Blade Skill Online: With Trash Job ‘Summoner’, Weakest Weapon ‘Bow’, and Rotten Stat ‘Luck’, I Rise

[Awaken! Will of Rebellion!]

・Playstyles.

The players of Blade Skill Online could mainly be split into four types: ‘Producers’, players that focused on producing items. ‘Achievers’, players that strove to complete all quests that existed. And ‘Fighters’, players that were all about fighting monsters and players.

Yuri was an extreme case of a ‘Fighter’.

He had only picked up a production job for its job ability, and since he had never done any quests, he completely had no clue about the world’s settings.

He was a hopeless player who had less than ten friends–most of whom he befriended after fighting each other to the death, too.

How did he end up like this?

It was perhaps because the first person he met in the game… the person who had stopped him as he was about to quit the game… was an equally hopeless person as well.

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“—Unfortunately, huh…”

I had no chance to win.

As I felt despair and my death crept ever closer, I began thinking to myself.

Pendragon had said something just before we had begun to fight.

— “Must be tough being you”, she said.

That one sentence gave me a revelation.

Ah, I see. These assassins appearing here one after another was no coincidence. The devs were behind it…

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been this unlucky.

Tens of thousands of players played ‘Blade Skill Online’. Thousands among them were high-level players, meaning thousands of targets for the assassin players to go for. And the game world was uselessly wide, to boot.

But right after the event started, I encountered three assassins back to back, and worse, one of them was their boss. No way this was a coincidence.

It was clear that the devs had given them orders to assassinate me.

Hahaha… so the gods (devs) have finally decided to get rid of me. I’m ‘out of luck’, I guess.

They weren’t content with nerfing me, so they came up with this scheme. Are you fucking kidding me…?!

If I hadn’t come up with my new combat style, just Kirika alone would have been able to finish me.

Shit, shit… until now, in games… and in real life… I’ve never given in to my rotten luck… I’ve always pushed forward through sheer will and effort to get to where I am… but this time… I can’t win no matter what I do… fuck…!

I almost couldn’t hold back my tears.

Oh right, this battle was broadcasted to the public, wasn’t it?

Then, at this very moment, everyone must be watching me having my ass handed to me. Those shitty devs sure were merciless.

Haha… maybe if I was just another player, only a few people would watch it. But I’m ‘Demon King Yuri’. I don’t mean to be conceited, but everyone must be watching…

Had the world been letting everything go well for me just to throw me down hard today? That really sucked. I felt like throwing up.

–As I was suffering mentally, the sword of ‘Pendragon, the Goddess of Dawn’ swung faster.

Each time her sword struck me, the message [You survive with 1 HP from a fatal wound] popped up before me.

Ahh, fuck… I don’t even have the will to fight back anymore, just let me die already…!

“I wonder, Great Demon King. Between your grit skill failing to activate and you losing consciousness, which will happen first? Let’s find out~!” Pendragon laughed maniacally. With her free hand, she began to smash away at my head—!

My vision turned blurry, and then…

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Warning: Your consciousness level is rapidly declining. If there is no sign of immediate recovery, it will be determined that something is wrong with your body, and you will be forcibly logged out. Logging out in 10… 9… 8…

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“Ah…”

A red system message appeared in front of me.

Yeah. Pendragon was even resorting to exploiting the safety feature of VR games.

“A, ah…”

She sure had no mercy.

I was no longer in a state to fight, but she still went out of her way to ensure that I was finished. It was over.

“Ah……ah……!”

Gone were my hopes, and my chance to win plummeted to zero.

Anyone could see it was the end of the road for me—But!

“Nggggg—I’m not dying without a fight, oraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!”

Fighting spirit burst out from the depths of my chest!

Pendragon’s actions gave me strength!!!

“W-what’s with you so suddenly…?!”

Pendragon was slightly taken aback by my scream.

Well, no wonder. After all, her opponent that could no longer fight began to get fired up the moment she was about to finish him!

However, it was her actions that relit my fighting spirit!

Yeah, the tactic she was using was the tactic of my strongest and best rival! It was the baldhead that came up with it!!!!!

[Don’t lose, Yuri! I’m the only one who can defeat you!]

My rival smiled at me in my mind!

At that moment, my despair was blown away! My thoughts which had been on the verge of stopping started spinning at the speed of sound!

“I’m not dying to someone who just popped out of nowheeeeeeeeeeeeeere!!!”

“Kh, your limbs are gone, what are you trying to do–!”

Despite her surprise, Pendragon’s sword didn’t stop.

She instantly pierced through my mouth with her sword, making me unable to even speak. Now I couldn’t activate arts and skills that required chanting their names.

Even so…

“Igh, nog, ober (it’s not over)!!!!!”

I bent my neck–the only remaining part of my body that I could move–and pushed Pendragon’s sword deeper!

That combined with the momentum of her thrust made even the hilt of her sword enter my mouth—at that moment…

“Mhgggggg!”

“Huh?!”

I bit Pendragon’s hand holding the sword with all my might!

Then my skill that greatly strengthened knockback, ‘Demon King’s Surge’, activated. It worked extremely well with ‘bite attack’. Pendragon’s hand, being locked between my teeth, couldn’t escape the jet-black aura blast from ‘Demon King’ Surge’ and splendidly flew off from her arm–!

