The Bad Works of Comics

Take a closer look at the last work.

Appearing from behind the forest was a huge ape-man wrapped in dark red fur.He holds a rough stick in his right hand, and in his left a jug tied like a gourd with ropes.

One, two, three... In the blink of an eye, there were already about ten of these huge ape-men.

The name of this monster is the Drunken Ape-man, and it is the strongest level of ape-man among the monsters that appear in the Lost Forest.

"Hey, can you get out of the way for Misaka? A group of big monkeys..."

The Last Work raised the long sword and pointed at the monsters in front of her. Of course, she didn't expect the monsters to understand what she said, it was just a prologue to the beginning of the battle.

"Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho..."

Sure enough, the ape-man raised his stick, bared his canines and roared loudly, charging towards Last Work.

The monster actually came to the door on its own initiative, which is to underestimate Ben Misaka.

The corner of the mouth of the last work smiled.

The long sword in his hand drew a blow of pure blue afterglow, and he raised his stick in the air and clashed with the ape-man for a split. The stick shattered in less than a second, and the ape-man's body was also split in half and turned into dots. Spots of light disappear into the air.

The moment the first monster was wiped out by Misaka, another ape-man monster next to him attacked one after another.

The Last Work took quick steps to dodge the monster's hammer and spear skills, and immediately launched a combo attack with the long sword, attacking the monsters mercilessly.

With a pop, the long sword pierced through the center of the ape-man monster's chest.

The last work that has been on the offensive so far, I am impatient with the ape monsters charging one by one.I decided to take advantage of this group of apes to get together and solve everything at once.

Thinking about it this way, the last work first blocked with a sword and did not attack, so that the monsters began to gather slowly.

For a moment, when the monsters gathered together, The Last Work launched a series of attacks.

The long sword in his hand was like flowing clouds and flowing water, piercing through the dense crowd of monsters like a butterfly piercing flowers, blocking, left, right, left, and then right.

Using the sword-type skill Roaring Octave, at an extremely fast speed, controlled Misaka to continuously swing the sword.The sharp sound effect continued to sound, and the white light scattered like a meteor illuminated the entire space.

In less than a moment, the monsters exploded into huge blue fragments.Many sparkling particles also fell in the forest.

"Well, it's over easily. Although Misaka thinks she's very good, but this kind of cheating ability doesn't make Misaka feel motivated at all!"

The last work couldn't help curling his lips.

"Can you have something interesting? Misaka is looking forward to it!"

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At the same time, a place in the labyrinth forest.

As the 12-year-old player Silica, she feels bad because she is surrounded by monsters.

At this time, Silica adopted the hit-and-run tactic of repeating the hits of the consecutive attacks, quickly retreating to avoid the enemy's counterattack, and then rushing to attack again, immediately reducing the HP bar of the first one.

The partner, Mobina, sometimes spits out a bubble-like breath, which confuses the eyes of the apes.

At the moment before the fourth attack released the short blade combo, attempting to give the ape-man at the front a fatal blow.

In a momentary gap, the new enemy switches from the target's right rear to the front.Silica had no choice but to change her target and began to reduce the health of the second one.

After the first ape-man retreated to the rear, he raised the jug in his left hand and drank in big gulps.

Then, Silica checked the HP bar of the first drunk ape-man with the corner of her eyes, and found a phenomenon that shocked her.

The HP bar is regenerating at a decent rate.

It seems that there seems to be something like a recovery potion in that pot.

Silica had also fought the Drunken Ape on the fifth floor of No.30 in the past, and defeated two easily at that time.Because there was no room for the opponent to switch, I didn't notice that they had this special ability.Silica gritted her teeth and tried her best to definitely defeat the second monster.

However, after a round of onslaught, the HP bar of the second one was reduced to the red area, and at the moment when the distance was opened for the final heavy attack, the third drunk ape-man abruptly came in from the side.Taking a closer look, the health of the first ape-man has almost fully recovered.

It's going to be endless.The taste of anxiety gradually spread in Silica's mouth.

Silica had no experience in fighting monsters alone.After all, the level of security is just a numerical value, and it is two different things from the player's own skills.

This unexpected situation made Silica's inner anxiety gradually tinged with panic.Her attacks miss more and more, while also giving the enemy a chance to counterattack.

Just when she finally cut the third drunk ape-man's HP bar to about half, the ape-man didn't let go of the stiff time produced by Silica, who was too chasing, and finally sent out a knowing A direct hit with one hit.

Although the stick was just a rough product made of wood, the basic damage caused by the weight, plus the muscle strength correction of the drunk man, unexpectedly reduced Silica's health by about [-]% in an instant.A chill ran down Silica's spine.

Silica was greatly shaken by the fact that there was no recovery potion at hand.Pina's healing breath can only restore about [-]% of HP, and cannot be used frequently.Calculated in this way, as long as he receives the same injury three times - he will die.

death.

The moment this possibility popped into her mind, Silica couldn't help but froze all over.Not only could he not lift his arms, but he could not move his feet either.

