Watching everything unfold from a distance, PoH, or rather Vassago Cassals, have an unwipeable smile on his face. His wavy black hair swayed for a bit once he saw some interesting players, such as Kirito, Asuna, and Heathcliff.
He doesn't know why, but he felt strangely suspicious of the third, thus he kept observing him.
Suddenly, he saw Heathcliff make an eye contact to him from a large distance.
"He can see me? Intuition, perhaps?"
Dozens of thoughts passed by his mind before he came to some guesses as to who Heathcliff really is.
"It might be talent, but who knows? He might be Kayaba Akihiko himself." He muttered with a light laugh.
When he first knew about Kayaba, he immediately presumed some reasons as to why he turned this world into a death game, and one of the most probable guesses of his is that... he's bored.
Kayaba has a good record since childhood - from achieving many academic awards to creating the core of this virtual reality game all by himself. With his godsent talents, it isn't strange for him to lose his purpose in life.
As to how he reached this conclusion, he can confidently state that they are similar in regards to their circumstances. His childhood is nothing but good, and he became a part of the underworld at a young age of 15.
With his talents in assassinating, he quickly got bored due to it and only when he is tasked to enter Sword Art Online, a death game, did he regain interest and even felt excitement.
After all, this unique situation might only be encountered once during his life!
"Oh? I knew it. That guy actually came here."
As soon as he looked at Shiro, the latter returned back his gaze. Though, he never got scared and went into his position to initiate his plan.
A minute later, he saw Shiro and another player, whom he knew as Kuroneko, arrive at the start of the corridor.
Seeing this, Shiro cursed at this familiar sight.
"Are you fucking kidding me? This again?"
"A coincidence, I must say."
It is eerily similar to the very long corridor of that anomalous dungeon, but much shorter. The design also differed, as some light crystals are placed in the walls while the floor is made up of white quartz.
In an instant, both of them deduced that this is about 200 meters long.
"You really came."
From the far end of the corridor, Vassago spoke out like a labyrinth boss waiting for them to arrive.
"What, do you expect to go scot-free?"
"Of course not. That's why I orchestrated everything here, for you to arrive!"
This is the main reason why Shiro didn't deal with Laughing Coffin at its root - he knew that things would come to this one way or another. Blindly searching for them is not worth the trouble, more so when he knew that they'll come straight at himself.
"And you stupidly fell for my plan."
"I don't care." Vassago smirked at him with a hint of excitement in their upcoming confrontation.
"Do you really think of yourself as my rival?"
"Of course." He began explaining to Shiro, giving the latter all the confirmation that he needed on his deductions. "In all my life, I never met someone as crazy as you! Why would I let go of such opportunity to fight you?"
"Oh, so that's how it is. You got bored, and now that you found someone interesting, you plan all this shit for a year just for this moment."
"You managed to read each of my moves. As expected of you."
Thud-!
Throwing the confused Morte to the corner, he said to Kuroneko, "I entrust him to you for a while."
"Be careful, Shiro. Traps are littered everywhere, around level 70 in average."
"Alright, thanks."
Shiro used the mod before changing to his main loadout.
A decorated black sword appeared in his right hand while a golden sword appeared in his left. It is none other than his unnamed black sword and [Fragrant Olive Sword].
"Hm? It seems that you've received a too."
As the leader of Laughing Coffin, he received one. It is none other than which is something that you can get after having the most player kills.
Simply put, it gave a debuff to other players when in a fight while buffing himself to the heavens. Not only that, all of his sword skills that came from it is specialized in dealing with players and humanoid NPCs.
It's simply a skill specializing in killing.
"Let's cut the crap. You wait for me there obediently while I run past through this traps charade, m'kay?"
Without waiting for Vassago's reply, he dashed straight at him, with no care at the traps whatsoever.
Click-!
At one point, Shiro heard a click sound when he stepped on one of the floors.
Psssh-! Psssh-!
Psssh-! Psssh-!
Poisoned arrows came out en masse from the walls, which soon covered his vision.
Clang-! Clang-!
Clang-! Clang-!
Shiro dodged them with inhumane reaction speed while slicing down the rest with his blades. Even while doing this, he has a nonchalant face under his white mask.
One of the arrows almost gazed the top of his head, but he managed to duck before using that move to gather momentum. He then dashed forward once more.
Click-!
Another clicking sound resounded in this corridor, which caused an explosion here. Black smoke gathered in the surroundings, yet Vassago didn't think that tis is over due to his skill.
It has many purposes, but the one that he liked the most is that it detects a player and in his range, making him see their every move as a light figure.
Right now, he saw a silhouette rushing to his direction without any stops.
' is truly a cheat as depicted in the anime.' Shiro thought.
After all, it allowed him to withstand more than half a dozen players attacking him from different directions.
Shiro watched his HP regenerate quickly as he activated yet another arrow trap.
