"Is it finally here?"

Sensing the progress of the boys and girls, Di Ruiji, who was lying on the ground to rest, slowly stood up. His scarlet eyes reflected the figures of the seven people.

Naturally, he noticed the battle between the other six and Yuris. The level, to be honest, was a bit beyond his expectation. In his opinion, there was no big problem with the teamwork between the few people.

.

After all, he has always been alone. He has never seen or experienced what it means to fight together and what it means to cooperate.

But Di Ruigi still had good vision. The teamwork of Asuna and others gave them the qualifications to fight with him. However, it was just the qualifications.

If they want to defeat themselves and 'kill' themselves, they still lack one thing.

Pure individual combat ability.

The power system of apostles is actually completely different from that of humans. They are born with powerful power and special abilities. They are called apostles because they are powerful and special.

But human beings are different. Human beings need to constantly fight and grow. By choosing a profession, changing jobs, awakening, awakening, and improving their realm again and again, humans can truly compete with the apostles on the same stage.

To put it in layman's terms, the power of the apostles does not include any skills or realms. They are just pure power, with a high level and a high upper limit. They do not have any bottlenecks. Once the power is accumulated, they will naturally break through.

But if human beings want to strengthen themselves, they need to constantly break through the bottleneck, which is the so-called realm. After breaking through the realm, their upper limit will be increased accordingly.

This is also the reason why humans are often able to defeat monsters that are stronger than themselves. Because in order to break through their upper limit, humans will continue to fight and improve their skills.

The reason why skills exist is precisely to allow the weak to defeat the strong.

But when the strength of both sides reaches an insurmountable level, no matter how skilled you are, it's meaningless if you can't break through the defense.

If compared with the strength of Dirich in his heyday, Asuna and others will indeed face this situation with their current strength. No matter how hard they attack, Dirich's defense cannot be broken.

In fact, even if Di Ruigi is seriously injured now, a group of adventurers whose strength has not even awakened can't get close to Di Ruigi to this extent. Even with Held's protection, it is useless.

In other words, Held was just bullying honest people. He knew that Derich didn't want to harm humans too much, so he sent a group of adventurers to attack him.

When Di Ruiji actually starts fighting, he will naturally be unable to continue to control his virus. By then, those who have not yet reached awakening will have their bodies rot simply by encountering the poisonous mist he generates.

Therefore, Held only gave Asuna and the other seven people real protection, improving their poison resistance and preventing them from dying directly due to the virus.

Poison-resistant potions and poison-resistant jewelry are just icing on the cake compared to Held's real protection.

However, something is better than nothing, so before facing Dirich, seven of Asuna took poison resistance potion and applied salamander potion on their weapons. In their opinion, they were fully prepared.

In the game, in addition to the salamander potion that is necessary to defeat Di Ruigi, the other must-have is the antidote. After all, Di Ruigi's poison is too terrifying, and if you are not careful, it will be a resurrection coin.

But the actual situation cannot be the same as in the game. A bottle of antidote potion can solve all poison-related problems. Forget about low-level poisons. There is no solution for Derich's poison in the current Arad continent.

If you are poisoned, you can only survive through your own poison resistance.

Unless you have legendary alchemy potions like the Small World Ritual and the Great World Ritual in your hand, then it can naturally solve any problem.

However, after this incident, the people of the Alchemist Association should be able to develop more powerful alchemical potions through the virus brought by Di Ruigi.

But these have little to do with the players at this time.

"This is..."

"apostle..."

"Dirigi..."

Looking at Di Ruiji's frightening appearance, even before the battle, the hairs under everyone's armor were already standing up.

Just standing there, just existing, the dark aura and powerful force exuded can make people's bodies stiff and unable to move. The players finally realized today what it means to be an existence with a completely different level of life.

Really understand what kind of monster they are facing now and will continue to face in the future.

"Oh, humans...it seems that you know who I am."

Naturally, acting has to be complete, and Di Ruiji still understands this: "You know my existence, but you dare to come here and die. The human race is really a strange life."

"I really don't understand. What can Held do to me if he sends you rookies here?"

"No way you are really naive to think..."

Having said this, Di Ruiji no longer controlled his breath and virus, and the purple-black mist slowly flowed from his body to the ground. The slender mouth split open, revealing the densely packed canines inside.

"Can you defeat me?"

At the moment when Derich showed his fighting spirit, Asuna and others seemed to have an illusion. It was as if every cell in their body was shouting to run away.

