CH 84

[Clash, Kirika of the Asura Realm VS Yuri-kun (+ NEET Samurai)]

The event, ‘Assassins from Other Worlds’, started.

The message that suddenly appeared left me and Zansword baffled.

“Battle against the assassin player…?!”

“Indeed! You have read the new update’s patch notes, I presume? Assassins will be sent to kill the high-level players—I’m one of those assassins!”

Oh, that!

I had thought that they would throw out some special monsters, but to think they would invite top players from another game.

The devs sure went big this time.

“Incidentally, we, as boss characters, are given special avatars by the developers. As such, I can do something like this…!”

Kirika clapped her hands together.

At that moment, countless summoning formations appeared around me and Zansword, from which crawled out hundreds of skeletal warriors!

“Wha?! Isn’t this ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’?! Is she a Summoner?!”

“Nay, that’s not it, Yuri! This is a special technique exclusive to high-level Dead from Asura Realm in ‘Sengoku Rokudo Online’…!” Zansword explained despite his surprise.

I see… now that he mentioned it, you could only summon up to 100 monsters with ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’. But Kirika had summoned roughly 600 skeletal warriors.

Moreover, I’d never seen a skeletal warrior monster.

“So by special avatars, you mean that assassin players can use the powers of other games?”

“Fufu, you are quick to catch on, little lady. You are correct. Well then, let us get to know each other by fighting to the death!” Following Kirika’s scream, the hundreds of skeletal warriors all charged toward me and Zansword—!

[Clack, clack, clack, clack!]

The jaws of the warriors of Hell rattled as they approached.

There were so many of them. The sight of hundreds of skeletons coming at you while brandishing their swords would no doubt make ordinary people freeze in fear.

However…

“Just the other day, I was attacked by tens of thousands of players. This isn’t even enough to make me bat an eye!”

Just before I was swarmed by the skeletal warriors, I made a huge summoning formation appear underneath me.

And in the next moment, the gigantic 100-meter-tall monster, ‘Gigantic Dragon Plant’, rose up from the ground carrying me and Zansword on his shoulder!

“Gugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

[Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack?!]

The skeletal warriors were sent flying by the dragon plant’s huge body, which reached up to the sky.

It seemed that although their numbers were amazing, their endurance was pretty low, as many of the skeletal warriors broke into pieces and disappeared.

“Okay, Gigataro, give that visitor from another world a taste of your power!”

“Gugagaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

In response to my words, Gigataro’s seven petals shone.

And in the next moment, one of the strongest special moves in the game, ‘Genocide Seven Lasers’, fired at the asura lady—!

However…

“Don’t underestimate me-ya! Oṃ khili khili vajra hūṃ phaṭ–Exorcise evil with the power of evil! Asura Realm spell, ‘Evil-Splitting Slash’!!!” Kirika screamed and hellish light overflowed from her blade!

Then, to my shock, she swung her blade at Gigataro’s ‘Genocide Seven Lasers’!

“Ahahaha! It won’t work against me!” Kirika laughed triumphantly.

Exactly as she said, the all-destroying magic beams split in two the moment they touched her blade and were unable to inflict even a single scratch on her.

“I see, so it’s like an art that nullifies magic…!”

That was one convenient technique, I wished they made it available for players as well.

The beams died down after a few seconds. Since giant summoned monsters could only materialize for about 10 seconds, Gigataro gradually disappeared as he cried “Gugaaa~…!” in regret.

—However…

“Zansword!”

“Umu!”

While Kirika had been focused on defending against the magic beams, my war buddy had already been on the move!

With ‘Ultimate Fire Enchant’ blue flames wrapping his whole body, he shot toward her like a Firebird!

“Kirika! Receive the blade I’ve refined in this world!”

“That is what I wanted-yaaa!”

With a super loud clang, the two collided in mid-air.

Although Kirika was burned by the high-temperature flames wrapped around Zansword, she was still smiling. It was as if she really wanted to get hurt.

“Kah! So it’s an enchantment spell that constantly burns nearby enemies! How wonderful, I did not expect there to be such an amazing technique in this warm and friendly game!”

“Indeed! But that’s not all, this world is also home to a Dead that can kill you!”

“Are you joking with me?!” Kirika growled. Then she exerted all her strength to push back Zansword—at that moment…

“No, I’m being completely serious. She has defeated me twice–the Demon King that exceeds the Dead!!!”

…Zansword withdrew his strength.

As a result, he was overpowered by Kirika and sent flying to the ground from the night sky.

“Huh, w-what are you—”

It caught Kirika off guard, leaving her bewildered.

With a gasp of realization, she then turned to me, but it was too late!

“Sorry, but my preparations are done.” I told Kirika, standing my flying familiar, ‘Vanishing Firebird’.

Grasping a sword in each hand, I used ‘Arms Barrier’ to summon seven greatswords behind me…!

Until now, I had been holding my bow to use ‘Arms Barrier’, or else it wouldn’t activate, but…

“Thinking about it carefully, I don’t necessarily have to hold it in my hand. Right, Ponjuichiro?”

“Kishaaa~!”

My ‘Beginner Bow’ cried as it floated in the air.

Yeah. I had transferred one of my Shadow Weapons to the bow, just as I did to the swords in my hand. And weapons possessed by the Pons would the ‘Flying’ skill, like the one owned by the Vanishing Firebird.

Now I had a total of nine weapons out in the open. They were all pointed at Kirika, but she just scoffed, “Hah!”, and smirked. “I thought you were preparing something special, but it seems I was mistaken! I have watched how you fought. You were terrifying, firing dozens of weapons that exploded upon impact. But this? Are you trying to make me laugh?!”

Kirika released hellish flames from her body. With her long sword in hand, she instantly closed the distance between us!

“Fool! You cannot defeat me with so few weapons!”

Sure, they are far too few compared to before

But…

“I just have to multiply the attack power of each one of them, then! Activate art, ‘Shining Arrow’!!!”

“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

And so, the light-clad swords shot off.

My new killer technique, nine simultaneous art attacks, swallowed the astonished Kirika—!