So far, fighting has been tense for her, but far from real danger.She never thought that real death would be waiting in front of the extended line of battle...

In front of the drunk ape-man who roared and raised his stick again, his eyes widened and his whole body became stiff, Silica finally understood what it was like to fight monsters in SAO.Understand that although this is a game, it is not a joke, which is full of contradictory facts.

The stick that fell with a deep roar hit Silica who was standing still.She fell to the ground because she couldn't bear the strong impact, and her HP bar suddenly decreased, entering the yellow warning zone.I can't think at all.Even though she still had the option of turning around and running away or using the teleportation crystal, Silica could only stare blankly at the stick raised for the third time.

The rough weapon glowed red, just before Silica reflexively wanted to close her eyes.

A small figure flew from the air in front of the stick.Then there was a heavy impact sound.The water-blue feathers scattered with the effect light, and the short HP bar also decreased to the left end at the same time.

Bina, who was knocked to the ground, raised her head and looked at Silica with her round blue eyes.After making a slight chirp… chirp sound—it disintegrated into shining polygonal fragments.Only one long tail feather fluttered down from the air, and finally landed on the ground.

There was a sound of something breaking suddenly in Silica's heart.All the invisible threads that bound her body disappeared.

Anger is felt first before sadness.It was anger at being too panicked to move after only one attack.

There was also anger at myself who had quarreled and quarreled over trivial matters before, and was so stupid that he thought he could break through the forest alone.

Silica stepped back with agility, staggered past the monster's pursuit, and let out a roar to attack the enemy fiercely.The short sword on the right hand was shining, and it kept cutting at the ape-man.

Seeing that the familiar's companion's physical strength was decreasing, the first drunken ape-man swung his stick and tried to switch again. Silica didn't dodge, but blocked the attack with her left hand.Although not

It was a direct attack, but the HP bar was still reduced.Silica, however, completely ignored this and went after the third ape-man who killed Pina.

Utilizing his petite body to rush into the opponent's arms, he used all his strength to stab the dagger into the ape-man's chest.At the same time that the gorgeous effect of the knowing blow appeared, the enemy's life value was also wiped out.First there was a scream, followed by a broken sound effect.

Among the fragments of objects that exploded, Silica turned around and launched an assault on the new target without saying a word.Although the life value has reached the red alert zone, she no longer cares about these things.In the narrow field of vision, only the figures of enemies that must be killed continue to expand.

Just when she forgot the fear of death and planned to forcibly attack from under the falling stick.A pure white light slashed horizontally from behind the ape-man, cutting apart the two drunken mad ape-men side by side.

In an instant, the ape-man's body was broken into two halves up and down, and the screams and destruction sounded one after another and shattered in all directions.

Silica, who was stunned on the spot, didn't see a petite female player standing there with a sword raised until the debris of the object evaporated.

With tea hair and a long black sword, although she is very small in height, it feels like the girl exudes a strong majesty from her whole body.Silica, who was instinctively terrified, took a slight step back.The eyes of the two followed.

The other party's eyes were very calm, as deep as the darkness of the night.

The tea-haired girl put the one-handed sword in her right hand into the scabbard behind her with a clang, and then said,

"...Um, sorry. Misaka couldn't save your friend..."

The moment she heard these words, Silica felt weak all over, and she could no longer hold back the tears that kept streaming down her face.Not noticing that the dagger slipped from her hand and fell to the ground, Silica's eyes moved to the water-blue feather on the ground, and she knelt down in front of the feather.

At the same time that the anger that turned into a scalding whirlpool disappeared, a bottomless sense of sadness and loss welled up inside.The emotion turned into tears, which kept rolling down his cheeks.

In the AI ​​of the familiar, there should be no action mode of actively attacking monsters.So at that moment, Bina chose to rush to the falling stick with her own will.That can be said to be a testament to the friendship of Silica who has been together day and night for the past few months.

With her hands on the ground, Silica, who was sobbing constantly, managed to speak out.

"Please...Bina...don't leave me alone..."

However, the aqua blue feather did not respond.

Chapter 184 Chapter 140 The warmth of being connected together, keep it like this forever, girl!

The last work came to the crying girl stepping on deft steps, not knowing how to comfort the girl in front of her.

"Are you okay? Misaka asked with concern."

Perhaps it was too sad, but Silica didn't hear the question of the last work, her hands were still on the ground, she managed to support her body with her trembling arms, she slumped on the ground on the spot, and murmured listlessly.

"Bina, Bina..."

That must be her familiar's name.

Before Misaka was about to arrive, a guy who looked like a girl's pet was killed by the ape-man, and Misaka saw it clearly.

Think of the last one.

"Ugh...please...Bina...don't leave me alone..."

As she spoke, the water droplets in Silica's eye sockets accumulated more and more, flowing down her cheeks.

The two lines of tears that slid across Silica's cheeks continuously dripped onto the large feathers on the ground, and finally turned into light particles and scattered in all directions.

The light blue feather in his hand is a relic left by his only friend and partner, the familiar Pina.

The girl is very sad.

