Facing more than a dozen Earth-Digging Lizards, Seiya used their tails to coil around the stones thrown at him and dodged every one of them with nimble footwork.
As he dodged, he also casually pierced one Earth-Digging Lizard with his longsword. At the same time, a wave of heat washed over him, and a Fire Lizard over a meter long charged straight at him.
If this had been the outside world, even a hundred monsters of that size and ability would have been no more than a sneeze to Seiya.
Unfortunately, he was currently inside a virtual game.
In Shangri-La Frontier, Seiya could retain abilities such as the techniques and reaction speed he possessed in the outside world, but his supernatural powers and absurd physical attributes clearly could not be brought into the game.
Every character in the game started with the same base stats.
The only ways to improve them were through better equipment or allocating points after leveling up.
Thus, when the Fire Lizard swung its flaming tail at him, although Seiya promptly raised his longsword to block it, his strength stat was inferior to the monster's, and he was still knocked back half a meter.
The burning effect also cost him one HP.
But just as Seiya was knocked back, his other hand pulled another red longsword from his inventory, and he slashed the Fire Lizard with it.
"Hiss—!"
With a piercing cry of pain, the Fire Lizard's remaining third of an HP Bar was instantly emptied by that blow. It transformed into several dropped items where it had stood.
Among those drops was a weapon identical to the red longsword in Seiya's hand.
Seeing his level rise from LV3 to LV4 as the Fire Lizard fell, Seiya looked at the remaining Earth-Digging Lizards with a far