Skilled Pikemen Don't Leash

No one wants to die, but they are powerless to stop it, so people can only fabricate such myths, so that they can die with hope in the imagination of the illusory "after-death world".It is the end of life, and dying, for most people, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

There are probably only two kinds of people who can experience death more than once, but return to the world of the living in the end.One is the sick and wounded who were rescued by fate after being critically ill; the other is the terrifying warrior who survived by his will after dying——in almost every country’s historical legends, there are battles that are close to death. It is a record that the brave warriors fought bravely and finally stood upright on the battlefield to the death.Although modern science can clearly explain this phenomenon of "standing and dying", for those people who follow the heroic deeds, they are more willing to believe that it is the unyielding will of the warriors that drives them to detach themselves at the end of their lives. To die, to kill enemies in the world as the dead.

Such a legend, in the "Fate" series, which can realize "famousness" and "deeds" as power, has evolved a quite famous skill called "Battle Continue".And the unknown power who created the seven "systems" also endowed each system with different characteristics when making "systems" with reference to the "Fate" system.Among them, the rank of "Spearman" obtained by Yi Guang, and the characteristic obtained are this "continuation of battle".Although judging from the panel, it only increased his "stamina" and "physical strength", but in fact it was not the case.

Just like those legendary heroes who died standing up, they were able to do this not because they were physically stronger than ordinary people, but because they were unwilling to fall down after fighting to the death.Therefore, the real meaning of the "continuation of the battle" given by the system is that as long as Yi Guang does not give up the fight in his heart and still believes that he can stand up, then he will not die and will not lose the ability to fight. The ability of "continue to fight" will speed up the recovery of his body consumption during the battle according to the strength of his fighting spirit.

It just so happened that although Yi Guang was somewhat indecisive in certain areas, he had unusual persistence in certain areas.Just like what Tan Lidou once told him, in some respects he also has some kind of distorted obsession.

Just like now...

"I said, I won't let you pass."

While attacking Tan Lidou, Yi Guang's voice followed.Then, Tan Lidou, who kept falling, saw that this man whose whole body had become shattered, his whole body was burning with raging flames.These golden flames spread out from the injured parts of his body like flowing water, and condensed into some kind of entity in the incomplete parts of his body.Those condensed flames formed all kinds of weird and distorted limbs and organs. Although they looked strange and crude, they did approximate the functions that should exist in that part.

Although, because of their existence, the handsome man in front of him has become like a monster at this moment.The broken body, the burning flame, the strange flame entity... Tan Lidou even had an illusion for a certain moment.

There seemed to be some kind of monster hidden in this man's body, and the body he saw was just a shell hiding that monster.Now, that terrifying monster is about to break free from this burning broken body!

"Compared to me, you are even less human..." Seeing Yi Guang's appearance, Tan Lidou suddenly smiled, "I really don't understand, Lancer, you can't even do it yourself. They are human beings. Why do you still stick to human morality and follow human laws?"

"Since the body is no longer human, why don't you make yourself look more human?" Yi Guang said while sprinting, using his strange limbs made of flames to brandish a spear and chase Tan Lidou again. My heart began to transform into a different kind, so I... am I still in the end? If so, what do I belong to? If not, then who am I?"

Saying that, Yi Guang rushed straight down, turned into a beam of light and went towards Tan Lidou, as if trying to pierce him completely.

"It's a good idea, but it's too pedantic!" Tan Lidou didn't know why, but there was a hint of joy in his tone, "Keep the heart of human beings, why should we follow their rules? The meaning of the rules is for weak creatures to be able to Let's work together to survive in this world, so we need to use this to organize the entire group and work together to fight against the dangers from the world... just like those players who are trapped in this world by me."

While talking, Tan Lidou ejected from the "God Limit Player"'s mecha again, and the two ejected and separated in the air, successfully avoiding Yi Guang's attack.Then "God Limit Player" spontaneously and automatically wrapped Tan Lidou in it again, and both of them were safe and sound.

It has to be said that this combined state is quite troublesome. In the previous battles, Yi Guang also suffered several losses.One person and one mecha cooperate with each other, and the mobility is too powerful, so Yi Guang's attacks often fail.

