Log Horizon

◆ 30

Meanwhile, about a hundred metres from the battle of Elias and the others, Leonardo and the blonde girl Lasphere were confronted.

The forest, which looked like a green ribbon from above, seemed to thrive in search of water in the gorge. In this desolate land of Aolsoi, only the moist lands of the basin will be able to maintain enough trees to be called forests.

The two of them, facing each other on the branches of that forest, were not so much attacking each other more than once, running round the trees.

Leonardo is Assassin.

Alleged Weapon Attack Positions (Assassins), Swordsmen (Swashbucklers), and Bards (Birds) specialize in dealing physical damage. Often fought in the avant-garde, they acquire a high level of agility, as well as high damage muscle strength, to avoid enemy attacks and occupy positions in favor of attacks.

Not to mention that Leonardo is a 90-level Adventurer. Its physical performance is high and there is nothing like taking a congratulatory pull on a normal-ranked monster. Even if the opponent is an almost equal opponent: eighty-nine levels.

But Leonardo had not succeeded in putting in an effective hit.

Leonardo, who is supposed to beat him at speed, is so clumsy because of Lasphere's odd body technique.

Russphere's movements were not human.

He sticks his puller up the tree trunk, or hangs upside down, and continues to flirt with Leonardo in strange motion.

Maybe that's not physical.

Exercise ideology that doesn't care at all about the principle of moving with two legs. The abrupt, creepy movement was just like some kind of insect. Russphere uses sharp nails and toes to climb the scabs and tree trunks while remaining in an upside down position.

"Delightful, delightful."

Russphere laughing in a bell-ringing voice.

Russphere, who bends his joints in the direction of not being awesome and shows bug-like movement, gave Leonardo a nightmarish impression just because she is a beautiful girl with doll-like beauty.

And there was another factor that was determining that grotesque impression.

"Shut up!!

"Gich!"

A flash of Leonardo cuts off Lasphere's arm.

"Whoo-hoo! Steel. I'll devour it. I'll slit it. This is pain, or pain. More juicy than dusk, more red than shoreline, more red than poison - woohoo, ahhh!!

Shortly after a singing whisper, Lasphere counters Leonardo with an arm that should have been cut off. The nail stretched like a dagger made of steel, cutting Leonardo's leather armor with cold air.

(Shit!! Again)

Leonardo takes a distance when he twists himself into a continuous attack.

The repetition makes Lasphere's impression even more gloomy.

Russphere's arm, which should have been cut off. If that's what you do, you're connected again.

It's the same whether it's a leg or a torso. The girl in front of her eyes seemed to have a strange immortality. Does Rathfir know that, waving a limb of cold air leaking a graceful laugh?

A Normal Rank Monster is a monster defined as "an adventurer of the same level who has the combat ability to fight one-on-one". However, the term "adventurer" in balancing was used to refer to "a person who has that level, is equipped with level-appropriate store-selling weapons protection equipment, and has not yet been enhanced with stunts due to proficiency points, etc.".

That means "adventurer with minimal strength at the level."

Leonardo was not an "adventurer" in the top ranker class, but still has more than enough experience as a veteran. Equipment is grouped together at least production-grade around those from large-scale combat output, and the stunts are enhanced to the fullest by proficiency points.

There's no way that Leonardo could have handled the Normal Rank Monster. Of course, it doesn't mean you'll settle instantly, but the fight can't last longer than a few minutes, etc.

Leonardo and Lasphere levels are antagonistic. And Russphere's rank is normal. But that's why Leonardo, the Adventurer and equipped, should be slightly, but decisively, outnumbered by her.

(Tane, or...)

A status notation that blinks your vision. The name "Lasphere" alternates with "Grey Spotted Dog Ghost". There is no regularity in its brightness, and it engraves a delusional rhythm.

I don't know how it works, but it seems that this NPC called Russphere controls brightness at its own will.

In several clashes, Leonardo guessed.

This woman controls "Damaged Names".

