my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 12 Otherwise, I’ll open it first...

Aqua Regia threw pebbles, attracting a giant mantis-like insect and quickly retreated.

Just when the mantis monster locked onto him, Wang Shui had already slipped to a particularly thick tree and hid behind it, concentrating on relaxing his body.

Naturally, blessing comes to the soul.

Wang Shui's body was instantly shrouded in dark gray light, and his whole body was hazy for a moment, and then he vaguely felt a thin line breaking on his body.

Open the skill bar again, and sure enough, the third skill space has been filled with a new skill: [Concealment].

What Wang Shui just activated is the basic ability of the same name of the [Concealment] skill. It clears part of the hatred value when out of the enemy's sight. When the hatred value is lower than 0, he completely escapes from the battle and completely removes the monster locking effect.

This is a skill that all lone wolf players must master, and it is also a very important means of saving lives.

In SAO, the distance to find and kill monsters is quite far, so it is very difficult to reduce the hatred by removing the sight.And when clearing hatred from a long distance, it is also easy to be locked by other active monsters in the environment.

[Concealment] is a powerful auxiliary skill that includes hatred removal, confusion and concealment, sneak attack bonus, etc.

But from an effect point of view, even if it cannot achieve "invisibility", it is still magical enough.

Wang Shui vaguely remembered that magic existed in the background setting of the SAO world, but it could not be used in the current floating city "Aincrad". He forgot the specific reason, or maybe he remembered it wrongly.

Finally, he got the skill he wanted, which made Wang Shui deeply relieved. The oolong in front of him really surprised and scared him.

Learning [One-Handed Straight Sword] made him think that he had mastered the key points of skill learning. Later, he never expected that he could unlock [Collect] just by poking out some branches. He was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

Knowing that there is a judgment method for natural abilities that he does not understand, and he has been throwing stones recently, he can almost feel that he is about to master the [Flying Sword] skill, so he is anxious to get the [Concealment] skill to fill in the grid.

In the end, he had to use pebbles to draw away the monsters. Just now, he didn't even dare to focus on his hands.

[Flying Sword] is a skill that Wang Shui likes very much and is convenient for him. Unfortunately, it is too weak, and his future growth will be too low and will consume props. The number of key props is also limited, so sustainability cannot be guaranteed, so he can only regretfully give in.

It was getting late, and Wang Shui had not found any other villages, so he could only return to the village [Horuka Village] where the Piranha mission was.

Of course, he won't go back the same way. He will go east for a while and then go back south, so that the map he explores will be larger.

Just a few minutes after Shui Wang set off, the faint sound of steel colliding and crushing shrubs reached his ears.

There seems to be no monsters that can use weapons in the dense forest area... Is it a player PK?

Wang Shui hesitated for a while. He didn't want to get involved in player PK. First of all, he was just an ordinary player now. His advantages were nothing more than level six and two [Swords of Tenacity].

But the sound came from the high-level area in the north. Players who could explore there would definitely not be lower than level five. Wang Shui, who was one level behind in combat skills, would have much worse combat power than those elite players.

He advised himself to mind his own business, but his feet did not move, and he concentrated on the sound of the collision getting closer and closer.

Safety first Safety first, Wang Shui muttered, put away his sword and quickly climbed up a shorter tree nearby. He squatted quietly on the three-meter-high tree branch and activated the [Concealment] he learned not long ago. 】Skills, it should be no problem to enjoy the show while protecting yourself...

The sound of branches breaking became clearer, and several human-shaped black shadows entered Wang Shui's sight.

Four against one?No, someone was attacked by four monsters!

They were four red-skinned dog-headed monsters with very different heights. They only wore some rough leather armor, and the weapons in their hands were rough and thick giant axes, straight swords and scimitars.

【Ruins Kobold】

The names of these monsters appeared in Wang Shui's mind. They are the main monsters in the first-level maze area and the periphery of the maze area. They are huge in number and have great fluctuations in combat power.

But there is still at least thirty or forty kilometers away from the maze area, which is not a small number!

Wang Shui glanced at the chased player, his heart beat twice, and then he drew his sword without hesitation.

The player wore a simple leather armor similar to Wang Shui's, and also held the [Sword of Tenacity] in his hand. His short black hair was a bit messy, and under his slightly longer bangs, he had a cute boy's face that was somewhat feminine.

Kirito, Master Kiri, is this the first time we meet and have such an exciting time?

Wang Shui didn't think too much. He saved him first and then talked about it. If he couldn't defeat him, the two of them would run south together. It would be easier for the two of them to survive.

Now below the water regia was a relatively empty forest glade intersection. Kirito rushed directly under the tree where the water regia was and did not stop. He did not dare to stop in the wide space.

At this time, Wang Shui suddenly jumped down from the tree and activated his sword skills at the same time.

【Oblique cut】!
Under the blessing of gravity, Wang Shui held the sword steady with both hands and drew a bright red light path in the air. With the force of thunder, it hit the smallest kobold at the end of the team!
[-398! 】

A very terrifying critical hit value exploded from the little kobold's head. Wang Shui slashed his sword from its right shoulder and cut into half of its body diagonally!