"I have the same opinion as you. As long as you keep your human heart, it doesn't matter even if you transform into a life form like Bugster." Tan Lidou continued, "Through the technology of Bugster, remove all the impurities in the human body." Bad data can cure all possible diseases of human beings, so as to accomplish things that are impossible for modern medicine. However..."

"Not everyone can accept a different kind of body like us, but can maintain a human heart..." Yi Guang looked at this man who claimed to be a "god", "Not everyone can accept all this, the essence of human beings After all, it is contradictory. They hope for 'change', but are afraid of 'change'. They are curious about 'others', but they always think that 'other races must have different hearts'. Because of fragility, but also because of fear Death is so sensitive and suspicious. Rushing to set off such a huge and unethical change will inevitably lead to the backlash and suspicion of the entire human being."

"Morality" determines the upper limit of human behavior, and "law" defines the lower limit of human behavior, but in the final analysis, both of them are only when human beings live on this planet with their total number of 70 billion.In order to be able to create a basic order, in order to be able to maintain this determined order, some "consensus" has been reached.These "consensus" represent the commonality of human beings, a sensitive and suspicious intelligent race, in a certain era, the commonality of their views and the stability of their perception states.It is precisely because of the existence of these two that human beings can maintain basic social stability and order and harmony when they cannot fully understand each other's individual thoughts.

Because most people agree with the ideas and values ​​conveyed by these "consensus", and are willing to consciously maintain it.

The appearance of Tan Lidou was to forcibly impact this "consensus" in an extremely domineering and swift way when this "consensus" was still stable.It was like a meteor crashing into the city's coastline, instantly setting off a huge wave. Under this huge wave, countless deaths and injuries were caused, and the remaining living people were panicked.In this way, even if the shooting star is composed entirely of gold and diamonds, it will definitely not bring happiness.

"Yes, this era still hasn't caught up with me... eh?"

Tan Lidou nodded, responding to Yi Guang's words, but he groaned again - as time went by, Yui's stripping of authority in his body became more and more serious, and he became more and more suppressed I can't stand that feeling of relief.So, he once again drove the "God Limit Player" and rushed towards Yi Guang.

"Perhaps you are right, Spearman... But since this is the last battle, and since those players have lost their fighting spirit, why not you and your companions, as representatives of those fools Let's play this game! Remember, what you are facing now is not 'Icarus Technology's President Dan Lidou', but the hundredth floor BOSS 'Genm' of "Sword Art Online"!"

"Is that so?" Yi Guang rallied again, "Then, let's take the move!"

"Ahhh..." Tan Lidou yelled loudly, and also attacked Yi Guang.

……

"I won……"

The blood-red double knives pierced the body of the dark red dragon knight, and the black warrior issued a low-pitched declaration of victory.And behind him, the beautiful woman who had been supporting him was greatly relieved, and her body almost sat down on the ground.Only the little girl with black hair is still in the floating console, manipulating the data in front of her without distraction.

As the enemy he killed, the dark red dragon knight looked very calm and peaceful.There was no unwillingness, no anger, and no lamentation.

"Ah, it's finally coming to an end..."

This man who was once called a genius, Akihiko Kayaba, at the end of his life, only left such a plain sentence.As the voice of these words fell, his body also began to turn into light, gradually scattered into pieces, and finally there were only dots left, which disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Just like everyone else who died in this world, no different.

Chapter 468 The True Purpose of Tan Lidou

"Finally, it's about to end..."

With the death of Kayaba Akihiko, Kirito and everyone on the system side breathed a sigh of relief. Without the hindrance of this powerful enemy, Yui's process of cracking Tan Rito's authority and stripping it was greatly accelerated.However, at this moment, some uneasy thoughts arose in the system's mind.

Everything went too smoothly.

Yes, whether it's blocking Tan Lidou's own attack, or the stripping of Tan Lidou's authority.All of this went too smoothly... so smooth that the system felt a little abnormal. Although the system also felt that she was thinking too much, but thinking about it carefully, she felt that this was indeed abnormal.

Although Yui has a natural adaptability to this world, Dan Lidou is the creator of this world, and at least has more than half of the world management authority.In other words, his authority alone is enough to overwhelm all other authority managers including Akihiko Kayaba.What's more, Kayaba Akihiko, who is the second administrator, is still on his side.