If we were to borrow Coppelian words, would that mean souls? "The Double One" (Parallel One), Coppelia said, but it is clear from Lasphere's behavior that he is not sorry for the raw gentleness of being double, etc. Leonardo intuites that this woman has at least dozens of 'souls'.

Shortly before Leonardo's Katana hit, Lasphere, who inverted the 'name', has' discarded 'the damage on his shoulders by the disposable' name '.

(... unusual)

Two, three degrees.

Lasphere's whispering hand protrudes with the sharpness of a raptor. Certainly there is something remarkable about the speed and there are some lapses. But Lasphere's body itself is no different from that of an early teenage girl. Leonardo dodges, taking advantage of the advantage of the difference in reach.

That Leonardo cheek rips open.

Lasphere smiled tilting her poor beauty.

From the tip of the sticking finger to the tip, it has changed to the hands of a luscious, hairy twinkle, like an illusion. Gripped there is a boneless circular moon knife.

The "Grey Spotted Dog Ghost" arms and the weapon he grips disappear abruptly, even though glittering as they did when he appeared.

Lasphere approached as he folded into Leonardo's amazement.

Gothic dresses howl like rose flowers blooming in the universe. Lace petticoat peeking from plenty of drapes. What stretches from there to Leonardo is Jackal's hind legs with gray spots.

If Leonardo hadn't avoided a single haircut, he was a toenail swinging his eyeballs out. It turns into a small pump with a silk ribbon at the moment of staring.

"What's the matter? Did you give up? Did it shrivel? Like sunless flowers, like migratory birds who lost their homeland?

Leonardo solidifies his determination to Lasphere's mockery.

It's hard to say that I've fully met him yet, but I was determined not to hesitate.

(If you protect it, you're poor)

Pack the distance. Between the two of them, you can touch them if you bring yourself. That's all that's left. Like he hates that space, Leonardo sticks his left hand out. The intent is not an attack, but a trigger for activation.

From the standpoint (stance), the flash attack is Deadly Dance. Assassin's Special Attack Stunt. If used continuously, its power will gradually increase, but it is a one-of-a-kind move that if you make mistakes along the way, the offense will decrease in reverse.

Leonardo dared to activate the move with motion input, not from the icon behind his brain.

There are currently two ways to start combat moves in this world. As in the "Elder Tail" era, the stunt is activated by the selection of icons. The other is a random activation that actually activates when you see your body in the input device by imitating the motion.

The overwhelming mainstream is activated by icons.

Fighting in one bite, attacking, etc., but enemy monsters vary in stature and battlefield terrain. The "Adventurers", who were only ordinary Earthlings with no experience in martial arts or combat, know how much their physical abilities have been enhanced.

For such an "Adventurer", if you select an icon, the battle stunt that hits the attack in the best motion, not tracking the enemy currently in front of you, is the central means of attack for White Soldier combat positions.

But dare to activate it arbitrarily using your own body.

That's what I saw that day, the secret of Kanami's strength.

Originally, "militants" (monks) have a lot of stunts that carry out multiple attacks in one move, as they call combo positions, etc.

"Aerial Rave" is one of Monk's most spectacular serial attack stunts. This move is a fifth consecutive attack that jumps the enemy up into the air continuously with a left and right punch, as well as pushing the floating enemy further up with a knee kick, dropping his heel from it and leading him to a backward kick as it flows. Each attack damage itself is a little less modest than normal, but this combo of five consecutive times adds up to deal a lot of damage to the monster.

And on the other hand, Triple Brow is a stunt that releases three powerful punches in a row: Right, Left Straight, and Right Hook.

Leonardo wasn't a militant, so it took him a while to get to the right understanding, but these two stunts inspired reasoning.

In other words, Kanami used two attacks in the second half of Triple Brow to satisfy the activation condition of the first two punches of Aerial Rave.

While the stunt is active, another stunt cannot be activated. It was the common sense of Elder Tail. Even now, during stunt activation, the icon in the back of the brain loses its radiance and does not accept input.

However, in stunt activation where the actual flesh is used, there is no input invalidation time for that species. Alternatively, even if present, continuous input is possible with a process such as waiting for cancellation.

