Grueling Battle!...

A fierce wind swept through the space, blowing away all the dust and haze that filled the center of the arena. One black figure and one red figure faced each other from afar. The Healing Spirit descended from midair, fully restoring the HP Wu Yan had just lost before retreating to the rear. Heathcliff glanced at his own HP bar as well, his expression barely changing...

Unlike Wu Yan, Heathcliff did not have a familiar capable of restoring HP, but he had a full ten HP bars!

Compared to Wu Yan, his HP was terrifyingly high. Even without recovery, the HP he had lost was nothing more than a drop in the bucket to him...

The damaged ground between them had already repaired itself during that time, but the players watching from outside the arena did not feel relieved. Instead, their hearts still trembled.

Although some buildings in SAO could not be destroyed, others were designed to allow a certain degree of damage for the sake of realism, only to repair themselves shortly afterward. The Floor Boss rooms on every floor were one such example.

However, without sufficient destructive power—in other words, attack power—it was simply impossible to damage such terrain. This had been true in past battles as well; ordinarily, only Floor Bosses with overwhelmingly powerful attack power could destroy the terrain! Yet these two had caused such horrifying damage merely through the aftershocks of their clash...

The players were not surprised that Heathcliff, with a boss's stats, could achieve something like this. But they had never expected Wu Yan to be capable of it as well. How could they not be shocked?

Of everyone present, Asuna understood Wu Yan's strength best. The two had never been apart during the past year, so they knew each other extremely well—at