

"President Heathcliff likes Kirito very much?"

"That's right."

"Then after this duel, why not have a match with the winner of the finals, just as an additional entertainment match?"

"Vice President Kobayashi's suggestion is very good, if there is a chance."

Perhaps Kobayashi's suggestion woke Heathcliff up, and a glimmer flashed in his eyes.

Kobayashi thought he was the type who didn't like fighting with others. After all, he always stood in front of everyone in a defensive posture during the BOSS strategy battle, but now it seems that it is not the case.

Soon, the time came to six o'clock in the evening.

Sato Kazuma walked onto the competition stage.

"Okay, audience friends! I believe you have been waiting anxiously, but it doesn't matter, our finals are coming soon! There is no need to say more to heat up the atmosphere. Now the time has come, let's invite the two contestants to duel tonight!"

"Kirito——————"

The black-clad swordsman slowly walked out from the left side of the arena. Although he looked very mysterious in all black, his handsome appearance and the dazzling sword skills that made people admire him before made many people become his loyal fans.

Unfortunately, his opponent is more famous.

"And, Alice——————"

The idol princess walked out from the right side of the arena. A smile of being loved appeared on her cute face. Whenever she waved to the audience on the stage, she would receive enthusiastic cheers. Compared with Kirito, who was only a little famous, Alice was obviously more popular.

"Both sides, please stand on the competition stage."

Sato Kazuma motioned for the two to come up and handed over the microphone.

"Do you two have anything to say?"

The finals had an extra pre-match declaration compared to the quarterfinals and semifinals. One could say trash talk like [I will prove who is the world's best jungler... no, the strongest swordsman in Aincrad], but both of them seemed very friendly.

"Well... I hope you can show your true strength."

"What a boring speech. So, what about you, Alice?"

"I hope we can have a friendly match."

"As expected of Alice! You perfectly expressed the meaning of friendship first and competition second!"

Sato Kazuma howled loudly.

Not only Kirito, but even the audience in the audience couldn't stand it.

This scumbag is really hypocritical.

"Okay, let's end the boring pre-match declaration here. Let's quickly enter the exciting, thrilling, back-and-forth fight... No, let's duel!"

"Hey, Kazuma, you just said let's fight."

"Don't worry about that little thing! Player Kirito, please initiate a duel request."

Kirito felt that Kazuma's treatment was too serious after being dismissed with an excuse that was not even perfunctory, but he still honestly sent Alice a half-loss win-lose mode invitation.

Alice also accepted it obediently.

A huge blue light curtain appeared in front of the two people, and a ten-meter-long circular venue covered the entire arena.

Sato Kazuma left quickly, leaving the stage to the remaining two people.

10, 9, 8...

During the countdown, Kirito gradually tensed up his mind. Although that little incident happened in the semi-finals, there was no time to think about other things. The most important thing now was to win the game.

But the girl in front of him was really strong, without any flaws at all.

From Kirito's perspective, Alice held the long sword tightly with both hands, and her body was straight. This was the battle posture of the Kingdom Knights, which made Kirito feel helpless.

This girl must be very strong in reality!

7, 6, 5...

But I won't lose!

Although it is not very obvious, Kirito has his own dignity, which can also be said to be the self-esteem and pride of the player. In the game, no matter who the opponent is, he will never admit defeat.

This is almost every player, such as why he can win, it is obviously I am stronger... Especially the top players, they will never admit defeat to anyone.

In reality, it is the so-called "there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts".

3, 2, 1...

Start!

When the countdown ended, Kirito rushed forward with a one-handed sword.

Maybe in anime or comics, the person who attacks first looks weaker, like in a certain food show, the student who serves the dish first must be eliminated, but this is not the case. The first attack can seize the initiative and let the opponent follow your rhythm.

This is true whether it is a game or reality.

He sincerely thanked that he had studied kendo for two and a half years, so he could understand it this way.

Kirito's level is very high, so the value is also very exaggerated. Although the distance between the two is about five meters, he rushed to Alice in just one step, and the one-handed sword was shining with a strong blue light.

This is the angry stab, the basic charge skill of the one-handed sword.

But Kirito was very smart not to use the move completely. With a proficiency of 700 for the one-handed sword, he forcibly interrupted the charge skill, and then changed his posture to a two-hit combo of horizontal arc slash, using the system to forcibly determine success.

Alice obviously didn't expect Kirito to do this, and she raised her one-handed sword in a panic, barely blocking this move.

It's true!

Games are different from reality. Many actions in reality cannot be performed at all. For example, if you forcefully change your posture just now, if you do this in reality, you will definitely break your ankle first and fall to the ground and can't get up again, let alone attack. But it happened to be successful in the game.

Alice is very strong in reality, but she doesn't know much about the judgment mechanism of the game, so she was flustered by her sudden change of moves.

This is his advantage!

Kirito clenched his fists.

Alice also knew this way of attack, but she couldn't change it at all so she couldn't use it. Of course, there was also the reason why Kobayashi didn't let her change it.

Games are games, and reality is reality.

There is no need to throw away watermelons to pick up sesame seeds.

However, it doesn't mean that there is no solution. Since you don't know how to use it, just block it all!

Alice did the same.

