“————”

On the bright red battlefield, all the sounds disappeared, and only silence remained.

Heathcliff bathed in the scattered polygon fragments, his hands raised in front of him, as if it was a reflex caused by the blocking behavior, looking at Luo Zhen who exploded in front of him, his face still had a look of shock.

"Bang!"

At this time, Heathcliff's crosssword fell to the ground, causing a crisp sound.

Only then did Heathcliff react, and fell into a speechlessness.

Its HP is still declining because of Luo Zhen's last blow.

In the end, it went straight to the bottom.

Obviously, Luo Zhen's final blow was actually enough to exhaust Heathcliff's remaining HP.

It's just that, looking at the downward trend, Luo Zhen immediately judged that his HP would be exhausted in advance, so he would immediately launch an attack desperately, preparing to kill Hizcliff directly with a "Desperate Heavy Attack".

Unfortunately, in the end, it still didn't catch up.

Just like the first duel at the beginning, Luo Zhen's final winning blow was still due to time and failed to fall on Heathcliff.

This result......

"It's ironic..."

Heathcliff muttered self-deprecatingly, then closed his eyes and let his body freeze blue.

"Bang!"

With a sound of shattering, Heathcliff, like Rogen before him, turned into polygonal fragments and exploded.

The Ruby Palace, located at the top of the floating city of Ayngrunte, has finally lost all movement.

Only the fragments of the polygon kept flying, drifting far away.

............

“————「You Are Dead」————”

When such a window appeared in front of Luo Zhen's eyes in the darkness that lost all light, Luo Zhen knew that he still didn't catch up in the end.

It's not the first time Luo Zhen has seen such a window.

During the closed beta period, whenever Luo Zhen died, it would fall into darkness, and then see this window.

If it's during the closed beta period, then it won't be long before you automatically appear in the Black Iron Palace on the first floor and be resurrected.

Although you will lose some experience points and are more likely to lose some items or equipment, at least you can still resurrect yourself in this world.

But now, that right has been taken away.

After the world called SAO becomes a real death game, every player loses this right, and once such a window appears in front of them, the brains of the real world will be burned to ashes after a few seconds.

"It's ironic..."

Under such circumstances, Luo Zhen actually had the same feelings as Heathcliff.

"The first duel was just in time for the duel."

"The result of this deathmatch is that it can't catch up with the exhaustion of the HP slot."

"Could it be that my final blow is destined to fail to hit Akihiko Kayaba?"

Luo Zhen smiled bitterly.

In fact, in this deathmatch, Luo Zhen's winning rate is very high.

With the skill of "Heart Eye", you can see through all the enemy's attacks, and you can make up for your own weaknesses, even if you have a unique skill, you should have a good chance of winning.

The evidence is that the competition with Kirito has always been that Luo Zhen has a relatively high winning rate.

And even if Heathcliff is stronger than Kirito, it's not too outrageously strong, and now that the accuracy and strength of "Heart Eye" have reached a higher level, against Heathcliff, Luo Zhen's winning rate is at least eighty percent.

But this time, it was the last two percent that appeared.

There are many reasons for this.

For example, Luo Zhen's "Heart Eye" penetrated Heathcliff's movements, but Luo Zhen misjudged Heathcliff's tactics, thinking that he wanted to reach out and use the "Physique" skill, but instead grabbed his weapon empty-handed.

For example, when he was caught with a weapon, Luo Zhen knew that Heathcliff was going to attack him, and he should have retreated, but Heathcliff dragged Luo Zhen over first, causing his body to lose his balance, even if "Heart Eye" saw Heathcliff's attack, he still couldn't avoid the blow that pierced his body, and set the tide of battle.

For another example, if Heathcliff's sword hadn't stabbed into Luo Zhen's body from the back, then after Luo Zhen punched him away, he could have pulled out the cross sword and stopped the continuous decline in HP.

In that case, Heathcliff's HP will definitely be depleted, and Luo Zhen will be able to survive and finally win.

One reason after another, Luo Zhen was not able to give Heathcliff the final blow in the end.

This can't be said to be Luo Zhen's carelessness, it can only be said that this is a battle, there may be changes at any time, and the result may be subverted at any time, and there is absolutely no such thing as an unshakable victory.

Luo Zhen was just unlucky.

Moreover, it was bad luck both times.

Unwilling to do so?

That must be there.

But now is not the time to think about that.

"Let's think about how to escape this fate."

In the few seconds remaining, Luo Zhen's brain was racing to think.

Although he lost, this does not mean that Luo Zhen will wait for death.

It is true that if he continues like this, Luo Zhen's body in the real world will definitely die, and the result will be that his brain is scorched.

The reverse is true......

"As long as it's not scorched, it won't die."

Is there such a way?

Some.

———— "Miracles".

The ring worn in Luo Zhen's real world was the only way to get Luo Zhen out of this situation.

Its effect is to be able to open doors between worlds.

Moreover, the "world" here includes not only the other world, but also the soul, the human body, and even the spirit.

And rightfully so, the virtual gaming world is also among them.

In other words, Luo Zhen can actually use the power of "miracle" to open the door to the world of SAO, so that his spirit imprisoned in SAO can escape and return to reality.

Although Luo Zhen's spirit has been isolated from the body in the real world, even if he takes any action here, the body in the real world will not react, but "Miracle" is an exception.

Roman once said that, right?

"Maybe the Miracle is a symbiotic existence with your soul, so it can't be plucked, lost, or destroyed."

Exactly.

Because "Miracle" is a symbiotic existence with Luo Zhen's soul, even if Luo Zhen is in this world, he can still use his consciousness to activate the power of "Miracle".

As long as Luo Zhen wants to, then he can actually leave this world at any time and return to reality.

The problem is that only Luo Zhen can do this, but Kirito has to continue to stay in this world, and Luo Zhen also has a purpose in SAO, so Luo Zhen has never used the power of "Miracle" to leave here.

Not to mention, Akihiko Kayaba also said at the beginning that once the external power supply is cut off for more than 10 minutes, the network is disconnected for more than 2 hours, and the destruction process is attempted to destroy the body of "NERvGear" or to remove the fixed lock, the destruction program will be activated and destroy the user's brain.

In such a situation, even if Luo Zhen leaves this world and returns to reality, then in the case of cutting off the connection, the brain will be burned immediately.

It's the same now, even if Luo Zhen uses the power of "miracle" to return to reality, he will die.

But what if Luo Zhen didn't use the power of "miracle" to return to reality, but let his realistic body pass through the gate and go to another world?

At that time, without Luo Zhen's permission, the game helmet will naturally fall off in an instant, and Luo Zhen will not be harmed.

This is the only way to save yourself.

It's just that......

"Asuna... Yui... And Kirito..."

Luo Zhen struggled a little.