"Woo!"
The Manic Boar began to approach Rozen with red eyes amidst some funny sounds.
Although it was a wild boar, it acted like a cow. It stomped its hind hooves a few times, stirring up the dust, and then rushed toward Rozen.
Its speed was neither fast nor slow. Even in the real world, Rozen could easily avoid it, let alone now.
However, facing the Wild Boar's sudden attack, Rozen didn't try to avoid it. Instead, he calmly reached his hand to his waist.
There was a materialized waist pouch there.
Rozen took out a sharp flying needle from his Waist Pouch.
That was Rozen's weapon.
In this world without magic, Sword Skill could be said to be the only means of combat.
The Sword Skill referred to here was not just "the skill of using the sword."
Whether it was a sword, a gun, a stick, or a stone hammer, in this SAO, as long as the movement was consistent with the corresponding movement set by the system, the skill could be triggered, and the system would assist the character's movement and speed to perform superhuman skills that were usually difficult to perform. All of these skills were called Sword Skills.
However, the so-called Sword Skills were not something that could be activated at will.
Although in SAO, the number of Sword Skills could be said to be varied, in order to activate a Sword Skill, in addition to the movement set by the system, the requirements of the weapon and Skill must be met.
For example, if Rozen equipped a one-handed sword, put One-Handed Sword in the Skill Slot, and put in the movement for the initial basic One-Handed Sword Skill Oblique Slash, then the Sword Skill named Oblique Slash could be successfully activated, and with the system's assistance, the Sword Skill named Oblique Slash could be successfully activated.
For example, if Rozen equipped his Crooked Sword and put Crooked Sword into his Skill Slot, then he would be able to use Crooked Sword's Basic Skill, Predator. That Sword Skill, Predator, would also be activated.
If Rozen didn't equip a specific weapon and use a specific Skill, the Sword Skill wouldn't be activated even if the movement was qualified.
On the other hand, even if the weapon and Skill were qualified, but the movement was not done properly, the Sword Skill wouldn't be activated.
This was the combat technique of this world.
Of course, even if he didn't use sword skills, he could still use his body to move and use his weapon to deal damage to the monster.
However, without the assistance of the system, even if he were to launch an attack that was exactly the same as the sword skill, the power, speed, and accuracy would not be able to be compared to when he launched the sword skill.
In addition, Sword Skills were different from Skills. They did not need to occupy a Skill Slot. As long as the Weapon Skill's Proficiency continued to increase, a new Sword Skill would be unlocked when the trigger conditions were met.
For now, even if Rozen equipped the One-Handed Sword and put the One-Handed Sword Skill in his Skill Slot, the only Sword Skill he could use was Oblique Slash. Only when Rozen's One-Handed Sword Skill's proficiency increased and reached the corresponding value, the more powerful Sword Skills would be unlocked.
As for the increase in Proficiency, it would only be triggered when using a skill. It would start from 0 and would only be capped when it reached 1,000. At that time, one would be able to completely learn the skill and unlock all the sword skills.
However, this was a very difficult task.
At least, during the closed beta, Rozen had never heard of anyone who completely learned a skill.
If he wanted to completely learn a skill, he would have to play SAO for at least a year and a half, or even become a top player.
By the way, in addition to One-Handed Sword, Crooked Sword, and other Weapon Skills, there were all kinds of Skills in this world.
For example, the previously mentioned production skills, daily skills, and other skills that were used to assist in combat. There were all kinds of skills in this game, and all of them had different effects. If Rozen's proficiency increased, he would become stronger and stronger in this field.
Of course, the first step was to put the skill into the Skill Slot.
Only the skill that was put into the Skill Slot would be effective, and the proficiency would be increased. Otherwise, even if the skill was already set in the Skill Slot, it would be useless. If the skill that was originally set in the Skill Slot was removed, the skill's proficiency would be reduced to zero.
Therefore, how a Player allocated their skills and how they combined them would greatly affect the Character's combat effectiveness and future position.
As mentioned above, the number of Skill Slots was naturally affected by the Character's level.
A Level 1 Character only had two Skill Slots.
A Level 6 Character would get the third Skill Slot.
A Level 12 Character would get the fourth Skill Slot.
A Level 20 Character would get the fifth Skill Slot.
After that, every 10 levels, a Character would gradually get a Skill Slot.
Naturally, Rozen only had two Skill Slots at the moment, which meant he could only use two skills.
It was very easy to fill up those two Skill Slots.
Even at level 1, Players had a variety of Weapon Skills and other production skills, and they could set Skill Slots.
However, as a beta tester, Rozen knew that.
"Even if I set Skill Slots now, I'll have to remove them in the future."
After all, even if there were a variety of skills, the ones that Players could use in the early stages were not rare.
The truly rare skills could only be obtained by completing some secret quests or meeting harsh conditions.
Therefore, Rozen wouldn't waste his Skill Slots.
Right now, there was only one skill in Rozen's Skill Slot.
Flying Sword.
As the name suggested, it was a Throwing Skill.
Compared to a variety of Weapon Skills, this skill was quite inconspicuous, and it was not valued during the closed beta.
The reason was simple.
Although as long as it was an item allowed by the system, Rozen could use this skill to launch a Throwing Sword Skill. However, if the item's level was too low, the damage would be too small, and if the item's level was too high, it would be too wasteful. Because the item's level was almost single-use and couldn't be reused.
But Rozen loved this skill.
The reason was also simple.
"I like the feeling of throwing money at people!"
Rozen pulled the hand holding the flying needle behind his shoulder and prepared to throw it.
"Shhnnnnn!"
A dazzling light suddenly lit up on the flying needle, painting it green.
That was the light produced when the Sword Skill was launched.
So Rozen used Flying Sword's Basic Skill, Single Shot.
"Whoosh!"
In the next second, under the guidance of the system assistance, Rozen's hand holding the throwing weapon flashed in the air, turning the flying needle into a laser and shot out at the speed of a bullet, hitting the Wild Boar's neck.
"Puuu!"
Amid the realistic sound of flesh being torn apart, the flying needle sank into the boar's neck, leaving behind an effect crack that looked like a wound, causing the blood-like effect light to scatter like small red fragments.
"Ooo!"
The Wild Boar let out a sad cry, and its whole body froze on the ground.
Immediately …
"Bang!"
Like glass shattering, the wild boar turned into polygonal fragments and exploded.
At this moment, there were two changes on Rozen's body.
One was that a window appeared in front of him, which showed Rozen's Exp, Cor, and the materials he got from killing the Wild Boar.
The other one was only Rozen himself could see.
That was the change in his soul.
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