Under such circumstances, it should be difficult for Yui to strip her authority.At least, it is impossible to complete it in such a short period of time, and the system has even drawn up an emergency plan in advance after the failure of the stripping.However, when it came time to actually implement it, it went much smoother than originally expected.

With Tan Lidou's scheming, would he make such a low-level mistake?

Perhaps, after all, a wise man is bound to make mistakes after all considerations, and he may have been a little too cautious in his predictions in advance.But in any case, no matter what the situation is, it is necessary to maintain the necessary alert and emergency measures.When facing an enemy like Tan Lidou, no matter how high a degree of vigilance you take, it's because you have no idea what kind of ideas such a guy will come up with in his mind.

Thinking about what others dare not think about, this is the most terrifying thing about Tan Lidou.

He is a true madman, and his obsession with himself is extremely strong.You can never imagine what his next plan is, because only he knows, and once he has made a decision, he will quickly accomplish his goal in a fast, accurate and ruthless manner.Therefore, the system absolutely dare not say "existence is reasonable" and relax its vigilance against the staged victory that is too easy to obtain in front of it.

Because, Tan Lidou, who was completely inconsistent with the system's cognition, could not give up "Sword Art Online" so easily.

Then, the system looked at Tan Lidou, who was fighting fiercely with Yi Guang in that space.He is still trying to correct the distorted space created by the system, but Yi Guang keeps suppressing him with the aura of a mad dog. It has to be said that "God Limit Player" is indeed Tan Lidou's most powerful work , in the original book, he can even manipulate the moon as his own weapon to attack the enemy—although it is a divine domain ability similar to "realization of fantasy", its power is still amazing.

Yi Guang was defeated by him countless times, but stood up countless times—this man who was selected by the "Spearman" system did have some kind of distortion in his heart.But this is not important, the hosts of the seven major systems basically do not have a normal person in the true sense, so they can be selected among hundreds of millions of people and become the seven seeds.

However, it is precisely because of Yiguang's continuous suicidal attacks and delays that Yui can decipher and tamper with Tan Lidou's authority without distraction.As a system, she can only pray for her host, and at the same time share part of her computing power with Yui. Only by stripping Tan Rito of her authority can Yiguang have the possibility of defeating that guy.After all, under the overall blessing of this world, Tan Lidou in the "God Extreme Player" mode is about to reach the peak of the concept of "half god".Although Yi Guang's comprehension of his own power has also improved by leaps and bounds in the past two years by taking advantage of the particularity of this world itself, but compared to Tan Lidou who is about to break through the limit of a demigod, there is still a considerable gap.

"Yui, hold on..." the system looked at Yui, who was performing code calculations with her, and said with a sigh, "Just hold on a little longer, and I will help you."

"I, I see, sister Musashi."

Xiao Jieyi nodded sensibly, and the system gently touched her head.Then, she said to Kirito in front of her: "Don't relax Kirito-kun, anything can happen before Yui completes all this."

"I understand, please leave it to me..." Kirito nodded, the black warrior who had just won had the domineering aura of a winner all over his body.Like a fierce tiger ready to attack again at any time, hiding in the grass, waiting for possible enemies.

"The current analysis level is 60.00%20.00, and the conversion success is [-]%[-]..." While paying attention to Yui's progress, the system shook his head, "No, it's still too slow."

Yes, it is still too slow. Although everything has been going well until now, the so-called insufficiency of the human heart is not exempt even as a system of the highest artificial intelligence.After all, when a being exists, perceives and establishes her own existence, she will naturally have such a desire.At the same time, because the current situation of Yi Guang is indeed not optimistic, the power gap between him and Tan Lidou is too huge, resulting in a one-sided trend in the battle situation.Fortunately, he has a powerful plug-in like "Battle Continuation", coupled with the "corona stone" reforged by Chuhuo, which provides almost infinite energy to make up for his body, so that he successfully blocked Tan Lidou until now .

It has to be said that the power of the "God Limit Player" is much stronger than the system predicted in advance.

"Ah, you...are you a monster?"

After a long time of fighting, even Tan Lidou, who had the upper hand, felt a little weak under Yi Guang's almost rogue stalking.Not to mention Yui and the system have been stripping him of his authority, which has also had a considerable impact on his body.That feeling of weakness and pain kept hitting him, making him almost unable to concentrate on controlling his own power.Otherwise, with the current gap between him and Yi Guang, he could have completely defeated this guy long ago.

