Published at 23rd of November 2022 10:07 am

Chapter 274: Sword Wolf Turns Out to Be a Thunderfire Beast Part 4 Part 1

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「Aaagh! Just looking at them is making me feel livid with anger! Is this how you get your sick kicks!? By looking down on other people!? You must be looking down on other people! There is no way that you are not doing that!」

Kyogoku knew it better than anyone else, since she was a swordsman through and through: a sword that was meant to be held in both hands cannot exert the same amount of power when being held only in one hand. Thanks to Kyogoku’s physical build and her natural prowess, as a swordsman she was leaning more towards Skill and Dexterity when it comes to stats. So having to swing a two-handed sword only with one hand was not something that was sitting well with her. Moreover, it was something that she would like to avoid at all cost.

However, right about now it did not matter to her. And that is because she was angry. There was a sense of anger and rage dwelling and burning deep inside of her, one that was able to give her enough of a strength boost to be able to wield a two-handed sword properly only with one hand. The most unreasonable sense of anger and rage.

「H-How cowardly, Kyogoku! Have you no sense of shame at all!? Calling someone else’s body parts “dangling melons” and such……」

「How dare you! Do you have any idea of the despair that you and your older sister had driven people into!? Think about all the times that you would go to the public bath, parading with those juicy melons on full display! Stop screwing with us! Want me to show you the proof? Here! Let me slap those melons with a harisen (a huge paper fan) and record the way they bounce and jiggle with a super slow motion camera!? Is that what you want!?」

「Oi, what the fuck happened to that idiot over there!? Has she hit her head or something? Or was she possessed!? It’s the peak of cowardice to attack other players for the reasons that are solely connected to real life outside of the game!」

This sudden increase in performance due to the extreme stimulus of one’s own emotions was just like Tension Fighting that Sanraku or Silvia Goldberg would exhibit. However, since it was the very first time something like that happened to her on such a scale, there was no way for Kyogoku to actually be aware of that fact at all.

By the way, when it comes to Akitsu Akane, he is the hybrid type of player. He mostly acts on instinct, but upon encountering something that he does not understand or comprehend, he shall study it closely so that he may try to incorporate it into his own style later on. Incidentally, that kind of behavior is something that can often be seen in various movies about invaders from the outer space coming to Earth.

And right about now, Saiga-100’s focus was shattered. This meant more or less that she would be unable to perform complicated maneuvers and operations. The only thing that was left out of her was the automatic processes of her floating swords, which were so predictable and rough that avoiding them was hardly even a challenge at this point.

Right now, even the Magic Sword Las Pegasius must have been deployed solely for the purpose of defense and avoidance. At the same time, Kyogoku was going forward at the steady pace, her black sword slashing away time after time.

「Kuh…… As much as I hate to admit it, you need to give credit where the credit is due…… This method of yours may be lowly, but it’s damn effective…… But!」

「I even heard that recently those cow udders of yours destroyed one of your bras again! Is that true!? Answer me!!!」

「Kuuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!!」

Collapse! The sword that was in Saiga-100’s hand flies in the air and spins around, presenting Kyogoku with a once in a lifetime chance that she knew she could not miss no matter what.

Purple flames once more cover the surface of her black sword “Kenryu Gokaku”. It is a sword that was forged from the materials extracted from one of the monsters in the new continent, a beast called Drakulus Dinoceras. When it comes to visuals, it was a monster that resembled a hybrid of a horse and triceratops. The items used to create this sword came from this monster’s horns.

Next, Kyogoku used the secret sword art of her sword, “Shishi Ochi”, to plunge her sword towards the gap in Saiga-100’s armor around her neck. And as things stood now, there would be no way for Saiga-100 to be able to react in time to this attack.

What’s more, one of her other skills will increase the speed of her reactions and cause the “Moment Sight”, an effect that for a short amount of time slows down the time and corrects the trajectory of one’s weapons, all so that it would be ensured that the blow was going to be a successful hit.

Kyogoku was actually never a huge fan of the effect of time being slowed down. However, this was a duel. And if that was going to ensure her victory in the duel, she was willing to bear with it and go for it. No human would willing reject such a powerful tool.

(I can do this…… I know for sure that I won’t be able to kill her for good, but the least I can do here is to bring her HP down below the fifty percent threshold!)

However, in the middle of it all, it seems that Kyogoku has forgotten about one very important fact.

In order to be able to acquire the sub-class of “Sword Saint”, one of the requirements is to perform exceptionally well during the martial arts tournament sponsored by a certain NPC. If you managed to place at least at the third place in said tournament, you would get a chance to generate a special quest that would reward you with that specific sub-class. However, it was all well before the supposed nerfs and changes to that questline, so Saiga-100 did not know if it was still the case nowadays.

But that fact was conveying one simple truth about the Sword Saint sub-class. What was it?

Sword Saint was a sub-class that was literally impossible to obtain unless your skills as a player in general were not of the highest possible quality.

「“Stan Beat”!」

「Kuah!?」

There was an overwhelming feeling of numbness running throughout Kyogoku’s whole body, but it was not the result of the damage she had sustained. It was due to a certain in game status effect called “Paralysis”.

Kyogoku had to forcibly whip her body around, since it was about to stop moving at any moment. She then also had to hit her own left arm in order to “wake it up” and force it to function properly.

「Eat this!」

「Guh……!」

It was too shallow.

Sure, her blade managed to slash at Saiga-100’s neck, but the feeling of the blade going through flesh was so light that Kyogoku was sure that this attack did not manage to do that much damage.

「Kuh…… Fufufu, well? Isn’t that magic useful? The spell itself is nothing all that great and it can be used by almost anyone with a magic profession to inflict minimal amounts of damage, but…… Thanks to its fast cast time and instant effect, it is a perfect weapon in battles against players.」

「So many words…… I did not expect you to be such a talkative person, especially right in the middle of the fight.」

「That’s what you get from the “Uncorrected Sword Saint”. It is a result of many player versus player fights that I have fought across my career in this game, and some of them even include the strongest members and the leader of “Tempura Knights” guild.」

Both women use potions on themselves. Both their HP bars went back to being full, but right now the situation was simply the worst for us.

Obviously, sexual harassment as a form of distraction is no longer going to work here. As a result, five blades are once more floating behind Saiga-100’s back, in her full control.

「Now there’s five of them…… Wait, what?」

If the Sword Saint want to command the swords that are floating in mid-air, he or she must hold a sword in his or her hand. Otherwise it would not be possible. So by that logic, it should not be possible for Saiga-100 to have five swords in the air.

「It should come as no surprise that the more proficient you become in using Sword Saint’s “Sword Arts”, the number of the swords that you can control shall increase as well. One, double, triple, quadruple…… Ahh, that’s right.」

Up until now we were thinking that Saiga-100 can control up to five swords: one in her hands and four other floating in the air. But apparently that was not the limit of her abilities.

And as if to confirm the chills that started to run up Kyogoku’s spine, one more sword went into the air, amounting to the total of seven.

「No way…… Septet!?」

「This is the first time I am actually showing this to any other player during a duel, but I want you to get the feeling of the complete experience…… “Sword Art: Septet”!」

There was no time to block it.

The six swords form a formation that was reminiscent of a six-armed star, and with the seventh sword serving as the conductor right in the star’s center, it fell down towards the ground according to the caster’s will.

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