I feel the same way, if this was a real online game, I would probably throw the keyboard at him for the management incongruity when he shows up as a boss and realizes his strength. But if he acts recklessly, the world will soon be devoured. Of course, we would soon be eaten to death by the rampaging Martell.
Although Klein and Egil were angry, Alice still answered with a calm voice as always.
"Even so, I can only do this. If she turns into a monster, I have to defeat her, and if she reaches the 100th floor and eats the AI of the final boss, it will be impossible to pass the level." Now the final boss Ms. Kayaba has disappeared, and I don’t know who is responsible for the final boss of this castle. "
If the game becomes unbeatable, it means that we will not be able to escape from this world, and our two years of struggle, our way of life, and the meaning of our lives will all be in vain. This was something everyone present understood instantly, and everyone fell silent in the blink of an eye.
"So we didn't have the option not to stop Martel. It's a shame."
Godfrey, who had been silent, sat down and looked down.
\"How do you defeat something like this? I can't think of anything\"
Like Godfrey, I planned on defeating the boss as usual. However, he's a monster the developers didn't anticipate, not even Alice. Martell is one of those things where cheats and mistakes are overused to make it special. I can't think of a way to defeat such a thing with a direct attack. No matter how hard I turned my head, no image of strategy or victory came to my mind.
At that time he is ignoring the player, but if we do something that will make him hostile, that is, if we launch an attack, he will immediately start thinking about how to get out of the obstacle, and we, the player, will be distracted by everything. it's over. They will attack. From that person's perspective, it's as simple and easy as crushing the bug in the capture group.
"You have no other choice", "Give up, you can't win". It felt like the game itself was telling me this and my head was spinning. With such a body that cannot be penetrated by a sword, strong physical strength, and the ability to absorb a large number of monsters, he has the power to rival an army of millions.
"Normally, if that thing was just a monster, I would definitely ignore it and move on." However, he relied on instinct to climb up Aincrad and eat the final boss, making it impossible for us to complete the level and killing us. It has become a being that traps us in Aincrad until we die. Yui's only way to stop it from happening is to defeat him.
"what should I do"
Just as I was scolding him, the "voice" of my silent partner rang in my mind.
"Do you think you lost this battle?"
People who knew Lilan looked at him, while people who didn't know his features looked around. I joined in, turning my attention to the little wolf dragon perched on my shoulder.
\"Stay negative and don't take it. You didn't fight in the first place\"
Klein said while holding his head.
"That's what I said, you fucking dragon. Didn't you lose before you even fought?"
"Foolish people. We haven't been defeated yet. You just want to fight in the normal way.
"That's why we couldn't find a chance to win."
Shino frowned.
"Just in the usual way?"
"That's all that's left. I also saw the monster, but not through normal means. Your sword might not even notice that you were attacked. In that sense, he is not a normal being.
"Then what should I do"
Hearing Filia's words, Lilan raised her head.
\"To fight against unusual enemies, you have no choice but to borrow the power of unusual allies.
\"There is only one abnormal corpse here, Kirito\"
"My eyes were wide open."
I always thought SAo wouldn't fight like in monster movies.
Basically, SAo is a role-playing game where you can move your body and use weapons like swords and spears to fight monsters, and you don't have to ride on the backs of monsters to face and fight bigger monsters. If you are fighting on a monster, SAo's slogan "Move your body to play" is a lie. If this is the case, there is no need to dive at full power.
The enemy monsters that appear in SAo are also designed to only appear as large as 15m at most. If the monster gets too big, most of the player's attacks won't work, and they will eventually have to fight with weapons placed on the map.
In addition, if the opponent is too large, the player will be damaged just by moving, and the player will be at an overwhelming disadvantage, creating an unbalanced situation.
This situation is common in hunting action games that are famous for online games, but since this game is a death game, this situation should not occur in a completely single-player game. Because if there is such a thing, it would be so unreasonable.
