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October 2024, 20, in an arena on the th floor of Corinia.

Players have already occupied most of the seats in the stands, but members of the Blood Alliance Knights are still selling tickets outside the arena.

This duel involving four top figures, Jiang Feng, Tong Zi, Asuna and Heathcliff, attracted the vast majority of players in Aincrad. Almost all players who had time would come from all floors of Aincrad specifically to enjoy this duel between top players.

At this moment, in the preparation room of the arena, Jiang Feng and Asuna were cheering for Kiriko, and Jiang Feng was repeatedly giving her instructions.

"It doesn't matter whether Tongzi wins or loses today. What's important is that nothing happens to you."

Jiang Feng didn't want to let Tongzi die because of a test. It would be too not worth it.

"Don't worry, I won't force myself." Kiriko assured Asuna and Jiang Feng.

Soon, amid the cheers of all the players, Kiriko and Heathcliff appeared in the arena, and the duel was about to begin.

Heathcliff looked around at the players in the audience and said with emotion: "I didn't expect to attract so many people today."

Tongzi didn't have a good impression of Heathcliff, "You Blood Knights have collected so many Coles, I want an appearance fee too."

Heathcliff said indifferently: "From today on, you are a member of our Blood Knights. This time you are on a mission."

Tongzi cursed in his heart, you are such a good abacus, what do you mean by counting me out for a mission, you really know how to exploit me. This made Tongzi more certain that even if he joined the Blood Alliance Knights in the future, he would still be a jerk.

Heathcliff looked at the time and said, "It's about time, let's get started."

After saying that, he called up the system panel and sent an invitation to Tongzi for the first duel. Jiang Feng, who was far away in the audience, saw the type of duel between the two with his superhuman vision and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

First-strike duel mode. In this mode, almost no one will die in a duel, because in the first-strike duel mode, whoever first reduces the opponent's HP by 10% will win.

Since it only knocked off 10% of the HP, why is there still a risk of life? The reason is that in the first-strike duel mode, the attack that knocked off 10% of the HP is judged as the strong attack to determine the outcome.

This means that if someone can kill the opponent with one strike when his health bar is above 90%, he can still be killed. Obviously, Heathcliff cannot do this without overturning the table.

Tongzi clicked "Agree" on the invitation interface without hesitation, and then a one-minute countdown appeared between the two of them.

As the countdown began, Kiriko drew out two magic swords, Elucidator and Dark Repulser, from behind her, and used the two-sword style with all her strength from the beginning.

Heathcliff also drew his sword from the bloody cross shield, and both of them looked at each other with full vigilance.

The countdown reached zero, and Tongzi took the lead in attacking, approaching Heathcliff at an extremely fast speed, stabbing straight out with the Elucidator in his hand.

But it was blocked by Heathcliff's bloody cross shield. Kiriko used her two-sword style at full power, swinging her sword with both hands continuously, trying to suppress Heathcliff.

But Heathcliff's defense was too strong. No matter how Tongzi attacked from that angle, he would be blocked by Heathcliff's bloody cross shield.

Heathcliff took the opportunity to counterattack, and thrust his long sword in his right hand. Tongzi was unable to resist and had to retreat to avoid it.

When the enemy retreats, I advance. Heathcliff knew this well. While Tongzi was retreating, he turned from defense to offense and rushed towards Tongzi.

Heathcliff held a blood-red cross shield and struck towards Kirito's abdomen. Fortunately, Kirito reacted in time and crossed the two magic swords in front of his chest, barely blocking Heathcliff's attack, but this also made Kirito retreat a few steps.

Taking advantage of the backswing of Heathcliff's shield, Tongzi gathered his sword skills and stabbed at Heathcliff again, but as expected, Heathcliff dodged it.

Heathcliff praised: "Not bad, the reaction speed is very fast."

In response to Heathcliff's praise, Tongzi didn't say much, but rushed forward with sword in hand.

With the help of the dual sword style, the attack speed of the Elucidator and Dark Repulser in Kiriko's hands became faster and faster.

At first, Heathcliff could barely block it with his sword and shield, but Kirito's attack speed gradually surpassed Heathcliff's reaction speed.

He even cut the corner of Heathcliff's face with a sword, forcing Heathcliff to step back and not have time to defend his chest.

Tongzi also seized this opportunity and chopped down Heathcliff's head with the Elucidator. Just when the Elucidator was about to touch Heathcliff's head to see which one was harder.

An accident happened, and time in the entire Aincrad stopped instantly.

In just that instant, Heathcliff reacted, using the bloody cross shield in his hand to block and deflect Kirito's fatal blow.

Due to the stagnation for a moment, Tongzi had no leverage in the air and was bounced away by the collision between the elucidator in his hand and Heathcliff's bloody cross shield.

When Tongzi staggered to his feet, Heathcliff's sword stopped not far in front of Tongzi, and then moved forward and stabbed into Tongzi's body.

"You lose, Kiriko."

“I lost…”

Heathcliff did not attack Kiriko directly and let him lose. It might be because he had just used cheats and felt guilty. If he really used cheats and hit others, he would be in trouble for the rest of his life if people knew about it.

Just like that, the duel that determined the outcome among Jiang Feng, Tong Zi, and Asuna ended in a strange way.

Kiriko lost without getting hurt, but Heathcliff won with a cut on his cheek.

Kiriko was still standing there in a daze. Even Heathcliff's departure and the cheers of the players in the arena did not wake her up until Jiang Feng and Asuna rushed to her side.

"Tongzi, are you okay?"

Facing the two people's questions, Tongzi finally came to his senses, "I lost?"

Jiang Feng patted Tongzi on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, Tongzi, it's all over."

Even when they returned to the hotel where the three of them were staying, Tongzi was still deeply confused. She asked Jiang Feng: "Jiang Feng, you must have noticed that Heathcliff was abnormal at that moment."

"Of course, if there wasn't that moment, you, Kiriko, would have won."

It was Asuna's turn to be confused again, "Jiang Feng, Tong Zi, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

Jiang Feng asked the two to sit down, "You sit down first, I will analyze it slowly with you."

After Tongzi and Asuna sat down obediently, Jiang Feng told his own inference, "Heathcliff used an unknown skill at the moment when he was about to lose, which allowed him to react instantly and turn defeat into victory. The pause at that moment should be the effect of the skill."

Tongzi said angrily: "This is too buggy, it's just like cheating, how can there be such a skill?"

Looking at the angry Tongzi, Jiang Feng could only keep his words to himself. The child didn't have to doubt that he was cheating.