Dimensional Manifestation

"That's because your shield's defense area is too small. Although the cross-shaped shield is convenient for attacking, it also makes your body easily exposed. It's a mixed bag."

After casually replying, Lin Tianya stepped forward again without stopping, stabbing Kayaba Akihiko's head with the spear in his hand one after another. Its attack is false and real, making it difficult to distinguish, making Kayaba Akihiko feel very uncomfortable for a while.

"It turns out that, with the advantage of the length of the weapon, it is difficult for me to even counterattack. It is indeed a spearman defeating a shield soldier."

It is impossible to win blindly on defense, Kayaba Akihiko wants to seize the gap between Lin Tianya's attack and counterattack. However, when he wanted to attack, he suddenly realized that the long sword in his hand was too short and could not reach Lin Tianya at all.

And whenever he wanted to pull in the distance, Lin Tianya would either retreat or push him back with a long spear, in short to prevent him from entering his attack range.

"!?"

Just when Kayaba Jingyan was resisting Lin Tianya's continuous attacks and thinking about countermeasures, he was suddenly startled and found that Lin Tianya's gun had disappeared from his vision.

Before Kayaba Akihiko could look for it urgently, the pain from his ankle told him where the gun head was.

"how is this possible!?"

Staggering back a few steps again, Kayaba Akihiko looked at Lin Tianya with eyes full of admiration and disbelief.

"Hehehe~ It took me a long time and a lot of energy to finally get rid of that 'bad habit'."

Speaking of this, Lin Tianya's nose couldn't help raising by 8 degrees.

Indeed, when he first acquired the skill [One Rider as a Thousand], in order to trigger the skill effect, he unknowingly developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder that only attacks the target's vital points.

But later, with the help (?) of Yulier, he quickly realized this problem, and it took about half a year before he finally got rid of his 'bad habit'.

Now, he can freely choose his attack target. The reason why he kept aiming at Akihiko Kayaba's head before was to let the opponent relax his vigilance and expose his feet.

Of course, Lin Tianya was able to do this largely because of the long weapon's attack distance advantage. If it were a swordsman like Kirito, Kayaba Akihiko would have noticed his intentions as soon as he made a move, and would have taken the opportunity to counterattack.

Every aspect of the game "SAO" strives to be realistic, so after the ankle was attacked, Akihiko Kayaba inevitably fell into a state of 'broken tendon', and his mobility was greatly reduced.

Seeing the success of the plan, Lin Tianya changed his previous fighting style of standing still and smashing the enemy. With a turn of his footsteps, he circled around Kayaba Jingyan.

Soon, Kayaba Akihiko, who had difficulty moving, had red scars one after another on his body, and the blood bar on his head was also reduced to less than half under Lin Tianya's unremitting attack.

Seeing that going on like this, there would be no suspense about his defeat, Kayaba Akihiko gritted his teeth, stomped on the ground with one foot, and charged towards Lin Tianya.

Kayaba Akihiko's sacrifice was indeed beyond Lin Tianya's expectation. He didn't have time to dodge, so instead of retreating, he moved forward, let go of the spear with both hands and grabbed the sides of the shield vigorously, preventing himself from being knocked out and giving Kayaba Akihiko time to recover from taking the medicine.

"Without weapons, let me see how you fight!"

After the impact force was exhausted, facing the unarmed Lin Tianya, Kayaba Akihiko raised the long sword in his hand and stabbed at him without any hesitation.

Now that the opponent has no weapons, naturally there is no way to suppress him from the attack distance. Even Lin Tianya, who was unarmed, had no power to fight back against his shield.

Next, as long as he is careful not to let the opponent find a chance to retrieve the weapon, then the victory will be his.

"Who said I don't have any weapons? Isn't the ground full of weapons?"

Stretching out his left hand in front of the sword tip, the long sword penetrated Lin Tianya's palm to the hilt.

Lin Tianya ignored the severe pain in his palm, grabbed Kayaba Akihiko's long sword with all his strength, and with a flick of his toe, he sent a hammer on the ground to his hand.

Before the players were paralyzed and fell to the ground, many of the weapons in their hands accidentally fell off. Lin Tianya also noticed this, so he easily let go of his weapons, and controlled Kayaba Akihiko to stop at this position.

‘铛~铛~铛~’

With the help of the acceleration system, Kayaba Akihiko managed to protect his head with a shield at the last moment, but facing Lin Tianya's hammering, he was also suppressed for a while, unable to make other responses.

'Peng! '

While Kayaba Akihiko was concentrating on defending against the hammer above his head, Lin Tianya kicked the opponent's calf, making his center unstable and falling to one side.

Seeing this, Lin Tianya took the opportunity to hit Kayaba Jingyan's sword-holding right hand with a hammer, snatching the long sword from his hand.

"Hehe, now you don't have any weapons, let me see what you do."

Lin Tianya laughed evilly.

"President Lin may have forgotten that my shield can also be used to attack!"

With a tumbling up, Kayaba Akihiko seized the opportunity of Lin Tianya's complacency, raised the shield in his hand horizontally, and slammed into Lin Tianya's abdomen with the sharp corner of the lower end of the shield.

As long as this blow can hit, he still has a chance to turn defeat into victory.

"How could I forget such an important thing."

As he spoke, Lin Tianya casually threw the hammer at Kayaba Akihiko's head, and while he was dodging in a hurry, he stepped into the opponent's arms, and the long sword he had just taken in his hand pierced through the chest, piercing precisely each other's heart.

"Why... so... so fast..."

Kayaba Akihiko looked at Lin Tianya in puzzlement.

"Stupid, of course it's because I didn't use the system skills. Didn't you see that the hammer didn't have any skill lights?"

If it is a systematic throwing skill, there will be a short-term charging process, and it is too late to cast it at such a close range. However, Lin Tianya's throwing attack just now is a skill he has spent a lot of time and energy training on himself, so of course he can just raise his hand and throw it.

"And didn't you notice, I haven't used any system skills from the beginning to the end."

"... no wonder... I feel... so... strenuous..."

As the one who developed "SAO", almost all the skills in the game were written by Akihiko Kayaba himself. He is very familiar with the forward swing of the system skills, the attack trajectory, and the freezing time after the skills end.

With this point, in previous battles, before the enemy's attack came, he had already judged which skill the enemy was using, and prepared in advance for defense.

However, this ability completely lost its effect when meeting Lin Tianya, a guy who relied entirely on his own skills to fight without borrowing system skills.

This is also one of the reasons why Kayaba Akihiko always felt that Lin Tianya's attack was difficult to resist in the previous battles.