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However, he failed.

Three flying wheels attacked from three directions, three different weapons targeting three different parts of the body. Johnny Black, with his high speed and elegant dodge, pounced forward and thrust his dagger, which shone with sword-like brilliance, toward the axeman's neck.

"Do not--"

Kirito screamed, but nothing could stop it.

The axe-wielder's health instantly vanished, turning into fragments and disappearing without a trace. He was the first player to die in Kirito's party, but unfortunately, he wasn't the last.

There are more than thirty more waiting to be slaughtered.

"Alright, get to work, guys, we only have thirty seconds left!"

"Please, please, PoH, why are you killing people? They're all human beings! Are you all insane? Why are you killing people?!"

Kirito was already somewhat incoherent, but that did nothing to stop things from continuing. Johnny Black's name finally turned blood red, but he became even more excited, happily counting the number of players who had left the game.

"One, two... thirteen, fourteen! Hey, you bastard, this last one is mine! You dare steal my kill!"

The newly promoted red-named officer wielding the hand axe smiled nonchalantly, handing the kill to his captain, Johnny Black. Johnny Black currently had the fewest kills among all the officers, and he was eager to catch up!

"Kirito-kun, is this interesting?"

PoH still had his arm around Kirito's shoulder, and casually slashed Kirito's neck with the machete in his hand, reducing Kirito's health by a small amount and resetting the time Kirito was paralyzed.

However, Kirito did not answer. He stared blankly in the direction where the players had disappeared. Just a few dozen seconds ago, there was a large group of players charging after him.

Why did it turn out like this?

Perhaps... it was all his fault?

If he hadn't acted so impulsively, if he had noticed Johnny Black's abnormality, he might have been able to change everyone's fate.

But now...it's too late, it's all over...

With his last hope, Kirito glanced into the distance, towards those three directions. However, at that moment, angry shouts and screams that faintly drifted from afar mercilessly entered Kirito's ears.

He was very familiar with these sounds.

The one roaring is Agil. He seems to be out of control, but why is he screaming so desperately?

That scream was from Ya-Oh. Kirito wouldn't be surprised no matter how pitiful Ya-Oh's scream was, but right now he really wanted to see the spirited Ya-Oh one more time.

The one shouting "retreat!" was Tilberu. Fortunately, Tilberu seemed to be a little smarter, but even if he successfully saved a lot of players, how many could he actually save?

Nearly three hundred players betrayed them in an instant, with about twenty or thirty of them. The dire situation on three sides was no better than what they were facing. Even if Tilberu managed to save half of them, would there be fifty left?

The group of nearly three hundred people dwindled to only fifty or sixty in an instant, even fewer than the number of people in the Smiling Coffin...

Sure enough, it's all over!

Tears streamed down Kirito's cheeks. If only he were a little smarter...

He was filled with hatred and resentment. He wanted to take action and avenge these players with his own hands, but the numbness tightly bound his nerves, making it impossible for him to understand.

"Ahhhh!"

Kirito roared, Kirito cried out in despair, "Why? The so-called paralysis is just a system, it's just data! Why can this SAO bind my mind, bind my consciousness? Is the system really stronger than my consciousness?"

He was unwilling to accept this. If the system had a physical form, he vowed to tear it apart and shatter this despair!

PoH watched Kirito's lament, his cold smile unchanged, but soon, his smile vanished.

Kirito, like a machine, slowly raised his head.

115 Never mind, using dual swords doesn't count as colorless.

A strange "sizzling" sound accompanied Kirito's movements. Not only that, everything around Kirito seemed to blur, as if it were covered by a hazy glass dome.

"Squeak-"

The eerie sound showed no signs of abating; instead, it grew increasingly intense. Kirito's entire body began to blur, and a blue line, resembling an outline, surrounded him.

"This is……"

“No, no,” PoH said, still smiling, but jumped back and looked at the changes in Kirito. His expression changed slightly, and he said, “I have a feeling that we’ve encountered something extraordinary, something that even the boss didn’t expect.”

"pat-"

With a soft crack, something seemed to shatter, and Kirito's body began to flash rapidly with mosaic-like patterns. The entire environment seemed to shake and become unstable.

Kirito, who could only move like a machine before, suddenly seemed to become more intelligent and his movements became faster and faster. He turned around and faced PoH.

"Ahhh, it seems we've really encountered something incredible. Looking at you, I feel like I'm seeing a monster... Hey, Kirito, you're not really some kind of monster, are you? A monster from a scientific experiment?"

Kirito's mind was in a state of chaos, yet intense emotions drove his frantic thoughts to churn within him. His consciousness was gradually fading, but a belief persisted.

Kill...red-named players!

Suddenly, sparks crackled and popped from Kirito's body, as if something was colliding with him. However, the clash grew increasingly intense, and the sparks, which initially appeared on Kirito's body, gradually spread outwards.

It was as if something, something binding Kirito's body, had been forcibly pushed away by some force.

No one noticed that the lightning bolt icon representing paralysis on Kirito's health bar suddenly disappeared, vanished without a sound, as if it had never existed in the first place.

Originally, there were still more than forty seconds left before the paralysis period ended.

"What are you waiting for? Let's do it!"

With a loud shout, PoH chose to step forward in the face of unknown danger!

