Infinite Trial from the Giant

Behind the door was a large rectangular room extending inward. As the players stepped in, a ripple-shaped glow appeared on the floor of the room. Starting from under the players' feet, the glow quickly spread out to the surroundings. At the same time, torches placed on the walls on both sides of the room were lit one after another, and the bright light enveloped the room in a short time.

Right at the front end of the room, there is a huge throne, on which the first-floor boss known as the Kobold Lord is sitting.

After noticing the players, the two-meter-tall kobold lord suddenly picked up the axe and round shield beside him, stood up and jumped, and fell in front of the players.

Its eyes, glowing red, swept over the players, and then a deafening roar erupted from its mouth.

"Roar ah ah ah!"

As it roared, three Kobold guards appeared in front of it.

"let's go!"

After all, the plan had been made in advance, so there was no need for Diabel to say more. Team F and Team G, as well as Liz and Kirito, who were supporting, had already taken the initiative to confront the three kobold guards. At the same time, Loki's team also ran head-on into the kobold lord. Facing the kobold lord's battle axe that was chopped down straight at them, the captain of Team D swung his two-handed sword to collide with it and block the attack.

Without much need for instructions, the team responsible for output took advantage of the moment when the Gnoll Lord was stiff and immediately stepped forward to use their sword skills. They then quickly retreated and switched to the tank team responsible for defense to deal with the BOSS's attack. After successfully blocking it, the output team stepped forward and switched again.

Seeing the Kobold Lord's three consecutive attacks being blocked by three players and becoming stiff, Xia Tian, ​​who had been ready for a long time, rushed to the side of the Kobold Lord the moment his sword skill took effect. His armor blade flashing with the sword skill special effect accurately hit the Kobold Lord. The rest of Team C, including Asuna, also rushed up from the side at the first moment, each of them poured their sword skills on the Kobold Lord, and then quickly withdrew.

It's amazing.

As Asuna retreated from the side of the Kobold Lord, her gaze involuntarily lingered on Xia Tian.

Although Asuna knew that it was Xia Tian and Loki who rescued her unconscious from the maze area, she knew that the two were definitely strong, but after seeing Xia Tian's fighting style, Asuna realized that her original judgment was seriously biased.

In addition to the amazing speed, Xia Tian's attack methods also opened Asuna's eyes again. He also used sword skills as the starting point and advance. When the sword skills ended, Xia Tian took advantage of the momentum to slash again. He used the ordinary flat slash method that was not a sword skill. While canceling the corresponding stiffness after the end of the sword skill, the ordinary flat slash that hit the ogre lord completed the starting action of the second sword skill with incredible smoothness, and then another sword skill was swung out.

If Asuna hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have thought that there was such a way of attack.

Long before entering this trial world, Xia Tian had already thought about the connection between sword skills and normal attacks. Although Sword Art Online is essentially a game, under the sculpting of Kayaba Akihiko, it has basically approached the real world infinitely. Players will cause damage by swinging weapons in battle, and sword skills are actually guided by the system code, and the way of swinging weapons with high damage values ​​is added.

Since both are wielding weapons, it is not impossible to complete the connection between sword skills and normal attacks.

Xia Tian had tried it before when he was practicing with the Manic Boar, but due to his lack of proficiency in swordsmanship and the digitized attributes and weapon performance of the weapon itself, he did not get satisfactory results.

But now it is different. After deliberate study and practice, Xia Tian's mastery of sword skills has reached perfection. With the armor blade that has been deliberately enhanced in speed, Xia Tian has fulfilled his vision.

Apart from Asuna, Xia Tian's actions were also seen by other people. Loki was not particularly surprised, as he had been with Xia Tian day and night and had a rough idea of ​​Xia Tian's strength. At this moment, he felt that the decision he had made was indeed the right one. N, who had fought together before, was shocked to see that Xia Tian's strength had increased further than before. Considering the fact that Xia Tian was not a closed beta player, he was also very impressed. As for Liz on the periphery, since there had been a corresponding agreement before, after the battle began, Liz always kept a trace of attention on Xia Tian in order to observe the opponent's strength. But after seeing the strength displayed by Xia Tian, ​​she was ecstatic but had other thoughts in mind.

Judging from this guy's movements, his strength is probably just as good as Kirito's. If that's the case, maybe we can put more effort into him.

Liz's goal is to survive, and she is also very clear that this Sword Art Online is just a trial world. At this moment, she has put a lot of thought into Kirito, with the aim of successfully completing the main goal and ending this trial world. However, Kirito is only a tool in this world after all, and she has to find other guarantees in the next world. This time, she is lucky enough to meet Kirito directly, but what about next time?

However, the situation would be different if you had a companion who was also a fighter.

If I could make Xia Tian intoxicated with me, and then meet him again in the next trial world, wouldn't that be an extra layer of insurance?

Glancing at Kirito who was rushing towards the Kobold Guards, Liz let out a faint smile.

Liz is full of confidence in her body.

Not to mention Liz who had no idea about the situation in the arena, the battle with the Kobold Lord was still going on. Perhaps it was because of Xia Tian's amazing attack method, or perhaps it was because of the steady combat mode always maintained under Diabel's command, the players' fighting enthusiasm became higher and higher, and the cooperation between them became smoother and smoother.

Maybe it will work.

Maybe we can really win.

Once again retreating from the attacking position and looking at the health bar of the Kobold Lord which was soon to be reduced to one bar, even those players, including Asuna, who originally had no hope, now felt a desire and expectation for victory.

After the next two rounds of attacks, the health of the Kobold Lord dropped to the last line in everyone's sight. The reduction in blood also triggered the Kobold Lord's combat mechanism. It suddenly dropped the axe and round shield in its hands, and then reached out and grabbed the huge handle on its lower back.