However, I am now fighting the enemy in a state that subverts SAo's common sense. Location: 80th floor in the mountain area. The green mountains are reminiscent of mountains in the real world - eight-legged monsters and women with huge bodies in them, black holes that swallow everything, and alien "enemies" with mixed appearances.
I rode on the back of my partner, the Holy Sword Wolf Dragon <Lilan>, and fought against the enemy.
"It's really big, it looks like a mountain moving."
Its true identity is Martell, the first unit of the "Mental Health Healing Project", an ultra-high-performance AI created to heal players in this world, leading to rampage.
Martell, left in a broken state by the accumulation of repeated mistakes, was on the verge of what we might call death, but luckily she stayed away from it.
According to developer Alice, she has the ability to self-heal and can use this feature to repair herself when she is hurt.
He saved Martell, who was on the verge of death due to damage to this function, and helped him reappear. However, she could not appear in this world in that form.
Perhaps due to the accumulation of mistakes, Martell's self-healing ability was transformed into the ability to heal himself by absorbing something. Martell used it to create boss monsters and fields with relatively high processing capabilities. It absorbed a Another monster, turning them into monsters. Materials can repair themselves.
As a result, Martell, who originally had the appearance of a girl and was supposed to heal players, turned into a "deformed naked woman" with a huge black body with various monster characteristics growing into a female body.
"How could Martell become like this?"
Furthermore, Martel's rage knew no bounds. Martell took unprecedented actions, such as destroying areas where monsters were not allowed to enter, and entering and preying on escaping NPCs.
Martell, a monster that preys on any NPC and tries to put it into his body. One of its prey targets is mhcp, mhhp, the mechanical birth of my daughter Yui and her sister. My partner Strea is impossible and not included.
Alice deduces that after Martell eats all the NPCs on the 83rd floor, he will come to eat Yui, Strea, and Lilan.
Yui and Strea are mhcp, high-performance AI unmatched by other AIs, and Lilan is also a high-performance AI comparable to them. Martell, who wanted to absorb high-performance AI, had no choice but to target these three people.
There are no bosses from the 77th to the 83rd floors we climbed to. Considering this is Martell's job, it is inferred that Martell has the ability to move between layers and is seeking higher performance AI.
After that, we learned that Martell, who had eaten all the AIs, would come to us to eat Yui, Strea, and Lilan, and we started to panic.
However, Alice then suggested: "If it's Yui, Strea and Lilan, they might target Lilan first. In order to prevent the city from being destroyed, Yui's method is to transfer Lilan to other places."
The 83rd floor was torn apart by Martell's attack and suffered extensive damage.
I thought such a tragedy could not happen again, so I listened to Alice and decided to go to the mountainous area on the 80th floor, where there were fewer enemies and players.
"There are not many players there, and it is far away from the city. Even if there is a fight, the damage will be very small." When I told everyone about this, everyone stopped me, as if it was a matter of course.
However, perhaps I had noticed Martell's approach. When Lilan warned everyone, I couldn't sit still, so I told everyone what I thought.
"Only Lilan, who has extraordinary power, and me, who has her as a partner, can fight against a non-standard existence of that size."
But everyone did not accept it and insisted that if I fought, they would send a prisoner team to fight, which surprised me. If all the cleanup teams were brought out and caught in Martell's attack, they would be wiped out. If all the capture teams are dead, no one will be able to capture the castle, and this death game will never end.
As they debated whether or not they were going to do such a thing in a fight with Martell, if they couldn't defeat Martell, they were screwed anyway. I didn't hear him say that he couldn't be allowed to fight that kind of battle alone.
But there was no anger in my heart at that time, but a feeling similar to joy. Seeing such an enemy, everyone had to run away quickly. I thought it was just me and Lilan during the fight, but everyone completely betrayed this and said they wanted to fight too.
"Challenging such an enemy is tantamount to suicide, but everyone chose to face it." It would be fine if there were only Shino, Asuna and Klein, but since everyone said so, I can't do it anymore Argued. No, maybe at that time, he might have thought that he didn't want to object.