"Aerial Rave" is a powerful series of attacks, but its damage relies on kicking moves like heel drops and backward spinning kicks in the second half. The punch at the beginning is only meant to "float enemies" and is damaging and insignificant. However, in the case of icon input activation, this sequence of flows is finalized and therefore cannot begin or end on the way.

Even an unnecessary blow cannot be omitted.

Kanami destroyed this common sense. The combined performance of the two stunts was boosted by replacing a damaging, unexpected attack at the beginning with a powerful Triple Brow.

Of course, this is not as easy as saying by mouth.

Stunts activated from the in-view icons instantly read through their own attitudes, terrain, enemy physique and intermission to assist the 'Adventurer' in their actions.

But stunts that activate arbitrarily do not have such auxiliary functions. In the first place, voluntary activation is quite wide. For example, the basic shape of "Deadly Dance" flashes the blade of the right hand after sticking out the left hand and creating the accumulation. That's all the moves, but Leonardo just confirmed it, and it's possible to generate them in seven different motions. The timing, angle, and tolerance of the accumulation time for protruding the left hand are actually varied.

These various variations will not be effective attacks in action unless Leonardo himself chooses to use them to suit the situation in front of him. Arbitrary activated attacks with no automatic tracking performance are below the hit rate compared to icon-activated attacks, unless you gain so much skill. It's too difficult and seems to have such a complex system that you wouldn't be willing to practice without the benefits.

But the benefits existed.

Leonardo waves the right blade. The slaughter was traced and sucked into the rasphere. The icon in the back of the brain loses light and goes to show a slow recovery in hourglass form. In the meantime, a second. If you use Deadly Dance again in a second, the power of the second attack will increase by seven percent.

But Leonardo doesn't waste that second.

Add a softening attack with your left hand. The stunt is Quick Assault. And soon afterwards, Deadly Dance. Additionally, connect to Deadly Dance again from Stealth Blade. Leonardo becomes a blade storm, using the mere pose of "sticking out his left hand" as a means of attacking with Ninja Twin Flames in both hands.

There are no such diverse combo attacks as militants in Assassins. Therefore, Leonardo could not copy the way Kanami fought (style) as it was.

It was this "parallel plot" that Leonardo painstakingly crafted when he realized it. The chain of stunts, which is normally only processed in series, is used as a double attack method, using the "stash" and the "motion gap".

Now we can only assemble around Deadly Dance, but there should be a "freedom" in arbitrary activation for all the 30 less moves Leonardo uses. Combining or sharpening them would make it possible for Leonardo to deal more damage than the upper limit of the Assassin.

Leonardo poked at his own way of fighting (style), which is still far from complete.

◆ 30

"This speed - Huh!? The brilliance..."

"Shut up!!

Two. Three, four!

Russphere was no longer silent either. Countless blades of illusion pop out of my arms ready to strike in.

From the chest and forehead of Leonardo under that attack, the blood bumps rise.

Leonardo, dodged in the Gast Step, strikes a sixth slaughter without appearing behind Lasphere. The destructive power put into Deadly Dance had already increased the damage of that blow by 175 percent. After nearly twice as much damage as a normal attack, Lasphere's limbs crumble apart brittle and 'recur' instantly.

I couldn't even afford Leonardo.

He is only an Assassin - an Assassin.

It's not a warrior position that makes it a business to take enemy attacks on the front line, or a recovery position that can heal you. Compared to the magician system, it beats defensive ability, but its HP has limits.

Kill him before he knocks him down. That's Theory in solo combat in weapons attack positions. But in front of her, the strange girl smiles brightly, but she triumphs through Leonardo's attacks many times, making a cold-aired thrust.

Leonardo dares to ignore his own HP as it is lost, launching further attacks. Either way, that's the only way for him to take up an offensive position. - Only to silence the subject by adding an attack.

"What is it, its power? Son of a poor sheep. Stupid Vacation Lost!

"Shut up! What did Laid Boss say?"

