Volume 15: Organisms and Organisms and Organisms Chapter 36: Fishing in Troubled Waters (Part 2)
"Pre-match warm-up time, sixty seconds . The countdown starts now."
"I've seen your game records."
"oh?"
So what if you’ve seen it?
Looking at the sturdy man who was not going to warm up in the 60 seconds but was going to talk nonsense, Li Lin raised his eyebrows. He also raised the rapier in his hand, as if waiting for the sturdy man's next words.
The sturdy man shook the patterned leather armor on his body, stroked the huge two-handed sword in his hand, and showed a serious expression . He looked like an industry expert who was giving his high opinion of this society to some new young people. The serious and rigorous look made Li Lin smile a little, not very politely.
"The rapier is the king of duels, it's agile and fast, but I'm holding a two-handed sword, so I'll be stronger than you no matter what."
"oh?"
"A two-handed sword is heavy and has a wide attack range and a high defense range. Although it is not as sensitive as your rapier, it is not a crude and useless weapon. Relatively speaking, the battle between us has come to an end since the weapons were used."
"Um?"
"You may think that this is my psychological warfare tactic, but looking at the history of cold weapon battles, the two-handed sword has always been the weapon at the top. Especially when you are unable to use armor and daggers, your battle has come to an end. Everyone in the arena is using heavy weapons and two-handed long weapons. When you use a one-handed weapon, you are doomed to lose. Although you have tried very hard, I want to say that you will lose."
"You continue?"
"...It seems like you won't believe me no matter what I say. I see you turned on the pain mode and wanted to talk to me properly, but if you don't appreciate it, forget it."
The sturdy man showed a somewhat regretful expression and stood up with the two-handed sword in hand. He held the tip of the sword with both hands and pointed the balance ball at the tip of Li Lin's nose. This is a relatively classic fighting posture in the two-handed sword.
"Three, two, one. Go."
"call!"
When the host shouted "start", the sturdy man's eyes condensed, he lowered his body, uttered a low shout, and raised his two-handed sword upwards, aiming at the sword-wielding boy's head. But as if seeing a ghost, the slender sword blade appeared at the force point of the two-handed sword like a ghost, just like a dozen times before.
He gently pulled the sword's spine and then thrust it straight forward. There was a clang in the air and the giant stumbled back two steps, looking in disbelief at the young man who seemed to have never moved.
The so-called advantage of the two-handed sword was not brought into play at all. The flexible tactics of the inverted balance ball was immediately broken by a whip attack. This was nothing, as the attack was expected and could even keep up with several counterattacks. However, the ghost-like follow-up thrust was beyond his expectations. The most important thing was that not only did the advantage of the two-handed sword not come into play, but a pinhole-sized wound appeared on his palm, and dark red blood slowly flowed out of the wound, with a little dull pain.
Li Lin tilted his head as he looked at the confused giant, shook the tip of the sword at him twice, and showed a playful smile.
"Please try harder. Aren't you full?"
“…”
Bullshit, just use some strength. It’s a fair duel and everyone has the same attributes, ok?
But looking at the rapier player who was holding the sword sideways and looked weak and had no fighting power at all, the hammer man couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
That's a rapier, recognized as the king of double duels, but what you're holding is a two-handed sword?
Besides, the King of Duels is the one who strikes fast, strikes accurately and has skills, but I have never heard of someone using a rapier as a steel bar. How can a rapier be considered the King of Duels with a steel bar? Rapiers are used with skills, right? No, he was distracted. He did poke just now...
Looking at the young challenger standing there with a calm face, Amon showed a serious expression, shook his head and refreshed himself, then slowly held the two-handed sword normally, pointing the not-so-sharp sword tip at Li Lin's face, looking solemn as if he was going to split him in half. However, the faint notch on his middle finger made his grip a little deformed, and he began to tremble involuntarily.
"You only have nine fingers left, do you still want to fight?"
Looking at the stern look of the strong man, Li Lin spread his hands and laughed sarcastically:
"That's weird. Don't you guys use hand guards? Oh, it seems like hand guards and blocking are both difficult for you to accept? I can't help it. After all, it's a common battle strategy among players. Everyone can't be killed, so there's no need to defend, just fight directly."
"You're talking as if you're not a player... But what big of an impact would losing a finger have?"
"You are such an amateur when you say that. Losing a finger can mean the difference between life and death."
Oh, although you didn't stand a chance from the beginning.
Looking at the sturdy man whose expression became increasingly gloomy, Li Lin said with a smile.
There is no body as big as a dragon, no heartbeat as loud as thunder, just a person standing quietly with a sword in hand and smiling.
But that is an insurmountable mountain.
"…But if we don't challenge them, there's no point in the peak existing, right?"
The time is now!
The sturdy man whispered, and suddenly roared, raising his sword and swinging it. However, because his nine fingers were not holding firmly, he was pulled away by the sword, and he stabbed directly with the sword, which made him scream and retreat, staring at the wound on his right middle finger in a daze.
"I don't think this is a good habit. If you hit someone while talking, you might die miserably if you do this in real life."
“Reality? Hahahahahaha, bullshit reality… bullshit reality!”
The sturdy man held the sword with his hands covered in blood, and looked at Li Lin who was standing there with the sword relaxed, showing deep hatred and spat with disdain.
"There are so many shitty people and so many shitty things. I can't even find a house in space! Play games! I just want to have fun! Stop talking shit and fight!"
"So angry? You must be a failure in real life, right? That's right, if you weren't a failure, you probably wouldn't have to think so hard to deal with it. After all, when you have money, you just need to top up. Playing games requires fun, not anger. Since you are so angry, you must not have many friends, right?"
"I! Fuck! Your! Mom!"
"...Alright. It just so happens that I don't want to say anything weird, so let's fight. This is the third one."
Looking at the man who seemed to have been hit in the sore spot and rushed over howling, Li Lin shrugged, raised the sword and shook it, directly piercing his third finger.