[HP: 12,400/16,500]
[HP: 13,093/16,500]
Once every five seconds, his skill activates and recovers a part of his HP. Meaning, Shiro can go berserk without minding his HP much. Moreover, he also has a ton of healing items inside his inventory, waiting to be taken out.
Swooosh-!
This time, a spiked ball passed through the back of his head, avoiding it narrowly in the eyes of others. Although, every move of his is calculated.
'Gotcha.'
Seeing that the range is right, he chanted the syntaxes inside his head before reciting, "Enhance Armament."
Surprisingly, the golden blade turned into countless osmanthus flowers that targeted Vassago in the end of this tunnel.
"What?!"
Shocked by his ability, he immediately used all his skills to deflect them, only to fail.
Soon, he got submerged into the heavy flowers. When Shiro recalled them back, he saw him living with a tiny bit of HP - something that he intentionally did.
His armor are broken while his prided had its durability lowered drastically.
Click-!
Shiro stepped in one of the traps again, but this time its a poison mist. Lying down, Vassago thought that he'll be paralyzed but Shiro's antidote potion warded him off negative status effects for 15 minutes.
He drank this before entering the hideout, thus he's confident to bypass these traps. It's the higher-leveled antidotes from rare quests, after all.
Arriving in front of him, Shiro looked down at him with a playful look and said, "Do you think I would stupidly fight you head-on?"
*****
A/N: First of all, this novel reached 1M views (here in Webnovel)! To be honest, I didn't expect this when I began writing this fic months ago. I got bored, more inspirations popped up, and I decided it's nigh time to start writing. Thanks to my previous experience (My other novel), it went smoother than I expected. Though, I didn't think that it'll be this enjoyable writing stories with your favorite characters in it! What's more, I longed to write one way back in the past whenever I finished watching some anime (Code Geass, Anohana, and Sword Art Online to name a few). Also, you can expect a double chapter tomorrow to commemorate this.
Anyways, here's a special fact this time~! (Divine Arts will be tomorrow)
PS: Sorry for the late upload here, I placed the wrong schedule..!
Fact #28: Do you know Senior Bai from CCG (Cultivation Chat Group)? If you don't, you only need to know about his insane level of charm that could attract males and females alike. Oh right, he also has an insane luck - to the point that a meteor full of heavenly treasures would fall beside him 'accidentally'. If you think he's becoming more familiar, then you're right! I used him as a character inspiration of sort, thus I ended up naming my MC Shiro. (Senior Bai=Senior White)
Watching everything unfold from a distance, PoH, or rather Vassago Cassals, have an unwipeable smile on his face. His wavy black hair swayed for a bit once he saw some interesting players, such as Kirito, Asuna, and Heathcliff.
He doesn't know why, but he felt strangely suspicious of the third, thus he kept observing him.
Suddenly, he saw Heathcliff make an eye contact to him from a large distance.
"He can see me? Intuition, perhaps?"
Dozens of thoughts passed by his mind before he came to some guesses as to who Heathcliff really is.
"It might be talent, but who knows? He might be Kayaba Akihiko himself." He muttered with a light laugh.
When he first knew about Kayaba, he immediately presumed some reasons as to why he turned this world into a death game, and one of the most probable guesses of his is that... he's bored.
Kayaba has a good record since childhood - from achieving many academic awards to creating the core of this virtual reality game all by himself. With his godsent talents, it isn't strange for him to lose his purpose in life.
As to how he reached this conclusion, he can confidently state that they are similar in regards to their circumstances. His childhood is nothing but good, and he became a part of the underworld at a young age of 15.
With his talents in assassinating, he quickly got bored due to it and only when he is tasked to enter Sword Art Online, a death game, did he regain interest and even felt excitement.
After all, this unique situation might only be encountered once during his life!
"Oh? I knew it. That guy actually came here."
As soon as he looked at Shiro, the latter returned back his gaze. Though, he never got scared and went into his position to initiate his plan.
A minute later, he saw Shiro and another player, whom he knew as Kuroneko, arrive at the start of the corridor.
Seeing this, Shiro cursed at this familiar sight.
"Are you fucking kidding me? This again?"
"A coincidence, I must say."
It is eerily similar to the very long corridor of that anomalous dungeon, but much shorter. The design also differed, as some light crystals are placed in the walls while the floor is made up of white quartz.
In an instant, both of them deduced that this is about 200 meters long.
"You really came."
From the far end of the corridor, Vassago spoke out like a labyrinth boss waiting for them to arrive.
"What, do you expect to go scot-free?"
"Of course not. That's why I orchestrated everything here, for you to arrive!"
This is the main reason why Shiro didn't deal with Laughing Coffin at its root - he knew that things would come to this one way or another. Blindly searching for them is not worth the trouble, more so when he knew that they'll come straight at himself.
"And you stupidly fell for my plan."
"I don't care." Vassago smirked at him with a hint of excitement in their upcoming confrontation.
