Blade Online - Chapter 49

Chapter 49

I twisted my body while jumping sideways to avoid a female players big sword while vaguely swinging my tachi and ran away . I can’t afford to face each player . I only have half of my HP left .

As the time passed, the battle between players became intense . Currently the only remaining ones are those who have teamed up with other players or strong solo players .

At first, I fought all the players who attacked me, but slowly my HP was reducing . So It would be best to avoid players before I get in trouble . Fortunately, I didn’t come across very quick players like Ra-san so I was able to evade others attacks while attacking back . Even if I couldn’t finish them myself, the other players would take this chance to attack the player . The female player from before will be probably finished by other players .

Ahead, four players were coming towards me holding weapons . I wonder if they are friends or cooperating with each other? If I deal with like normally then I will lose my HP in blink of an eye . Of course, I don’t plan to fight them . I will thrust into them as they are . They did not think that I would just come towards them as it is and were surprised for a moment . I didn’t miss that chance and powerfully kicked against the ground and jumped . Then I kicked towards the ground in empty air and jumped up one more level . I had used <<Sky Walk>> . You can jump up as many times as you want as long as you have enough stamina, but twice is enough for now . I pass the players from above and land on the ground . Then attacked their open backs with <<Void Slash>>, turned back and ran again . Though <<Sky Walk>> was one of my trump cards, it wouldn’t be a problem for now since it looked like I was using <<Two Step Jump>> .

But If I was attacked by a group from some other direction like before, it would be quite troublesome . While thinking so , I came up with something . Though the qualifying venue was quite wide, it was not endless but there was a wall in front . The venue is square shaped . In other words, If I move along the wall then it means that I won’t be attacked from all directions . It will be easy to avoid . (TL : Really crappy strategy in my opinion . )

While understanding, I immediately started moving towards the wall . While avoiding the spears from behind, I ran towards nearest wall . Although I was attacked many times on the way, I avoided all of them and made my way towards the mall . In <<Bloody Forest>>, I avoided lots of fatal attacks . Compared to that, It was easy to avoid attack by players here . Even so, there were a lot of times that I was grazed, quite a risky scene so as to say .

“Yoshi”

A huge white wall at the corner of the venue . At last, made it . If I move along this wall I can survive easily . After that, I was attacked from rear and evade in panic and then ran along the wall without looking back . The attacks would only come from three direction – front, back and left . It’s easy to avoid .
In front of me, a player who was running who was also running along wall attacked me . The long sword shined blue while being raised up . He’s trying to activate a skill . I increased my speed and slashed his unguarded belly before he could swing it down . Since the players are protect by barrier therefore I slash again . I still haven’t been beaten yet but can’t afford to keep fighting forever . After kicking against the ground, I run along the wall again .

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I thought that if I ran along the wall it would be easier to survive, but it seems like it isn’t going as well as I thought . Many players began attacking me in order to crush me into the wall . At first, I was able to avoid by running around, but I was attacked by many players from all 3 directions at the same time . I had no choice but to get away from the wall . A blade slashed my shoulder which reduced my HP to orange zone . It’s slowly turning real bad . (TL : It was a bad strategy in the first place)

After breaking away from wall, I couldn’t understand where to go and ran around the venue without any thoughts . And then I was being targeted and chased by cooperating players . Since I was acting alone I looked like an easy prey .

While I would run away from one player, I would be attacked by another player, so naturally my HP gradually decreased . It’s still not in red zone, but will be soon . It looks impossible to fight alone . The number of players acting solo are decreasing one by one . If I continue as it is, I will be killed by some group . Well if that’s the case, then I will talk to some other player about cooperating . As I make my way through approaching players, I arrive at the spot where another player is fighting alone like me . The name of that player is…

“Ra-san ! Lets team up!”

I call out to the girl whose black-haired ponytail was swaying in the air while warding off the attacks quickly with her spear . Ra-san without saying anything, immediately pierced the chest of enemy in front of me and frighteningly kicked him flying at some place . After that she stabbed the spear at that spot and turned this way .

“Didn’t we agree to meet in the main battle?… Our reunion is far too early… . (；´∀｀)”




“Though I don’t like this but… . . Why don’t we team up to survive longer? Yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend!””Not even two hours have passed yet!(゜⊿゜)”
“That’s right but-!”

“Besides, you can survive if you go all out right?”(TL : Originally this line wasn’t like this . I changed it a bit but meaning is same . Here she means that if he revealed all his hidden moves)
“…… . ”

While we were having such conversation, the players surrounded us .

“<<Storm Stab>>”
“<<Four Slash>>”

A tornado was released from the spearhead of Ra-san which blew off the players and the blade of my tachi glowed blue and use 4 consecutive slashes at players who were close to us .
“Oh well! I understand ! Let’s fight to together Mask-Kun (ヽ゜д)!!!!!!!”
” Ah, I owe you one”
“In return, come at me with full power in main battle (゜∀゜) !”
“Of course!”