"Ah ah ah..."

The continuous rebirth of body tissues and the "evolution" to adapt to the battlefield environment made Yi Guang's appearance almost unhuman.His current appearance almost gave the system the illusion that he was once again dominated by the power of the ancient gods.In addition to basically maintaining the general outline of a humanoid creature, his body is covered with various strange and extremely rough-looking tissues and organs, and various functional structures temporarily proliferated on his body by the flame element almost cover his whole body. , which made him look twisted and weird like the ancient gods of Yharnam.

But even so, he attacked Tan Lidou again and again, waving his long spear.He even grew multiple arms-like limbs on his back, and from his "God's Domain" evolved from the wreckage of Yanan's dream, he continuously took out various weapons used by hunters.These weapons, tempered by Yi Guang's flame, were strengthened in an instant to the level close to the spear used by Yi Guang.Although it can't compare to the god-made armor made by the giant craftsmen of the protoss, it is enough to cope with the current situation.

Even the cannon used by the hunter was manifested by Yi Guang, and after being filled with the "mercury bullet" cast by Yi Guang's blood of God, it emitted a power enough to make the whole space tremble.The battle between Yiguang and Tan Lidou is enough to be called a large-scale natural disaster. If it weren't for the distorted space isolation constructed by the system, the entire "Aincrad" would be affected by this battle.

At the same time, in order to narrow the gap between himself and Tan Lidou, Yi Guang has already stacked countless layers of "inner potential" effects.If it wasn't for his own "corona stone" and "continuation of battle", he would have died under the backlash of "inner potential".

In the true sense, with full force, the two demigods are fighting for their lives.

And it is precisely because of this that the system has a sense of anxiety of "why can't it be faster", because she is afraid.I am afraid that Yi Guang's spirit will collapse in this situation of constantly wandering on the edge of death. Even if the "continuation of the battle" can guarantee the master's survival, it cannot guarantee the integrity of his spirit.For Yi Guang, every death is a torture, even if he has experienced it countless times in "Bloodborne Curse", so he has a strong ability to bear it.However, this kind of endurance has a limit after all. Even if it is a god, it will eventually cause huge mental trauma if it is constantly walking between death and resurrection.

If things go on like this, there will be nothing more than two consequences. One is that Yi Guang is completely desperate due to a mental breakdown, loses his survival instinct, and dies due to the failure of "Battle Continuation".The other is to constantly lose yourself in this kind of torture, and even if you win in the end, you will become a monster dominated by instinct... What will happen at that time, the system can't guarantee.

So now the system is really, really distraught.

"I said, I won't let you pass." Yi Guang, whose whole body was already twisted, repaired his wounds again, and said in a low voice, "Your existence must be...

"You don't think it's strange, Lancer."

At this time, Tan Lidou, who clearly had all the advantages, not only slowed down his offensive, but also said something that made Yi Guang a little confused.Just as the system was worried about, the long battle just now, the pain of constantly wandering between death and rebirth, made Yi Guang's consciousness a little unclear.Facing Tan Lidou's inexplicable question, he could only respond with a puzzled expression—of course, there was no specific expression on his devastated face now.

"Why did I transfer here? Why did I hardly prevent you from stripping me of my authority? Why can you and me stay in such a disparity for so long?" Tan Lidou continued to say to himself, "Why can you Use this field to trap me easily?"

As Tan Lidou's words continued to come out, whether it was Yi Guang or the system paying attention to the battle situation in the distance, a bad feeling arose in his heart at the same time.Especially the system. She, who was already full of doubts, was vaguely aware of a certain possibility.And when Tan Lidou finished saying that sentence, she suddenly understood.

"There is only one answer. In fact, the person who is really trapped is you!!!"

"Could it be that bad!!"

However, at this time, it was too late for the system to respond.Some kind of invisible energy fluctuation suddenly appeared beside her, and the next moment, she was imprisoned by some kind of rules.

"Pause!!!"

The law of imprisoning time was activated again, and the figure of Tan Lidou appeared behind Yui and the system.At the same time, a purple ray representing the power of "God Limit Player" shone in his hand, and this ray spread around him, forming a strange matrix.