Misaka wanted to organize words to comfort her.

However, the last work opened its mouth and moved its lips, but could not speak a word.

Not even a single word could be uttered.

Misaka can understand the girl's mood at this time, as if Yui is about to be deleted by the system, Asuna and Misaka are both so sad, helpless, and desperate...

After a while, the last work did not speak until the girl in front of him calmed down a little.

She squinted her eyes, and asked calmly and slowly with a calm tone: "So, I don't know how to address it? If you don't mind, can you tell Misaka what happened?"

"...Sorry, thank you for saving me. My name is Silica." After a long time, the girl looked up, looked at the last work, choked up, rubbed the tears in the corner of her eyes,

"But, me, my partner Pina, it has disappeared..."

According to the last work, Bina died protecting Silica a few minutes ago.It received a fatal blow from the monster's weapon, and after a scream, it scattered like shattered ice.All that remains is a long tail feather that shakes happily whenever its name is called.

Silica is a rare beast tamer in Aincrad.No, it should be said that it used to be.Because the familiar she had proved as a beast trainer was gone.

The name Beast Tamer is not a systematically normative level or skill, but a common name.

Monsters who are always actively attacking in battle, occasionally show favor to the player.If you seize this opportunity and successfully tame it by giving it bait, the monster will become a precious familiar who can help the player in various ways.And everyone will call these lucky players beast tamers with admiration and envy.

Of course, not every monster can be a familiar.It is possible, only a small number of small animal-type monsters.The conditions for the event to occur have not yet been fully identified. The only thing that is certain is that if too many monsters of this type are killed, the event will never occur.

Just thinking about it makes me feel that the conditions are too harsh.

Even if they try to repeatedly contact monsters that may become familiars, those monsters usually attack actively, and it is impossible to avoid fighting.In other words, if you want to become a beast tamer, you must keep touching the target monster, and as long as there is no trigger event, you have to run away without saying a word.It is not difficult to imagine how complicated the homework is.

In this regard, Silica can be said to be incredibly lucky.

Without any relevant knowledge, she came to the lower floor on a whim and wandered aimlessly in the forest.The monster encountered for the first time did not attack, but approached.And what Silica threw it to eat was the bagged nuts she bought the day before, which happened to be the food that the monster liked.

The race name is Pterosaur, the whole body is covered with fluffy light blue soft fur, the small flying dragon with two big tail feathers instead of the tail, originally it was a special monster that rarely appeared.Silica seemed to be the first person to be successfully domesticated, so when she and the flying dragon lying on her shoulders returned to Philippan, the main street area on the eighth floor as the stronghold, it immediately caused a very big topic.

The next day, it seemed that many players began to try to tame the Pterosaur based on the information provided by Silica, but no one had ever heard of success.

Silica named the small flying dragon Pina, after the cat she kept in the real world.

The direct combat power of familiar monsters is not too high, and Bina is no exception, but has several special abilities.For example, the ability to search for enemies that can detect the approach of monsters, the healing ability to restore a small amount of health to the owner, etc., each of which is very valuable and makes every day hunting easier.However, compared to these, what made Silica happiest was that Bina's existence brought her peace and warmth.

The familiar's AI program is not set that high.Of course, speaking is impossible, and there are only about ten commands that I can understand.However, for Silica, who was imprisoned by this game-the closed world SAO at the age of 12, and was almost overwhelmed by anxiety and loneliness, the redemption given by Pina is simply indescribable.

It can be said that after getting Bina as a partner, Silica's adventure is to survive in this world.

In the months since then, Silica and Pina have successfully accumulated experience and honed their skills as dagger users, gradually becoming well-known high-level players among intermediate players.

Of course, her level is far below that of the top swordsmen fighting at the forefront.

But in fact, among the [-] players, there are only a few hundred Raiders. From a certain point of view, they are rarer existences than animal tamers. There is almost no chance to see them with their own eyes. Among the intermediate players formed by people, the reputation is far and wide, just like being promoted to an idol player.

Moreover, female players are overwhelmingly rare, coupled with age, Dragon Envoy Silica soon became a celebrity with many admirers.

It is only natural that Silica, who is only 12 years old, would feel elated about this situation.But in the end, because of this arrogance, he suffered an irreversible mistake no matter how much he regretted it.

The reason arises out of trivial controversy.

Although the captain tried his best to persuade her to at least act together before leaving the forest and reaching the town, Silica, who was deaf to this, immediately separated from the five people, ran to the side road, and left full of anger.

Didn't expect this to happen in the end?Let her lose Bina, which makes the girl Silica very remorseful and sad.

Then, Silica bowed her head deeply, looked at the feathers on her hands, and forced out a silent apology from her throat,

"I'm sorry, Bina, I'm sorry, it's all because I'm proud... thinking I can break through the forest... that kind of thing happened... I shouldn't involve you in this kind of thing. But, I've... There's nothing I can do. I can't fight anymore because I have, have nothing left."

The last work was silent, and gently stretched out his right hand to touch Silica's hair, which was not much worse than his own.