She used her one-handed sword to block all of Kirito's attacks. After all, their levels, equipment, attributes, and even professions were almost the same. In addition, Alice was more accustomed to fighting than Kirito, so after being flustered at the beginning, she quickly got used to Kirito's attack method and fought back.

Kirito kept waving his one-handed sword, but he couldn't break through Alice's defense.

He only felt this powerless when he blindly challenged the floor boss alone during the SAO internal test, and as time went on, the pressure came to Kirito.

No, if this goes on, we will lose!

Kirito gritted his teeth secretly.

Although the skills are the same, Alice's control and proficiency in releasing skills are obviously one level higher than his. This should be the reason why Alice is more accustomed to fighting in reality.

The battle between the two gradually became white-hot.

The audience was cheering for Alice, thinking that she must be the winner in the end. Only a few people such as Asuna, Xing, and Silica cheered for Kirito.

Is he going to give up here?

There is nothing wrong with giving up. He can get a top-level weapon anyway, which is a big win for him. And the winner is Alice, not as bad as he imagined.

... Although he said that, Kirito was still unwilling to accept it.

"Kirito, come on! Don't lose!"

Suddenly, Asuna cheered him up in the audience. After seeing this, Kirito seemed to have made up his mind.

He switched the white sword in his hand to his left hand, and then put his right index finger and middle finger together to swipe the menu bar downwards. A long sword appeared behind him, and then he slowly pulled out the long sword.

"What?!"

"Hey... what's going on?"

"Why can this person use two weapons? Is there a bug in the system?"

Kirito suddenly held two one-handed swords, which made the audience on the stage dumbfounded, and they all wondered if there was a bug in the system.

Kobayashi was slightly surprised. He didn't expect him to use the two-sword style.

Thanks to the intervention of Kobayashi and others, Diabel did not die on the first floor, the gap between closed beta players and ordinary players was not that big, and Xing did not die in the middle of the game due to Kirito's negligence. Therefore, Kirito, who was not targeted, excluded, or injured, did not choose to hide his incompetence, but took out his second sword in such a situation where everyone was paying attention.

The Aincrad strategy floor was already halfway through, and Kobayashi thought that the skill of dual swords would no longer appear, but it still appeared on Kirito.

Then, the reason why Kobayashi and others didn't get it was found.

It must be that Kayaba Akihiko thought they were problematic accounts, so they ignored it on purpose, or they didn't have any code or other things that could represent their identities in the system, otherwise it would be hard to explain why Alice, Kobayashi and others, who were more flexible and faster than Kirito, didn't get the dual-sword skill.

No wonder Heathcliff was sure that Kirito would win before the duel. He must have known that Kirito had the dual-sword skill.

... No, in the original work, Kirito got the dual-sword skill when he was on the 50th floor, so did he know it a month ago?

And when the dual-sword appeared, the outcome of the duel was determined.

The game is different from reality.

In reality, if you are hit by a sword, no matter how strong you are, you will be affected, but in the game, the value determines everything. Even if you are besieged by dozens of people, as long as the recovery speed is higher than the damage caused, you will not be affected at all.

Moreover, the two weapons of the dual-sword not only increase the attack power of Kirito's top weapons, but also have other benefits.

For example, after using a skill in battle, his other weapon can block without being affected by the system, which means that he can completely switch himself, and there is no stiffness.

For another example, he will have a new skill bar, and the upper-level skills of the two-handed sword will also be open to him. The most famous of them is also the strongest skill that Kirito can use at this stage.

——Starburst Air Stream Slash!

Kirito held two swords and faced Alice from a distance in a strange posture that had never been seen before. He seemed to be waiting for Alice to prepare for defense. Alice also changed her posture and placed the long sword horizontally in front of her chest in a half-bow step. This is the sword skill she uses in reality.

Let me make it clear again.

The difference between advanced players and top players is whether they have their own unique sword skills. As Alice, a leader among top players, of course, also has her own sword skills.

As the momentum of the two continued to rise, the audience who were just whispering couldn't help but hold their breath and concentrate, and their attention was attracted by the next battle.

Then, at a certain opportunity——

"Haaaaa————"

Kirito roared and rushed towards Alice with two swords in hand, slashing horizontally, advancing horizontally, spinning, parallel slashing with two swords, cross-cutting downwards, cross-cutting upwards, advancing downwards, and alternating slashing left and right.

The violent sword moves slashed like the sea, causing Alice's thin body to retreat step by step.

She wanted to block all the attacks, but it was not that the skills could not be blocked, but that the skills had a unique stiffness of the system. If it was in reality, Alice could knock Kirito away with her own strength, but in the game she could not resist it at all. Even the eight-hit combo she created could only block a few of them.

Alice's health value kept falling. Knowing that she would definitely lose if she continued like this, the idol princess was forced to use the horizontal four-way slash to temporarily distance herself, but Kirito saw through it and ended with a stab, successfully reducing Alice's health value to less than half.

You Win!

A blue screen of light appeared above Kirito's head.

The scene was silent.

Then ---

Pa, pa, pa, pa

I don't know who started clapping first, but soon the other audience members came to their senses and gave the most sincere praise to the two people on the stage.

The final winner of the first world martial arts tournament is ---

Kirito!