"I forgive you."
"Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is."
"Your cautiousness is commendable."
Tenya nodded, acknowledging him as an opponent.
"Is this the ease of the strong?"
"I hold reverence for this…"
Kayaba brought up the system backend and adjusted settings through GM permissions.
He pulled his level, attributes, and equipment all to the maximum values.
"Level 100... Six divine items, all skills maxed?!"
The players watched in astonishment at how outrageous Kayaba's official cheating was.
If they truly gave their all and cleared to the 100th floor of Aincrad, when facing the completely cheating Kayaba before them, what kind of terrifying expression would they show?
"Everyone, please don't mind."
"Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't adjust my stats to this extent."
Kayaba tried to explain reasonably.
"Hmph!"
"Do you mean to say that you can change the stats anytime you want?" Asuna scoffed.
"Including the result of death after your HP drops to zero?"
Mito keenly realized the key point, and also the most terrifying point.
"That's right."
"To be safe, I set my number of lives to 999."
"If possible, I should have set it to higher. But Aincrad's underlying code doesn't allow it."
Kayaba was invincible, but not completely invincible.
"It doesn't matter."
"Whether you have 999 lives or infinite lives, it makes no difference to me."
Tenya still maintained a calm and composed posture.
"Silica believes in Tenya one hundred percent."
"He can definitely defeat the bad guy and let us return to the real world." Silica said with conviction.
"A daunting calmness."
"I originally planned to observe more carefully, but now I can't calm down."
"Let's try a probing strike first…"
Kayaba had an extremely serious expression, raised his hand, and took out a dazzling golden level 100 Holy Creation Greatsword.
He raised his sword and brought it down, slashing towards Tenya.
Bang!
Bang!
The two Zangetsu in Tenya's hands were both shattered, and his HP dropped to zero.
"This, it just ended like this?"
"No way? Is it real or fake?"
"Killed in one hit…"
"The level 100 cheater is terrifying!"
The players all felt despair.
"Tenya!"
Silica was scared pale.
"Calm down, Silica!"
"Tenya-kun will be fine, absolutely!"
Asuna and Mito seemed unusually calm.
Even after witnessing his HP drop to zero with their own eyes, they were not shaken.
Well, actually they were…
It's just that they chose to believe unconditionally.
Bang!
The character named Tenya died and dissipated into dust.
But in the next second, the dust reassembled, forming a figure that was eighty to ninety percent similar to the game character.
"Tenya…?!"
Asuna's eyes widened in surprise.
This was because the "Tenya" before her had slight differences in detail compared to the character in the game, but felt more real.
He was practically like a real person.
"Although I knew Tenya-kun had a backup plan, I didn't expect him to appear in this form."
Mito blinked, as if seeing him for the first time, and looked at him curiously.
"Tenya?"
"Although I don't know what's going on, I feel like he's become even more handsome."
Silica was as simple as ever.
"So that's how it is…"
"Invaded Aincrad through the bizarre aspect?"
"Although I had a vague premonition that you were someone who possessed mysterious power."
"But I didn't expect you to be able to do this much…"
Kayaba was greatly surprised, and at the same time, his assessment of Tenya's danger level rose several notches.
Amenotejikara!
Without any extra greetings or nonsense, Tenya directly activated his Rinnegan pupil technique.
"Hmm?!"
Kayaba didn't react at all before he appeared directly in front of Tenya.
The fist covered in Armament Haki heavily smashed into the opponent's abdomen.
Prompt: Indestructible object!
"Such terrifying power…"
"However, in the world I designed, your power will still be suppressed." Kayaba said calmly.
"Is that so?"
"Then go ahead and try it."
A white light appeared in Tenya's palm, and the surrounding space vibrated violently.
Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
The powerful tremor was aimed directly at Kayaba himself. On the latter's body, dense purple barriers appeared.
A series of pop-up notifications: Indestructible object! Indestructible object! Indestructible object!
"In any world, there is nothing that is indestructible."
Conqueror's Haki.
Tenya gathered the Conqueror's Haki emanating from his body and wrapped it around his palm, maximizing the power of the tremor.
Crackle...
The system-level purple barrier began to show cracks, and they rapidly spread.
Kayaba's expression changed drastically, but at this moment, he couldn't make any resistance.
Bang!!!
An unusually crisp explosion sound was heard.
Under the disbelieving eyes of the players, the system-level defense was violently destroyed.
Kayaba himself was torn apart and exploded under Tenya's palm.
However, in the next moment, his body was restored to perfect condition.
"There are still 998 lives left…"
But before he could finish speaking, Kayaba's body was ignited and consumed by black flames.
Amaterasu!
Tenya's right eye, Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
"The Fire Crossing Earrings with 95 fire resistance actually can't resist this flame."
Kayaba, burned to ashes by the black flames, revived once again.
Kamui!
Kayaba's body was twisted by the spatial vortex, breaking his limbs.
Revived once, instantly killed once!
Revived once, instantly killed once!
After losing more than a dozen lives consecutively, Kayaba finally counterattacked.
He swung the Holy Sword in his hand, and the surrounding walls immediately grew hundreds and thousands of stone swords, shooting towards Tenya from all directions.
Susanoo!
A massive amount of Chakra condensed on Tenya's body, easily blocking the attacks of all the stone swords, and then rapidly expanded, forming a gigantic armored warrior in an instant.
"Holy Sword Creation!"
Kayaba swung his sword and created a giant stone deity statue.
The players watched the battle of gods before them, no longer knowing what expression to use to describe their current feelings.