"Laid boss? Huh. Heh heh heh. - Whoo-hoo! That's funny, that's comedy. Grabbing the secret of vivid circulation and wondering if it's a pillar of Ornoun, there's nothing harder to do than play on the sandy beach. Therefore, it is very sweet. You deserve to die for it."

"What?"

Are you saying?

What does that mean?

Leonardo couldn't keep asking.

A sharp pain runs as soon as Russphere's, wet lips take her gaze away from her by accident. From the gap in her mutilated Gothic dress appeared the head of the Grey Spotted Dog Ghost.

With his fangs sticking out at Leonardo's shoulder, "The Grey Spotted Dog Ghost" disappears leaving only his bright red mouth like an illusion.

The chewed shoulder still moves, but the rest of the HP is small.

Now is not the moment to talk.

Leonardo squeezes the power of his will and continues the chain of attacks.

Deadly Dance has less than two seconds to enter. Unless you perform the next Deadly Dance in the meantime, the Attack Up effect you've grown will be foggy.

Grab a fever and peel your consciousness off your shoulder (Quick Raid). "Deadly Dance" to hit the slackening mouth of Russphere.

The increase in attack power reaches 212 percent.

The clarity of mind leads to moves. Leonardo tried to look only in front of him. Pain like tinnitus goes far. Even my own temperature, which was in the way. That's a world with only Leonardo's manipulative dozens of attack stunts. Combine the respective "start time" (cast time), "stiff time" (motion bound), and "restart regulation time" (recast time) and run through the shortest path.

There is not one correct answer. Defense or evasion of enemies, intermittence, weight or position of dominant feet and arms. Rather, it is a kaleidoscope of RGB (color graph) that shifts over time t. In it, Leonardo continues his inner disease, seeking the best hand and avoiding the trail that interrupts the attack.

The means (cord) assembled (assembled) for the attack ignites within a time interval stretched enough to be aware of the delay: the speed of reaction of the own flesh.

"How intense, but even it's a child's game."

"That's fine."

Leonardo thought so from the bottom of his heart.

You can play with children.

A program is a growing tree, and a forest.

Combine very small and simple instructions (code) to create functions (functions). The stack creates a larger, more convenient process (part), which eventually goes into one app. further dynamically combining, communicating, and creating services.

Leonardo knows that very simple work needs to continue in order to seek results. In order to see the art comparable to giant architecture, we must now assemble the shards in front of us.

Those who know its distance are called Geeks,

Those who embody that dignity are called hackers.

Leonardo was happy to continue the precision operation.

The current increase in offense power is twenty-four and five percent.

If you want to call me a prank, call me whatever you want. The prank catches up with Russphere. Leonardo believes so. Believe in Geek.

"Many times."

I see raspheric delicacies across the bloody smoke like salvia blooming in the sky.

Another attack on Leonardo's neck, overlaid with Deadly Dance, is pursued by avoiding only the torsion of the trunk. With the current counterattack, Leonardo lost three of the stunts he could choose as his next attack. There are four stunts left to choose from. Pick a hand in it that leads to the next attack, the next attack, and inflict a further blow.

"Paralysing Brow!

"Heh heh!

No, even that thought was in the way.

One is just a judgment close to reflection backed by vast experience. Leonardo believed in his explored branches. That training on the big rock is breathing in this battle that separates life and death.

"I'm tired. Die, obscure (yakuza), dancing reed (lecklace)!"

Was he here? Lasphere fired his first blow without dodging Leonardo's sword.

Its cuffs swell like balloons, releasing "Grey Spotted Dog Ghost" like a running stream. Hit the claws, the fangs, the swords, the axes, like fury. Assuming you could deactivate the damage with a "name," that was a special attack like Lasphere's aim to strike. Avoid any attack without inflicting fatal injuries. It was such a runoff of alien determination.

But Leonardo was also waiting for that blow again.

"Reckless!? Superior!

Leonardo leaps into the attack while activating Trickstep. Dance the dance of life and death without fear on a tree twenty meters above ground. Leonardo releases the attack with a clear mind as he looks like the hero he longed for.