[Dizziness], [Shock], [Slowness], [Bleeding], [Fracture]...

A row of debuffs instantly filled the bottom of the Kobold's health bar, and at the same time, a bunch of bleeding damage numbers exploded.

"Switch!"

After hitting the ground with Aqua Regia, he jumped back and began to use trees to avoid other monsters, while loudly reminding Kirito.

Switching is a term commonly used when players form teams, meaning to alternately resist enemy attacks.

A switch immediately pulled Kirito to his feet. The words "player", "helper", and "cover" popped into his mind. His eyes also saw the sword skill falling from the sky. Subconsciously, Kirito was already wearing a blue The light of the sword skill rushed towards the giant ax kobold closest to him. The monster was two meters tall.

The hatred of the three kobolds is actually still on Kirito. Wang Shui also uses the sword skill [Rage Stab] to poke a scimitar kobold in the back row and pull it away. Kirito leads the other two while fighting. Withdrawing to the open space, fighting is different from fleeing, now he needs room to maneuver.

The scimitar kobold who was held in hatred by Wang Shui barked on the spot, and a dark pink light emitted from the scimitar.

【Crescent Moon Slash】?Or a [Predator] with the ability to rush?
Facing a sword attack for the first time, Wang Shui thought quickly in his mind. He only knew the scimitar, which was the basic sword skill under the [Skid Knife] skill, but in actual combat he couldn't tell the difference just by looking at the raised hand.

If you can’t tell the difference, it’s a mystery!

Wang Shui simply swooped out to the right and directly avoided the attack from the front.

A ray of red light went straight to where Wang Shui was standing. He barely managed to avoid the lightning-like attack with a flying stance.

On the other side, Kirito is using [Horizontal Slash] (horizontal slash) to deflect the giant ax kobold's downward sword skill, and then moves very smoothly, using the giant ax kobold's huge body to jam the other straight sword kobold's The angle of attack didn't look dangerous for a while.

I'm the one who will break the game... Wang Shui thought to himself, and immediately sprinted down, preparing to launch [Rage Stab], but the scimitar kobold he was fighting ran over with his scimitar raised, shaking his nose and saliva.

The distance and movements were affected. Wang Shui reluctantly released his sword skills, but the completion and strength were very poor. The scimitar kobold only staggered two steps before approaching and slashing with his sword.Wang Shui hurriedly retreated to the side to avoid this ordinary blow. He wanted to attack when the kobold retracted his sword, but because he retreated too much, his position did not allow him to counterattack.

Wang Shui, who had been bullying wild boars, wild wolves, and man-eating plants, seemed particularly clumsy at this time.

Wang Shui immediately understood his weakness - lack of combat experience.

He has a lot of sword moves in his mind, a lot of game knowledge, and a lot of fighting skills. He can catch the opponent's weaknesses and has time to think. Even the timidity that holds him back the most is much lighter, but he still performs well. So miserable.

He is now "Wang Yuyan" and has only a head of knowledge and observation skills. He needs a lot of battle experience to evolve to the level of "Murong Fu"...'s servant.

But now we don’t have this time, and we can’t suddenly realize and become a master by closing our eyes. But in the blink of an eye, Wang Shui has his own way to break the situation!
He pressed forward and closed in on the kobold, slashing at the kobold within a small range.The kobold couldn't adjust his body posture to use his sword skills, and neither could Shui Wang, but Shui Wang took the time to equip himself with the special equipment [Supernatural Instinct]!
The swords and swords are not level with each other, and both sides lose very little blood. At this time, the role of blood recovery jewelry comes into play.

As long as Aqua Regia gives up some damage and blocks a few more times, it can even maintain full health.But Kirito's side is not optimistic. He is still controlling the situation, but his blood volume has almost dropped to less than half.

Must fight fast!

The jewelry [Supernatural Instinct] has cleared the strength and agility bonus on the equipment. Now the straight sword in the king's hand has become extremely heavy, but fortunately, cutting does not require much fine control. You can just hold the hilt of the sword with both hands and swing it.

Aqua Regia dealt with his kobolds and quickly took out a bottle of light pink [Repair Potion] and drank it in one gulp. His blood volume was replenished at an extremely fast speed.

But when he turned his attention to Kirito, he saw that Kirito was about to fight the heavy attack of the giant axe-kobold. In the corner where Kirito had poor vision, the rough long sword in the hand of the straight-sword kobold also appeared. Technology Blu-ray!

It’s over.

Kirito also noticed it, but now he could no longer stop the movement of his hands. Wang Shui felt a chill in his heart because he found that the charging distance was not enough, and the two of them suddenly felt heavy pressure.

In an instant, Wang Shui's brain did a lot of thinking and calculations, and before he came up with the correct answer, his body had already chosen the one with the highest probability.

When he raised his right hand, a pebble was already clasped between his fingers. Before Aqua Regia could react, the pebble was ejected in a crimson light. Aqua Regia only had time to hear the words from his right hand. There was a crisp sound of stirring the air like the tip of a whip, and then the entire arm and hand lost all feeling.