That is not a monster that humans can resist!

No, that cannot be counted among the monsters at all. It is a natural disaster that cannot be resisted by human beings like tsunamis, earthquakes, and typhoons!

"A natural disaster...?"

Thinking of these two words, Kirito suddenly laughed for some reason.

"Natural disasters are indeed natural disasters. However, from the beginning of life to the present, human beings have been fighting against natural disasters like this."

The jet black and silver heavy sword was slowly pulled out from the scabbard on his back. The black sword was in front and the white sword was behind. He leaned down slightly. This was a completely different starting position from Sword Soul's fighting method, but it was Tong's.

The fighting style imprinted deep in the human soul.

"Yes, brother."

Leafa held the hilt of the sword with both hands and raised the weapon high: "No matter how terrifying it is, it is not a reason for us to retreat!"

Similarly, other players also drew their weapons.

The tip of Twilight Tears' sword was parallel to her eyes, and Asuna's eyes became extremely calm.

Shimaru's sword was erected diagonally in front of him, and an excited smile appeared on Yuuki's face.

The steps retreated slightly, and in the blink of an eye, Silica's figure disappeared from Di Ruigi's sight. High in the sky, Bina lingered and screamed.

Various magical states appeared on Lan's body as the gem on the top of the staff shone. The surrounding elements also began to gather around Lan's body along with these states.

"Really..."

Klein scratched his head hard, held the sword in front of him with both hands, and bowed slightly: "I really miss the boring office life now!"

"So in order to go back and return to that kind of life... I have no choice but to do it!"

For some reason, even though everyone had smeared salamander potion on their weapons, only Klein's sword was actually covered with flames. But because the flames were so tiny, even Klein himself

None were found.

The only one who discovered it was Di Ruigi.

"Should I say that he is worthy of being the rookie chosen by that woman?"

Looking at the humans in front of him, for some reason, Di Ruiji suddenly understood Bakar's choice thousands of years ago. Why did Bakar still choose to believe in humans even though he knew everything at that time?

Now it seems that human beings are the steel blade in Held's hand that helps her complete her plan and kill the apostle. But for some reason, Di Ruigi feels that later on, this steel blade will penetrate Held's own heart.

Held couldn't control these unknown humans at all, and in the end she would only eat the bitter fruit she had sown.

But if it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would have died here full of ignorant mockery of the human race. The other apostles would have had the same mood as me when they died.

Therefore, his existence does not really save the continent of Arad, but the apostles who moved to the continent of Arad due to Herder's conspiracy.

Maybe he has even incorporated the actions of these people into his plan. Anyway, these people are either on Held's chessboard or in his script.

In this case, then just play your role well.

"Humph, it seems that everyone is ready to die."

The cold voice suppressed the morale of the players just mentioned, and a huge purple magic circle appeared behind Di Ruiji. The purple-black slender body also turned into a poisonous whirlwind along with this magic circle.

"Then, let's all die."

Looking at the huge whirlwind that was approaching rapidly, everyone's pupils shrank instantly. But at this time, the most reliable person was always Lan.

Reinforce Ice Wall.

One after another, heavy and huge ice walls overlapped in front of the whirlwind, giving everyone a sense of peace of mind. However, Di Ruiji told them with reality how cheap the sense of security brought by this vision was.

“Bang bang bang bang!!!!”

In front of the purple-black whirlwind, the thick ice wall was like paper, breaking into pieces at the first touch. Countless ice shards dispersed in all directions with the whirlwind.

However, this is enough for players to react.

Collecting intelligence is the first thing they need to do. If Di Ruiji has the same or similar abilities as Yuris, then using high-damage skills at will is asking for death.

But judging from the current situation, Lan is probably the only one who can test Di Ruiji's ability.

Lan obviously understood this, so while keeping retreating, he waved the staff again. This time, he used the magician's universal skill: Frost Snowman.

A cute little snowman followed the direction of the staff and crashed into the whirlwind that Di Ruiji transformed into without hesitation. And the next moment, the snowman bounced back at a faster speed.

The original snow-white appearance has turned into black and purple.

"Rebound from long-range attacks? Or..."

Ignoring the purple snowman that bounced back, Lan started to release the next skill while thinking.

Because she knows that someone will help her solve this problem.

"bite!"

The purple sword cut the snowman in half. After the twin sisters looked at each other for a moment, they looked at the whirlwind that Di Ruiji had transformed into again. At this time, Lan's next skill was ready.
To be continued...