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"Tsk!" Kirito sprinted to the right while stunned, trying to avoid the attack.

This is because Kirito believes that as long as he goes around in the direction of the shield, even if he can't see the initial orbit, he can still have more time to react to the opponent's attack.

But Heathcliff raised the shield completely flat——

"Drink!" With a heavy shout, the front end of the shield stabbed at Kirito.

The huge cross shield dragged the white effect light and approached him.

Immediately cross the swords in both hands to resist the attack.This caused a strong shock to spread throughout Kirito's body, and Kirito was ejected several meters away.

First, he thrust the sword of his right hand into the ground to prevent himself from falling, and then made a turn in the air before landing.

He didn't expect that the shield also had an attack judgment, just like his own two-sword style.Originally, he thought that the two weapons had more attacks and would have an advantage in the one-hit victory, but the current situation was beyond his expectations.

The enemy may be even more difficult than that guy Zero... Kirito made such a judgment in his heart.

However, Kirito was not ready yet.

Heathcliff did not give him time to recover, and once again used sprinting to shorten the distance between them.

The long sword with the cross hilt on the right hand stabs at a speed that even the strongest rapier user Asuna seems to be unable to match.

The enemy began to attack one after another, and Kirito could only use his swords in both hands to defend with all his strength.

Although Asuna had explained the [Holy Sword] sword skill to Lin Mu and Kirito who were going to fight Heathcliff as much as possible beforehand,

But at this moment, Kirito felt from the bottom of his heart that this kind of knowledge obtained by cramming was really unreliable.

Standing can only rely on his own instantaneous reaction to resist the attack from the top and bottom.

After he bounced off the last upper section of the eight-strike combo with the sword in his left hand, he immediately used a single heavy attack [Magic Sword Invasion] with his right hand.

"what!!"

The thrusting long sword emitted a red effect light, and pierced the center of the cross shield with the metallic sound of a jet engine.

Kirito ignored the heavy feeling like hitting a rock wall, and insisted on using all his moves.

There was an ordinary explosion-like sound, but this time Heathcliff was bounced away.Although there is no way to penetrate the shield, a slight damage feels like it has penetrated through.

The opponent's HP bar decreased slightly.But this damage is not enough to decide the outcome.

After Heathcliff lightly landed on the ground, he opened the distance between him and Kirito.

"It's an amazing reaction speed... I don't know how terrifying it would be if [Praiser] got this ability..." Heathcliff said some inexplicable words.

But Kirito omitted the second half of the sentence, and responded directly: "You are the one who is really difficult, just like that guy Zero."

Kirito said and rushed out again.

Heathcliff also regained his posture and leaned over here.

Then came the ultra-high-speed combo performance.Kirito's sword skill was blocked by Heathcliff's shield, and Heathcliff's sword was also bounced off by Kirito's other sword.

All kinds of colored lights continued to fly around the two people, and the sound of impact penetrated the slate floor of the entire arena.

The small attacks between each other occasionally hit each other, and the HP of the two people began to decrease little by little.Even if you don't get hit by a heavy attack, as long as one side's HP bar is below half, the other will be considered victorious.

Since being imprisoned in SAO, this is the only player that Kirito has encountered, other than Lin Mu, who can be called a strong enemy.

This gave him the feeling of passion, no less than when he first fought with Lin Shu.

Whenever you feel that your perception rises to a higher level, your attack speed will also increase accordingly.

Kirito's whole body was surrounded by the pleasure of unleashing all his strength to swing the sword.

There was an excited smile on the corner of his mouth - don't look at Kirito's usual honest appearance (although this is called Mensao by Lin Mu...), but he is also a veritable fighting maniac.

As the battle of swords, lights and swords became more and more fierce, the HP bars on both sides also continued to decrease, and finally reached the level of about [-]% left.

In the next moment, Heathcliff, who had been expressionless all this time, suddenly flashed a look of emotion on his face.

what happened to him?Getting impatient?

Such doubts arose in Kirito's heart, because he could feel the enemy's attack rhythm gradually slowing down.

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Starburst Airflow Slash] was cast directly.

The twin swords rushed towards Heathcliff like flames spurted from a star.

"Whoa...!" Heathcliff held up his cross shield to block the attack.

But Kirito didn't care about his defense at all, and continued to slash at him from up, down, left, and right.The other party's reaction became slower and slower.

—he couldn't stop it!

Kirito was sure that the last blow had broken through his defense.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the cross shield was swung too far to the right, the attack of his left hand dragged the light and greeted Heathcliff.

As long as this attack works, his HP will definitely drop below [-]%, and the duel will come to an end

But at this moment

——The world is distorted.

And at this moment, in the rest room, Lin Shu, who was concentrating on the battle, had violet dreamy eyes trembling in his eye sockets——

And Kirito on the field didn't know how to describe the feeling at this moment.

It's like time seems to be stolen.

It felt like, except for Heathcliff, everything including his own body was suspended for a few tenths of a second.

And Heathcliff's shield, which was supposed to be on the right, moved to the left in an instant like a VCR, and deflected Kirito's sure-kill blow.

"What—" Kirito, whose great skill was resisted, fell into a deadly freeze.

Of course Heathcliff would not miss this opportunity.

A single thrust from his right hand dealt hateful accurate damage to Kirito, just enough to end the fight, and Kirito fell down on the spot.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the purple system message flashing announcing the end of the duel.

The battle mode ended, and the cheers that swept the audience began to reach his ears, but he still couldn't recover.