The machete in his hand struck Kirito squarely toward his neck, while Johnny Black, behind Kirito, led the remaining three players in attacking Kirito from different directions.

This series of attacks is just like the big axe-wielder who was cleared out by several red-named players earlier. No matter how strong you are, what can you do when you are surrounded by several people?

A person, after all, only has one sword...

No, what is that?

Kirito's sword in his right hand emitted light and slashed at PoH, colliding with PoH's machete. This meant that he would not normally be able to free his hand to deal with Johnny Black's attack.

However, Kirito's left hand grasped the void, and from the void appeared another sword that came into his hand.

The second sword.

"Double Fan-Shaped Slash!"

Kirito suddenly unleashed two enormous fan-shaped attacks, the massive sword techniques forming a circle. The circular attack acted like a giant shield, instantly deflecting the attacks of the four people.

"This is……"

"Are you kidding me? I've never heard of that!"

"Two swords... Dual-wielding?"

Johnny Black muttered to himself, and the expressions on the faces of the players around him also changed. Putting everything else aside, the fact that he had single-handedly deflected four people with that one sword strike was a level of strength that they couldn't afford to underestimate.

Dual-wielding, Kirito's signature skill in the original work, was originally supposed to be unlocked at a higher level. However, this time, Momo told Kirito how to obtain dual-wielding from the beginning and even traded skill proficiency with him several times.

With Kirito intentionally fulfilling the requirements, he finally unlocked his exclusive skill not long ago.

However, just like in the original work, Kirito hid his dual-wielding skills because he was worried about showing off too much. After all, players were conquering SAO with great success, and there was no need for him to save the world. He would only occasionally improve his dual-wielding skills by himself, and even Yuki was unaware of this special skill of his.

But now, Kirito activated the skill without hesitation, because he was regretting it. If he hadn't hesitated and had activated Dual Blades from the start, perhaps... these dozens of people wouldn't have died.

Although this was just Kirito's self-blame, and no one could be sure what the outcome would be if he activated the dual-wielding style, Kirito still took the responsibility for these things upon himself.

After all, he was a leader, a failed leader.

"Hey, president... this doesn't seem good, what should we do?"

"How to do?"

PoH licked his lips and said, "It's just wielding dual swords. Does that mean that if you were a nobody before wielding dual swords, you can become a berserker and a god after you do?"

"Keep attacking together! I refuse to believe his sword skills won't have a cooldown!"

At PoH's command, the three players behind him were about to continue using the Flying Wheel technique, but at that moment PoH's pupils shrank as Kirito used a thrusting sword technique, charging directly towards him.

"court death!"

PoH angrily blocked Kirito's attack. Did Kirito think he was the weakest one among them?

How could PoH not be furious?

The two attacks collided, their sword techniques canceling each other out. PoH calmly stared at Kirito's other sword, waiting to break free of his stun and ready to deal with the attack from the other sword at any moment.

So what if he uses dual swords? Dual swords just means he can use sword techniques twice as many times. Does that mean Kirito will become invincible?

Two swords, and it's just one person!

As Kirito made another move, PoH's expression changed!

Kirito had already closed in on PoH, and the two were locked in a stalemate due to the clash of their swords, but Kirito's other sword could still unleash its sword techniques.

It's still a thrust!

"not good!"

PoH wanted to give a hint, but it was too late. Kirito's target this time wasn't him at all, but the three Flying Wheelers behind him!

Seeing Kirito break through the PoH defenses and charge forward, one of the red-named players in the middle roared, "You guys continue, I'll hold them off..."

He canceled his sword technique and replaced the flying wheel in his hand with a shield, intending to use it to block Kirito's attack, but Kirito's attack changed again.

"Double Reverse Wheel!"

Reverse Wheel, the only counter-attack sword technique among one-handed swords, is also a very advanced sword technique. It is likely that among all one-handed sword players, only Kirito and Momo have mastered it.

Reverse Wheel: Once you collide with the opponent's weapon and enter a stunned state, you can activate it to break through your own stunned state and launch an additional attack on the opponent.

This move is useful, but it has very low damage and an extremely long cooldown. It's basically a trump card and will never be used lightly.

Now, Kirito has actually used the dual-wielding style twice in a row, first breaking through the PoH barrier, and now using it again by colliding with this red-named player with a shield.

The brilliance of the sword pierced the player's throat. Before he could finish his vow to stop Kirito, he died by Kirito's sword.

Kirito showed no mercy whatsoever.

Or rather, his consciousness was on the verge of being overwhelmed by the system's immense pressure. Because Kirito had just forcibly broken free from his paralysis, the system was now forcefully checking Kirito's state of consciousness, while Kirito was constantly stimulating his own emotions, using a massive amount of information to resist everything.

Kirito was unaware that he had inadvertently come to understand some things, things that Kayaba Akihiko most wanted to see.

Humanity's breakthrough, in the virtual world, is a milestone in the evolution from a biological entity to an information entity. It marks the first time that a person has been able to control their own consciousness, allowing their consciousness to interact with artificial data and resist the system's data.

Kirito became the first person to break down the boundaries between virtual and reality, enabling direct contact between human consciousness and virtual data. Of course, Kayaba Akihiko also had his own name for this.