Four Hundred and Thirty-Three, the only Way to Save Yourself

"——"

On the bright red battlefield, all sounds disappeared, leaving only silence.

Heathcliff was bathed in the exploded polygonal fragments, and raised his hands in front of himself, as if it was a blocking behavior caused by conditioned reflex. Looking at Rozen who exploded in front of him, there was still a look of shock on his face.

"Clang clang!"

At this moment, Heathcliff's cross sword fell to the ground, causing a crisp sound.

Only then did Heathcliff react, and fell into speechlessness.

Its HP is still declining because of Luo Zhen's last blow.

In the end, it dropped directly to the bottom.

Obviously, Rozen's last blow was actually enough to exhaust Heathcliff's remaining HP.

However, looking at the downward trend, Luo Zhen immediately judged that his HP would be exhausted in advance, so he recklessly launched an attack immediately, preparing to kill Heathcliff directly with .

Unfortunately, it still didn't catch up in the end.

Just like the first duel back then, Luo Zhen's final winning blow was still unable to fall on Heathcliff because of time constraints.

This result...

"It's ironic..."

Heathcliff murmured self-deprecatingly, then closed his eyes, allowing his body to freeze blue.

"boom!"

Amid the crackling sound, Heathcliff, like Rozen before him, exploded into polygonal fragments.

In the Ruby Palace located at the top of the floating city of Aincrad, all movement was finally lost.

Only the fragments of the polygon kept flying, drifting to the far side.

.........

"———"You Are Dead"——"

When such a window appeared in front of Luo Zhen in the darkness that lost all light, Luo Zhen knew that he still hadn't caught up in the end.

It was not the first time Luo Zhen saw such a window.

During the beta test period, whenever Luo Zhen died, he would fall into darkness and see this window.

If it was during the beta testing period, then after a while, he would automatically appear in the Black Iron Palace on the first floor and be resurrected.

Although it will lose part of the experience points, it is more likely to lose some props or equipment, but at least, the player can still be resurrected in this world.

But now, such rights have been deprived.

After the world called SAO is turned into a real death game, every player will lose this right. Once such a window appears in front of his eyes, his brain in the real world will be burned to ashes in a few seconds.

"It's ironic..."

Under such circumstances, Luo Zhen had the same feelings as Heathcliff.

"During the first duel, I couldn't catch up with the duel time."

"The result of the deathmatch this time is that it can't keep up with the depletion of the HP bar."

"Could it be that my last blow is destined not to hit Akihiko Kayaba?"

Luo Zhen smiled wryly.

In fact, in this deathmatch, Luo Zhen had a very high winning rate.

Possess the skill of , which can see through all the attacks of the enemy, and can make up for one's own weaknesses. Even players with unique skills should have a great chance of winning.

The evidence is that Luo Zhen has always had a higher winning rate in the competition with Kirito.

And even if Heathcliff is stronger than Kirito, it's not too strong. Now that the accuracy and strength of "Mind Eyes" have improved to a higher level, against Heathcliff, Rozen's winning rate is at least 80% .

But this time, it was the last 20% that appeared.

There are many reasons.

for example,

Luo Zhen's "mind eye" detected Heathcliff's movements, but Luo Zhen misjudged Heathcliff's tactics, thinking that he wanted to stretch out his hand to use the "Physical Technique" skill, but in the end he grabbed it with his bare hands. own weapon.

For example, in the situation of being caught with a weapon, Luo Zhen knew that Heathcliff was about to attack him, so he should have retreated, but Heathcliff dragged Luo Zhen over first, thus making his body lose balance, even if saw Heathcliff's attack, but still couldn't avoid the blow that pierced his body, and the battle was settled.

For another example, if Heathcliff's sword hadn't pierced into Rozen's body from the back, then after Rozen knocked it flying with a punch, he could pull out the cross sword and stop the continuous decline of HP.

In that case, Heathcliff's HP would definitely be exhausted, but Rozen would be able to survive and win in the end.

One reason after another caused Rozen to fail to give Heathcliff the final blow.

This cannot be said to be Luo Zhen's carelessness. It can only be said that this is a battle. Changes may occur at any time, and the result may be overturned at any time. There is absolutely no such thing as an unshakable victory.

Luo Zhen was just unlucky.

Moreover, it was bad luck both times.

Not reconciled?

There must be.

But now is not the time to think about this.

"Think about how to escape this death."

In the few seconds left, Luo Zhen's brain was thinking rapidly.

Even though he lost, it doesn't mean that Luo Zhen will wait to die.

It is true that if this continues, Luo Zhen's body in the real world will definitely die, and his brain will be burnt as a result.

But the other way around...

"As long as it's not burned, it won't die."

Is there such a way?

some.

----.

The ring worn in Luo Zhen's real world is the only way to get Luo Zhen out of this situation.

It has the effect of being able to open doors between worlds and worlds.

Moreover, the "world" here includes not only other worlds, but also souls, human bodies and even spirits.

Of course, the virtual game world is also among them.

In other words, Luo Zhen can actually rely on the power of "Miracle" to open the door to the world of SAO, allowing his spirit imprisoned in SAO to escape and return to reality.

Although Luo Zhen's spirit has been isolated from his body in the real world, even if he takes any action here, his body in the real world will not react, but is an exception.

Did Roman ever say that?

"Perhaps is a symbiotic existence with your soul, so it cannot be taken off, lost or destroyed."

exactly.

Because "Miracle" is a symbiotic existence with Luo Zhen's soul, even if Luo Zhen is in this world, he can also use his consciousness to activate the power of "Miracle".

As long as Luo Zhen wanted to, he could actually leave this world and return to reality at any time.

The problem is that Luo Zhen is the only one who can do this, but Kirito has to stay in this world, and Luo Zhen also has a purpose in SAO, so Luo Zhen has never used the power of "miracle" to leave here.

Not to mention, Kayaba Akihiko also said at the beginning that once the external power supply is cut off for more than ten minutes, the network is disconnected for more than two hours, or if you try to destroy the main body of or remove the fixed lock, the destruction program will start and destroy the user. brain.

Under such circumstances, even if Luo Zhen leaves this world and returns to reality, his brain will be burned immediately when the connection is cut off.

It is the same now, even if Luo Zhen uses the power of to return to reality, he will die.

However, what if Luo Zhen didn't use the power of "Miracle" to return to reality, but let his real body go through the gate and go to another world?

At that time, without Luo Zhen's permission, the game helmet will naturally fall off in an instant, and Luo Zhen will not be harmed.

This is the only way to save yourself.

only......

"Asuna... Yui... and Kirito..."

Luo Zhen struggled a little.