Ah, the pure white sword was released from the grasp of the hand, and I ended up ‘equipping’ it in my mouth, so…

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※ Serious error!  ‘Genesis Sword Excalibur’ is exclusive equipment for an event-limited guest avatar! Normal players cannot equip it!

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“Hahahahaha! I yeww ih! (I knew it!)”

In the next moment, my body was flung backward dozens of meters by a violent impact–!

I had finally managed to create some distance. Just as planned.

When you tried to equip a weapon that you couldn’t equip, the weapon would launch itself off you.

Then what if it happened while you were in the air? What if you had also lost a lot of weight because you had lost all your limbs and a massive amount of blood? In that condition, the impact of the recoil on you would be no joke, wouldn’t it?

What’s more, Pendragon’s weapon was special. It was a weapon exclusive for special avatars with abilities from other games.

Such a powerful weapon wasn’t meant for normal players and the devs had experienced the profound impact of an important NPC being permanently killed by a certain someone, would they let it be without protection?

–The answer was a big no. They had given it such a powerful protection that it was almost overprotective. Thanks to it, I was able to escape from the series of deadly attacks.

And…

“‘For, bidden, Summon’!”

…Using everything I had to move my injured tongue, I established a summoning ceremony–!

Now, come, lightning-clad demonic wolf. Release your howl of madness on my behalf–!

“‘Chimera, tic, Light, ning, Wolf’!”

“Awooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”

Lightning bolts scorched the falling cherry blossoms. Answering my fighting spirit, my most evil and fastest familiar emerged from another dimension!

“Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Roaring, the lightning wolf charged forward–!

He was as fast as lightning. He became stronger as his master’s level raised, and he reached Pendragon in a fraction of a second!

“It’s you?!”

Having retrieved her sword, she dodged immediately.

–Well, I figured she would. The lightning wolf could ‘paralyze’ anyone upon contact.

Seeing that this woman had used the baldhead’s tactics, it was obvious she had done her research on me.

But that was okay.

…Because my real target was Alice, who was trying to cast a magic attack behind her!

“Graaaaaaaaaa!”

“Eh-kyaaaa?!”

And just as I had planned, my cute demonic wolf approached her at super-high speed and bit her petite body!

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· World News! An assassin from another world, ‘Kirika of the Asura Realm’, has been defeated!

Yuri obtained the special event limited item, ‘Devil Red Cloth’!

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Hah, it seemed she wasn’t lying when she said she was as weak af in close combat.

Considering how ridiculous her 666 rapid-fire magic was, her skills and equipment were likely broken ones that buffed her magic at the cost of her other stats and even HP, just like mine. I’d like to have a long chat with her if we had another chance to meet again.

Right when Alice disappeared, I finally fell to the ground.

I had lost my limbs, so I couldn’t break my fall, and just like that, I slid over the plants. Owie.

“Haa… this is… so uncool…”

I muttered in a self-deprecating tone while the moon and the cherry blossoms were watching over me.

Well, this was it. I was out of MP, I got no limbs, I was having difficulty to even speaking, I was exhausted—and I hadn’t even the slightest bit of fighting spirit remained.

When I raised my head a little, I saw Pendragon running towards me with a very bright smile on her face.

“Haha! Hahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahh, Yuri-kun, you really got me there! I would have never imagined that you would try to kill Alice despite your condition and succeed!”

She charged at me while laughing.

Haha, glad I could satisfy you. I won’t be able to defeat you, after all.

Oh, but…

“I’m not going to lose, either! ‘Forbidden Summon’–!”

Just before Pendragon finished me off, I cast my final summoning magic.

–Come forth, hellbird of darkness. Put an end to this battle!

“Come—‘Genocide Firebird’!”

“Pigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

Wings of evil flame flapped.

I summoned the firebird above me, and his flames were so hot they burned even himself–!

And…

“Come fall to me!”

“Wha?!”

Pendragon opened her eyes wide.

She immediately tried to escape, but I wasn’t going to let her.

“Maa-kun.”

“Nggg–!”

In the next moment, ‘my feet dropkicked her beautiful face from the side’!

Yup, my familiar ‘Armor Knight’ possessed my boots. I had caught glimpse of him bouncing frantically my way while I was flying.

Well, he did almost no damage… but.

“Gah, shit…?!”

Having taken the sneak attack, Pendragon blanked out for a moment and lost her chance to escape.

That moment was all it took for the ‘Genocide Firebird’ to finish his preps…!

“Pigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa–!”

His whole body burning with evil flames that released a loud blazing sound, the bird of hell descended towards us.

Ah, yeah, that’s okay, Firebird. Please kill me.

Burn me along with that selfish woman and reduce us to ashes!

“I’m not going to lose. I’d rather die than looooooose!”

“Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”

And then, a large explosion went off.

The devastating blow exploded in the moonlit cherry blossom forest!

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· World News!

Yuri dealt a lot of damage to the boss player ‘Pendragon, the Goddess of Dawn’!

Yuri obtained the special event limited item, ‘Holy Knight Gold Cloth’!

Status Effect: You are Burning!

You will receive damage equal to 1% of your maximum HP per second!

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‘Tenacity’—fails to activate. You died.