wow i wanna read the LN.
At Rosalia’s anxious order, the blows rained down for a few more seconds. But there was no change in the situation.
“Hey... what’s going on...?”
One person made a face as if he had seen something utterly bizarre before he stopped moving and stepped back. His surprise quickly spread to the eight other members, who then stopped attacking and widened the distanced between them and Kirito.
Silence fell upon the area, and in the middle of it, Kirito slowly raised his head. A quiet voice sounded:
“---About 400 every 10 seconds? That’s the amount of damage you nine dealt to me. I’m on level 78, my HP is 14,500... add that I automatically regain 600 points every 10 seconds with «Battle Healing». You all can’t defeat me even if you keep hitting me for hours.”
The bandits stood there with their mouths wide open, as if they were in shock. Eventually, the two-handed sword user, who seemed to be the sub-leader, said in a dry voice.
“Is… is that even allowed…? It doesn’t even make any freaking sense…”
“Yeah.”
Kirito spat the words out:
“Just a difference in numbers makes such a ridiculous disparity in strength; that’s the unreasonable part of level system MMORPGs!”
The bandits stepped back, as if they were intimidated by Kirito’s voice, which seemed to hide something behind it. Their surprised faces were replaced by looks of terror.
“Che.”
Rosalia tutted and then drew out a teleport crystal from her hip. She raised it high up into the air and opened her mouth:
“Teleport---”
Even before she could even finish the sentence, the air seemed to vibrate for a split second and Kirito was then standing right in front of her.
“Ack…”
As Rosalia froze for a moment, Kirito took the crystal out of her hands, then grabbed her collar and dragged her back towards the other bandits.
“Le-let me go!! What are you trying to do you bastard!!”
Kirito threw her towards the group of bandits, who were standing there dazed, and then started rummaging through his pouch without saying a word. The crystal he took out was also blue. But the color was far deeper than a teleport crystal.
“The person who had asked me to do this bought this corridor crystal with all the money he had. He said that he set the prison area of the Black Iron Castle as the exit. So I’ll be teleporting all of you to prison, and «The Army» could cover the rest from there.”
Rosalia, who was sitting on the ground, stayed silent for a while before she smiled like it was a bluff.
“—And what if I say I don’t want to?”
“Then I will kill every single one of you.”
Her smile froze on her face at Kirito’s short answer.
“—Is what I want to say… but in that case I’ll just use this.”
Kirito took out a small dagger from the inside of his coat. One could see a vaguely green liquid on the surface of a blade by examining it carefully.
“Paralysis poison; it’s a level five poison, so you guys won’t be able to move for about ten minutes. That’ll be enough to throw you all into the corridor… Go by yourself, or be thrown in; it’s your choice.”
Nobody was bluffing now. After seeing all of them bow their heads in silence, Kirito put the knife away, raised the deep blue crystal up high, and then shouted.
“Corridor open!”
The crystal shattered in an instant and a blue whirlpool of light appeared.
“Damn it all…”
This post was edited by Homura on Aug 6 2012 02:56pm