Infinite Trial from the Giant

Xia Tian was the first to move. He did not use his sword skills directly, but rushed towards Heathcliff.

Facing Xia Tian's attack, Heathcliff still had a calm expression on his face. From his point of view, he was aware of all the sword skills that Xia Tian mastered. If no special circumstances arose, Xia Tian's chance of defeating him was zero.

Come on, let me see which one you use.

Heathcliff tightened the cross shield in his hand and stood there waiting for Xia Tian to rush to him.

However, to Heathcliff's surprise, Xia Tian did not use any sword skills. Instead, he closed the distance, raised his arm, and made a simple vertical slash at Heathcliff.

what?

His pupils shrank, and Heathcliff instinctively raised his shield and easily blocked Xia Tian's attack.

Before he could think about why Xia Tian didn't use sword skills but used this simple ordinary attack, Xia Tian who was attacking head-on suddenly twisted his waist and turned sideways like lightning, raised his leg and kicked the cross shield in front of him hard.

Of course, this kind of personal action attack performed by Xia Tian himself could not cause any damage at all, but at the moment of kicking out, the Lord's Blade that Xia Tian originally held in his right hand had been transferred to his left hand on the outside.

The action is completed, and the sword skill is activated!

Phantom moon!

As a ray of light lit up on the Lord's Blade, a semi-arc slash hit Heathcliff's cross shield hard.

Since his expectations were disrupted by Xia Tian's ordinary vertical slash at the beginning, Heathcliff did not use his blocking skills, but just raised his shield instinctively, relying on the shield's inherent defensive properties to block Xia Tian's attack.

But because of this, he directly endured Xia Tian's subsequent kicks and Huan Yue without using any skills.

Vertical slashes and kicks are ordinary attacks, not skills, and can be perfectly blocked by the shield in Heathcliff's hand alone. However, this is not the case with Huanyue. These are fully learned sword skills that Xia Tian has mastered after countless battles.

Only sword skills can counter sword skills.

With a loud bang, Heathcliff was knocked flying by Xia Tian's move, and his health bar was rapidly reduced. If he had not been hit on the shield, allowing the shield's own damage reduction mechanism to take effect, Heathcliff would have lost more blood than this.

Heathcliff, who had just managed to stand, was completely shocked at the moment, but Xia Tian would not give him any time to adjust. He activated the Tsujikaze and chased after him like a hurricane.

It's Tsujikaze!

Heathcliff immediately recognized the sword skills used by Xia Tian, ​​and he knew how to deal with it, but the key point was that the stiffness caused by the attack on him had not completely disappeared, so he had no way to deal with it.

There is no other way! System speed up!

Heathcliff gritted his teeth and was forced to use his administrator function in the short second round of his fight with Xia Tian.

For a moment, the flow of time in the entire Sword Art Online seemed to have completely slowed down. Only Heathcliff himself adjusted his posture at an incredible speed, and then launched the unique blocking and parrying sword skills of his sacred sword.

A clear sound resounded throughout the field, and the collision of sword skills caused Xia Tian's forward momentum to suddenly slow down. Just as Heathcliff was preparing to deal with Xia Tian's subsequent attacks, he did not expect that Xia Tian used the reaction force of the collision of sword skills to directly pull back some distance.

The attack didn't work, which means he just used the system to speed up. The situation was good, but he was forced to use it so quickly. I thought he would wait until his health bar dropped to a worse level before using it.

Xia Tian looked at Heathcliff who had already struck a pose opposite him, and he had already figured out what had just happened.

The simulated battle in Mini Aincrad benefited Xia Tian a lot. After all, the opponent was familiar with all of his skills. No matter from which direction or angle Xia Tian launched his sword skills, the opponent could perfectly block and counterattack. After suffering several losses, Xia Tian finally found the right way to deal with Heathcliff.

That is to mix sword skills into ordinary attacks that Heathcliff cannot predict at all.

Heathcliff was indeed very familiar with sword skills and could handle them perfectly, but there was also a process for him to handle sword skills. First, he had to identify the sword skills used by Xia Tian, ​​and secondly, he had to judge what sword skills he should use to deal with it. And in this process, there was only one thing that was most needed.

reaction.

No matter how familiar you are with it, it will be useless if you can't react in time.

Xia Tian wanted to do everything he could to shorten Heathcliff's reaction time to a minimum, making it impossible for him to react at all and forcing him to use the administrator's ability to accelerate.

The reason why they had to force the opponent to use acceleration as soon as possible was because in the simulated battle of Mini Aincrad, Heathcliff would not use administrator privileges. All Xia Tian could get from it was the ability to crack the opponent's moves. As for how to deal with this powerful cheating method of administrator privileges, he could only try it in this actual battle.

Fortunately, Heathcliff in Mini Aincrad had much faster reaction speed than the real one in front of him, and was able to force the opponent to cheat from the beginning, which was a really good result for Xia Tian.

"You just moved very quickly."

Hearing Xia Tian suddenly say this, Heathcliff's expression darkened slightly.

The pressure that Xia Tian had just displayed was indeed somewhat astonishing, and it directly led to his subconscious use of the acceleration ability.

His health is still very healthy, not to mention his immortality attribute. I was really pushed into a corner by him. I have to admit that this guy is much stronger than I expected.

However, it's not enough.

Thinking of this, the expression on Heathcliff's face became calm again.

"Same here, same here. The attack you just performed was really good and really opened my eyes. I never thought there would be such an attack method. In addition to your talent, you must have also gone through a lot of practice."

Heathcliff was right. After all, there were prerequisites for launching sword skills. No matter how skilled one was in launching sword skills, it was definitely not something that could be done casually to perfectly connect them with ordinary swings.

Just based on Xia Tian's smooth and flowing fast break just now, it was enough to make people breathtaking.

"What was that just now? Is it possible to make such an attack?"

"is that a lie……"

"No wonder he was able to conquer the tenth and eleventh floors alone. This strength is truly..."

The players who gathered in the central square of the main street area on the twelfth floor to watch the battle were already stunned at this moment. Most people originally thought that Xia Tian could complete the game alone because he must have monopolized the game resources that they were not aware of and selfishly strengthened himself. Now it seems that Xia Tian's strength has far exceeded their imagination.