Blade Online - Chapter 47

Chapter 47

I turned back to look him who fell and thrust the sword towards the man’s neck . My attacks were consecutively blocked by him using his weapon . He couldn’t keep defending against all of my attacks and the tachi stabbed his neck .

*clank*

But just before the blade could pierce the man’s neck, I heard a sound .

Was it a shield to prevent the player from feeling pain? But still, the man’s HP bar steadily  fell by 40% . I aimed at the neck which is a vital point to get an instant kill but it looks like it didn’t work . It isn’t that easy to hit to score a critical hit . Now that I think about it, It was almost impossible to hit vital points of Kokuu and his men during that fight .

Although there was no pain, the shocks seems to be transmitted so the man screamed and fell back . When I thought of this a chance to pursue him, <<Foresight>> detected an attack and jumped back instead . Next moment, a huge axe struck at the spot where I was standing and blew the ground apart .

“Ooh!?

The attack looked like some kind of skill . I quickly avoided it using <<Step>> but couldn’t make it in time and got caught up in the blast and was blown away . My HP slightly scraped off . The man who was fallen seems to have been completely engulfed in the explosion . I do not know what exactly happened due to heavy sand clouds .

The dual swordsman tried to attack at me while I was blown away so I stabbed the tachi into the ground to regain my balance and ducked to avoid his attack . I pulled out the tachi while standing up and attacked him . The dual swordsman crossed his swords in front of his body to block my attack . He used one sword to parry my tachi and the other to thrust towards my chest .  Before he could hit me, I kicked him in his belly with full power and disrupted him . I used this opportunity to slash across his face . I could feel that the tachi was hitting the shield . Once again without minding it, I again slash across his face . Sound of sparks could be heard while the man’s HP decreased by more than the half . Before I could deliver another blow, he recovered himself . Wary of an attack, he put guard using the dual swords but suddenly shivered as a sound of hitting shield an be heard . His HP fell to 0 and transformed into grains of light and was transferred outside .

A woman with black hair tied in a ponytail appeared from behind the disappeared man . The protruding spear in her hand proves the fact that she killed the dual blade wielder . Her two dull eyes turned towards me and at that moment, when I thought that I could see a smile on her lips, her spear was pointed at me and was thrust in-between my eyes . Although I used <<Parry>> to avoid the attack, the figure of the women disappeared once again .

—fast!!

She pulled back the spear as soon as I parried it and used <<Step> >to move to my blind spot . It was not that fast that I couldn’t see it but it was absurdly quick . I used <<Foresight>> to detect her presence diagonally behind me and turn around while flicking away the spearhead with tachi .

“Woah!!”

Her spear was shining blue . Looks like she activated a skill . The spear was thrust-ed at me repeatedly with an amazing speed . Seems to be <<Fifth Slash>> . I used the tip of the tachi to flick away the spear and moved to the back to evade the attacks . The woman’s eyes opened wide, surprised that I evaded all the attacks . After a skill is activated there is always a cool-down time . That cannot be avoided . I activated <<Forth Slash>> and slash at her four times . The woman tried to block it with her spear but it looked like she couldn’t match my power and was blown away . I couldn’t make a direct hit but her HP fell by 10% .

Just as I thought that she was blown away she stabbed her spear into the ground and used to spear to turn on the spot and used to momentum to crash into me . In order to prevent that, I invoked <<Parry>> .

“Hah!”

The spear twisted like a snake . The spear that was thrusting towards my previous position, changed its trajectory above the tachi and headed towards my chest . Since the attack was unexpected, my reaction was delayed . I jumped back using <<Step>> but could not completely evade it and slightly struck my chest .

*clank*

A sound was heard as the shield was struck . At the same time a light shock ran through my chest .

I slide backwards across the ground . Naturally, I was wary of other players other than the girl in front me . Now, that I observed her spear, I could now understand by looking at its shape

“Triple Staff1”

What she had in her hands was not just a spear . Although I couldn’t confirm it, the spear had three joints which were connected by a chain . It was probably because the spear used to show joint movement like a snake . I guess, it’s a Unique Weapon .

She saw my amazed expressing and with a prideful face and gripped her spear tightly . The spear made a rattling sound and the joints disappeared . What kind of a structure it has? No matter how you look at it, what she held now was a spear . Does this mean that it can change mode between a Triple staff and a normal spear?

“The movement of that spear . Is that the sub master of the <<Azure Blade>>, <<FunyaFunya>> Ra-san? ”




(TL: I am not clear about the name . If someone can do any better, please . らーさん)

A man watching the fight from a distance, muttered while looking at her .

《FunyaFunya》 . Ra-san,  I do remember seeing that name once on the bulletin board .

Looking at her incomprehensible body movements and snakelike spear, The title 《FunyaFunya》is certainly fitting for her . One of the three title holders of <<Azure Blade>> . Indeed . Her strength is way above the man a while ago .

“Are you called Ra-san?”

When I asked about her name, her blank expression changed into an pleasant look and she gave a devilish smile . I was surprised by the sudden change in her looks .

“Hehehehe . That’s right . I am《FunyaFunya》 Ra-san(*´ω｀*)”

She had a proud smile on her face . Maybe It’s just my imagination but I think she made an emoji at the end of the word . Ra-san wields the spear while having a smile on her face . What’s this? It’s cute but somehow looks a little bit annoying .

“Fufu . Well mask-kun, lets continue”(・д・)”

While saying so, Ra-san again changed to the expressionless face just like before and starts thrusting . While being dumbfounded with the talk, I somehow managed to stop the spearhead but was blown away in opposite direction . HP decreased slightly . Ra-san did not stop there .

When I thought  the spear shone blue, something translucent revolved around the spearhead . What’s that? Wind?

“《Storm Stab》!”

I probably couldn’t protect against it using <<Parry>> so I jumped sideways using <<Step>> . That judgement was correct . From the thrusting spearhead, a wind twister was shot off with amazing power in straight direction . Several players who were fighting nearby were caught in it and blown away .

Seriously! What was that just now!?

“Arara, you dodged it huh? Don’t move okay, mask-kun . (◞≼◉ื≽◟◞౪◟,◞≼◉ื≽◟)”

The tone was playful, but her body was excluding tremendously sharp aura . A cold and sharp killing intent attacked me .

Crap…… .  

1 Sansetsukon .  Wikilink . Those who watched 36th Chamber of Shaolin would recognize it as the weapon San Te used in it .