As a result, I, who usually does unreasonable things, ironically swallowed everyone's unreasonable things and let Yui, Strea, and Jupiter escape to the first floor with Alice, and called in all the cleanup crews possible. group, and a crowd of people gathered. As a large force, form a team and head to the 80th floor.
Then, a few minutes after we arrived in the mountains, Alice's prediction was correct, and Martell, transformed into a "deformed naked woman", climbed through the maze tower and reached the 80th floor. Our all-out battle has begun.
\"I didn't expect that the arrest team would fight together. It's so crazy\"
\"Shinon, who was sitting on Lilan's back with me, said with a rare smile.\"
"I agree.
"Of course, we were going to do it from the beginning, but we didn't listen to everyone, so we ended up doing it."
Shino said to me in a dignified voice. The sound was carried firmly into my ears as the wind blew.
"Because I will no longer rely on you. We and I will fight with determination."
"This battle is obviously unreasonable." The reason why Martell became like this is because he has eaten too many bosses, has 15 "life bars", and has a huge amount of more than 100 million quantified health points. ability. I do not think so.
"Even so, in order to prevent me from going alone, we gathered all the prisoner groups in this mountainous area and launched a crusade against Martell."
“It takes a lot of courage to challenge something like this.”
"I can't let them die like this." Defend them from Martell's attacks and successfully finish the battle without taking any casualties.
Hopefully I'll do something to get Martel back on track.
"Everyone, let's start fighting!!!"
He took a deep breath and held it in his stomach. The next moment, he shouted like a roar, and the countless captive groups on the ground made fierce sounds and began to charge.
The moment everyone's attack hit Martell's thigh, Martell's female body screamed. To my surprise, Martell heard the attack correctly, but I immediately steeled myself and gave instructions from the top of the replay.
It was about Martell, with his size it was a miracle that the attack succeeded, and now, without a doubt, Martell recognized us as enemies. The attack power released by such a huge body can kill the elites gathered here in an instant.
I don't know how much I can bear, but even a little bit, I need to use the defense effect buff to bear it, and use recovery skills to recover.
"Everyone, don't forget to add special effects! If your health is reduced, please use recovery items or recovery skills, and always pay attention to the fact that your health has been fully restored!"
My instructions will be transmitted to everyone regardless of the slightest change, and everyone will use special effects at the same time to increase defense and attack power.
"In fact, it is better to deploy a skill that makes you invincible for a certain period of time, and then attack with all your strength, but no player, including myself, has improved the skill to such an extent. They can get it." Martell's Attacks can only be withstood by defense after stacking skills.
"Run it again and you can unleash the most powerful attack in the world. You know the rest."
\"If that mutant wants to attack, I will stop it from attacking.\"
"Yes, no matter how strong he is, he can't ignore your attack. In this case, just ignore us, get close with all your strength, and launch a sword attack."
Leland turned her face towards us for a moment, but then immediately back to us. Although he is definitely worried about us, if I have to, I will jump down with Shino in my arms.
Although I thought this would never happen a million times, the next moment Lilan opened her mouth and fired a series of fireballs, hitting Martell's upper body as he crawled on the ground.
Although Lilan's attacks are extremely powerful, they are not designed to prevent friendly fire. When it's time to attack, I have to call everyone and then evacuate.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!"
The roars of the crowd reached my ears. When I turned to face Martell, I saw the attack group gathering and attacking Martell's legs. Every time everyone struck, I could confirm that a black light like blood was produced, and my spine felt a little chilly.
Martell preyed on so many AIs that even the red light emitted when injured turned into a strange color.
However, Martell was still screaming just now, but now he is completely indifferent to the attack. If you look at HP, it doesn't even decrease from the first one. It looked like the attack was completely ineffective.
"Didn't this work!?"
"With your body being so big, I thought your HP wouldn't be reduced so easily, but if you exert your strength like this and remain motionless, you'll start to get a little scared."
Although we skipped some boss battles, we never neglected leveling up, so almost everyone reached level 100 or higher.
An attack power above level 100 should be so powerful that any boss would be frightened, but that "weird girl" was completely unmoved. The previous attack worked, but why?
“Guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
After hearing the roar turn into a scream, I snapped back to reality and turned my head again. Martell's feet stepped on the ground outside the giant tree, blowing away the attacking group gathered on the hillside. When I cast the Search Enemy skill there, I could confirm that the health of those being attacked instantly turned red.
I thought it must have incredible attack power, but I didn't expect that even a prisoner group above level 100 could cause such a level of damage with one blow.
Shino, who saw the same scene as me, blushed slightly.
"Can you do this kind of thing with just one blow!?"
"It was probably worse than the Skeleton Death at that time. Everyone was much stronger than then, but I could only withstand one blow."
This means that if Martell is going to attack, he has to allow Lelan to attack and somehow prevent the attack.
Although they have recovery methods, they are not unlimited. It is likely that the items will be exhausted over time and cannot be recovered in time. There is a delay before using the recovery skill again, and there is no guarantee that you will not be attacked during this time.
"Start again. As soon as Martell's body moves, he will start attacking, okay!?"
"Some people hold mirrors, but they are not demons. This is not to illuminate the devil, but to create the devil."
Instead of replying to me, Lilan spat out words that sounded like sentences. Sometimes Lelan behaves like this, but I can't figure out what it means.
"I don't remember teaching him, so I wonder if he remembered it from somewhere or from the beginning." This bothers me, but now is not the time to think about that.
\"Hey, Lilane, what happened!?\"
\"In other words, the mirror is something that should be looked at, not something that should be looked at carefully.\"
The next moment, Lilan suddenly opened her mouth and shot a fireball, hitting Martell's body and causing a huge explosion. I realized it wasn't like he couldn't hear what I was saying, he just wasn't responding, but even so, his brain and mine weren't connected, so I didn't understand as much. cannot.
"Go back, if you're going to attack me, at least give me an answer!"
\"Well I'm sorry\"
Lilan's "voice" finally came back, but I couldn't help but feel like it was stuck in my throat.
Just now, Lilan looked at Martell and muttered some strange words, but he couldn't understand the meaning at all, and he seemed unable to tell me how he felt when he saw Martell.
But thinking about it now, I would definitely fall off Lilan's back, so I stopped thinking and decided to focus on defeating Martell.
"Having said that, it looked like it was damaged just now. Why didn't you come in all of a sudden?"
When he was attacked just now, Martell would scream, but now, even if he is attacked, he will move his body. It's like I let my guard down just now, but after being attacked, I put on a fighting stance. No, otherwise I might get sick after the virus enters my body, but I will be able to produce antibodies next time. It's like I can't get sick because I'm there.
"never!?"
After being attacked, didn't he quickly develop antibodies against the attack as a defense? If an antibody-like function is produced instantly and spreads throughout the body, wouldn't our attack be ineffective?
\"What's the matter, Kirito?\"
"That's so clumsy. If my thinking is correct, he created an antibody to attack."
"Antibodies against attack?"
"Ah, like a defensive function."
His birth was the result of Martell's ability to learn and evolve out of control. It’s not surprising to learn lessons and develop countermeasures immediately after being attacked.
Upon hearing my guess, Shino made a surprised sound.
"You're saying the attack doesn't work anymore?"
"I don't want to think that but that's what I have to think."
"Then what should I do?
\"What Sinon said is true.\" In fact, everyone in the cleanup team is working together to launch an attack on Martell's body unscrupulously. However, because Martell has created antibodies to resist the attack, And it was all over his body, so his HP didn't move at all.
Normally an enemy that does something like this would upset the balance so it would never appear, but Martell himself is an irregular creature so common sense doesn't apply.
\"That's right, Martell is someone who doesn't use the SAo common sense we have cultivated over the past two years.\" What we are facing is no longer a monster, but absurdity and unreasonableness itself.
"Damn it, is it really impossible for us to defeat Martell!?"
I gritted my teeth and ordered Lilan to launch a cannon attack on Martell. At the same time, Sinon drew the bow string and shot an arrow at Martell.