The red ray almost grazed Kirito's chin and flew right between the eyebrows of the straight-sword kobold who was about to attack!

【-132! ], [Stun], [Shock], [Fall].

Kirito subconsciously completed the fight with the giant axe kobold. When he took a small step back to deal with the straight sword kobold, he saw that the opponent was lying on his back with a stun symbol on his head.

"Kill the big one first!"

Wang Shui rushed over, his right arm hanging down like a noodle, and charging with the sword in his left hand.

Kirito first made room for attack. After Wang Shui released [Rage Stab] and dodged it, he followed up with [Vertical Slash].

"I can't use my entire right hand now, and I can only use the thrusting sword skill with my left hand. Please hold on a little longer."

"it is good!"

The rhythm began to slow down, Wang Shui finally had time to speak, and Kirito, whose health volume was less than half on the other side, was now full of confidence.

Then Wang Shui saw Master Tong's fighting skills.

It should be said that even with a half-full knowledge of martial arts and swordsmanship like Aqua Regia, it can be seen that Kirito does not understand swordsmanship at all, has never experienced combat training, and even has a shadow of modern fighting skills. nor.

Although he consciously focused on it, he only considered the comfort of the attack. His movements were fast and sharp, but he only considered SAO's sword skills.

But he is very strong, very smooth, and keeps attacking, allowing monsters to parry flawlessly.

Kirito can also use normal attacks, but his normal attacks are more casual. As long as there are enemies on the sword path, he will make a few moves while adjusting his sword skills.

The swordsmanship that Wang Shui learned is to integrate clever [moves] into every swing of the sword, into every movement.

Kirito's [Aincrad Style Swordsmanship] uses dexterous body movements and extremely fast neural reactions to find opportunities to use [Sword Skills]. All his sword movement and steps are to guard against the enemy. While constantly trying to use sword skills.

It should be said that in the game, Kirito's "sword skills" are very effective, the sword skills are released efficiently, the damage is high and the light effects are gorgeous, but Wang Shui always feels a little... uncomfortable.

During Wang Shui's observation, the giant ax kobold fell to the ground after four or five rounds of switching. The dazed straight sword kobold next to him had woken up long ago, but the negative effect of [Shock] on its head still existed. As a result, it swayed while walking and was unable to carry out effective attacks.

In the end, the kobold with the straight sword and Kirito with the straight sword fell to the ground together. Don't get me wrong, Kirito just fell to the ground from exhaustion, and his health was still about half.
The aqua regia that was full of blood just calmed down. To be honest, this battle was not as tense as the first time he faced the manic wild boar. But afterwards, his body was very floating, and his whole right arm felt like the kind of numbness he felt after sleeping on his pillow all night. , swinging randomly like a rope.

Putting the sword on the ground with his left hand, Wang Shui approached Kirito and found that he was closing his eyes to relax and adjust his breathing, so he stretched out his left hand and said:
"Are you okay? Fill up your HP first?"

Kirito slowly opened his eyes, looking at Wang Shui's tiredness and hanging right arm, with a tangled expression of guilt and other complex emotions on his face.

"Thank you very much...how are your hands?" Kirito took Wang Shui's left hand and stood up, then took out a bottle of recovery potion from the buckle of the leather belt to use.

"Small problem, the [part of damage] on my right arm has been in condition for two hours, but it's up to you to return to [Horuka Village]."

"Of course, leave it to me later."

Kirito, whose expression and eyes returned to normal, regained his usual composure, bumped fists with Wang Shui, and was about to say hello to go together when he suddenly said in surprise:
"What's going on? The bodies of these kobolds haven't been refreshed!" After saying that, he began to nervously check the battle report.

"Calm down, this is the effect of the [Collection] skill. By default, the body is automatically reserved for collection."

As Wang Shui touched the corpses one by one, it was inconvenient to break his left hand... ahem, it was inconvenient to handle the corpses, so he simply kicked the monster's weapon aside, and only collected [Kobold Giant Ax Fragments] from the giant axe-kobold.

"The [Collecting] skill actually has this effect. It didn't happen before... Wait, this...swordsman, you are equipped with the [Collecting] skill? And you just used [Flying Sword]! In other words, you Didn’t you learn any auxiliary combat skills?!”

Kirito's shock made Wang Shui feel particularly complicated, and then he raised his hand and sent a friend request.

"Okay, okay, you shouldn't be so surprised. I'm not going to be a solo player all the time. Also, there's no one called a swordsman. Just call me "Book of Heaven". "

Making up an excuse casually, Wang Shui also took advantage of the angle facing Kirito to pretend to check the item bar, but in fact opened the skill bar.

[One-handed straight sword], [Collection], [Concealment]... [Flying Sword]

Three skill grids, four skills.

The [Flying Sword] skill does not appear on the unopened fourth grid, but exists on its own in a separate row.It was originally a blank area on the page, but now the skill icon is embedded there, as if the texture is wrong.

This is not a BUG. Wang Shui immediately thought of the penultimate part of his innate ability.

[Learning ability is not limited]

This is a BUG, ​​right?
(End of this chapter)