"Sure enough, first use most of the power of the 'God Limit Player' to create a clone to separate us from Lansa, and then the main body has been hiding around here waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack us... Sure enough, your target is Yui." System Showing a suddenly realized expression, he sneered at the same time, "But do you think I didn't take countermeasures in advance?! Your current body doesn't have much power!"

Around the system, golden data flows again. While fighting against Tan Lidou's "law of time", he is also building his own counterattack program, trying to protect Yui while sending her out to preserve hope.However, Tan Lidou's next move was completely unexpected to the system, which made the system's protection plan for Yui completely in vain.

The other party didn't make any movement towards Yui at all, but came directly towards the system itself.The matrix formed by the purple data flow completely trapped the system.

"what?!"

"That's right! My target is actually you. Do you think I haven't analyzed your existence? Compared with that little girl... your research is more valuable." Tan Lidou showed a crazy smile Yi said, "I have analyzed both you and the spearman. Although the power of the spearman is not something I can understand, but I can do a part of the analysis. But you are an existence that is more incomprehensible than the spearman itself. If you say Lancers are gods from beyond the world, so what are you?"

"How come..." The system was indeed stunned, she would never have thought that the other party was plotting against her.At the same time, from the other party's words, the system also understood what the other party wanted to do to her. She hurriedly shouted, "Stop it! Do you know what you are doing?!"

"Of course, of course I know. But you don't need to be afraid, I won't do anything to you." Tan Lidou said while manipulating his authority, "I just want to collect your data, you now Your body is just a fake, right? So, what is your truth..."

"Crazy! You are crazy! You are committing suicide... Ah!"

Before the system finished speaking, her body turned into dots in the purple data matrix, and what was revealed was the golden flower card representing the rank.Just as Tan Lidou said, he broke the hypocritical body of the system, and then tried to spy on her truth.And at the same time when the system revealed the truth, the "God Limit Player" who was fighting with Yi Guang was also shattered and turned into the light of data.In order to crack the secret of the system, Tan Lidou resolutely gave up Yi Guang and recalled all the power of the "God Limit Player".

"Is this your essence?" Tan Lidou continued to operate his authority, "Come on, let me see... What kind of secrets do you have in your body!"

"You will regret it..."

After the system finished saying this sentence, the body trapped by Tan Lidou disintegrated again, but this time she did not disappear, but formed a small vortex in the distance.Countless gorgeous and colorful colors escaped from this small vortex.This light reflected into Tan Lidou's eyes, and he couldn't help showing a smile.

Yes, this is what he was really looking for, and after realizing the failure of "Sword Art Online", he shifted all his energy to this woman named "Musashi".He instinctively felt that there was a key hidden in this woman that could allow him to get answers to a series of questions, allowing him to break free from the confusion of failure.

It's time, it's time to spy on this woman...or the secrets of existence.

"Aaaaaaaaaa..."

However, Tan Lidou's screams immediately spread throughout the hundredth floor.

Chapter 469 Game Over

The moment Tan Lidou looked at the light in the vortex, he wailed in pain, blood with a faint golden luster spurted out from the pores of his whole body.The whole person seemed to be squeezed by some powerful force, causing the blood to burst out of the body, forming countless small blood columns, spraying in all directions.

Although everything in this world is made up of data, its rules have been set very completely by Tan Lidou, which has resulted in some phenomena in this world being quite close to reality.For example, there will be bleeding after injury, such as pain after injury... Except that no corpse will be left after death, most places are no different from the real world.So even Tan Lidou, who is the administrator, would bleed the moment he was hit hard.

Just like now, the moment he glimpsed the truth of the system, his body was impacted by some powerful and unknown force.As a result, blood spattered on the spot.

Yui, who failed to escape, was unable to dodge in time, and was immediately drenched all over her face. The little girl cried "Wow" on the spot - after all, she was just born not long ago, even if it is the "will of the world", her heart is like a child after all .Being so frightened and frightened, he naturally cried.

And this is just the beginning. After the blood burst, Tan Lidou's body changed even more strangely.His body began to show a bit of digitalization, and he was forcibly separated into a purple data flow, which was sucked into the vortex formed by the system, and merged into the colorful light.But in contrast, part of the golden light emitted by the system was also sucked into Tan Lidou's body.