If it's an attack that never lets Leonardo get away, then you don't have to. If it's a mass attack that comes under siege, it's the center of the storm that's raw.

"Deadly Dance!!

It was literally a dance of life and death.

Switching Lasphere attacks and Leonardo attacks.

It is in that narrow space that victory is shaken.

"Delightful, delightful. But not yet."

Leonardo chases away Russphere, who cut him off with his sword tip. "Name" gets bumpy. That was anticipated earlier. The number of bullets is high. Leonardo doesn't have time either.

But my heart is quiet.

I can even remember her voice.

Leonardo hurt her.

I treated him like a doll.

There is only one hero's apology.

There's only one thing.

I don't give Russphere time to distort his expression in the form of a laugh.

A raspheric torso that disappears like a shadow. But it is only a sign of 'recurrence', and Lasphere's delightfully narrowed eyes show Leonardo's appearance.

One beat. That's a quarter of a breath. The amount of time it takes to 'regenerate' the rasphere grabbed during a long battle.

Leonardo searches for and performs moves that have just enough speed to force them into that slight gap.

"I'm sorry. I have an appointment."

Even the remnants of Deadly Dance were used as part of the activation motion for the absolute depth of the fastest and most powerful.

The Flash of Death (Assassinate).

A standalone attack stunt with the pride of "Assassin". Its power boasts the highest of all twelve positions.

"Huh!! ―― ――

The bargain of tearing the crimson world apart and dividing it into equal portions was dry as if it had broken off a gray earthenware. Leonardo, who squeezed all his strength into the pursuit, fell ill and can only see the beautiful girl split left and right anymore.

"Get lost!!

"Ah...... woohoo. - Give me the clock needle. - Eleven more -"

The girl with the expression taken aback as she heard the magnificent joke turned to the particles as she left a gruesome twinkle without suffering.

It was Leonardo who saw it through, but a moment later he remembered that he was falling again too, enjoying the stringless bungee jump to the ground.

◆ 32

"Fuck you. You're a bungee with no strings or something."

Leonardo was falling over the rotten soil in large letters.

The trees around are desolate, keeping traces of the battle with Lasphere, but near where they are today they seem to be regaining their tranquillity.

Soon the cool sounds of the gorge mix the voices of the little birds.

Until earlier, it sounded far and near, and probably no more fighting noises from the Elias and the others.

Apparently, it's settled.

And, even so, Leonardo couldn't wake himself up.

HP is already critical and stepping into the red zone. Lasphere's frozen knife appears to have been inflicted with Cold Air Attribute damage. I couldn't afford to check during the fight, but more than ten Bad stats have accumulated. Each piece of continuous damage is trace, but not silly overall.

Their damage and their natural recovery during non-combat antagonize over Leonardo's HP bar.

There are no signs of immediate death, but natural recovery is not desirable for the time being. Other than that, did you suffer frostbite? You still have paralysis on your limbs.

(However. Fuck you. I did it.)

But as for Leonardo, it was a bulky one.

I did what I had to do.

Perhaps, but at least the invasion by the "Grey Spotted Dog Ghost" along this tributary stopped. There is no mistake that those two men Leonardo saw were the backdrop to this massive battle.

I don't know what happened to the massive combat black dragon to leave it to KR (Kair), but Leonardo didn't suspect it.

This little geek fought through it. That floating KR doesn't make sense to lose. There is no sign that the Black Dragon, who lost the mastermind in the first place, will return. That young man won't need it, such as Leonardo's worries.

But that was no longer a good thing.

This world is not about Elder Tail.

Leonardo could honestly say that now.

If it's "Elder Tail," a massive battle is the content of a game, and its offense is spoken of in terms of whether it's a crusade or not, or the acquisition of rare items.

But this is not Elder Tail. Even if you fail to crusade the Black Dragon, if you don't get Rare Items, or if KR or Leonardo falls in the middle of the road at last - if you can stop the invasion of a monster, it's a hero's win.

(Now there will be no damage to that village. - Right)

Leonardo summed it up that way with a strangely clear thought of losing blood.