"Do you really think of yourself as my rival?"
"Of course." He began explaining to Shiro, giving the latter all the confirmation that he needed on his deductions. "In all my life, I never met someone as crazy as you! Why would I let go of such opportunity to fight you?"
"Oh, so that's how it is. You got bored, and now that you found someone interesting, you plan all this shit for a year just for this moment."
"You managed to read each of my moves. As expected of you."
Thud-!
Throwing the confused Morte to the corner, he said to Kuroneko, "I entrust him to you for a while."
"Be careful, Shiro. Traps are littered everywhere, around level 70 in average."
"Alright, thanks."
Shiro used the mod before changing to his main loadout.
A decorated black sword appeared in his right hand while a golden sword appeared in his left. It is none other than his unnamed black sword and [Fragrant Olive Sword].
"Hm? It seems that you've received a too."
As the leader of Laughing Coffin, he received one. It is none other than which is something that you can get after having the most player kills.
Simply put, it gave a debuff to other players when in a fight while buffing himself to the heavens. Not only that, all of his sword skills that came from it is specialized in dealing with players and humanoid NPCs.
It's simply a skill specializing in killing.
"Let's cut the crap. You wait for me there obediently while I run past through this traps charade, m'kay?"
Without waiting for Vassago's reply, he dashed straight at him, with no care at the traps whatsoever.
Click-!
At one point, Shiro heard a click sound when he stepped on one of the floors.
Psssh-! Psssh-!
Psssh-! Psssh-!
Poisoned arrows came out en masse from the walls, which soon covered his vision.
Clang-! Clang-!
Clang-! Clang-!
Shiro dodged them with inhumane reaction speed while slicing down the rest with his blades. Even while doing this, he has a nonchalant face under his white mask.
One of the arrows almost gazed the top of his head, but he managed to duck before using that move to gather momentum. He then dashed forward once more.
Click-!
Another clicking sound resounded in this corridor, which caused an explosion here. Black smoke gathered in the surroundings, yet Vassago didn't think that tis is over due to his skill.
It has many purposes, but the one that he liked the most is that it detects a player and in his range, making him see their every move as a light figure.
Right now, he saw a silhouette rushing to his direction without any stops.
' is truly a cheat as depicted in the anime.' Shiro thought.
After all, it allowed him to withstand more than half a dozen players attacking him from different directions.
Shiro watched his HP regenerate quickly as he activated yet another arrow trap.
[HP: 12,400/16,500]
[HP: 13,093/16,500]
Once every five seconds, his skill activates and recovers a part of his HP. Meaning, Shiro can go berserk without minding his HP much. Moreover, he also has a ton of healing items inside his inventory, waiting to be taken out.
Swooosh-!
This time, a spiked ball passed through the back of his head, avoiding it narrowly in the eyes of others. Although, every move of his is calculated.
'Gotcha.'
Seeing that the range is right, he chanted the syntaxes inside his head before reciting, "Enhance Armament."
Surprisingly, the golden blade turned into countless osmanthus flowers that targeted Vassago in the end of this tunnel.
"What?!"
Shocked by his ability, he immediately used all his skills to deflect them, only to fail.
Soon, he got submerged into the heavy flowers. When Shiro recalled them back, he saw him living with a tiny bit of HP - something that he intentionally did.
His armor are broken while his prided had its durability lowered drastically.
Click-!
Shiro stepped in one of the traps again, but this time its a poison mist. Lying down, Vassago thought that he'll be paralyzed but Shiro's antidote potion warded him off negative status effects for 15 minutes.
He drank this before entering the hideout, thus he's confident to bypass these traps. It's the higher-leveled antidotes from rare quests, after all.
Arriving in front of him, Shiro looked down at him with a playful look and said, "Do you think I would stupidly fight you head-on?"
*****
A/N: First of all, this novel reached 1M views (here in Webnovel)! To be honest, I didn't expect this when I began writing this fic months ago. I got bored, more inspirations popped up, and I decided it's nigh time to start writing. Thanks to my previous experience (My other novel), it went smoother than I expected. Though, I didn't think that it'll be this enjoyable writing stories with your favorite characters in it! What's more, I longed to write one way back in the past whenever I finished watching some anime (Code Geass, Anohana, and Sword Art Online to name a few). Also, you can expect a double chapter tomorrow to commemorate this.
Anyways, here's a special fact this time~! (Divine Arts will be tomorrow)
PS: Sorry for the late upload here, I placed the wrong schedule..!
Fact #28: Do you know Senior Bai from CCG (Cultivation Chat Group)? If you don't, you only need to know about his insane level of charm that could attract males and females alike. Oh right, he also has an insane luck - to the point that a meteor full of heavenly treasures would fall beside him 'accidentally'. If you think he's becoming more familiar, then you're right! I used him as a character inspiration of sort, thus I ended up naming my MC Shiro. (Senior Bai=Senior White)