I don't think the people of that village will ever know about this fight. On the contrary, it is even suspicious whether the Leonards will visit that village again.

But I think Leonardo would like that.

That's what heroes are for.

Those four people, who are Leonardo's admirers, were fighting for nothing like that. If anyone wants to save you, just help them and defeat the irrational.

(Nevertheless -)

Leonardo remembers. About the blonde girl who fought her death. That being was too vivid. It was too out of standard to stir up madness.

Not even the Puerto Rican traffickers wandering around the ghetto have been so annoyed. Reminds me of Russphere's superficially calm and pitiful tone and his gaze at the heat.

NY certainly wasn't the safest city in the world. Not once or twice have I been walking around the city and heard gunshots. (a) Even his people dwell in abundance.

But I don't think she was like those people.

- Grab the secret of vivid circulation, Ornoun.

Lasphere's words, normally considered, would be some hint on the quest, but they didn't really seem that way to Leonardo. I feel more signs of malicious trouble than that.

It's absurd to learn the secrets of vivid flux. Only God can do that. God is sitting in heaven just smiling. That's all.

(Even that crazy eyed woman, Coppelia said)

According to Leonardo's previous interpretation, the two of them are not human.

Lasphere is a monster, and Coppelia is BOT.

But I guess that's a mistake in this world. No matter how reasoned it may be, the hero's soul complains of discomfort. If so, Leonardo believes in that soul. Reviewing the code may be a technology, but the urge to review comes from the soul. It's the soul that's making Leonardo Leonardo.

"Hey, Kellogg, Nardo."

Upon waking up to a brain-weather voice, coming from downstream were three companions headed by Kanami. Apparently, they also left The Grey Spotted Dog Ghost safely.

Leonardo's feelings relaxed sharply on Kanami's expression, who waved his hands vigorously. Even if I had a feeling about the incident, I sincerely thought it didn't matter now.

That's not true of this world anyway, except for the moment. Heroes live from a hunch of trouble, the body of trouble, and the aftermath of trouble. Peace is but an intermission during the Tabernacle.

Leonardo laughs small, saying he needs to be tougher. Toughness is the condition of a man's life, whether it's nostalgic Big Apple or here in Aolsoy, it doesn't make any difference.

He doesn't look like KR, but he's already broken up.

Perhaps we'll meet again. Leonardo had no more doubts about himself getting to the Japanese server. Leonardo will never forget that lousy "summoner" who saved his own peril. When KR fell into distress sooner or later, he vowed to help himself.

Noisy Kanami seems to be arguing with Elias about something. The words "not grateful enough" and "grateful" are reaching Leonardo's ear. And less than two or three words later, a loud water noise. Elias kicked down by the river and Kanami laughing cheerfully. It was noisy, it wasn't like this.

Its sight shaded and Coppelia peered into Leonardo bearing the leaning yang of the west. The girl, with a pale look on her inorganic beauty as usual, asks Leonardo when she puts her neck small.

"Coppelia points to a massive drop in HP, Mass. You want a cure, Death?

"Coppelia"

"Hi."

Leonardo took his first deep peek into Coppelia's eyes as he lay majestically on the earth. In those eyes, he feels like he's found what he's been looking for, and his chest warms. I have to tell you something.

"Sorry."

"Coppelia was unable to finalize the context of the apology"

"That's okay."

To the girl with the little neck, Leonardo searches for a really worthy word.

"I'm Leonardo."

"Hi. Sir Leonardo"

Then heal, please.

Copy that, sir.

I had my first name called and asked for healing for the first time. The healing glow was white with a slight mixture of red, the colour of which made me think of unclean innocence. Coppelia's recovery spell wraps Leonardo around like a warm cocoon, removing pain and fatigue.

The silent Coppelia watched Leonardo's injuries with a serious look. The look was so sincere that Leonardo finally managed to find the right words.

"Coppelia"

"Hi."

Coppelia has a soul.

"I have it right. I can see it. The colour of Coppelia's soul..."

He said it was a healing cherry blossom color, flooded from his thin fingertips.

Leonardo assured me.